Chapter 9: Ghost Signals
The next morning, the air was exceptionally fresh after the rain, and the overnight recuperation gave the tired people a short respite from the end of the day.
After checking the equipment, Chu Jingnan beckoned everyone to prepare for departure. The man crouching in the corner of the living room was still shaking like chaff, and his mouth was still muttering "I don't want to die", and his spirit was completely broken.
Wang Mo asked Gu Qi to leave him some food, and then placed the short knife he carried with him in front of him. It's up to him to choose whether to defend himself or to get free.
It was already sunny outside, and Gucci got a small pickup truck from the yard of the next building, and several people took the car back to the guardrail where the accident had happened yesterday.
Gu Qi took all the equipment off the crashed car, counted the bullets and weapons, and Chu Jingnan took a map of Chenghai City.
"The last radio signal we received was from the city's gymnasium, which was our final destination." Chu Jingnan tapped on a building with a red circle on the map and said.
"According to the radio signal, this is a refuge set up by the army, and you will be safe here." Wang Mo looked at Chen Lingfeng and Mo Xiaoli and said.
"Without further ado, let's go." Chu Jingnan raised his hand to cover the sun, and somehow, he felt a tingling pain in the wound on his face under the sunlight.
Nothing to say all the way. The pickup truck entered Chenghai City smoothly, and here, like Meilan Town, was devastated and experienced the doomsday of the looting. The once lively streets have long been deserted and depressed.
The pickup truck turned a few streets and soon arrived in front of the gymnasium located in the center of the city. The roads here are full of fortifications, and bullet casings are strewn with recounts of the fierce battles that took place.
The glass at the main entrance of the stadium had long since been shattered, and the heavy objects used to block it behind the door were scattered all over the ground. Wang Mo looked in from the door with his gun in his hand, the sunlight through the window printed a little spot of light on the dark aisle, and he shouted twice into it, but there was no response.
"Be careful, everybody." Wang Mo turned his head and said, slowly pressing the bullet into the chamber.
Everyone pushed open the door and entered the gymnasium, where daily necessities were scattered everywhere, but no half figure was found. At the end of the corridor is the aisle leading to the football field, through which scattered tents are scattered across the field, and a military truck is parked in the center of the field, at which time the sound of "sand, sand" electricity is heard intermittently.
As the crowd slowly approached the truck, the sound of electricity became louder and louder. Wang Mo held the car door and nodded to Gu Qi and Chu Jingnan behind him, and opened the car door suddenly.
The truck was filled with all sorts of communication equipment, and a soldier was covered in blood and fell on the radio and was no longer breathing. Wang Mo stepped forward to remove the soldier's body, and the radio sounded normally again.
"We... We are the troops stationed in Chenghai City, please do not panic the citizens who receive the signal, and go to the gymnasium immediately, there are sufficient supplies here, we can ensure everyone's safety. Repeat, we areβ" The communicator repeated the announcement of the Vault, the sound echoing through the empty soccer field.
"It's a trap, a trap to catch your prey!" A chill flashed across Chu Jingnan's brows, and his years of experience made him keenly aware of what was calling in this unoccupied refuge.
Before everyone could react, the roof of the football field suddenly creaked and began to close towards the middle, and the sunlight on the field was rapidly decreasing.
Chu Jingnan quickly jumped out of the car, and at this time, many dark shadows had appeared in the corners of the originally empty stadium that could not be illuminated by the sun.
"Turn off the radio!" Chu Jingnan turned his head and yelled at Wang Mo.
Wang Mo hurriedly turned off the switch of the radio, but it had no effect, and the radio was still playing the broadcast of the shelter. In an emergency, Gucci pulled out the short knife he was carrying and cut the lines of the radio, which made the radio no longer sound.
A few people walked quickly out of the car and looked around, and in the shadows of the stadium stood many monsters that they had not seen before.
The monsters are able to stand upright on their lower limbs, with shorter forelimbs and no sharp claws, more like human arms with bare skin.
The eyes have degenerated, covered in square bony structures, and the ears have become two large spiral-shaped muscle pits, and at the slightest sound they look keenly at the place where the sound came from.
The most terrifying part is the part of the mouth, the jaw extends all the way to the neck, and the jagged teeth grow staggeredly, dripping with unknown liquid.
The roof of the stadium has been completely closed, leaving only a man-wide gap with a narrow spot of light.
Everyone huddled together, no one made a sound, knowing in their hearts that at the slightest noise, the monster in the shadows would tear them to pieces.
Wang Mo pointed to the aisle at the end of the court, put his hand to his mouth and made a silent gesture, signaling everyone to slowly move along the narrow sun channel.
didn't take a few steps, but Chu Jingnan suddenly knelt on the ground, he covered his mouth, trying his best to control his cough, and blood couldn't stop oozing out from the corners of his mouth. Then his body began to twitch in a flurry of convulsions, and then he stopped moving.
The sudden change made several people a little at a loss, but before they could react, Chu Jingnan raised his head violently again, his eyes were bloody, and his injured cheeks had begun to turn alienated.
"The law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, strength, I feel the power surging in my body!" Chu Jingnan smiled weirdly, completely losing his mind.
"Run!" Wang Mo roared, and several people also came back to their senses and rushed towards the aisle.
The monster in the shadows was completely activated when it heard the shouting, and let out a series of strange screams towards the source of the sound.
Just as the few people were about to run to the exit of the aisle, there was a "bang" gunshot, and a bloody flower immediately bloomed on Gucci's calf, and he fell down with a muffled grunt. How could the monsters around them let go of the food that reached their mouths, and they pounced in an instant, and before Gu Qi could shout, he had already turned into a mess of residue.
"Gucci!" Wang Mo roared heartbreakingly, his eyes widening. Before he could recover from his grief, a fishy wind hit the back of his neck. The fanged monster was about to screw his head off.
At the critical moment, Mo Xiaoli kicked the monster's stomach, and the monster's teeth grazed Wang Mo's neck. Chen Lingfeng grabbed his arm, the aisle was blocked by monsters, and the three of them had to run towards the stands of the stadium.
"You monsters, all die!" Wang Mo went crazy and poured bullets at the monsters that rushed to the stands, but there were too many monsters, and a gun could not pose any threat to them at all. Soon Wang Mo shot all the bullets in the gun, and the monsters surrounded him, tearing him all over his body, and one arm was bitten off, leaving only a little flesh and skin connected.
Chen Lingfeng and Mo Xiaoli curled up in the corner, and the monsters gradually surrounded them, and the two of them could already smell the fishy smell coming from them. The last judgment was about to come upon them.
"Nighthawk, drop another hundred meters in altitude and turn off optical invisibility." A female voice with a cold tone in her voice, but clean and clear as spring water, said.
"Captain, did you wake up from your dormant state and start working so quickly?" A lazy male voice with a flirtatious voice asked.
"The height has been confirmed, optical stealth is turned off. Captain, do you need to brake? A brisk and immature male voice asked.
"No need, let's go straight down here, Nighthawk, you can stand by at the spatial teleportation point."
"Understood."
A pitch-black fighter plane appeared in the sky above the stadium at this time, and the four huge engines in the tail were spraying blue-white pillars of light outward, the air flow was beating around the fuselage, the hatch slowly opened, and a woman in a black tight uniform walked out.
"Firefly Squad, action!" The woman's long black hair fluttered in the air, and her delicate face had a hint of coldness.
Five figures leapt from the plane like black meteors.