This game is so weird!

The Welding Emperor ran wildly, replacing the metal plates he carried on his back to block bullets countless times. While changing the plates, his left hand was hit by a bullet from a beastman soldier chasing behind him, and blood dripped from his wrist to the ground.

"Welding Emperor, at this rate, we might not make it to the refinery."

The slower players had already been caught up by the laborers and disappeared into the orcish ranks. The two remaining guys who had been running with them turned around and fired a few shots to repel the orcish laborers that had pounced on them. They said wearily.

Reaching into his backpack, Hanwudi pulled out an oxygen cylinder and threw it behind him. Crouching down to use the cover of a barrier, he raised his right hand and shot the oxygen cylinder, blasting it away and knocking a group of conscripts to the ground by the shockwave.

"Ptooey!"

Welding Emperor and two other players got up, spat twice, put on the metal shields they had modified and added with shoulder straps before setting off, and continued running forward.

"hiss--"

Seeing this, the orc elites in their crimson heavy armor roared twice, and the surviving conscripts circled around the blast site and gave chase. Meanwhile, the orc and the other orc infantry lagged behind like cats and mice, occasionally firing a few shots to show their presence. They didn't even aim for vital points, deliberately letting the three remaining humans escape and taking them all to the rat hole.

Thanks to the beastmen's deliberate leniency, the three members of the Welding Emperor's party successfully escaped to the refinery.

Upon seeing the human soldiers waiting solemnly inside the refinery's walls, the orc elite's large mouth, revealing sharp teeth beneath his armor, grinned.

"Hiss!!"

As soon as the Welding Emperor squeezed through the gap left for them at the factory gate, he heard the bugle call of the orcs behind him. Under the command of the orc elites, the laborers and orc soldiers dispersed to both sides of the road, revealing several players in the middle who were tied to ropes and covered in wounds.

Two orc soldiers shoved them, forcing them to head towards the factory.

"what!"

Upon hearing the emergency signal, Anya, who had arrived with Li Ang and her guards along with the reinforcements, exclaimed in alarm.

"Damn! These orcs are disgusting!" A player, aiming his gun through the crack in the door, frowned and said angrily, "They're even using hostages!"

Many players who witnessed this scene were secretly annoyed. The scene was so familiar; they had seen it in many documentaries since childhood. The only difference was that the enemy was a different kind of creature that was not much different from these orcs. But no player expected to see this scene happening in front of them. They couldn't help but feel a surge of anger and wanted to rush up and teach these orcs a lesson.

Compared to the players and COG warriors who witnessed this scene inside the refinery, the few players who were captured didn't react much. After the emergency situation of the labor carrier was detected and the pain perception was automatically cut off, they completely let loose. The reason they hadn't been forced offline yet was just to imitate the martyrs and shout that line. Now it was finally their time to shine.

"Fire at me!!!!"

"Fire!"

Regardless of whether there were cannons in the refinery, the captured players staggered toward the factory, shouting as they ran.

Hearing the shouts from outside the factory walls, Anya's tears welled up instantly. She raised her hand to wipe her eyes and said, her voice choked with sobs, "What brave warriors! Just as admirable as Gears!"

The two COG guards standing watch with guns in front of him nodded and saluted the captured player.

"Pfft!!!" The players guarding the door almost choked when they heard this, and their anger subsided considerably.

Brother, you guys aren't going to die, why are you acting so realistically?

Where did all these drama queens come from?!

Ignoring the chaos outside the factory, the Welding Emperor rushed into the refinery, pushed aside the players carrying bandages, and strode up the steps. Soon he arrived at the roof of a small workshop inside the refinery, where four machines covered with waterproof cloth had already been placed there by players who had respawned earlier.

Glancing at the guild leader and other NPCs standing on the top floor of the largest factory building, and seeing that they showed no objection, Quantum Salty Fish and the other players, who were already prepared there, shouted, "Spread out, prepare to fire!"

Quantum Saltfish nodded, signaling the other players to remove the waterproof tarpaulin. He found a place to sit down, took out a control terminal from his backpack that he had taken from the monitoring room he had built in a player's house on Scar Planet, connected an energy battery, and turned on the system.

The four waterproof tarpaulins were pulled down, revealing the machinery inside. Four manually welded rifle turrets appeared on the rooftop, attracting the attention of Li Ang and his group in another building not far away.

"This is?"

Each of the four turrets consists of four Orc Thunderstorm Assault Rifles, arranged in pairs on either side of the turret. They are fixed in place by a freely sliding metal pivot welded in the middle. A common surveillance drone is welded to the front of the pivot, with several cables extending from it to connect to the pivot behind it. Two power batteries used by the Seamoth are also inserted into the base at the bottom.

"Connection successful. Drone auto-tracking and locking function activated."

Seated on the ground, Quantum Saltfish's fingers flew across the drone terminal, while Emperor Chonghan said, "Fire?"

"Open fire! Destroy these bastards!"

Only then did the Welding Emperor see his teammates being pushed out by the orc soldiers below, and he was so angry that his mouth twisted in disbelief.

Upon hearing the reply from the Welding Emperor, Quantum Saltfish pressed the start button on the drone terminal screen. The drone's blades began to spin rapidly, causing the unlocked rifle turret to slide and eventually lock onto the direction of a living creature. After locking onto the target, the drone wanted to fly forward, but it was unable to do so due to the welding shaft.

Although the drone failed to take off, its forward motion triggered a lever hidden on the pivot. Through the force transmitted by a series of metal parts, the trigger of the rifle was pulled, and four Thunderstorm assault rifles opened fire simultaneously. The dense bullets instantly turned the locked target into a sieve.

"Test successful... Continuous firing!"

Seeing the captured player and the two orc soldiers nearby taken away by the first wave of bullets, Quantum Salty Fish swallowed hard. He switched to continuous tracking mode on the screen, and instantly the four rifle turrets locked onto other living creatures outside the factory and fired continuously, quickly killing half of the orcs.

Not long after, the rifle turret made a "click-clack" sound. The Welding Emperor called over the other players who were watching the show on the rooftop to come forward and reload their rifles. Taking advantage of this moment, the orc elites who were hiding behind the corpses of several conscripts stepped forward and hissed, calling on all the orcs to charge. At the same time, they raised their mechanical bows and fired them towards the rooftop.

Because of the great distance, the arrow flew through the air in an arc and struck the wall on the second floor of the factory, blasting a hole in it.

"Fire! Fire!"

After a brief moment of shock at the turret's power, Yue Qing and Anya were the first to react, calling on the warriors to open fire and kill the orc soldiers who were charging desperately. The players also quickly reacted and began to coordinate their attack.

Under the attack of the cyborg warriors and players, the remaining orcs suffered heavy losses. The rifle turrets, which had been reloaded, quickly started operating again, spewing red flames like fire dragons, and killing the remaining orcs one by one.

"Victory!!!"

Seeing all the annoying orcs lying on the ground, the players couldn't help but cheer. Some players even took out their pistols and threw them into the air, which startled the garrison captain, Xiao Jin, who quickly shouted to stop them.

After the battle, the players and the cyborg warriors rushed to the battlefield to finish off the remaining enemies, while collecting loot to be distributed according to kills. Anya, on the other hand, led the guards to check on the few friendly soldiers who had been killed and captured, to see if there was any chance of rescuing them.

Li Ang and Yue Qing quickly accepted the loss of the laborers.

Yue Qing, who was preparing to pay compensation for the workers' injuries and deaths, and Li Ang, who was not prepared to pay compensation and even planned to collect resurrection fees from the players, notified the base to withdraw the standby suicide drones and then walked toward the roof of the turret next door with burning eyes.

This turret is really well made. As long as the problem of not being able to distinguish between friend and foe is solved, it will be a powerful defensive weapon. We must take it!