Zhang Kesong stood under the red canopy and recalled this conversation. It was also because of this passage that she came to the Philippines - on the one hand, because the war is fierce all over the world, and it is indeed the norm for the executive to send out a large number of officers, and on the other hand, because of the "mutual influence" mentioned by the prophet.

She didn't know how the result she had observed would be realized, and she didn't know if someone would interfere with her as the other party said. But fear and sorrow gripped her heart, and she sighed deeply and walked slowly back into the house.

The cat is still sleeping.

Tonight seems destined to be fairly peaceful.

Zhang Kesong took off his coat, turned off the lights, and lay on the bed. The civet cat was squeezed by her for a moment, and reluctantly moved out. When she was finished, she yawned again, squeezed to her side one after another, turned her head, stretched her waist, drew herself into a bow, and fell asleep comfortably again.

There was a slight snoring sound in the darkness, and a subtle breathing sound.

Four hours later, it was the second half of the night. The entire ruins of Zamboanga were tired, and even the soldiers at the head of the city felt their eyes dry - after all, there were no high beams, and they had to squint their eyes and try to look farther away in the hope of spotting possible enemy tracks.

But most people are accustomed to believing that such times should be as calm as ever—the two aliens had just been eliminated during the day, and it was common sense that the next wave would arrive in two or three weeks.

There was a night breeze.

It's almost the rainy season. The rainy season is inevitably accompanied by strong winds or typhoons – a strong wind blew every night of the week, causing the lights to shake the lights of the city. Sometimes, it will blow out the lanterns on the shore and the floating lights on the offshore sea.

The small seafront pier of Zamboanga has been replaced by a ring of tall walls with steel gates. The defenders had dug a ditch behind the wall, making something resembling a dock. There are four diesel-powered armed patrol boats in the "dockyard", but they all stay in the shelter tonight, and only open the gates and engage in naval operations when the perimeter is warned.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the floating lights on the sea began to shake. The thing is made of fluorescent materials and is not afraid of seawater. Yet tonight......

Suddenly, a whole row of floating lights disappeared.

The defenders at the head of the city noticed this anomaly and immediately raised their binoculars in alarm to look at the sea.

A shadow leaped up—a body more than three meters long, white teeth shining in the red light of the canopy.

"What's the matter, you eat this too?" The soldier put down his binoculars and cursed in a low voice. It was a huge shark. I don't know what happened to the road, and I ran into the warning area. Crush an entire row of floating lights under the water. It stands to reason that the alarm should be sounded and patrol boats should be sent to rearrange the line, but the soldier changed his mind when he saw the seventh shark leap out of the water.

Tonight it was very windy and the waves were high. All four patrol boats are small ships and will not be much larger than a fishing boat. In this case, rush into the sea infested with sharks. If you don't get it right, you'll get something.

The soldier is a sergeant. Originally, it was just a simple executor. But tonight he thought a little more - from the point of view of the commander. It was this thought that made him let go of his hand that was about to touch the alarm bell. A few more glances at the sea.

The sharks swam around in the water, perhaps attracted by the household garbage discharged into the seawater.

But that's okay - with these sharks, it's impossible for enemies to sneak through the water.

He thought so. He retracted into a small brick booth behind him, and took out a cigarette and lit it.

The smell of smoke filled the air, and the soldier squinted his eyes and looked into the distance. After all, there was a little smugness in his heart - he felt that his disposition was appropriate, and that he might be rewarded tomorrow.

But what he didn't realize was that the sharks were swimming in a fairly regular way — like a team of trained dolphins on a show. They almost form a phalanx and constantly leap out of the water, pushing the floating lights below the surface of the sea...... It is then swallowed by another shark in one bite.

The floating lamp is not fresh meat, and after swallowing a few of them, the shark slowly sinks under the sea.

But the wind became more and more violent, and waves more than a man high rose on the sea, and even the sight of sharks was obscured by the wind and waves.

Half an hour later, a human head emerged from the sea beneath the walls.

Then the second, the third, the fourth...... and even the twenty-sixth.

There were twenty-six raiders in total.

The walls were built with the extreme conditions in mind - the enemy swooped down at the foot of the wall, trying to climb up or break through.

Therefore, the original standard was based on the standard of dam construction.

New composite materials build a solid skeleton, and a huge amount of concrete is used to pour a thick wall – ten meters thick. With all the electronic equipment failing, it is difficult to have any force that can destroy it in a short time. As soon as the walls are bombarded with explosives and make a loud noise, the defenders will swarm to intercept the invaders from outside the walls.

This is, of course, for the average person. There are also capable people standing by behind the wall, dealing with the enemy's superpowers with superpowers.

The twenty men clinging to the wall seemed to be powerless.

Until another person also comes out. The man was wearing a bulky wetsuit and seemed rather weak. He struggled to climb ashore and was freed from his shackles with the help of two other men—a man who was so thin that he seemed to fall to the ground after a few steps.

The raiders are the most common appearance of xenos - their faces are covered in tiny scales, and the tips of their fangs protruding from the corners of their lips. The eyes are orange with a thin pupil in the middle. It's just that now the light is dim, and the pupils have dilated to a great extent, as if the whole eye is pure black.

They were muscular, with bare tendons, and their nails were like sharp steel claws, half a meter long.

But the emaciated man...... It looks like it's really a person.

It's just horribly thin. It's like an African refugee who has not been able to fill his stomach for many years, with only a thin layer of skin clinging to his bones. However, the xenos around him who would go crazy when they saw ordinary people seemed quite respectful to him, and even had a bit of a "cautious" taste.

As he helped him take off his wetsuit, Xenomorph's fingernails cut the man's arm. And the pale-faced man actually raised his hand and slapped him hard.

The sound of "pop" was drowned out by the sound of the waves. The beaten xenos did not rage. Instead, he bowed his hand respectfully.

The man pressed the wound on his arm, weakly but brutally pushed away the guys in front of him, and walked all the way to the bottom of the wall.

Looking at the wall, it is slightly protruding, 20 meters high. Behind him was the bleak and violent sea, and from time to time waves crashed against the sea, soaking the clothes of the intruders. But the awakened xenomorphs were not afraid of this level of wind and waves, but instead lined up as a wall to surround the man in the middle and block the cold wind for him.

The walls were tall and strong. But because of its height and curvature, these people are hidden by the "belly" of the wall, and even if someone looks down, they can't really see it.

The thin man rubbed against the wall. It's been almost a year since the wall was built. Damp moss grew at the base of the wall. There are even shellfish clinging to it.

But he didn't care, as if he was caressing the skin of his old lover.

After two minutes, his movements stopped.

Then, the walls began to disappear.

There is no better word to describe the state of being present – vanishing.

There is no falling debris. There is also no process of cracking or even disintegration. It was as if a round shroud was slowly spreading around the thin man. The invisible barrier let out of the twenty-six xenomorphs around it. Then it touched the wall. As a result, a semi-circular pit appeared in the concrete wall, and the part that had filled the pit disappeared silently.

The pit continued to expand, and the wall silently annihilated.

Even the sergeant who happened to be standing on the sentry above their heads did not feel the slightest tremor.

Until he stood up again. Habitually glancing under the wall.

What was supposed to be a hula hoop turned out to be a long, crescent-shaped notch. Through the gap, the Sentinels saw twenty-six hideous-looking xenos, as well as a man in the middle.

The man smiled at him with a pale face.

The hood swelled suddenly, and before the sentry could give a warning signal, the whole person disappeared.

On the long wall, a huge semicircular "gate" appeared. This gate is more than 50 meters wide, and you can see the ruins of Zamboanga City inward.

The man in the middle snorted. The gates were enlarged again, cutting off the walls completely.

A circular hood with a diameter of 100 meters protected them, and the man stepped forward and walked towards the city.

Everything disappeared silently, and the ground was as smooth as if it had been cut by a sharp blade.

It was only after five minutes that the mobile sentry spotted the gap. He was shocked for a moment and immediately ran to the nearest checkpoint, ringing the alarm bell despite the other party's inquiry.

Three minutes later, the walls were brightly lit, and the first shots rang out in the city.

But it was only a sound, fleeting.

The gunshot that took place in Zamboanga was indeed the "first shot".

Because on the other side of the long coastline, the Imperial garrison base also welcomed a wave of invaders.

When the first shells landed on the periphery of the base, sending waves and roaring loudly, everyone realized that this was not the usual harassment of the enemy, but a sudden all-out war.

On the sinking sea, between the surging wind and waves, the figures of countless ships emerged. There are large fishing boats that can be fired at gunfire, and there are smaller sampans that seem to be about to capsize in the wind and waves. What they all had in common was that each boat was filled with a dense crowd of figures—figures taller than ordinary people, slightly hunched like bloodthirsty beasts about to pounce.

The artillery positions along the coastline immediately began to counterattack, and at first only sporadic artillery fire fell on the dense ships, sending large groups of xenomorphs to the bottom of the sea. Then came an even more intense cluster of artillery fire, and a whole huge wave suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea.

But the number of enemies in the darker waters of the night seemed to be innumerable, and ships of all types charged at the surface of the sea one after another, and the angry roars of the xenomorphs.

The front-line commander who arrived in a hurry only glanced through the binoculars and exclaimed: "How is it possible?!" ”

It really can't be. After the aurora, the reason why humans were able to stalemate with the species for a year was because of the limitations of the infected "aliens".

The vast majority of xenospecies are mutated from ordinary people and cannot escape the protection of species. Once out of that range, he will bleed and die of convulsions due to the overdrawing of his vitality.

Only a very small number of "Awakened", those xenos who possess some level of intelligence, are able to leave the infected zone freely like the capable ones among humans, and fight with qualities not inferior to those of a B-class capable person.

Someone once compared those ordinary xenos to the "zombies" in the "Resident Evil" series of films. But in the eyes of most people who know them, although these things are stronger than zombies in individual combat, they are not as terrifying as them as a whole.

They are merely mutated people—with great vitality. But excessive injuries and excessive blood loss can also lead to their death. The most important thing is that these guys can only stay in the occupied zone - as long as the species do not appear, ordinary people will not be alienated.

But the current situation has turned people's perception upside down - it is impossible to have so many awakened people. This means that xenos leave their infection range and begin to move freely.

After a moment of shock, the commander began to organize a counterattack - they were well prepared to reclaim some small island in the Pacific Ocean occupied by the Awakened, and they had a fairly good stock of weapons and ammunition.

So the junction between the sea and the coast was full of fire, and the rumbling sound of artillery was heard for more than ten kilometers in the night, as if rolling thunder suddenly sounded between heaven and earth.

But this is no longer the era of information exchange, and there are always many people who do not know what is happening along the coast of the road......

For example, a small village more than 40 kilometers from the coast.

The village has been abandoned for a long time. Once upon a time, the village was surrounded by banana plantations, but what happened a year ago led to a flood of refugees, and the panicked people did not know what happened in Zamboanga when they fled for their lives, so the horrors of the city were passed on again and again, and eventually evolved into a version that the end of the world had arrived.

Rumors spread extremely quickly and widely. So much so that the dozen or so families that once lived here panicked, packed up their softness, and ran north, hoping to get away from that terrible land.

After the owner left, the place was ravaged by the fleeing crowd, so that the houses toppled and the banana groves were destroyed. When the Lord returned, he found that his home was no longer there, and because of the inconvenience of transportation and communication caused by the aurora, he had to stay away from here and go to a more densely populated city nearby.

So the place fell silent for a long time.

But if you look closely, you will see that there is a room with a little flickering fire. (To be continued.) )