The next second, the giant bat's charge arrived as expected.
Its massive body slammed heavily onto the top of the bell tower, and in an instant, almost without any surprise, the entire bell tower, like a fragile mud fort, immediately collapsed.
The golden bell also crashed down, and if Rebecca had still been under the bell tower at that moment, being hit by this huge bell would have truly put her life in danger!
Of course, collision against collision, the reaction force of power still exists.
At this moment, Newton's coffin lid has not yet been opened.
Even a bird hitting a plane can cause aircraft malfunction and damage, and tiny stones falling from high altitude can easily shatter glass and steel plates, let alone such a huge mutated bat.
It slammed recklessly into the bell tower, and although this indeed destroyed the bell tower, the giant bat itself also suffered considerable injuries.
Blood continuously seeped out from all over its body, indicating that its internal injuries were quite severe.
But even so, the giant bat showed no sign of panic.
Instead, it was exceptionally fierce, because it knew that this time, it could finally summon its beloved small mutated bat attendants again.
By then, hundreds of small mutated bat attendants would cover the sky, absolutely capable of devouring these three hateful humans whole!
"Roar, roar, roar—!!!"
No sooner said than done, seeing that it had crashed the bell tower, the giant bat almost without any hesitation, after climbing up from the bell tower ruins, raised its head high, opened its foul-smelling mouth, and a piercing sound wave was about to be emitted from its throat.
But how could Javier, who had been watching here for a long time, let the giant bat have its way?
Besides the church bell tower, he actually had another noise-making weapon.
Javier suddenly pulled out a long-barreled projectile from his waist, smoothly pulled the pin and threw it.
A projectile, entirely green, with a shell resembling a slender dumbbell but covered with many honeycomb holes on its surface, quickly reached the side of the giant bat's wide-open mouth in a graceful arc.
That's right, it was a flashbang.
Besides the bell of the bell tower, the most effective sound wave jammer was the flashbang.
It had been mentioned before that a flashbang could produce 700w candela of intense light in an instant, causing temporary blindness to the target.
But at the same time, a flashbang could also produce 170 to 200 decibels of noise within a 1.5-meter radius, also causing temporary tinnitus to the target.
After all, it should be known that over 100 decibels is already high-intensity noise like an airplane taking off, and 200 decibels is theoretically the maximum sound pressure limit.
Therefore, the power of a flashbang was enough to completely cover the giant bat's sound waves, leaving no trace.
This was undoubtedly the strongest sound wave jammer, not to mention that Javier threw it so accurately, almost throwing the flashbang directly into the giant bat's mouth!
"flashbang—!"
"Quick, cover your head, turn your back, squat down, cover your ears, and close your eyes tightly."
And the moment he threw the flashbang, Javier also quickly shouted to remind Rebecca and Billy.
But without Javier's reminder, Rebecca and Billy Coen were already accustomed to Javier's behavior.
After all, this guy had already thrown a flashbang on the Zodiac Train before.
Therefore, the very familiar Rebecca and Billy Coen, as if rehearsing in advance, quickly covered their ears, closed their eyes tightly, turned their backs to the direction of the flashbang, and ran in the opposite direction, trying to get out of the flashbang's range as much as possible.
And our giant bat felt a hint of confusion towards this greenish projectile?
Because no matter how high its intelligence was, it couldn't possibly know the power of a flashbang.
After all, evolution in nature is about learning from mistakes.
Without having suffered harm once and still surviving, the instinct of a creature cannot engrave it into its DNA for prevention.
This is the instinctive defense mechanism of creatures to guard against their natural enemies for tens of thousands of years.
Some animals know what is dangerous and what not to eat, which is only engraved into their DNA for prevention after their ancestors tried it and survived.
But for the giant bat, hehe, no one had ever fed its ancestor a flashbang, so how could this fool know!
Therefore—
"Bang...!"
A muffled sound, not a very strong explosion sound, just like firecrackers, but the effect produced by the flashbang was enormous.
In an instant, beside the giant bat's mouth, an extremely dazzling daylight glow bloomed, as if even more dazzling than the midday sun, a vast expanse of white.
This caused the giant bat's crimson eyes to instantly lose their color, and its ears, as large as palm-leaf fans, immediately became bloodshot and drooped sharply, with blood continuously seeping from its ears.
It was as if its eardrums had suffered very severe damage.
In just one second, the giant bat had already lost all its mobility.
Its ears and eyes, two organs, directly lost their function, and the sound wave lingering in its throat was choked.
Its lower body kept twitching wildly on the ruins of the bell tower, as if having an epileptic seizure.
Although its upper body's head had lost movement, its lower body's wings and legs were still kicking violently!
"Rustle..."
After an unknown amount of time, Javier and the other two noticed that the aftershocks of the flashbang had dissipated.
They quickly turned their heads to look at the giant bat twitching uncontrollably on the ruins of the bell tower, and immediately looked at each other in disbelief at everything in front of them, completely unable to imagine that such a troublesome giant bat had been subdued by a single flashbang.
This was too outrageous, wasn't it?
So all their previous efforts were no match for this one flashbang?!
Uh, actually, that's not true.
Without the previous preparations, a single flashbang really couldn't subdue the giant bat.
Because before this, if the giant bat hadn't had its wings injured by them, preventing the summoning of small mutated bats, and hadn't been forced to crash into the bell tower and get injured, it would have been impossible to perfectly subdue it.
Because a winged giant bat flies very fast, and moving its wings creates strong winds, so a thrown flashbang would have no chance of hitting the giant bat.
Moreover, if its small mutated bat attendants were present, they could completely take a flashbang for the giant bat.
And with the giant bat's intelligence, after it understood the power of a flashbang, it would definitely be on guard, making it impossible to cause any effective damage.
What's more, the giant bat lost its mobility after violently crashing into the bell tower and being severely injured.
All of this was preparation, and it doesn't mean that their previous efforts were useless.
And more importantly, without these, Javier would not have had a suitable opportunity to throw the flashbang.
After all, a flashbang is a tool that harms the enemy a thousand while hurting oneself eight hundred.
If the enemy cannot be trapped in a narrow room, a thrown flashbang could very likely affect Javier himself, or even injure Rebecca and Billy.
This is also why Javier, despite knowing that flashbangs countered the giant bat, had been hesitant to use them.
After all, at first, he had hoped to directly deal with the giant bat using the bell of the bell tower, but who would have thought that this beast would be so cunning and choose to destroy the bell tower first!
Having no choice, Javier then took out the flashbang, preparing for a situation where he would harm the enemy a thousand while hurting himself eight hundred...
However, it doesn't matter now, as the dust has settled.
"Click—!"
Holding the M500 Revolver again, Javier aimed the large-caliber, dark muzzle at the giant bat twitching uncontrollably on the ground.
He aimed the crosshairs at its massive head, and without the slightest hesitation, quickly pulled the trigger.
"Boom—!"
A Magnum bullet was fired, and a fist-sized blood hole was opened on the giant bat's head.
Thick, crimson brain matter splattered everywhere, like a bursting watermelon.
The giant bat, whose lower body had still been twitching, instantly lost the luster in its eyes, which dimmed.
Its entire body suddenly shook, and it immediately lost all vital signs.
Javier showed no mercy at all.
After all, this monster had just tried to eat the three of them.
Although the monster was indeed a bit pitiful after being tormented by the flashbang, there was nothing they could do, who told them they were enemies!
"It's over..."
Seeing this, after confirming that the giant bat in front of him was truly dead, Javier let out a heavy sigh.
The M500 Revolver was casually discarded, and Javier slumped to the ground, lying there and resting freely.
The boss battle just now had indeed consumed a lot of Javier's energy, both mentally and physically.
Therefore, Javier just wanted to rest well for a few tens of minutes now...
Rebecca and Billy Coen beside him were also in the same state.
The battle just now was too thrilling, and they almost died in the church study.
This stimulating feeling of surviving a disaster made Rebecca and Billy Coen collapse to the ground, exhausted both physically and mentally.
Now, they are still very far from unraveling the true mystery.
They really don't know what kind of terrifying monsters and difficult battles await them next—!
Chapter 45: High-Altitude Escape
After a period of rest, Javier and the other two regrouped, ready to continue exploring downwards.
No matter what kind of monsters were hidden in the Institute, the three of them had to see it through to the end, because this was no longer a simple criminal case, but a human crisis event concerning the residents of the entire Raccoon City and even the entire world.
They had to find enough evidence to stop the Umbrella Corporation and prevent it from wantonly using Bio-weapons to harm innocent civilians—
"Hey, Javier, Billy, have you rested enough?"
"Look what I found in the church... I never thought there would be a grappling hook gun hidden in the church.
Was it a toy for the former priest to play with?"
Just as Javier and Billy slowly got up, Rebecca bounced out of the church, her face beaming with excitement, holding a strange weapon in her hand.
It had a crossbow-like body, but the arrow inserted at the front was like an anchor used by ships sailing on the sea.
And this weapon was precisely the thief's artifact often seen in various films and television, the grappling hook gun, also called an anchor hook gun.
It is specifically designed to launch an anchor-like arrowhead to firmly grip various cliffs or rooftops, and then rely on steel ropes to climb up.
It is a very good tool for stealthy theft, after all, what thief wouldn't like a weapon that can come and go without a trace?
Of course, the grappling hook gun used by our Ada Wong, Wang Auntie, is a bit outrageous.
It's only the size of a pistol, and it can shoot a rope over fifty meters, but it can also effortlessly pull her own body weight up using the pistol.
This, in Javier's opinion, is very unscientific.
Because Javier simply couldn't imagine what kind of power a small pistol could contain to steadily pull up the weight of an adult female?
Could it be the legendary "nuclear-powered" grappling hook gun...
However, Javier quickly guessed the reason for the problem.
After a normal grappling hook gun is fired, the rest relies on human strength to climb the rope to leave.
But from another perspective, if our Wang Auntie, after striking such a cool and charming pose and lines, was about to fire the grappling hook gun to leave, but then found she had to slowly climb away, wouldn't that be embarrassing!
Therefore, to fit our Wang Auntie's elegant and mysterious persona, this grappling hook gun with a mysterious power source was designed.
After all, as outrageous as it is, it's actually very cool, and few people would doubt this point.
Of course, it's also possible that this grappling hook gun genuinely contains some high technology.
If that were the case, Javier would truly be considered ignorant!
"Grappling hook gun...?"
"I haven't used this thing in a long time.
I used it back when I was on special missions in the military.
But what can we use this for, climbing rooftops?"
Billy Coen, standing by, looked at the grappling hook gun in Rebecca's hands and said with a surprised expression, feeling very nostalgic about this item.
After all, it wasn't easy to use this thing well back then, requiring very strong arm strength.
Billy Coen still remembered almost dislocating his arms from climbing the grappling hook gun's rope.
Therefore, he was very familiar with it—
And Rebecca also felt surprised, because she had initially planned to collect some unburnt books in the church, as those religious books still had some value.
But she never expected to find a grappling hook gun in the study instead of many books.
But just as Billy Coen said, although this grappling hook gun was rare, it seemed to be of little use to them.
Could it be that they had to learn from the master thieves in movies and climb rooftops?
However, in reality, they really had to do that, because it seemed there were no new paths in the church.
"Hard to say, it seems we really have to climb the rooftop."
"This grappling hook gun should have been placed here as a backup weapon.
I just looked around and found that there's no way forward behind the church.
We have to climb onto the church's rooftop and then jump down again, then go around to the other side of the Institute.
Only there will be a new path."
Just as Rebecca and Billy Coen both felt that this grappling hook gun was of no use at all, Javier patted his butt, re-packed his weapons and equipment, put on his gas mask, and pointed his thumb at the hole in the church roof that the giant bat had crashed through, saying calmly.
There were no special secret passages inside the church.