My company and I walked aimlessly with guns on the burning streets, Asians, blacks, whites, we didn't know who our friends were, we didn't know who our enemies were, like a bunch of sleepwalkers, we didn't know who to shoot...... It was a terrible experience, General, and it was a trauma for morale. ”

Stern turned to look at Dulat, "Colonel, you should understand that the meaning of being stationed here, we are not so much about protection as surveillance, I think you may know some gossip, there was a large-scale defection here, and the defectors have not been cleaned up until now, if they come again, I don't know what impact it will have on Citigroup society and even the entire International, do you understand?"

"I don't know what it's like when soldiers are asked to shoot at those monsters, maybe fear will make them fight more determined. ”

"Don't worry, the Sentinel system has been upgraded to modules, and the Sentinels will clean everything up for you before your soldiers confront them. ”

"I hope so. ”

Durant drank the coffee that had been cold, put on his coat, and walked out of the gate of the base, Stern also got up and followed, two soldiers on duty saluted them, Durant looked into the distance, except for a road, is the vast desert, the dry and cold wind whistled through, blowing the sky clean, revealing the shining stars, quiet and peaceful, Durant felt a faint restlessness.

"Sergeant, let me ask you, what do you do when a strangely shaped alien creature attacks Earth?" Stearns asked the soldier suddenly.

"Then of course I'll fight to the end, General!"

"Good!"

Durant next to him said, "Again, you can't choose the enemy yourself, but when you face the weirdest enemy you've never dreamed of, and you can shoot without trembling, then, young man, you're a hero." ”

"It's better to be a mother, maybe I'll shoot her with another weapon. ”

Another soldier made a pun on a joke that caused everyone to burst into laughter, and the air was filled with joy.

The two walked to the remote suppression position behind, and the soldier was very excited when he saw the base defense commander and the battalion commander coming out late at night to inspect, and saw Durant They approached an M2 heavy machine gun, probably a long night and nothing to do, the soldier introduced to himself,

"This is the M2 heavy machine gun, its rate of fire is 500 to 650 rounds per minute, which is not high, but the muzzle velocity of the bullet is 850 meters per second, the destructive power is very high, and the effective range can reach up to 6800 meters. With this heavy machine gun and M60 light machine gun, it can form echelon firepower, heavy machine gun fire can cover the range of 1500 meters to 4000 meters in front of the defense line, and the range closer to this is covered by light machine guns and heavy machine guns. ”

Stern nodded, and pulled a 12.7mm bullet from the chain of the M2 machine gun, the tip of which was not covered and the lead core was exposed. Stern knew that this was a dummy bullet, and that after the bullet entered the human body, the lead core would expand or rupture, thereby expanding the wound surface, which could cause serious damage to living organisms, and was the most useful bullet against modified people, and as for the dummy bullet being an internationally banned anti-humanitarian weapon, he automatically ignored it.

Durant explained: "I've now equipped all the machine guns in the defense line with a total of more than 1 million rounds of these rounds. ”

"Good. ”

Stern inserted the bullet back into the chain and said, "I suggest some more flamethrowers, maybe it will work." ”

Durant shrugged and said noncommittal, and the two went back to rest.

After an unknown amount of time, Durant was awakened by a voice, at first he thought it was the howl of those test subjects in the depths of the laboratory, but the tense nerves told him that it was not, that sound was like an earthquake and a flood in the distance, like a deep chorus of some force before the world was destroyed.

He had only felt this way once, and that was a few years ago, when in Syria, their troops were ambushed, and Russian Hind helicopter gunships were rapidly approaching......

Brigadier General Stern also woke up, rushed out of the room, saw Durant on the road, they glanced at each other, and rushed to the command center.

The officers on duty in the command center were running around in a panic, constantly shouting something into the walkie-talkie, and Durant stopped a staff officer and shouted what was going on, and soon got the news that he and Stern were cold, and the specially developed Sentinel Defense System, which had been specially developed at great expense, had failed.

Durant grabbed the pistol and ran out, with a little starlight, he could see that the automatic machine guns and machine guns that were still majestic before were hanging down like rained quails, he immediately gathered the officers, arranged for people to go to the wall, and manually operated these weapons, but the center was too big, and the two battalions had to be responsible for internal bullet pressure and frontal defense, and the people who could be transferred to the wall were a drop in the bucket.

Durant climbed the watchtower, held up his night vision binoculars and looked ahead, and in the middle of the black-and-white negative-like image, at the junction of the base and the desert horizon, he saw a wriggling white line. When the binoculars were lowered, it was pitch black, but the sound was louder and could be heard clearly without paying special attention, and the searchlights on the high walls and watchtowers were shining ahead, but there was nothing under the thick pillars of light.

Stern did not follow, he stayed in the command center, on the one hand urgently contacted the Pentagon for support, and on the other hand, arranged for internal guards to keep an eye on the various test sites, and if necessary, he could fire directly at the test subjects, without having to apply in advance.

At the same time, he also commanded the last reserve team, an elite team of all-Navy SEALs, and had them defend a sub-laboratory, which he knew as a senior was somehow more important than the entire Transhuman Experiment Center.

Durant was tormented while waiting for the enemy to attack, and there was a snap behind him, and the surrounding area suddenly lit up, and the shadows of everyone and things were moving sharply, and one after another flares rose into the night sky

Low clouds scattered the light of flares, making the sky look green, and Durant raised his telescope again, and under the gloomy green sky, he saw the enemy in the distance.

His first impression was that it was a large herd of horses, at least a thousand. The horses, which had no riders on their backs, rushed towards the tide and covered the desert densely, with no formation discipline to speak of.

Durant could only see the forward of the horses, and everything behind him was obscured by the dust that the horses had stirred up, and the dust glowed green like clouds under the flares.