Chapter 65: Shadow of Death!
Life is like a white horse, although death is not enough to hate, but long-cherished aspirations, not heard of the end of the world. ββββ "The Legend of Che Xun"
Conference Hall No. 3 of the Lanzhou Military Government.
A large number of high-ranking military officials headed by Bai Xiaohui are listening to the reports of a large number of scientific researchers, including Academician Wang.
ββ¦ This eaux-de-vie requires a certain amount of evolutionary blood to be extracted into serum. And we only have about 90 evolutionaries. Fortunately, the serum can make an eaux-de-vie. Serum by DNA grams. Long, for the time being, can meet the use of our Lanzhou base. β
"Well, thank you Academician Wang for your statement, the discovery of the water of life is the greatest miracle of mankind at this stage. After unanimous deliberation by the Junta Committee, Academician Wang and other 39 scientific researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were awarded the first-class meritorious service medal, and all members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were awarded the second-class meritorious service medal. I hope that you will make persistent efforts to overcome the difficulties in the development of the water of life one by one. Bai Xiaohui was the first to stand up and clapped his hands, and the entire conference hall then resounded with neat applause.
Academician Wang excitedly retreated to his seat, while several military experts stepped onto the podium.
ββ¦ We all know that firearms in the past were known for their lethality, and the bullets caused great lethality through violent rolling after entering the human body. But it's not good with zombies. What is needed now is greater penetration. Through the research of cold weapons such as bows and arrows, we have developed the Type 17 gun family that is more powerful than the Type 16. Including pistols, rifles, machine guns, and sniper rifles. The biggest feature of the Type 17 gun family is that while sacrificing its lethality, it also maximizes its penetration. With a bullet pattern that is heavy in the front and light in the rear, it can effectively penetrate more obstacles.
Type 17 pistol, six rounds of ammunition, net weight 0.97 kg. Effective firing range 300 meters. At a distance of 50 meters, it is capable of penetrating 15 mm steel plates.
The Type 17 semi-automatic rifle is based on the World War II M21 Garand rifle. The total length of the gun is 1.2 meters, and the length of the bayonet is about 1.5 meters. The magazine has a capacity of 10 rounds, a total weight of 4.6 kg, and an effective range of 120 meters, which can shoot through 30 mm of Houde steel plates, and 10 mm of steel plates at a distance of 1000 meters.
The Type 17 light and heavy machine gun also adopts the appeal mode, which greatly improves its range and penetration ability at the expense of the rate of fire and the weight of the gun.
The Type 17 sniper rifle is basically a strengthened version of the semi-automatic rifle. The Type 17 12.7mm heavy sniper rifle has a maximum range of 3,000 meters, and can penetrate 10 mm of steel plate at a distance of 3,000 meters. The example is huge. β
Needless to say, the narration of these military experts once again won a round of applause. If Academician Wang's eaux-de-vie has relieved the soldiers of their worries, then the Type 17 gun clan designed by these military experts will be the best weapon for human warriors to deal with the zombie army.
The conference continues, and one result after another is being shown. Including Bai Xiaohui on the rostrum, everyone was red and excited.
After withstanding the attack of zombies and initially resuming production, it served as the largest human resistance base in the land of China. The Sichuan base is ahead of everyone in terms of science and technology and weapons.
Victory is just around the corner!
Cotton slope.
Stop-and-stop all the way, and finally, in the afternoon, Che Xun and others came to the cotton slope with a train full of pits.
Cotton slope sounds very beautiful, but there is not a single cotton plant here. Instead, rusty cement tubes and dense pipes make up the current cotton town.
Like the other villages and towns you see on the road, Cotton Town is full of rubble. It's been more than 10 months, and no one is still stupid to stay in the town, and everyone who can escape has fled to the surrounding mountains. No matter how bad it was, he escaped to a relatively safe place.
The dilapidated cotton slopes, overgrown with weeds, looked extremely desolate, but this was not the goal of Che Xun, the cement factory outside the town was the goal of this trip.
The battles along the way are fought in the safety of the train, but you can't take the train to investigate here. "It's still the morning team's thoughtfulness." Che Xun thought and ordered the team to drive the armored car off the train.
There were no people in the cotton slope, and with the smell of various cements, the whole cotton slope was empty. Several search teams have found the location of the cement tank, and have detected a large amount of cement that has not yet had time to be made. Everything went well, but Che Xun always felt that something was wrong.
In other villages and towns, no matter how small they are, at least there are some zombies. Although there is no "food" in the village, the ready-made buildings are more comfortable than living in the wilderness.
The cotton slope is so big, there is not a single zombie, Che Xun is strange at the same time, and secretly raised his vigilance.
The first cement plant, found 20,000 tons of cement.
The second, more than 10,000 tons.
The third, more than 90,000 tons.
Che Xun is located on the north side of Taomian Slope, which is also the area with the most cement factories. Without the threat of zombies, the investigation went smoothly and faster. Seeing that the last and largest cement factory was approaching, Che Xun's inexplicable uneasiness became even more serious.
"Wait" years of survival experience made Che Xun feel that something was wrong.
The people around looked at Che Xun strangely. But Che Xun didn't gnaw, just listened with his ears sideways.
A minute later, Che Xun looked around suspiciously.
No sound
"The first and second teams of the vanguard go first, and the other teams are on alert in place"
The two members of the combat squad who heard the order looked at each other and walked into the gate of the cement factory with serious faces.
The others watched their backs fade away, and one by one they tightened their grips on their weapons.
Time passed minute by minute, but the people outside were as difficult as a century. There was no sound, no movement, everything was dead silent.
"Rustle~~~"
The sound of the walkie-talkie suddenly startled the people around him.
"Report to the captain, no situation has been found, we have now found the cement warehouse."
The voice in the small walkie-talkie is quiet in the back. The scene is unusually clear.
Hearing the words of the vanguard squad, the people around them breathed a sigh of relief. The team members looked at their captain Che Xun with a puzzled look.
"Maybe it's my delusion, I always feel like something is watching us." Che Xun smiled bitterly and picked up the walkie-talkie: "The follow-up team will be here soon." After speaking, he waved his hand, and several battle squads that stayed outside the gate began to rush in.
"Ah~~~"
Suddenly, a terrible scream pierced the silence of the cement factory. Immediately afterwards, a low burst of gunfire made the people around him extremely nervous.
"What a situation! What a situation! Che Xun grabbed the walkie-talkie and asked loudly.
"A dark shadow, fast, can't see clearly... Ah~~~"
The voice stopped, Che Xun put down the walkie-talkie with a blue face, and shouted: "All the guards, the protection team will follow me, and the people inside will be withdrawn."
"Captain?" The team members shouted anxiously.
"You're here to keep watch, ready to pick up the people who have been evacuated from inside and get into the car. I'm the biggest here, I'm in charge. After speaking, Che Xun ran into the cement factory without looking back.
Che Xun and their speed were very fast, and in the blink of an eye, they caught up with the previous group of teams that entered the cement factory.
"You guys leave, I'll pick up the striker team"
"But?" The squad leader who led a team just wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Che Xun: "Don't say it, my protection team is stronger than your fighters, you take 5 fighters with the best gun fighting skills with me, and the rest of the people are led by the deputy captain, and they will immediately withdraw to the armored vehicle with resources." β
"Yes"
The team leader looked at Che Xun's face, quickly clicked on a few people's names, and followed, while the others quickly retreated.
Che Xun's words are right. There are a total of four teams in the Huaxia Army. In terms of numbers, Che Xun's team is only 50 in size. But in terms of combat effectiveness, this team is definitely the best in the whole army specially trained by Zhang Nanxi. Now, Che Xun has a combat squad of 50 people.
10 team members stayed behind, and 40 people followed Che Xun and ran quickly to the front.
The screams rang out from time to time, sometimes one, sometimes two, listening to the screams of more and more fear, the gunshots that had become significantly weaker, and Che Xun was extremely anxious.
Although the two striker squads are not as good as their own guards, they are definitely the elite of the elite. A full twenty-four people, how many can be left now? Every soldier is the essence of the Huaxia Army
Slowly, the gunfire got closer and closer.
After turning a corner, a corpse appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
After a scream, a dark shadow burst out of a nearby building. The speed was so fast that everyone didn't react, and by the time the shot was fired, the black shadow had long since disappeared.
"Hurry into the house"
It was a guardhouse, where the dozen or so remnants of the two squads were hiding. Many were covered in blood, and several had their arms cut off. At the doorway were three warriors whose throats had been cut.
"What's going on?" Che Xun grabbed a squad leader. His two striker squads were wiped out in less than a moment. Che Xun's heart was dripping blood. How can I explain this to the morning team!
"I didn't know that we were probing the cement in the cement tank, and suddenly I heard a scream, and then I saw a black shadow moving quickly in the crowd, and four or five soldiers were sacrificed at once, and the captain of the two small pairs was also sacrificed. The speed of the shadow was so fast that the warriors stayed where they were and waited for death, so I let the remaining brothers retreat to this house. It's a pity that the gate is gone, only for the warriors to guard, and every time the black shadow comes in, he kills a brother at the door. There are already threeβ" The team leader looked at the three corpses on the ground with a sad face.
"What's the Shadow?"
"The speed at which I can't see the shadows is very fast, like a ghost. By the time you see it, it's already too late. β
The team leader was very frightened, could this black shadow really be some kind of ghost? Che Xun was a little puzzled, the pit must be a high-level mutated zombie.
"Take your wounded brother and withdraw"
"Yes"
The uninjured man walked out of the guardhouse quickly with the wounded brother.
The protection squad may be a little lacking in attack power, but it is definitely tight defensively.
Two of the four squads are made up of strong shield bearers, and the other two are also the best fighters and the best gunslingers. In the case of a single infection, each warrior is equivalent to completing half of the first evolution. In other words, their physical fitness has increased by half compared to the previous limit.
Each shield is one person high, and twenty-four shields form a tight shield array, and all the heavens and the earth are tightly shielded. Firmly protect the people inside in the middle. Behind the shield-bearers are riflemen, whose rifles have been modified to be unusually lethal without eliminating recoil. That is, they are able to use such guns. When someone else shoots a shot, the whole arm will be numb for a long time. This is Zhang Nanxi's combined formation, which was summarized by Yang Chen and others after reading countless biochemical novels.
The defensive array was formed, and a group of 32 people lined up in a long snake formation and began to run towards the door quickly.
Maybe it was because he saw that it was tightly guarded by the shield and could not enter, and the black shadow ghost did not appear, but Che Xun could feel it, and it had been wandering around, waiting for a hole in the shield array.
Che Xun suddenly thought of something, and picked up the walkie-talkie: "Wang He [3 squad leader], Wang He, let everyone withdraw to the armored car." β
"Understood"
Che Xun breathed a sigh of relief and continued on his way. This dark shadow ghost is too weird, extremely fast, and has a very strong attack power. If it is leveled on the ground, it is estimated that no one is its opponent, and it can only rely on strong armored vehicles to defend.
A bend appeared in front of him, and the gap on the other side of the long snake formation was slightly larger.
"Knock"
The shield-bearer on the left stumbled and nearly fell. As soon as he stabilized his body, he was stunned.
In order to prevent the shield array from leaking due to the mistake of one person, all the shields are connected by iron chains. In this way, even if there is a problem with one shield player, the others will have time to react.
Now, the shield-bearer was in a cold sweat as he looked at the marks that appeared on the chains.
Their shields were made of hard pure steel, and each one weighed more than ten pounds. Therefore, the chains connecting the shields must be stronger.
Each shield has two iron rings on one side that hold the chains in place. Now, on the iron chain above, there are three deep cuts. The deepest one almost cuts through the chain the thickness of the chopsticks. You know, even if these chains are chopped with an axe, it will take a dozen strokes to cut them. This ghost's claws are made of above, are they harder than steel? Still sharp?
With such an episode, all the shield players are more careful, preferring to be slow and not show flaws.
The long snake formation slowly walked through the cement factory and walked out of the gate. Seeing the armored car in a semicircle around the door, Che Xun breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, Che Xun saw a dark shadow on the gate of the cement factory: "Be careful"
Before the latter word could be shouted, the black shadow jumped down at a gallop and landed on the back half of the long snake formation. After a few steps, he lifted a shield that covered it and jumped in.
"Ahhh
Several screams rang out, and the tail of the long snake array was suddenly amputated. Several shieldmen and several warriors who were left behind fell to the ground screaming. The shield hand near the half-cut of the long snake formation quickly closed in the middle, once again guarding everyone tightly.
More people looked through the shooting holes in the shields, desperately pulling the trigger on the black shadows scurrying all over the ground.
But it was too late, and the dozen or so fighters who were lagging behind had already been killed or wounded. The rest of the people lost the protection of their shields, and they were running forward with panicked faces.
Those who can run out are the elite riflemen of the Guard. And the shield bearer is very miserable, in order to better stabilize the shield, they generally fix the shield to the arm. Once the shield array was broken, they didn't have time to untie the shield, so they could only watch as they had more fatal wounds on their bodies.
There were fewer and fewer fighters who could run, and in just a few seconds, only one of the fighters at the front was still running wildly. There were only a few steps left to arrive, and the shield array had even revealed a small opening.
With the joy of survival on his face, the warrior was about to burrow into the shield.
Suddenly, he froze. The shield array quickly closed in less than a second, throwing him outside.
"it, open the ......"
The soldier's face was full of astonishment, and he couldn't help but curse.
But as soon as I said three words, I felt a cold neck, and then I flew up in a whirlwind. There seemed to be a dark shadow in his eyes, "What's going on?" "The thought came to my head, and then I didn't know anything.
Although the warrior was a little confused, the warrior hiding in the shield array could see it clearly.
The black shadow chopped melons and vegetables and knocked down the few soldiers who were running, and then chased after them.
A dark light flashed,
"Brush"
A head flew into the sky.
The corpse that had lost its head ran forward a few steps with inertia, slamming heavily into the shield.
"Sneer~~"
Countless pieces of blood spurted out of his neck, staining most of his shield red.
The gunners in the shield array were frightened and angry, and fired repeatedly, but the speed of the black shadow was so fast that all the bullets fell into the air.
The remnants of the wounded soldiers with broken arms and legs were split by the black shadow before they even had time to scream. Then a black shadow flashed, and the gate was empty again.
Everyone was silent, stunned to look at the corpses and blood everywhere, not knowing what to do.
"That thing is on the gate"
Suddenly, someone in the group shouted, and everyone looked up, and then everyone froze
A cat
A cat with a purple body
A cat with a reflection on its paws
A cat with a purple glow in its eyes
Everyone understood that the Black Shadow Ghost was not a ghost, but this mutated zombie black cat.
Draw the gun, aim, pull the trigger
"Papapapa"
The whole process took less than a second, and Che Xun's two pistols had already gone off twice.
Four bullets landed on the black cat's head.
"Meow~~"
The black cat screamed, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Hearing the gunshots, the rest of the people reacted, and countless bullets smashed the gate of the cement factory into stone chips, but to no avail.
"Stop"
Che Xun roared, and the gunfire stopped.
"The zombie cat has been injured by me. Everyone hurriedly got into the car, leaving two more people to see off the scratched brother. β
The warriors in the shield array were stunned for a moment, and then quickly ran towards the armored car not far away.
The remaining two fighters ran to the corpses, pulled off their badges, and then pulled out their pistols and gave the wounded no one a shot.
Returning to the armored car, Che Xun's fluttering heart slowly recovered.
"Captain, did you kill that zombie cat?" Wang He's voice came from the walkie-talkie on the armored car.
"No, it seems to have blinded one of its eyes. Well, this place should not stay for a long time, retreat immediately"
Che Xun looked at the corpses of the dead team members through the shooting hole, and let out a long sigh.
This time the operation was a failure.
The cement plant was found, and a lot of cement was found, but there was no chance to transport it all back. Although he was lucky to hit the zombie cat, he was only injured and did not die. With such a high-level zombie here, how many people come are in vain.
But this time the hidden mission of the operation has been completed, and the changes outside are great, big, and incredible. Whether it is a deformed pig, or a zombie rat that knows how to advance and retreat, as well as those zombie pigs and zombie cows that are scarce in number but extremely strong, they are all seen by Che Xun in the defense of Chengdu. But it's the zombie cat that has just been handed over, but I can't see it.
"When you return to the base, you must change your previous tactics, otherwise you will suffer a big loss," Che Xun thought secretly.
The armored vehicle began to quickly retreat along the road it had come, and all the occupants of the vehicle fell silent.
This time the battle lost more than thirty people, although it seems that there are not many of them. But every soldier here is a treasure in each team, and they are all the backbone, and after losing so many excellent soldiers at once, the Huaxia Army was injured for the first time.
The armored convoy kicked up a puff of dust and left the cotton slope. The zombies around me have been cleared of the zombies on the way before, and the way back is very quiet. There are no blinding zombies coming to make trouble.
Everyone was looking forward to going home immediately, and kept urging the driver to hurry up. No one saw that in the woods on both sides of the road, a dark shadow was following quickly.
The distance to the train is only 800 meters, but the road is not straight.
At the same time, the black shadow that had followed all the way paused slightly, and landed lightly on a big tree. Licking his tongue, his only remaining eye revealed an extremely bloodthirsty gaze.......
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