Prey Chapter 19 - Fire Fortress
"It's written here that high-voltage hazards are not allowed. ”
"It's okay, come in. ”
"How do you have the key to the power distribution room?"
"This is not a power distribution room, this is an office. ”
"What is the office?"
"Office of the office. ”
"Whose office is this?"
"Gao He's. ”
"Who is Gao He?"
"Gao He will be here in a moment. ”
Song Xiaocheng rubbed his eyes with his right hand, and rubbed his right hand, which was as cold as an ice cube with his left hand. Each time Igni is used, his right hand warms up or cools down to varying degrees - depending on what he is igniting or freezing. After a few days, Song Xiaocheng's use of Igni has been handy. At the moment when the zombie tide is frantically erupting, the Igni in his hand is a power that can reassure him more than a knife and gun, and Song Xiaocheng also thanked Ganesa from the bottom of his heart for this gift for the first time.
And it is really not easy to take Xiaoyu to break through from a large number of zombies. Along the way, Song Xiaocheng dragged Lin Yu with his left hand, trying to make her run as fast as possible, and his right hand kept blasting bursts of flames against the tide of corpses blocking him. The rapid and continuous use of the Fa Seal in a short period of time caused a strange discomfort in the palm of his right hand, like muscle soreness after excessive exercise, and the power and scope of the explosion seemed to be getting smaller and smaller because of this.
The tide of corpses outside had gathered more and more, even larger than when Song Xiaocheng escaped from the cemetery. The living dead bite people when they see people, some are bitten alive, some are ripped off limbs and fall to the ground, and most of them quickly join the army of living corpses after falling. The vast majority of people in this city have never seen so much dead and blood in their lives. Overnight, the city was filled with carnage and fear. Overnight, countless people have turned into zombies in their sleep.
After closing the iron door of Gao He's office, Song Xiaocheng lay in the single sofa, feeling a little relieved, but he still had to constantly deal with Xiao Yu's continuous problems.
"What the hell is going on out there? How can there be...... Zombies?And, what's going on with that hand?What are we doing here?What's going on here?What the hell is going on now?What about our family?When are we going home?Other ......."
"Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu...... Would you like to stop for a moment?"
Song Xiaocheng rubbed his eyelids, trying to relieve the tingling sensation on his two eyeballs, but he didn't know how to explain all this to Xiaoyu in his mind. After all, most of Xiao Yu's questions don't even know the answer to himself.
"Trust me, Xiaoyu. Everything is in my hands. Don't panic, be quiet, I'm going to ...... Uh......"
Song Xiaocheng himself actually didn't know what he was doing now, he just wanted to find an explanation to calm Xiaoyu down.
"I'm going to make a couple of important phone calls first. ”
That's right. Probably the most important thing to do now is to make a phone call. Inform your other family members, relatives and friends, acquaintances, unacquaintances, strangers, and anyone who doesn't know what is going on outside, and tell them to find ways to protect themselves.
However, I don't know if it's because the device is damaged or because too many people have the same idea, Song Xiaocheng's mobile phone sticking to his ear just keeps coming out of the busy sound, and the wireless network can't be used at all.
"Lin Yu," Song Xiaocheng opened his bloodshot eyes and wiped a little tear stain on Lin Yu's face with his thumb, "Listen to me......"
Xiao Yu bit his lower lip and looked at Song Xiaocheng quietly.
"There will be two people in a moment...... Two of my friends — the two guys who came to the house the other day, they're coming. I didn't go to work for the past few days, but I kept working with them to find a way to prevent this from happening, but we underestimated each other's strength, and it eventually happened. After my two friends come in a moment, we'll ...... The two of them will find a way, and we will find a way to solve this eventually. Don't cry, don't worry, okay? I'm here, it's going to be fine. ”
Words of comfort are obviously very useful for girlfriends. Xiao Yu choked up and barely let out a "hmm" in his throat, and hugged Song Xiaocheng.
But comforting words could not comfort Song Xiaocheng himself. The resurrected corpse, I would have thought that this was the result of a perverted necrophilia! The bald weirdo on the pile of bones was probably the initiator of all this. Recalling what he had witnessed next to the graveyard, Song Xiaocheng recalled all kinds of necromantic magic in games and movies.
“...... Gather power...... Open the channel. ”
If there is nothing, Song Xiaocheng's mind suddenly recalled what the person in the dream said that night. Could it be that all of this was in the plan of Ganesha—and the two men in the dream—and was this the precursor to the end times?
When Gao He and Cui Wei returned to the office, Song Xiaocheng was already lying on the single sofa and fell asleep in a daze, until Xiao Yu, who was sitting on the side with his knees in his arms, stretched out his thin and sharp fingers and poked his cheeks twice.
"It's okay, let him sleep...... Are you awake? ”
The slight pain on his face and Gao He's voice urged Song Xiaocheng to quickly jump up from the sofa, and after opening his eyes vigorously, he regained consciousness.
At this time, Cui Wei was staring at the screen wall with big round eyes, and the screen displayed a three-dimensional map of X, and many places in the city were filled with red colors. Gao He was behind Cui Wei, with his eyes closed and his forehead.
"What does this mean?" asked Song Xiaocheng.
Gao He glanced at him, then turned his eyes to look at the screen and said:
"Special energy-sensing radar. This thing was originally used to detect special humans in the area of City X. Originally, it was only a small point - it sometimes didn't even detect any readings except in your neighborhood. Well, now it's full of special humans. ”
"How can this be? Is it because of those zombies?" Song Xiaocheng asked.
"It seems so. I don't want to believe it, but the rate at which the living dead are spreading is terrifying. ”
Song Xiaocheng looked at the screen and easily found the direction of his home according to the landmark. According to the map, although only a small part of the city is filled with red, the red is spreading rapidly at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.
What's worse is that, according to the map of that radar, Song Xiaocheng's urban area has been completely annihilated by red.
"When you come back, how is it going outside?"
"It's so chaotic that it can't be messed up anymore, it's like "Pot Mountain Travel". ”
"And how did you get back?"
"He Xuming lent us an off-road vehicle, and we urgently modified it and rushed all the way back. By the way, he also gave us some heavy firepower. ”
As he spoke, Gao He kicked the two backpacks on the ground. Song Xiaocheng bent down and unzipped his backpack, which contained three dirty old automatic rifles and four or five magazines, and the other was a boxed rifle bullet.
"Okay, that's pretty generous. Although I still prefer to rely on my own hands. ”
Song Xiaocheng pulled up his backpack and straightened up, "Then what then? What should we do now?"
"First, I have to find a way to inform the higher authorities of the situation on our side, after all, Cui Wei and I are only investigators, not specialized combatants; ”
"Isn't this cellar reliable?"
"There's only one door in this cellar, and if there's a zombie blocking that door, where are we going?"
"Makes sense. When are we going out? now?"
"Noon. ”
Midday is when the sun is at its hottest. If it is placed on the usual day of work, this must be the time of the day when Song Xiaocheng is most reluctant to go out. But apparently it was no longer that peaceful day, and he would rather sweat and even be exposed to the scorching sun until his hair became hot and the back of his head was molting, rather than fighting zombies in the middle of the night in the dark.
Gao He drove back from He Xuming in a retired old-fashioned military jeep. In fact, it may be a bit inappropriate to say "old-fashioned" - Song Xiaocheng feels that if he kicks the car hard, the car may be scrapped on the spot.
"A little bit of deserved meaning for the comrades of the Earth Defense Organization. ”
Gao He said meaningfully, obviously imitating He Xuming's tone.
The modification of the car was very wild, the front and doors were wrapped with barbed wire, and the front bumper was also fixed with a large number of machetes and iron drills, which seemed to be various controlled confiscated items borrowed from Sheriff Ho.
Practice has proved that whether you choose to travel at noon or this modified classic car, it is very effective.
When Gao He Cui Wei, Song Xiaocheng and Lin Yu sat in the classic car together, driving in the hot midday sun of midsummer, both sides of the road were already crowded with hideous-looking living dead, but most of them just stayed in the shade of trees or buildings, watching their cars drive by from a distance. Occasionally, a handful of living corpses screaming and galloping in an attempt to attack them were immediately torn apart by the sharp objects in the car.
"Gao He, look at that!" Song Xiaocheng shouted.
"Well, I see. ”
Just as they drove downstairs to Song Xiaocheng's house, on the other side of the road, there was originally a fire squadron, and piles of junk and garbage were piled up on the periphery - burning cars, furniture, breakfast cars, parasols, etc., like a huge road fort, and what was even more striking was that on the flagpole in the middle of the yard, a white sheet was hung, with dark green words written on it-
"Fire Fortress"
Gao He slowly slowed down in front of the courtyard gate of the fire squadron, but did not stop.
"There may be other survivors in there. Let's get out of the car and take a look!" Song Xiaocheng said slightly excitedly.
"Don't worry, take a closer look around first. Gao He said, "There are seven in the green belt in the middle, I'll deal with them, there are thirteen on the sidewalk in front right, there may be more in the house, Cui Wei's, and ...... in the back."
Song Xiaocheng turned around and looked at it:
"It can be seen that there are about twenty of them, and there are still six or seven lying in the middle of the road, and I don't know if they are dead or alive. I'll deal with it. ”
"Good. The girls will stay in the car first, and we will call you out of the car in a moment. Preparation, one, two......"
With that, the three men opened the car door at the same time, each picked up an automatic rifle, and jumped out of the car, followed by a burst of gunfire.
This is the first time Song Xiaocheng has used this guy. Although he had already shot millions of targets in his head before, he was forced to admit that it was much more difficult to control than he imagined when he actually put the butt of the gun on his shoulder and pull the trigger.
As soon as the door of the three-person car opened, the zombies who had been watching them in the shade staggered. As soon as the guns rang out, the zombies descended into a terrible frenzy.
In those corners that were previously out of sight—under parked cars, in the bushes, in garbage cans—more zombies emerged, screaming, screaming, and darling at them. Especially on Song Xiaocheng's side, a tide of zombies emerged from the dense shade and invisible corners. When he knocked over three zombies in a row, a female corpse in a dress had already run less than two meters away from him, and when he was about to raise his right hand to activate Igni's power, he fell into the situation of "the brain has thought about it, but the hand can't do it" - the right hand holding the gun handle was just about to release, but the left hand was difficult to maintain the balance of the gun body, so the right hand reflexively retracted and continued to hold the gun handle.
After a moment of hesitation, the female corpse had already pounced in front of him, and Song Xiaocheng hurriedly raised his foot and kicked the female corpse on the chest, kicking the female corpse to the ground. But this distraction, more other zombies rushed in front of him, but fortunately, at this time, Gao He came around and raised his gun to destroy the zombie closest to him.
Gao He's support finally gave Song Xiaocheng time to adjust his posture, and he was able to finally free his right hand and start to use Igni's power.
"Gao He, stay back!" Song Xiaocheng pulled Gao He's sleeve, grabbed a step forward, and pushed out his right arm hard.
For a time, the fire was raging and the heat wave was rushing. With the high temperature of noon, the heat energy released by Igni was also greatly enhanced, and a fan-shaped wave of fire erupted from Song Xiaocheng's palm, like a flamethrower, continuing to scorch the zombies in front of him.
"Ahhh——!h
"Watch your back!"
"Song Xiaocheng!!"
With Lin Yu in the car shouting heartbreakingly, Song Xiaocheng turned his head, and a zombie broke through Cui Wei and Gao He's firepower net, pounced on him, and knocked off the gun in his hand. Immediately afterward, three or two more zombies rushed up, one of them grabbing his right wrist, and Igni couldn't breathe fire anymore.
At this time, Song Xiaocheng could only see a few hideous and terrifying zombie faces in front of him, and he had been suppressed to death, and he even felt that he had seen the end of his life.
Vaguely audible, Gao He called out to him, trying to get the zombie away from him, but it didn't do much, there was more zombie roaring in his ears, and even the strong sunlight was obscured...... It was over, and the zombies were already gnawing at his flesh, and a disgusting stench filled his presence......
Is this the end of my life? I am really unwilling......
Suddenly, a blinding ray of light shone in, and a shrill roar even drowned out the zombie's roar. Song Xiaocheng felt that the pressure on his body was relaxed, and his limbs could move freely again. He hurriedly jumped up, wanting to see how Gao He managed to save himself, but saw Lin Yu standing by the car door, holding an automatic rifle, with a terrifying expression exactly like when Song Xiaocheng went to bed without brushing his teeth.