“What the fuck?! Did they bring a plane into a fight like this? How the hell are we going to survive this shit?” Diaz said as she lost sight of the plane but was able to hear it from afar with its roaring engines.
Nie quickly returned to the main road for a smoother drive even though he knows that riding in the forest would be a safer choice. Like what Diaz said there was no way they were able to beat a fighter jet head on.
“Tellie, pick up that 50 calibre sniper gun from the back and get the new ammunition clip from the box. Hurry it up!” Jin shouted and Nie was thinking how insane would he be to fight an aeroplane with a rifle. In fact, it was unheard of and Nie would believe that his War Maidens would not follow such a ridiculous order. Perhaps he was thinking of letting one of his War Maidens down and act as a distraction, so having a sniper rifle would be the best bet.
But no.
Tellie picked up the Beretta rifle while Diaz lowered the window of his SUV. The assigned sniper of the squad immediately checked the rifle after loading a clip of explosive rounds, one of the items which Jin had asked the bellboy to buy in the morning.
She slowly put her head out of the window and subsequently her torso and the rifle along with it. Tellie could see that the plane was going for another round at them and this time round it flew slightly lower to make sure there was no chance for them to run away the moment the pilot sent the missile out.
In the meantime, Jin requested for a wired connection to Tellie and Yinn assisted by grabbing Jin’s communication cord towards Tellie’s neck where she had a port. As cyberpunk as it sounded, Jin found out the previous night that he does have a wire at his ear, allowing for wired connections to perform several sensitive tasks. The Tactical System joked about how he could now connect to the internet back in Jin’s Earth if he was feeling that the wifi in his room was slow. (But it was never slow, the System ensured it)
Why Jin did this because he wanted to connect to Tellie’s vision and see what she saw. Even though he was quite sure of his abilities to shoot, one could say that he rather have the hands of a machine to compensate for any possible shortcomings. It was especially crucial when they have a freaking fighter plane behind their tails. And even though he can wirelessly connect Tellie’s vision to himself, there could still be a lag between the wireless transmission and that few milliseconds could be the difference between life and death.
In addition, by connecting with Tellie, he would also have full control of his War Maiden while using his current abilities on top of it. With Tellies’ vision connected to Jin, his Inverse Eyes were also working overtime to magnify when the missile was about to drop.
This was because there were no visible missiles on the plane but Jin could see the moveable slot in the middle of the plane and he assumed that the missile was going to emerge from that particular slot. What Jin needed to do was to make sure he was able to fire when the missile appear.
“System, I am relying on you for the calculations!” Jin shouted within his mind and at the same time, he activated all the available code boosts that were possible for Tellie to take in. To his surprise, there were more options than before mainly because of her promotion to lance corporal as well as the installation of Package Ten.
“Accuracy up by 60 percent , Long Distance Barrel created and installed. Booster chip installed into Beretta Sniper Rifle. Strength is up by 40 percent. Steady Hands activated. Uneven Shooting Trait(Temporary) Activated. Package Ten Nitro Boost activated, full focus with double tap readied.” The Tactical System continued to rumble more code activations out and Tellie turned from a War Maiden into a stationary rifle stand as extensions emerged from her body even though Diaz and Click were holding her steady.
In fact, those extensions poke into Diaz and Click, borrowing their processing power so that Tellie was able to make the shot when the time comes. Even while Yinn was sitting behind them, she too had decided to share the processing load by placing her wire into Click’s port, allowing all of the Grey Bear Squad to be connected to Tellie.
Meanwhile, Nie tried to drive as straight as possible despite not knowing what was happening. His prediction that a War Maiden would drop off as a distraction was definitely wrong and they were attempting to shoot a fighter plane down.
As he sweats and pushed on the pedal, he was inadvertently increasing the difficulty for Tellie but there was no time to tell him to slow down, causing more variation in the equation of the squad’s sniper processing.
The moment of truth came as the plane finally caught hold of the SUV in its targeting system and it clicked a button to open the slot beneath the belly of the plane so that it could release his missile out to the enemy and be done with the day.?????????ѵ??. c??
Yet, that overconfidence and delay in shooting the missile allowed Tellie to have a better gauge of the distance since the bullet air time had to be recalculated the moment the missile door opened.
Thus, the moment Jin saw the very tip of the missile edging out of the plane’s opened slot, Tellie was given the command via thought and her fingers pushed down the trigger. Bullet versus missile.
To a layman and in most situations, they would have assumed correctly. In fact, that would have been a very stupid question to ask.
Just not this time. Not for the Grey Bear Squad and Jin.
Occasionally missing content, please report errors in time.
