168: Crossfire
Valentine had been aiming his pistol at the fragmentation grenades.
Fang Yun's warning allowed him to perform predictive, accurate double shots.
The bullets fired a second in advance detonated the fragmentation grenades on the walls on both sides the moment the pursuers appeared.
The surging explosive flames and the steel fragments inside the grenades, used to increase their power, successfully took the lives of the pursuer drivers.
The windshield of the first armored car shattered into a spiderweb pattern from the impact of the fragmentation grenade explosion.
Steel fragments penetrated the side window, slashing the driver's throat.
The panicked driver slammed the accelerator, while simultaneously taking his hands off the steering wheel and pressing them against the wound on his throat, trying to stop the gushing blood.
However, unfortunately, the wound caused by the steel fragments was not only "open" but also quite large.
Even if he immediately used "Full Heal" or "Rapid Recovery" and desperately poured them onto the wound, it wouldn't change his inevitable death.
The second armored car, forced by the sudden stop of the vehicle in front, could only perform an emergency maneuver.
This alley wasn't very wide, and the second armored car made a sharp turn, directly crashing into the alley wall.
Several curses rang out, and two burly men, each with a light machine gun, jumped out of the first armored car.
Three Death Squad lackeys in light armor also jumped out of the second armored car, whose hood was puffing black smoke from hitting the wall.
One of the Death Squad lackeys dragged a shoulder-fired rocket launcher out of the back seat.
He shouldered the rocket launcher, his expression ferocious, and pressed the firing button.
"Whoosh—!"
A rocket trailing smoke flew straight towards Valentine.
"Quick, fall back and hide!"
Valentine shouted, then hid around the street corner with Toke.
Fang Yun, who had already hidden around the corner, had his bionic eyes suddenly light up.
"'Puppet: Target Lock' uploading, 'Puppet: Bionic Eye Malfunction' uploading, 'Puppet: Electromagnetic Short Circuit' uploading, 'Puppet: Data Contagion' uploading."
Four Puppets were transmitted to four different people.
There were no Hackers among the pursuing Death Squad, so they were helpless against Fang Yun's Puppet attacks.
The Puppets quickly took effect.
The eyes of the two burly men, who were elite members of the Death Squad, suddenly sparked.
After their vision was temporarily stripped away, under the domination of fearful rage, they selectively forgot Fang Yun's formidable strength (referring to his extraordinary ability shown by safely extracting the 'nightingale').
Angry roars immediately echoed in the alley:
"Damn it, quickly get rid of the Hacker opposite!"
Another rocket, trailing smoke, tore through the air and hit the concrete wall.
The scorching air blast billowed Valentine's clothes and straightened his hair backward.
Valentine squinted, shielded his hair with his hand, and waited for the air blast to subside before poking his head out to look.
The Death Squad lackey carrying the rocket launcher was adjusting the angle for the next shot.
"Fang Yun! Can you disrupt their actions?!"
"Beep, 'Puppet: Bionic Body Malfunction' uploading, 'Puppet: Action Impairment' uploading."
"Of course! Absolutely!"
As soon as he finished speaking, less than two seconds later, Valentine noticed that the Death Squad pursuers suddenly stood stiffly in place, completely still.
A Third Order Hacker performing bionic body overclocking can still simultaneously hack five people.
Although after completing such a wave of hacking, under normal circumstances, one would lose the ability to continue providing Hacker technical support to teammates, and would also require repair, or even replacement of bionic bodies.
However, as long as Valentine and Toke seize the opportunity and deal with all the Death Squad pursuers, then I won't need to continue providing Hacker support.