"We've got to get out of here," Hoshino said, putting away his phone. "If it drags on any longer, it will be a big trouble if it really invites the aircraft on the other side."

"I know," Gin said, putting away his sniper rifle. "Direction 130, maintain altitude and prepare for evacuation."

"Roger." The pilot adjusts the direction of the helicopter. "Prepare to withdraw—"

But at this moment, his words were interrupted.

"Bang!" The sound of the bullet bouncing off the steel plate was drowned out by the sound of the helicopter's propellers, and even the crew wearing sound-isolating headphones could hear a very crisp collision sound that was not strong.

"What's going on?" Gin frowned, and an urging command was immediately transmitted through the headset into the driver's sound-isolating headphones. "Raise a little more altitude and get out of here quickly."

"Understood." The pilot turned the power of the engine to the upper limit of the available range, and then further adjusted the flight attitude, ensuring that the helicopter accelerated with the fastest acceleration from the enemy in the direction of 290 while maintaining altitude.

Then the gunshots rang out again. But unlike the previous shots, this time there were six shots in a row.

"Huh?" Gin frowned slightly. "It's ......"

With that, Gin went to the porthole of the helicopter and looked at the place where Irish had died.

The sound of gunfire through sound-isolating headphones must be large-caliber guns, and semi-automatic sniper rifles can't do such terrifying continuous shooting anyway.

As it happens, Gin knew there was a gun around the area that could do this - before Irish could go on his mission, he received a replica of the latest Desert Eagle 12.7mm pistol from the Order's arsenal. Now their helicopter should be only sixty or seventy meters away from Tokyo Tower, which is completely within the range that the Desert Eagle can easily hit.

As far as he could see, a smaller figure seemed to be appearing on the stairs - considering Irish had lost his head, it certainly wasn't him.

Judging from the size of the figure, the other party should be in a squatting position...... Probably snatched the Desert Eagle from Irish and is now reloading, right?

"There's another guy around Irish," Gin said coldly. "Continue to raise the altitude, aiming it in the direction of 290 with a thicker bottom armor."

The gunship is a replica of the AH-64 gunship, commonly known as the Apache. Compared with the two-seater version of the original Apache, although this modified version is a little worse in terms of maneuverability, and the air combat radar has been completely cut due to technical reasons, it has been 100% inherited in terms of firepower, and the ability to scrub the floor when used for security tasks such as ground attacks is also much better than the original Apache because the cabin can accommodate more crews. What's more, the armor is no less than the quality of the original - however, the design features are all the same, and while all parts are designed to withstand 12.7mm armor-piercing rounds, the plastic-steel honeycomb structure at the rear of the aircraft may be more bulletproof, based on the experience of previous pilots. (Actually, it is also possible that when only the bottom is aimed at the enemy, they usually accelerate to flee or slow down, which itself will reduce the relative velocity of the bullet and the helicopter, and will also reduce the armor-piercing ability.) ）

Theoretically, at this time, just sweeping the Tokyo Tower with a cannon is basically likely to kill that guy directly, but they don't have time.

Whether it was the police or Shuichi Akai, who had just entered Japan, to be there meant that they had known that something was going to happen here a long time ago, and they had carried out early control. Now they are fortunate that they have not been targeted by the aircraft on the other side, and it is extremely risky to stay here for another second.

At this moment, there was another sound of bullets hitting armor that had been heard before.

"Can you still hit?" Gin frowned, took out a lens from the box next to him, and then opened the porthole of the helicopter, which would be used to extend the lens - the position where Irish had been shot in the head just now determined that the designer could only shoot at some relatively tall buildings, and the specific firing position could only be in an extremely narrow sector.

However, those places might be able to hit the place where Irish was, after all, as long as the gun was better, it would not be difficult to get a headshot from a distance of seven or eight hundred meters.

But now the plane is at least 900 meters away from there, right? Especially now that they are still hitting a moving target such as the helicopter they are in, it is even more difficult......

Of course, this is not to say that Shuichi Akai can't hit a helicopter at a distance of 900 meters - Gin believes that he can hit such a big guy even above 2,000 meters, but the kinetic energy of the bullet at such a distance is so badly depleted that even Barrett can't penetrate the Apache's armor at this distance. (The Apache's design index is full fuselage resistance to 12.7 mm ammunition and a small amount of 23 mm ammunition, and Barrett is not enough to see even if he is loaded with armor-piercing shells.) ）

Moreover, Akai Shuichi shouldn't be stupid enough to snipe with such a rugged style firearm that is mainly used as an anti-materiel gun, right? Even with a dedicated sniper projectile, the accuracy is more than 1moa, and it is quite difficult to get a headshot Irish at a distance of 800 meters. In fact, based on what Gin knows about Shuichi Akai, he's a precision man through and through, and anti-materiel guns have never been his cup of tea.

Well, he definitely used an ordinary sniper rifle, but what is the use of such a sniper rifle? After all, even the propeller of the Apache can resist a direct bombardment of 23-mm high-explosive shells in small quantities.

At this moment, something happened suddenly.

In front of Gin and Kaede Hoshino, who were a little nervous but didn't realize how close the danger was to them, the transparent glass in front of Apache suddenly appeared in countless patterns in an instant, and then shattered.

The water-like bullet pierced through the glass that protected against 12.7mm bullets and smashed the driver's body to pieces.

As Gin reacted, clear scratches appeared on the glass above their heads. (The problem of the angle of firing, the driver's seat glass is a direct shot, and the glass on Gin's head has an angle between the angle and the angle of incidence of the bullet, so it is bounced open)

Just above them, in the clouds, a flame was burning.

……

At that very moment, a grey painted MD600N helicopter was hovering in the clouds – a livery that could be perfectly hidden in the clouds in such a place where the clouds were quite thick and low.

Of course, in addition to this, there is another reason for choosing this newly installed MD600N helicopter - due to the light weight and good aerodynamic structure of this aircraft, the propeller needs a relatively low rotational speed, and the noise generated by cutting air is also less. It is for this reason that Gin and others, who are in the Apache reform, cannot hear the sound of the MD600N at all under the background propeller sound of the Apache.

At this time, the porthole of the MD600N was wide open, and a Browning heavy machine gun had been hoisted from the roof of the shooter's cabin in advance, and the shooter sitting in the back seat was controlling the 12.7mm heavy machine gun, splashing a whip mixed with tracer and armor-piercing rounds on the helicopter in which Gin was riding. (Tracer bullets can show the path of the bullet, mixed in to correct the angle of fire)