Chapter 39: The Barracks (3)
night
It was extraordinarily quiet, and there was no insect chirping that could be heard in the wild at any time, and even the roar of the beast had disappeared. The forest in the distance felt as if it were dead, and no movement came out.
Lin Mu was wrapped in a blanket, holding the Colt python tightly in his hand, listening intently to the surroundings. The forest in the distance was quiet, and the military camp in the distance was a bit noisy.
Cha! Cha! Cha! ……
It was the sound of a deformed person walking around, with the occasional low roar coming from there. Fortunately, the entire barracks was surrounded by steel wire, and if any deformed people wanted to come out, they would make a lot of noise.
Call! Call! Call......
In the tent behind her, Firina was snoring, but the snoring was so small that she couldn't hear it without listening carefully. Lin Mu looked up at the sky, and in the thick gap between the radiant clouds, the moon was a little sharp.
Darkness shrouded the world, and all he could see could be seen was his own body. His eyesight was useless in the night, and all he could rely on was his ears.
Click...... Click......
Suddenly, there was a slight sound on his left, and he immediately picked himself up and adjusted his breathing. The sound was softer than his own heartbeat, but he could only make out that it was the sound of a living thing walking away.
The thing gradually approached, and then suddenly there was no movement, and in a depressing silence, Lin Mu raised the muzzle of the Colt python through memory.
Zila!
"Roar!"
The lightning flickered, and in a brief moment of light, he could see what it looked like. It's a dog, but it's about to catch up with a lion. Its body covered in black short fur was covered in scars, its eyes flashed with cruelty, and its mouth was full of fangs.
The forest curtain did not move, and the dog was blocked by the power grid. He could hear it walking back and forth outside the camp, and eventually, the dog gave up, torn between the lure of food and the threat of the power grid.
"Hoo ......"
Slowly breathing a sigh of relief, Lin Mu reached into his pocket and took out his mobile phone. An old flip phone, with a narrow LCD screen, shows the time now.
‘22:07’
"Phirina! It's your turn to keep vigil! ”
**
In the early morning, the sun rose over the horizon, and Lin Mu stood up and stretched. In the tent, Philina's snoring continued, and the girl was much more sleepy now than she had been when they first met.
"Get up!"
Waking up Fillena, the two of them washed up briefly and began to eat breakfast, and he began to think as he ate the canned food. If it's the same speed as yesterday, then before the next time you return to the original plane, you may not be able to clean up the deformed people in the barracks.
What's more, the purpose of coming to the barracks is only a power armor prototype, and his ultimate goal is the Synthetic Medicine Research Institute, and he needs to race against the tight time to find that damn special medicine before the Grim Reaper wields a scythe!
"We need to change our approach! We've got to speed up the cleanup! ”
Hearing this, Filina raised her head, her brows furrowed slightly. She looked at Lin Mu for a moment, bowed her head and said, "We should be cautious and continue yesterday's ......"
"I'm running out of time!"
Throwing away the empty cans, Lin Mu stood up and took out the two remaining AR-15 semi-automatic rifles from the storage space, plus the one that Filina was carrying, which was all the three rifles that he had taken from the gun shop in the first place.
"We snipe them from a distance!"
The storage space opens again, and eight empty magazines appear on the ground, each containing 15 rounds. He'd already figured out that yesterday's melee behavior was a bit stupid, and since there were plenty of bullets, why not just use the gun to eliminate the deformity?
"Alright! In the event of an accident! You can't leave me behind! ”
After thinking for a moment, Filina agreed to his plan, and the two of them immediately began to act. The grid defense system was recycled, everything in the camp was put back into storage, and the two slowly moved to where they were yesterday.
There were dry dark green blood stains all over the floor, and a tangy stench came from the smell, and strangely the corpses of the deformed people yesterday had disappeared.
Through the trails that led all the way to the forest, and the messy paw prints on the ground, he concluded that the mutant beast had taken the corpse in the night. Obviously, yesterday's results brought a big meal to the mutant beasts lurking in the forest.
"Let's go up there!"
Glancing around, he chose a sniper position. The boulder, which is nearly two meters high, should have a very open view if you stand on it.
"You load the magazine down there and hand it to me!"
After climbing the boulder a few times, Lin Mu half-crouched and began to observe the barracks through the scope. After waiting for a moment, he didn't hear a response from Philina, he turned his head to look down, and the girl had a straight face.
"What's wrong?"
"My marksmanship is better than yours!"
Hearing this, he smiled wryly. In terms of marksmanship alone, Filina can indeed throw herself a few streets, but ...... Judging from her current body reaction speed and nerve reaction speed, she can shoot at least three times when she shoots one.
"There's not more than two people on it! You're up there to fill in the gaps! All those who climb out of the tightrope fence are handed over to you! ”
This girl is very competitive, and Lin Mu knows it very well. But now is not the time for comparison, after he explained these two sentences, he concentrated his spirit in the barracks.
The barracks covered with tents were as quiet as yesterday, but if you looked closely, you could see the deformed people lurking in the tents through the broken metal plates.
What do they eat to survive?
Doubts suddenly rose in his heart. According to old Carl's intelligence, these deformed people have been gathering here for a long time, and if they just lurk inside all day, it is obviously impossible to find enough food.
Through the optical zoom scope, his eyes swept over most of the barracks, and finally found the answer. Two wide, black holes, just deep in the barracks, were supposed to be openings in the sewers that had been dug up.
Giant rats? Rabbit?
These two mutant beasts, which like to live in caves, are probably the food source for these deformed people. Shaking his head, he didn't pay attention to the matter, and shifted the muzzle of his gun to a lamppost in the barracks.
Boom!
There was a small gunshot, and the glass cover on the lamppost shattered and fell to the ground with a loud bang. In an instant, a large number of deformed people crawled out of the quadrangular barracks in the barracks, and they quickly ran towards the lamppost position.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
He took a deep breath and quickly pulled the trigger with his fingers, and in an instant, three deformed people fell to the ground, their heads splashed with dark green blood.
"Roar!"
With a low roar, the black deformed man who had been mutating in the second phase turned his head sharply to look at the position where Lin Mu was. After a moment's pause, it turned around and began to gallop towards it.
Behind it, more than a dozen deformed people moved at the same time, and they had already discovered the forest curtain. Seeing this, he didn't panic in the slightest, just used the crosshair of the sight to trap the ugly heads one by one and shoot them up.
Click!
The magazine was empty, and he immediately got off the magazine and dropped it under the boulder. Before he could speak, a new magazine full of bullets flicked up.
"Pick it up!"