Volume 2 The Return of the Stars Chapter 53 The Stars
Since the captain himself is only the least privileged ability, he only knows a little more than most ordinary people. At present, the mutant humans gathered in the Gangnam Station area are not many compared to the overall population, and once they have thoroughly developed their abilities, they will become a very considerable individual combat force. For example, the superhero project proposed by Mei Lijian is to try to create "Captain America" through genetic modification, but the result seems to have failed, and human technology has not yet reached the level where it can completely modify its own genes.
The next city is still a barren place, and according to the captain, shortly after the end came, a large number of mutated creatures and unknown monsters attacked human settlements in various parts of the country. Although the nation's communications were basically paralyzed, the military still forcibly repaired some spare communication lines in accordance with the call of the superiors, and of course paid the cost of many soldiers' lives.
Jiang Luo also has a lot of respect for these soldiers who defend their homes and countries with their lives, if it weren't for their sacrifices, maybe the whole of China would have messed up, and then trapped and killed in the endless tide of insects and beasts.
The major military districts have established temporary security zones through communications, and the five major theaters of the country contain people from their jurisdictions. And in East China, it is the Jiangnan Theater. The core city headed by Jinling and the surrounding more than a dozen small cities composed of Jiangnan station area network, basically realized the purging of the circle, which can be regarded as a pure land in the last days, where you don't have to be afraid of not being full, and you don't have to worry about being taken away by monsters when you are full.
At least that's what the captain told Jiang Luo, their treatment as supernatural beings is far better than that of ordinary people.
There are still more than 100 kilometers to Jinling, but fortunately, a team member found a broken Jinbei van from the abandoned city, and finally repaired it after some operation. Due to the captain's special sensing ability, he can avoid those "dangerous aura" areas in advance, so that their group will have no danger along the way.
Jiang Luo felt that the captain's ability was really comfortable, compared to his own healing after being injured, the captain's ability could allow him to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, which was simply invincible.
The captain listened to Jiang Luo's emotion, took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his pocket, carefully took out one, lit the fire and handed it to Jiang Luo, Jiang Luo shook his head, he didn't smoke.
The captain put the cigarette in his mouth rather wistfully, took a sharp breath, and spat out a long puff of white air out the window.
"Actually, everyone in the team knows that I am a deserter."
Jiang Luo was quite surprised, and he didn't know why he suddenly said such a thing.
"Captain......" The team member who wanted to dissuade him was interrupted by the captain's raised palm, and he continued: "I remember that when the end (blood moon) had just come, I was just an ordinary soldier, and I was transferred to a team to maintain order in a certain community in Jinling City, and then a large number of corpse monsters and mutated creatures appeared. My comrades were all killed, and the captain told me to run, to the command point to report the news, because I was the only one of them who was not injured......"
The captain's eyes were gloomy, and his tone was a little sad: "Before, you were trapped in the house, but you don't know what the soldiers outside are doing, after the blood moon, many monsters have appeared, and we must eliminate them!" Luckily, they were just a bunch of giant monsters, so we were able to clean up most of them in no time......"
Hearing this, Jiang Luo was shocked in his heart, he had always thought that it was the biological mutation brought about by the fire rain of the Blood Moon, but now it seems that it is not so simple, some monsters, such as the invisible vampire monsters he encountered before, are not like creatures on the earth at all!
Soon a cigarette was finished, and the captain shook the butt of the cigarette that was about to burn his nails, and said: "Later, more and more strange monsters appeared, they seemed to appear overnight, such as the huge burrowing worm we met just now, they are even more unpredictable than those mutated monsters. But Jinling is the base camp of Jiangnan, and it is impossible for us to give up, because there is nothing else for us to do. The superiors ordered us to defend Jinling, and during that time (it should have been the two months that Jiang Luo entered Lake City), we had to resist the insect tide and the beast tide on the one hand, and deal with those weird monsters on the other hand. The higher authorities pulled the battle line outside the city, that is, these places, so this side is full of ruins, all of which we have caused ourselves. ”
Looking at the ruins of the city that had been bombed over and over again, Jiang Luo could imagine the cruelty of the war at that time, the war between humans and aliens.
"My teammates sacrificed a lot, but I always survived. I remember another time, the soldiers of one of our regiments were almost dead, and the company commander, squad leader, and teammates all tied up bombs to die with the monsters, and at that time, I coaxed again, I secretly threw bombs, while they were not looking...... I became a deserter, and after the Gangnam station area was completely established, I took the initiative to admit it, and I knew that I was about to face military sanctions...... Luckily, however, I awakened and became a supernatural being, and the ability is this ridiculous sensing ability that allows me to survive every time! Later, I was told that it was possible to atone for my sins by constantly searching for survivors. ”
"You're the seventy-fourth survivor found by the captain!" One of the team members said.
Jiang Luo patted the captain's shoulder with his hand, he could understand this emotion, as a soldier, it would be a shame to be a deserter, and his teammates died one after another, but only he lived in shame, it must be very uncomfortable.
"The past cannot be traced, and the people you saved are enough to make up for your mistakes."
"I hope so!" The captain sighed a little wistfully.
Due to the dilapidated and undulating road, the van drove staggeringly, and after a while, Jiang Luo gradually fell into a dream.
In the hazy dream, Jiang Luo remembered his family, but they should be fine, because the southwest theater is in Shudu, and there was a brief communication after the blood moon, and as researchers of a secret project, they should be well protected by the military. As for the others, if nothing else, they will be able to see Diana and Gu Xiaorou when they arrive in Jinling City. When he led the locust tide by himself, that group of people should have survived.
In the dream, Jiang Luo's familiar faces suddenly appeared, until the clown man's stitched face opened his blood basin and bit him, Jiang Luo suddenly woke up.
The van turned off and stopped in the shade of a tree on the side of the road, and the lights were turned off, and Jiang Luo saw the people in the car looking nervous through the moonlight.
"What's wrong?" He asked quietly.
"There's a monster nearby." One of the team members said.
"What monster?" Is it that burrowing worm again?
"I don't know, the perception is very vague." The captain stared intently into the pitch black distance, as if trying to see the object with the naked eye.
Earth, water, wind, and fire are the four most basic attributes, which are common to all monsters, and they are also the four elements that the captain can describe so far, and the thing in the distance does not belong to any of these four at all.
This is a road on the edge of the city near the lake, and Jiang Luo found through his good eyesight that the plants near the city are in a state of death, as if they have been sucked into the vitality of something.
Suddenly, a glittering color appeared in front of them, in the dark night sky, like a floating amorphous flowing color, this color was like some kind of colored steam, but it was psychedelic and indescribable.
"What's that?" One of the team members was amazed.
The captain couldn't answer, the flowing color felt like some kind of high-temperature steam, but he was sure it wasn't the same color as anything known on the spectrum.
The glow that flowed through the treetops seemed to spot the van in the shade of the trees, and the people in it.
"Is it eyeing us?"
"Drive, hurry up!" The captain felt that the thing was alive and sentient, and the message it emitted to a group of people was like a human seeing food!
The van ignited and burst out like an arrow, and the strange color glowed like a floating cloud in the dark night, and then followed closely behind them.
"Oops!" The team members who drove the car immediately shook the steering wheel and drove towards another forest path, because on the main road ahead, a large area of stars was entrenched at some point, forming a colorful light curtain.
This reminded Jiang Lu of the nightmarish light curtain of Lake City, but the difference between the two was that the light curtain of Lake City was just a thin wall of transparent air, and this light curtain was like a fog, shrouded at the end of the road.
After entering the forest road, the star behind him finally did not follow.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, although they didn't know what harm it had, but the captain's reaction was the most intuitive, it wanted to eat them.
A piece of starry color, I want to eat people!
The forest was a little gray due to the shade of the trees, and when they calmed down and looked around, they found that the trees here all emitted a faint shimmer, and if they did not look closely, they would only think that it was moonlight, but that glimmer was obviously emitted from the plants themselves.
"The trees here too." A member of the team observed the plants behind them, and it seemed that this was not an accidental phenomenon, and the plants on both sides of this forest road were all shining!
He tried to peel off the bark with his hands to see what was inside and make the tree glow, but the team didn't notice the small wisp of star that was hovering on the top of the tree.
The moment he peeled off the bark, the arm-thick ribbon jumped down from the top of the tree and attached to his face.
It felt like a hot steam burning their faces, and the team let out a scream, and then their skin began to fester.
"Run!"
It was the last sound he uttered, and then the starlight seemed to enter his body through his pores, and the exterior of his body began to shimmer as the skin faded, and the whole person looked like a ghost, and all this happened in just a minute.
The captain tried to save him, but it was too late, and with his call, countless tiny stars appeared from the shade of the trees on the branches of the trees in this forest, as if they had been awakened, and they were surrounded!
"Rush into the woods!" It's their only option.