Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 285 47. Close-range Shooting
"What do you mean by avoidance? In this situation, you can't hide even if you want to!"

Oliver controlled the steering wheel and stared at the road in front of him: "Everything depends on you, I just need to drive forward!"

"It's troublesome. This kind of drone is not easy to deal with."

Jack rummaged through the grenade box on the front seat and took out a special grenade: "Electromagnetic pulse grenade, can this thing get rid of the thing behind?"

"Don't worry about it for now, Jack, just throw it!"

While V was shouting, the Octant drones flying behind him had already started firing. The bullets from the six drones equipped with machine guns hit Hera's vehicle armor like raindrops. This time the firepower was much stronger than the previous two motorcycle pursuers.

Listening to the clanging sound of metal, V looked back through the bulletproof glass. In his sight, the bulletproof glass was already covered with spider-web-like bullet impact marks. The armor modification on the rear cover for protection had become bumpy and was about to be lifted up, revealing the weakly protected car body underneath.

"Oh no, the armor can't hold up any longer!"

As a person who modified the vehicle, V knew Hera's defense ability best. In his judgment, Hera could only hold on for less than 20 seconds at most: "Should we get off the car and get rid of these drones first?!"

"We were driving so fast that there were drones catching up with us. If we got out of the car, we would be surrounded."

As Jack spoke, he threw out of the window the few electromagnetic pulse grenades in the grenade box. After leaving the vehicle, they floated backwards in the air due to the wind, and then vibrated in the air. The electromagnetic pulse enveloped the three-meter-high air around the grenade.

"Is it effective? V!"

"It's no use!"

Looking through the gaps in the glass spider web that could still be seen clearly, V shouted, "Those drones made evasive moves in advance. Of the six drones, only one was disturbed and fell to the ground. It looked like it didn't suffer any damage at all. It should be able to restart and fly over soon."

"Is the only solution here to use a gun?"

Jack gritted his teeth: "Carl, what's wrong?!"

"It's just the right time."

Carl, who had closed his eyes after seeing the drone, opened them:
"The invasion was successful."

Following Carl's words, one of the five Octant drones that were still flying suddenly shook, and then the muzzle of its machine gun that was originally aimed at Hera instantly turned towards its 'companion' flying nearby.

Machine guns roared, and tongues of flame spread from the side of Hera's body all the way into the air. Compared with Hera, which was protected by armor, the Octant drone was obviously lacking in armor when facing the firepower from another drone. Not long after the bullet hit the gap in the mechanical structure, tore open the fuselage, and crashed into the core inside, a ball of fire that rose from the inside out emerged from the drone.

Two seconds after being targeted by the flames, the drone exploded, and the wreckage fell onto the road along with flames, completely destroyed.

"Deal with one."

Just as Carl was trying to control the drone he was controlling to aim at the next drone, the remaining four drones had already discovered the "traitor" with a problem with the program, and quickly completed the turn during calibration. Under the coverage of the fire network, the drone controlled by Carl did not survive for a second.

"Okay, now we have taken care of two." Carl felt a little regretful that the drone he had hacked into for almost five seconds was destroyed in the blink of an eye. Holding his EMP knife, he thought for a moment but still couldn't bear to throw it away and stab a drone.

Throwing out a knife here is like looking for a sword on a boat. It is almost a dream to want to retrieve the knife. There seems to be no need to waste it to deal with a few drones.

After taking back the knife, Carl saw something through the front window of the car, and he instantly thought of how to get rid of the tracking drone behind him.

"Oliver, brake!"

"Brake? Good!"

Without any hesitation, after receiving the words and understanding their meaning, Oliver executed them without hesitation, regardless of whether he could brake the car at this moment, and whether braking at full speed would cause the people in the car to lean forward and cause an accident. Oliver instantly released the accelerator and stepped hard on the brake.

"Zizzi-"

Amid the strange and harsh friction sound of the tires under protection, the four people in Hera's car fell forward as the rear end of the car was lifted up due to the sudden braking.

Jack was quick to press the center console in front of him with one hand and put his other hand across Oliver's chest to prevent him from slamming his head on the steering wheel. V, who was in the back seat, also held the seat in front of him and steady Carl with one hand.

Although Jack and V didn't know what Carl was going to do, they both knew that in an emergency, the first thing to do was to protect their friends.

Carl let V use his hands to steady himself and trusted his companion. He was not worried at all that he would bump his head on the seat. Even though he was shaking, his eyes were fixed straight ahead. When he saw three drones that failed to slow down in time and continued to fly past Hera, which were now in front of the car, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

“It’s time to explode.”

Under Carl's control, the traffic lights that flew over and were almost at the same height as the drone behind it, which had just completed its turn, suddenly caught fire and began to explode due to an internal circuit break. After the explosion engulfed the three drones and obscured their automatic scanning and recognition programs with the high temperature, Carl picked up the Sadara technology shotgun in the car.

"Speed ​​up, Oliver!"

"Hera will be destroyed by us sooner or later!"

Oliver complained, but he understood what Carl was going to do. After the emergency brake, he started the car again. V and Jack, who also understood what Carl meant from his actions, also picked up a Sadara placed in the car each.

The vehicle engines roared again, and when the automatic identification programs of the three drones were no longer disturbed, Hera was already rushing towards the three drones.

The explosion of a traffic light obviously could not harm the Octant drone at all, but the Sadara in the hands of the three people who leaned out of the car windows was a different story.

Sadara, which had fully accumulated energy, fired dense, unavoidable sharp steel nails as the three people pulled the trigger. The range was shorter than that of an ordinary shotgun, but because of the powerful steel nails, Sadara was able to pour enough bullets into the fuselage of the drone the next moment after firing at close range.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

In the wind, Hera continued to move forward, leaving the three explosions behind.

(End of this chapter)