Chapter 16: The Cannibal Vines

The air-raid shelter in S city was built in the early 60s of the last century, when the industrial infrastructure of country Z was still relatively backward, so most of the materials used in the construction of the tunnel were very primitive and rough, and the huge stone and heavy steel structure that can be seen everywhere on the cave wall are enough, but this does not affect the solidity of the air-raid shelter, even if even the tiny cracks on the tunnel wall rarely appear in the past 80 years, of course, this is inseparable from the special geographical location and geological structure of the Purple Mountain.

The Purple Mountain is located about 20 kilometers south of S City, and the entire mountain range almost spans the entire northern region, stretching for thousands of kilometers, so the whole mountain range is called differently with different regions, and this section of S City is called the Purple Mountain by people at some point.

With the change of the earth's crustal structure, the Purple Mountain has gradually become a rare pure stone mountain range in the Loess Plateau, in the early years of the Anti-Japanese War, in order to resist the enemy's aircraft and artillery, the ancestors in the mountains with iron tools to open up many snake-twisting caves.

After the liberation of S City, the site of the air-raid shelter was re-established in the Purple Mountain, which shows that the air-raid shelter is actually a barrier in a stone mountain, not only the solidity is undoubted, but there are still many hidden passages left in the early years in the cave, these underground passages extend in all directions, few people know where they lead, and most of the underground passages were newly blocked after the liberation.

Bomb shelter center

The three companies of Tunnel 2 have all been assembled, and the soldiers of Tunnel 3 have reached nearly 300 people, because some companies have sacrificed a lot of soldiers before, so the total number of companies is much smaller than the establishment.

Even so, more than 300 sergeants, armed with all kinds of light and heavy firepower, still occupied most of the open area in the center of the air-raid shelter, including heavy machine guns, fire shells, light howitzers, and other firepower.

The scorpion Xiaohong still stood at the entrance of the main tunnel and served as a sentry, and the soldiers who came out of the No. 2 tunnel looked back from time to time by the light of the searchlight, and still didn't believe that the big scorpion was the snoring baby in the barracks.

Ye Chen looked at the black young faces, but his heart was indescribably bumpy, since the moment he learned that his wife and children were missing, his heart seemed to be being held by something all the time, which made him restless.

Liu Erbao, who was beside him, noticed Ye Chen's strange appearance, tugged at Ye Chen's sleeve and said in a low voice:

"Chief of Staff, it's time to give the order."

Ye Chen paused, and his deep eyes seemed to wake up from the abyss:

"Zhao Yong and Liu Erbao, you each bring 100 people, evenly distribute light and heavy firepower, and go to Tunnel No. 4 and No. 5. Leave 50 people to follow me to Tunnel 1, the others stay in place to arrange fortifications in a defensive formation, there may still be some unknown creatures in the tunnel, so be sure to give priority to activating the power generation equipment in the tunnel, and a tactical flashlight is not enough for a firefight in the dark. ”

Soon the team was divided into four parts, the third part was fully prepared for battle, and the remaining fighters began to move stones from Tunnel 23 to build bunkers, and pulled wires to set up several searchlights to illuminate the center of the bomb shelter.

"Soldiers, since the darkness is endless, then it is up to us to restart the light, the monsters in the dark are not terrible, the real horror is our will as soldiers, in the future in the darkness we may encounter many stronger enemies than us, but today we will still take the first step towards the dark corridor, you must always remember that as long as there is a place for our soldiers of country Z, as long as we are alive, there will be light, hope, and justice."

"Yes, Chief." The soldiers have been in the air-raid shelter for dozens of days, and the mental pressure is on the verge of collapse, Ye Chen's appearance at this moment is undoubtedly a heart booster, they are completely fearless of darkness and death at this time, even if they know that they will die on the battlefield in the next moment, they are not willing to continue to live in the darkness of no light.

"But you also have to remember, keep in mind that although you are not afraid in the face of a strong enemy, you must not act recklessly, because we are soldiers, not reckless men, and even if we die, we must die as we deserve, so let me come out alive, remember?"

"Yes, Chief."

"Let's go..."

The three teams are moving towards their respective goals in an orderly manner, and their goal this time is very clear, to reactivate the tunnel lighting, eliminate all dangers in the tunnel, rescue the accused in the safe house in the cave, and then advance the defense to the main tunnel.

The southern suburb of S City

The sky has gradually brightened, after being washed away by the heavy rain for a day, the sky is exceptionally clear, the sparse starlight has been silent for dozens of days and finally bloomed again in the sky, some tender green grass teeth on the ground are struggling to remove the soil as if waiting for the long-lost sun, but many plants are growing much faster than before, such as a few large vines under the eaves, which climb the walls several meters high in just one night.

"Boss, are these plants cannibalistic?" An alien stared in amazement at the giant vine under the eaves.

The tentacles of the vines look emerald green and thick, all over the wall, it looks like a huge spider web has been woven on the wall, and the countless tentacles at the end move slowly from time to time, as if they are looking for a foothold to climb, looking at the entire wall, and it looks like a huge green myriaped creature crawling on the wall, disgusting and terrifying, no wonder the alien is a little timid.

"Why don't you try it?" The alien leader replied angrily, and then jumped the alien who asked him to the vine with a kick.

But in the next moment, all the aliens were completely dumbfounded, and the moment the alien pounced on the giant vine, the vine seemed to sense the danger, and instantly retracted into the ground and disappeared without a trace at a speed that was indistinguishable to the naked eye.

The alien who was jumped into the corner of the wall had a black face at this time, sat on the ground and gritted his teeth and said:

"Second Jin, you are really inhuman, I have been with you for so many years."

"Fuck your uncle, so many people can bite it in one bite, you are worried about a bird's egg, Lao Tzu is sure to jump on purpose..."

Before the alien leader's words landed, the terrifying scene reappeared.

'Ahh Ahh Crawling out, the bloody vines continued to spread towards the wall, but the poor alien no longer had the slightest appearance of what it had before, as if it had been pierced by ten thousand vines, and its body was covered with blood-colored rattans.

"Damn... This Nima is cruel to the hyena's anus... I think we'd better go back to the barrier, maybe we're going to have to fuck some monsters. A fanged man with a thick mouth in one place said.

"No, I'll have to die if I go back now, just be careful in the future, look for everything you can eat, aliens, humans, low-level gluttony, even plants."

Because Tan Ze had warned them that if they returned to the barrier before level 4, he would tear them apart and eat them with his own hands, and there would be no scum left. (Tan Ze: Li Quan's cronies, a notoriously ruthless character in S City, and most of this outlier are Tan Ze's former gangsters.) )

"Brother, you used to say that you would be prosperous and rich, eat fragrant and drink spicy, but the boss let us eat grass..."

"Shut up, you."

And everything that happened here was silently stared at by two pairs of eyes under the bunker not far away.

"It's the first time I've seen so many human mutants at the same time, do you want to go out and say hello?"

"Come on, didn't you hear them eat everything?"

"You're not cowardly, are you?"

"Our plan is to find my brother and them, and protect Arlinn and Zhang Jing, there is no need to risk these evil guys, let's go."

After that, the two tall enhancers under the bunker secretly retreated, disappearing into the endless ruins.