Chapter 53: Fighting in the Woods
This series of orders was carried out within the first time. Fortunately, everyone had woken up from their slumber before they could, so the executors of the nearby camp quickly gathered in one place and tried to break through to the northeast.
It may not be appropriate to say that it is a breakthrough, because most of the tragic fighting takes place among the soldiers of the special security forces, and few people come to attack those who are able to do so.
By now they had completely lost their minds, and their faces had become horrible—tiny scales on their foreheads and on the back of their bare hands, long nails, and fangs exposed. The drastic physiological changes caused their skin to crack and roll, and each of them was drenched in blood, like zombies who had come back from the dead.
The southern base camp on the opposite side of the canyon received Dai Bingcheng's warning, and a light helicopter had already taken off, making a low roar over the camp, using snowy searchlights to guide the retreat route for everyone.
Li Zhen watched everything around him in the deep night, and the thought in his heart became more and more convinced - this should not be some Green Knight's method, the culprit should be that Adam - it must have resonated with those people in some way, just like his original self stimulated the powerful power in his body.
However, the problem is that these ordinary people have changed for nothing, while themselves, and these executives, are safe and sound.
If you want to say the difference, there are indeed some - although I am so excited that I can't help myself, I still have a clear consciousness after all. And the soldiers of the special security team around him looked like they had completely lost their minds.
Instead of drawing his gun, he relied on his strength to knock away the two mutants who were dazed and about to pounce on him, and retreated as the team continued to retreat.
It was Dai Bingcheng's order not to use firearms - after all, these mutants were still his comrades. More than half of these dozens of executives are physically strengthened, and they are enough to protect themselves without being attacked on a large scale.
Even during the retreat, Dai Bingcheng did not break off contact with the southern camp on the other side of the cliff. The message I got was. There were no anomalies in the southern camp, and no large-scale hostilities were found at the outlying outposts. The men at the Gate of Truth came later and fewer than expected—for it was still not ruled out that there might be a dozen or so lurking farther outside the outpost.
After all, this is Shennongjia, with large primeval forests. The "Anti-Development Act" passed by the local cabinet 30 years ago has allowed the area to maintain its original natural beauty, and the tourist area that has been developed today occupies only one-tenth of the Grand Canyon.
Humans always have a natural disadvantage in the face of nature, and this disadvantage has caused a lot of trouble for the executives of the North Camp tonight. More than half of the more than 300 soldiers were killed or wounded in just a few minutes, and the remaining survivors became even more brutal - they began to try to attack the able.
And by this time, the executives also had to defend themselves with firearms. But it didn't work out well.
The mutants' appearance has changed even more dramatically - their eyes are bulging, their bodies are elongated, their legs are curled, and the hair on their heads has fallen out, replaced by tiny scales stained with blood. The men leaped through the woods with astonishing agility and whistled and pounced down on the crow. The sharp nails at the tips of the ten fingers glistened in the moonlight. With a single stroke, you can cut off a branch the thickness of your child's arm.
The assault rifle in Li Zhen's hand hit a mutant in the chest with precision. However, the blazing warhead carrying powerful kinetic energy did not penetrate it - because it was still wearing "dragon scale armor" body armor during its lifetime. Even though he was now very different from a normal human, the body armor hung diagonally on his chest, resisting what could have been a lethal shot.
The kinetic energy still threw the mutant off balance, but it hooked its arms into a branch beside it, its curved legs stomping violently on the trunk. He readjusted his posture in a second and pounced on Li Zhen again.
It was in such an instantaneous wind and bloody atmosphere that Li Zhen held a gun in his left hand, and with his right hand, he suddenly pulled out a pool of autumn water from behind him, and slashed it diagonally towards Lu with his backhand-
A skull spun backwards and slammed into the torso of a large tree, nearly deflated. And the headless corpse sprayed a large canopy of blood, still rushing straight towards the crowd. Li Zhen flashed to the left without hesitation-
The body crashed into a strong wall behind Li Zhen.
Caring turned his head angrily and tore off the corpse hanging from his back with his stout right hand. Panting and yelling: "I said Li Zhen, this is the second time!" I'm soaking wet! ”
Li Zhen shook the Yanling knife in his hand, and the blood fell to the ground with a clatter. Then he sighed as he ran fast to keep up with the group, "I don't want to either." I was going to open it just now. ”
Hu Yanling, who was further ahead, said in the chaotic footsteps and shouts: "Don't be merciful at this time, otherwise you will die." ”
So Li Zhen fell silent.
Hu Yanling was telling the truth. These special security team soldiers were originally responsible for the defense of the northern base. Many of them are familiar with these executives, they can call each other by name, and they will chat and fart together when they have nothing to do. However, this sudden anomaly turned their former comrades into terrifying monsters, and the only way they could communicate with each other now was to fight and fight-
At first, there were some people who couldn't be ruthless.
And those who tried to subdue them instead of kill them are now cold corpses.
The mutants' abilities seem to grow stronger as they devour each other. None of them are confident enough to be in control. If Dai Bingcheng's initial retreat order was to prevent the executive from causing excessive damage to these mutants, then it has indeed become a retreat in the actual sense now.
The south camp, which is about 200 meters away from the north camp, is not unusual, indicating that the unknown factors affecting those ordinary people have their own range of effects, and as long as they withdraw from that range, maybe the mutants will gradually return to normal.
However, in the course of these hundreds of meters, they had already lost six people.
The helicopter still roared overhead, its bright lights guiding them through the forest. However, the concern beside Li Zhen raised his head and glanced at the Wuzhi 26 in the dark night, and scolded in a low voice: "Damn." Those grandchildren might be stealing fun. Who knows what kind of heart they have settled. ”
There is certainly a reason for this. Because on the one hand, the lights show them the way, and on the other hand, they attract more and more mutants. They climbed and jumped like apes with the help of the towering trees in the dense forest, and there was a faint tendency to surround the group. Li Zhen's group has a total of four people: Ying Ran, Caring Willing, and Hu Yanling. They are responsible for breaking the rear of the team in front, so the situation is especially dangerous.
Ying Ran was already wrapped in a layer of scale armor, with excellent protection and the long saber in his hand to clear the enemy on the left, and Hu Yanling's assault rifle in his hand was designed to hit the head of the mutant, and for nearly ten minutes, not a single shot missed, and no one could get close to twenty meters in front of her.
Li Zhen was in charge of the rear position, but he carefully controlled his abilities and did not use them to his full strength—because he was the only one who was sure that this was the chaos that Adam had created. He had to conserve his strength for the more intense conflict that might ensue.
It was in this situation that two mutants finally broke through their defenses from above them—they leapt silently from the trunk of the tree, their claws taking the head of the wild goose.
When Li Zhen noticed this, the two of them were already less than a few meters away from Hu Yanling, and it only took less than a second to crush her head. The sudden danger caused a sudden surge of heat to grow in his body. The muscles contract and then stretch rapidly, and electrical currents flow through each fiber. The powerful force and astonishing speed exploded in an instant, and he jumped up from the fallen leaves on the ground, bent down in the middle of the body to exert force, and a wild goose knife turned into a lightning-like streamer, brutally cutting the head of the first mutant in half.
The body of the deceased fell diagonally, but it provided a place for another mutant to draw on. He roared and slammed his stout right leg on the falling torso, and his body spun in a direction in mid-air—
So Li Zhen's knife slashed firmly into the "dragon scale armor" on his back.
There was a tooth-aching grinding sound, and the dragon scale armor was cut through a long gap. But it also effectively alleviated Li Zhen's knife momentum. So the mutant stretched out his hands, grinned, and the blood-colored fangs bit down on Hu Yanling's head.
At this time, the female spear king only had time to turn around, tilt her head, and just pull out her pistol from her waist with her right hand.
This moment seemed quite long in the eyes of Li Zhen, who was exercising at high speed. He was already trying to swing a second slash. However, the distance between the mutant and Hu Yanling is too close, and the most optimistic scenario seems to be that both end up together. At this time, the thought in his heart was-
Why don't you do your best before you do?!
However, it was at this moment that he heard a clear cracking sound.
"Bang"!
The head of the mutant above Hu Yanling burst open like a watermelon, and Li Zhen could almost see the debris of the skull and the red and white brains and flesh flying outward. It's as if a firework exploded out of thin air.
The next moment, he broke away from the high-speed burst and fell back to the ground. The "ceremonial flowers" that bloomed obliquely in mid-air fell to the ground one after another, and the mutant's body collided with Hu Yanling, causing her to stagger a few steps and fall to the ground.
Caring for the willingness to take a step back without hesitation, stop the waist and pick up Hu Yanling, and continue to run. Because of this small chaos, there were more mutants around, and at the same moment, six people leaped down from the trunk of the tree and surrounded them from all sides.
Li Zhen sighed slightly, intending to use all his strength to kill them all.
However, just as the thought came to his mind, he heard four more faint gunshots.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang......
The shots were fired at extremely short intervals, as if someone had fired a burst shot. However, the heads of the six mutants that surrounded them exploded almost at the same time, and their bodies slammed into the ground one after another, making a heavy sound like sacks.
Li Zhen looked up in astonishment - the helicopter above whirled and slowly flew away.
That's right, the gunfire came from the helicopter. In that bumpy and unstable environment, there are also the barriers of the tall giant trees around them, and the extremely harsh light environment at night......
Someone in the helicopter exploded the heads of six mutants with four shots at once!
He took a deep breath in disbelief, and when he saw that he was concerned about it, he glanced up at the helicopter, and then smacked fiercely, "Bad luck." Du Qixi. ”
And Hu Yanling struck the armor above his head with the butt of his gun: "Put me down!" Let people see jokes! ”
Ying Jueran, who had not spoken, finally found the leisure to say: "Don't make trouble, let's go out first!" ”
These four gunshots alleviated the danger they were facing, and at this moment, they escaped their pursuers and ran out of the dense forest behind them in one go. The previous conjecture seemed to be correct, and once they were out of the area, the mutants stopped chasing them. Even if one or two rushed out of the forest because they were coming too quickly, they would fall to the ground after a few seconds, quickly regaining their human form.
However, the previous changes were too drastic, and these special security force soldiers who were lucky enough to get rid of that "curse" all spat out large mouthfuls of blood after a moment of convulsion, and died of exhaustion.
And Hu Yanling finally got rid of the thick arm of concern, looked up at the helicopter in the sky, and suddenly stretched out his hand to compare his middle finger.
Li Zhen was a little baffled. But after a few seconds, his mind flashed -
Du Qixi? The person in the plane is called Du Qixi?
He immediately set his eyes on the assault rifle held by Hu Yanling: the abbreviation "DQX" was still on the barrel.
It turned out to be this person. It turned out to be what Hu Yanling told him, the "traitor" who was her former partner and is now classified as a southern base.
He didn't know what to say - the man did seem to have the ability to cover them out of danger, but he didn't fire a shot until Hu Yanling was in danger......
These two people are really entangled enough.
To be on the safe side, they retreated nearly a hundred meters. When Li Zhen's four-member team went to report to Dai Bingcheng, they found that the helicopter had landed. They were on a gentle slope of a cliff, and down there were long meadows and valleys. Dai Bingcheng had already spread the e-paper map on the ground, and was talking to the same executive.
Li Zhen didn't come forward, but his keen vision still allowed him to see the information on the map clearly.
It was a reddish circular area that covered an entire stretch of the cliff where they had once camped. The area was larger than previously thought, and the executive's camp near the cliff was on the far left of the area, and they were currently about 2,000 meters away from the cliff. This means that the affected area has a radius of one kilometer, and they are very unlucky to have their camp in the middle.
Dai Bingcheng raised his eyes and saw Li Zhen, so he beckoned to him. Li Zhen walked over, and then found that the person who was talking to Dai Bingcheng looked quite faced. The most impressive thing is his eyes - black and white, clear and bright. There is a small black mole under the corner of the left eye, which is a beauty mole if it grows on a woman's face, but the birth on his face makes him look a lot weaker, like a well-behaved urban white-collar worker.
But the "Longbow 42A" light sniper rifle he was holding in his hand reminded Li Zhen that this person should be Du Qixi, whose marksmanship was almost demonic. (To be continued.) )