Artifact Report

Chapter 102: Chai Si: Seize a Moment from the Sky of Bullets
Later, Chai Si thought that the reason he survived that day was mainly due to two reasons.

First, the bullets floating in the air suddenly accelerated. Although they were equally lethal, they lacked the high pressure of propellant. In terms of kinetic energy and speed, they were still inferior to the bullets that were actually fired from the barrel. If those bullets were fired from a pistol within ten meters, then not only one, but even three would not be able to escape the fate of being pierced through.

The second reason is Uncle Kai’s warning.

Before Chai Si could clearly see the situation on the hillside, he had already seen Chai Si.

If Uncle Kai had shouted half a second later, no matter how slow the bullet was, it would have been enough to penetrate his forehead.

After hearing the word "get down", the moment that Chai Si's brain took to convert the language signal into action was so long that it seemed to be able to hold his entire life; the thickness of thirty years of life was only the distance of a hair when a bullet passed by his face.

The next second, he fell heavily to the ground, his shoulder hit by the recoil, and the grass leaves, mud spots and soil around him were splashed all over the place.

The bullets shot past the top of Chai Si and seemed to melt into the gray sky, without any sound being heard.

……what happened?

He didn't have time to look back. As soon as he stood up, he heard someone shouting in front of him - "Kailonan is here, bullet!"

Chai Si immediately understood the implicit meaning of this sentence and jumped up.

At this time, on the green land on the top of the mountain which was in a mess and littered with corpses, there were several cars parked at an angle. It seemed that they were driven by the Kai family hunters to rescue. Now their tires were punctured and they could not move.

He couldn't see the person who was speaking because he was behind a car more than ten meters away. He just raised his hand in the air and shouted, "Here!"

Judging from the voice, it was the person who had just told him to hurry up the hill.

Several bullets suspended in the air, like birds of prey that smelled blood and heard the call, swooped down from the sky, circled the car half a circle, and headed straight for the position where the man raised his hand to signal.

"Kai——"

Before he could even utter the word "uncle", Kailonan's command had already overwhelmed him, still the same two words of life-saving: "Get down!"

It was almost instinctive to obey his orders.

At the same time that Chai Si felt his body lunging forward, he also heard the familiar sound of breaking air from behind his head again - in an instant, he suddenly understood.

The bullets that had just grazed his face weren't like normal bullets, losing their momentum and hitting something else, ending their lives as bullets. When they missed, they hovered in mid-air again, waiting until Chai Si jumped to his feet before they turned and lunged at the back of his head again.

…Is anyone controlling the bullets?
At the same time as this thought came into my mind, a dull sound of physical struggle came from behind the car, accompanied by a low groan of pain, as if someone was hit by a bullet; then, a body fell heavily to the ground.

Chai Si gritted his teeth, his muscles trembling all over, but he finally managed to control himself and did not jump up again.

Even if he was lucky, it was unbelievable that he dodged three bullets in one day. He could not be complacent and think that he could still dodge it next time - the bullets rushing over Chai Si's head, as he expected, missed the target and stopped in the air one after another.

They could have swooped down and pierced themselves on the ground, but they stopped...

In other words, his subconscious thought just now was indeed correct?
The bullets themselves are just ordinary bullets, unable to sense their targets by sound or body heat; otherwise, they would not spare anyone hiding behind a car or lying on the ground. The bullets will only be launched when the target is exposed to the controller's field of vision or when someone calls out the target's location.

No wonder Uncle Kai told me to lie down - the controller himself was not in this cemetery, and due to the angle of the terrain, he could only see people standing up?
Uncle Kai...

Chai Si quickly glanced at the car in the distance, suppressed his anxiety, and tried his best to withdraw his emotions. He supported himself with his elbows on the ground, crawled forward a few steps, and finally saw the ground under the car clearly.

The body that fell to the ground from behind the car was wrapped in a bright yellow raincoat.

...It's not Uncle Kai. Today is Damian's death anniversary, so it's definitely not Uncle Kai.

The blood began to flow in the veins again; something that was pressing tightly against the chest suddenly loosened.

He wasn't shot; after all, during his active period, Kyronan was one of the best hunters in Blackmore City.

However, before Chai Si could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw at least twenty or thirty bullets in the air moving - in just a breath of time, they had hit the open space behind the car like a group of birds with their beaks pointed downwards, diving to hunt; the lower half of the car, wearing a yellow raincoat, was affected by this, and was swaying and shaking from the rain of bullets.

Is Uncle Kai still there?
Just when Chai Si was about to leap up and rush out again, a low voice called out to him from afar: "Don't go over there!"

He turned around and found that not far ahead, there had been a hunter from the Kai family hiding. The Kai couple had come to commemorate Damian on a rainy day and had set up a large umbrella on the grass. The hunter named Maigao was huddled behind a chair under the shade of the umbrella, holding a bloodstained knife in his hand.

"As soon as you stand up, those bullets will find you," Mai Gao whispered hurriedly. "After knocking down the man in the yellow raincoat, Mr. Kai must have known better than to stay there, so he shouldn't have been hit by any bullets. Don't rush over and get yourself killed!"

Chai Si stared at the back of the car.

After the hail of bullets, the space behind the car fell silent for a moment; he could not see Uncle Kai, nor could he raise his voice to ask questions.

"I'm late," he asked hoarsely. "What's going on here? How many of us are left?" As if he saw the gun in his hand, Maigao said, "The gun is dead. There's a ghostly effect covering the area. Every bullet we fired just now was intercepted and controlled. We couldn't kill them, but instead became a weapon they used to block and kill them. We weren't prepared at first, and we were caught off guard, resulting in quite a few casualties."

Chai Si looked up - he was lying on the ground with limited vision, but he could still see several corpses lying in the distance; some were wearing yellow raincoats, and some were not.

"The artifact effect applies equally to everyone. If Yellow Raincoat were to fire a shot here, the bullet would still be intercepted. But this is their home turf, so being intercepted doesn't matter. There are plenty of bullets in the air.

"They're searching everywhere for us. If they spot us, they'll signal the bullets in the air to fire... The few of us still alive are scattered and hiding in different places. I assume the others are doing the same as me. When the yellow raincoat approaches, we'll try to kill them as stealthily as possible. If we can't, as soon as they scream nearby, all the bullets will rain down... I don't know how many members of the Kai family are left, but I'm afraid the casualties on both sides are significant."

...In other words, if Uncle Kai had not spoken out to warn me, my position would not have been exposed and I would not have been in danger.

He glanced again at the back of the car Uncle Kai had been in. He had to go over there, to confirm with his own eyes that Uncle Kai was safe and to protect him as he left... but how?

Before Chai Si could come up with a solution, he saw another man in a bright yellow raincoat walking towards him from a distance. Although Maigao said that all bullets fired would be suspended in the air, the man still carried a Desert Eagle and walked step by step towards the car where Uncle Kai had just hidden.

At that moment, Chai Si realized what he was going to do.

Not only did he want to know whether Uncle Kai was still alive, but the people behind the attack also wanted to know.

There are not many places to hide in the cemetery, most of it is open space; even if Uncle Kai had escaped the hail of bullets in time, he could only move between those cars and could not go far. As long as someone was sent over, it would not be difficult to find Uncle Kai's location.

After the lesson of the previous yellow raincoat being killed at close range, the second yellow raincoat would never rashly approach - and, he didn't need to get close.

When they discovered Kai Ronan's hiding place, Yellow Raincoat only needed to fire a single shot at him. Once the bullet hurtling through the air was stopped, it would become the best signpost for the direction. At that point, the remaining bullets floating in the air would surely hit Kai before he could even get up and flee.

When the scene of "Uncle Kai being shot" appeared in his mind, it was like a needle that almost made Chai Si jump up; he bit his lips tightly and forced himself not to move.

He was not afraid of risking his life; risking his life was not worth mentioning, but there was only one chance to save Uncle Kai, and that was the moment when Huang Yuyi discovered him.

"Maigao," he stared at the man in the yellow raincoat, but shouted to the hunter under the umbrella, "Get out of the way and hide somewhere else."

"……what?"

Chai Si didn't know whether he understood it or not.

Because in the next second, the man in the yellow raincoat suddenly stopped in his tracks just as he was about to step between the two cars, apparently having spotted his target. He was wearing an earpiece and, while speaking hurriedly into it, he quickly stepped back a few steps and raised his gun in front of him.

Chai Si has always been quick, but at that moment, he burst out with an astonishing speed that he had never expected.

The process of him jumping up from the ground and throwing himself under the big umbrella was so fast that it seemed as if it was a frame that the film director felt unnecessary to keep and gently cut out from time. When Chai Si grabbed the umbrella handle and pulled it straight up, a gunshot was heard in the distance, almost cracking and cutting off the gray sky.

Now we can only pray that what Maigao said is right, and the bullet fired by the yellow raincoat will be intercepted.

At the moment the gun went off, the controller's attention must have been focused on the man in the yellow raincoat; it was during this brief moment of distraction that Chai Si had the opportunity to act.

The heavy and long giant umbrella was swung into a shadow in his hand.

Accompanied by the sound of "ding-dang-dang", many bullets floating in the air nearby were either knocked away or rolled into the umbrella by Chai Si; while running wildly, he raised his arms and used all his strength to throw the umbrella far away towards where the yellow raincoat was.

As soon as he let go of the umbrella, Chase was already running closer; he jumped straight up and threw himself onto the car, rolled on the hood, and landed on the other side of the car.

As soon as he squatted down, he heard a series of bangs on the other side of the car - he knew that the bullets behind him were unable to retract in time and hit the car; if he rolled off the car a little slower, he would have to take the bullets on his back.

Logically speaking, no matter how fast he is, he can't outrun a bullet in the air.

However, Chai Si took advantage of the brief moment when the controller was distracted and used his umbrella to shoot away a large number of bullets nearby; the controller had to regroup the bullets and speed up the pursuit, which gave him a chance.

As soon as his feet firmly planted on the ground, Chai Si didn't even waste a blink of an eye and immediately pounced on the man in the yellow raincoat who had just staggered to avoid the big umbrella. Before the latter could get up from the ground, he had his big hands pressed down on the throat and pinned to the ground.

At this moment, the walkie-talkie that Chai Si had inserted into his waist rang.

It was hard to imagine that less than ten minutes had passed since the attack by Morandao; Mercury's mercenaries had finally arrived at the cemetery.

Before answering the intercom, Chai Si snatched off Huang Yuyi's earphones. From the earphones, he heard a man's voice urgently asking, "...Answer me, where are you firing the bullets?"

He gave a low, breathy laugh.

...The time for the behind-the-scenes attack on the Kai family has ended.

　My routine is slowly returning to its old ways... I hope it stays fixed and doesn't change anymore. I'm going to find a hammer and nail this routine down. Tomorrow I'm going to try something new (nervous).

　　
　
(End of this chapter)