Chapter 29 (I) Cannon Fodder
The sound of several grenades exploding caused Tang Shuxing and the other three to stop and look behind.
They left that block, and had already run into the alley two blocks away, constantly shuttling among the buildings, so as to avoid a large number of ** walking corpses on the street, along the way, Tang Shuxing and Gu Huaiyi also used the swords in their hands to slash several walking corpses, of course, it was also because the walking corpses hiding in the buildings were in a semi-dormant state - at night, the walking corpses were almost the same as the paralyzed patients, and the deeper the night, the worse their mobility, and in the middle of the night, the walking corpses would be completely paralyzed.
"Why do these things hit the eye? Why does it look like this at night? Tom asked as he walked.
"You're not bad, you guys can hold up to this position in Alanya City." Gu Huaiyi didn't answer him, but just praised him.
"Want to know?" Tang Shuxing looked at Tom and smiled, "Then tell me, what are you here for?" β
"We carried the Dam III bomb." Tom stopped and looked around, trying to exchange a small amount of less important information for what he wanted to know.
During their briefing before departure, their superiors told them that the walking corpses that appeared here had to be shot in the eye or optic nerve, but the report did not mention that the walking corpses would gradually weaken during the night. Bullets are weird, especially when they hit a hard skull's head, the instantaneous impact will only cause a blood hole about the size of the bullet in your front, so you can't kill you with a single shot if you don't aim it at your eyes.
For this reason, these U.S. troops all carried a small number of Dam III bullets, which are different from ordinary Dam bullets in that they do not just enlarge the wound after being hit, but actually produce an explosion. That is, as soon as such a bullet hits the head, the head will immediately explode, and even if it does not hit the eye socket and a closer position, it can cause fatal wounds in the aftermath.
Unfortunately, this ammunition is not stable, and it is still in the experimental stage, and it can cause spontaneous explosions in the chamber of the gun, so they only carry 90 rounds per person in case of emergency, and in non-emergency situations, they use ordinary ammunition and ordinary dummmy rounds.
The instructions given by the superiors were: In addition to monsters, normal human beings must be shot with normal bullets, otherwise it will be discovered that the US military is using dummy bullets, and this matter will be stabbed to the United Nations, and the US side will not be able to escape the blame.
"So, you're still the U.S. military?" Tang Shuxing said with a smile, "Americans are really slippery, find a group of American Russian soldiers to wear the clothes of the Marine Corps, if they are killed, they will say that they don't know, if there are captured ......."
As soon as he said this, Gu Huaiyi interrupted him, stared at Tom and said: "They will not be captured, they will only die in battle, maybe this group of people is not real Marines at all, even if they are, they are also selecting the elite among them, and the elite soldiers who have been in a hundred battles will be stupid enough to shoot their targets under the premise that the situation is unknown?" β
Tom's face changed at this time, because before they found the corpse chaser and the three zombies, they did not choose to shoot, but just observed, and transmitted the situation and real-time footage back at the same time, but after receiving the report, the boss immediately gave the order to kill the corpse chaser.
When he received the order, he and the rest of the team were also puzzled, even if the weapons were equipped with brakes and silencers, which could effectively hide their whereabouts in the dark, but it was not in line with the principle of action to shoot without knowing the identity of the target and the way of attack.
"We've been s***ed?" Tom leaned against the wall, his face pale.
Gu Huaiyi's previous words were just for the sake of clichΓ©s, but now looking at Tom's expression and tone, he should have guessed that this group of soldiers was indeed sent by the Americans to send them to death.
Tang Shushu thought for a moment, and then asked Tom: "You can speak Russian, Chinese and English, you should not be an ordinary soldier, where are you from?" β
Tom shook his head, not answering Tang Shuxing's words, he had already suffered losses and was deceived, and he would no longer trust others easily.
"Then you can answer me a question, how many people are in your squad?" Tang Shuxing looked at his face, "They are all dead, you only need to say a number, this is not a leak of military secrets." β
After Tom glanced at Gu Huaiyi, he finally replied: "Six people, one ** sergeant, one sergeant, and three first-class privates." β
"You're a sergeant?" Gu Huaiyi asked on the side, and looked into the distance from the gap in the wall, there were a few walking corpses leaning crookedly in the distance, it was late at night, they had completely lost their ability to move, and now the only threat was the three powerful zombies.
"No, I'm a private." Tom closed his eyes, and the line "We were **" still flashed in his head.
"Listen." Tang Shuxing pressed his shoulder, "Follow us, we are now going to the CIA sub-station opposite the US Consulate, where we will seek assistance, there is a CIA director who is also heading there, it is estimated that it has arrived now, you follow us, and the CIA people will send you back safely." β
As soon as Tang Shuxing finished speaking, Gu Huaiyi motioned for him to go over, and then said to him in the western Sichuan dialect: "Taking him is a burden, it will drag us down, and we already have 6 people without him, and under normal circumstances, they will still send Black Hawk helicopters, in case there are more than 5 CIA personnel in the substation, I am afraid that one helicopter will not be able to fit so many people." β
"Hang me out of the helicopter when the time comes." Tang Shuxing said with a smile, "Gu madman, saving people is considered to accumulate virtue, we have already done something lacking in virtue, let's accumulate some virtue." β
"Okay-" Gu Huaiyi no longer insisted, "I'll listen to you." With that, Gu Huaiyi returned the pistol to Tom, "Hey, let's go." β
Tom took the gun, checked the magazine, stared at the pistol and suddenly said, "I'm not actually called Tom." β
"I don't care what you call it." Tang Shuxing glanced at Tom, "The name is just a code name. β
"If you send me, I owe you my life." The young Russian man named Tom said solemnly.
Tang Shuxing walked in front with his sword and responded in a low voice: "If my estimate is correct, not only your team, I'm afraid there are other teams in Alanya City, and you alone can't collect effective data." β
Tom remained silent, and the three of them continued in the darkness in the direction of the U.S. Consulate. Because it is the capital, the more you go to the center, there are many more high-rise buildings and bustling shops, but there is no trace of the living except for the corpses that can be seen from time to time and the walking corpses that are motionless on the ground.
"The U.S. Consulate is four blocks from us." Gu Huaiyi took advantage of the firelight on one side to stare at a sign on the side of the road, which marked the direction of important buildings in English and French.
"Cross this street and pass the back street on the opposite side." Tang Shuxing pointed across the four-lane road, "Everyone be careful, it's a little weirdly quiet here." β
It's weird indeed, because the more you walk towards the center of Alanya, the quieter it becomes, no, dead silence rather. The previously scattered gunfire was also getting farther and farther away from them, and it seemed that the battle had spread from the center to the edge of the city. It stands to reason that after dark, it's a good time for the city's combatants to eliminate the walking corpses, and they won't be too stupid to notice that the walking corpses can't move at night.
The three of them covered each other, using the various cars on the road as cover to reach across the street - what looked like a large shopping mall under construction, surrounded by a temporary steel wall, and an underground parking lot entrance to the right of the high wall, from which it should be safer to walk through, at least without fear of being spotted by snipers who might be ambushed around.
"Crazy Gu, it's too quiet, isn't it?" Tang Shuxing leaned on the side of the wall of the entrance, not daring to go inside, the ghost knows if there are any mercenaries in the underground parking lot, or some other monster, in his eyes, the open entrance to the parking lot is like an open pocket, waiting for them to drill into it.
"You stay for now, I'll go down and have a look." Gu Huaiyi said, pulled out the dagger and was about to flash in along the wall, who knew that as soon as he took a step with his feet, he immediately heard a faint "click" sound coming from under his feet.
"Don't move!" Tom immediately used both hands to hold Tang Shuxing and Gu Huaiyi in front of and behind him, "There are mines!" β
Of course, Gu Huaiyi knew that when he stepped down, the feeling of the soles of his feet, and the obvious "click" sound, had already told him that he had stepped on thunder.
Tom slowly lay down, groped along Gu Huaiyi's shoes with his hands, and then whispered: "It looks like an old-fashioned M2KL mine from the edge, but there seems to be something else around, you must not move." β
Gu Huaiyi didn't move, Tang Shuxing moved his steps forward to support his body, and watched closely around. Obviously, there must be an ambush around here, and someone calculated that the entrants would not dare to climb over the wall, so they buried the mines directly at the entrance of the parking lot.
"It's miserable-" Tom touched around and found that there were two anti-infantry jumping mines placed one meter away from the mine, "Although this M2 jumping mine will eject to 1.2 to 1.5 meters before exploding after being triggered, the delay time is at least 4 seconds, but the explosion is spherical, and the effective killing radius is at least 15 meters, and after 15 meters, the fragments and steel balls will be buckled down in an umbrella shape, so it is useless to lie on your stomach or escape." β
"I know all of that." Gu Huaiyi looked down at Tom, "Can you say something I don't know?" β
Tom pointed to the steel frame wall on one side and said: "This kind of building steel frame wall is supported by steel frame and steel plates, and the two jumping mines are 3 meters away from this thing, and the person who placed the mines obviously calculated the escape route of the people who triggered the mines, we ran inside, there must be mines, and there is only one choice left, that is, to return the same way ......"
Going back the way you came? Tang Shuxing looked at the road where they came, it was not a road, there were still a few cars there, and they were all undamaged cars, the most terrible thing was that the car fuel tank mouth was in the direction of the thunderbolt, even if they ran behind the car, the thunderbolt explosion would hit the fuel tank and cause the car to explode.
"What about this side?" Tang Shuxing pointed ahead, where there were several wrecked cars, which seemed to be a good choice.
"There is obviously a treacherous thunder over there, and it was deliberately left for us." Gu Huaiyi didn't even look at it, "When you are trapped, the living road that appears in front of you is actually a dead end." (To be continued.) )