Chapter 168: Should Be Kinetic Weapons

The three of them swallowed their saliva in secret.

The various weapons and equipment on their bodies could not bring them the slightest sense of security.

At this moment.

Only one thought remained in the minds of the three—

"Damn it, what kind of power is protecting Su Xin exactly?"

"Why did a missile hit this place the moment we encountered an attack? Is it necessary to be this exaggerated?"

In the eyes of the three, only a missile could erupt with such astonishing power.

Although they did not understand where the missile came from or why it arrived so quickly, how could the three of them have the heart to think about so much at this moment?

They held their breath one by one, carefully shrinking their bodies, wishing they could bury their entire bodies into the ground, not daring to show their heads at all.

Let alone continuing to launch an attack.

The moment the three accepted the mission, they had prepared themselves for sacrifice, but facing a weapon of mass destruction of unknown origin, they did not dare to move rashly.

Daring to face death and throwing one's life away pointlessly are two different concepts.

"We must do everything we can to survive, for the sake of sending the intelligence back!"

The three exhorted themselves in their hearts.

And at this time, Xiang Lianyun and his companion were also wearing expressions of shock and bewilderment.

After glancing at each other, they discovered that the other party also had no idea what had happened.

The two subconsciously guessed in their hearts:

"Perhaps the enemy had some kind of weapon of mass destruction, and it accidentally self-detonated?"

"But this possibility is too low."

"Or perhaps the higher-ups value Su Xin too much, so they arranged for others to protect him in secret."

"It's just that..."

The two looked at the sky full of dust and smoke on the hillside in the distance, their hearts trembling uncontrollably: "Isn't this kind of commotion too exaggerated?"

After coming to his senses, Wang Zhao in the passenger seat turned his head to look at Su Xin in the back seat and asked:

"Boss, are you alright?"

Su Xin did not pretend to be panicked, but sat there calmly and said indifferently:

"I'm fine, what should we do next?"

Wang Zhao lifted his gaze slightly, looked at the wide-open sunroof above, and said: "Although we have escaped danger now, just to be safe, let's close the sunroof."

Su Xin shook his head: "No need, with the sunroof open, it's easier to escape if we encounter danger."

Wang Zhao opened his mouth, wanting to explain, but seeing Su Xin's confident and firm gaze, he thought again that both he and Xiang Lianyun had sidearms, so keeping the sunroof open would indeed be convenient for combat.

Thus, he stopped trying to persuade him.

He turned his head to look at the front again and said solemnly: "Boss, sit tight. We don't know what happened with the explosion just now. Since the enemy attacked, it shouldn't be that simple."

"The enemy I discovered just now was near the foot of the mountain; this explosion shouldn't have affected him."

"Therefore, there are still enemies alive."

"However, please rest assured, Boss, I have already pressed the alarm, and reinforcements will arrive soon."

While he was speaking, the vehicle was still reversing at high speed, and the radar was automatically scanning the vehicles behind to prepare for evasion at any time.

Fortunately, this road was relatively remote, so even during rush hour, there were no other vehicles, and it did not cause any other stir.

Just like that, the enemies lurked in terror, Xiang Lianyun and his companion retreated cautiously, and neither side engaged in any further conflict.

About half a minute later.

Su Xin's vehicle moved far away from the explosion site.

The three survivors at the foot of the mountain observed from afar that the vehicle had disappeared at the end of their line of sight, then hurriedly packed their things and retreated in a rush.

Another ten-plus minutes passed.

A fully armed team arrived at the scene, and upon seeing the huge crater on the small hill that looked as if it had been bombed by a missile, they were all both shocked and terrified.

Under the feet of the Son of Heaven, such an attack actually occurred; this was a massive matter.

The middle-aged man with a square face in the lead had a grave expression and shouted sternly:

"Seal off the scene immediately! Xiao Wu, take ten men to search the surroundings, and keep on alert!"

"Xiao Liu, you five take the instruments up the mountain to detect radiation levels and investigate the explosion site!"

"The rest of you, spread out and keep watch!"

"Everyone listen up, once you discover enemy activity, you are authorized to open fire directly!"

Under the middle-aged man's orders, everyone split up and began to act, searching carefully.

Not long after, this group successively found traces of the three people who had been at the foot of the mountain.

The explosion site on the hillside was the key location for the search; after instrument detection, visual observation, and video evidence collection, they finally approached bit by bit.

On the hillside, there was a huge crater that had been blown open, but it was buried by rubble of various sizes.

In order to avoid damaging the scene as much as possible, everyone only moved away part of the rubble and slowly explored inside.

Soon, someone exclaimed:

"There's someone!"

Everyone immediately raised the guns in their hands.

They saw the person who shouted holding their gun, pointing the muzzle at a pile of rubble, approaching cautiously.

Only then did everyone notice that a corner of a camouflage uniform seemed to be faintly exposed beneath the rubble.

Clearly, someone was buried underneath.

The leading middle-aged man ordered in a deep voice: "Xiao Zhang, Xiao Liu, dig him out. Be careful, don't let your guard down."

Two people in the team immediately stepped forward; seeing the figure under the ruins motionless, they carefully put away their guns, drew the daggers at their waists, and began to dig.

Very quickly, the white man, already a bloody mess under the ruins, was revealed before everyone.

"Boss, he is already dead."

One of them reported.

"You take his corpse outside first, the others continue to investigate."

The middle-aged man ordered again.

The two acknowledged the order, continued to carefully dig out the white man's entire corpse, and carried it to the open space outside the pit, while the others continued digging into the pit, exploring deeper and deeper.

Finally, the professional in the team made a judgment based on various traces:

"This explosion was not caused by a bomb; it was caused by a massive kinetic energy impact."

"Perhaps it was a new type of kinetic energy weapon similar to a railgun; this should be the wreckage of the kinetic energy weapon, which has been shattered by the counter-shock under the immense impact force."

He took out a transparent plastic bag containing two small pieces of golden metal debris.

The middle-aged man took it and looked at it.

These two pieces of metal debris were completely twisted and deformed, making it impossible to see their original form, let alone infer their firing method from them.

That person pointed in a certain direction again and continued, "Judging from various traces, the kinetic energy weapon should have been fired from that direction."

The middle-aged man looked in the direction he pointed and could not help but frown.

By the side of the road there, a long section of guardrail was irregularly twisted toward the road; they had just investigated it, and those were traces left by a plastic explosive.

From the distress message Wang Zhao sent him, he knew that was exactly where Su Xin was attacked.

In other words, the kinetic energy weapon was fired from the direction of Su Xin's car?

"Could it be that Wang Zhao and the others have special weapons?"

"That's impossible!"

"Then what exactly was fired from that direction? Could it be that there is another force protecting Su Xin?"

Many thoughts emerged in the middle-aged man's mind.