Chapter IX: Aid
In fact, in my opinion, Long Hao, whose strength is less than three-quarters of my strength, is not the opponent of this squad leader, and we are still students, if we defeat a well-trained special forces soldier like this, then there will be ghosts. Under normal circumstances, as long as the squad leader who seems to be suppressed by Long Hao uses the fighting skills he usually learns, quickly stabilizes the dagger around his neck with his left hand, and then suddenly gets up and does a dragon tail, it will be me, an awe-inspiring friend, who will suffer. Perhaps like many of us, this squad leader was surprised by Long Hao's sudden explosive suppression, or perhaps because of the presence of other civilians, he didn't counteract as I thought, but just obediently answered Long Hao's question.
Taking advantage of this time, I walked up to Long Hao, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Man, get up, it may be a misunderstanding." ”
"He wanted to kill you just now, and you just let things go?" At this time, Long Hao was much tougher than before.
I hit him and said, "Please, do you really think you can subdue a special forces soldier in this way?" You should be their eater of rice. Alright, get up. ”
"But ......"
"It's okay!"
Long Hao was a little reluctant, but he still moved away and stood aside. The team leader who was free from the shackles did not sit up immediately, he still lay on the ground and looked at me and Long Hao with mixed feelings, his frowning brows and cheek twitching showed his desire to speak, and he just rubbed his neck helplessly. Now was not the time for infighting, as a generator stopped spinning, the lights dimmed, and a panicked commotion began to erupt in the surrounding crowd.
"I know why you're doing this, but it's not good for me to have ghosts now, so let's talk about any grievances and wait to get out of here, okay?" I reached out to the squad leader lying on the ground and said to him in a friendly manner.
"I don't know what you're talking about." The GI replied to me in a wordy manner, but he also shook my hand, and the deliberate increase in wrist strength seemed to imply acceptance of my offer.
After staring at him for a few seconds, I was even more convinced of my own judgment, those resolute eyes are exactly what a Chinese ** person should have, and there is no doubt that we have become partners. Since everyone knows it, there is no need to say more, I pulled the team leader up, which means that our cooperation has officially begun.
Long Hao stood to the side stupidly, he dusted off his body and asked, "Brother Heng, why did you come back alone and become like this." He patted me and wanted to get close, but he was forced to retreat by the smell of my body, so he had to ask with a bitter face, "Wow, you smell like this......"
"It's hard to put into words, thanks to this taste, I walked in front of you alive." Looking at myself in a mess, the tattered clothes naturally needless to say, the blood stains on my body really looked like I had come back from the ghost gate, no wonder Long Hao asked me like this. "Huang Weizheng and Liang Minxuan are also back, and there is a new friend, and the others are staying in Qin Rong's lair."
"Huh? They ......"
"It's okay, it's okay." I interrupted, "It's just that Xie Tao is a little injured." ”
"Xie Tao?"
"Oh, it's a special forces soldier who went with us." Only then did I find out that Long Hao didn't know Xie Tao yet, let alone talk about another dead comrade-in-arms, so in order not to have more meaningless topics, I didn't talk about Huang Canmin's sacrifice.
"By the way, how did you make your way through the zombie horde?" The squad leader asked me straight to the point.
"I guess it's because of the smell on my body, I killed a mutant before......"
"Mutants?"
"Oh, that's what you call zombies." After explaining to the team leader and Long Hao, I continued, "That mutant had just finished eating a corpse, and I stabbed him in the stomach, and all those things were scattered on me. ”
Hearing me say this, Long Hao quietly wiped his pants with his right hand that touched me just now, I knew what this guy was disgusting, but it was also reasonable, so I ignored him and continued to analyze with the team leader: "Maybe it's because the smell on my body has become weaker, so they will start attacking me." ”
"I see......"
Seeing the team leader holding his chin thoughtfully, Long Hao hurriedly said nervously: "Hey! I don't want to be covered in all that disgusting stuff. ”
"Do you want to die a clean death or live?"
Long Hao immediately replied to me confidently: "Soldiers can be killed, but they cannot be humiliated!" ”
"Haha, funny, you're still a 'scholar', look at you like this." Brothers are brothers, and I won't show mercy when I hurt people.
As soon as Long Hao wanted to refute, the team leader interrupted our joke without giving face, and said solemnly: "We have enough ammunition in our hands, but we don't know which passage is safe." Now that you're here, you should know which way to have fewer zombies, right? ”
"I know, I came from the clean passage, and I basically didn't see any zombies, and it was relatively safe near the exit of the passage."
"Great, a group of people have already rebuilt the defense line in the military control area, and we can retreat there when we get out." The team leader said that these zombies will move slowly in bright light, which is our biggest advantage. "Later, a few of our special operators will surround the civilians in the middle, and then everyone will quickly retreat to the clean passage as soon as possible."
Now that I think about it, the iron fence that divides the military control area and the residential area in the middle of the base is just the right time to facilitate the fortification again, and I don't know if these soldiers were prescient. "You've set up a new line of defense in the military-controlled zone?"
"Well, the number of bandits brought by Qin Rong is not large, although they used the surprise attack of zombies to break through our first line of defense, but during the battle, we re-established the internal defense line, just in case."
"By the way, where is Qin Rong now, do you know?"
"Then I'm going to ask this guy." The squad leader showed me his trophy, a captured bandit, "We haven't had time to ask him yet." ”
The captured bandit, whose face was covered in blood, seemed to be treated well, and a soldier threw him in front of us as if he were dragging a livestock to be slaughtered. It was the first time I had seen a big living man kneeling on the ground trembling with a pale face, his trembling hands were tied with a hemp rope, strangled with blood, his ragged clothes were stained with blood, and he didn't know whether it was his or someone else's, his swollen face was a little distorted, and a pair of dejected eyes revealed a pleading gaze, looking at me in horror.
"Why did you suddenly attack the Tianyang base, do you know?" Now is not the time for pity, I asked, holding back the sympathy in my heart.
"I ...... I just do what my boss tells me to do...... He said......"
"What did he say?"
"He said that only by defeating you can he really control Tian Yang, so that he can devote himself to the research of new drugs."
It's really a simple and tempting motive, it is estimated that Liu Licheng didn't expect that he wanted to kill people with a knife, but he let others calculate. "Then do you know where Qin Rong is now?"
"I don't know...... I! I'm just doing it, and we'll do whatever he says......"
"Bastard, you're lying!" Long Hao excitedly raised the dagger in his hand and threatened, "If you don't tell the truth, Lao Tzu will kill you!" ”
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" I thought Long Hao was really going to do this, so I quickly grabbed him and said, "Man, when did you become so violent?" ”
"Didn't you see how miserable we were just now! What used to be an ordinary night has become what it is now. There were fifty or sixty of us just now, and now there are more than thirty! Long Hao looked at me indignantly, his eyes full of sadness and anger. The other people around us who watched our interrogation were also affected by what Long Hao said, and they wiped their faces and sobbed.
"Long Hao...... Believe me, since the day we escaped the car accident, there has been no normal night. I sympathetically soothed my friend, who was holding back tears, and then turned to our captive again, "I don't doubt what you say, but can you still provide a little useful information?" Where is Qin Rong? ”
"I really don't know!" The bandit, who had become our prisoner, shouted aggrievedly, "Maybe he's gone back!" ”
I can't help this guy, maybe it's really like he said, Qin Rong has already gone back, but if that's the case, why does he have to go to great lengths to personally bring people to crusade against Liu Licheng, he can leave it to his trusted subordinates. In other words, since he is going to go into battle in person, it means that he is completely sure, or else because this night attack is very important to him.
"Our generator is dying." The team leader leaned into my ear and said, "I guess it can last about thirty minutes." Let's evacuate first. ”
"Okay." I nodded helplessly.
After reaching an agreement, the squad leader began to arrange the plan and deployment to his teammates, and everyone was quite cooperative. We quickly set up a basic escape formation. I was at the head of the team with the squad leader and Long Hao, and the other special forces formed a large circle to enclose the civilians in it. For this ten-man special squad, it is an extremely difficult task to protect more than twice as many civilians as itself. Some adult men armed with weapons also volunteered to take on the role of protectors, greatly reducing the burden on the special forces.
"Everybody's on track! Let's go! ”
The squad leader gave the order, and our absolute defensive formation began to move in the direction of the clear passage. Under the influence of the bright lights, the mutants who yearn for the darkness lose their agile speed and ferocious attack power in the night, and they are like balloons in a shooting game in the garden, one after the other head blooms. Our powerful firepower can basically ensure that there will be no fish that slip through the net within a distance of ten paces, and the speed of progress has begun to increase.
"Stay in formation!" The squad leader put on a new box of rifle magazines and immediately started shooting, while at the same time not forgetting to urge the people behind him, "Keep up, keep up!" ”
As their guide and vanguard, I walked beside the squad leader, and I had longed to gallop on the battlefield like a special soldier since I was a child, and this time I finally got my wish, but I was facing not humans but a group of living dead.
"Bullets!" As soon as I shouted after firing the last box of magazines, I saw the squad leader pull out a box of magazines from his combat vest and give it to me without saying a word.
"Save on it!"
"Got it!" I took the magazine and quickly reloaded, and with my gun I was knocking down a big fat mutant who was about to rush at me.
The real guns in our team are me and ten other special combat team members, and most of the "weapons" in the hands of other civilians are just sticks and other things with a certain lethality, such as shovels and hoes, which are already considered to be the best weapons, and some people are only blunt weapons such as hanging bottle poles or shovels. The weapon in Long Hao's hand was even more strange, before the action, I don't know where he found an iron garment pole, and tied his broad-bladed dagger to the garment pole with some adhesive tape and rope, and a very creative "spear" was completed. But it is undeniable that his weapon is quite practical. He and I formed a perfect combat combination, with me taking out the mutants from a distance, and he cleaning up the security in front of me at close range, eliminating the remaining debris and debris.
Everything is going very smoothly, although there are still a large number of mutants hovering around us, they have been greatly reduced compared to before, the double doors of the cleaning passage are already close at hand, and the mutants near the door have basically been wiped out by a few of our pioneers. Seeing that the evacuation plan was about to succeed, only a bang was heard, and the entire lobby was immediately plunged into darkness, presumably by mutants who had successfully destroyed our lights. Panicked shouts were heard, followed by the bloodthirsty roar of mutants.
Without the protection of the light, the situation immediately became passive, and the faint glow of the flashlight caught the mutants around like our panicked gaze. The sudden change in my vision made my eyes go dark, and it took me a while to get used to it. Fortunately, we had reached the entrance of the cleaning passage, and people began to rush into the passage in a panic. Together with Long Hao, the squad leader, and his special combat team, I formed a semi-arched defensive formation on the left and right of the passage to cover the evacuation of the large troops, but in fact, our hit rate plummeted, and it was difficult to hit those mutants who were as swift as a leopard in the dark, and we could only barely slow down their approaching speed.
It was also at this time that the screams of people came from the rear of the team, and the crowd behind was panicked, and in the blink of an eye, the formation immediately collapsed. We were pushing people to speed up and focus our firepower in the rear, but the darkness and chaos of the crowd made it difficult for us to guarantee that we wouldn't kill our own people by mistake, and this brief hesitation gave the mutants a chance to attack.
Most of the men retreated into the passage, and our defending teams began to evacuate one after another. The mutants captured five or six of our companions, and they rushed up to eat their prey like hungry people. The person who had not completely lost his breath let out a miserable and weak moan, and after I was broken with the team leader, I saw a man being torn alive by six or seven mutants, and the blood of the deceased splashed on our faces, burning my heart.
I wanted to rescue those people, but even I knew it wasn't going to help. The squad leader pulled me back, I couldn't make out what he was saying, but my eyes widened as I watched the living people being eaten by the beasts. Just as I was about to be pulled closer to the passage, I noticed a man lying not far from the door, unnoticed by the mutants, and still crawling towards us desperately, his leg seemed to be injured and he was moving quite slowly. I pushed away the squad leader and Long Hao, who was stopping me, and ran towards that person.
"What are you going to do!"
"Brother Heng, come back quickly!"
I didn't answer them, I lowered my body and ran to the man, only to realize that he was our prisoner. There are several clear bite marks on his right leg, and Bai Sensen's bones are faintly visible. I dragged him down the hallway, dragging a trail of blood along the way, but thankfully the mutants didn't notice my movements.
After rescuing the captive, the team leader and Long Hao closed the double doors of the passage together, and people also found some heavy objects to push in front of the door, hoping to support them for a while. The rest of the road was like I said, there was no threat, and as I passed by the remnants of my previous battle with the mutants, I remembered with fear that if something went wrong, the people who passed by would probably see my corpse.
After walking out of the terminal, everyone collapsed to rest near the exit in exhaustion. No sooner had I carried my wounded captive out of the passage than the squad leader came up to me in a rage.
"Did you know you almost killed us just now?"
I dropped my captive and argued to the captain of the squad taller than me, "Do you want me to die and not save me?" ”
"It's not that you won't be saved if you die, but the situation just now doesn't allow it!"
"But I did it anyway, didn't I?"
"On the basis of almost putting someone else in trouble!" The squad leader stretched out his finger and pointed to the people around us who were watching us, and continued, "That's how it is on the battlefield, some people have to make sacrifices for the survival of others. What's more, he's not our partner, he's just a prisoner. Do you think it's better to leave an enemy behind and slow down the zombies, or to save a captive at the risk of your companions being wiped out? ”
The way the team leader understood it seemed to be the same as Huang Weizheng's judgment when he destroyed the strong lights on the roof of the bandits' car, leaving hostile humans as bait just to leave a way for himself to survive. This may be the rule of survival in the last days, but I can't accept the cruelty of this reality after all. "He's a human being, isn't he? If it's a human being, I should save it! ”
My words touched everyone including the team leader, after all, we are still fighting among ourselves when humanity is dying, maybe that's why the virus wants to destroy our civilization, we are like the plague of the earth is a hopeless race, which can only be erased in exchange for the rebirth of the earth.
"Don't fight any more......" the captive, who was still bleeding from the ground, weakly pulled my trouser leg and pleaded, "I have something to say to you......"
I glanced at the narrow-minded squad leader with disdain, crouched down and apologized to the captive, "I'm sorry......"
"It's okay, thank you for saving me...... But...... I don't have long to live, so please don't make me like them...... "Will everyone be calm when they are dying?" The captive's breathing became more and more laborious, and said, "I lied to you before, Qin Rong must not have left, he should have infiltrated the distribution room of your base......"
"What?"
"Once your power supply is cut off, the defenses you have rebuilt will soon be overrun by the brutes...... When the time comes, he will restore the power and easily occupy the Tianyang base......"
"Hell!"
The captive's prostration's voice became trance-like, and he pulled the muzzle of my gun and pointed it at his forehead and said, "Hurry up...... And then...... Then go and stop Qin Rong......"
"I ......" When the cold muzzle of the gun was pointed at his forehead, I felt that I was being pointed at the gun and generally did not dare to pull the trigger.
"You're a good guy...... It's a pity ......"
"I can't do it!"
"It's a pity...... Living in this world......"
A gunshot silenced everything, and the body of the man in front of me slammed to the ground. He was relieved, and the pain in my heart was like a shot, and I fell to my knees, clutching my chest in pain, and even crying could not relieve me.
Is it really our world that is being destroyed? Or is it that humanity will fall apart before that, and then we will live like the walking dead like the mutants, and the last one will disappear. Are we really alive after the Holocaust? What is terrible is not this zombie crisis, but the crisis of the moral collapse of our human race......