Chapter 42, Heroic Twilight

The bullet rained down on the bullet ant that had just killed the soldier, punching holes in its bones outside its body.

Several soldiers set fire together and soon killed it on the ground.

More bullets poured in behind them, spilling over the corpses on the ground, forcing the soldiers to retreat.

Everyone retreated to the camp and entered the street fighting mode according to Zhang Zhixiong's instructions.

The onslaught of the ant colony was menacing, and when it crossed the side wall of the camp, the people inside were basically unsafe. Without the support of these low-rise buildings around them, their offensive would be as swift as a tide.

Humans have emotions such as fear when they fight, but bullet ants don't seem to do so, they only follow the queen's instructions, and almost no grass grows wherever they pass.

The ant colony soon filled the roads in the camp, and some of the soldiers who had not had time to evacuate were forced onto the roofs, panicking and despairing in the face of bullet ants that began to climb below.

Deaths are on the rise, and the deaths of the soldiers are tragic. The mutant bullet ants are about the same size as Steppenwolf, and although they do not have the sharp claws of Steppenwolf, the power of the large pincers on their jaws should not be underestimated.

Ants are probably the most powerful in the animal kingdom, they can lift objects more than ten times their weight. After the mutation, the ability of bullet ants in this area has been further improved.

Although the fire from the rooftops was fierce, the soldiers were condescending, causing a lot of casualties to the ant colony. But as they climbed up, they began to tear down the houses with the pliers in their front jaws.

With a "boom", the first building collapsed. The bullet ants snapped the pillars of the house and toppled the walls, and the soldiers who had retreated to the roof fell down one after another, and were instantly swallowed up by the black ant colony.

Gunshots and screams rang out in the camp, and the soldiers of the border guards were divided into several areas and gradually eaten away by ant colonies.

Zhang Zhixiong was surrounded by more than a dozen brothers, and the barrel of the gun in his hand was already hot, but the tongue of fire in the muzzle of the gun had not stopped. The ground was littered with bullet casings, and the corpses of bullet ants were all in front of him.

"Move upstairs!" He covered the others to retreat to the duplex, the tallest building in the camp, and the sturdiest.

There was no way to retreat, because there were ant colonies on all sides, and there were still a few soldiers on the other rooftops who were stubbornly resisting, but the result of the fall was already doomed.

Zhang Zhixiong knew that his W47 camp had become a dead place, and the soldiers who stayed to fight with him were all outcasts, including himself.

The only value of everyone is to delay the evacuation of civilians and the messengers who have gone to various places.

"Chief, be careful!"

A soldier who retreated upstairs saw that Zhang Zhixiong had just killed two bullet ants on the front and right, but one bullet ant on the left had pounced in front of him. As soon as the soldier picked up his gun and wanted to help him out of the siege, the ant's big pincers were already clipping towards Zhang Zhixiong's body.

"Go upstairs and leave me alone!" Zhang Zhixiong shouted at the soldiers.

The soldier's face turned pale, but he did not see the scene of the dismemberment of the body on Zhang Zhixiong.

The bullet ant clamped Zhang Zhixiong's body and lifted him above his head, and the two tentacles touched each other in confusion.

"Lao Tzu is not that brittle." Zhang Zhixiong burst into a shout, his shirt was torn into pieces of cloth, and the bulging muscles on his body were like stones.

Although the head of the border guard camp was over sixty years old, he was burly and not at all inferior to the young man.

Zhang Zhixiong's skin turned dark brown when he was caught by the large pincers of the bullet ant's front jaw, which looked very strange.

This change comes from his ability, Armor.

Zhang Zhixiong can use this ability to control the skin of most areas of his body, making them extremely hard when attacked, as if they had an extra layer of armor on his body.

"Armoring", like other abilities, is the result of genes acting on cells.

The cells of living things are actually full of activity, it contains a lot of energy, can not only divide, but also regenerate, human beings have not yet been able to fully unveil it.

The cells on Zhang Zhixiong's skin can harden rapidly in a very short period of time under the control of the ability of "armoring", and after hardening, their strength and hardness are comparable to steel.

The dark brown skin, which had been "armored", blocked the bullet ant's large pincers, and although the pain was still there, the damage was minimized.

Ignoring the pain, Zhang Zhixiong pressed the gun in his left hand against the head of the mutant bullet ant, and after the trigger was pulled, the bullet pierced it.

The bullet ants were lying on the ground, Zhang Zhixiong broke its big pincers, struggled to get out, and killed several giant ants around him one after another.

The soldiers behind him had already fled upstairs, and Zhang Zhixiong turned around and rushed back into the house, blocking the door to death.

This move is futile, and Zhang Zhixiong himself knows very well that although it cannot change the final result, it will be good to buy some more time for everyone.

Outside the door was filled with the sound of "hoho", and some bullet ants were stacked underneath, and while they padded an upward ramp for their companions behind them, they used large tongs to destroy the main structure of the house.

Feeling that the house was already shaking a little in the squeezing, Zhang Zhixiong rushed upstairs and rushed to the second floor to cooperate with the soldiers to strengthen the fire suppression below.

Their grenades had run out of their previous perimeter defenses, and their bullets were getting fewer and fewer.

"! There are no bullets. One of the soldiers' guns suddenly went silent, and he threw his gun downstairs, knocking over a bullet ant that was climbing up.

The bullet ant rolled down the slope where its companions had stacked up, and more companions climbed up behind it.

Seeing that Heng and Vertical couldn't escape death, the soldier's blood surged above his head: "Lao Tzu fought with you." ”

He pulled out the dagger from his waist and leaped down the stairs, landing on the back of a bullet ant.

Hand up and knife down.

The blade stabbed into the head of the giant ant beneath him, bringing out some bodily fluids and tissue as it pulled out.

The soldier was ready to die when he jumped down, and he was red-eyed, and the knife went in with a knife, and poked the giant ant's head into a hole the size of a fist.

When the bullet ant fell, it also brought the soldier to the ground. Several large pincers next to him suddenly clamped his body, and under the pull of force in all directions, the warrior was torn to pieces like a rag......

The bloody scene stimulated the nerves of everyone upstairs and stirred up all their bloodiness. Seeing such a tragic end to Paoze, they knew that their next fate was the same, since this was the case, then they would kill before they were torn apart.

There was not a single intact house in the vicinity, and the soldiers who had taken refuge on the rooftops to continue the fight had disappeared into the black ant colony, and with them, gunshots.

Zhang Zhixiong raised his eyes and looked at it, his heart was heartbroken. But the soldiers have the responsibility to defend the territory, as long as they can save one more civilian in the rear, their sacrifice is the best result.

The duplex building is surrounded by black ant colonies, like a small boat that may sink at any moment on the black ocean. The people upstairs were already the last resistance in the camp, and the corpses of the ant colony downstairs were stacked like a hill, and the top was almost the height of the second floor.

The gunfire faded, and two more soldiers ran out of bullets.

"Boss, let's go first." They leap into the colony with their knives.

"Let's go, I'll come." Zhang Zhixiong roared angrily, and the gun in his hand continued to harvest the lives of mutant bullet ants.

After a few seconds, there was no more tongue of fire coming out of his gun.

Zhang Zhixiong threw the gun at the ant colony, and just as a bullet ant climbed up to the second floor. Its giant pincers were clamped towards Zhang Zhixiong, but Zhang Zhixiong's hands grabbed both ends.

Zhang Zhixiong shouted angrily, and with both hands, he tore the giant ant's head into two pieces, and the smelly body fluids squirted out and splashed him.

Wiping his face, he tossed aside the two pliers with half of his head in his hand, and kicked the giant ant corpse hanging on the balcony with one kick.

The ant colony's "human ladder" had been piled up, and Zhang Zhixiong brought an alloy long knife from behind him, which was his usual melee weapon.

With a long knife in hand, he seemed to be back in his prime. The cold light flashed, and the blade split the bodies of the giant ants, splitting them into two in an instant.

The exoskeleton of bullet ants is mainly chitin and protein, and even though they have been mutated, they still appear a little thin under the edge of the alloy.

Zhang Zhixiong killed several giant ants that climbed to the second floor like chopping melons and vegetables, and he defended the last territory of the camp like a general holding on to the city.

There were more and more bullet ants climbing the second floor, and the soldiers around Zhang Zhixiong fell one after another.

Zhang Zhixiong was so killed, and when he came back to his senses, he suddenly found that there was no longer a figure in sight around him. He gasped, his chest heaving violently, and the long knife in his hand was full of things that had been brought out of the bullet ant's body.

A tragedy of a strong man's twilight suddenly came to his heart, and decades of experience flashed in his mind like light and shadow.

"Brothers, I'm here."

Zhang Zhixiong stepped on the hill of giant ant carcasses and rushed downstairs, long knives flying around him, rolling up the severed limbs and wreckage on the ground.

"Chen Zhonggang, Xu Dayuan, Zhao Yongfeng......"

Every time he overturned a giant ant, Zhang Zhixiong called out the name of a soldier, and there were more than 100 soldiers in the camp, and he was deeply impressed by each of them.

Zhang Zhixiong was determined to kill more bullet ants before he ran out of strength to avenge them.

Smoke, fire, corpses...... Everything that should be on the battlefield is here, but there is no gunfire.

The "ho-ho" sound of the long knife dancing swept through the ant colony, and there were more and more scars on Zhang Zhixiong's body.

The cracks in his brown skin were bleeding out, but he didn't feel the pain, and by this moment, his body had secreted adrenaline to the extreme, which was distributed to the nervous system and muscles, as if it was about to burst out with the brightest light before life was extinguished.

Heroic twilight.

However, the ups and downs of a lifetime are not as good as the sun and the moon.