Chapter 48: Aurora
"Actually, I didn't suffer any injuries, but there was a lot of blood flowing, so it looked like I was seriously injured, and I just slept for a night." After moving Wu Zhe and a co-shooter into the medical cabin in turn, cleaning them of the blood stains, and then dragging them back to the sleeping bag in the crew compartment, Gou Cao poked his head out and shouted to several people outside the car.
After hearing the news, the sad atmosphere caused by the sacrifice of his comrades was slightly alleviated.
"I hope that tomorrow Wu Zhe will wake up and boost his morale," Gou Cao secretly complained to Xiao Na. Morale is a very important thing, but he's not very good at dealing with this kind of more emotional thing.
At night, they took turns to keep watch, and then the group except for the two wounded and Gou Ke, everyone else set up tents on the roof of the rover to sleep for safety.
However, the group did not get a good night's sleep.
In the middle of the night, the crowd was completely woken up by the sound of firecrackers in the distance, and there were even occasional explosions.
"Cortana, drone!" Kicking her legs up from her flattened seat, Gou Ke almost instinctively woke Cortana out of hibernation mode after being woken up.
By the time they climbed out of the cabin, the others had already woken up and remained in a hidden position.
I saw the flames rushing to the sky several kilometers away, and the black and oppressive corpses were constantly marching there. The sound was so loud that the earth-shattering zombie roar could be heard even from here.
And the center of the horde. It continued to project terrifying firepower, smoothing out the wave of zombies like a whirlwind cloud.
"What's going on?" In shock, Gou Ke subconsciously asked, not noticing that Wu Zhe could not know the answer.
"I don't know, you can see for yourself." Meng Jie, who is usually not in shape, was thinking about something with her brows locked at this time. When he saw Gou Cao coming, he handed over the telescope in his hand.
"Thank you"
After taking the telescope, although Gou Cao had been prepared in his heart, he was still shocked by the scene he saw.
Because it was too far away, he could only see the pieces of objects that looked black and oppressive under the firelight, and because he was too far away, he couldn't see what it was, and he could only judge that it was a zombie by the cries of the whole day.
But in the binoculars, Gou Ke could see the moving individuals, roaring, groaning, and running wildly to step on the corpses of other zombies and rush to the very center. However, every time they were about to get closer, a few orange-yellow bullets flashed, and those zombies who were still strong and powerful were instantly smashed into several black blood mist. Leaving only the few huge black shadows in the center that could not be seen, they continued to pour their terrifying firepower in other directions.
Under the rain of bullets, stumps and broken arms flew together, and corpses piled up. At that moment, Gou Cao realized that the bleeding raft was not only an exaggerated usage, but also a literal meaning.
"What are we supposed to do?" When Xiang Gou asked this sentence, even in the mouth of Meng Jie, he could hear a few traces of seriousness.
"Observe a little longer and gather more information. In five minutes, we'll have to evacuate here, no matter what the outcome is over there. Gou Cao's tone was very determined.
"The people in the center don't look like corpse chasers, and if they can form an alliance, they can help a lot. So why don't we try to get in touch with them? ”
"There are a lot of corpses now, and it is not certain that both sides will win or lose. Judging from the current posture, as long as one side shows a little flaw, it will be doomed, so in the end, one side will crush the other, and it will not be a lose-lose situation. ”
"So if the corpse group wins, then our side may be hit by the remaining loss group. But what if the other side wins? Do you want to go over? Even if there is no possibility of cooperation, then at least understanding the reason for the matter is better than keeping it in the dark, right? ”
"How to get in touch? Now we might be able to win a little favor by going in and helping them, but with the amount of combat power we have at hand, it is not enough to be cannon fodder for both sides in that battle over there. ”
Gou Ke sighed and continued: "And when the battle is over, why do people want to bird us? The basis of cooperation is that both sides have basically equal strength or that both sides have something that the other side needs, and obviously we don't have that foundation. And we can't be sure whether the other side is hostile to us. If the other party wants to destroy us, all it takes is one blow. And we are clearly not a threat to the other side. This means that we live and die according to each other's pleasure, and in this hostile and distrustful world, are you sure you want to do that? ”
"......" Meng Jie was silent for a while, then raised her head and responded, "Okay." ”
"Then hurry up and look at it," Gou Cao said as he returned the telescope to Meng Jie. "The mobility of the group of corpses that shoot indiscriminately is unknown, and the loss side is that there is a steady stream of new zombies coming from all directions, and it cannot be ruled out that there are corpses passing by our side on the way to join the battle. Therefore, there is not much time left for us to observe. You know, the goal of our mission this time is not to investigate, but to search and rescue. ”
"Yes!"
The order was given, everyone got into action, and after only six minutes, everyone packed up their things and got into the car.
To be on the safe side, Gou Cao also woke up Wu Zhe and the deputy shooter in advance. It has restored the morale of the team a bit.
The work of explaining the reason to Wu Zhe was handed over to Meng Jie. Gou Ke returned to the cockpit and switched the several Type 47 rifles around the rover into manual mode, and handed them over to the soldiers of the National Front to operate. After all, if you are strict enough to operate remotely alone, you can't be busy, and if you operate by Cortana, you can only fight zombies, not people.
"All the staff is assembled, and they are ready to go." Wu Zhe, who had just woken up, soon returned to his post and took over the direct command of the soldiers of the National Front.
The rover quickly set off, and two drones cruised simultaneously, one keeping an eye on the direction of the battlefield and the other watching for large groups of lost people passing around.
However, before the rover could go far, a blue light flashed in the direction of the battlefield, attracting the attention of everyone in the convoy.
Point the drone's long lens there. I saw that the place where the center of the group was lost was formed, a blue hemispherical light curtain was formed, and countless dazzling lightning bolts kept shining in the center.
The blue light curtain expanded rapidly, eventually forming a huge ball of light with a diameter of about three kilometers in diameter, and the strong energy disturbance even caused a violent aurora phenomenon in the sky.
However, a few seconds later, just as the group thought that a big explosion was inevitable, the ball of light shrank faster than it could expand. Within those three kilometers, the zombie groups and corpses together with the black shadows in the middle also disappeared with the disappearance of the ball of light.
Other than that, not a single plant or tree was moved, as if that battle had never happened. Only the brilliant aurora in the sky was still telling the group that what they had just seen was not an illusion......
"Who said that the two sides of the battle over there will not lose both?" The air was quiet for a while, and Meng Jie suddenly spoke. But there was no mockery or playfulness in the tone, probably just to ease the shock.
"......" Gou Ke also came back to his senses from Fang Cai's astonishing sight at this time, "Anyway, stop and observe if there is anything else unusual, and then go over and investigate." ”
"I agree." Wu Zhe's voice also came, and it was also not very calm.