Chapter IX: Aid

Burned-out cars, blown up composite panels, charred corpses, the stench of mutants...... I dare to pack tickets, Xie Tao will definitely collapse if he sees this. The outer defense line at the entrance to the Tianyang base is now a scorched earth, with blown oil drums everywhere and the strong smell of fuel wafting through the air, which are the remnants of these home-made gasoline bombs. The asphalt road on the ground was burned deformed by the heat, and you could feel a little soft when you stepped on it. It was impossible to tell if it was a human or a mutant, and the charred corpses remained in a posture of struggle before death, and some of them were still in flames. There was no protection outside the terminal, which was the main part of the civilian area, and an army-green armored car smashed into the wall of the first floor and stuck in the building, and there were some figures hovering nearby, like ghosts wandering in the grave.

"What the hell is going on here?" Looking at the Tianyang base in this blazing fire, the confusion on Liang Minxuan's face was obvious.

"Do you need to say it? Qin Rong's raid was successful, the Tianyang base was lost, and we were too late. I angrily kicked open the empty magazine at my feet, and let out a long sigh of reluctance.

"However, Qin Rong also paid a very painful price. Not to mention his people, even the mutants he attracted are not much left. Huang Weizheng looked at the scattered figures outside the terminal and said, "It is not certain who wins and who loses." ”

"It's hard to say......"

As soon as my words fell, a series of gunshots were heard in the base, and Lin Qu, who was the first to respond, said excitedly: "Hey! Do you hear that? There are gunshots! ”

"That's right! Let's go! ”

"Hey, where are you going?" Huang Weizheng pulled the monkey and asked me anxiously.

I took it for granted and shook off his hand and replied, "Find Liu Licheng and Qin Rong to settle accounts." ”

"It's too dangerous, it's the top priority to find Long Hao and them now."

"Then split up, I'll go find those two bastards myself."

I don't know when, Lin Qu and Liang Minxuan have already sat back in the car, it seems that they are planning to drive into the base, which is indeed a good note. The two of them shouted to me and Huang Weizheng in the car, but the two of us were still at a stalemate.

Huang Weizheng turned around and nodded to Lin Qu and Liang Minxuan to come immediately, and then turned his head and stared at me with those strong eyes wrapped in gentleness and continued: "I know you really want to take out this evil breath, wait for us to find Long Hao safe, and then do this plan, okay?" At that time, they might lose both, and you can just take advantage of the fisherman. ”

I have always had a disagreement with Huang Weizheng, but this time, I decided not to compromise with him anymore. After hesitating for a while, I said to him, "I understand your concern, but I'm sorry, I have my own plans this time......

"Du Yuheng, you can't ......"

"I'll take you to a safe place near the terminal and go your separate ways. So it was decided. "Although I also know in my heart that I am sorry for Huang Weizheng, I am not only doing this for revenge, but also for Xie Tao - I want to keep the Tianyang base.

Walking in front of Huang Weizheng, I could still feel his helplessness, and after getting in the car, the two of us didn't say anything to each other. Maybe I felt that the atmosphere was wrong, after knowing my plan, Lin Qu drove towards the terminal honestly, and Liang Minxuan didn't count me and Huang Weizheng as usual. The mutants along the way pose little threat to us, most of them are injured to varying degrees, and some are just lying on the ground in their last breath.

The gunfire in the terminal was one after another, and it could be heard that the two sides of the continuous battle inside were still evenly matched. I am about to rush into the battlefield, in fact, I have no bottom in my heart, just like Huang Weizheng said, it is definitely the best policy to sit on the benefits of a fisherman. But in fact, if Liu Licheng's troops lose, it will also mean our defeat, not only us, but even those survivors in the base will be slaughtered and enslaved. So even if Liu Licheng is unjust to us, I still have to let him win this battle.

The car drove to the door of the clean passage of the terminal, and Lin Qu chose a really good position, he not only avoided the visual range of the firefight, but also avoided the harassment of some remnant mutants. Although the smell of the two large garbage bins next to the mouth of this passage was not good, it was better than the stench of mutants. The gray-green double-opening gate at the crossing is half-hidden to reveal a black gap, like a secret door leading to the devil's palace, and the gloomy air that comes out lingers in front of my eyes, making people's backs chill, and suddenly giving up the struggle and escaping by luck. From inside, the screams of people who have been shot and wounded and the roars of monsters can be heard, and these tragic sounds are finally drowned out in the rain of bullets.

I opened the car door and said a brief goodbye to my friends. Just as I was about to get out of the car, I thought about it, but I still patted Huang Weizheng's shoulder with a smile, put on a confident look and smiled: "Don't worry, it's okay." ”

"We're waiting for you at that gate?" Huang Weizheng didn't answer me, but just smiled at me uneasily.

Liang Minxuan said to me with a relaxed face: "You come over early, I don't want to stay in this place for too long, and I have to pick up Wei Liqin and them." ”

"Got it!" At this time, Liang Minxuan just relieved my embarrassment.

"Don't forget that we have to rush back to Nanning!"

Liang Minxuan's words are like a shot in the arm, which should be the motivation to go home and cheer me up instantly. That's right, I'm going home! I nodded to her with a smile and said, "Well, I'll do it as soon as possible!" ”

Striking a handsome goodbye gesture to my friend again, I turned and pushed open the ugly doorway, and the apprehension in my heart had long since been replaced by a sudden increase in tension. When the door was closed, I was suddenly covered in a thick darkness, but thanks to the flickering light of a fluorescent tube with one end on the ground and the other still tugging at the ceiling by a wire. The roar of the engine outside the door gradually faded away, and the rest of the way could only go down on my own, hoping that they could find Long Hao and the others safely and then impatiently wait for my return at the gate of the base.

The rifle in my hand had been adjusted to a ready state for firing, and I relied on my memory to imitate Xie Tao's posture when he sneaked in, leaning against the wall on the right side, trying to slow down and walk quickly in the direction where the gunshots came. To be honest, I had only been walking for a short time, and my subconscious had already begun to encourage me to leave this hellish place, and the rhetoric I had just made no longer mattered now, and the desire to survive had overcome everything. The lights flickered and dimmed, which greatly affected my vision. When I came around a corner, I seemed to hear something on the other side of the corner. I crouched down and cautiously poked my head out, and sure enough, as I expected, a mutant was like a wild dog gnawing on the remains of a soldier. This guy's appetite is good, the soldier's stomach has basically been emptied by it, and only the skeleton of the remaining flesh is left in his two hands, and the dagger that fell next to him is estimated to be his last weapon in life, but unfortunately it did not let him get rid of his bad luck.

I was still hesitating to kill the mutant who was enjoying his spoils, but it had already sensed my presence, and locked the corner of my hiding place with its most primitive and brutal eyes, so frightened that I quickly closed and hid. Damn, how did it know I was here? I was able to control my breathing so finely, and I didn't even make any noise.

After holding my breath for a minute, there seemed to be no movement on the other side of the corner, and I mustered up the courage to probe again, but as soon as I popped my head, I saw the rickety mutant with a bulging stomach staring at me angrily. I was only a few steps away from it, and when I spotted the intruder, it roared at me like a wild beast, and I quickly shot at it.

Sensing that I was attacking, it roared and lunged at me, and the momentum of the pressure combined with the extremely poor visual environment made my panicked crosshairs seriously deviate, and only a few shots of nearly ten bullets hit its non-vital parts. And I forgot the powerful recoil of the rifle, and I was unprepared to follow the recoil like a little girl holding a gun for the first time, and let the muzzle of the gun rise a little bit, and finally pointed straight to the ceiling. It was a shame, and in my panic I had to admit that it was a terrible thing to face mutants alone, and I wasn't as strong as I thought.

This is the end of the time for self-deprecation, and the bloodthirsty mutant opens its mouth and pounces on me; In desperation, I had to hold my gun in front of it, and it instinctively stretched out its hands to fight with me. Under the force of its impact, I twisted and twisted, and exchanged positions with it. The guy had his hands firmly on the rifle in front of me, and tried again and again to reach out and bite my neck. Perhaps it was the beast nature that affected the intelligence of the mutants, and it didn't let go of its grip to affect my resistance, and then bit my throat, if that else I would be dead.

This pathetic and horrible bastard was bent on biting me to death, and the exhaustion and pain were causing my physical strength to gradually decline. The evenly matched situation was gradually broken, and I stepped back step by step. I thought I would be pushed into a corner by the mutants like this, but I tripped over the feet of the soldier's corpse, and it seems that the desperate situation is coming early. I lost my center of gravity at the same time as the monster, but almost at the same time, I readjusted my posture and continued to stalemate with it again. The mutants still want to use brute force to suppress me, and I have a new means of countering it, and the dagger not far from me is the best weapon.

I was crushed to the ground by the mutant, and its weight combined with its incredible strength forced me to put my feet on my rifle as a last of my strength. By this time, the strength of my hands had weakened significantly, and its foul-smelling bloody mouth was close in front of me. I stretched out my hand as best I could. But the dagger was still a centimeter away from my fingertips. It's a little closer, just a little bit later! I struggled to shrink that last centimeter, and the burning pain in my thighs told me that time was running out, and just as despair was about to soar, my fingers felt the coldness of the dagger.

With the dagger in hand, I stabbed the mutant into the mutant's fat belly, but it was no threat to it. Then it occurred to me that I couldn't fight this beast with the same way I could deal with humans, and that it wouldn't be a good thing for me if its swollen belly was punctured. As soon as this idea flashed, it was immediately confirmed, and the mutant's belly was like a rain cloth with excess rainwater, and the undigested or indigestible flesh and internal organs it had just eaten were all spread over me with a roar, and the stench that followed was almost suffocating me. Thanks to this, the power of the mutant on me suddenly decreased a lot, and I also thought of the best offensive position at this time, yes, its head!

"Get out of here, you bastard!" I screamed and stabbed the mutant in the temple, only to see that it immediately stopped attacking like a broken puppet, and even the wail came out of it, and it weighed heavily on me along with the guts that had spilled from my disembowelment.

I used the last of my strength to push away the corpse, which was finally completely dead, and now I had to get out of here as soon as I could ignore the foul smell of the hot pool of blood and flesh on my body. I raised the dagger I clenched in my left hand, the barbed saber that glowed with a piercing chill even in the dim light, and though I couldn't name it, I was sure it was a good saber, and it saved my life anyway.

I was pressed for time, so I cleaned up the rotten flesh on my body and immediately walked back to the lobby of the terminal. Even so, the smell on my body will not be able to dissipate for a while, my T-shirt that was not very handsome in the first place can barely see the original style, and as for the combat vest, to be honest, I don't want to dig into the upper pocket, maybe there is some minced meat left in it. For a person who has a slight cleanliness habit, now it is definitely a bad state can not be worse, and after these things are resolved, you must take a shower like a way, hot and cold water does not matter, it would be better if there was a little disinfectant!

After a whimsical grumble, I gradually got used to the smell. After counting the ammunition on his body, there were only twenty rounds left to deal with more mutants, and the dagger in the pocket slot of the vest was of little use. In other words, let alone going to Liu Licheng and Qin Rong to settle accounts, even if I meet two more mutants, maybe I can only run for my life.

But I'm going to have to keep going, and it's useless to quit now. I walked more cautiously through this short passage leading to the main hall of the terminal for a while, and finally came to the last double door. The gunfire on the other side of the door had significantly diminished and become intermittent, and it seemed that one side had retreated. I gently pushed the door open, and I gasped and immediately held my breath.

Standing in front of me was full of slow-moving mutants, and in the center of the hall they surrounded them, several huge lights emitted bright lights with the support of the two generators, forming an invisible protective shield, forcing the mutants gathered in all corners of the hall to dare not come forward. This makes their movements as slow as they are during the day, and even their reactions are much slower. These ghosts were like a flock of vultures leaping over the dying man, swaying back and forth around a small crowd in the center of the hall, and occasionally a few daring ones seemed to rush forward in the bright light, but all they got was flying guns. It seems that my judgment has been wrong, the two sides of the battle here are not the special forces and Qin Rong's men at all, but the special forces and some of the civilians they protect are resisting the mutants who are approaching step by step.

There were a dozen mutants standing in front of me, and as soon as they turned around, my heart was numb, and my first instinct was to run, but my trembling legs didn't obey me at all. It's over, even if I finish all the remaining bullets, I'll still be torn apart by this group of mutants. My mind was already thinking of my body being torn to shreds by a dozen mutants, and then watching my fleshy hands and feet gnaw at them. Before the gore had faded, another mutant suddenly appeared next to me, and it drove me into complete despair.

However, to my surprise, the mutant who was walking towards me not only did not attack me, but also seemed to sniff me in a friendly manner. I stood still, just watching the ragged living dead surround me and sniff it thoroughly. Then the most surprising thing happened to me, the mutant who had "checked" my taste contentedly and his companion once again focused on the group of humans in the center of the hall.

No, I haven't taken a shower in a few days, and the smell doesn't make these foul-smelling mutants mistake them for the same kind. I laughed at myself and looked down at my scruffy body, and then it dawned on me that if I guessed correctly, it must have been the mutant entrails that poured me all over that saved my life.

I took a small step forward in disbelief, and the mutant beside me ignored me. I can't be wrong, I've managed to be their "kind". In that case, I can safely make contact with the people who are surrounded by this group of mutants. With the idea of giving it a try, I tried again to get close to a mutant. The green-stained guy looked back at me blankly, and after a second he spun back to me. It worked! I was secretly happy to enter the horde of zombies in front of me.

It was no easy task to move between a group of mutants in such close proximity, not only to face the rotting faces, but also to endure the disgusting smell, and more importantly, to overcome the fear in your heart and to breathe with a calm mind at all times. Although I can basically be sure that I have been "recognized" by this group of monsters, I still can't tell if any accident will happen, and which sharp-eyed mutant will see through my "disguise".

Safely passed by the first mutant, and then the second, third, and fourth were all abnormal. Walking among them was like attending a heavy masquerade party, except that the strong rancid smell challenged the limits of my nasal cavity and stomach again and again. It was also thanks to this close encounter that I finally had the opportunity to observe these living dead closely.

Some of them have mutilated limbs, either severed hands or missing legs, I think it's because they were eaten by other mutants or had some kind of accident during their lifetime. Most of the mutants have obvious bite marks, which are basically festering, and the blue spots all over their bodies only turn black-green near the bite marks, which shows that this is basically the cause of their mutations. But my conclusion was quickly refuted, and a large proportion of them had no bite marks on their bodies, not even scratches, and there were hardly any obvious wounds other than a few bruises or skin wounds. If gnawing is the way the zombie virus spreads, then how did these mutants get the virus?

Before the question in my heart was solved, suddenly a person's name flashed in my mind - Hwang Chanmin. Yes, I remember that he wasn't bitten, but when he died, he became a mutant. Could it be that we are all infected with the virus, but because we are alive, we do not mutate, and nibbling is only a way to accelerate mutation and not the only way to spread? Wait, I remember Hwang Chan-min doing something we didn't do – he once approached the eerie corpse that looked like a man in the ruins of a restaurant and a giant mysterious bud in the rainforest of Southeast Asia. And it ended up with yellow-green smoke, which may have been mixed with spores that would infect people. Huang Canmin should have been infected with the zombie virus at that time, and after death, his body that lost his resistance system was immediately occupied by the virus and became a mutant! Oh my god, I can write a science fiction novel! That's! But for now, this should be a reasonable explanation.

The brief observations have led me to relatively convincing conclusions, but the form at hand is not very rosy. It may be that the smell of my body has faded, and the mutants around me have begun to show suspicion of me, and some of them have also shown a tendency to attack me. You have to speed it up, otherwise you will really be eaten by these animals.

I quickened my pace, but it also invisibly increased the doubts of the mutants about me, and more and more mutants followed me, causing a commotion everywhere I went. A brisk walk turns into a trot, and a little more into a run. I shot the mutants who were trying to intercept me as I ran towards the crowd that hadn't figured out what was going on.

"Don't shoot! I am human! "The instinct to survive has made a qualitative leap in my shooting accuracy, and the stance of shooting one shot at a time is obviously a sharpshooter. I didn't know how many mutants were behind me, in fact, I was most worried about the frightened soldiers and civilians, if they shot at me, then I would be wronged, "Don't shoot!" I wasn't bitten! ”

"Ready!" Under the dazzling white light, I saw a squad leader-like guy raise his gun and give orders.

"Damn, Lao Tzu is a living person!" I cursed, "Can't you understand Chinese!" ”

Even if I scolded the other party's eight-generation ancestor, as long as that guy has given the order, I will only have to become a colander. I don't know why, how did this fifty-meter or so distance become so long, the closer I got to the lights, the fewer mutants around me, it seems that they are indeed photophobic. I could already see the line of soldiers standing in front of me pointing their guns at me, and the damn squad leader, if I were to become a ghost, I would not let this guy go.

"Brother Heng? Brother Heng! Is that you? At this critical moment, a familiar voice suddenly came out of the crowd.

"Long Hao?" I killed the last mutant who lunged at me, shouting, "You tell those idiots not to shoot!" ”

"Don't shoot! It's my brother! Don't shoot! Long Hao hurriedly pushed the soldiers who were standing in a line waiting to shoot, waving his hands to block in front of them.

I'm so stupid, if these people are Liu Licheng's soldiers, then it means that they are very likely to have received his orders. If the order is to kill me when he sees me, then am I not sent to death? I couldn't care so much now, and I was about to run in front of them, and thankfully, the soldiers standing in a row didn't shoot. Unexpectedly, the squad leader actually took out a pistol and pointed it at me, seeing that the muzzle of the black sword was about to be pointed at me, Long Hao rushed to this squad leader who was a head taller than himself. After a slamming gunshot, I heard the sound of bullets bouncing into the aluminum ceiling of the lobby.

I saw Long Hao riding on the squad leader, holding a broad-bladed dagger in his hand and scolding angrily in front of the guy's throat: "You want to kill!" My brother wasn't bitten, are you deaf? ”

Unexpectedly, Long Hao, who usually complains about even moving a cabinet, actually rode on the body of a special soldier, and also put a dagger on his neck, I think this squad leader will die of shame. Everyone stood silently and stupidly looking at Long Hao, and I was no exception, I really wanted to praise my good brother loudly. The other soldiers didn't dare to forget it, and they probably didn't know what position to choose.

"I ...... I just want to kill the zombies behind him......" Maybe it was a coincidence, the team leader's right hand happened to be trampled under Long Hao's feet, and his pistol also slipped aside.