Translator: AnubisTL
Li Hao glanced at the global speaker pop-up with a slightly odd expression.
Feng Jiutian might be in for another humiliating defeat.
Every time, he provokes first, only to get his face slapped. This kid... If he gets slapped again this time, won't his mental state completely collapse?
Just then—
Scar Dog, standing beside Li Hao, suddenly turned to him and asked, "Does your map manifestation innate ability have any limitations? Like a limited number of uses?"
"Huh?" Li Hao blinked, instinctively replying, "No, I can use it whenever I want."
With a wave of his hand, he materialized a 3D map of the surrounding terrain in mid-air.
"Tsk." Scar Dog shook his head with a hint of admiration. "That's a truly remarkable innate ability."
But at that moment—
"Hmm?" Scar Dog frowned slightly, glancing at the innate ability section of his personal panel. Did my innate ability just flash with a white light?
After a moment's hesitation, he cautiously pulled an energy block from his pocket.
Brother Jiang's energy blocks were mostly stored with Scar Dog, as he was responsible for the team's rapid relocation during critical moments.
The moment the energy block was extracted, a flicker of intuition flashed through Scar Dog's mind. He suddenly looked up at the 3D map manifested before Li Hao, his eyes filled with confusion as he hesitantly said, "Brother Jiang, I think I can choose my innate ability landing point on Li Hao's 3D map."
"Hmm?" Chen Jiang's eyes flashed with surprise, and he raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?"
Scar Dog's innate ability, while a decent survival skill, consumed an energy block to conjure a teleportation gate for rapid relocation. However, the gate's destination was entirely random, making it unpredictable and potentially leading them from one predicament straight into another.
If they could freely choose the landing point, this ability would instantly transform from merely decent to top-tier.
"Not sure," Scar Dog hesitated for a moment before adding, "Should I try?"
After all, energy blocks were precious resources, and using one for experimentation felt extravagant.
"Try it."
"Alright."
Scar Dog's expression turned serious. He took a deep breath, clenched the energy block in his hand, and crushed it into powder.
Poof.
The energy block instantly transformed into a white mist, accompanied by a soft, muffled sound—like a long-suppressed fart finally escaping.
Immediately, a shimmering, translucent gate roughly the height of a person materialized in the air.
Simultaneously, a small gate icon appeared on Li Hao's 3D map manifestation, approximately 800 meters away from their current location.
"This..." Li Hao's eyes flashed with surprise. "I've never seen this icon on my map before," he blurted out instinctively.
"I set my innate ability landing point there just now," Scar Dog said, his eyes gleaming with excitement as he noticed the gate icon on Li Hao's map. "Of course, whether it works or not, we'll only know by trying it out."
"Let's see if going through this teleportation gate actually leads to that location."
"Brother Jiang, I'll take the lead."
In the next instant, Scar Dog plunged headfirst into the shimmering gate without looking back.
Then, with a soft poof, the gate vanished into thin air, leaving no trace of Scar Dog's presence.
A flicker of anticipation surged through Chen Jiang as he slid into the driver's seat of the armored vehicle, Li Hao beside him. With a stomp on the accelerator, they roared toward the small gate marker on the 3D map.
If Scar Dog's claims held true, he should now be at that exact location.
Soon enough, Chen Jiang spotted Scar Dog waving his arms excitedly in the distance.
"It actually works!" Scar Dog pumped his fist in the air, his face flushed with excitement. "Thanks to Li Hao's innate ability, I can now precisely control where my own innate ability lands instead of relying on random chance!"
"The only drawback is the limited range. Li Hao's ability can only manifest a map within a 1,000-meter radius of himself. That means I can only open teleportation gates up to 1,000 meters away."
Chen Jiang nodded thoughtfully, resting his chin in his hand as he pondered. "The range is a bit short, but what's the duration of your teleportation gate? And can it only transport people? Can't it transport weapons?"
"Hmm..." Scar Dog paused to consider before answering. "The duration is about one minute. After that, it either dissipates automatically or I can manually close it early."
"If we need it to last longer, we'll probably need higher-quality energy blocks."
"As for whether it can penetrate gun barrels, that's definitely possible. Didn't we carry the Steel Sword Autonomous Turret through the teleportation gate last time?"
"No, no, no," Chen Jiang shook his head, a slightly eerie glint in his eyes. "What I mean is, now that the teleportation gate can achieve pinpoint accuracy..."
"In future combat, we could open the teleportation gate directly above the enemy's head."
"Then, instead of sending troops through, we'd extend the turret's cannon barrel through the gate."
"And conduct ultra-long-range, unmanned, precision bombardment strikes."
"..."
Scar Dog's jaw dropped in astonishment, his mouth opening and closing a few times before he finally murmured, "I've never even imagined such a combat strategy."
"But my teleportation gate can only open pinpoint locations up to a thousand meters away. Isn't that too short? That distance is well within bombing range already, isn't it?"
"Exactly. That's why I asked how long you can sustain it." Chen Jiang nodded earnestly.
"If we can sustain it long enough..."
"We can deploy thousands of teleportation gates, connecting each gate's entrance and exit like the segments of a human centipede, end-to-end."
"This would allow us to conduct precision strikes and bombardments across tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of meters."
"With zero delay, the enemy would have no time to react to cannon barrels suddenly appearing above them, and they couldn't retaliate. We would be invincible."
"We could even arrange the teleportation gates in a regular pattern, like a heaven's eye, covering a hundred-kilometer radius around our central position."
"This way, no matter what happens in our vicinity..."
"...a cannon barrel would instantly extend from a teleportation gate above, saturating the area with bombardment."
"If we had possessed this capability when City 18 still stood, we wouldn't have needed to use indirect fire."
"We could have simply teleported the cannon barrels inside City 18 for 360-degree horizontal sweeps or direct dive-bombing."
"In short, the tactical possibilities are endless."
"This innate ability is quite impressive."
(End of the Chapter)
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