Chapter 583: Arrogant Scum

40 points for an Empire-type second-generation rifle.

60 points for a Galactic fourth-generation laser machine gun.

80 points can be exchanged for a sniper laser with extremely high accuracy, and also very strong reliability, stability, and destructive power.

Battery magazines cost 2 points each.

Seeing the price displayed by the terminal after scanning, Huo Dun and the others thought the sergeant in front of them was a black market dealer among black market dealers.

If the mission succeeds they receive a reward of 100 points, but if they purchase these weapons and ammunition, even if they luckily complete the mission, the 100-point reward will be completely exhausted.

Moreover, they must control their spending, because when points go negative, the terminal will erase them outright.

But without these laser‑gun weapons they could not complete the mission at all, so they had to grit their teeth and advance 60 to 90 points, exchanging with the sergeant for the weapons and ammunition each needed.

Many people chose to keep some points, lest after the mission succeeds they have no points left to exchange for more good stuff, or to "upgrade" their own bodies.

For example, a sharp‑eyed elite with a four‑eye night‑vision device, confident in his own shooting, exchanged for a laser sniper, plus five magazines, and kept 10 points for emergencies.

However, Huo Dun, after choosing the cheapest laser rifle, also took thirty battery magazines, spending the entire 100 points.

Fortunately, the empty Empire-type second‑generation rifle weighed only about one kilogram, and the battery magazines about two hundred grams each, so the total weight was under eight kilograms.

Putting the magazines into the supplied backpack was still reasonably portable; otherwise, with their original‑universe technology, carrying the main weapon plus thirty spare magazines would exhaust anyone not trained like a devil before battle even began.

Everything was ready.

"Aoo~!" the sergeant let out the elite clan's distinctive low growl, smiling faintly at the "renewed" Reincarnates, and said, "Everyone!

You were lucky to have repelled the first wave of attack and completed the terminal's first mission for you, but next, you will separate from our side…

As the sergeant spoke, he turned and glanced at the city district behind him, where smoke rose and gunfire and explosions rang continuously:

"Our side will continue to secure the landing zone and assist civilian evacuation, while you will go deeper into the city to conduct a sweep against Oke Orcs and try to kill an Orc chieftain.

That's all, in short, good luck to you.

After speaking, the sergeant waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to move the remaining equipment away, and gradually withdrew from the Reincarnates' sight.

Meanwhile, the planetary defense forces surrounding them seemed to ignore the Reincarnates, each busy checking their weapons and equipment, or assisting mechanical sentinels in reinforcing the landing zone's defenses.

Seeing this.

Huo Dun and the others looked at each other.

"Guys," the muscular man, who exuded the most captain‑like aura, took the initiative to shoulder responsibility, pointing his hand toward the nearby intersection, and said, "Dragging them isn't an option; besides, we now have combat resources, so we must take the initiative and go find that so‑called Orc chieftain!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the muscular man was the first to raise his gun and walk toward the intersection within the city area.

Immediately after, Huo Dun and the remaining Reincarnates said little, tacitly accepting the muscular man's words, and all headed toward the intersection.

Having just gone through the battle, the group had developed a certain level of tacit understanding.

Some took the rear guard, others were responsible for the safety of the two flanks, and some used the binoculars brought along during the "Traverse" or the sniper laser to watch for distant movement.

Soon.

The party reached the intersection, held a brief discussion, and then proceeded toward the northwest, since the fighting there was the fiercest.

The greater the risk, the higher the reward.

After surviving the first wave of green‑skin onslaught, Huo Dun and the others gradually turned toward a group of gamblers who wanted "money" and cared not for their lives.

Because they could not compare with the sergeant, the defense forces, or even the three‑meter‑tall giants, they were merely insignificant ants.

And if they wished to achieve their goal, only a daring charge could move a giant elephant.

During this time.

They saw the stalled city, littered with wheeled vehicles rendered useless or abandoned by the war, and also discovered many wheel‑less "cars (airships)".

This made them sigh that the city's architecture and street layout were almost identical to those in the sci‑fi movies and games of their original universe.

Unfortunately, the emergence of the Oke Orcs forced people to abandon the city and wait for evacuation outside its walls.

They also encountered many "octopus (mechanical sentinels)" seemingly scanning, as well as "giants (Dark Angel)" apparently carrying out a purge.

Originally, watching the giants from the transport craft as they single‑handedly destroyed numerous Orc airships was already shocking, but when the Reincarnates saw the giants up close, they truly grasped how insignificant they were.

In contrast, the giants merely used helmet‑mounted monitors that emitted a faint green glow, glanced at the Reincarnates, and continued advancing toward the Orc congregation.

Waiting for the giants to move away…

"My god…" a Reincarnate wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "Why does the oppressive feeling of those iron‑headed ones feel far greater than those green‑skinned bald ones?"

"Buddy, they kill Orcs like they're slaying chicks, don't they?" another Reincarnate agreed.

"Waa!!!"

Just as the group's mood relaxed, a green‑skin battle cry tore the atmosphere to shreds.

In the front part of the street where the Reincarnates stood, a swarm of panicked fleeing children appeared, followed by Oke Orcs trailing behind, wielding rusted machetes and clubs.

!

"Spread out, prepare fire suppression!" the muscular man ordered immediately.

"Got it!"

"Ready!"

Among the more than fifty Reincarnates, over seventy percent could execute orders instantly.

And Huo Dun, a typical reticent "outside‑gate man", also mimicked the dispersal properly, taking position behind seemingly sensible cover and readying his weapon.

When those children were about to run into the group's position, everyone immediately pulled the triggers, unleashing high‑energy beams at the relentless Orcs.

"Tadadad!!"

In an instant, the street flickered with a dense spray of dazzling red light.

"Wa…Waaagh…"

When the gunfire ceased, endless wails rang through the streets.

Originally fierce, the more than ten Oke Orcs, each like a green giant from the Zero‑Five universe, were completely wiped out without a single survivor?

However, those more than ten Oke Orcs had originally intended to "play" with the human children, so they carried no ranged weapons and didn't have time to improvise a "Waaagh" stance.

On the reincarnators' side, they had swapped pistols for cannons, and with a numerical advantage they naturally won this skirmish.

Tap! Tap!

Moreover, many reincarnators who possessed rich combat experience in the original universe still reloaded their guns to ensure the corpses were truly dead.

Thank you!

As for the children, they expressed gratitude as survivors of the disaster.

Although in terms of physical condition children with nanobots in their bodies might be several levels stronger than the muscle men, they still can't match real firearms.

Regarding the children's remarks, the reincarnators, including Huo Dun, waved their hands, indicating it was a trivial matter and something they ought to do.

However, the muscle man asked the children, "Everyone nearby should have withdrawn; then how did you get forgotten by the military?"

"Um…" Upon hearing that, one of the older boys replied hesitantly, "We were trapped in an underground mall, and also…"

Through the boy's account, everyone gained a more detailed understanding of how Salanser was attacked by Oke Orcs.

The children before us, driven by strong curiosity and believing that the pneumatic toy guns in their hands could also kill alien fragments, chose to go through the underground mall's passage to "investigate" the source of the Oke Orcs.

…

Upon hearing this, the reincarnators on alert showed that more than half of them wore expressions that said, "So they're just brat kids."

Their courage is commendable.

But doing so shows a clear misjudgment of their own strength; it's simply jumping into a fire pit.

Later, the children discovered at least several hundred Orcs gathered at a hub of the sewage system, shouting "Waaagh! Waaagh!"

The children's boldness only grew; they even crawled through the upper pipes to get a look at what kind of Orcs could cause such a commotion.

But they were spotted by the Orcs before they could crawl very far.

At first sight of this, the children did not flee; instead, they raised their pneumatic guns to counterattack.

The result needs no elaboration; we only know the children, in order to escape,

Fortunately, the Orcs, seeing only a group of children, felt a hint of "playful cruelty" and did not bring their heavy firearms.

Also, thanks to the manhole cover above the pipe connecting to the surface, the children managed to exit the sewage channel, eventually meeting the reincarnators and ending the Orcs' pursuit.

Only…

After hearing the "brat" children's ordeal, all the reincarnators fell into silence.

Because according to the description, that underground sewage hub likely harbors an Orc boss!

Upon learning this, the reincarnators began to view the children differently.

Next.

The reincarnators first escorted the children, handed them over to a defense force combat squad stationed nearby, and then sped toward the hub.

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…

Soon after.

Within the sewage system beneath the city.

"Splash… Splash…" The murky sewage rushed through the central channel.

Tap! Tap tap!

At the same time, due to the confined space, the gunfire echoed especially loudly.

Continuous dazzling red light flickered through the corner at the far end, flashing along the entire passage.

The sewage surged forward along the path.

Turn left again.

There you can see a structure resembling an exit, and beyond it a relatively open area; the red light comes from the laser weapons firing.

Not yet entered…

"Waaagh!! Hahaha!"

"Humans! Small and pitiful!!"

"Dammit, I'm going to fight you!"

"Boom!!"

Besides the gunfire, one could hear the Oke Orcs' obnoxiously arrogant trash talk, the reincarnators' angry shouts before death, and violent explosions.

Enter it.

You can see the reincarnators fighting the Orcs.

But the reincarnators suffered heavy casualties; a few were surrounded by Orcs and, in anger, detonated the grenades they brought from the original universe.

Unfortunately, this self‑destruct attack did not inflict much damage on the Orcs.

The remaining thirty‑plus reincarnators were forced to fall back to the pipe's entrance, using the one‑way passage's terrain to try to slow their total annihilation by the Orcs…

Indeed, when they followed the children's route into the underground sewage system, encountered the Orcs, and fought, they realized that killing the so‑called Orc boss was pure fantasy.

Among the attacking Orcs, the slickest, most muscular one, at least 3.2 meters tall, was their target.

Huo Dun and his companions thought that with laser weapons they could complete the mission, but they didn't expect the Orc boss to also possess a faint green‑glowing "energy shield."

What puzzled them was that the Orc boss was only wearing leather pants, a hemp shirt, and simple tattered armor, so where did the "energy shield" come from??

Regarding this, Huo Dun, who had reviewed Orc data while boarding the transport, could only explain it from a "Waaagh" standpoint.

But…

This also means they cannot complete the mission at all.

Despair, confusion and other negative emotions quickly enveloped all the reincarnators.

Especially since the Orcs were too lazy to "play around" and began pulling out what looked like cobbled‑together heavy rifles…

The situation tipped completely in their favor.

Soon, most of the companions, including the muscle man and the Four‑Eyed Elite, were blasted apart by a round of Orc gunfire.

Huo Dun was hit in the waist by a large‑caliber projectile, and his body was split in two.

Although the wounds were heavily charred, preventing massive blood loss and allowing Huo Dun to retain some consciousness, he knew he would soon die from asphyxiation.

But, as Huo Dun's consciousness waned…

"Ahhh! Die! All of you, die!!"

Yet the only still‑mobile Four‑Leaf Soldier among them raised two laser machine guns, spraying the Orcs recklessly while shouting a counter‑charge.

Moreover, whether frightened by the imposing aura emanating from the Four‑Leaf Soldier or for some other reason, most of the Orcs' guns suddenly malfunctioned??

For a moment, the Four‑Leaf Soldier truly carved a bloody path alone.

Seeing this.

Huo Dun and a handful of still‑clinging reincarnators sparked a glimmer of hope.

"Acting like a deity!!"

"Boom!!"

But the Orc leader let out a roar, and the shockwave it released knocked the Four‑Leaf Soldier, causing him to spit blood and collapse outright.

Hope shattered.

Only before slipping into unconsciousness, Huo Dun seemed to hear a metallic voice:

"Arrogant scum."

(End of chapter)