Global Catastrophe: I Became the World Tree-Chapter 42 - Combat Power Assessment_1

Chapter 42: Chapter 42 Combat Power Assessment_1

Chapter 42: Chapter 42 Combat Power Assessment_1

When the people waiting outside saw that Chen Dalong and Zhang Chenggang had actually safely brought out the two injured members,

they couldn’t help but reveal genuine smiles amidst their disbelief.

Although the mission had failed, the crowd’s respect for Chen Dalong, their leader, had actually grown.

When trouble arose, he was truly willing to shoulder the burden, and this alone was enough to earn their admiration.

They might all be gangsters, but that didn’t mean they lacked loyalty, especially for those who had seen Hong Kong gangster films, who didn’t admire Chen Haonan?

“Alright, stop staring and get on the bus quickly. We’re going back. A few of our brothers are seriously injured and need to go to the hospital immediately,” Chen Dalong said in a deep voice.

“Yes!” Everyone helped each other onto the bus quickly and then swiftly returned.

However, although they had escaped death, the atmosphere on the bus was somewhat silent.

There was no helping it; the failure of the mission meant they would not be getting the rest of the money.

And what they feared even more was that Chen Dalong would not be willing to give it another try.

For a while, everyone looked at each other, until finally, Li Huosheng spoke up and asked, “Boss, what do we do now that the mission has failed?”

“Damn it, this mission is too dangerous. After we go back, I’ll go to the research institute and extort a good sum. They owe us compensation for medical and lost wages, it’s not over until they pay up.”

“As for the mission…” Chen Dalong wanted to say they wouldn’t do it anymore, but he was reluctant to give up the money.

In the end, he clenched his teeth and said, “We ask for more money. If they don’t double the price, they can forget about us continuing to collect materials.”

“But… boss, that mutated buffalo is too terrifying! Our firearms can’t deal with it, how can we fight?” A little brother couldn’t help but ask, shivering with fear.

“Are you stupid? We don’t have to deal with that mutated buffalo,” Chen Dalong glanced at him and said.

“Boss, do you mean, we should shift our target to the Old Chinese Scholar Tree on Small Phoenix Mountain?” At this moment, Chen Huosheng spoke up and asked.

“Not necessarily. We’ll see what the situation is like at the time and make a specific plan then,” Chen Dalong replied.

“We were careless this time and weren’t well-prepared. Next time, we’ll buy a few drones to come with us; we’ll send the drones to fly around first to determine the location of the mutated buffalo.”

“Then, based on the specific situation, decide whether we can bypass the mutated buffalo. If not, we’ll head to Small Phoenix Mountain,” Chen Dalong said.

Hearing this, many people’s eyes suddenly lit up, but there were still many who felt afraid.

It was then that Qin Fang spoke up to remind, “Boss, we also need to think about how to deal with those mutated bats.”

By this time, his right arm had been bandaged, but recalling the Bat King still gave him a shuddering feeling, as his arm had nearly been rendered useless.

“The Bat King is not impossible to deal with; our main issue is that we don’t have enough firearms.”

“Luckily, we’ve got the footage we recorded this time. When we go back, we’ll show it to those researchers sitting in their offices. I bet it’ll scare the piss out of them.”

“If they don’t approve at least 10 more gun permits for us, they can forget about us continuing the mission,” said Chen Dalong.

Listening to Chen Dalong’s reasoned analysis, the originally anxious members also calmed down and nodded in agreement.

Indeed, although the wilderness was dangerous, they were not totally unprepared to deal with it.

Of course, the precondition was to avoid encountering a boss-level being like the mutated buffalo that was immune to bullets.

Chen Dalong’s idea of buying drones to scout first and then act was undoubtedly a solution to this problem.

This immediately raised the previously dampened morale.

Now they even started a new round of praise for Chen Dalong, hoping that the newly applied-for firearms could be assigned to them.

At that moment, Ye Feng watched as the vehicles drove off, then he ordered all the Mutated Beings to return.

The truth was, driving those people away was no challenge at all for Ye Feng.

Instead, it was afterward, during their period of severe injury, that figuring out how to safely evacuate them took more time.

After all, he couldn’t let other mutated insects get close and cause secondary injuries.

In the end, he sent out the King Cobra and Big Yellow Dog to hide in the dark, releasing their presence to deter, and only then did he complete this task.

Now that the battle was over, he first checked the wounds of the Mutated Bats.

Their abdomens had been hit by bullets, with the bullet heads penetrating inside and damaging one of the organs.

However, the life energy of mutated beings really was incomparable to that of normal animals.

Less than 20 minutes after the battle had ended, the internal bleeding was almost stopping.

According to Ye Feng’s estimation, even if he did nothing, the creatures would recover in a few days as long as they didn’t engage in intense combat.

Of course, leaving the bullet inside the Mutated Bat was ultimately a hidden danger, so Ye Feng decided to help remove it.

His method for removing the bullet was simple and crude; he extended a tree root which, under his control, grew numerous hair-thin rootlets at the tip.

These rootlets directly drilled into the wound of the bat, wrapped around the bullet, and yanked it out.

Then it was a matter of injecting Spiritual Energy, and it wouldn’t take many hours to heal.

But from this, it was clear that the majority of Second Order Mutated Organisms could be killed with bullets.

For instance, a Mutated Bat could barely withstand one shot, but a few more rounds would probably kill it on the spot.

And this was with regular bullets; armor-piercing rounds would definitely cause more severe damage.

If the organs inside were not just pierced but completely shattered, then whether the Mutated Bat could survive would be a question.

After inspecting the Mutated Bat, Ye Feng began to check the Mutated Buffalo.

The 𝘮ost uptodat𝑒 novels are pub𝙡ished on freeweɓnovēl.coɱ.

Looking at the injuries on the creature, Ye Feng couldn’t help but feel impressed by the Mutated Buffalo’s defensive power.

He counted; it had been hit by 56 bullets, 18 of which were armor-piercing rounds, with the rest being regular bullets.

Ye Feng carefully observed the body structure of the Mutated Buffalo through these wounds.

The buffalo’s hide was as thick as 0.5 centimeters.

Below the skin was a fat layer that was 3 centimeters thick.

And then there was the muscle layer, almost 30 centimeters thick.

When bullets hit the hide, the fat layer below would quickly disperse the kinetic energy throughout the body.

It was like having an extra cushion for defense.

So, after piercing the tough hide, the kinetic energy of the regular bullets was almost depleted, getting stuck in the fat layer.

Even armor-piercing rounds, after penetrating the hide and fat layer, faced the nearly 30-centimeter-thick muscle layer as defense.

Most of the armor-piercing rounds got stuck in the muscle layer, with only two managing to penetrate through weaker spots and hit the internal organs.

But even the armor-piercing rounds had almost no kinetic energy left after piercing through these three layers of defense.

These two bullets ultimately left not-too-small nor-too-large wounds in the Mutated Buffalo’s lungs and small intestine.

And at that moment, these two wounds had already healed.

“So it seems, large Second Order Mutated Beings can basically ignore ordinary firearms,”

“The only things that can injure them are heavy machine guns and other heavy weapons,” Ye Feng said while helping to remove the bullets and summarizing the situation.