Chapter 354: The Aftermath of the Mist
The beast did not attack the power plant in the north of the city again.
But Meng Chao and others did not let their guard down.
Because the spatial gap in the night sky like a super giant vortex still exists, and a steady stream of flying monsters from the depths of the Monster Mountain Range is constantly swallowed.
Such as giant eyeballs and glowing jellyfish, and covered with tentacles, with a powerful mental attack ability of the "Sky Splitting Demon Eye".
The "lightning golden eagle" has a maximum speed that breaks through the speed of sound, and the edges of its wings are extremely sharp, allowing it to directly cut through the airbags of human armored airships.
There are also swarms of giant mosquitoes, condensed, like a wriggling storm, or like a clutch falling from the sky, which can entangle human beings to death, directly dragged into the air, within a few minutes, all the flesh and blood will be devoured, and only a white miserable skeleton is left behind by them.
All kinds of hideous monsters, glowing with colorful light, wreak havoc in the sky above Dragon City, which is a literal "group of demons dancing".
Fierce fighting continued throughout the night.
Until dawn, small groups of monsters roamed the city, relying on ruins, ditches, pipes, and an intricate ventilation system between tall buildings and humans.
The sporadic sound of gunfire and the roar of the collapse of buildings have repeatedly tormented the nerves of human beings on the verge of collapse.
The task of guarding the power plant was completed, and Meng Chao resumed his old job as a reaper.
This time the fog has descended, bringing nearly a million tons of monster corpses to Dragon City, and they must be harvested in a race against time, otherwise it is very likely that the corpses will mutate and cause a plague.
Meng Chao spent a whole day working at the waste-to-energy plant and the Chengbei Iron and Steel Plant.
It wasn't until dusk fell, that he dragged his heavy steps, shook his almost unconscious hand, and returned to the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau to analyze the latest progress in the evolution of monsters.
Along the way, he saw dozens of residential areas with varying degrees of damage to their defenses.
At least a dozen neighborhoods have been breached by monsters.
Although the residents fled in time to the shelter in the ground of the community.
However, the houses were severely damaged, and the warm homes of countless residents were reduced to burning ruins.
The piles of monster corpses, because they had no time to deal with them, all rotted and deteriorated, leaving a layer of yellow-green mist wafting inside and outside the residential area, and the pungent smell was enough to stir up tears.
There was also a "crackling" popping sound coming from inside the seemingly intact building.
It was the sound of the monster's corpse decomposing and turning into a biobomb after it died, bursting with clouds of acid and venom.
Many acids can erode the reinforced concrete inside the walls, making the building much weaker.
The venom seeps into the wall and is slowly released over the next few years, causing irreversible lifelong damage to the human body, especially the respiratory and blood systems of children.
In other words, the buildings that still seem to stand on top of their homes are also so polluted that they are no longer fit for human habitation.
Meng Chao saw many residents standing or squatting at the gate of the fragmented community with blank faces, looking at a loss.
There is a little girl with a dirty face, holding a teddy bear with a missing arm and legs, and the corners of her eyes are full of tears, but she is whispering to comfort the teddy bear, as if to let the bear not be afraid.
Her father rolled up his sleeves and was furious, trying to beat the fleshy monster corpse to a blur of flesh and blood.
The mother wanted to go home and salvage something, but the ruins of several buildings were piled up together, and they were burned by the flames of the monsters, and they could tell where their home was.
The scene in front of him fused with the tragic situation in the middle and late stages of the monster war in his previous life in Meng Chao's memory fragments, reminding him that the future is not so easy to change.
It also reminds the people of Longcheng that even if they achieve a great victory on the northern front, the final victory is far from coming.
In the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau, Meng Chao learned the whole picture of the battlefield where the fog fell this time from Ye Xiaoxing.
As expected, a lot of evidence and data suggest that the "monster wars" have entered the second half, and the mode of war has changed dramatically.
First of all, the monsters have gotten smarter.
Even the battlefield coordination ability of ordinary monsters has been greatly improved - in the past, when the fog fell, the time for different monsters to gush out along the gaps in space was not exactly the same, and as soon as they appeared, they couldn't wait to launch an attack on the human community, just in time for the humans to seize the time difference and break through each one.
Many Heaven Realm powerhouses have time to clear the monsters of one community before flying to another community, thus ensuring the safety of four or five communities.
At the same time, because there is no concept of formation and firepower, many monsters obviously occupy the numerical advantage, but they are used to forming a long snake formation, charging towards the human machine gun and anti-aircraft artillery positions with their heads stuffy, except for turning themselves into live targets and wasting human ammunition, there is no meaning.
But in this fog coming, many monsters, especially mammalian monsters with relatively developed brains, as well as insect monsters with cluster intelligence, have learned to be obedient, knowing that they should first gather their forces, coordinate their time, and then impact the human community at the same time, so that the strong will lose their lives and run for their lives.
There were even a large number of monsters galloping past the gate of the human community that was waiting for the battle, concentrating four or five different monsters, and at the same time attacking the old community with relatively weak defense, using the method of "concentrating forces" to catch the human race off guard.
Second, the monster also learned to attack the key objectives of Dragon City.
Power plants, waterworks, hedron warehouses, and gene farms have all been raided by monsters.
Among them, the waterworks and gene farms are the top priorities of the monster's attack.
In addition to the monsters that arrived last night, there have long been a group of strange beasts such as "Flame Rat, Lightning Monster Python, and Brain Eater Bug", hiding near the waterworks and gene farms.
Even their suicide attacks failed to break through the infrastructure that supported Dragon City's operation.
However, the acid and venom that self-detonated after death seriously polluted the water source and farm, making Dragon City's already overstretched supplies even worse.
Third, the monster also learns to assassinate humans.
Many experts in the frontier disciplines of Dragon City were assassinated in the fog invasion last night, or attacked by hordes of monsters.
While most of the experts survived, the casualty rate was still significantly higher than any previous fog fall.
It is hard to believe that the casualties of so many specialists are just unfortunate coincidences.
But to say that the monster has mastered the list of experts in various disciplines in Dragon City, and taking advantage of the chaos to carry out "targeted killings" sounds so incredible and simply creepy.
Considering that the alien beast targets the human brain and central nervous system, something like a "brain eater worm" has been specially concocted.
It is very likely that the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau's concerns are true - Alien Beasts and even "Aliens" have already infiltrated the interior of Dragon City, secretly observing, thinking, learning, and gradually developing several of their "Alien Beast Civilizations".
The fog is over though.
The aftermath of the war is far from subsiding.
The first is the plague.
After a great war, there will be a great epidemic, which is the common sense of the art of war.
Not to mention that in a place like the Otherworld, where viruses, bacteria, and cells are overactive, and the alien beast is very likely to target the human immune system, specifically improving the ability of the monster to burst its corpse and spread germs after death.
In the following month or so, three large-scale plagues broke out in Dragon City in a row, the source of which was a new mutated strain, which was extremely targeted to humans, not so much like the result of natural mutations, but like the product of genetic modulation.
One of the plagues even caused a resurgence of the long-extinct zombie virus.
The new zombie virus mutant can make humans turn into zombies with strong motor function in just half a minute, and it is no longer a problem to jump up three or four floors in one breath, even if it is shot in the head by a human, it is possible to spray venom carrying a deadly virus in the explosion of internal organs.
It will not be easy to extinguish these plagues.
Because a large number of residents' homes were polluted and damaged by monsters, they had to live in tents and makeshift prefabricated houses.
The lack of space, the lack of supplies, and the lack of basic clean water and hygienic food have created favorable conditions for the spread of germs.
Along with the spread of germs, there is also hostility between people.
Even a humble gentleman, in an environment of extreme scarcity of materials, will be stimulated by the survival instinct and gradually return to the primitive wildness.
Within three to five months of each massive fog falling, the crime rate in Dragon City would surge several times over.
In addition to the shortage of materials, there are also monsters that have descended, causing the human psyche index to plummet, resulting in various sequelae of mental distortion.
- Even if the mind index can return to normal after the collapse of the mind, it does not mean that there is no residual damage in the deep brain domain.
Just like when a wound heals, there is always an ugly scar left.
This is especially true for the transcendent.
On the one hand, the transcendent is the vanguard of resistance to monsters, rushing to the front line, facing more monsters' spiritual attacks, and the psychic index is more likely to skyrocket and plummet.
Even a hard piece of iron will tire and break directly after repeated bending.
Not to mention the fragile and mysterious spirit of humanity.
On the other hand, brain cells and central nervous systems are stimulated by psionic energy for a long time, and they are more likely to go crazy than ordinary people.
Professions such as "Beast Master" and "Mechanic" need to let go of the brain break and use brain waves to manipulate cyborg beasts and rune machinery, which is more likely to be invaded by alien beasts and implanted with evil seeds.
As a result, after each large-scale fog falls, there are always many heroes who have achieved great results in battle, go mad, fall into darkness, and become evil and transcendent beings who do evil.
This is a very helpless and regrettable thing.
The Survival Council and the Transcendent Tower, it's not that they don't want to solve these problems.
No one wants to watch countless citizens be displaced.
No one wants to see their companions who were smiling like flowers yesterday turn into zombies with venom flowing from the corners of their mouths.
No one wants to see citizens fighting each other for a bottle of drinking water; And the hero who originally vowed to protect Dragon City forever was corrupted by darkness and became a demon and a madman.
However, to solve these problems once and for all, astronomical resources are needed.