102: Chapter 22 Execution 102: Chapter 22 Execution “`

“Aside from that, there are no better tactics.”

Uncle Hammer’s assertion just made Zhang Xianchong smirk coldly in his heart.

“No better tactics?

Mr.

Hammer, have you fought in the ring so much that you’ve forgotten how to fight in an unrestricted environment?” he retorted, “The lighter the prosthetic body, the smaller the inertia, making it easier to change speed and direction.

The ‘Big Bulldozer’ prosthetic body’s weight far exceeds Gleayard’s, yet its power system is inferior.

That ‘Mountain’ can also dodge the ‘Chain Missile’s’ Firearms Path ‘moves’ within the ‘golden range’ of gunfire.

For him, engaging in close combat with the ‘Big Bulldozer’ is a piece of cake.”

“A piece of cake?” Uncle Hammer snapped back, “Don’t you know the greatest advantage a heavy prosthetic has over a lightweight one?

As long as the ‘Big Bulldozer’ isn’t an idiot, using the Turbine Combat Technique would prevent any lightweight prosthetic from closing in.

The ‘Mountain’s’ only chance is to kill him with five moves before the ‘Big Bulldozer’ can pick up speed.”

The term “Turbine Combat Technique” is a derivative of old-time metaphors like the “windmill”.

If a person dominates his enemy in terms of physical fitness and arm length, and the weight of his weapon is also greater than that of his enemy, he only needs to hold his weapon horizontally and swing it back and forth with his arms, one after the other—this effectively kills the enemies around him.

This move is jokingly called the “Windmill Sword Technique”, a classic example of “Use force to defeat Technique”.

Although the Windmill Sword Technique has large vulnerabilities and can waste physical strength, if the swordsman’s physical condition crushes the enemy, the enemy can’t break through this move unless they resort to bows and arrows.

The “Turbine Combat Technique” is the cyborg adaptation of this tactic.

It not only allows the weapon or the striking part of the prosthetic body to be swung in a circle, but also enables the entire prosthetic body to spin like a top, using chips to adjust balance and counteract dizziness, and relying on armor for defense.

As long as the prosthetic body is heavy enough and spins fast enough, this spinning ‘top’ becomes ‘death upon touch, doom upon graze’ for the lightweight prosthetic.

This purely defensive move requires almost no precision.

When a martial artist in a heavy prosthetic is driven into a corner by a hero with superior technique, this move can be used to linger on, waiting for comrades to create an opportunity to turn the tide.

It’s also considered a classic tactic.

“And if he doesn’t take him down within five moves?” Carolina was somewhat curious.

Uncle Hammer was somewhat haughty, actually not holding Carolina in high regard at all.

Carolina was just Miss Deborah’s maidservant, hired from childhood to care for the lady’s daily needs and later swore loyalty to her.

It was out of gratitude for past kindness that Deborah kept this ignorant and unskilled person by her side.

Han slipped in from behind, whispering, “If he doesn’t take him down within five moves, he’ll just have to go for the lackeys first.

But the ‘Big Bulldozer’ can stop spinning at any time to join the other experts from the stockade to suppress the ‘Mountain’.”

“Wouldn’t that be even better?” Zhang Xianchong coldly scoffed at Old Hammer, “The ‘Turbine Combat Technique’s’ defense circle has a huge flaw; just attack from directly above at the center of the spin.”

Old Hammer glanced at him from the corner of his eye, “There’s plenty of room to work with in a heavy prosthesis.

It’s not hard to fit a gun in a blind spot.”

Zhang Xianchong shrugged, “‘Chain Missile’ Gleayard thought so too, and then he died.”

The layout of a heavy prosthetic body offers greater freedom, so shooting ports can be fitted in certain blind spots and vulnerabilities.

These ports often contain only one or two armor-piercing bullets.

An enemy attempting to attack from there would have to face an armor-breaking critical hit from an armor-piercing bullet.

‘Chain Missile’ Gleayard thought along these lines.

However, the shooting port at the back of his head was a step too slow, and Xiang Shan dodged it.

All these people had the autopsy report of the notorious thug from the Green Forest Tiger List in their hands, so they were well aware of these details.

“That ‘Mountain’ is likely to ignore a ‘Big Bulldozer’ and instead prioritize harvesting the numerous Excavator Group from the Green Forest.

The greatest enemy of martial arts prowess has always been ‘Dense Formation.’ A slickly spinning top is not much of a threat.

Find a rocket with a higher yield, leap up and take a shot, and the job is done.”

“If the Excavator Group remains unscathed, where would he get the space to employ heavy weaponry?” Old Hammer chided, “Using heavy weapons would throw off the lightweight prosthetic’s stance!”

Deborah felt a sudden phantom pain in her skull.

Old Hammer was a hired hand she recruited at a sports meet, someone who had hoped to qualify for the Paralympics but had grown somewhat disillusioned due to age.

Respecting science, Old Hammer accepted Deborah’s olive branch and became her protector.

Old Hammer was the strongest in external strength among the team.

Although Deborah’s prosthetic body was superior to Old Hammer’s and Zhang Xianchong’s martial arts algorithm should be more advanced than Old Hammer’s Mech Armor Iron Fist, if they discarded internal strength and only compared external strength, both of them would be slightly inferior to Old Hammer.

After Deborah personally oversaw the encapsulation, obfuscation, and encryption of Old Hammer, although he could no longer harm enemies with inner strength, he was no longer afraid of third-rate characters in Jianghu.

Zhang Xianchong was an idealistic young man who deeply felt that the power of “heroism” was unable to end the chaotic times.

That’s why he agreed to Deborah, to see the “order” represented by the protectors.

Martial artists and heroes are two groups that disdain each other.

Both of these men were proud, hence the frequent clashes.

She said, “We should just go in and find out what happened, shouldn’t we?”

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Old Hammer and Zhang Xianchong said nothing more, only nodding their heads.

Carolina was somewhat curious, “The two of you, can you actually perform the operations you mentioned?”

“If the performance of ‘Mountain’s prosthetic body is what the intelligence shows…” Old Hammer paused to think, “In a confrontation, one move to break tracks, two moves to control the ‘Big Bulldozer’s’ attack arm, then move around to the back, one move for armor-breaking, another to finish the job.

Not difficult.”

“But it’s not one-on-one, and the rest of the Excavator Group aren’t fools.

How could they let you move around to the back?” Zhang Xianchong said, “Let the ‘Big Bulldozer’ be the last to fight, first kill people, one move per lackey, that’s the best…”

Due to the insufficient realism of the voice pack, Zhang Xianchong couldn’t produce the sound of “swallowing saliva”—but if he still had saliva to swallow at that moment, he surely would have swallowed unconsciously.

As they were talking, the squad had already passed the main entrance, bypassed the armory and the now unmanned defensive area through a corridor, and entered the main space of the Great Stockade—a huge training ground and maintenance area.

They saw a huge prosthetic body nearly three meters in height, three meters in width, and six meters in length, suspended by two iron chains hanging from the rear of its right track, with the whole vehicle body lifted and half-suspended there.

With it as the center, most of the stockade seemed to have been subjected to a violent storm of firearms, as if it had been a baptism.

There were limbs and bodies everywhere, along with scattered parts and oil.

It was as if the Big Bulldozer itself had gone mad and wiped out the entire Excavator Group.

“This is…” Old Hammer’s heart was shaken, he rushed towards the suspended corpse of the “Big Bulldozer” without regard for anything else.

Similar to Gleayard, the “Big Bulldozer” also had a pair of arms thick like shields.

Old Hammer jumped up and found that the shoulder joint of the ‘Big Bulldozer’s arm on one side was severely deformed.

It seemed to have been caused by up-close firing with a large caliber machine gun, rendering the whole arm almost inoperable.

“How did this happen…” he murmured, “What kind of technique is this?”

Deborah’s gaze focused on the chains lying around.

These were tools commonly used for maintaining heavy prosthetics.

Several chains fixed to the base could lift a heavy prosthetic.

And now, this heavy prosthetic…

Deborah examined the ground.

Even though it was a concrete floor, there were deep arc marks on it.

These were traces of the Turbine Combat Technique.

“That ‘Mountain’ disabled one of its arms right from the start…” Old Hammer landed on the ground, wondering, “Then why did he allow it to use the Turbine Combat Technique?”

Deborah thought for a moment and said, “It should be because of this.” She leaped up, landing on one of the chains, and gave it a light swing.

“These chains can extend and dangle all the way to the ground.

That ‘Mountain’ might have been able to control these devices to extend the chains, then as the ‘Big Bulldozer’ launched the Turbine Combat Technique, kick the chains towards the bulldozer…”

“He himself could jump away mid-way.

Even if the chains didn’t hook the ‘Big Bulldozer’, they could still absorb some kinetic energy and swing away, compressing the space for Excavator Group’s other members to form up.

Since the Jianghu leader would need to maintain himself in the state of a single individual, this maintenance system was network controlled.

For an Internal Strength Master, hijacking this system wasn’t difficult.

Han’s attention had already focused on a broken steel column.

A hook was embedded in that column.

“He kept tirelessly kicking the hook towards the Big Bulldozer… The Big Bulldozer would have wanted to stop, right?

But it was hooked before it could stop.” Old Hammer checked the marks on the ground, “That temporarily dealt with the Dense Formation that was most likely to hold him up… The Excavator Group subordinates’ marksmanship would also have trouble hitting him.

But why choose this method?”

“He likely used Inner Strength to force the ‘Big Bulldozer’ to fire a Full Volley… but this would reduce his gains, right?

Many prosthetics that could be taken as spoils of war were directly destroyed by firearms…”

“It’s to reduce expenditures,” Zhang Xianchong looked at the suspended Big Bulldozer, saying, “Forcing this heavy prosthetic to launch a full volley is enough to knock down most of the resistance within the Great Stockade… He deliberately exposed his whereabouts, probably to give the Green Forest in the stockade a bit of reaction time to prepare for a last stand… then wipe them out in one fell swoop.”

“As for the reason the ‘Big Bulldozer’ Vespa was hanged and beaten…”

He paused before saying, “This isn’t a duel, it’s an ‘execution’.

That Hero, wanted to let these Green Forest thugs die in fear.”