Chapter 18: Camp ****
Under the quiet starry sky, the Morning Light Outer Camp Area 2 is as peaceful as a hometown in sleep. Except for the searchlight's patrol at the machinery, everything is as usual.
After the shift change, the sentries hastily sorted out their equipment and went to wash. There were even some soldiers who went straight back to the dormitory and lay down in their clothes.
It's not just the flesh that makes people tired in the last days.
Two sentries walked one after the other to the edge of the wooden fence, one of them leaning against the cold wooden wall and pulling out a half-pack of cheap cigarettes from his trouser pocket. Point then, look up at the starry sky. His face was full of sorrow and sorrow.
"Phew." He exhaled a puff of smoke and said to the other soldier, "You say...... Is my wife still alive? ”
The other party was silent for a moment and then said, "Yes."
"Thank you. The end has come. How long will we live? The soldier asked, smiling at the other man.
"Soon. I don't think some zombies can compete with human technology. If only humanity could survive the impact of this catastrophe! Stand firm, I believe in a year...... No, half a year! It can even take a few months to retake the city and return to the prosperous old days. ”
"What do you think ......?"
"Alright." The other party stopped the conversation directly, turned around and walked back to the barracks. Waving his hand with his back to him, he said, "Don't be cranky. Let's go back and rest early, we have to stand guard tomorrow. With that, he disappeared into the night.
After taking the last puff of his cigarette, the lone soldier slid on the ground against the wooden railing, choked up on the anxiety of losing contact with his wife and the fear of the end of the world. He can't see the future of the other party at all!
He even bit his wrist and forced his voice to cry bitterly......
He didn't notice that the grass around him was trembling slightly. A slightly decaying human head peered into itself through the cracks in the leaves in the thick grass.
That's the controller! Its head lifted silently and slowly, and its path was like that of a snake. The rustling of the long neck in the grass finally alarmed the soldier.
He turned his head violently! But when he found that a human head was dragging a long neck, he was only a stone's throw away from him, and he was shocked!
The soldier hurriedly reached into his waist, but before he could reach his gun, the controller bit him down on the throat, then tore off a piece of flesh, then shrank his head into the grass, and finally retreated from a moldy hole at the bottom of the wooden fence - a hole dissolved by the strong acid magnetic liquid it secreted!
The battered soldier clutched his hands to his throat. The blood gurgled at the rupture, and he shuddered and pulled out his pistol, but he was getting colder and colder, and he couldn't exert any strength. As his pupils contracted violently several times, his gaze spread, and gray-black spots quickly appeared on his face as if they had been burned with flames......
In just 4 seconds, the soldier was transformed. But instead of roaring like a normal zombie, he rampage through the camp and attacked. Instead, the pestle stood in place like a puppet, as if it had been controlled by the controllers outside the camp in coordination and synchronization!
The Controller then airdropped a rock with a catalytic fluid on his back into the camp. The place where they landed was in the quarantine area of the camp. The patient inside inhales the volatile catalytic gas unconsciously in his sleep.
It is unimaginable that catalytic gases fuse oxygen through the patient's lungs, and then, as the heart beats, blood flows into the alveoli, carrying the catalytic gases throughout the body......
The various flu viruses in their bodies that are not killed by the immune system gradually mutate, divide, swell, and proliferate! Form the Xr Virus Cluster! They rush in the bloodstream, rushing to the brain with the high pressure of the arteries!
"Uh...... Uh......" A corpse patient slowly sat up from the bed. Awakening a human beside him who had not yet been catalyzed, he complained, "Don't toss! You will be able to enter the camp at noon tomorrow, so you can go to sleep quickly. ”
He expected that the survivors next to him would be transformed without being injured by the zombies. He was bitten to death without the slightest defense, and then the corpse was transformed.
There are actually several segments in the quarantine area. There are 1 to 3 people in each section. With the moment of the flashpoint, it came. In just five minutes, all 20 survivors were deformed. Gradually, the strange noise in the quarantine area alarmed the soldiers in the monitoring booth.
Originally, this watch booth was a group of 2 people who took care of each other. But there was a lazy veteran among the soldiers of this shift. He was woken up from his slumber, angrily asked a recruit to take a look, and even asked the recruit to soothe the survivors, who he believed were from their discontent......
Timid recruits, clutching their guns. When he arrived at the quarantine area and saw the horrific and bloody scene, he was so frightened that he sat down on the ground. His hands and feet paddled backwards on the ground like oars.
I didn't go far when I was blocked by someone. He looked up and saw that the man was a zombie at all......
"Ahh A terrible howl pierced the dead silence beneath the night sky. Nearly everyone in the camp was awakened by the shout.
Ah Bing rubbed his sleepy eyes, and in a trance he heard a strange sound outside the room, and he tiptoed to the window, peeking out through the gap in the plate sealing the window......
All the survivors in the outer quarantine area were demobilized. Although this situation is scary and dangerous. Thankfully, the metal railings still enclose them.
In the distance, searchlights on the roof of the crane have mapped the quarantine area clearly. And quite a few soldiers ran from the battalion. They were faintly shouting something.
Then, the deafening sound of the sniper rifle rang out like thunder.
One by one, the zombies trapped in the quarantine area fell.
The survivors in the camp ran outside the tents to see what was going on.
The situation does not seem to be serious, and the previous camp planning and prevention measures have effectively minimized the disaster.
However, what he didn't expect was that the soldier who was the first to transform at first, under the control of the controller, actually ran to the other side of the quarantine area and let it pull the metal rod of the cage with both arms.
The strength of the zombie is indeed far beyond that of humans, and the cage rod with the thickness of one finger is actually bent by it. When the gap is expanded from 7 cm to 22 cm. The imprisoned zombies squeezed out directly!
The 4 middle-aged male zombies scattered in all directions, and 2 of them rushed towards the group of soldiers who came to guard the town, and the result can be imagined, they were beaten into a sieve in less than a few seconds.
The rest, one rushed to the medical area, and the other to the makeshift tent area set up by the survivors next to it.
These two zombies terrified the unarmed survivors. It's almost like a wolf entering a flock, and with every wounded or survivor falling, it means a zombie standing up!
Jasmine, Xiao Ai, Gillian and the female survivors were all in the tent inside, so when the corpse mutiny happened, they were safely moved to the vicinity of the command center.
Of course, there are also some male survivors who managed to escape.
In just a few minutes, the camp in District 2 was occupied by 40% of the territory of new zombies infected one after another!
Although there was good firepower near the barracks, there was no ammunition support, and it was suppressed out of the camp by the zombie hordes in a moment. The main reason for this is the emergence of a new mutant zombie - the Swallower!
It is generated by the corpse of an obese male.
The body of the swallower is huge, especially the belly part of the belly is protruding like a pregnant woman, and even dragged to the ground, and the abdominal cavity is large enough to hold an adult man.
It has slender limbs. He moves slowly, but when he attacks, his limbs stabilize his body. The lower forehead on the head is turned outward like a pocket, it has no neck, and the fat head is directly connected to the chest and abdomen.
The Swallower's attack is unique, in addition to biting the target and infecting it with corpses. He can also devour humans, fermenting his abdomen into a mushy pulp, and then violently contracting through the air pressure in his abdomen, vomiting the puree to a range of about 10 meters in front of him. This meat puree contains the Xr-1 variant virus, which is also accompanied by a strong acid of 6mol/L. This strong acid is comparable to 47% sulfuric acid. Although it is not capable of melting metal or wood, it is enough to instantly burn through clothing and skin, after which the Xr-1 variant can be delivered into the target's body.
XR-1 variant – When a human is infected with this virus, it first autoclaves and produces hydrogen sulfide in the blood. If the blood of this zombie comes into contact with a large amount of acid, vomit or flame in the air, it will explode, and the force of the explosion depends on the amount of hydrogen sulfide in the corpse. If the content is too large, it will also explode after being hit by a bullet.
Throughput first appeared in the medical area. It dragged its fat belly and moved slowly. Later, he keenly spotted a survivor hiding under the hospital bed, and then flipped it over. The survivor tried to grab the bottle rod and fight back, but the Swallower clamped his arm with both claws, and then its pocket-like jaw grabbed his head like a python, and then lifted it above his head and thrust it upside down into his mouth, or even into his body!
The survivor who was swallowed alive struggled inside him for only 2 seconds, and was fermented......
After the corpse mutiny broke out in the camp's medical area, it automatically split into two groups of zombie teams with a number of nearly 20 or so. At the same time, an attack was launched on both sides of the camp.
The team that was advancing back into the quarantine area was sandwiched between the Throughput. Due to its slow movement speed, the formation of this zombie team leaves the Swallower behind. This led to the searchlights on the crane tower not catching it in time!
The suppressed soldiers who rushed out of the barracks launched a crushing blow to this wave of zombies. Even at night, the soldiers had poor vision, and in the first round of shooting, the soldiers killed 7 or 8 of them. Then the line of fire was pulled back, and the second round almost killed the remaining zombies. There were only one or two scattered left, which could not pose a threat to the fully armed soldiers at all.
However, something unexpected happened!