Chapter 97: The Longest January (1)

Eight o'clock in the morning. The sun rises reluctantly in the east. The weather was still dark, but the continuous snowfall had finally stopped.

The battle was long over, and the corpses of all the Awakened were collected and piled up and burned outside the stronghold. The bodies of those soldiers who died in battle will be brought back to Tianhe City when the reinforcements sent by the headquarters return.

After learning the cruelty of the end times from the "evolutionary", the eleven young semi-awakened people led by Chen Ming and Xie Yi also saw the cruelty of war.

Then, these young people, who were still enthusiastic, took the initiative to find Zhang Ting and Lin Feng and asked to join the army.

Zhang Ting and Lin Feng both rejected the pleas of the two, not to mention that they did not have this power, and in their hearts, Lin Feng did not want these young people he liked very much to go to the battlefield now.

Lin Feng said at the time:

"You're not trained, you're all untrained rookies! Even if you want to go to war, at least after training! ”

Although the upper echelons had decided to use the semi-awakened on the battlefield, the power to recruit the semi-awakened was still firmly in Ouyang Hua's hands. Without his permission, the army found traces of the half-awakened in the field and had to be sent back to headquarters.

At ten o'clock, reinforcements from headquarters and elsewhere arrived. Not only did they have a half-awakened army of one hundred and fifty people sent by Tianhe City, but also elite troops drawn from other divisions.

According to the opinion of the headquarters, General Ouyang Hua is currently assigned to some of the elites among the evolutionaries of various divisions and regiments. Three battalions of evolutionary units were formed. After that, the 120th Division, the 88th Division, and the 135th Division each sent out a main regiment of troops, and coordinated with the three evolutionary battalions to form a temporary special task force reinforced brigade.

This task force will be under the direct command of the headquarters, and then they will enter the "bloodletting zone" to carry out annihilation operations against the Quadruple Awakened. And Lin Feng and Wang Chao have been promoted again at the same time as they returned to the 120th Division. Wang Chao became the battalion commander of the evolutionary unit of the 120th Division, while Lin Feng still served as the deputy battalion commander, as for the battalion instructor, he was replaced by another person at this time, and the original company instructor Shen Yan withdrew those eleven semi-awakened people to Tianhe City together.

All morning, the troops gathered from all sides were doing the final pre-battle integration around the cramped stronghold. The commander of the Evolver Battalion of the 88th Division was Qin Hu, and the battalion commander of the 135th Division was Shen Feng, who participated in the first day of the large-scale mowing operation with him that day.

Chen Ming, Xie Yi and the others left at noon, when Lin Feng specially went to see them off.

Standing under the car at that time, Lin Feng warned them like an elder:

"In the last days, the most unfortunate thing is that ordinary people who are not capable of protecting themselves. Defenseless, they are not only food for the Awakened, but also the target of some dregs of humanity. And in the last days, the happiest are the careerists and bastards who think they can do whatever they want if they have the ability. The last days are hell for some, but heaven for others, a paradise for adventurers! ”

At that time, Lin Feng, who was under the car, raised his head, looked at them with expectant eyes, and looked at their other companions with the same gaze.

He simulated the most perfect expression of "expectation" and said: "You have all experienced the pain of powerlessness and despair, and I have experienced this pain in the past, but now you have the same 'power' as I do, and this is where we are similar!" ”

"Because we've experienced this pain, it's important for us to know how we can use this power to the fullest. It's about doing whatever you want with it. Or do something you should do with it, though, I'm glad you've learned that in the last few days! I hope that in the days to come, you will be the same as before...... What am I talking about...... So be it, go all the way and take care! ”

When the car carrying a group of semi-awakened people drove away, Lin Feng still stood in place and waved his farewell arm at them, at that time, in the eyes of these young people, he was like a martyr before his martyrdom, explaining the future to the juniors who inherited his will.

After sending these people away, Lin Feng returned to the army, he had a lot of things to do today, he had just been promoted to deputy battalion commander, and the number of evolutionaries under his command exceeded four hundred, one-third of them were natural evolutionaries, and the other two-thirds were artificially created by the military during this time, in addition, there were fifty semi-awakened people who were assigned to the evolutionary battalion. Most of the fifty semi-awakened were former military backgrounds. They are all half-awakened after being injured in battles with the Awakened these days.

According to the new instructor sent by the General Headquarters, Han Fang, on the surface, these semi-awakened people were all soldiers who were able to use it with confidence - but Lin Feng knew that he was lying, because not long after he finished saying this, Han Fang pulled Lin Feng and Wang Chao aside and showed another secret order from the headquarters.

The content of the command is very simple, once there are signs of unstable emotions and double-mindedness on the battlefield, as commanders, they can directly enforce battlefield discipline.

Just the appearance of signs can kill them, and the taboo of these semi-awakened people in the upper echelons can be imagined.

In this newly sent support, Lin Feng saw acquaintances at first sight.

"Meow! Brother Lin, it's me! ”

Seeing Lin Feng, Yuan Chuyu rushed over with joy, but unfortunately because of excessive excitement, she could barely stand up and ran on all fours after running two steps, and when she arrived in front of Lin Feng, she barely stood up straight. 、

This little cat woman, who was always listless in the research institute in the rear, became excited after seeing Lin Feng.

On the other side, in the command center of Tianhe City, General Ouyang Hua held the newly received information, and his brows furrowed even deeper.

Many aerial photographs sent have confirmed one thing, more than 10,000 awakened people are entering the "bloodletting area", and judging from the movement of their movements, they are likely coming towards Tianhe City. To make matters worse, the garrisons stationed in the four strongholds between the no-awakened area and the bloodletting area last night all sent back reports of fighting the fourth-level awakened.

The stronghold where Lin Feng was located was the one with the least losses and the greatest results. And the other three strongholds, although they all repelled or eliminated the invading fourth-level awakened people, they also paid a considerable price - the three strongholds killed more than a hundred people in total, lost nearly twenty evolutionaries, but only eliminated six fourth-level awakened people.

The role of that task force was not only to hinder the actions of the Awakened, but also to mislead them as much as possible and lead them to other no-man's land, so as to achieve the strategic goal of delaying their attack on Tianhe City. It's an uphill battle, and no one can predict how many people will come back alive.

The information coming from all over the country proves that the awakened on land are devouring each other without adequate food, and with each additional day of delay, their numbers decrease by an astonishingly large percentage - a number ranging from the most optimistic 40 percent to the most conservative 10 percent. But either way, the longer it drags on, the better the situation will be for humanity.

The battlefield is ruthless, and the soldiers are like mud! For the sake of the life and death of more people, the fate of this task force used as a decoy, the old general has no way to think too much.

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The wildest moment of the Awoken's attack on humanity is coming.

No one will deny that it will be a bloody battle. A vicious battle that will decide the life and death of mankind.

Some people choose to fight for humanity because that is their unavoidable responsibility, that is their persistence.

Some people, who chose to speculate, participated in this struggle in order to wait for the biggest piece of the cake when the old order collapsed after the war.

Some people are "smart" and choose to escape

"Boss He, are we really leaving?"

"You've already run away and are still talking this nonsense? Stay in the city, tied to such a big goal. Like a target, do you end up going to be swallowed by the Awakened? ”

The man known as Boss He was called He Ping, a power-type three-pole evolver with a scar on his left cheek, which was left from the battle with the Awakened a few days ago.

"That's true, but my wife is still in the city!"

"Whose wife isn't in the city?"

He Ping looked at the deserters around him with disdain, when was it, these people still couldn't let go of those yellow-faced women at home.

This group of deserters is a group of evolutionaries, a total of fifteen people, they are wearing military uniforms, they were originally evolved people who were forcibly recruited by the 88th Division, but just last night, they were attacked by the fourth-level awakened people in their stronghold in the field, and these evolutionaries took the opportunity to break away from the army and act as deserters.

Driving an off-road vehicle used by the army, He Ping thought to himself: "Tianhe City is a ship that is sinking fast, so we don't want to be dragged to death." As for the wife and children left in the city? In the last days, as an evolutionary, are you still afraid that there will be no woman? As long as there are women, are you afraid that you won't be able to have children? ”

As for the food problem, before being recruited by the army, He Ping, a "caring person", secretly hid a batch of food in a hidden place when the crisis broke out, enough for them to survive this most difficult period.

He Ping said to them: "Forget all those ugly women in the family!" We are evolutionaries, capable and powerful! Now is the end of the world, are you afraid that you won't be able to get a beautiful woman if you have the strength? The boss also said that after surviving this month, more than ninety percent of the awakened people outside will starve to death! At that time, this world will be us human beings again, no, we evolutionaries! ”

But He Ping is not the only smart person, there are more smart careerists.

"The future belongs to us semi-awakened!"

In a dark cave, a half-awakened Blue Demon was standing on a large rock, and he was giving his speech in front of the six people below, similar to Yuan Chuyu, this Blue Demon had evolved to nearly the fourth level.

"The Awakened are brainless creatures with no courage and no strategy. The Evolver is a stupid turtle that can't run fast! Only we semi-awakened represent the right direction of human evolution! ”

In a military base thousands of kilometers away from Tianhe City, there are also people whispering.

This chapter corrects some typos, and because of the word count, some of the content of the latter chapter has also been posted.