Chapter 2637: Ashes to Ashes, Smoke to Smoke

As Wan Pojun's fingertip struck the keyboard, the three close-in defense guns had long locked onto Oubojun, immediately beginning to rotate their black barrels.

Next, the 30mm caliber shells instantly surged out from the eighteen barrels of the three guns!

A large number of warheads directly pierced the disguised glass house, following the trajectory known as the Kiss of Death, spewing nearly mad flames toward Oubojun!

The speed of bullets and shells both exceeds the speed of sound, but only at close range is the difference not obvious; under normal circumstances, if a person is hit by a sniper from hundreds of meters away, they are certainly hit before hearing the sound.

However, Oubojun had been cautiously observing his surroundings all along; since the speed of light far exceeds that of sound and the initial velocity of shells, Oubojun had already noticed, even before hearing any sound or being hit by the close-in defense gun, that the three glass houses on the rooftop had simultaneously shattered, and in each glass house, at least one or two meters long tongues of flame were gushing out!

At this moment, he instantly realized he had walked into an ambush!

Moreover, his keen senses had already detected that the three glass houses were already firing a large number of extremely high-rate, extremely powerful warheads at him, each warhead coming with fierce momentum!

And at this moment, Oubojun's heart was already filled with extreme panic!

In the flash of lightning and stone, he instantly burst forth the spiritual energy within his body, desperately sprinting to his right!

But these three close-in defense guns were only a few hundred meters away from him; even though the speed of sound and the initial velocity of warheads are much slower than the speed of light, the AK-630 close-in defense gun's shell initial velocity reaches as high as nine hundred meters per second, so at such a short distance, the reaction time left for Oubojun was even less than half a second!

Although Oubojun was already running at full speed, he sadly realized that his current position, as well as the position ahead where he intended to flee, were both enveloped by those extremely fast warheads.

This also meant that he had absolutely no chance of escaping!

At this moment, Oubojun's heart was filled with immense resentment; he never imagined that his entire cultivation would end up so stifled and defeated here!

Even more tragically, the AK-630 close-in defense gun's shell speed is more than twice the speed of sound; Oubojun hadn't even heard the gunfire when the shells had already struck his face.

Oubojun only felt countless objects whistling toward his side; the next moment, a sharp pain came from his right knee joint, and below the knee, sensation was instantly lost!

A close-in defense gun shell happened to strike his right knee; that shell could pierce even three fingers thick of armor, and Oubojun's flesh and blood could not withstand it.

Thus, this shot directly shattered his right knee joint into pieces, and his right lower leg, along with his right foot, was blown into the air.

Oubojun only felt his center of gravity suddenly lost, his entire body uncontrollably tilting forward to the right, but his body hadn't even had time to hit the ground before he felt his right side continuously struck by heavy blows.

He instinctively lowered his head to look, and his entire being was instantly terrified out of his wits!

At this moment, where was his body?

His torso and entire lower half had almost entirely been shattered into bone fragments and bloody mud!

Next, he felt his skull suddenly begin to rotate.

At the moment it began to rotate, he saw that his neck had already been blown off by a shell, the immense force like pulling a top, directly flinging his head into midair!

Even worse, his body hadn't even had time to fall to the ground before it was already blown into fragments...

It was also at this moment that Oubojun realized that after a person's head is severed, at the very first instant, at least for that brief half-second, they temporarily do not lose consciousness.

His brain could still think, his eyes still had vision, and his ears could still hear the tremendous roar of shells whistling through the air!

In Oubojun's final consciousness, there was only anger and unwillingness.

He never imagined that he would end up with no intact corpse; compared to the taxi driver he had just killed in anger, who was merely decapitated, he feared he might not even be able to keep his head!

The rotating head had not yet landed, but shells continued to whistle densely around, blasting the opposite wall into powder one shot after another.

And the fortunate thing amid misfortune was that although Oubojun's body had already become minced meat, his head, being a smaller target and still constantly rotating, had actually cleverly dodged this dense barrage of shells.

Although the trajectory set by the weapon expert of Wanlong Hall for the glasses-type ammunition was extremely powerful, it ultimately had to prioritize larger coverage, so the trajectory density was still insufficient to shrink down to the size of a head.

And precisely because of this, Oubojun's head was able to remain intact for a short time.

However, the scorching warheads, when shattering Oubojun's body, burned those bodily tissues to a searing, charred state, so that the entire air was filled with a burnt barbecue smell.

The odor molecules diffused in the air; even though Oubojun could no longer breathe, his rotating head still carried the smell into his nasal cavity, causing him to passively perceive this strange smell.

But he no longer had the energy to care about these; his remaining consciousness sensed that his head was about to hit the ground, and at this moment he actually felt a bit of relief, thinking that at least he had preserved a complete head.

But just as his head was about to land, a close-in defense gun shell directly pierced through Oubojun's left eye socket!

At the moment the shell pierced the eye socket, Oubojun's brain fell into utter silence; his final thought was that he had truly fulfilled Yun Ruoge's words—return to dust, return to earth...

Then, that shell exploded with a boom, shattering his head into pieces!

And Oubojun's final consciousness also vanished in this instant—ashes to ashes, smoke to smoke...

The confident Oubojun had never imagined that someone here could threaten his safety, nor had he thought he would die here without a burial place.

Wan Pojun and Qiu Zhiyuan, through the monitor, had witnessed Oubojun being blown into minced meat; although they had long anticipated this outcome, they were now both extremely shocked and terrified.

From Oubojun's rapidly moving figure, they could tell his strength far surpassed theirs; that strange, nearly inhuman reaction speed was something no human could possess.

But what of it?

Although Oubojun's speed was only slightly faster than that of an ordinary person, in the face of dense close-in defense gun shells, he still had no chance to escape or resist.

A top-tier expert could be reduced to ashes in an instant; if this weapon were used on them, they might not even have a chance to react.

At this moment, the motor of the close-in defense gun had already stopped running.

Because the system determined that its locked target had been completely killed.

The entire process actually lasted only about two seconds.

During these two seconds, the three close-in defense guns fired a total of over three hundred shells.

Of these, the number that actually hit Oubojun was still less than one-tenth.

Besides being shocked, Wan Pojun also realized that from now on, it was the beginning of Ye Chen's nest-covering plan; he immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie and blurted out: "All personnel, listen up! According to the prearranged plan, retreat in an orderly manner!"