Chapter 147, Faith and Courage
The figure of a group of people appeared at the exit next to the cistern, this is Ding Xiu's four-person team and the survivors of the farm.
Gu Beimo, Song Xijun and Shen You stayed here as planned, and the silver coin acted as the guard of the three, waiting on the side.
Ding Xiu, Xu Hui and other survivors went to the gun storage room, and everyone walked through the streets and alleys, carefully avoiding the cruising cassowary birds.
The firebirds that had escaped from the firearms storage were not far away, they continued to move around and threaten the carrying team.
Just as Ding Xiu's team was about to arrive at the house with the staircase, a flock of cassourdous suddenly appeared nearby, appearing in several different directions, hissing and outflanking the team.
"Ah!!h Someone screamed in fright.
"Don't panic, stay calm!" Ding Xiu shouted at them.
When he saw that the two survivors in the group had panicked and fled from the group to the nearby alley, his heart sank, knowing that something might be wrong with these two people.
Sure enough, those cassowaries pounced on the front, were repelled by Ding Xiu with a gun, and turned to chase the two guys who left the team in the alley.
Ding Xiu covered the others to retreat to the house with stairs, and after arranging for everyone to hide on the roof, he returned to the road just now, preparing to rescue the two people.
He was a step too late, and when he arrived at the entrance of the alley, he heard a scream.
With only the image of the cassowary eating the corpse in front of him, Ding Xiu sighed and had to turn around and return to the hut just now.
Those survivors also heard the screams just now, and when they saw that Ding Xiu was the only one who came back, they knew the fate of the two companions. Everyone didn't say anything more, but looked at Ding Xiu in unison.
"I did my best, guys." Ding Xiu said, he glanced in the direction of the alley just now, "For your own safety, please don't leave my surroundings." ”
The others nodded subconsciously, and everyone followed behind Ding Xiu, climbed over the wooden planks on the roof, and came to the roof of the building on the other side of the road.
The corpses on the streets were still shocking, but the survivors were not as scared as before, Ding Xiu's words gave them courage, and the corpses of those casshoulers also gave them hope.
The station of the security team was in front, and everyone followed Ding Xiu to the bell tower and went down the steps to the inside.
The room was full of eggs, and the hall was smelly in addition to the smell, and the yellow and white egg milk was wrapped in grass clippings, and it was a little sticky under the feet of people.
"Follow!" Ding Xiu admonished the people behind him, signaling them to concentrate and not look around.
The people who came with him knew that this had become a nest for firebirds, and everyone was quite worried, so they couldn't help but pay attention to their surroundings.
Everyone followed Ding Xiu straight to the second floor, and everyone bypassed the casssoary corpse on the ground, and immediately began to carry ammunition after coming to the firearms storage room.
They carried boxes of ammunition or carried them, while Ding Xiu took cover in front.
The group went down to the hall and prepared to turn to the steps on the other side and take the direction of the bell tower to return to the roof, but at this time some of the cassowaries began to return to their nests.
They had been repelled by Ding Xiu and had been hiding far away, but they had not heard the gunshots, so they hurried back to the nest to check on the eggs. It doesn't matter, there isn't a single egg left in the hall.
The firebirds burst out into a furious roar in unison, and they collided with Ding Xiu and the others who were about to leave, just as the so-called enemies were very red when they saw each other, and the new and old hatreds were together, and the big birds charged at the people by the stairs without saying a word.
"Go back upstairs!!" Ding Xiu only had time to shout this sentence to the people behind him, and the next moment his figure had already greeted the firebirds.
The survivors' faces turned pale with fright, and everyone threw the ammunition they were carrying to the ground, turned around and fled upstairs according to Ding Xiu's words.
Ding Xiu was already fighting the firebirds at the bottom of the stairs, and he had to stop the mutated creatures to buy time for those behind him to escape.
The fire-birds surrounded Ding Xiu, and their eggs were destroyed, so in an instant burst into a fighting force under the rage.
With the help of the amplification effect of the power of the war paint, Ding Xiu stubbornly parried the attack of the fire-eaters, and waited for the opportunity to return the color.
Cold light and sparks flashed through the bodies of these cassavaries, feathers and blood beads splashed, and Ding Xiu seemed to be shuttling in slow motion, many times avoiding all kinds of deadly attacks.
One by one, the fire-eaters fell, but the enemies around Dantew did not decrease. The huge fowls surrounded the entire hall, and instead of paying attention to the people fleeing upstairs, they focused their attention on the most troubled of guys.
Ding Xiu's bullets were quickly exhausted, and he continued to wrestle with the firebirds with the blade and spur, and as the encirclement slowly shrank, the space that could be vacated was gradually eroded.
The most taboo thing in melee combat is to get caught in a siege, and once you are attacked on your back, you will be unable to take care of it. No matter how strong Ding Xiu's reflexes are, he can only dodge visible attacks, he doesn't have eyes behind him, and when attacks come from all directions, the situation is very unfavorable for him.
Suddenly the gunshots rang out, and the fire-eaters outside the encirclement were agitated in the midst of the gunfire.
Ding Xiu was surprised to follow the prestige and found that the survivors he had brought over were shooting at the fire-birds with weapons on the second floor.
They went to the gun storage room to get their guns, and then joined the warband. These people did not choose to sit idly by when Ding Xiu was surrounded, because everyone knew that if Ding Xiu died, then no one could escape.
To save Ding Xiu is to save yourself.
The survivors used to be farmers in the town, and they were good at farming, but they did not have any professional military training.
Their firepower was not concentrated enough, and scattered bullets did not form an effective killing effect on the firebirds.
Even so, the gunfire played a role. The Fireeaters were a little lax in their encirclement of Ding Xiu, and the sound of gunfire and bullets made them also have a kind of apprehension about being attacked on their backs.
Some of the casscrews broke away from the group and headed straight up the stairs to attack the shooters, but the survivors had already brought the shelves and blocked the stairs with the help of the corpses of the cassavaters killed by Ding Xiu earlier.
"Climb up!" Xu Hui threw a rope from the upper floor, and she shouted at Ding Xiu, beckoning several companions around her to cover her.
Ding Xiu comprehended, and took advantage of the opportunity that the firebirds surrounding him were disturbed by the gunfire, and struggled to break out of the encirclement.
He slashed the neck of one of the firebirds in front of him with the blade of his spear, then grabbed the beak of the other firebird, and stabbed the spearhead in his left hand into its head, and leaped forward.
The encirclement was breached, and Ding Xiu jumped out of the body of the fire-eater that had just been killed but had not yet fallen, and then dodged left and right, avoiding the fangs and claws attacking from both sides, and the figure rushed to the bottom of the stairs and wrapped the rope around his wrist.
"Pull!" Xu Hui shouted loudly, and several of them put aside the weapons in their hands, grabbed the rope with their free hands, and dragged Ding Xiu up.
"Thank you." Ding Xiu climbed up to the second floor along the rope, and just before he could say thank you, he immediately reloaded the blade of the gun and started fighting.
The firebirds began to storm the stairs, and some stepped on the corpses of their companions, trying to jump up and peck at the people on the stairs with their beaks.
"Everyone, be careful!" Ding Xiu shot a cassopary in the head with two shots, and he reminded the person who was lying on the railing and motioned for everyone to keep a little distance from the railing.
With the addition of Ding Xiu, the firepower from the second floor changed in an instant, and almost all of his guns could hit the vital point of the firebird, if one bullet could not kill, the second and third bullets would follow until the enemy fell.
"As long as these cassdiviaries don't rush up, they're a flock of moving targets." Ding Xiu's words boosted the morale of the survivors.
These people had been hiding in caves under the warehouse, they had suffered humiliation and fear, and the pent-up emotions of this period finally found an outlet.
The fire in the muzzle of the gun is their way of catharsis, and the survivors follow Ding Xiu's rhythm, and they follow wherever Ding Xiu's gun hits.
The previous scattered attacks finally coalesced into a net of fire, blocking the direction of the staircase to death.
The bottom of the stairs was full of cassquoured corpses of firebirds, which were stacked on top of each other and slowly built into a small slope, and some of the cassowarowaries stepped on the corpses of their companions, their necks stretched out, and their heads were already able to climb over the railing on the second floor,
Ding Xiu stopped in front of the survivors, covering the survivors to retreat some distance. Although the firebirds have been able to stick their heads over the railing to attack the people upstairs, as long as they do not set foot on the second floor, they will not give up this position.
The ammunition in the firearms storage room had to be transported back to the warehouse, and the hall under the stairs was the way to go, and Ding Xiu knew this, and he gave up the area next to the railing just to avoid unnecessary casualties. The fire from the second floor was still as usual, and the cassophoraries had just risen above the railing before falling down.
The survivors followed Ding Xiu with confidence, although most of the bullets fired from the muzzle of their guns did not hit the vital point of the firefighter, but seeing the piles of corpses downstairs, they felt a sense of revenge.
"Turns out we can kill these monsters too!" This was the feeling in the hearts of Xu Hui and most of the survivors, many of their relatives and friends had been killed by the cassowary birds, and everyone was terrified in the face of these monsters.
The gunfire did not stop at all, and there were fewer and fewer cassopenies popping up at the railing, and everyone returned to the place under the leadership of Ding Xiu, and continued to shoot at the casshourants downstairs in a condescending manner.
The angry hiss that had filled the hall were gone, and the firebirds were once again frustrated, leaving their corpses all over the ground and scrambling to flee out of the house.
The hummy bodies of the cassavarantes jammed the gate and eventually collapsed the entire wall before they were able to escape.
"Whew~" Ding Xiuchang exhaled, pulled the clothes that were stuck to his body with sweat, and reloaded the bullet in Yanlong's hand.
"We won?!" Xu Hui and the other survivors had happy expressions on their faces.