blueteamnovel Chapter 40: Runic Weapons! Beast Hunter Type 1 Kinetic Submachine Gun
Chapter 40: Runic Weapons! Beast Hunter Type 1 Kinetic Submachine Gun
After finishing his cultivation, Su Chen opened his eyes and immediately took out his phone.
7: 24.
Holy crap!
He sprang up from the prayer mat, his knee hitting the edge, wincing in pain, but he didn't have time to rub it.
The school bus leaves at 7:40! I haven't even had breakfast yet!
Are you supposed to tell the demon halfway through a fight: "Sorry, I didn't eat breakfast, I have low blood sugar, let's fight another day"?
Su Chen grabbed his backpack and rushed towards the door, but stopped abruptly the moment he opened it.
There was a person standing outside the door.
Zhou Qingguo.
The homeroom teacher arrived at some unknown time, leaning against the wall in the corridor with his hands in his pockets, looking very casual.
They've clearly been there for a while.
"Hello... Class teacher!" Su Chen's voice carried a hint of guilt.
Zhou Qingguo turned around, his face showing no impatience, but rather a broad smile, his eyes narrowed into slits.
"I felt the commotion just now," he said, his voice soft but his tone certain. "Quite an improvement, right?"
Su Chen was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head, unable to suppress the corners of his mouth.
The Ren and Du meridians!
Once these two hurdles are overcome, the Acupoint Opening Realm is just around the corner!
Su Chen felt a surge of inexplicable excitement. But in front of his homeroom teacher, he tried his best to maintain a calm demeanor, though his barely concealed smile betrayed him.
"Not bad, I opened a new acupoint," he said casually.
Seeing his feigned composure, Zhou Qingguo didn't expose him, but simply smiled and nodded.
"Okay, go ahead!" He glanced at his watch. "The school bus will be here on the playground in fifteen minutes, bus number nine. You did well on your previous exams, so give it your all in this practical assessment!"
"Okay!"
Su Chen responded and had already darted three steps away.
Zhou Qingguo stood there, watching the figure disappear around the corner of the stairs, and shook his head with a smile.
"This kid... he's trying to hide it from me with such an obvious commotion?"
"The Ren and Du meridians—which one, the Ren meridian or the Du meridian?"
"In short, a significant improvement!"
"Wait a minute! This kid's grades have improved so much, could it be that he's unlocked his full potential?"
Thinking of Su Chen's significant improvement in these exams.
Zhou Qingguo scratched his head, suddenly feeling unsure.
........
playground.
When Su Chen arrived, the engine of school bus number nine had already started, emitting a low hum and wisps of white smoke from the exhaust.
The car door was open, and a driver in uniform was leaning against the door smoking. When he saw Su Chen running over, he put out his cigarette and gestured towards the car: "Hurry up and get in, we've been waiting for you! Once everyone's here, I'll let you know as soon as possible."
"Okay~ Okay!"
Panting, Su Chen climbed the steps and quickly glanced at the stairs.
The bus was almost full, with dark blue cloth seats on both sides of the aisle, and the luggage racks were filled with tactical backpacks and equipment boxes of all sizes.
There were quite a few acquaintances on the bus!
Yang Fan was sitting in the back row, waving at him with a bright smile.
He was sitting next to several students from regular classes. They looked familiar, but he couldn't recall their names.
Liu Xiangdong and Guo Hao were also there, sitting in the front row by the window!
"Looks like we've drawn from the same area... What bad luck!" Su Chen thought to himself.
His gaze swept over the location of his team – the middle of the vehicle.
The seat next to Wang Yichuan was empty.
Zhang Yan was sitting in the front row, turning to the side to talk to Lin Xiyue.
Su Chen walked over quickly, shoved his backpack onto the luggage rack, and plopped down next to Wang Yichuan.
Why haven't you replied to my message?
Before Wang Yichuan could even speak, Zhang Yan turned around from the front seat, gripping the back of the seat with both hands, her eyes wide open, her ponytail hanging down her shoulders.
"Didn't you have breakfast either?" she continued, her tone carrying a hint of reproach, as if to say, "I care about you, and you're still late."
"We guessed you were in the training room, and we were planning to go find you after we finished eating. But your homeroom teacher happened to be passing by, overheard us, and said he was coming to find you. I thought you'd arrive quickly since the homeroom teacher was there! But we still waited for more than twenty minutes."
"More than twenty minutes?" Su Chen was taken aback.
"Mmm!" Zhang Yan nodded emphatically. "Your homeroom teacher must have been held up by something. We should have come to find you!"
Su Chen felt a warmth in her heart.
"I'm in a breakthrough phase," he said, with a hint of apology in his voice. "Professor Zhou must have sensed it and didn't disturb me."
Zhang Yan blinked, then pouted, her tone teasing: "Wow~ wait for you for twenty minutes? What a big shot!"
"Haha, our teacher is a very nice person," Su Chen said with a smile, waving his hand. "Besides, he's in a breakthrough phase, how could I possibly disturb him?"
"That's true!" Zhang Yan wasn't really angry. She moved aside and gestured towards Wang Yichuan with her lips. "By the way, we brought you breakfast. It's with Wang Yichuan."
Wang Yichuan took a paper bag from the bag at his feet and handed it over.
Su Chen took it, opened it, and saw: two scorched eggs, still warm, three beef patties, and a cup of morning tea.
"Thanks!" Su Chen didn't stand on ceremony. He picked up a scorched egg, cracked it on the corner of the table, peeled off the shell, and took a big bite.
The egg has a soft, red yolk with a hint of sweetness, and its texture is several levels better than that of a regular egg.
"Where's Xiao Zi?" he asked vaguely.
"On the luggage rack," Wang Yichuan pointed upwards.
Su Chen looked up and saw that Xiao Zi was lying in a pet carrier at the very back of the luggage rack, its silvery-white tail sticking out from the vent and swaying slowly.
Good guy!
Since bringing beasts is a new rule, the school has not prepared a special vehicle for beast taming.
Seeing him look up, Little Purple's tail wagged even more enthusiastically, but its body didn't move; the space above was too small to turn around.
"Okay, let it stay put! It'll prevent it from getting hyperactive." Su Chen took a bite of the beef patty and squinted his eyes in satisfaction.
Wang Yichuan pulled a tactical box out from under his seat.
Open the latch, the box lid pops open, inside is a silver-gray submachine gun with smooth lines and a blue energy indicator light at the magazine well.
"As you said yesterday," Wang Yichuan took out the gun, skillfully checked the safety and bolt, "I've chosen the Hunter-type Kinetic Energy Submachine Gun for you, with three magazines, a total of six hundred rounds of Level 1 kinetic energy ammunition."
He handed over the gun, then took out five silver-white cylindrical grenades from the box and placed them one by one on the seat: "There are also five Super Explosive Type 1 grenades."
Su Chen took the submachine gun and weighed it in his hand.
It's not light, but it's not heavy either. It's easy to operate with one hand, and even more stable with two hands.
The Beast Hunter Type 1 Kinetic Submachine Gun, manufactured by Jiangling Arsenal, is one of the fastest-firing individual weapons in the current Federation standard equipment.
The theoretical rate of fire is 1,200 rounds per minute. In actual use, due to the limitation of magazine capacity, the continuous firepower can only be maintained for a few seconds. But within those few seconds, it is a moving metal storm.
The bullet is a specially made first-level kinetic energy bullet with a high-density alloy in the bullet head. It has a muzzle velocity of 1,400 meters per second and can penetrate a 30-millimeter-thick homogeneous steel plate within 200 meters.
What does this mean?
It's like having naval guns deployed on land before the apocalypse! They leave people covered in bruises.
It sounds very powerful.
But it's not enough against elite-level monsters!
Elite-level magical beasts have muscle fiber density several times that of soldier-level beasts, and their bodies are also covered with a layer of psionic armor.
When a level 1 kinetic energy projectile hits the target, most of its energy is absorbed by the psionic armor, and the projectile gets stuck in the muscle layer, making it difficult to damage internal organs.
As for the general-level...
Su Chen thought of Bai Liang, the White Mountain Spirit Tiger that his father had raised.
For beings of that level, using psionic energy to protect themselves is an instinctive reaction. Before the bullets even arrive, psionic energy has already formed a protective film on the surface of their skin.
A single-stage kinetic energy bullet hitting it is like a tickle.
To fight against beings of the War General level or higher, you'll need runic weapons!
Rune-powered weapons rely on spirit runes and spirit pattern technology.
Spirit runes are products of inscribing the power of the rules of heaven and earth onto a specific carrier.
Each talisman contains a specific rule; some accelerate, some harden, and some burn.
By inscribing talismans into weapons, ordinary physical attacks can be imbued with psionic power, ignoring psionic armor and directly killing the target!
Of course, the production cost of spirit talisman weapons is extremely high, requiring a large amount of precious materials.
Therefore, magic weapons are currently only exclusive equipment for college students, elite martial artists, and the military; ordinary students can't even get their hands on them.
"What are you thinking about?" Zhang Yan's voice came from the front.
Su Chen snapped out of his daze, put the gun back in the tactical case, and fastened the latch.
"Nothing much, I'm just a little excited about going to Wutou Mountain."
"This is a contaminated area left behind by the Thousand-Faced Demon Lord! It's very dangerous, so you'd better be careful. If you encounter any danger, you can hide behind me, haha~"
Su Chen rolled her eyes: "You? Don't owe me a life-saving favor! And then you'll try to repay me with your body or something. Your feminine features are too flat... I'm not into that."
"You! Ah! I'm going to beat you to death!"