Volume 2: The Stairway to Heaven (5)
It is more than a thousand kilometers from Tiandu to Xijing, which may not seem very far, but due to the harassment of aliens along the way and the lack of maintenance of the roads along the way, it usually takes three to five days.
With the passage of time, Liu Yuxin became more and more familiar with the people in the team, and also asked about the current situation of Dongshan from other people.
It is said that on the night of the meteorite's fall, Dongshan City was blown out of a large crater of more than ten square kilometers by that huge meteorite, and the entire Dongshan City was destroyed in the sweep of the shock wave!
A few hours after the disaster, the ** at that time immediately organized rescue forces to enter Dongshan, which had become ruins, to search for survivors, but unexpectedly, they encountered the attack of mutant creatures, which caused a lot of casualties, and the ** of Area C had to mobilize elite troops to enter the urban area to encircle and suppress.
Fortunately, at that time, the evolution of various species had just begun, and the xenomorphs were far from being the opponents of the professional army, and after several hours of fierce fighting, the army finally completely suppressed the abnormal state of Dongshan City, and then Area C ** blocked the entire Dongshan City and made it a military stronghold to prohibit ordinary people from approaching.
In the following ten years, a large research base was established on the original site of Higashiyama City to conduct in-depth research on the anomalous phenomena that occurred in Higashiyama. Until one day, something suddenly happened in Dongshan District, and the xenos suddenly destroyed the defense force of humans overnight, turning Dongshan into an ultra-dangerous area where humans stopped.
Liu Yuxin inquired repeatedly, and the collection of intelligence in Dongshan District was only these, after all, the situation in Dongshan City had always been listed as one of the top secrets of the alliance, and most of the ordinary members of the alliance could also learn some skins.
In fact, Liu Yuxin has already got what he wants, he just wants to know the whereabouts of the other people in the Dongshan Welfare Institute, and now it seems that the chances of them surviving are very small, which can't help but make Liu Yuxin very sentimental.
"Xiao Liuzi, this is the last supply point in the Tiandu buffer zone, and after that, it will be the ground in Xijing, you have to take it easy!"
After completing self-replenishment at a gathering place, when setting off again, Yun Yuan deliberately ran to Liu Yuxin to send a kind reminder.
"Ah~, what's the difference?"
"Of course there is! Xijing's military strength is far weaker than Tiandu, and the monitoring and patrol intensity of the buffer zone cannot be compared with Tiandu, after entering the Xijing region, there may be small-scale alien communities on the road at any time, you have to cheer up on the road, don't lose your life inexplicably! ”
Liu Yuxin nodded to indicate that she had understood, and shook her hand at the cloud kite that was gradually moving away:
"Be careful yourself!"
Yun Kite raised the large-caliber rifle in his hand above his head and said proudly:
"Don't worry! I've got it! ”
Liu Yuxin smiled disapprehantly, he always felt that the exoskeleton armor that Yun Kite they regarded as treasures was brittle like paper paste, even if he could easily cut it with an alloy knife, he didn't know where they came from.
The powered exoskeletons they are equipped with are early works of the Alliance, when xenomorphs have evolved to such an extent that soldiers have struggled to fight them with ordinary small-caliber weapons. In this case, the authorities developed automatic individual weapons of 12.7mm and larger calibers that were more powerful against xenokill, but even with the new charge technology, ordinary soldiers could not withstand the huge recoil. In response to this situation, the Alliance has developed an armored exoskeleton specifically designed to assist in this situation.
This exoskeleton is composed of a complex transmission structure, the fastened alloy bracket can well protect the warriors inside from direct impact, and the superior motor gives the warriors good strength through the armored transmission system, so that ordinary humans also have the ability to fight against brutal xenos.
Of course, with the advancement of science and technology, exoskeletons have gradually been replaced by more advanced and more protective all-weather combat power heavy armor, and these old antiques that have been eliminated by the military have been left outside through various channels.
Liu Yuxin climbed into his own cannon position while shaking his head, compared to those half-hangers 12.7 who can only fire steel core bullets, he trusts the 30mm caliber cannon in his hand more.
The convoy began to move at a constant speed, and Liu Yuxin leisurely watched the things passing in front of his eyes, and there were bursts of exclamation in his heart from time to time.
The rabbit as big as a calf, the giant wild boar that looks at the team's eagerness, and the vole that is as big as a puppy but is timid, each of them makes Liu Yuxin feel the magic of this evolution.
Just when Liu Yuxin was fascinated, the vehicle that opened the road in front of him stopped abruptly, and the rest of the vehicles also followed the emergency brake, and Liu Yuxin, who was caught off guard, was almost thrown out of the parking space.
"What a plane! Do you want to murder me so that you can inherit my mother-in-law? ”
The convoy suddenly sounded a scolding voice, it seems that there are not one or two people who suffered because of this just now.
After a long while, an exoskeleton armor came running and shouted:
"The road and bridge in front of us was blown up in the battle between the patrol and the xenomorphs, and it is being repaired, it's so late, it seems that we can only go here today, everyone hurry up and get ready to camp!"
The convoy was suddenly scolded again. While cursing the damned xenomorph and not picking a reliable place to die, causing them to go home a day late, they drove their vehicles off the road and formed a circle in an open field, and then took out tents from their vehicles and began to set up makeshift camps.
"Uncle Li, is this kind of thing common?"
Liu Yuxin, who was helping Uncle Li on the side, asked.
"Common, not common. For decades, the xenos have also been beaten by us, and rarely trespass into the sections of the highway that are often patrolled by Union soldiers."
Uncle Li was not slow to hammer a nail into the ground, and then said:
"But some time ago, the alliance carried out a hunt for all the xenos, and almost wiped out the xenos that were hidden in the depths of the mountains and dense forests and could be eaten, and some high-level xenos sometimes couldn't stand hunger and came out to attack humans and convoys. Maybe this time the patrol team encountered high-level xenomorphs who came to forage for food while patrolling near the bridge, and the violent conflict between the two sides caused the bridge to collapse, and the bridge looked like it was melted, like the main gun of a space battleship! ”
"Space Battleship!"
Liu Yuxin, who heard the new term, couldn't hide her surprise, but fortunately, other people were used to Liu Yuxin's frequent surprises and didn't care.
"That's right, that's a great thing! The largest can be several kilometers long! So far, we haven't figured out when the alliance clicked on the technology tree of space colonization, and we can only lament that they are too good at hiding. If you are lucky, you will have the opportunity to see that thing from afar, and you will never forget its majesty for the rest of your life......
The well-informed Uncle Li continued to talk to Liu Yuxin about what he had seen and heard, and before Liu Yuxin knew it, the camp began to take shape (there is no doubt that Liu Yuxin is a soy sauce party that can't do anything).
"Huh? Anyone else on the road? ”
Because Liu Yuxin, who couldn't find a job, looked around and saw another convoy on the road.
Compared with the Tenglong caravan, the convoy that arrived this time was very shabby, except for a few modified jeeps with steel reinforced bodies, all open-top broken heavy trucks, and the passengers on it were also ragged homeless.
Uncle Li's face changed when he saw those people, put down the things in hand, and ran to his armored car in three steps and two steps, and at the same time greeted Liu Yuxin:
"Hurry back to the combat position!"
Although they were very puzzled, the other people in the camp also looked like the enemy was attacking, and they found a bunker and squatted down, and the cloud kite and they stood in a row with a large alloy shield in one hand to protect themselves, and a large-caliber rifle on the shield in the other, looking like they were waiting for you to fight, Liu Yuxin also aimed the machine gun at the convoy that came over.
Seeing that the cloud kite was not far from him, Liu Yuxin asked in a low voice:
"Why are you so nervous? Besides, aren't there soldiers of the Alliance nearby? ”
Yun Kite glanced at Liu Yuxin strangely through the helmet, and said patiently:
"See the people in the convoy, right? They didn't have women, children, or children, which meant they were so short of food that they had abandoned them all to save the main force in the convoy, which was the most dangerous of the way, and you couldn't predict what they would do. And those alliance soldiers don't pay attention to the 'infighting' of our 'outcasts', they don't care about our life or death! So don't expect those outcasts to surprise us because they are afraid of the Alliance soldiers. In addition, you hide your body a little, although their small-caliber weapons cannot penetrate the armor of the car, but there is no problem at all to make a few holes in you! ”
As they spoke, the convoy slowly drove down the road, stopped about a hundred meters in front of the camp of the Tenglong caravan, and then got out of the car a lean man in an old yellow leather jacket. He approached the convoy with his hands raised, looked in awe at the various cannons erected by the convoy, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"I have no ill will! It's just that we haven't eaten normal food for a long time, and this time we came here to make a deal with you. ”
The yellow jacket took out a piece of jade slip with a peculiar texture from his arms, the texture was transparent, but the inside contained a rich milky white, and if you looked closely, you could see that the whiteness inside was rolling like a cloud. The yellow jacket showed everyone for a while, then slowly lowered it to the ground, and then took a few steps back on its own.
Hans came out of the crowd and picked up the jade slip from the ground but didn't see what it was for a long time, at best it could only make a somewhat strange ornament, Hans flipped the jade slip up and down a few times, and asked casually:
"How are you going to trade?"
The yellow jacket hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said:
"I'm going to trade it for a box of high-energy biscuits with you!"
"What! How dare you say it! Just this thing trying to trade me for a box of important supplies? ”
Hanston loses interest in trading and is about to throw Jade Jane back to the Yellow Jacket.
"Wait!"
It was Liu Yuxin who opened his mouth to stop Hans, and in the face of that strange jade slip, he had an indescribable sense of familiarity!