Chapter 26: The Infected (2)
The streets are silent in the early morning, the breeze picks up dust and sand on the ground, yellow weeds emerge from cracked pavements, and old, yellowed advertising leaflets roll over the asphalt road. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Huge shadows moved slowly on the ground, the sun rose at the end of the horizon, and the tall buildings on both sides of the road rose from the ground, casting jagged shadows. The bricks and stones on the side of the road are piled up on a high slope, a rusty warning sign is stuck diagonally in the rubble, the paint on the bright yellow round speed limit sign has peeled off, revealing the silver-white color of the aluminum base, and the black number 60 on the speed limit sign can be faintly seen.
Further afield, you can see rows of tall buildings, dark gray reinforced concrete forming layers of squares, covered with reddish-brown rust, inexplicable black stains seeping from the walls, water dripping down the drains, lichens and mosses in damp places, unknown critters in the weeds, burrowing out of the sewers and crawling into abandoned buildings.
The huge billboard stood on the roof of the building, and it was no longer possible to see what it was, the paint had faded and the fabric was broken, revealing the steel bracket inside, and the whitish plastic fabric hung on a protruding steel bar and stretched with the wind, I don't know where it was swept by the wind, the night had gradually faded, but this decaying and hollow city would never wake up again.
The city has been silent for decades, when the street, known as Changping Road in the JA district, was one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with lights and traffic flowing all night long, and young men and women passing by the sidewalks in pairs, with thousands of lights overhead.
But now the name has been forgotten, and the street has become one of the thousands of no-man's back zones in the city.
Suddenly, there was a faint rustling sound in the street, as if someone had stepped on the sand and rubble on the ground.
A white figure slowly appeared at the end of the street, and it was indeed a person...... He was well-limbed, wrapped in tattered clothes, and his hair was disheveled, like a vagabond.
But he didn't look like a normal person, he walked with his head down, his hands hanging limply at his sides, his whole body trembling like a swing, breathing heavily, grinning and showing Sensen's white teeth, sticky saliva running down his chin.
Without saying a word, he wandered aimlessly, like the only living creature in this labyrinth of reinforced concrete.
The figure turned its head slowly, its hollow eyes peeking out from under its long hair, the man's eyes were sunken, his face was extremely pale, as thin as if only skin had wrapped his skull, and his gray-white pupils were lifeless, reminiscent of a dead man crawling out of a coffin. The man opened his mouth at an abnormal angle, and the inexplicable expression seemed to want to laugh or scream, but he suddenly froze, and then his head burst violently!
The huge impact threw the man's body flying, and he fell to the ground five meters behind him, black and red blood gushing out of his broken neck.
At the same time, the sound of gunfire pierced through the air and came from far away from the other side of the street.
At a distance of more than a thousand meters, the bullets arrived almost simultaneously with the sound.
The young man's eyes left the scope, and through the magnification of the lens, he could clearly see that the zombie had been shot in the head by himself.
It's hard to kill an infected person, but that's just compared to ordinary small-caliber rifles, and the power of Barrett's anti-materiel rifle can cut a person in two when it hits any part of the human torso, not to mention that Luo Cheng has always shot his head.
Luo Cheng raised his head, stretched out his hand to pull the bolt, and the brass bullet case was withdrawn, smashing on the cement floor at his feet with a "clang".
He was on the roof of the Hengsen Plaza building, which was located at the intersection of Changping Road and Jiaozhou Road, and Luo Cheng knew these place names well, because he had a traffic and tourism map of Shanghai City from more than 20 years ago, and everyone in the hummingbird hunting team had a map that they used to identify the terrain and assign tasks.
But the city is too big and complicated, and except for Luo Cheng, no one else may be able to write down all these place names.
Luo Cheng folded the rifle mount and took Barrett back into his suitcase, the zombie just now was just a trivial episode, this area is a primary forbidden area, and it is not surprising that occasionally one or two infected people will get lost and break in.
Normally, lone infected individuals pose no threat to the members of the hummingbird hunting team...... Luo Cheng can shoot the zombie in the head from a thousand meters away, and the zombie can't even find Luo Cheng's whereabouts at this distance, if the girl Lemon is here, she will probably rush over and cut off the heads of the infected, Lemon has always been so simple and rude, every time she comes back from a mission, the girl is covered with murderous and scarlet blood, looking like a murderer.
To deal with the hummingbird team, the infected can only be filled by numbers, thousands of zombie clusters can exhaust their stamina and ammunition to besiege them, but such large groups of zombies are rare nowadays, the infected are scattered in the high-level restricted areas, each with its own range of action, and only a few lost infected will occasionally enter the primary restricted area...... Then he was shot in the head by the snipers.
...... that can really pose a lethal threat to the security zone Only hunters.
Luo Cheng still doesn't know how many hunters there are in the city, most of the hunters have no fur, they are afraid of strong sunlight, so they are used to operating at night...... Hunters at night are the most fearsome predators, and they can kill anyone in an instant.
Luo Cheng put on the headset and started calling: "Here is zero distance, here is zero distance...... Tiebi hears it, please answer! Tiebi hears it, please answer! ”
Luo Cheng was silent, hoping to hear a reply, but there was only a "zizi" electric murmur in the earphones.
"Hell!" Luo Cheng frowned and took off the headphones, he had called the idiot more than twenty times this morning, but none of them responded, last night Lei He did not listen to the command and drove the mecha to act without authorization, when Luo Cheng arrived, Lei He had disappeared, the young man had no choice but to find an abandoned empty room to block the doors and windows for a night, ready to search again at dawn the next day, even Luo Cheng did not dare to wander alone in the forbidden area at night, especially if there was a marauder in the vicinity.
As soon as the sky dawned, Luo Chengcheng began to search for Lei He's whereabouts, the latter was driving a heavy attack mecha, that thing was a behemoth weighing more than ten tons, it stands to reason that the traces of action should be very obvious, but Luo Cheng followed the mecha's footprints into a ruin, and then completely lost the clue.
Damn it...... Can anyone tell me where that idiot has gone?
Luo Cheng still didn't know what Reich saw last night, and he recalled the last conversation between the two...... See a man in white? Still smiling at him? What's going on here? If the person who said this kind of thing was not Rech Nicanor, Luo Cheng almost thought that the other party was hallucinating, this is a ruined city, except for zombies and hunters, how could there be a young man in white who haunts in the middle of the night?
But Rech is an experienced Hummingbird team member and mech pilot, and he has seen no fewer infected and hunters than himself, and it is almost impossible to be mistaken.
What exactly is it...... Can Reich catch up even if he ignores the risk of acting alone?
Luo Cheng could faintly feel that it was definitely not a good thing, and Lei He's voice trembled slightly when he finally spoke to himself, not knowing whether it was excitement or fear.
Luo Cheng sighed, the original time of this mission was only two days, according to the original plan, they should go back to the academy now, but now that the situation has changed abruptly, something inexplicable has come in, he can only temporarily change the plan and go to find Lei He first.
"Damn...... Rech, don't make your flag come true. ”