There's the Eiffel Tower, but it's not Paris.

There are sphinxes and pyramids here, but this is not Egypt.

This is Las Vegas.

"Las Vegas" is the largest city in Nevada in the southern desert of "Nevada". It is a bustling city with the reputation of "the entertainment capital of the world" and is one of the four major casinos in Transtar. Every year, more than 30 million tourists come to "Las Vegas", the city that never sleeps, to enjoy shopping, food, public desires and gambling.

By December 2117, Las Vegas, like Denver and other large cities in Country A, was a thing of the past. Since the outbreak of H7N9, it has been one of the fastest abandoned cities. After the outbreak of H7N9, the number of tourists dropped sharply, and the time seemed to return to 120 years ago in 1931 - the Great Depression period of the economic crisis in country A.

At that time, in order to survive the economic difficulties, the Nevada legislature passed a bill to legalize gambling, and Las Vegas became a gambling city, and it has risen rapidly since then. The main economic pillar of Las Vegas is the gambling industry, because the casino is a gold bowl, tycoons from all over the United States have invested in Las Vegas to build casinos, and even Japanese tycoons, Arab princes, and famous actors have invested.

For more than 120 years, these people have made a lot of money from casinos, hotels and high-end tourism, but now they have to shut down their money-making machines, withdraw their investments and find another way out. Like nuclear bombs and gold, Las Vegas' capital is rapidly shifting to its allies in country A, the silver country.

The absence of agriculture was also one of the reasons for the decline of the city. There were no minerals here, and gold was dug up around 1910, and after that, Las Vegas only produced gamblers and women; At present, after the bankruptcy of the gambling industry in 2117, a large number of people in Las Vegas have lost their jobs, and they have no way to survive in the city but to starve to death, so as early as the beginning of the H7N9 epidemic, most people began to flee Las Vegas.

However, it wasn't long before people returned to Vegas.

Las Vegas not only has luxury hotels and casinos, but also luxury and perfect infrastructure: housing, water conservancy, electricity, communications, and convenient transportation. The government of country A could not completely abandon the city, so it brought in a large number of sleepers and established the "Las Vegas Quarantine Zone" in Las Vegas. In the quarantine zone, people remotely access stand-in robots and do all kinds of work in other Nevada cities, refugee camps, farms, mines, and other parts of country A to keep the country running and make a living.

In Las Vegas, most of the casinos and hotels are closed — but not all — and one or two hotels are still open to entertain the military and the people who work here.

On December 2, 2117, at the MGM Hotel in Vegas, Congressman Gordon and a local official were having fun in a private room of the hotel, drinking blood-red French red wine and holding a girl about the same age as their daughter, enjoying a rare happy hour in the decline of the Great Nation A. In this luxurious private room, there is no trace of dilapidation, and everyone feels that Las Vegas is still the bustling gambling city.

At about 23 o'clock in the evening, when everyone was in high spirits, the red wine glass in Congressman Gordon's hand suddenly shook, and his first feeling was that he was drunk, but, then, he found out that it was an earthquake.

The last earthquake in Las Vegas happened about two years ago, and the Earthquake Bureau recorded and predicted the earthquake, but the earthquake that is happening now has not been predicted, and everyone in the hotel private room has a panicked look on their faces.

The earthquake was mild, and a local official told everyone not to panic, and he began calling the troops stationed there to ask what was going on.

By the time the officer called, Gordon had realized something, he walked to the window, lifted the curtains and looked outside: it was not a thunderstorm night, but the sky was so thick that neither moonlight nor starlight could penetrate the clouds, and the thick clouds had no gaps and blocked the Las Vegas sky.

(They, are they?) Councilor Gordon finally remembered them, and of course he knew about them, and the battle that took place in the city of Raccoon, for a figure of senatorial level, was not a secret.

(Relax, relax...... He said to himself silently, but his heart began to beat wildly.

At this time, the officer who had just called the garrison walked quickly towards Gordon, leaned into his ear, and whispered: "Mr. Senator, Colonel Leon didn't say anything, only that there was an emergency, let us carry out the pre-filing, and we all hide in the basement, you see, ......" The officer looked at the senator and waited for instructions.

Gordon knew that after the raccoon incident, the government had some contingency measures in place, hiding from the lights and hiding in the closet...... Of course, if there is a basement, it is best to hide and not run around. There is no point in evacuating. In the Raccoon incident, it was a huge mistake to organize the evacuation of personnel.

To sum up, the emergency solution is nothing more than turning off the lights, hiding and keeping silent, but as for why it was done, only Gordon knew what was happening.

"Can you hide from someone in the basement?" Gordon asked quietly.

"Only five people can hide." The officer whispered, looking at the people next to him alertly, as if afraid they would hear what he was talking to the senator.

This luxurious suite is located on the 3rd floor of the MGM Hotel, and in order to welcome the senator tonight, other visitors were refused, and only this private room was open, so there were about 25 people including the service staff and Ying Zhao Ruro. So, there were 20 people who couldn't go to the basement.

"It could be a small earthquake," Gordon said, "and it doesn't matter if you hide in the basement or upstairs." You just do it according to the pre-filing, and don't worry about me. ”

Hearing the senator say this, the official was a little disappointed, and he wanted to take the opportunity to show goodwill and get closer to the senator so that he could help him in the future. Little did he know, however, that Senator Gordon was not unfamiliar with the stuffy, hot and stuffy places in the basement where rats go.

"Make your own arrangements, just be careful not to panic. The banquet is over! Gordon said to the official, and then, he pulled up the girl he liked the most today, called his personal bodyguard, and quickly left the luxurious private room.

A small armored car is parked just downstairs at the MGM hotel, which Senator Gordon bought last month.

The bodyguard entered the cab in front of the vehicle, he opened the valve at the rear of the armored car from the inside of the vehicle, and when he saw the valve open, Gordon jumped into the car with a sword step, and then turned around, very gentlemanly reached out to the girl, took the girl's hand, and pulled her into the armored car. Gordon was unhurried, but the woman's hands were trembling and her expression was terrified. In fact, Gordon is not completely nervous, but this nervousness cannot be seen in his movements and expressions, as a figure at the top of the "social food chain", and smiling and pretending to be calm are essential qualities for them.

And, in addition to pretending to be calm, they never forget to enjoy life at any time.

Gordon, of course, will not forget what happened in the city of Raccoon on that thunderstorm night in October, and he is sure that he can only be safe if he stays in an armored car, because the only sergeant who survived the battle is in an armored car. As for the basement, even if the basement door is as strong as the door of the armored car, no one has verified that staying in the basement is safer than the armored car - no survivors have been found in the basement of the raccoon.

The bodyguard started the engine and moved the armored car, pushing the rear of the armored car against a wall, which made it more difficult for the rear valve to be opened. Then, he turned off the engine, and after the engine stopped, the surroundings fell silent.

Soon, Gordon heard gunfire coming from outside the car. The gunfire and artillery were dense and lively.

"Christmas is early, baby. Let's celebrate a little. He said to her.

The "Cerberus" attacked from the southeast of Las Vegas. It has not yet been confirmed whether it came from Lake Mick to the east. The lookout point only saw that on the southeastern plain, they quickly spread out to form an offensive formation. This time, in areas that were not covered by the clouds, the high-ranking guards of country A had to film the enemy's build-up, so the Vegas garrison reacted much faster than it had before the attack on raccoon.

And, this time, the garrison units in Vegas were armed with self-propelled guns and medium tanks.

The cannonballs fired from downtown Las Vegas began to explode one after another in a black torrent formed by the Cerberus army, and the flash of the explosion lit up the battlefield.

At the same time that the Cerberus troops launched a black wave like a huge wave of attack on the city, the 20 tanks of the garrison troops were also staggered in two rows, and in this formation, they launched a face-to-face attack on the Cerberus army. Near the area of Route 93 out of town, meet Cerberus.

Armor-piercing shells erupted with muzzle fire, and in a straight line in the direction of the ballistics, four or five Cerberus were pierced in a row. For every shot fired, four or five Cerberus rolled and fell. The Cerberus, which had not fallen, and was still charging, quickly turned its angry, green gaze on the tank that spewed tongues of fire. One by one, they jumped onto the tank, aimed at what they thought were weak points, tore and bited, and stabbed the tank armor with their steel claws on their backs, trying to pierce it. The sharp claws of Cerberus rubbed and collided with the shell of the tank, and soon there was a piercing clanging sound and a bang, and the operator (robot) inside the tank almost felt that the armor of the tank had been torn.

In order to avoid obstructing the view and not being able to shoot better, the tanks quickly turned the turrets and threw many Cerberus to the ground. Some Cerberus, who had not had time to get up from the ground, were swept under the vehicles by the forward-charging tanks, crushed by these steel fortresses of more than 40 tons. The screams continued, squirting out of their bloody mouths, along with the green juice.

But more Cerberus trampled on the corpses of their companions, jumped onto tanks, and continued to gnaw frantically.

Tank after tank was covered in them, like small mounds of dirt painted with black mud. Moreover, these "mounds of dirt" are still moving forward, like bulldozers, and in the light of artillery fire, one after another can be seen Cerberus being knocked into the air, but they spin and fall heavily to the ground, smashing a large crater in the sand.

A very small number of Cerberus attacked the tanks, but the vast majority ignored the square machines. Originally, the garrison installed sodium searchlights on the tanks, which were extremely bright, and their purpose was to attract Cerberus to attack the tanks instead of running towards the city, but the designers of this tactic obviously underestimated the intelligence of the Cerberus - they were simply mistaken for moths.

Most of the Cerberus were not fooled, they bypassed the tanks and continued to gallop towards the city. Twenty tanks rushed into the black torrent composed of tens of thousands of cerberus, and after that, only a few small whirlpools were stirred, and the black torrent was still rushing like a river, and there was no sign of slowing down.

The cannon shells fired from the city were extremely dense, and the explosion of the cannonballs was radiant in an instant, but in the black torrent, this was nothing more than a huge splash of water from the stones that were constantly thrown into the river, and it was fleeting.

The black torrent is still unstoppable.

Ten minutes after the start of the battle, the thick clouds over Vegas had cleared from the Earth's surface, and the night-vision remote sensing satellite sent back video:

Hundreds of Cerberus have stormed the streets of the city, and some have climbed onto the houses, like locusts that have broken into the farmland.

Fifteen minutes after the start of the battle, the first group of fighters of the Western Corps, five sorties, reached the eastern plain of the city, and the sky above the black torrent - carpet bombing, in the black torrent, drew five bright scratches, like an invisible giant hand, scraped the ground with a five-fingered sharp blade. In the black torrent, the Cerberus were blasted into the air, and some of the Cerberus were about to land, but before they landed, they were thrown into the air by the impact glass of the second bomb explosion. The high-explosive bombs dropped by the fighters were not lethal to the tanks on the ground, but the flesh and blood of the Cerberus were immediately and severely damaged.

According to the night vision data transmitted by the satellite of country A, the first batch of air strikes killed more than 1,400 cerberus. However, after the explosion, the stumps left by the Cerberus were almost unobservable, because the stumps that fell to the ground were soon completely covered by the rushing black torrent. It was like cutting off the flow of water in a river with a super strong energy field, and in some moments, even the riverbed was revealed, but in the blink of an eye, the riverbed was covered by the water again and disappeared from view.

They come and go, and they never stop.

"Where did they come out of this time?" In the command headquarters in Las Vegas, a commander roared and countless personnel were reporting to him, so overwhelmed that he simply didn't have time to look at the satellite perspective:

Although it is dark now, after the clouds and the moon are seen, the earth is not pitch black from the perspective of night vision satellites. The earth was a bright gray: houses, streets, roads, mountains, and lakes were clearly displayed – black torrents, emerging from Lake Mick in the eastern part of the city, were already confirmed.

Now, judging from the satellite video, this black torrent seems to be overflowing from Lake Mick, and these black floods do not flow along the valley like a river after overflowing, they spread, they climb, they climb, and cross the two low mountains between Lake Mick and the city of Vegas, looking down from the sky, the original desolate mountains seem to be covered with a layer of flowing vegetation, like a sea of black forests rippling in the wind.

After crossing the ridge, a torrent of black poured down from the top of the mountain, and with such a rapid speed, dyeing all the desert plains on the eastern outskirts of the city as black as ink, like a huge shadow cast by a giant meteorite before it hit the ground.