"No, don't ————"

A terrible scream came from the roof of the building not far away, so piercing, so painful, that it pierced through the air barrier and passed directly into the ears of many of the fugitives who were taking the road. When they looked in the direction where the sound was coming from, they found that it was a man who had been chased by mutated creatures to the rooftop of the building, and there was no way to escape. With the determination to die, he jumped from the top of the sixteenth floor, but the frogoid who was chasing after him suddenly popped out his tongue, and dragged the prey back from the air with its soft and sticky tongue like a frog does to a flying insect, and slowly tasted this rare delicacy.

Shooting frantically at each tower, a dense rain of bullets and whistling rockets continue to burrow into the mutated creatures and explode into them, while also attracting the attention of these monsters as new targets.

A hideous-looking arachoid crept up to the top of the tower from the side, threw the bomber out of the tower with its slender legs, and spewed out a stream of corrosive silk that caught the Heavy off guard. When the spider-like man pierced the soldier's body with needle-like mouthparts and injected venom, the soldier who was bound by the spider silk only felt that the blood veins in his body were flowing faster, and the blood in his body was completely boiling. The pain was so unbearable that the soldier rolled his eyes and struggled desperately, but he could not break free from his confinement, and could only expand his lips to the limit and let out a terrifying howl.

Shouting and struggling had no effect on the consciousness of survival. The toxins released by the spideroids spread rapidly through the soldiers' bodies along the blood vessels, destroying platelet structures and tight cell tissues, causing them to dissolve in a short period of time. Skin, muscles, bones...... Without missing a single thing, it was all transformed into a gravy that arachnids were able to absorb with their tubular mouthparts.

Dozens of helicopter gunships hovered in the air, constantly projecting fire at areas densely populated by mutated creatures. With the experience of the Hefei Campaign, the helicopters maintained a hovering altitude that could not be attacked by mutated creatures. In addition to fighting back with machine guns and rockets, there are also on-board cameras that capture a series of tragic images and transmit them quickly by airwaves.

Yuan Zhicheng sat in the office on the 20th basement floor of Xinlanzhou Base City, his face was pale, and he stared at the screen in front of him with reddened eyes.

He saw the soldier being eaten alive by the spider-like man on the guard tower. Although the picture transmitted back has not been dubbed, Yuan Zhicheng can fully imagine what a terrible pain it was? The soldier kept his mouth open until he died, and although there was yellowish pus oozing from his cheeks, fear and despair remained firmly fixed on his face, never to subside.

All this changed from last night.

The straight-line distance between the base city of Xinlanzhou and the abandoned city of Lanzhou is about 20 kilometers. In addition to the new Guiyang under construction, Xinlanzhou is the closest to the abandoned city among all the base cities.

Proximity means danger, but also means huge benefits———— from common supplies to essential weapons and ammunition, there is a smooth supply between Xinlanzhou and the abandoned city, and it is also convenient to enter the city to hunt mutant creatures. Therefore, the speed of obtaining silver bones and spars from the base city of Xinlanzhou is very fast and the quantity is also large.

Living to Yuan Zhicheng's age, caution and caution have become instincts. In addition to normal sentry patrols and electronic surveillance, he also ordered that airships must be on alert twenty-four hours a day over all abandoned cities in the jurisdiction. This approach, of course, stems from the strong supply of materials in the northern theater, and because of this, when the mutated creatures in the abandoned city are abnormal, the defenders of the Xinlanzhou base city can respond fifteen minutes in advance.

Without any warning, those damn monsters rushed out of the abandoned city and rushed all the way towards the Xinlanzhou base. Their goals are so clear that they are almost as accurate as the computer-drawn directions. Twenty-two colonies, large and small, and outposts set up along the way were swallowed up by a creature frenzy. As soon as the surveillance post closest to the abandoned city released a distress signal, contact was completely cut off.

Thankfully, the airship has been keeping watch over the abandoned city. It is a complete record of the whole process of this emergency. The mutated creatures inside the abandoned city are not specifically targeting the Xinlanzhou base, but are fleeing on a large scale. It's like a red wolf appearing in the original herd of camels that inhabit the pampas, causing the monsters to flee in all directions. They are aimless, fleeing the abandoned city as fast as they can. Among them, the number of the shares that rushed to the Xinlanzhou base was about 300,000. Including the follow-up and the part that was attracted to the surroundings, it is roughly estimated that it is about 550,000.

They don't know what death is, and they don't even fear it. The vanguard of the Biomania rushed directly into the minefield outside the base city, triggering a series of explosions. More death-defying monsters trampled on the corpses and flesh of their companions, storming the walls like madness. It was a spectacular scene, like fireworks blooming everywhere during the Chinese New Year. The only difference is that in addition to the smoke of gunpowder, there is also extremely thick blood in the air.

The refugees who gathered outside the city were the first to be slaughtered.

There are about 500,000 civilians outside the city of Xinlanzhou, which can be regarded as densely populated among the many base cities. Yuan Zhicheng never asked about the gathering of people, but only regarded them as a source of recruits. When needed, send people out of the city to choose, and let them develop in normal times. He never imagined that as many as hundreds of thousands of civilians would be overwhelmed by the biological frenzy under his nose, except for some of the able-bodied who escaped, and the rest of the old and weak were all killed.

Now, corpses are everywhere outside the city. There is no longer a boundary between the previously separated refugee area and the minefield. There were signs of explosions everywhere, gnawed corpses everywhere, and dense clusters of mutated creatures roaming through tents and garbage, heads in their mouths and claws on their thighs and arms. The large number of refugees provides an ample source of food for the mutated creatures. The hungry monsters were fed up in just one night. In the footage captured by the air force, some mutated creatures with special shapes are eating while excreting. There are also some people with special tastes, who have become very picky, and specialize in cutting open human corpses with their claws, eating only the heart and liver, and throwing away the rest of the body as garbage.

Yuan Zhicheng didn't have Su Hao's rich experience from the future world, so he naturally wouldn't understand that this kind of chaos that occurred during the full moon period was called "Moon Tide".

Although the creature frenzy that occurred in Xinlanzhou was not as huge as it was during the Battle of Hefei, the power and evolution state of the mutated creatures had exceeded that time.

As the core city of the Northern Theater, Xinlanzhou, in terms of construction scale and defense capability, is far from being comparable to Xinnanyang. Taking the data of the comprehensive assessment of the military department as an example, the various defense infrastructure facilities of Xinlan are 11 times higher than that of Xinnanyang, and the defense intensity is more than 9 times.

In addition to the existing defense forces in the city, Yuan Zhicheng urgently dispatched 15 divisions to besiege Xinlanzhou from all directions. Just last night, when he had just received an early warning from the airship troops, and the biological frenzy had not yet arrived in Xinlanzhou, Yuan Zhicheng even felt that this was an opportunity to annihilate as many as hundreds of thousands of mutated creatures in one fell swoop. If you're lucky, you might be able to take the opportunity to reclaim the abandoned city of Lanzhou.

The tragedy that happened outside the city, even a ruthless person like Yuan Zhicheng couldn't help but want to tremble.

Mountains of dead refugees have piled up on the corpses of hundreds of thousands of dead refugees in a level of tragedy and cruelty comparable to that of the time of the virus outbreak. What's even more terrifying is that the mutated creatures don't focus on the prey they've already killed, and they quickly set their sights on the base city.

Like Xinnanyang, Xinlanzhou's defense power is mostly concentrated on the top of the inner and outer city walls. Although there are many security towers in the city, most of them are concentrated in the military-controlled area, and the locations are also scattered. Although the outer city wall was designed with factors such as firepower concentration and personnel in mind, and was built into a fortress that could be used for multiple ground strikes, neither the designers nor the builders expected that the mutated creatures would evolve much faster than expected.

Instead of spreading along the perimeter of the city walls, as expected, they concentrated their efforts to break through the southern gate.

That scene, Yuan Zhicheng will not forget until he dies.

Thousands of pigmen, oxen, and centaurs, more than four meters tall, rushed to the front, shielding themselves from bullets fired from the walls with their thick-skinned bodies. These monsters have extremely thick stratum corneum, especially large patches of connective tissue on the shoulders, knees, joints, etc...... A 7mm machine gun bullet can only cause a limited amount of damage to them, and even if a 30mm gun hits, it is not necessarily fatal on the spot. They screamed and pounced on the wall near the southern gate, striking them with their bodies and fists, and although they could not shake the walls, they gradually piled up at the foot of the walls on the basis of corpses, forming deliberate "mountains of meat".

The soldiers defending the city soon discovered the problem. Just as they were busy mobilizing flamethrowers and calling for air support to burn and blast the corpses of the giant mutant creatures piled up beneath the walls, a second wave of attacks followed.

It was a large number of dense numbers of dog people, cat people, blood corpses, and all kinds of hideous-looking, agile mutant creatures with flexible movements, strong jumping ability, and extremely fast running speed. Ground obstacles have no effect on them, and the hit rate of dense strafing is extremely low. These unusually nimble monsters climbed up the dead pigmen and cattle men and leaped up the walls in twos. In order to deal with these guys, the defending troops had to divide their men and devote themselves to hand-to-hand combat. Just when it was inevitable that there would be a hole in the firing surface of the weapon, the most terrifying and deadliest third wave of attacks began.

Tens of thousands of mosquito-shaped and fly-like humanoids appeared. Although they have wings, they can only glide at low altitudes over a limited distance and cannot fly like real insects. Despite this, the gliding distance of tens of meters at a time was enough for them to avoid bullets, calmly approaching the heavy steel gates of the city gate, and spewing out clouds of thick liquid with a strong sour smell.

The Black Age has entered its third year. Viruses in mutant organisms are undergoing new changes. Unlike the parasitic effects of the initial virus outbreak, which were intended to infect the human body, they have adapted to new hosts and have evolved towards self-reinforcement. The most striking manifestation is the enhancement of the host, that is, the skin, bones, and muscles of mutant creatures, as well as the appearance of offensive weapons.

In addition to teeth and claws, certain insectoid humanoids can eject extracorporeal structures, which come from acid and venom from the body, and are also one of the weapons.

The three waves of attacks before and after were connected very timely, and the coordination was simply seamless. The defenders, who were busy dealing with the mutated creatures rushing to the city wall, could not form a barrage with dense strafing, and could only watch as a large cloud of acid corroded the steel gates of the city gates, emitting strong white steam, and in the clear "hissing" sound, the thick and solid steel gates gradually thinned, and then small holes appeared visible to the naked eye...... Although this process took nearly four hours, it also gave Yuan Zhicheng enough time to draw troops from other regions to support.

But neither he nor the staff officer corps around him forgot one thing———— Base City is not just made up of soldiers. Outside the military control zone, inside the first wall, there are hundreds of thousands of civilians who have paid hedrons and silver bones, believing that they will be safe forever.

From the moment the creature frenzy besieged the base, the situation in the civilian areas of the city became chaotic.

According to the regulations of the base city, civilians are strictly forbidden to approach or climb the city wall under any pretext. However, this requirement for security and vigilance does not prevent civilians from communicating with the outside of the city. Especially when the refugees outside the city were hit by the frenzy of mutant creatures, and as many as hundreds of thousands of people broke out in despair and screams, almost everyone in the city was as pale as earth and trembled unconsciously.

What happened to the refugees outside the city may be the reality they are about to face. Although there are walls and tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the city, no one knows if these seemingly impeccable defenses can really be effective.

The military will never disclose information to the public, but civilians have many ways to know what they want from a variety of sources. They brought in building materials such as masonry, stone, wood, and built a makeshift lookout on the top floor of the buildings in the base city. In this way, he was able to look beyond the city walls and see the terrible and tragic situation of corpses strewn across the outside of the city.

"For what, for what is the situation suddenly like this?"

"Why did those man-eating monsters suddenly leave the city? What's going on? Could this be some kind of conspiracy that we don't know about? ”

"We ...... What do we do now? ”

The civilian area of the base city suddenly became chaotic. All kinds of baseless speculation and news are flying all over the sky, and the terrified civilians are like ants that have blown up their nests, scrambling to find a way out. They began to loot shops, breaking into strangers' rooms and looting everything worth taking. The chaos and turmoil is no different from the outbreak of the virus two years ago. The only difference is that the civilians are more sober and calm than they were at that time. They know exactly what they need, what they need most in difficult and desperate situations. Most of the looting targets focused on food and weapons, and many used existing materials to reinforce the doors and windows of their rooms. In groups of three or two, or a dozen or so, they either stormed the "A" area, where the rich gathered, or chose a spacious enough building in the "H" area, piled up all the looted items, and then blocked the entrance with wooden planks and cement, and carried various weapons, and became the contents of the self-made "can" with fear on their faces.

Civilians are well aware of the difference between humans and monsters. Once you leave Base City, you will never be able to escape the hunt of mutant creatures in the wilderness. There is no safer place than in the city. As long as the scope of looting and chaos does not spread to the military-controlled areas, and as long as the outer walls can be maintained, there will always be a way to survive.

However, not everyone thinks so.

Some civilians felt that staying in the city in the face of a biological frenzy was simply going to die. They want to get out of this dead land. Through the observation from the observation deck on the rooftop, they found that most of the mutated creatures were gathered at the southern gate. In the other three directions, especially to the north, there is hardly a shadow of mutated creatures to be seen. With their latest discoveries and a strong desire to live, these civilians flocked to the north gate of the base city, shouting, shouting, pleading, and crying at the soldiers guarding the city gate...... There is only one purpose———— to let us go, and now let us go

Such a request, of course, would be rejected by the defending forces. When the strong survival mentality collides with the cold reality, and hope suddenly turns into despair, people's thinking and consciousness are quickly dominated by anger and rage.

"Why don't you let us go?"

"Why do you want to close the gates?"

"I'm going to get out of the air, I'm going to go out of the city"

I don't know who opened the mouth first, and scolded viciously at the soldiers guarding the northern city gate. Immediately afterward, thousands of civilians joined in almost simultaneously and hurled insults. The shouting soon turned into an actual action, and people picked up stones and various debris and threw them at the city gate checkpoint. However, all I got was a roar of machine guns, and a barrage of bullets fired at the crowd.

The fugitives were scattered. This has not diminished the hatred in their hearts. Dominated by this bitter hatred, the unfulfilled demands of the civilians began to deliberately disturb the order of the city. They set up obstacles on the main roads in the base city; overturning unattended military vehicles parked on the side of the road; Or Yu Crisp smashed incendiary bombs at military checkpoints and guard towers......

In normal times, they would not dare to do this at all.

Now, there are hundreds of thousands of mutated creatures gathered outside the city. God knows if the city can hold on? Those soldiers have no time to take care of themselves, where do they have the time to take care of us?

Why should only military personnel be injected with boosters?

Why should only military personnel be entitled to food rationing?

Since I can't get anything, and you don't want to let Lao Tzu go, then just stay and die together