Volume 2: The Stairway to Heaven (27)
"Did you make it underground?"
Liu Yuxin glanced back at the sand people who were chasing after her, and confirmed that she couldn't get rid of them silently, so she cut off the idea of joining Gong Liang and them, and continued to take the sand people to hide and seek among the ruins of the city.
"Woo Woo Woo ......"
When Liu Yuxin ran to an open field, Shamin's gunmen fired another dense rain of bullets, covering all the positions up and down the mecha.
Feeling that countless projectiles were attacking from the air, Liu Yuxin squeezed out his extreme potential, sprinted a few steps on the basis of his original speed, hugged his knees and jumped hard towards a pile of building ruins in front of him, and then the shield behind him sounded a dense "clanging" sound.
After falling into the ruins, Liu Yuxin rolled on the spot to unload her impact, stood up again in the splashing yellow sand, twisted her body and gave up half of her sideways to cover it, and shot mercilessly at the pursuing sandmen.
"Dododo"
"Dododo"
Several sandmen fell to the ground in response, this mecha-specific electromagnetic rifle developed for the powerful defense of xenomorphs is undoubtedly a nightmare for the fragile body of humans, even if it is grazed by the bullet fired a little, it will end up breaking the tendons of the hand.
Liu Yuxin is also not fond of war, and immediately after achieving some results, he escaped from the sight of the sand people with the help of piles of ruins. While cursing Liu Yuxin and greeting his family cordially, the relentless sandmen contacted people in other areas to reopen the search net, and a new round of cat and mouse kicked off again......
At the underground entrance of the subway station, Zhang Hong and his group of seven people went down to the dark subway platform along the passage dug by the sand scorpion.
"Wait a minute"
Gong Liang stretched out his hand to stop everyone.
More than ten seconds later, a puff of yellow fluorescence suddenly lit up from Gong Liang's hand to dispel the darkness that surrounded them, Gong Liang threw the glow stick in his hand forward, and the faint fluorescence allowed everyone to see the situation of the entire platform clearly.
The empty platform was very cluttered, the signs and advertising boxes that had been erected on the platform were gone, and only a few metal poles exposed the shattered floor; The wall and ceiling decorations and light fixtures have all fallen, revealing a solid concrete body. The floor is covered with all kinds of glass slag and all kinds of garbage that microorganisms can't decompose: fragments of fast food boxes, propaganda posters, lamp cabinets that have been smashed by xenos, and more importantly, the excrement of xenos and the remains of various creatures that have been eaten.
"Oh~"
Zhang Li, who originally just thought that the air was not very fresh, could no longer hold back when she saw the various organs that had turned black and discolored, and squatted on the ground and vomited.
Gong Liang looked at the child with pity, who had obviously not experienced much suffering, and reached out to find a filter mask in his backpack.
"Thank you!"
Zhang Li wiped the residue from the corners of her mouth and put on the mask, and finally had the strength to stand up.
Zhang Hong gave Gong Liang a thumbs up approvingly:
"Brother, you're well prepared!"
Of course, we were originally going to explore the underground caverns, and the relevant equipment and facilities must have been extra careful......
"Where are we going now?"
After confirming that the subway station was temporarily safe, Gong Liang twisted the flashlight he placed on his shoulder, and the area of more than ten meters in front of him was immediately illuminated.
Zhang Hong then looked around the subway station with the lights:
"It seems that Brother Liu will not be able to get out for a while, and we can't help but choose to believe him. Now what we have to do is to collect the positioning device, so that Brother Liu will always find us by positioning!"
They have been sending signals to Liu Yuxin for a while, but Liu Yuxin has not only come to converge, but even the communication has been interrupted, which shows that Liu Yuxin can't get out of the group of sand people smoothly for the time being, and is taking the group of sand people who surrounded him away from here
Gong Liang nodded, took out the map again, and drew his fingers on it:
"Then we will walk along the subway line to the outskirts of the city and wait for Liu Yuxin to join us!"
"Let's go, the smell of blood here is a bit strong, and it is likely to attract other predators, and it is not a place to stay for long!"
After deciding on the goal of action, Zhang Hong once again urged everyone to move quickly, and jumped off the lane first, and the rest of the people also jumped down, and the group moved cautiously along the subway tracks.
"Everyone be careful, there must be other xenomorphs lurking in such a good hiding environment in the subway station, don't be careless!"
Zhang Hong took the lead in opening the way at the front of the team with a BP2000, Gong Liang also followed with a BP2000, followed by Professor Sun who was sandwiched between two assistants, and at the back of the team was another assistant and Zhang Li who were also holding an ordinary assault rifle.
After walking a few kilometers unremarkably, a landslide blocked their way forward, and Zhang Hong wailed when he saw this:
"I said how come I didn't even meet a mouse along the way, it turned out to be a dead end......"
The landslide looked like it was at least a few meters long, with solid concrete blocks and sand blocking their path and making it difficult to dig it up by hand unless construction machinery was used.
Gong Liang leaned over to the place of the collapse and knocked a few times, relying on his professional knowledge he determined Zhang Hong's statement, and Gong Liang, who had returned, looked at Zhang Hong in embarrassment:
"According to the normal planning of the subway, there should be other trails nearby that lead to the front. However, my map is not a professional subway station engineering drawing, it only shows the location of the main road and important facilities, and there is no way to find other routes from it. ”
"I can download detailed drawings from the Alliance's database"
Zhang Hong's face was also twisted into a bitter melon
"But the satellite stations here have been out of service for almost a hundred years, and my terminal can't connect to the alliance's database at all!"
"Satellite station?"
Gong Liang's eyes suddenly lit up, he remembered that because of the rampant xenomorphism, public facilities usually have equipment directly connected to satellites to transmit SOS signals, and with his professional skills, it is natural for those things to resume their work.
"Let's go! Let's go back!"
"Go back? Where to go? ”
Someone asked confusedly.
"Do you remember the previous fork? Wherever there is a terminal station, there is the right modification equipment to park on the terminal train!"
Gong Liang's words reinvigorated everyone's originally frustrated mood, and if the right communication equipment was obtained, many things would be solved.
All of them immediately turned and walked back the way they came, and after a few hours, they finally saw several trains parked on the platform tracks, and to their horror, there was a huge gap in the concrete canopy of the terminal! The sand on the ground leaked through the gap, burying part of the train's carriage in the yellow sand and creating a slope.
You don't have to think about it to know that there is a giant sand scorpion in this place, and it is precisely because of its frequent entry and exit that this gap connecting the ground can be preserved, otherwise the floating quicksand would have buried this place long ago, which put Gong Liang and others in a dilemma. It's about the hottest time in the desert, and there's a good chance that the big sand scorpion is hiding in a shady subway station to escape the heat. Going to the train to find communication equipment now is undoubtedly a very big risk.
Gong Liang and the others retreated a little and swept out a resting place in a relatively narrow place. Zhang Hong first took out supplies such as biscuits and water, found a place to sit on the ground.
"Everyone has been on the road for such a long time, let's rest here for a while."
In addition to sight, hearing and smell are very sensitive, and the tentacles on the body can sense the slight changes in the flow of the surrounding air, accurately locate the location of the creature, and the sensitivity is comparable to the latest cutting-edge bioradar of the alliance! Zhang Hong couldn't think of any way to sneak into its side without being discovered by it for the time being.
The other non-combatants were less aware of the Sand Scorpion's abilities and characteristics, and it became less and less likely that they would have any practical suggestions, and all of them, like Zhang Hong, silently replenished their physical strength.
Ten minutes later, Zhang Hong, who had finished eating the biscuits slowly, patted the biscuit crumbs in his hand and handed his BP2000 to Zhang Li:
"This BP2000 has no recoil, and it works a little better than the assault rifle in your hand."
Zhang Li took the weapon handed over by Zhang Hong in surprise:
"Brother Zhang, you gave me your gun, so what do you use?"
Zhang Hong smiled:
"Anyway, that little pistol won't work against the big guys, so I'd better leave it to you."
Hearing Zhang Hong say that, Zhang Li immediately understood:
"Brother Zhang, are you going to the station for an adventure? Can't you wait until that scorpion goes out? ”
"Can't wait! We don't know what the sand scorpion is like, maybe it won't be able to move for a few days, and we won't be able to consume it. ”
Zhang Hong twisted his head towards Gong Liang again
"Brother, describe the parts you need, and tell me the approximate location, and I'll sneak over and get them back later."
After Gong Liang explained the location and precautions of the parts in detail a few times, Zhang Hong walked to the station alone, everyone prayed for him silently in their hearts, and everyone knew very well in their hearts that only Zhang Hong, who was the strongest in the team, had some hope of escaping from the hands of the high-level sand scorpion.
As Zhang Hong approached the station, he adjusted his breathing to blend in with his surroundings as much as possible, and he tiptoed onto a train that looked in the best condition, and carefully removed the target as Gong Liang said.
"Whew~"
Zhang Hong, who took off the communication device, reached out to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and when he looked up, he saw several pairs of dark eyes observing himself on the glass window of the train.
I was discovered!
A row of cold sweat instantly broke out on Zhang Hong's forehead, and he rushed down from the train with rolling belts.
"Bang"
Zhang Hong's position just now was pinched by two huge claws, and Zhang Hong's movements could be caught in the middle and turn into a pile of meat scraps as long as he slowed down for a second.
"Come here! Come here!"
The rest of the crowd shouted as hard as they could in the lane where the sand scorpions couldn't get through.
Zhang Hong just wanted to escape, but a scorpion tail the size of a train smashed down with a "bang", blocking the possibility of Zhang Hong escaping back to the passage. Zhang Hong turned around helplessly, and his eyes met the cold eyes of the sand scorpion.