Chapter 145, The Lair
There were suddenly more corpses on the ground, and human bones could be seen every few steps, these were the victims of the town, who had been dragged around by the firebirds after their deaths, and had been turned from owners to fodder.
Most of the houses on both sides are wooden structures, which appear to be badly damaged, and many of the doors and windows are shattered, as if they have been hit by objects.
Some of the houses had their doors open and were in shambles, with some dark brown blood stains on the ground. Only a dozen people in the entire town survived, and Ding Xiu could imagine how tragic the scene was when the incident happened.
The firebird that had passed by the house earlier did not go far, and when it turned back, the sound of the soles of its feet stepping on broken bones reached Ding Xiu's ears.
Ding Xiu hid in a house, he hid himself behind the window, and waited for the fire-eating bird outside the house to leave before continuing his actions.
But the fire-eater suddenly stopped leaving, and it looked left and right, not knowing if it had found anything.
Ding Xiu held the blade of the gun in his hand, ready to fight after his whereabouts were exposed, as soon as the fire-eating bird entered the house, he would cut off its neck as soon as possible.
The fire-eater did not enter the house, but only lowered its head, rubbed the crown on its head under the eaves, and paced outside, but did not go far.
"Damn it." Ding Xiu cursed secretly in his heart, the location of the cassowary was stuck on his way to search for the security team's station.
"If you don't leave, I'm no wonder." Ding Xiu waited for a moment, and the killing intent in his heart was moved. He knocked on the door next to him, then stood behind it.
The fire-eater heard the noise, and walked towards it with a puzzled look, and as soon as it lowered its head and put its head into the door, it saw a flash of cold light, and its neck was instantly disconnected.
Ding Xiu's shot was extremely fast, he was already ready to go just now, waiting for this cassowary to enter the "urn".
The casssowarate parted, its huge head fell to the ground with a thud, blood gushing out from the large scar on its neck, splashing the roof red.
The large bird remained standing, and it wasn't until a few seconds later that its massive body crashed to the ground, blocking the doorway.
The movement outside the house suddenly became louder, Ding Xiu leaned to the window and glanced at it, and said in his heart: "Oh no! ”
Suddenly, several equally large cassavarants burst out of the vicinity, and they all rushed towards the corpse of their companion. Ding Xiu didn't know if it was the sound that alarmed them, or if the blood of the cassowary caused them to be alert, so he didn't have time to think about it at the moment, so he had to avoid the room inside.
A group of fire-birds blocked the door, and Ding Xiu wanted to rush out with a gun for a moment, but he immediately calmed down again. It's easy to kill one cassowary, but what about ten? It's easy to kill even ten, but what about killing a hundred?
Ding Xiu didn't know the number of fire-eating birds on the farm, but he had just killed one and attracted a flock, so it was obvious that it was not a wise choice to do it right now.
F-class or even E-class mutant creatures are no longer a lethal threat to Ding Xiu, but there is a law in everything, that is, quantitative changes will cause qualitative changes.
Ding Xiu was very cautious, and after hiding in the back room, he began to look for a way out, he did not find the back door of the house, but found a wooden ladder in the corner.
Ding Xiu climbed up the wooden ladder to the second floor and found that there was a storage room with a lot of miscellaneous items piled up inside.
There was a round window behind the debris, and Ding Xiu climbed out of the window and climbed onto the roof.
In this meeting, there were a lot more cassowaries around the door, and Ding Xiu couldn't help but be a little glad that he didn't continue to do it just now.
There was some noise downstairs, and it was a cassowara burrowing into the house. Ding Xiu didn't dare to stay here for a long time, so he hurriedly slipped away from the roof.
The view from above is much wider than from downstairs, and the cassowary can't fly, so the roof is relatively safe. This was an unexpected gain, Ding Xiu stepped on the roof and walked forward, with a lot less worries, and after not being careful about the surrounding situation, he quickly found the sign where the security team was stationed.
The security team's house was slightly taller than the other buildings in the vicinity, and Ding Xiu got close to it, but was stopped by a three-meter-wide road.
There were a few fire-eaters hovering down the road, and many more of their companions were gathered around the vigilante station.
"What's going on?" A question popped up in Ding Xiu's heart.
Instead of being attracted by the gunfire from the direction of the warehouse, these cassourowaries did not naturally disperse around the farm, but almost gathered in this location.
"Could it be that they're watching or guarding something?" Thinking of this possibility, Ding Xiu also became interested.
He took a few steps back, then leaped over the road with a run, his figure landing steadily on the roof opposite.
The moment Ding Xiu's legs hit the ground, the soles of his feet made a slight noise on the roof. The cassowaries under the eaves seemed to hear the movement, and they looked up in unison.
There were only sky and clouds overhead, and these cassowaries saw nothing.
The sign of the vigilante swayed in the wind, and Ding Xiu came to the roof next to it, where there was a small bell tower that could be followed down the steps inside.
Ding Xiu went down to the inner room, and a commotion came to his nose, and he saw grass clippings everywhere on the ground, mixed with some cassowary feathers.
Walking through the room to the inner hall, Ding Xiu saw that the floor was covered with a thick layer of hay. The hay was spread all over the hall, and the hay was covered with turquoise eggs.
Looking at the dozens of green eggs the size of watermelons, he finally understood the reason why the big cassowaries had gathered here, and this hall was originally a nest for them to incubate their eggs.
The vigilante station in Sangzhi Town has been overrun by mutant firebirds.
Ding Xiu looked around, and he continued to walk inside, trying to find the firearms storage room as soon as possible before the firebird arrived.
Bypassing those eggs to the door on the other side of the hall, Ding Xiu was just about to enter it, when he suddenly saw two black shadows squatting on the ground in front of him, and he fixed his eyes on it, it turned out to be two firebirds mating.
The female casshouary crouched on the ground seemed to be frightened, flapping her wings a few times to stand up, but was pressed by the male on her body and unable to move.
Disturbed by the interest, the male bird chirped angrily, and Ding Xiu did not wait for it to make an attacking action, and he made the first move. The dragon's hand swung over, and scarlet blood splattered the female bird below.
The male bird was killed by Ding Xiu's blow, its body fell to the side, and the female bird below jumped up and pounced on Ding Xiu.
This kind of attack power that erupted in the desire to survive was very amazing, Ding Xiu's war paint had been opened, he dodged the sharp claws of the firebird's forward kick, and the blade in his hand instantly counterattacked.
The tip of the blade slashed over the firebird's wings, leaving a hole there. The fire-eater hissed in pain, and the movement in the hall suddenly became louder.
The cry of "chirp" appeared outside the hall, and Ding Xiu knew that he could no longer hide his whereabouts, so he simply let go of his hands and feet to kill.
The Firebird has few means of attack, relying mainly on thick claws and sharp beaks, and these two weapons can attack at the same time.
Ding Xiu dodged left and right, and returned fire with the blade of his gun, and the bullets hit the Cassowarate in the head and neck one after another, causing it to quickly fall to the ground.
Seeing that the cassohoraries outside the hall had already rushed in, Ding Xiu hurriedly retreated to the narrow place inside, trying not to let himself fall into the encirclement.
The fire-eaters pounced over the eggs on the ground, and the first two were caught by Ding Xiu's first wave of bullets, one of them with a small piece of his head cut off, and the other with a shot in the neck.
Neither of the two cassouraries that had been shot had fallen, and the big men were much more resistant to blows than their smaller counterparts outside the warehouse.
Ding Xiu had limited ammunition and had to fight and retreat, and he took the lead in cutting down the two wounded casshourants, and used the narrow terrain of the corridor to slow down the speed of the other cassowaries.
The cassavarants seemed to have been aroused by the blood of their companions, and they stepped directly over the corpses of their companions, chasing Ding Xiu in the corridors, and were not afraid of the oncoming bullets.
The fangs and claws attacking Ding Xiu suddenly increased, but fortunately, they were all concentrated on the front, and the reflexes that had been amplified by relying on the war paint were enough to help Ding Xiu pull out of his position in advance to dodge those attacks.
The bullets were consumed quickly, and the Cassowary had just fallen four, and Ding Xiu was already loading the third batch of bullets.
He retreated to the staircase on the other side of the hallway, then scurried up, leaning on the steps to further distance himself from the Firebird.
"You can't get caught in a fight!" Ding Xiu reminded himself in his heart that the purpose of running up the stairs was to try his luck and see if the gun storage room was there. If it is, it will rely on the ammunition in it to launch a counterattack; If you are not there, you can also find an opportunity to return to the roof of the building and escape with the help of the terrain on the roof.
The cassophores caught up on the stairs, and behind them, it seemed that another new force had been added.
Ding Xiu used the blade of the gun to suppress their momentum, these cassowaries burst out with a fierce momentum when they found that there was an enemy in the nest where the eggs were hatched, they wanted to keep the eggs downstairs, so it was not enough to just expel the enemy, the enemy must be strangled here.
The battle with the fire-eaters is much more difficult than the original fight against the mutant bullet ants, the bullet ants have obvious weaknesses, and Ding Xiu can jump on their backs to maneuver, so he is not afraid to fight them in close combat.
But the firebirds are different, these large birds of the crane order are tall, the beak of the upper beak and the thick claws of the lower part are both sharp weapons that can attack, even if Ding Xiu can climb the back of one of them, he will also be attacked by the firebird from other directions.
The same tactics have different effects on different enemies, and Ding Xiu knows the truth very well, he is a very smart man, at least very talented in combat.
He chose to fight the firebirds, taking advantage of the narrow terrain in the house, from the hallway to the staircase to the second floor, leaving a lot more corpses behind than when he was below.
The increase in corpses also means that the bullets are decreasing, and the ammunition that Ding Xiu is carrying is indeed about to run out.