Chapter 59

Steel Coffin

The three Bald Eagles immediately retaliated, their M14s firing at an incredibly fast rate, striking the machine gunner's heavy armor with a clanging sound.

But level 5 bullets didn't hurt him at all.

Da Zhuang's attention was drawn to the three men, and he exerted all his strength to turn the heavy machine gun around.

The trigger was never released, and a series of bullets, one after another, swept towards the three bald eagles like a long metal whip.

Just a glancing blow from a machine gun bullet shattered the level 6 armor on the right side of Cole's body.

I felt excruciating pain in all my internal organs.

The three of them were on a narrow, poorly positioned metal corridor above the canal, where they were pinned down by machine gun fire and had no room to maneuver.

Behind them, the warden and his personal guards were closing in menacingly.

"What should we do?" Cole poured another painkiller from the bottle, swallowed it, and asked in the brain-computer interface.

"I still have an incendiary bomb here, which can take him out. But he keeps firing right now, so I'm stuck in position and can't peek out to throw the incendiary bomb!" Miles' voice came through the brain-computer interface.

Just as they were in a dilemma, on the platform of the Xiaobai Hydroelectric Canal, she saw that the machine gunners were not firing in their direction in order to suppress the three White Eagles. She leaned out of the cover.

He pulled out a metal cube, no bigger than the palm of his hand, from the ammunition pouch.

Throw it forcefully in the direction of the machine gunner.

The small silver cube fell with a clang between the machine gunner and the bald eagle.

However, the loud machine gun fire completely drowned out the sound of metal hitting the ground, so no one noticed it at all.

"John, we need to make a decision quickly. If the warden pressures us, it'll be worse than last time..." Miles was urging John to make a decision when the signal suddenly cut off.

"Huh? What's going on?" The three members of the Bald Eagle trio asked simultaneously. Had the brain-computer interface failed?

Furthermore, all vision-enhancing information and aiming assistance functions within the goggles are rendered unusable.

The UI interface inside the glasses was completely distorted, and the electronic system was in complete chaos.

The most outrageous thing is that even the red dot sights and laser pointers on their M14s malfunctioned!

The three men from Bald Eagle patted their Level 6 bulletproof helmets and tapped their goggles with their knuckles, but they still couldn't get it to work.

The machine gunners' rapid-fire also stopped at the same time. Dazhuang felt that the electro-hydraulic skeleton inside the heavy protective suit had lost energy and could no longer support his weight.

At the same time, the shooting was forced to stop.

The prison fell silent immediately.

John reacted first, shouting, "Cole, incendiary bombs! Quick!"

Cole suddenly realized what was happening, immediately lit the incendiary bomb, leaned out and threw it at the feet of the machine gunner, Hafk.

Dazhuang was instantly engulfed in flames, but a sudden mechanical malfunction rendered him unable to move.

"Dazhuang? Dazhuang? What's going on?" Han Che's walkie-talkie was unaffected, but Dazhuang had lost signal.

And when the machine gun fire stopped, Han Che immediately sensed something was wrong.

Charge forward immediately.

"Captain, what's going on?" Cole still couldn't use the brain-computer interface and the assistive systems in his goggles; the brain-computer interface at the back of his neck was burning hot.

"I don't know..." John shook his head. "The assistive functions aren't working. No! We absolutely mustn't let the warden come over."

John turned around sharply and saw the warden and his guards charging toward them.

"Run!" John shouted, and the three members of the Bald Eagle Squad immediately fled towards the hydrodynamic canal, occasionally firing a few shots at the warden behind them.

Without aiming assistance, the bullets they fired in their panic were inaccurate and posed almost no threat.

The remaining agents saw the White Eagles' men fleeing and immediately gave chase.

They carried the two officers, who were severely wounded by machine gun fire, and together they ran along the waterway from the hydrodynamic canal all the way to the prison.

"What do we do now?" a casual operator asked.

"What else can we do? Evacuate!" Miles said irritably.

The three men from the Bald Eagle gang were also bleeding from their legs, from being hit by the prison guards' groping sticks.

I can still run now only thanks to the effects of painkillers.

Now their armor is shattered, their legs are broken, and most importantly, their reliance on the aiming system and X-ray vision is completely useless.

They had no confidence in fighting the warden; they knew what would happen if they lost.

"There's a delayed evacuation point on the water. Let's go there and evacuate immediately!" John commanded.

Xiao Bai followed at the back of the group, silently thinking, "It seems that the weapon that Li Hao had researched to cut off signals is working quite well."

"It's not just interfering with the machine gunners, but also with the three bald eagles." Little White looked at the M14 that John was carrying on his back; the red dot sight and laser sight on the gun were both malfunctioning.

……

Han Che knew that direction led to the evacuation point. The enemy was suppressing them with fire while retreating, and he couldn't catch up.

"Boss! I can't move!" Da Zhuang shouted into the walkie-talkie as the incendiary bomb was thrown at his feet.

"What's going on? What happened?" Han Che heard the machine gun fire stop, and then heard Da Zhuang's voice coming through the walkie-talkie. He immediately sensed something was wrong.

The sound of flames came through the walkie-talkie, accompanied by a low moan of pain, "Boss... Ah! I can't take it anymore! Watch out!"

"What's going on? Dazhuang, hold on, I'm coming right away!" Han Che immediately ordered his personal guards to advance, but they were still stuck in the tidal control zone.

The passage to the hydrodynamic canal was suppressed by the three eagles' firepower, and they could only fight back against them.

"Boss...they have...incendiary bombs...and signal jammers...be careful..."

Da Zhuang's last, intermittent voice came through the walkie-talkie, followed by the crackling sound of flames burning.

Finally, the signal disappeared, and the sound vanished.

The gunfire ceased inside the prison, and the Bald Eagle Squad disappeared from the hydrodynamic canal; they had gone to the delayed evacuation point, Han Che knew perfectly well.

He walked to Dazhuang's burned body. Dazhuang had been engulfed by an incendiary bomb, and his heavy armor was charred black, with some parts bearing the dark red hue of molten metal.

His massive body knelt on the ground, his hand still tightly gripping the machine gun until his death.

The impenetrable heavy armor, once the strongest shield, turned into a metal coffin after it malfunctioned.

They were engulfed in flames with nowhere to hide.

[The Tidal Prison has been closed. Congratulations, host, on successfully completing the level.]

"They're gone..." Han Che said softly, looking down at Da Zhuang in front of him.

He was waiting.

Today, the prison was invaded by 12 player operators. Of these, 4 players were killed and 8 players successfully evacuated.

[Prison kill rewards are now being distributed. Each player killed by a player in the prison will receive 50 Haff Coins, for a total of 200 Haff Coins. The current prison account balance is 260 Haff Coins.]

[21 prison guards died today. Should they be resurrected? Note that if resurrection is not attempted within 24 hours, it will be impossible to revive them.]

The lengthy introduction is over; we can finally be resurrected.

"All have been revived." Han Che let out a soft breath.

[Resurrecting...]

Han Che stared at Da Zhuang's corpse, thinking that once he was resurrected, he should comfort him properly.

He was given this important task as soon as he arrived at the prison; it was such a dangerous job.

[20 prison guards successfully revived, 1 remaining, insufficient manpower]

"What?"

Some of the prison guards who had been shot nearby were slowly getting up, supporting themselves on the ground.

Da Zhuang remained kneeling on the ground, supporting himself on one knee, with the Gatling gun beside him, its muzzle pressed against the ground.