Chapter 10: The Massacre of the Whole City
Soon after Yin Zhendong and the others left the city, they joined up with Lei Ling's large army. Yin Zhendong introduced Long Xingyi to Lei Ling, and after Lei Ling listened to what Long Xingyi did, not only was he not angry, but he was a little relieved.
"The raid was so sudden that we couldn't transport civilians by aircraft, and the railroad was destroyed by ferocious beasts, so now we can only transport civilians with limited cars and infantry fighting vehicles. Thanks to you, we've cut off the beast's path, otherwise we'd probably be hunted down right now. Lei Ling said.
Long Xingyi asked with concern, "Have all the citizens evacuated safely?" ”
Lei Ling glanced back at the mighty traffic and people, and said, "Save half of it!" ”
"Then the other half ......" Long Xingyi didn't need to ask to know what happened to the other half of the citizens.
“…… Time is still pressing, let's hurry up! Lei Ling said, and then turned back to ask his staff officer: "How is Nantong and the capital?" ”
"The Nantong side lost contact last night, but it has now returned to normal, and the capital side has not replied, I don't know what the situation is. Satellite signals are blocked and can now only be communicated via terrestrial communications. The staff officer replied.
Lei Ling held his chin in his right hand and thought for a moment: "It's not normal, let's go quickly!" With that, he got into his chariot.
Long Xingyi and the others also returned to their chariots and followed the traffic. "Speaking of flying machines...... Don't you have a 'rocket pilot' or something? Long Xingyi thought of the computer game "Red Alert" of his era and suddenly asked.
"The flying mecha unit just went out on a mission a few days ago, and it has not returned so far, so it is estimated that it ...... It's also more auspicious! Yin Zhendong speculated.
Long Xingyi shook his head and sighed: "The other party really took advantage of the right time and place, and seized the opportunity!" The crowd was silent.
Lei Ling's army escorted the citizens for two days and two nights, and finally arrived at the north gate of Nantong City on the third day.
Although almost everyone was riding on the road, everyone was exhausted due to the high level of mental tension and the need to be vigilant at all times. Only Long Xingyi climbed over the highway fence with great interest and looked down, trying to cut through the haze to see if the train on 24K had overtaken them. But all he could see was a thick fog.
The city of Nantong is also on alert, and the city gates are closed. Lei Ling walked through the crowd, looked at the towering gate, and said to Luo Bing, a communications staff officer beside him: "Call the garrison in the city and open the city gate." ”
Luo Bing called the garrison of Nantong City according to the instructions, but the other party did not answer, and after a minute, the city gate opened automatically.
"Something is wrong...... Lei Ling felt more and more that something was not quite right, so he turned his head and asked Luo Bing, a communications staff officer: "When was the last time Nantong City replied to us?" ”
"The last video reply? Three days ago, on the night of our attack, we have been replying in the form of text telegrams, probably because of the satellite signal blockage, right? Luo Bing guessed as he spoke.
Lei Ling was also uncertain at this time, but he felt that it was by no means a wise move to enter the city hastily at this time, so he turned back to the mayor and said, "Mr. Mayor, please organize the citizens to rest outside the city gate first, and I will take people in to explore the truth." ”
So Lei Ling took an armored division, two infantry regiments, an emergency response team and a team of special forces that had been assembled and left three days ago into the city, leaving only a part of the logistics support troops outside the city. Yin Zhendong, as Lei Ling's right-hand man, naturally took Long Xingyi and the other three into the city with an infantry regiment.
There was a dead silence in the city of Nantong City, and it was unusually quiet. In the quiet, there is a murderous intent. The streets and walls were streckled with blood that the place had just gone through a fierce battle not long ago.
After walking for a while, I didn't see a single living person, and things became more and more strange.
"Armored units and robot units are advancing along the main road, and the rest of the troops are scattered everywhere in search of survivors!" Lei Ling gave an order to the troops behind him.
So the troops scattered in all directions and launched a search in Nantong City. Long Xingyi and the others followed Yin Zhendong and marched eastward.
"Satellite signals blocked? In other words, you can't use your PC, right? Long Xingyi asked in a low voice as he walked. The oppressive atmosphere made him involuntarily lower his voice.
"Traditionally, the satellite signal is lost, and there are ground base stations that can be used. But at present, civil base stations should also fail! Yin Yuting guessed.
"After all these days, how come my PC has never had a low battery?"
Yin Yuting smiled, "The PC of our era uses solar energy and human body electricity, and you can charge it by basking in the sun more often, otherwise...... Just wait to lose weight! ”
"This function is good...... Speaking of this, Long Xingyi suddenly saw the public toilet next to a shop on the side of the road, so he said: "Miss Yin, people have three urgency, and there is a ...... inside"
"Go ahead! I'm waiting outside. Yin Yuting said knowingly, and at the same time, through mecha communication, report to Yin Zhendong in front, don't get too far away.
Long Xingyi scurried into the toilet with a smoke, turned around, but suddenly saw a person, standing in front of the urinal, staggering.
"I'll go! I was shocked to see a living person here. "Because it was convenient for him to come in, he temporarily turned off the communication system on the mecha, so what he said was not heard outside.
But the man in front of him listened to his self-talk, and seemed to have no reaction, still standing in place, staggering.
"Hey, friend, are you alright?" Long Xingyi tentatively walked behind him, and he gradually raised the gun in his hand vigilantly.
At this time, the strange man in front seemed to finally react and turned around. This turn can scare Long Xingyi a lot.
This person looks like a normal person from behind, but the front is unusually hideous and terrifying. The two eyes protruded out of the sockets, crumbling, a large hole in the chest, and the internal organs seemed to have been eaten by some animal, and even the bones were clearly visible. Isn't this the walking dead in the movie?
The walking corpse seemed to have suddenly spotted Long Xingyi and staggered towards him. The public toilet space was already small, and the walking corpse walked a few steps forward, and it was only a stone's throw away from Long Xingyi. Long Xingyi was already urinating, and this fright made him urinate directly in his armor.
Long Xingyi also forgot about his embarrassment, took two steps back, leaned against the wall, and shouted "Someone!" While aiming the rifle in his hand at the walking corpse, he pulled the trigger and hit it with all the bullets.
But the bullets didn't seem to have much effect on it, the flesh of the walking corpse seemed to be extremely hard, and many bullets flew directly into the wall, or into the stomach of the walking corpse, and a few bullets or two bullets were only embedded in its flesh, so that it shook in place twice, stayed for a second or two, and continued to walk forward.
Long Xingyi found that the rifle didn't work, and was about to kick it away, when suddenly a laser flashed and exploded the head of the walking corpse. The headless walking corpse stood stiff for two seconds before falling to the ground with a thud.
It turned out that Yin Yuting heard the sound and killed the walking corpse in time. She stepped forward, took a look, and said to Long Xingyi, "'Immortal', the corpse that has been eaten by the 'Devil Bat'. ”
Long Xingyi sat on the ground, staring at the dead body in front of him with wide eyes, as if he was afraid that it would stand up and attack him at any time. "Lie down! What the hell! Scare the pee! ”
Yin Yuting snickered, stretched out her hand to pull him up and said, "Your mecha could have been convenient inside, and the filtered water can still be drunk!" I was afraid that you wouldn't get used to it, so I let you into the toilet, who knows......"
At this time, Yin Zhendong also heard the sound. Three people and a corpse were crammed into the small public toilet, looking even more cramped.
"This is ......" Yin Zhendong seemed to understand something.
Yin Yuting directly answered: "Yes, the undead, it seems that this city has been ......"
A series of loud gunshots interrupted their conversation, and the three of them ran out of the small toilet to see what was going on outside.
I don't know when it started, hundreds of "undead" figures suddenly appeared on the street, surrounding Yin Zhendong's troops, and countless walking corpses were coming out of shops and buildings, and many fell from the high windows, struggled a few times to get up, and joined the army of "undead".
Yin Zhendong's infantry regiment kept shooting at the "undead" gathered around them, but the number of undead was too many, and the encirclement on the streets was getting smaller and smaller.
"It's coming! They're coming! ”
"Slave of the Devil Bat!"
In the communication system of the mecha, the shouting was incessant, and it seemed that other troops in the distance had also suffered the same attack.
"It's best to use a laser gun against them, your rifle bullets will have a hard time hurting them. You can also use the laser sword on your waist! Yin Yuting said to Long Xingyi behind him while shooting.
Only then did Long Xingyi remember what Yin Yuting gave him just now, which seemed to be the hilt of the laser sword used by the Jedi in "Star Wars". He pulled out the hilt of his sword from his waist and pressed the red button on it, and a column of lasers more than a meter long shot out from the hilt. Long Xingyi rushed to the front, waved the laser sword in his hand, and swept across the heads of the two undead, and the two corpses fell to the ground in response.
"Too much! Let's find a way to break through! Fang Qitian shouted in the crowd.
"The best thing to deal with them now should be the armored division and the robot unit, let's move closer to the main road, right?" Yin Yuting asked for Yin Zhendong's opinion while fighting.
The revolver machine gun in Yin Zhendong's hand couldn't exert its power at this time, and he was very annoyed, so he had to follow Yin Yuting's suggestion and shouted to the soldiers: "The laser gun unit will be the vanguard to open the way, and the others will use the laser sword to find the armored division to rendezvous!" ”
"Damn, why didn't there be any movement just now, this will all come out, this is a hornet's nest?" Long Xingyi scolded after cutting down the two immortals on the flank.
"The undead are the corpses of devil bats that have eaten them, and the virus is lodged on the corpses. The saliva of the devil bat can make the corpse stiff for a short time, while its virus can control the nervous system of the host, allowing the devil bat to control the behavior of the undead up close. This means ......" Yin Yuting explained as she played, and suddenly stopped.
"Mean they're nearby?" Long Xingyi speculated according to her words.
As soon as they finished speaking, a huge black shadow passed over their heads. Before Long Xingyi could look up, he heard Yin Yuting shouting: "Get down!" ”
"Everyone, keep your body down! Evacuate quickly! Yin Zhendong shouted, urging the troops to move forward.
Yin Zhendong's troops quickly returned to the main road of the city, and saw the armored troops and robot troops not far ahead, which were still effective in dealing with the undead, and a hill of walking corpses had been piled up around them.
"Lei Ling! Where are you? Yin Zhendong led his troops closer to the armored division as he roared into the communicator.
His mask showed the picture of Lei Ling, and the commander-in-chief at the moment was also embarrassed. "I'm in the combat headquarters in Nantong City, and the people here have become walking corpses, this is a trap!"
"What's going on?" Long Xingyi asked.
Yin Yuting lowered her body to shoot while telling him, "Didn't I tell you!" The Devil Bat's virus can control the host's nervous system and allow them to continue their daily activities, but the Devil Bats can also control them to carry out other activities, such as contacting us and setting traps! They're so smart! ”
At this time, a call from the logistics unit came from the communicator: "Report!" Alien Fighting Beast ...... They're catching up from the smog again! We are besieged, please come into town! ”
Long Xingyi looked back, only to see the black crowd outside the gate in the distance, obviously agitated, and many vehicles began to speed towards the city regardless of the guidance of the army, crushing the running crowd. There were also bursts of gunfire outside the city, and it seemed that the attack of the alien beasts was also very fierce.
"The city is also a trap, don't come in!" Lei Ling shouted into the communicator.
In a desperate situation, everyone was in disarray, only the cold-blooded robot troops were still focused on shooting the undead who pounced on them, but their firepower network was also destroyed by the devil bats in the sky.
Long Xingyi also turned on the microphone of the communicator, suppressed the voice of others, and shouted to Lei Ling: "Civilians will definitely die outside the city!" We cover them to the operational command building, where we can build fortifications! ”
Lei Ling thought for a moment and immediately made a decision, "Okay! All troops assemble and cover the citizens to the operational command building! ”
In this way, the emergency response force and special forces went to meet the logistics troops and civilians, and the other troops took cover on both flanks, and finally took back most of the citizens in the mouth of the alien fighting beast.
After all the citizens and troops withdrew into Nantong City, Lei Ling decisively closed the door in the combat command center. Without Thundermon and explosive power plants, it would not be so easy for ordinary alien beasts to break through the gates of the city's outer walls.
After receiving the citizens, the large army quickly fought their way out and evacuated to the combat command center. Armored units and robots are responsible for clearing the undead in their path, while other infantry shoots into the air to fend off swarms of devil bats.
Despite this, many civilians have been pounced on and bitten by the undead, or captured by devil bats that have swept down from the sky. Long Xingyi and the others struggled through the shrinking crowd.
At this moment, I heard a deafening roar outside the gate. Long Xingyi's heart sank, although he had only heard this kind of roar once, he would never forget it. He could see the same expression on the faces of the others.
"The Mother is coming! The city gate is not guaranteed, evacuate quickly! Yin Zhendong shouted first.
As if awakened by his shouts, the crowd exploded in an instant, and once again rioted, running forward desperately.
Long Xingyi was in the chaotic flow of people, and outside the gate, a huge figure gradually approached. Recognizable from the scars on its body, this is the previous mother, chasing all the way up from under the haze. It seems that it is really persevering! Long Xingyi thought to himself.
"Damn, it's hard to manage when there are too many people!" Yoon Jin-dong complained.
Long Xingyi shot at the devil bats rushing down from the sky, and shouted to him: "So far, save as much as you can!" We're also retreating at full speed to the command center! ”
"It was a trap from the beginning, it was a massacre...... "Yin Yuting lamented.
Led by Yin Zhendong and several other officers, the armored division crushed a bloody path from the undead, and the robots behind it cleared those who were not dead and still wanted to get up. Long Xingyi and the others took care of the devil bats in the air, and the logistics troops watched out for the alien fighting beasts behind them, covering the fewer and fewer civilians to return to the fortifications.
Fortunately, the combat command center of Nantong City was not very far from the north gate, and when they were on the verge of running out of ammunition and food, everyone finally encountered Lei Ling's receiving troops and successfully hid in the newly constructed fortifications.
At this time, there were only a few hundred civilians left, and they took refuge in simple bunkers with the troops. Immediately, Yin Zhendong led Long Xingyi and others to continue to suppress the undead who were about to surround them, and the logistics troops were responsible for reinforcing the bunkers. There was a sound of the gate cracking in the distance, and it seemed that the mother body had fully functioned as a battering ram, and the crisis was imminent.
Just as the hordes of alien fighting beasts were about to rush up, the fortifications were finally completed. The crowd took refuge in the reinforced walls and closed the gates. Instead of the roars of the monsters outside the gate, the terrified people inside the gate were silent.
"We're here...... Waiting to die? Fang Qitian asked alone.