Chapter 402: Underground "Power Grid"
At night, Safe City looked like the only light in the wilderness from the sky.
It is also the last hope for the hundreds of thousands of survivors.
Desperate and desperate for survival spread in the safe city at the same time. The vast majority of people know in their hearts that they will never be able to completely defeat the encirclement.
The xenos who watched them silently in the night seemed to be endless, and even if they stood there without resistance and let them kill, they could not be killed, let alone now.
A few hours of calm every night, and the coming dawn is like a nightmare that repeats itself over and over again.
When the day comes, it's time for the xenos to kill more than just death.
They are getting stronger day by day, constantly adjusting their evolutionary direction according to their encounters with humans.
And human beings are always decreasing, and they are constantly becoming more numb.
Everyone knows that if the xenos do not hesitate to suffer casualties, do not rest at night, and keep attacking, they will definitely be able to take Safe City after a while.
It's not that they can't do it, they just don't want to.
In this way, xenos are constantly weeding out food that is not tasty, and then cultivating the rest of the food to be more delicious.
And they, as prey, can only stick firmly inside the fence.
The security of the encirclement in the safe city is very strict, in addition to the rows of guns and muzzles, there are also a large number of mutants and awakened people in rotation.
Every once in a while, a command vehicle is parked there.
Those awakened or mutants are among them, relying on their own abilities and the dual methods of radar and infrared detection, constantly scanning every inch of the ground and air in an area.
Xenos can infiltrate the safe city in different ways through different skins.
The only good news for humanity after the catastrophe is that when the xenomorphs choose very small skins, such as small birds or even insects, their combat effectiveness will drop a lot.
In the beginning, such an elusive way of infiltrating would have caused some disturbance, but now humans have become accustomed to it.
Almost all of the people in charge of standing guard were wearing full-body protective clothing. Wearing helmets, coupled with their evolutionary level, they are almost not afraid of xenomorph skin invasion.
However, not being afraid of encroachment does not mean that you are not worried about xenos doing other things, such as coming in to find out the news, and then bringing in more xenos to cause a wave of casualties and so on.
This kind of thing has not happened before, and it is both fortunate and humiliating for human beings, and even sad that the xenomorphs always harvest when they see it, and it feels like they have arrogantly come in to hunt once, harvest a lot, and then retreat. Leave them to survive.
In order for this to happen again, vigilance must be in place.
At this time, at one of the security points called D4, a command vehicle was quietly parked there.
It's already a suburb of the town, and there are already many buildings on both sides of the road, and cars are parked at one of the intersections.
As you can see from the red dots that flash from time to time in the surrounding buildings, there are quite a few snipers hiding in the vicinity.
The mutation, awakening ability, and powerful sniping ability are enough to pose a huge threat to ordinary xenos from F-class to E-class.
The command vehicle seems to be alone in the middle of the road, but if you look closely, you can see that the surface of the car is covered with a layer of flowing skin. Absorbing the surrounding light, it made the command vehicle look as if it was completely parked in the dark.
This skin is attached to the leader of the D4 team.
He sat on the inner wall of the command car, and the skin on the back of the car completely blended in with the wagon.
This is a variant of a rare skin mutation.
Across from him. It was a woman whose eyes were so blood-red that they seemed to be dripping blood, and the pupils of this woman were constantly flashing with a faint light, as if she was not focused.
In fact, her gaze had already "passed" the carriage. Scanning the outside.
In order to save energy, she adopted the most comfortable position and sat there with a pillow in her arms.
Suddenly. Her pupils contracted.
Another companion next to him immediately reacted: "What's the matter, Ajiang?" ”
Ajiang's real name is not called this, but now even she can't remember her original name.
Memories are too painful, and sometimes they choose to forget, and changing a name that has nothing to do with the past is also a way to circumvent it.
Jiang only remembers that when she was covered in blood, she was found by several survivors, who kicked away the xenomorph corpse in front of her, and then asked her, "Hey, alive or dead?" If I'm dead, I'll take advantage of it. ”
Hearing this, Ah Jiang suddenly opened his eyelids, revealing these blood-red eyes.
"Haha, don't be nervous, I'm kidding. What's your name? The survivor asked.
"Yes...... yes, what's my name? Ah Jiang felt that his head was suddenly stuck. When she came back to her senses after a long time, she gave herself this unremarkable name.
As for the survivors who rescued her in the first place, they have all been eaten by xenos.
But Ajiang's name has not changed because of this, she has collapsed once, and she will not collapse a second time.
All men are going to die.
Now these people are her new companions. Every night when she rotated her shift, she would think, I don't know what day these people are going to die? When they all die, they will have new companions. No, maybe he died first?
However, at this time, Ajiang was forced to retract all her thoughts, and her expression suddenly became focused.
"Something approached just now." Ajiang said.
"What is it?" Captain D4 also raised his eyelids and asked.
His name is D4, which is not a nickname, but he doesn't need a name.
The previous name is not called by the previous person, so it is better to discard it.
When he dies, the next D4 captain will appear.
"It's like a little mutant beast." Ajiang said.
"Mutants? That doesn't really matter. The D4 captain's tone didn't change much.
Unless the mutant beasts are a group, they will not have much impact on the human survivor camp.
But whether it is those powerful mutant beasts or a group of mutant beasts, they will instinctively avoid the area where the alien encirclement is located.
Of course, they had heard from the radio about the oversized beasts that could fight against xenos, but there were no such beasts nearby, and they had never seen them before.
"But keep an eye on it and see if there's anything else." After thinking about it, the D4 captain asked again.
Ajiang nodded silently. The light in his eyes suddenly brightened a lot, and it took about ten minutes before it slowly dimmed and returned to his previous state.
"It's okay, I should have entered by mistake." Ajiang said.
The tension in the command car suddenly fell silent again.
At this time, it was more than ten meters deep and dozens of meters away from the command vehicle.
In a cement passage with a narrow space and thin air, Su Lifeng, who had lowered his heart rate to the limit, stretched out his hand with a somewhat pale face, and took Shu Ke, who flew back, into the palm of his hand.
Cheng Xiaomei and Wu Zhi next to them also looked a little transparent, the oxygen content here was originally not enough for an adult to consume a lot of physical strength here, and the feeling of suffocation would definitely appear. But as a variant. Conditioning themselves to temporarily acclimatize to this hypoxic environment is not a big deal for them.
However, staying in this state for a long time can damage the internal organs, so they can't delay here for too long.
"Alright, we've detected the range they're monitoring." Su Lifeng said in a low voice.
While using Shuk to test the range, Su Lifeng also asked Shuk to gradually increase the frequency of his wings flapping to test the intensity of their sound monitoring.
Now it seems that neither whispering nor acting lightly will be exposed.
At least high-tech equipment can be deceived when they have a comprehensive reduction in body temperature and vital characteristics.
But with Shuke's small size, he was locked by a mental fluctuation the moment he approached the invisible cordon. It's impossible for them to sneak under each other's noses.
"They are on guard by staggering sentinels, and even if we try to get around here, we don't have the slightest chance of success." Wu Zhi also whispered.
He was sent by the captain Xiao Yi, and he also knew a lot of basic information about the safe city side of the Jinling camp in advance. This is where it finally comes in handy again.
"Then don't go around." Su Li Feng Dao.
The mental fluctuation just now was more like the feeling of being targeted all of a sudden.
"It's an awakened one. But I feel like my mental state is very violent, and I've evolved well after awakening. Su Lifeng judged the strength of the mental fluctuation just now.
If he's just a mutant, he'll really be blind when he encounters this situation.
But his luck is also the other's misfortune. He is also a strong awakener.
Although the other party has evolved well, there is still a gap compared to him. The only trouble is how to deal with this awakened person without alarming everyone else.
"This person can't be given any chance to call the police. But he or she must not be in danger of his or her life immediately, otherwise he will be discovered immediately. "Even Su Lifeng would not act rashly near the cordon, in fact, in addition to these alert forces on the ground, just now Shu Ke smelled a faint smell of gunpowder as he moved forward.
The passage is likely to be surrounded by a strip of mines.
In this case, the lives of all are at risk. "If there is a situation where the awakened die instantly, maybe they will not hesitate to detonate all the hidden explosives, and then there will really be no dead body." Thinking about the possible consequences of an accident, Su Lifeng's palms couldn't help but have a trace of cold sweat.
"You can't do a second temptation, you have to make a choice based on the available information, what strength of the spiritual force field must be reached?"
While Su Lifeng was constantly calculating, the group also cautiously came to the "red line" under the leadership of Shu Ke.
Although there was still a dark and narrow passage ahead, everyone present couldn't help but hold their breath out of the nervousness of knowing that they would be discovered if they took a step further.
Except for the water, she didn't care.
However, when the red leaves completely pinched their noses, Wu Zhi and Cheng Xiaomei couldn't help but look at the water.
"See what I'm doing?" Shui snorted.
Having said that, she silently raised her hand to cover her mouth after eyeing the two of them twice, and muttered, "Okay." ”
"Stop playing." Su Lifeng glanced at them angrily.
The crowd was immediately silenced.
"As soon as I give the signal, I'll pass through here at once. This passage is supposed to lead to the waterworks, but it will pass through the city, and we can go directly out of the center of Safe City. The specific location will be handed over to Wu Zhi. Su Lifeng said.
Wu Zhi closed his mouth and nodded, and patted his chest at the same time.
"Then I'll get started." After Su Lifeng finished speaking, Hongye and the others had consciously entered a state of high vigilance.
Although Su Lifeng didn't say what the consequences would be in case of failure...... But does that need to be said?
So as soon as he saw Su Lifeng slowly closing his eyes, Wu Zhi suddenly heard his crazy heartbeat, which was as dull as a drum beating in his ears, and he couldn't help but sweat on his forehead.
He looked at Su Lifeng with admiration, obviously it was him who really acted, but as a result, he, the client, was breathing slowly, and his expression gradually became focused, and he was much calmer than him.
Judging from Su Lifeng's state, he has entered a state of high concentration of mental power.
At this time, Su Lifeng felt that his keen consciousness seemed to grow a tentacle, slowly stretching out of his mind.
This tentacle carefully stretched out, and slowly approached the "red line" under the control of Su Lifeng.
The "red line" that could not be seen with the naked eye before was very clear in Su Lifeng's conscious sight at this time.
Countless criss-crossing infrared-like spiritual fluctuations stretched down from above like a large net, completely opening up underground.
Wu Zhi was right, on the other side of this net, there were other spiritual fluctuations that were connected to this net.
It's a large spiritual grid that can't be seen with the naked eye.
"Hoo ......"
Su Lifeng sighed softly in his heart.
Here we go.
His spiritual power continued to pour into this tentacle, and then the tentacle stretched violently!
All of a sudden, it plunged into the power grid like a sharp knife!
The entire power grid suddenly trembled violently, and when it came to Ah Jiang, her pupils shrank again.
The spiritual power grid underground was constantly trembling, and all the red lines of spiritual fluctuations kept flickering on and off.
The survivor who was paying attention to Ah Jiang's reaction had just lit a cigarette, and when he saw this, he asked again, "Ah Jiang, is there something happening again?" ”
Ah Jiang's hand holding the pillow trembled slightly, his eyes were still dazed, but he didn't speak.
"Hey, Ajiang?" The survivor asked again.
Captain D4 opened his blank eyes again, and slowly reached for a hand to the command platform next to him, where there was a red button that would immediately sound a sharp siren when pressed. (To be continued.) )