He quickly went to the door and listened carefully.
To Li Wei, the sound was very similar to the explosion caused by Cai Yutong's energy bomb.
The booming continued for about ten seconds before it stopped. Li Wei slowly opened the door and looked to the left of the corridor outside. Sure enough, he saw the familiar figure of Cai Yutong.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Cai Yutong responded very quickly. She turned her head directly, aiming her gun at Li Wei.
"Hey, it's me. Don't shoot by mistake."
"Ah, I'm sorry, Mr. Li Wei..." Cai Yutong quickly put away her gun.
Li Wei poked his head and looked behind Cai Yutong. He saw a battered corpse lying on the floor. It was faintly recognizable as belonging to a semi-mechanical mutated ape.
"You've encountered this kind of monster too?"
"Has Mr. Li Wei run into it as well?"
"Yes." Li Wei nodded.
"I was just reading in my room when I heard the broadcast. Minister Mars said the war had begun, so I hurried out. What's going on?"
Li Wei said, "I'm not really sure, but... I guess war has truly arrived."
Even the hunters' guild has been directly attacked. If this isn't war, then nothing else can be considered war.
As they talked, they walked downstairs together.
When they arrived at the first floor lobby of the Clover branch, they were shocked by the scene in front of them when they looked out.
Is this still the beautiful Clover Community?
Looking around, there were smoke and flames everywhere, as well as explosions and cries.
"This is..." Cai Yutong, who was standing next to Li Wei, said, "What's wrong?"
Her and the other hunters of Clover who were standing outside the guild's door felt this scene much more profoundly than Li Wei. Clover Community had been the place where they had lived for a long time, and it had always been peaceful since long ago.
Although, as hunters, they would be exposed to countless dirt hidden under tranquility and prosperity, most people believed that although this world was dark, in the upper district, as long as they didn't personally step into the dark, darkness wouldn't envelop them.
However, everything in front of them overturned their thoughts.
"What should we do?" Cai Yutong was somewhat at a loss.
Li Wei said: "I know where the attack started first. President Mars had already left with some people about ten minutes ago, and we should follow them as well."
"Okay." The girl without a backbone could only listen to Li Wei's.
There were not a few people who had the same thoughts as them. As they set off, about one to twenty people followed the same direction.
There was no active team formation; hunters are good at fighting alone or in small groups of two or three, but not at group combat, even in small groups of a dozen people. Like Li Wei, he walked together with Cai Yutong, but kept a distance from others.
Just a few minutes later, their group encountered the first wave of trouble.
A shell fired from a side street flew into the crowd, where it exploded. When the whoosh of the shell was heard, the hunters with rich experience and vigilant from the start had already reacted. They all found cover to dodge, and the bomb that fell only injured one unlucky person.
However, this was just the beginning of the attack.
Following the shell, intense gunfire erupted.
At this moment, Li Wei and his team were located on the north side of an intersection, and they needed to go south - that is where President Mars said the convoy was attacked and also where the first batch of hunters leaving the branch went. However, at this intersection, Li Wei and his group were attacked by gunfire from the east and west sides, on the other two streets.
"Get inside, don't stay outside!" Li Wei reacted immediately. He grabbed Cai Yutong's hand and punched through the glass of the nearest building, crawling inside.
It turned out that Li Wei's action was correct. Not long after he and Cai Yutong crawled into the building, continuous artillery fire plowed the ground, with several nearby buildings suffering.
His luck was still good. The building where he took shelter took a hit, but the damage was not severe. Li Wei and Cai Yutong only got a bit of dust on them, looking a bit battered.
"Just passively getting hit is definitely not an option, we need to fight back!" Cai Yutong is also an elite hunter who has completed numerous commissions. Although she has never encountered such a war-like scenario before, she has already calmed down and quickly got into the state.
The two were swiftly moving inside the building that had been stricken by a shelling. Through a window whose glass had been shattered, they observed their enemies.
A group of cyborgs.
These were not pure machines. As far as Li Wei knew, during this era, there were no longer any products like computers or electronics, nor even anything similar. Naturally, it was impossible to produce fully AI-controlled machines.
However, the level of machinery during this era was advanced. One could tell simply by looking at this group of beings.
The appearance of these cyborgs was very similar to the "Apehex" that Li Wei had encountered in his room earlier. Half of their bodies were made of metallic machinery, while the other half was flesh and blood. It's just that, the Apehex were a combination of monsters and machinery, whereas these cyborgs were indeed the result of genuine human-beings fused with machinery.
No computers, no artificial intelligence, and we can't build robots? No, new era technology fully demonstrates how great human creativity is. If purely mechanical creations can't move on their own, then just combine living beings and machinery together!
"Damn it! I knew it was this kind of thing!" Cai Yutong cursed.
Li Wei asked, "Before this, have you seen these things?"
Cai Yutong hesitated for a moment and said, "I saw them once during a mission. This was a project launched by Blackbird Heavy Industries. They recruited volunteers from the lower districts at high prices to participate in their project and accepted their body modification. These people who were modified into a semi-mechanical state were sold at high prices by Blackbird Heavy Industries to engage in many heavy physical labor. It's just that I didn't expect that these semi-mechanical people could also be used as combat units."
After briefly explaining to Li Wei, she turned her head and said earnestly, "Trust me, you wouldn't want to witness the scene of human modification. These modified individuals are very pitiful, but please absolutely do not show them any mercy. Letting them die is the greatest kindness to them."