The wind was whining, and with a touch of fiery red that appeared in the sky above the Bright City, the wind and sand in the fortress area began to roll slowly.

Owen shivered, curled up in the basement of the broken house, he was a little hungry, the Xima in his arms was still asleep, fortunately Lao Cheng sent them a blanket, Owen only knew that it was dawn, when he noticed the dazzling red light.

Mother once told Owen about the difference between dawn and dark, and Owen only knew the place called the city in the distance, and if the light was lit, it meant that it was dawn, but Owen still didn't understand what dawn was.

During the day, because the wind and sand are too strong, the people in the barrier area will try to be in the house as much as possible, but in the city where Owen is located, they can also come out during the day, because there are a large number of buildings to block it, and the wind and sand will be blocked.

Owen is already impatient, he doesn't know when to wait, he has never waited that long, his mother has been out for a long time, Owen wants to go out, but it is too cold now, and he doesn't want to wake up Hima, because Hima will cry as soon as he wakes up.

"Owen, are you still angry?"

A voice sounded outside the house, it was Lao Cheng, Owen wanted to make a sound, but in the end he was silent, he didn't want to leave here.

After a while, Lao Cheng walked into the basement with a smile, looking at the two children curled up in the corner, one big and one young, still alive, Lao Cheng walked over with a bottle of liquid food that had been heated with a smile.

"Hungry, hurry up and eat."

Owen trembled, and at this time, Xima in his arms also woke up, and Lao Cheng took out a spoon and quickly fed the two children.

"Owen listen to me, can you go to the facility in the back?"

Owen shook his head, and Lao Cheng sighed.

"Okay, if you want to wait for your mother here, don't come out, can you promise me Owen, no matter what happens outside, don't come out."

Owen looked at Lao Cheng with a stern expression, and finally nodded, and Lao Cheng touched Owen's head.

"Remember what I said Owen, don't come out, no matter what happens."

The time is 8 o'clock sharp

"Hurry up!"

Tents were put away and put into the take-off and landing planes, and a large number of team members began to assemble and prepare for the process, early this morning, the team located near the Alatan Ula Mountains received an order from the upper echelons to go to Jizhigrad, which is located in the northeast, the area of the city is second only to the south of the Jizhigra in the past, just in the middle of the north of the Alatan Ula Mountains, it is the place where the most criminals are gathered, and it is less than 50 kilometers away from Ling Hong's team, They received orders to arrive at 4 p.m.

According to the investigation of the 2nd Division, at least tens of thousands of criminals are entrenched in the Gizhgrad and live in this dilapidated city, and the 3rd Section has decided to mobilize 100 squads and more than 3,000 troops to directly launch a devastating blow against Jizhigrad.

The real war is about to begin, and many of the officers have felt it, unlike yesterday's all-day battle, which seemed to be a small fight, although it will be bombed first, but there are a large number of underground facilities in Gizhgrad.

According to some past map information, the city was built by the humans who came here after the earth catastrophe in the past, and was established by several huge armed forces at that time, among which the Angus family, the Phoebus family and the Horsen family were all involved in the construction of Jizhigrad.

The team has already started to set off separately, Ling Hong is still checking the condition of the team members, some of the staff members who are not in good condition have been sent to the take-off and landing plane, the previous team of more than 30 people, now there are only more than 1,000 people left.

Some of the nearby squads were approaching Jizhigrad, and many of them felt that this might be the last time to clear the battle, a pair of panicked and slightly helpless eyes kept passing in front of Ling Hong, she wanted to say something, but couldn't say anything.

The command of the on-site operation has fallen on Ling Hong, she doesn't know what to do, there should be a lot of children in such a large population gathering place.

The casualties could not be concealed, and no matter how much the Congress tried to cover it up, the fact that there were a large number of casualties in this operation in the barrier area could not be changed, and the result became the only argument in the three divisions now, although this argument was not enough to convince the public, but it was the most favorable.

Most of the problems encountered in this march were not present in the previous simulation exercises, and according to the intelligence, the hidden military factory was most likely in Jizhgrad.

Even Jizhigrad has a food and water processing plant, and there is only such a place, where there are conditions to make weapons, food and water, and after watching the last group of teams start to act, Ling Hong also followed the team.

The wind and sand are getting bigger and bigger, and the time to march rapidly can be up to 11 o'clock, and the temperature at night is minus 80 degrees Celsius in some places, and the average temperature is at least minus 50 degrees.

In just ten years, the barrier area has become a big trouble that has to be cleaned up at present, Ling Hong ran slowly at the back of the team, his thoughts were still changing, thinking back to what Mel said last night, it could only end here, Ling Hong stopped.

"If you don't think about these things, there's no need to keep going, idiot!"

Dust and sand rolling, 9:11 a.m

Lao Cheng and many people who did not leave gathered in the square, there were men and women, but most of them were older, everyone was sitting or lying, gathered in a small circular square, where there was almost no wind and sand, some people were smoking, some people looked drunk, some people were wiping weapons, and some people were talking and laughing.

Lao Cheng used to be a doctor in the city, he knew some medical skills, but he was just a black market doctor, who had taken the lives of many people because of wrong treatment, and even resold a lot of illegal addictive drugs, and came here eight years ago, and never chose to go back to the city.

Most of the children in Jizhigrad were delivered by Lao Cheng, and someone once asked him why he didn't want to go back, he had some medical skills, and he was able to make medicines from the raw materials of the drugs he obtained, and treat the criminals in this city, and these people who did not plan to leave understood that they had no way out, no matter where they fled, even if they surrendered and were arrested, at best, they would only do heavy physical labor under the scorching sun, and after several years of hard work in prison, they would return to society, but they could not go back for a long time, and there was no place for them to stay.

Nearly 1,000 people did not leave, more than 200 of them children, some left by their parents, some long gone, the atmosphere of peace and tranquility was shattered, some turned back shortly after leaving, some drove those who wanted to leave through a hidden road in the Aratan-Ula Mountains.

On the other side of the mountain, there are remnants of facilities built by humans in the past that provide shelter for these escapees, most of whom do not want to go to jail because many have been in jail and they have had enough.

Now the temperature is much warmer than at night, many people did not wrap themselves tightly, Lao Cheng stood on a fountain in the middle of the square, carrying a bottle of wine, and laughed after taking a big sip, at this time everyone's discussion gradually stopped.

"I just want to say one thing! Fuck the future! And then........ Enjoy this last moment! ”

In an instant, the criminals in the square cheered, as if it was a festival, everyone took out the food they had accumulated for a long time, and ate and drank directly in the square, and some men and women walked directly into the nearby houses, originally some people thought that Lao Cheng would designate a battle plan, but now everything doesn't matter, most of them have no future at all from the moment they set foot here.

In just over a day, news came from the fugitive criminals passing through Gizhigrad that the brutal purge had begun, and that many of the offenders' gathering places had been uprooted in just one day.

Lao Cheng sat quietly on the half-destroyed sculpture of the fountain, and at this time he looked at a large assembly hall not far from the square, near the east side of the city, where more than 100 children who were currently left behind in the city gathered, and Lao Cheng's eyes showed a trace of helplessness and bitterness.

"If you can't finish eating, give it to those imps, and whether you can survive depends on those imps themselves."

Lao Cheng shouted, holding the wine bottle in his hand, accompanied by the shouts in the square, he drank it gurgling, and after a while, Lao Cheng was drunk, he walked through the crowd crookedly, and found a decent dilapidated house at random, and after plunging into it, he lay on a net bed with a gun, and fell asleep.

Owen stood by the window of the dilapidated house, he looked at the square not too far from here, the adults seemed to be celebrating something, the worry on Owen's face gradually disappeared, his mother told Owen that adults only celebrate when they encounter something worthy of joy, which is a good thing, although he doesn't remember it too clearly, but Owen remembers the last time he celebrated, he was full that night, and there was his father at that time, everyone cheered and sang.

Owen smiled, leaning on the edge of the window with his hands on his cheeks, enjoying the cheers and shouts that drifted in the wind, these voices had often appeared in the past, and Owen was relieved, although many people didn't know why they left, but there should be something good, such as maybe they were going to bring food and water.

On Owen's back, a small hand reached over and pinched Owen's ear, and Owen tilted his head slightly.

"Shema, mom will be back soon."

But at this time, the little hand fell, looking a little weak, Owen shook happily, hoping that Xima would go to sleep quickly, and then grow up quickly, in a cold night like last night, Owen relied on the small stove on his back to get through the cold night, but what Owen didn't know was that the baby girl on his back was already a little blue, looking weak and dull.

10:11 a.m

Osman sat quietly in the office of the section chief of the Eastern Garrison Station, looking at the list of the dead in front of him, he had mixed feelings in his heart, he should have stopped it, Osman kept beating his head, he didn't know how to explain to the families of the deceased, this was the most serious death and injury in so many years, since the beginning of the army.

The current death toll has climbed to 831, 1,982 wounded, nearly 30% of the staff involved in the march in the barrier area have been lost, although in the previous simulation training, there are estimates, but at most there will be no more than 50 people, but now this set of bloody data is enough to tell everything.

There are too many unknowns in that strange land, which cannot be predicted by simple simulation training, and the large-scale march failed.

Osman tried to contact the parliament several times, but failed, his section chief authority was confiscated, and the number 0013, which had been entered for a long time on a light and shadow mobile phone next to him, on the dial panel, was not dialed after all.

From a long time ago, Osman felt that his opinion was at odds with Principal Jean, and he knew that the Headmaster had walked in the dark all year round and done a lot of things, and that no snowflake in an avalanche was innocent.

Glancing at the death toll again, it was only one minute that the number had become 833, and Osman checked the two new ones, who had died due to ineffective treatment of multiple organ failure.

In the face of the increasingly rampant criminals who fled to the barrier area, it was inevitable to clean up, and this matter was like pushing a boat down the river, and it was a matter of course, just under the huge pressure of public opinion in the city, it suddenly appeared.

No matter what he did now, he couldn't stop this from happening, Osman glanced at the number of 0013 again, he knew that even if he called Jean now, it would be useless, and his wife's character Osman couldn't be clearer, she wouldn't stop.

Over the years, many problems in the 3rd subject have been solved under the tough posture of his wife Zijuan, she has courage and skill, and the most important thing is that she has a longing person, Jean is like a role model for his wife, and his wife will always nag her about some principals.

Drip, drip, drip

Osman woke up in shock, and the moment he saw the phone, he even wanted to cry, the caller was the number 0013.

"Headmaster!"

Osman choked.

"Need I do something!"

Osman's eyes widened, and the words that he had been thinking about for a long time and wanted to blurt out came to his lips and swallowed back.

"What else can be done? Headmaster! ”

Gin's hearty laughter came over the phone.

"Whatever it is!"

Osman shook his head, and eventually he hung up, staring blankly at the sunlight that swept across his cheeks, his own shadow covering almost the entire desk, and his eyes reddened.

Drip, drip, drip

Osman looked at the phone, this time it was his wife Zijuan calling.

"The last outpouring operation is about to begin, is there anything else you would like to say? Chief! ”

Osman was in a trance, and he remembered the day he graduated, and he remembered what he had said to his classmates in 3 subjects, changing 3 subjects.

"I'm not this material!"

"Big pig's head! Of course you're not this piece of material, as I said, the only thing we can do is to let the 3rd branch find its own way of survival and give this stick to the next generation, that's all! Why are you men always as fragile as children when it comes to critical times....... Osman, rest when you're tired, and I'll take care of the rest of the work! ”

The phone hung up, and Osman held the phone in a daze, a feeling of weakness came from his fingertips.

In the dark night sky, ultra-low-altitude reconnaissance aircraft swept over Jizhgrad, but with a violent explosion, one of the aircraft caught fire after being hit by a thermal missile, and fell to the side of a dilapidated house in Jizhgrad.

Zizi

Zijuan sighed and looked at the last captured scene, several criminals standing on the roof, armed with weapons, cheering and holding weapons, right next to a thermal missile launcher.

As well as the picture captured by another detection aircraft, many criminals were carnivaling, Zijuan quietly looked at the two points flashing on the map, these are the areas where the team is currently located.

"Send more troops, increase to 200 squads, and surround Jizhgrad."

The governors behind him began to issue orders, and everyone knew that since the criminals had such heavy firepower weapons in their hands, they could not solve too many problems by bombing, and the clean-up operation after the bombing was the most important thing.

"Let a few squads with mutants advance to a range of 500 meters from Jizhigrad, and start the clearance operation as soon as the bombing is over."

Zijuan stood up as she spoke, and the command vehicle began to move, everyone knew that the bombing was only to divide the huge battlefield of Jizhigrad in a short period of time, and the rapid raid and encirclement operation was the core.

At least the criminals will not be able to respond in a short period of time, attacking from the south and east of Jizhigrad at the same time, carpet sweeping operations, as long as Jizhigrad is taken, the criminals in the barrier area will have nothing to hide, cut off the weapons manufacturing plant, food and water supply, the criminals in the barrier area will not last long.

Zijuan looked at a part of the map of the barrier area that has been mapped and mapped, there are many red lines on it, according to the investigation of the more than 1,000 criminals arrested, under their confessions, the monthly food supply does flow from Jizhigrad, although some people have also confessed that weapons, food and water did not flow from Jizhigrad, but were sent by some people in black, but such a statement is not credible.

According to the photos of old mobile phones from the past era seized from the hands of some escaped criminals, many of the guys who came to deliver goods were backbone members of some large criminal gangs, and there were no men in black as a few criminals said.

The cleanup of Jizhigrad was imminent, and the squad that received the order had already begun to move, leaving only a few squads to slowly carry out the mapping work.

"Let's hurry up too, speed up!"

11:08 a.m

Bah

Noah spilled the grape fruit sauce that he had just opened in his hand, and Noah looked tricky, but he still picked up the bread on the table, dipped the grape fruit sauce on his clothes, and ate it without care.

"Are you disgusting?"

Li Guoguo stuck out his tongue and looked at Noah, who had just come out of the kinetic energy room of the battleship, surrounded by people from 10 branches, and in front of him was a giant flying object up to 100 meters high, exactly the same as the shape of the blue whale, the surface was pitch black metal, this was the first test flight of the blue whale battleship, and the effect was very outstanding, and the effect of the directional blasting of light nuclear weapons was far beyond everyone's imagination.

It's just that at this time, many people's faces are a little dignified, and they are still checking the value of the battleship around the Blue Whale battleship, and now the most dissatisfied thing about the battleship is the armor, although this new type of alloy armor can resist many kinds of attacks, heat resistance, and high hardness, but the weight is too heavy, and in the future improvement, light particle armor and liquid metal armor are two directions that must be overcome.

Noah licked the jam on his fingers, then smacked his fingers until he licked all the jam off, and then wiped his saliva fingers on the white coat, and many people covered their mouths in disgust.

"You really can't get tired of eating."

Li Guoguo muttered, and Noah smiled and nodded.

"I don't know when I'll be able to eat real fruit."

Nowadays, jams are made and blended with fruity taste agents, although many people have adapted to eating, but Li Guoguo has never felt adapted, and always feels a metallic taste, because her taste buds are more developed than ordinary people.

Looking at the innocent smiling Noah in front of him, like a child, Li Guoguo couldn't help but feel a chill, everyone knew what they did in the early hours of the morning, but Noah didn't feel uncomfortable in his heart at all because of what he did, it was Noah who pressed the button and pressed the launch button of the light nuke without hesitation.

A lava pit with a depth of 200 meters appeared in an instant, and the whole process did not take more than 3 seconds, and the high-energy photons were instantly fused and released, and the high heat generated completed a short killing in an instant, and it ended without even a trace of wailing.

More than 200 top scientists in 10 departments are still collecting all kinds of values of the battleship Blue Whale, and the slightest detail can not be missed, and the future role of this battleship is to escort the huge battleship Noah, which can do some outpost, detection, escort cruise, and so on.

There are a total of four warships in the plan, the Blue Whale is the first, and it is still in the experimental research stage, and the remaining three are already under construction, but now they can only be temporarily slowed down, and many technical problems still cannot be solved perfectly.

"What are you doing with your faces tied? Hurry up and collect the data, and we can start the next phase of the study. ”

Noah raised his hands, smiled excitedly, gathered the Blue Whale Battleship built by the top technology of the current Bright City, and the first test flight battle was successful, and he got very good data feedback, this kind of thing made Noah's Noah extremely excited at this time, and those crazy ideas in his head were born one after another, or ideas.

"You bastard, don't you feel a little bit human?"

Li Guoguo finally spoke, Noah's attitude made many people feel unhappy, the previous few light nuclear weapons launched directly from the side of the 10th branch were also activated by Noah, he didn't feel the slightest bit uncomfortable, conscience can't be seen in Noah's body, the only thing that can be seen is only enthusiasm and madness for science.

"Why do we carry out research day and night, and continue to discover new technologies, because human beings need progress, and the root of progress is science, human development has so far, has experienced one era after another, science is the only symbol of human progress, and as scientists, we should contribute to the progress of human beings........."

Noah said passionately, many people were stunned, this is not like what Noah would say on weekdays, even Li Guoguo was very surprised, but Noah suddenly changed his words and laughed.

"Do you think I'm going to talk to you about these tirades? It's a pity that science is a cold thing, it doesn't have any feelings, no matter what it does to humanity, it's a product of humanity, it's a necessity for humanity to move to the next era, mercy? Fraternity? Conscience? It's a pity that these things don't exist in science, science is facts, it's data, only the rational part, and the emotional part? Great? Glory? For humanity? It's a pity that these things are just established facts made up by scientists in the past, first of all, you have to be interested in one thing, and then start researching, even if you encounter all difficulties, you have to complete the research, and you want to unravel everything, this is not for anyone, or to achieve some great purpose, only pure love and interest, science should not be labeled with anything! ”

Noah's face sank as he spoke, and he scanned the heavy people who looked at him in a daze with his hands in his pockets, some of them were Noah's classmates, and some of them were new staff members over the years, with recognition, disdain, and incredulity in his eyes, all kinds of complicated eyes, shooting at Noah.

"Today, we just applied a weapon of war that was originally planned to the war that happened to happen, and successfully used the weapon to annihilate the enemy, annihilate the enemy who is harmful to the city, and that's it, so ........"

Before Noah could finish his words, he saw a long snow-white leg appear in front of him, and an obscure smile appeared on the corner of his mouth when he was kicked in the face.

bang

After Noah flipped three hundred and sixty degrees in the air, his face hit the ground, he immediately raised his head, nosebleed out of one nostril, and he snuck the tip of his nose.

"Don't listen to this idiot's nonsense, interested? Hobby? I see in you idiot more for your own selfishness, than for some bullshit hobbies, I can't understand your actions and thoughts, whether from the past or now, as a person, at least have a conscience, if everyone is like you, feel that it is easy to stretch out your fingers, press the button to easily kill others, or even think that this is a very easy thing, the world will be over. ”

Many people looked at this, Noah tilted his head, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, pressed his bleeding nose, and still smiled at the corners of his mouth.

"I just want to know why! That's all, maybe there's something sensual at the end of science, I just want to take a look, Guoguo! Keep working. ”

Noah said lightly, the atmosphere on the scene was a little more relaxed at this time, everyone loved and hated this secretary, the part of his genius, the part of him who did not understand the world, the part where he was always able to fully immerse himself in his own scientific world, and his words that would always burn others and never take it into account, for Noah, everyone felt helpless and powerless.

Li Guoguo turned around and looked at her light and shadow screen, she was too lazy to compete with Noah, she couldn't remember how many times she beat Noah because of her fiery temper, and she didn't know how many times she beat Noah when she was still in the Academy of God, but he never fought back, because there were some parts that Li Guoguo knew that what Noah said was right.

"Idiot, will you die if you say a little nice thing?"

"Forget it."

Heimo next to him muttered, Li Guoguo frowned slightly, and pinched Heimo's arm.

"You dead fat pig, you have to say something, and you shrink aside every time."

Heimo smiled innocently, but his eyes were blank, and Li Guoguo also noticed that Heimo had become more and more strange recently.