Chapter 12: Hummingbird Hunting Team (5)
"The appearance of the hunter exceeded everyone's expectations. "Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info," Zhao Gao said coldly, "These brutal creatures that resemble aliens are extremely bloodthirsty and aggressive, and they will try to kill all creatures in their territory, and humans have never dealt with such monsters before. ”
"The first hunter attack occurred in Texas, a year after the virus outbreak, when the U.S. military used the Marine Corps to set up a safe zone at Texas State University to protect survivors of the disaster, and a medical laboratory there to study ways to fight the apocalyptic virus...... According to later mission reports and sightings, more than 50 Marines were on security duty, blocking all roads with lit police cars and buses, passing in and out of sewers, and placing snipers on the surrounding high-rise buildings, which were well-armed and equipped with sufficient guns and ammunition...... The government at the time believed that the defense was impregnable, and as long as a zombie dared to step into the cordon, he would be shot in the head by Barrett's anti-materiel rifle 800 meters away. ”
Lu Xun nodded, he knew the power of that large-caliber rifle, the famous M82A1 sniper rifle, the caliber is a terrifying 12.7 mm, this gun is made to deal with armored targets, if you use M8 armor-piercing incendiary bombs, it can penetrate 16mm thick steel plates at a distance of 500 meters, zombies will not have any chance in front of this ultimate killing weapon.
"The Marines held the line for more than a year, and the zombies they killed piled up in the streets, and the survivors were safe and sound under their protection......," Zhao Gao said, "until one day, someone witnessed something crawling on the vertical walls of tall buildings, and it flew from one building to the other, as if it was not bound by gravity." ”
Lu Xun remembered the last time he saw the hunter.
"At the time, no one believed in the existence of such supernatural beings, and the defense strategy of the safe zone was not adjusted in any way...... This led directly to the tragedy that followed. Zhao Gao said lightly, "One night, the first sniper lost contact, and when people arrived, they only found half a corpse, and the upper body of the sniper was nailed to the wall by a steel bar, and the congealed blood stains were dragged on the ground for more than twenty meters...... This is different from all previous zombie attacks, zombies are just living dead people who have lost their minds, they act according to instinct to seek food, generally people caught by zombies will only end up with a pile of incomplete bones and internal organs, zombies will not drag food on the ground for more than 20 meters and then nail it to the wall. ”
"People are starting to realize that there is some kind of creature that is beyond their knowledge of it...... The Marines began to search the campus for the monster. Zhao Gao continued, "They entered the darkened school building and library with automatic rifles, and then, tragedy happened...... You've seen hunters, and you know what the consequences are for ordinary people to encounter that kind of thing. ”
Zhao Gao looked up at the young man.
Lu Xun was stunned and nodded.
"A team of dozens of men was attacked in the darkness, one after another Marines were suddenly pulled into the darkness by something, sometimes from behind, sometimes from overhead, and the soldiers who were attacked only had time to let out a scream and then disappear, and their companions would then see the mutilated bodies of those men on the way." Zhao Gao said, "That ghost-like creature is like a grim reaper swimming in the air, no one knows when it will appear, the only close-up sighting record is that a marine's tactical flashlight accidentally shines on that thing, it was lying on a corpse and biting, after being exposed to the strong light, subconsciously raised its head, the marine who faced the monster was frightened at that time...... It was later described as a skinned, bloodied humanoid with six hands that could walk like an ape, and its eyes glowed a faint green glow in the dark. ”
"Blood-covered people?" Lu Xun was a little puzzled, the hunter he saw last time obviously looked like a feline.
"Do you think there is only one hunter, or one hunter?" Zhao Gao laughed, "Do you know how the hunter appeared? ”
Lu Xun shook his head.
"Animals." Zhao Gao said, "The doomsday virus has a high lethality rate for the vast majority of animals, which means that the vast majority of animals will die directly after being infected with the virus...... However, a small number of animals can adapt to this mutation and survive, and their morphological characteristics will be greatly changed, turning into a monster like an alien. ”
"The known hunters in this world are divided into several levels by us according to the level of threat," Zhao Gao continued...... "The last time you saw was a type of hunter, which we called 'lurkers', and the hunters who pose the lowest threat to humans. ”
"Lowest?" Lu Xun was surprised, "That kind of monster is only the weakest?" ”
Zhao Gao nodded, "There are also second-class hunters with higher levels and greater threats above the first class, but they are very rare in number, and it is far from enough to rely on manpower to deal with monsters of this level of marauders, even if it is Sanwu, the girl will be sent to death...... We will make traps and traps, and then solve them with anti-tank missiles and a few hundred kilograms of explosives...... Well, let's go back to the campus of Texas State University more than twenty years ago. ”
"The search force of more than fifty people was eventually killed and wounded, and the monster destroyed the psychological bottom line of the Marines, who all thought that it was a demon crawling out of hell. The last surviving Marine fled, he fled into the school's vaccine research laboratory, the laboratory is very high-security, because it is a vaccine research base for the apocalyptic virus, in order to prevent the virus from leaking and causing catastrophic consequences, the door of the laboratory is made of twenty centimeters thick high-strength steel plate and bulletproof glass, even if the rifle is fired against it, the laboratory is the safest area in the entire college, the only place that can resist the attack of monsters...... As long as that Marine holds out until dawn the next day, the government will notice the anomaly and reinforcements will arrive. ”
"And then?" Lu Xun asked, "Did that person survive?" ”
Zhao Gao was silent for a long time and shook his head.
"Everything I told you was actually a report written by the last Marine who escaped into the lab, and when reinforcements arrived the next day, they found that there were no living people in the entire academy." Zhao Gao said, "The reinforcements entered the laboratory and were surprised to find that the gate made of steel plates had been torn apart by a wedge-shaped gap more than one meter long, which was a huge force unimaginable to ordinary people, a layer of blood accumulated on the floor behind the door, the entire laboratory was soaked in a pool of blood, the surrounding walls were splashed with jets of blood, there was no complete body in the laboratory, all the researchers were torn to pieces, the Marine also died there, and the pool of blood in his hand was soaked in the page of the mission report." ”
The final on-site investigation reconstructed what happened that night...... The Marine fled into the lab and locked the door, but the monster followed. Zhao Gao said, "Obviously, everyone didn't expect that monster to be so powerful that it could tear the steel plate...... The survivors in the lab were in despair, and they had no choice but to sit back and watch as the monster tore through the gate bit by bit, presumably in just seven minutes, and in those last seven minutes, the Marine wrote it all down with pen and paper. ”
"His handwriting is trembling at the end," Zhao Gao sighed, "His last words were 'If you find this piece ......of paper, I hope it will help you defeat these monsters'." ”
When Zhao Gao's story was finished, Lu Xun fell silent, he couldn't imagine what kind of perseverance the person from twenty years ago had, and completely recorded the accident with the sharp friction sound of the monster's claws tearing through the door.
"Do you know how humans have survived over the years?" Zhao Gao asked softly, "This is a war, it is about the life and death of all mankind, no one can retreat on the battlefield of survival, and retreating is destruction." ”