Chapter 106: The Dying Girl
At dawn, the massacre in Felton continued. Countless corpses of civilians were pulled out of the city by trucks of field army troops, and thrown into mass graves dug in Haode for burial.
As early as the beginning of the massacre, Jeff ordered the logistics units of the various army groups to dig hundreds of pits outside Felton, enough to hold tens of thousands of corpses. And he, who was blinded by hatred, seemed to have thought about it a long time ago, and wanted to take the corpses of nearly 10 million civilians in Felton to pay tribute to the monstrous blood feud in his heart.
Under the bombardment of high-powered plasma artillery, grenades, laser beams, and missiles of all kinds, a large part of the bodies of those innocent people had become mutilated, and some even had only scattered pieces of flesh and blood. The logistics soldiers of the field army who were responsible for cleaning up the corpses, after a day and a night of suffering in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, seemed to have their nerves paralyzed, and one by one they drove transport trucks to mechanically pull out mutilated corpses from the streets, buildings, and other corners of the rubble, and threw them onto the transport trucks.
In order to prevent a large-scale plague, the medical detachments of various units were dispatched one after another, using medical transport planes to spray a wide variety of disinfectants over and over again on this hellish city.
As the capital of the new republic, Felton was about to be wiped off the map of the planet. And its current owner, Prime Minister Bertreme, seems to be in the same situation as the city, and is also dying and about to die.
"Dad......" In that sewer, Erin's originally delicate voice was already crying hoarse, and a pretty face that had been dirty was now washed white by her crystal tears, which made people feel painful.
"Don't, don't cry, child......" beside her, the bloodless Burtreum exclaimed in a breathless voice, struggling to raise her trembling old hand to caress the face of the flower season that was close in front of her.
Hao Yi, who was standing aside with a tactical flashlight, looked down at the father and daughter silently, and couldn't help but sigh softly.
Bertreum is awake. However, the two new terrifying wounds on his chest and back almost immediately pronounced his death sentence, even if Hao Yi was a Hua Tuo divine doctor, I am afraid that there is no way to return to heaven to free Bertreum from the clutches of death.
Speaking of which, Hao Yi has to thank Bertram. When escaping from that building, it looked like he was running for his life with Bertreum on his back. However, when the air-to-ground missile hit the ground, it happened to be Bertlem on his back who blocked a piece of shrapnel flying sideways for him. And it was that piece of shrapnel that cut straight into Bertram's back and shredded his internal organs.
The seemingly terrifying wound on Bertram's chest was not as fatal as the large wound on his back. The wound was left by Bertlem when he was swept into the sewer by the exploding gas Lang Lang when he was followed by Hao Yi, and he hit an angular block of cement. Although the wound area is large and the flesh looks blurry, it has not actually hurt the internal organs. However, for Bertreim, who was already seriously injured, the wound was enough to cause him to lose too much blood and die.
For these reasons, even if Hao Yi can find all the much-needed medicines in this filthy sewer, he will not be able to save the life of this great man who once dominated the St. Proli Star District.
"Hey, the old man is running out of time, what else do you have to say, hurry up and tell your daughter!" Seeing Bertlem, who was about to die, Hao Yi's heart softened, and he couldn't help but remind him implicitly. Before, he was used to calling Bertreme an old immortal, but when the words were about to be spoken, Haoyi held back stiffly, and then changed to a somewhat respectful title. After all, in the final analysis, there is no deep hatred between Bertreum and Haoyi. The two of them are just a few faces, and they have to fight for their lives for the shili behind their backs.
“xiexie!” Bertreum was leaning into the sewer at the moment, a slightly clean concrete floor, pillowing Hao Yi's undressed armor. He turned his head when he heard the sound, met the bright flashlight, and glanced at Hao Yi's eyes, the old eyes that were originally a little dim seemed to flicker faintly, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he spit out two unclear words.
"Hmm!" Hao Yi nodded involuntarily in response. When he felt that Bertlem swept that deep vision, Hao Yi's heart trembled for no reason, and he faintly felt that he was seen through by the old and spicy guy in front of him.
"Can you, can you let my daughter and I talk alone?" Bertreum closed his old eyes tiredly, as if he had accumulated some strength, and then opened his eyes again, and said slowly in a voice so low that he could only hear Hao Yi lying down.
"I'm going to walk ahead, and I'm calling out for something!" Hao Yi nodded, turned his head to Erin, who was still sobbing quietly, and gave an order, and put the flashlight into Erin's hand again, and then turned around and walked away.
As the capital of the planet Melsa, Felton City's sewer system was originally quite complete, with fluorescent lights powered by an emergency lighting system at intervals on the vaulted walls, in addition to the various facilities that should have been in place. However, at this moment, presumably because the field army troops had destroyed all the backup power systems in the city during the attack on Felton, even the emergency fluorescent lights with the signs were useless. If it weren't for the little light leaking from the cracks in the sewer manhole covers every few tens of meters, the whole sewer would have been really dark, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that you can't see your fingers.
"Buzz ......" There was a sudden roar of the chariot engine above the head more than three meters high, and clusters of crushed stone powder fell with a clatter. Hao Yi shook off the dust on his head, raised his eyes to look at the beams of light that leaked from the cracks in the manhole cover and gradually brightened, and muttered to himself in a low voice: "It's dawn?" These turtle grandchildren still don't stop? ”
After coming to Feltun, Hao Yi had been in the city for less than ten days. And in this short period of ten days, one thing after another happened. Taking advantage of the rare purity at this moment, Haoyi thought about it carefully, and every thing in it could be called thrilling.
From ambushing the convoy of envoys in the Fifth War Zone, evading the pursuit of agents of the new government of St. Proli, bravely breaking into the underground headquarters of the Secret Service, to being accidentally captured and unexpectedly rescued, until now he is involved in the inexplicable civil war of St. Proli. All of this, thinking about it, always makes Hao Yi feel helpless to cry and laugh.
It seemed like a simple assassination mission, but it was frequently extraneous. In the end, even Hao Yi himself almost forgot what he was doing here.
"Damn, this day the old man is about to play the dead young master!" Haoyi let out a long sigh of relief, found a slightly clean place to sit down, and habitually touched his jacket pocket, and couldn't wait to turn over a cigarette or something to smoke. However, his pockets were so clean that he didn't even have a lighter.
"Ya, when you escape from this hellish place, Lao Tzu will have to get a bag of cigarettes to taste!" I don't know when it started, Haoyi actually faintly liked the taste of cigarettes, and felt that the pleasure of swallowing clouds and spitting fog could make him feel relaxed all over his body. Looking at the beams leaking from the cracks in the manhole cover in a daze, Haoyi actually felt a little like a dream.
"Haoyi!" At this moment, there was a soft call from Erin behind him. Haoyi was stunned when he heard this, and when he turned around, he saw Erin slowly walking over with a flashlight, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What's wrong, auntie?" ”
"My dad asks you to come over, he has something to tell you!" Erin's pale little face was vaguely streaked with tears, and her expression was quite lonely and sad.
"Huh?" Hao Yi was even more stunned when he heard this, and asked in amazement: "Grandma, what did you say?" ”
Although this Bertreum did not have a deep grudge against him, he came here with a mission to assassinate him, and this old guy almost killed himself. Right now, when he was dying, he actually had something to say to himself, which somewhat made Haoyi a little confused.
"My father, he has something to talk to you about alone!" Erin raised her still misty eyes, glanced at Haoyi thoughtfully, and said.
"Isn't it?" Haoyi finally heard Erin's words clearly this time, and scratched his head with an incredulous face. However, when he saw Erin nodding quite seriously, he had no choice but to answer helplessly, and walked towards Bertrem.
"Hey, flashlight!" Erin suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly reached out to hand the flashlight over.
"Keep it for yourself, it's dark here!" Haoyi dropped a sentence and strode away.
"Young man, for my sake, can you tell me who you really are?" As soon as Haoyi touched Bertlem's side, he heard the darkness, and Bertlem let out a long sigh and said lightly.
Listening to Bertelem's smooth tone, it seemed to be much better than the dying appearance just now. However, Haoyi also knew that this might just be the old guy's return to the light.
"Okay!" Haoyi vaguely saw Bertreum lying at his feet, sat down beside him with a little groan, sorted out his thoughts a little and said: "Actually, I'm a big-headed soldier......" Knowing that Bertlem has nothing to do, Haoyi doesn't have so many scruples in his heart, so he simply briefly talked about his experience from joining the army to the present.
In this way, Haoyi was talking here, and Bertrim, who was lying on the ground, asked a question or two from time to time, and the two chatted for more than ten minutes unconsciously.
"Then, I drove the fire assault car in a daze, and almost hit your precious daughter!" Haoyi said intermittently that his superpowers were out of control, driving a vicious fire assault car all over the city, and Zuihou miraculously met Erin Bertlem and others again. However, when he stopped talking, he suddenly sensed that something was wrong with Bertreum beside him. Not only could I not hear his curious inquiry, but I didn't even seem to be able to hear his breathing.
"Hey, old immortal, can't you just hang up like this?" Haoyi was suddenly in a hurry. He had a feeling that Bertlem must have something to tell him in person when he called him over, and it was absolutely impossible just to listen to Haoyi's own story.
"Ahem, I'm fine!" In the darkness, Bertram's light cough was finally heard again, and Haoyi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. However, before the stone in his heart could land, Berthrum asked another sentence that almost made his head crash.
"Haoyi, can I entrust my daughter to you?"