Chapter 41: The Old Days
The car kept going, and half a minute later, a burst of gunfire and screams came from the front.
"Ahh
"Crazy, they're all crazyโ"
"No, please, don't eat me."
Bang! Bang! Several more gunshots rang out, and the sound of metal bounces and heavy objects could be heard.
The three off-road vehicles came to an abrupt stop, and Jolon jumped out of the car, letting the gang members follow him, who pulled the bolts of their guns and began to march on alert.
Heshea tapped on the saddle, then jumped out, her lithe body slicing through the dark cavern without making a sound.
Although ordinary people can't see the dark cave clearly, and can only rely on car lights and some flashlights to patrol it, it is not difficult for her.
The abilities that come with the Extraordinary Career are activated, and the surrounding environment is presented in the mind as if it has been scanned by radar, even if there are some blind spots behind you.
When I was a child, I chose a job agency because I was afraid of the dark, and in this underground environment, it is inexplicably easy to use.
Avoiding the stones in the dark, Heshia took out the gun from her coat pocket and held it in her palm, getting used to it slightly.
Although I had never used a real gun before, the school provided a week of training in a simulated electron gun and introduced some basic weapons.
The Rose Federation has not fought for a long time, and this is the only thing left for military education.
It is said that 400 years ago, every high school student had to participate in nearly half a year of military training, familiar with the use of various weapons, the piloting of fighter planes, and even the simple operation of warships.
Whispering behind, occasionally a few gang members turned around and were slightly surprised to see the quiet girl, as if this girl was not the vase they had expected.
Soon, an exchange of fire began at the front.
The fierce gunfire was almost continuous, and under such firepower, the wandering and attacking out-of-control people in the distance were smashed into flesh foam and slowly fell.
Half a minute later, Jolon raised his hand, and the people behind him stopped firing.
A group secured Hehia in the middle through the brightly lit area, while several others checked the surroundings and asked about the survivors.
"Where did these runaways rush from just now, and what else do you know?" A gang member grabbed a man who was shivering with fear and made him lean against a stone wall to talk.
"I, I'm ......" his fingers trembled, his voice full of fear.
Although the underground world is very cruel, it is still too shocking to see the runaway eating live people, and the scene of the intestines and internal organs being pulled out, he may never forget it for the rest of his life.
"I said, I said." Seeing that the gang member took out a gun and put it on his head, he finally forced his composure.
"They came from the east gate, yes, from the direction of the east pipeline, and at first we thought it was an enemy attack, but then we realized that something was wrong."
"Didn't you resist?" Jolon walked out of the gang.
"We tried shooting, but there was a great guy in it, he was moving fast, and the sporadic bullets hit him not fatally, it rushed over and bit Will in the neck."
"Then the rest of the people panicked, and then somebody started running, and then they dispersed, and then that's what you see."
"What about that guy, I didn't see a special runaway just now."
"I don't know, it may have gone somewhere else, or it could be hidden somewhere."
As soon as these words were said, the people present immediately went around on alert, but they still didn't find it.
"On it." In the crowd, the girl's cold voice suddenly came.
Everyone immediately looked overhead, and the light swept through, and a blood-red ugly figure clung to the rock at the top.
A succession of shots rang out, and everyone gathered fire again, but the guy moved very fast, and soon flew into the darkness, leaving many bullets in the air.
Out-of-Control Human
Status: Minor Injury, Mutation (Lost Mind, Resembles a Beast)
Career Introduction: Chopping Blade Sequence 4 - Unknown (Overall Evaluation: Excellent Dark Silver Level)
Abilities: Flesh Enhancement, Beast Perception, Blade Claw, Infection
Hehia watched as the other fled around the corner in front of her, and summed up a few pieces of information in her mind.
Although this guy is crazy and even mutated, he is at least partially intelligent, knows how to dodge and escape, and will simply attack and ambush.
"Leave him alone, let's move on." Qiao Long frowned and looked in the direction where the monster had fled, deciding that it was better to rush to save people.
"Yes." The others put away their guns, kept Hehia in the middle, and continued on their brisk pace.
The road behind is no longer open to traffic, so they can only walk, as if walking in a complex labyrinth, but they are familiar with it and do not hesitate.
Finally, after more than ten minutes of traveling, the group came to another stronghold.
In the rugged cavern, a corner is sealed off by concrete and steel frames, the iron door in the center is closed, and several guns are poking out of the window on one side.
Corpses and blood remained on the ground outside, and the air was filled with the smell of burning.
"It's Brother Long." After seeing Qiao Long and the people appear, the people inside immediately shouted, and then the iron door opened, revealing the long aisle inside.
As they walked through the hallway, Hehia could hear painful moans coming from the room ahead.
It seems that more than one person has been injured, she thought to herself.
The guards along the way got out of the way, and then passed through two steel doors, and arrived at a relatively clean room, a large classroom-like room with eight beds, seven of which were lying on them, some of them were simply bandaged, some were unconscious, and two were closed by square blocks of ice, and it was impossible to see the inside.
"Oh, Joron, you're back."
A woman with strange purple hair leaned against the wall, her face had dark red eyes, she looked like a speakeasy girl in a dark purple jacket and leather pants, but her current job was probably a medical staff here.
Putting down the personal terminal in her hand, she walked over slowly, and Hehia noticed that she was still painted with black nails.
What a disrespect for the profession, the girl thought to herself.
As a young girl who was preparing to apply for the Erin Medical Park in her second year of junior high school, she remembered that the teacher in class said that medical staff are not allowed to apply nail polish, because it will interfere with treatment and leave a very bad impression on patients.
At a time when many girls in the class were in various nail art trends, Hesia was one of the few girls who didn't touch this kind of thing.
"This is the doctor you hired?" She looked at the masked and hooded Heshia with a look of disdain.
"This is probably still an underage student, even if you go to the black clinic to catch one, she is strong, tsk."
Joron frowned slightly, walked over, and grabbed her shoulder.
"Let's go out and let the doctors do the work." He didn't want to explain too much.
Feeling the pincer-like fingers on her shoulder, the woman finally sobered up, "Wait a minute, your little brother hasn't been unsealed yet." โ
With that, she broke away from Qiao Long's loose wrist with one hand, and then came to the two huge ice cubes, pressed her hand up, and soon a burst of white smoke floated up, and the room dropped several degrees, and then the smoke dispersed, revealing the two pale and bloodless inside.
"Look at you, little sister~" The woman gave Heshia a malicious look, and then followed Jolon out.
When Hesia saw that everyone else was out, she stood in front of the two most serious patients and began to check. As a reserve medical staff, she still has a lot of knowledge and skills in this area, and besides, these people are basically traumatic, but there are no such difficult and complex internal diseases.
Bang, the steel door closed, and Qiao Long and the purple-haired woman came to wait outside the hallway, while the rest of the gang stood outside and no one bothered.
"I didn't expect you to really bother to find someone to save you, it's incredible." She pulled out the cigarette from the box at her waist, bit it into her mouth, and lit it.
"Whew, it's suffocating me." Spit out the smoke ring, she soothed her nerves, and then glanced at Qiao Long again, and saw that the other party was leaning against the wall and closing his eyes and refusing to speak, and sneered twice.
"Why is it quiet again, can't you say it?"
"It stands to reason that people like you and me, who don't kill or be killed one day, will feel sorry for your younger brother, this is simply too weak."
"Can you calm down when I say so?" Jolon opened his eyes.
"No, but I'll keep it a secret for you."
Qiao Long didn't believe in this woman's promise at all, but he also knew that if he didn't say something, he was afraid that the other party would keep muttering.
"I'm not like you." He talked about some of the past.
"I was an official resident of the Federation when I was a child, and although I was also at the bottom, I have experienced a little warmth and humanity."
"Blue came with me when I was 15 years old, and I bought him from the mother who beat and abused him with a T5 standard package, and let him follow me ......"
"At that time, I was also new to this underground place, and many times it didn't go well, fighting with people for money, and I was often injured and fleeing, and the people around me were also changing one after another." He reached out and took the cigarette the woman had thrown him, tucked it between his fingers, and lit it.
Smoke billowed up, he continued.
"A lot of people around me are gone, and there is nothing else to do every day except to fight and kill in the blood, and people like me are very common underground, maybe one day they will be corpses on the side of the street."
"Originally, I was going to die, but the gang was swept away with a gun, and then Blue blocked a shot for me, so I escaped alive."
"After hesitating and struggling for several days, I still sneaked into the gang's station, trying to find Blue and see if I could save it."
"This childish and youthful behavior must have failed, and the gang people immediately caught me."
"But their boss didn't kill me, and thought I was quite righteous, so he asked me if I would like to do it with him."
"Oh, that's how you joined the Horn Gang? It's the first time I've heard of it. The woman was a little surprised.
"No wonder you value this little brother so much, I'm afraid there are no relatives around him except him."
In the underground world, 'brothers and sisters' are very important, and in such a vicious environment, if there is no one around to rely on each other, even sleeping is a dangerous thing, and the 'brothers and sisters' mentioned here are not necessarily related by blood, many times they just come together by chance and establish trust.
Although there are often betrayals between 'brothers and sisters', there are not many such things after all, and they are disgusted by the people of the underground world, and after the betrayal, their reputation will stink, and they will hardly find anyone who can trust each other in the future, which is a very dangerous state, because no matter how strong a person is, he has to sleep, and there are times when he is vulnerable to going to the toilet.
After listening to Joron's slow finishing, he snuffed out the remaining sparks on the cigarette butt with his fingers, and then threw it on the ground, twisting it with his feet.
"After hearing so much, follow me, Jennifer." He looked at the woman in front of him.
"Aha, is this trying to recruit me, I've always been a free gang-free person." The woman on the other side had a pretended exaggerated expression on her face.
That being said, she didn't completely refuse.
"I'll think about it later, I have to say that your story just now really touched me a little."
"It's a pity that my intuition tells me that women can't agree to men's invitations so easily, and I also have to think about a lot of things, joining your gang, and I won't be so free in the future."
The two of them finished talking, and the treatment in the house was not over, but there was a commotion outside.
"It's those guys!"
"They're killing again."
A series of gunshots came from outside, mixed with panic shouts and running.
With a loud bang, the steel door was slammed open, and blood-red claws swung at the sound of gunfire, tearing apart the bodies of gang members.