Chapter 66: A Sudden Attack
Bang bang
With the sound of violent crashing outside the carriage, the roar like a beast broke the calm of the night.
"Here they are."
With Takeda's words, the quiet carriage suddenly became chaotic.
The child fearlessly cried in her mother's arms, hoping that her mother would not hold her so hard. The resting crowd got up from their beds or from the ground and crowded into the center of the carriage, watching in horror as it was constantly beaten.
Fear instantly spread throughout Fuso City.
Takeda held up the piece of jerky that emitted a strange smell, and stared blankly at the carriage in front of him that had been repeatedly struck over and over again, and the carriage made of iron was gradually deformed by the impact of the inhuman Kabane outside.
The dried meat in his hand fell to the ground, and Takeda didn't care about his collection being regarded as a life-saving treasure before his death, squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, and shouted in despair:
"Damn brute, why are you chasing us when we've retreated again and again. Is it because we die that they will be happy, happy, and stop this damn everything. โ
"Shut your damn mouth and stop complaining. The defeat in that war already means that humanity is just surviving, and we are lucky to be able to survive, and instead of waiting for your head to die, you are willing to let those beasts suck your blood dry and become their accomplices...... You're just here and waiting to die. Sean pointed to Takeda's nose and cursed.
"Maybe we shouldn't be alive, no matter where we go, those guys will always chase after us, we just shouldn't be alive." Takeda had turned into a tearful man, his face was crying, and his tone was full of despair, "We should die there, that is the best place for us, you look at every place we went, it was not finally broken by Kabane." Even if we arrive at Vajrako, what if we fall somewhere? โ
Sean didn't know how to comfort his companion who had fought alongside him along the way.
The mighty army rushed forward, but unexpectedly and in some sense, it had to accept the fate of defeat.
The living space of humanity has shrunk further, and from the frontline troops against Kabane, he and Takeda have experienced the greatest fiasco in human history.
The two who were lucky enough to survive kept heading towards one human gathering place after another...... That is, the post city past. It's like reincarnation, go to a post city, and it won't take long for that post city to be broken by Kabane.
It was as if fate was telling them that no matter where they went, they would not escape the fate of dying in Kabane's mouth.
And the best way is to wash your own neck, find a more gentlemanly Kabane, let him bite lightly, suck the blood in his body, and then become Kabane's accomplice and join it.
Takeda has thought more than once that since humanity can't resist Kabane, why don't we just join Kabane together, so that there will be no more strife and fearless sacrifice in the world.
If Sean hadn't been with him, watching him, and preventing him from doing stupid things, this man who was heartbroken by the shogunate would have really turned his grief and anger into strength and turned into a hungry Kabane without looking back.
The situation in the closed carriage was further complicated by the fact that there was no samurai waiting for a long time to come to help defend the carriage. All of them were frightened by this situation, and roared wildly, crying out at Kabane, as if hoping to scare away Kabane, who had come to "forage" with their own cry.
Sean saw the chaos and figured that there would be no one to help them defend.
Although the carriages of Fusang City were made of iron and had a hard and hard-fighting appearance, they were obviously not strong enough to hit them compared to those bloodthirsty Kabanes.
In a few moments, the steel plate had been knocked out of shape, and the vents and small seams used to breathe were twisted to accommodate a cabane's arm and stick in.
If we continue to sit like this, in less than ten minutes the carriage will be completely attacked by the Kabane, and the people crowded in the carriage will not be able to run forward, because the people here have no key to the previous carriage.
Nor was it possible to retreat, as there were no samurai there, let alone weapons to use to fight the Kabane.
Dead both horizontally and vertically, when Kabane invades, everyone here will be transformed into the new Kabane, and then follow Kabane's large army to attack the rest of the humans.
This is an unfair and unequal war, the skin of the Kabane is thick, and ordinary weapons cannot kill them, even inflicting fatal wounds on the Kabane.
In particular, Kabane's heart is covered in a steel membrane, and unless it breaks through and destroys the heart inside, Kabane will continue to live in a thirst for human blood.
The sharp sword is a weapon of killing, but for Kabane, it has little effect. There are two ways to kill Kabane, one is to break their hearts, and the other is to cut off their heads.
The swords of this era were not yet strong enough to cut their heads through the steel skin of the Kabane. Similarly, there was no suitable weapon to penetrate the epithelia that encased Kabane's heart.
It can be said that before the appearance of an effective weapon against Kabane, the strength of an individual cannot exceed that of the corresponding Kabane, and it is inevitable that he will be bitten or drained of blood, and then become a member of Kabane.
With such a powerful enemy, the previous expeditionary force was able to push the front line further, and you can imagine how great the sacrifices were made at that time.
It's a pity that there is no if......
Sean sighed.
"I'll guard the other end, you guard this end, the warriors of Fusang City seem to be unreliable, and no one has been arranged to defend at this time, and it is estimated that a large number of Kabane have gathered near the front of the car.
Whether we can reach the Xianjin Post alive depends on how long you and I can hold on. โ
Sean didn't want to die, although he spent every day in this world in despair, but the space that connected 103,000 Sean gave him a glimmer of hope.
If he continues to persevere, will he be able to go to a peaceful world through an unfamiliar space? Or maybe the ontology suddenly exploded, one world after another took back his clones, and finally merged into one, gathering the power of 103,000 Seans to return to Hinterland...... It is not impossible to step on the Cathedral of Destiny, punch Calder on the battlefield, and become the overlord of the Suppression I.
So, for the sake of the future, he can't die, let alone become a beast that lives on instinct like Kabane.
The reason why people are human beings is because they have the ability to examine themselves.
Takeda watched as Sean bypassed the screaming crowd and quickly ran towards the other end of the carriage with his keyboard on his keyboard, seemingly ready to confront Kabane.
"Where is the car? Even if we can make it to the end, will this Fusang City be able to reach the Xianjin Station? Takeda thought pessimistically, but his eyes fell on the wrapped spear.
"Madness or destruction? Since that's what you want, then I'll go crazy with you for the last time. โ
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The carriages of Fuso Castle have small air vents and thin gaps.
On the one hand, when people climb the castle, there is almost no chance to stop the car to go outside to relax, and no one knows whether there will be an ambush near the park.
Kabane is a beast and a virus, and the person killed by Kabane will change from a corpse to Kabane's companion in a short period of time, even if he is accidentally bitten and bruised by Kabane, even if he survives at the time, he is hopeless.
Depending on the individual's constitution, within a maximum of three days, the person bitten by the Kabane will slowly transform into a bloodthirsty monster, become a member of the Kabane, and turn around to attack his companions in the fortress with blood.
As the so-called strong fortress is often breached from the inside, after the defeat, Sean stayed in several post cities, all because there were infected people in the city, because the isolation was not timely, and eventually led to the fall of the post city.
Humans have never really fought a creature like Kabane head-on, and without an effective weapon to kill Kabane, they can only cut off Kabane's head or puncture their heart with knives and guns.
Being close means that the distance between the person and the Kabane will be very close, so close that those who are fighting with the Kabane can even smell the rotten smell of Kabane, and they must also worry about whether they will be bitten by the Kabane during the battle.
The battle was unfair from the beginning, and the humans came up with several ways to attack to improve efficiency and reduce casualty rates.
Juncheng is one of them.
Using the action power of the steam train, small gaps are arranged in the carriage, and as long as the Kabane fails to break the steel car, then the people inside can achieve the effect of killing the Kabane without loss.
The thin gap was the bunker used to engage Kabane, and Sean picked up the spear he had placed on the ground and tore the cloth from it. The cold glow of the spear head slammed into the cabana of the carriage through the gap.
Sean doesn't want to kill, as long as he interferes with the frequency of Kabane's impact, because he can't puncture Kabane's heart membrane until the hardness of the gun head is basically impossible, and he can only use the continuous acceleration and deceleration of Juncheng through the tunnel and around the bend to throw out Kabane attached to Juncheng.
"Damn, could it be said that there are thieves leading them, and they will also play wheel warfare!"
The dense Kabane, as if premeditated, finished fighting one batch, and the other batch flew up and climbed up, and it was simply headless.
Relying on himself alone, Mo said that he could hold this end of the carriage, and it would be good to be able to slow down the speed of Kabane's impact on the carriage.
Takeda, who was guarding the other end of the car, felt the same way, fighting back and forth, Kabane's offensive did not decrease, but became more intense.
Fighting alone, it sounds heroic.
But for both Sean and Takeda, the experience was too new.
In wars without the support of their comrades, they often flee first to pay respect, just as they once did after the post city where they stayed was destroyed.
Why not lead the others against the incoming Kabane? As long as everyone in the carriage took up their arms, the Kabane who rushed up and slammed into the carriage had no time to charge up for impact.
This practice....... There is a premise.
If Kabane had caused damage to people, it would not have infected the injured people, and humans would not have been so afraid of Kabane, and then wrapped the place where they lived in a high wall, and huddled in it and prayed every day, and the post city would still exist.
Let civilians with no combat experience and no training fight against Kabane, and the end result will be that these frightened guys will only be bitten by Kabane, and at that time, the carriage will also be broken.
"Sean, quickly think of a way, if it goes on like this, we will take the jujube pill." Takeda shouted.
"Get out of the way, damn it." Sean once again used his spear to knock Kabane, who was grinning and trying to bite through the gap, and turned back to Takeda and shouted, "Let people go to the carriage in front of them and find those samurai, if we are breached here, they will not be able to watch the fire from the other side." We need their weapons! โ
"It's useless." Takeda's movements in his hands also didn't stop, repelling the attacking Kabane again and again, and said helplessly: "We don't have the key to the front compartment at all, but the keys are in the hands of those adults." โ
"Damn, at this time, there is still class division, is it possible that they think that Kabane only bites civilians? Those damn beasts, it doesn't matter if you're a big man or not, everyone is a chick waiting to be slaughtered in their eyes. Sean understood what Takeda meant, and it could be said that whether it was forward or backward, this carriage was their last fortress.
If it is attacked by Kabane, it means the end of everything.
Whether it is for himself to continue to live, or to survive this crisis, Sean looked at the civilians who were trembling together, and reprimanded angrily: "I don't care what method you use, go and open the door to the carriage in front of me, even if you gnaw it with your teeth and scratch it with your fingernails, as long as the door is opened, come with the samurai and their weapons, we still have hope of life." โ
"Do you hear or not, if we wait like this, we will all become food for those beasts, and eventually become those beasts and attack other humans."
"Think about it, didn't your dead husbands, wives, parents, and children all die because of Kabane, and at the last moment of your lives, are you still afraid of those timid samurai, and are not willing to fight for hope?!"
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Sean spoke loudly and passionately, and the results were good.
The people who were shivering in the middle of the carriage, and when one person decided to try, the others slowly began to follow.
Whether it was hitting the closed door with all parts of their body, either with their heads, or with their teeth, as Sean said, Sean believed that if they tried, the damn door would eventually open.
But......
Takeda looked at Sean in despair, pointed to the center of the carriage, and shouted, "Be careful, Kabane has attacked!! โ