Chapter 15: The Second Day
On this night, the sound of gunfire and roars resounded over the southern city, and the light of the fires and various searchlights illuminated the night as if it were day.
I don't know how long it took, but the dark sky finally lit up, and the orange sun slowly rose from below the horizon.
Dawn! Dawn!
As the bright daylight of Hexi slowly sprinkled on the streets and alleys of Nancheng, the originally fierce gunfire gradually calmed down.
In the light, the entire streets of Nancheng were almost soaked in blood, and as far as the eye could see, there were bullet holes and claw tears everywhere on the walls of buildings, on the plaques in the center of the streets, and on the cars parked on the side of the road.
Smoke rises through the streets, and some sheriffs and military police are putting the finishing touches on the corpses of the monsters they have slain.
After a night of fighting, most of the monsters that appeared in the southern city were cleared, but a small number still wandered.
The blockade of hospitals, crematoriums, and cemeteries has never been lifted, and the people responsible for guarding these three places are not the people from the Security Department and the War Department, but most of the people in black like Qin Xiao who appeared in the commodity building last night.
In the Nancheng General Political Building, a military warrior crushed the ground and slowly stopped in front of the hall door.
The chief of Nancheng, the director of the Public Security Department, and the minister of the war zone, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately greeted them, the three of them should be the highest-ranking commanders in Nancheng, but now they took the initiative to stand up to greet them, which is enough to show the weight of the person in the car!
Smack!
The door of the warrior's car popped open, and two men in black stood on both sides of the vehicle, one on the left and one on the right, with grim expressions, like guards.
Immediately afterwards, under the eyes of everyone, an old man in a black tunic, who was tall, about 1.85 meters, with very neat white hair, ruddy complexion, and his body did not look very strong, but he walked with a kind of majesty.
Although his demeanor is very gentle, he feels like an elderly tiger king, full of an invisible sense of oppression!
"Commander Wei!" Chief Nancheng walked over quickly, took the initiative to stretch out his hands, and his voice was full of emotion: "It can be regarded as waiting for you!" β
"If you don't come, we really won't be able to hold on!"
Commander Wei showed a smile, stretched out his hand to shake the head of Nancheng, and said in a deep voice: "Last night, the peak chief held a meeting, and I rushed over non-stop after it was over!" It's just that I encountered some unexpected circumstances and delayed some time, sorry! β
At this time, the tallest commanders in Nancheng noticed that there were also multiple claw tears on the body of the military warrior, and it was obvious that the other party had also been attacked by monsters on the way here.
"Commander Wei really tried his best to ......," the chief of security on the side spoke.
"Don't say polite words again, bring over your statistics, it's wartime, let's keep everything simple!" Commander Wei waved his big hand, directly interrupting the words of the chief of security, and then turned his head to look at the two black-clothed men behind him: "Inform Qin Xiao separately, let him come over to see me immediately!" β
In the face of Commander Wei's ruthless attitude, the three supreme commanders of Nancheng did not have any dissatisfaction, and they all seemed to be right, they immediately handed the information that had been prepared to Commander Wei, and added: "According to our actual combat investigation last night, we found that the monsters that are currently appearing in the city can be temporarily divided into three types!" β
"The first is that it is an aberration of the corpse after its death, and its strength and speed can only be regarded as normal, but it has canine teeth and claws, and its attack is also very simple! The level of threat is not great, we can think of it as a big monkey out of control! β
"The second one is a lot of trouble.,The reason for its appearance is not yet clear.,No consciousness.,It has the ability to infect.,Slow action.,But it's particularly aggressive.,Will attack all the creatures around you indiscriminately.,Once scratched.γBitten.,It'll completely mutate into a similar monster within an hour.,There's no way to slow down the infection.,It's equivalent to the zombies in the movie.,The threat level is medium!"
"And the third one is even more troublesome, and the reason for its appearance seems to be the product of the second type of aberration after the second type of infected person attacked the first type of aberration, and the second mutation of the aberration! Its strength, speed, and vitality have all been greatly improved, and most importantly, it also has the ability to infect, which is equivalent to an upgraded version of the second monster! Although the number is small, but the threat level is very high, a total of seventeen such monsters appeared in Nancheng last night, all of them were killed by the comrades of the night, our people ...... Not their opponents. β
"Deviants, Infected, Fusion ......" Commander Wei's brows tightened, and he whispered to himself: "It's really troublesome......"
"What about our casualties?"
Hearing this, the faces of the three high-ranking and powerful people darkened at the same time, and the chief said in a trembling voice: "Last night, a total of 1,263 people died, 3,600 people were seriously injured and disabled, and more than 6,000 people were slightly injured; Eight hundred and sixty-four people were killed, 2,527 were seriously wounded, and more than 10,000 were slightly wounded......"
"As for the nightfall, it is your trump card, we have no authority to command, and their commander has not reported to us specific casualty data."
Commander Wei looked at the data in his hand and didn't say a word, and after a long time, he sighed slowly, looked at the blood-stained street, and said softly:
"Tempest, Storm, ......"
"I don't know if my old bones can withstand it?"
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"Lu Xun, Lu Xun...... Look at me, I'm in so much pain, why don't you save me? β
"I'm just helping Chen Yu work, don't kill me!"
"Lu Xun, if you kill my whole family, I will eat you!"
In the confusion, Lu Xun saw that Gao Le, Huzi, and Chen Yu had all turned into monsters, they writhed their disgusting bodies, let out resentful curses, and approached him step by step, and he wanted to draw a knife to fight back, but found that there was nothing around him, and wanted to escape, and felt that his legs were as heavy as being filled with lead.
The hideous faces of the three monsters grew closer, and finally they swooped down with a roar......
"Get out of here!" Lu Xun roared angrily, his body suddenly sat up straight from the bed, all the terrifying pictures in front of him instantly shattered into countless lights and shadows, he gasped violently, his eyes gradually focused, until he saw the familiar wall, he realized that he had been staying in the cellar at home, and the picture just now was just a dream.
He slowed down for five or six seconds, only to find that the clothes on his body had been soaked in cold sweat, and he looked down at the time, it was already eight o'clock in the morning, and the warm sunlight shone in through the exhaust vent, constantly shaking with the rotation of the fan blades.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Lu Xiaoyu, who had woken up next to him, was startled and hurriedly asked.
"It's okay...... Had nightmares. Lu Xun waved his hand, took out a mint leaf and stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, quickly calming down his emotions.
"Brother, I just heard movement outside." Lu Xiaoyu swallowed his saliva, cautiously pointed to the door of the cellar, and his voice trembled a little: "It's like, there is the sound of claws scratching the door!" β