Chapter 93: Bandel City
"......"
A strange, muffled voice came from the throat of a man with bloodstained clothes, and he stood under a fighter plane, slowly moving his body. He sniffled vigorously, his unusually developed sense of smell making it easy for him to smell an extra scent in the air.
The smell of humans.
Then the exuberant predatory instinct made his eyes red, and he could already see a figure flickering at the exit from the base at the opposite airport. So he screamed and pounced.
As he took a step away, he suddenly stopped, he arched his body, and a threatening cry came out of his throat, and the man in front of him made him feel threatened.
This was a strange feeling, after all, even a fully armed human was a prey in his eyes. But now, he felt that it was not a person who came out on the other side. It's his natural enemy!
Footsteps rang out.
Lin Ci stepped out of the shadows of the base building, and he pierced the chest of a skinless monster with the saboteur's red cone.
This monster is like a loach, and if it is not a sharp thing, it is difficult to hook them. Now he pierced the chest with an awl and dragged the monster across the ground. The skinless monster struggled desperately, its two pupils glowing with fear. In the past ten minutes, it has watched as this human has smashed dozens of its own kind into pulp.
Lin Ci ignored its feelings, and with a flick of the war hammer, the skinless monster slid off the cone and fell to the ground. It immediately bounced off the ground, then looked at its companion at the helicopter, let out an inexplicable scream, and ran in that direction at the same time.
Suddenly, a large cloud of plasma burst out of his chest!
It looked down, but the world was flipping, and finally it saw its own body, which was empty from the chest up. Then there was Lin Ci, who came up with a war hammer. The hammer was raised, and a great shadow fell.
That was the last image it saw.
The saboteur smashed its head to smithereens, and these monsters had no hard bones on them, only cartilage tissue. They can change shape at will and are able to withstand a certain amount of impact. It's a pity that the impact of the saboteurs is more than they can withstand the limit, and before that, dozens of monsters have verified this with their own bodies.
Now there's just one more.
The saboteur smashed it into a meat sauce, and the small ground shook, and a crack ran straight out from under the hammer to the soldier's feet. With a click, the crack widened a little, and a cloud of dust and sand was expelled from inside. The soldier suddenly turned around and ran in the opposite direction in panic.
As for Lin Ci's side, the skinless monster was dissociating into a black fluorescent light, which was then absorbed by the Blood Devourer. Looking around, there were no other monsters, and Lin Ci lifted the mutant form of blood devouring. Blood devouring left a satisfying thought in his consciousness, Lin Xi snorted, and said in his heart, You are full, I am still hungry.
Coming to the transport helicopter, Lin Ci got into the cab. After checking, everything on the plane was normal, not even a drop of gasoline in the fuel tank. He was not surprised, Lin Ci had already vaguely felt that this base was estimated to have been abandoned for a long time, otherwise it would not lose its power supply. It's just that he can't figure out what happened to make this ground base what it is now. Moreover, the base is obviously occupied by new types of xenomorphs, and there is no organizational counterattack.
Looking at the empty and lonely base, Lin Xi muttered, "Is the end of the world?" ”
He got out of the plane, and there was a warehouse in front of him. Lin Ci trotted over and kicked the door of the warehouse open. The garage door flew in, and it turned out to be a garage with two military off-road vehicles parked, and next to it was a two-wheeled locomotive. There is also an electronic refueler on the left side, Lin Ci walked over and tried it, but the refueler did not respond. He walked to the back, opened a ground shaft and jumped straight down.
There was an oil storage tank placed underneath, and Lin Ci climbed to it and twisted the valve, and when he opened it, he found that there was still some gasoline left in it. He exhaled, pumped out the gasoline with the manual extractor next to him, and loaded it into some empty portable tanks. Finally, he got the gasoline out and counted it, and there were hundreds of liters of gasoline for him to use. Lin Xi glanced at the garage and finally set his sights on the two-wheeled locomotive.
If he had a choice, Lin Ci preferred those military off-road vehicles, or even helicopters outside. But if you take into account the fuel consumption, and the fact that there is not much gasoline left, then the two-wheeled locomotive is probably his best choice right now. Lin Ci poured gasoline into the locomotive's fuel tank and checked the on-board battery. Luckily, the battery is still usable, which is a blessing. Otherwise, the locomotive would not be able to start with gasoline alone.
Finally he found a long rope and tied the remaining two tanks of gasoline to the rear of the car, and God knows how many miles he would have to walk after leaving the base. Naturally, you have to bring this gasoline with you in case you need it.
Moments later, he drove out of the garage and followed a nearby street sign to the base gate. The guardrail of the gate had already been knocked to the ground, and there were two off-road vehicles overturned on its side, and when Lin Ci passed by the car, he saw that it was full of bullet holes.
Beyond the base is a straight road with vast wilderness on either side. In the distance, the sun's rays in the afternoon were fierce, and Lin Ci squinted. Then, with a twist of the throttle, the locomotive roared out and drove down the highway to the world of complete knowing.
In the evening, Lin Xi stopped at a fork in the road. He looked at the signs, and he could reach Lugano along the road he was on now. Now Lin Ci could determine his location, he was now in Bandel City, seventy miles east of the metropolis.
Lin Ci thought that there should be some news there, so the locomotive drove to Bandel City.
It's a boring journey, and the world is quieter as night falls. Lin Ci walked through the city alone in the dark night, and did not encounter any moving vehicles along the way, and when he was close to Bandle City, he saw some vehicles parked on the side of the road one after another. At first, only one or two cars were seen across the road, and later, the vehicles were stacked almost in pieces. Some cars even crashed into each other, and many of them overturned to the ground.
In the end, Lin Ci had to stop, because the car was already jammed with the road, and it was difficult to cross even if he drove a locomotive. He frowned as he looked at the mass of cars, which looked like the residents of the city running away en masse. But I don't know what happened, and they all abandoned the car here and fled, only a few cars drove dozens of kilometers away, but the car was empty.
It took Lin Ci half an hour to walk into the city.
There were so many cars outside that he blocked the road, so he had to park the locomotive outside and walk in alone. There were no lights in the city, and it seemed so empty in the cold moonlight, and occasionally the wind blew and made a dull sound, like the city's dying moans.
It's hard to imagine that this is Lugano, but on the way here, Lin Ci did see the sign "Welcome to Bandel City", indicating that he had not come to the wrong place. The place is right, but in this city, Lin Ci is very suspicious that there are still people in this city.
He had no choice but to move on.
If you can't find half of them, consider trying your luck somewhere else.
As he turned into a long commercial street, he suddenly saw a flash of light in the distance. Lin Ci's eyes lit up and he stepped forward.
It's an old town, and it was originally a vibrant shopping street. Everywhere you look, you can see small designer shops and cafes with awnings, but now the moss has climbed up the tall buildings, and the silence is terrible, and the ground is covered with fallen leaves. The windows of the designer stores are broken, and the inside is a mess, and God knows what happened here.
In a small shop at the end of the street, a light pierced the darkness, and then a voice was heard, "Turn off the lights, fool." ”
So the lights went out all at once.
The light came from a flashlight in the hand of a young man whose face was covered in freckles and whose still childish face was full of nervousness. He rubbed his hands together and whispered, "Henry, are you alright?" ”
"Come on, look, there are so many things here, it's going to be sent this time."
A slightly older young man said he opened a cabinet and found some beautifully packaged wines.
"You know, Joe. These wines can be exchanged for a lot of things, and at least for the next three months we don't have to worry about eating. ”
"But they won't let them out at night?" The young man looked nervous, beads of sweat on his forehead.
"Whatever, when we come out during the day, when it comes out during the day, it's our turn to tell the others to divide it." Perhaps because of nervousness, Henry's forehead was covered with cold sweat, so he didn't pay attention, and the bottle of wine in his hand fell to the ground. The bottle shattered, and the air was filled with the smell of wine. Sadly, on such a quiet night, the sound of the bottle cracking was so obvious that it was impossible to ignore it.
At least, Lin Ci, who was still two or three hundred meters away from that store, could hear it clearly.
Then, other voices rang out in the night. If he closed his eyes, Lin Ci seemed to see a monster lurking in the shadows, revealing a terrifying ferocity.
At the same time, under the moonlight, a dark shadow rushed out of a fashion store on the opposite street. It smashed through the third-floor window, knocked the model in a fashionable dress downstairs, and the darkness went straight into the store where the sound sounded, and then there was a scream.
Lin Xi hurriedly rushed over.
In the store, Joe has fallen to the ground. He turned on his flashlight, and a blinding light fell on the monster. It resembles some kind of reptile, with a streamlined body with long limbs and claws that shimmer with metallic sheen at the ends.
The tail is elongated with a triangular blade. On its back stood several sharp spines of varying lengths, and it had no eyes and a small mouth full of sharp teeth.
"Glutton! It's a glutton! Henry screamed, ignoring the wine and his companions in the cardboard box, and turned around and ran back.
As soon as he moved, the monster known as the Gluttonous Eater immediately bounced out. It is not small, but it is almost silent in its movements, and its speed is amazingly fast.
The monster in the shop was already attached to the wall in front of Henry. Henry couldn't stop his steps and crashed forward, the monster jumped down, hugged Henry on all fours, and rolled to the side of the shelf.
The shelves toppled and made a series of noises, and Joe shuddered and turned on the lights, and saw Henry desperately trying to climb out. But the glutton that had wrapped around him raised his tail and swung it down.
The triangular blade at the end of the tail easily nailed into Henry's head, and the young man's eyes froze. Then the gluttonous man leaned over and bit the young man's head with his mouth, and then a terrible scream rang out from the shop.
By the time it left Henry's head, the young man was an empty shell.
The glutton let go of Henry's corpse and crawled to Joe's side with a light step. Joe was too frightened to move, and his whole body was shivering. The monster craned its head, almost coming to the end of Joe's end.
Suddenly, there was a red light outside the store, and in the next second, a spear hole made of blood-red light shot in, piercing the glutton's body. The strong kinetic energy knocked the monster sideways, fell to the ground and flipped several times.
It was about to get up, but a second spear passed through its head. The brain was its lethal organ, and the light gun pierced through its brain, stabbing out of its jaw, instantly pinning it in place.
As the light gun disappeared, the gluttonous eater separated from its entire body with countless black fluorescent lights. Fluorescent light fluttered up and rushed out of the store.
Joe looked in the direction of the fluorescent light and saw a tall oriental.
Lin Ci frowned, the slender monster just now was the type he had never seen. But judging from the situation of blood phagophagocy, this is obviously also a type of xenomorph. He glanced around, made sure there were no other monsters, and then lifted the blood-devouring form before walking into the store and saying, "Are you alright?" ”
"I'm fine." Joe stood up on the shelf next to him, his feet still shaking. He forced a smile and said, "Hey, are you a xenomorph?" ”
At that moment the sound of locomotives rang out, and three or four two-wheeled locomotives were drilled from the corner of the street ahead, as well as a car reinforced with a roof and guardrails.
A few pillars of light shone over, illuminating Lin Ci unable to open his eyes. But he squinted, adjusted to the light, and the car stopped in front. A Caucasian man in his thirties jumped out of the first red locomotive, carrying an Uzi submachine gun, and as soon as he came up, he pointed at Lin Ci and shouted, "Who are you?" ”
"Wait, Sheriff Pete." Joe hurriedly ran out of the store and shouted in front of Lin Ci, "I can guarantee that he is not a monster, yes, he also killed a gluttonous eater just now." But Henry ......"
"Gluttony?" The man named Pete obviously didn't trust Lin Ci yet, he pointed to the gun and looked into the store again, and said, "You guys go in and have a look." ”
Four or five men with guns quickly entered the store, and a moment later came out a young man in his twenties. He wore an eyepatch on his face and was fairly handsome, and he said, "Sheriff, just find Henry's body." Judging from the wounds of the corpse and the lost brains, it was indeed the glutton. But the body of the gluttonous eater is not in the store, it is just ......"
"Just what?"
"We're seeing some scratches, they are indeed from those monsters."
The sheriff looked at Lin Ci and said, "Then you can probably tell me, where did the monster's body go?" ”
Lin Xi smiled bitterly, did he want to tell him that what gluttonous eater was eaten by blood? That's when the big boy named Joe said, "Sheriff Pete, he's a xenomorph." ”