Chapter Seventy-Four: The Clinic
"Don't talk nonsense!" Tom looked around, then cautiously continued with the others as close to the shadow in the corner as possible.
"There's a shop over there." Anne tugged at Tom's clothes and pointed to the corner diagonally across the road.
Knowing that they are all hungry, in fact, the fat man is hungrier than them!
But having been on the battlefield, he knew that in this situation, he could encounter danger at any time. In line with the principle that he would rather starve to death than be beaten to death, from the moment he left the house on the farm on the outskirts of the city, Tom once again raised his vigilance, for fear that something would go wrong and alarm the Vilia Imperial army in the city.
But there was no one around, and Tom weighed it up and took Anne and walked quietly towards the shop.
The door of the store was unlocked and opened with a slight push.
Team Doctor Wang couldn't wait to run in, rummaging around, but he didn't find anything to eat. There are basically empty shelves left in this store, and nothing else.
"It's like locusts coming." Team Doctor Wang sighed in disappointment.
It's so weird!
Tom knows very well that there are people where there is food! This store is not small, and it is impossible to say that it is empty like this now.
Where the fuck are all the people who live here?
Several people came out of the store empty-handed, looking at the empty streets, their faces blank.
"I'll take you somewhere." With that, Tom began to trot along the shadowy part of the street.
Bai Jie, Anne, and Doctor Wang hurriedly followed him and ran towards the city.
Tom is going to a secret liaison point in the city of Oakrantis where the Gloria guerrillas used to go there to drink and brag and fart with his fellow guerrillas, so he knows the person in charge of the place very well.
It's been a long time since the Glorian partisans have been heard from in the Barcel branch, and now the whole city seems to be empty, all this is so unusual!
Tom wanted to find out what was going on as soon as possible than he was hungry!
After running through two streets, Anne and Doctor Wang were too tired to do anything, and they shouted for a rest.
Tom and Bai Jie both frowned, so they had to slow down, and the four of them continued to walk forward.
Turning an alley, a light suddenly came from the intersection in front of him, and Tom hurriedly beckoned everyone behind him to squat down and stop moving.
The four of them squatted in the corner of a shop on the side of the street, quietly poked their heads out and looked in the direction of the light, and when they looked closely, they found that it was a group of patrol soldiers of the Vilia Empire, there were about twenty people, and there was actually a skeleton mecha behind them!
The mech unit of the Blood Wolf Legion has entered the city!
Tom hurriedly gestured to the three people beside him, signaling them not to make a sound now, and never to move!
Generally, military mechs have thermal imagers in their cockpits, and the search range for human heat sources is about two kilometers.
Although all four are now hiding behind thick corners, blocking the thermal imager's ray search. But now they were only a few hundred meters away from that skeleton mecha in a straight line, which was too dangerous!
At this moment, the skeleton mecha suddenly turned around, and the cockpit stopped in the direction where Tom and the four of them were hiding.
The hearts of the four people suddenly rose to their throats!
They only have an energy pistol now, and Anne and Doctor Wang are both non-combatants, and Bai Jie is also a rookie who has never been on the battlefield.
And the other side now has more than twenty heavily armed soldiers, as well as a skeleton mecha!
In the event of a firefight between the two sides if they found out, Tom was confident that he could escape alone. But the other three were not so far, and they were probably either killed on the spot, or they had to be taken prisoner.
At this time, Tom was very nervous, and tightly grasped the only energy pistol in his hand.
Fortunately, the skeleton mech only stopped for a few seconds, then turned around and slowly followed the infantry in front of it.
"Whew!" The four of them finally couldn't help but gasp at the same time.
"It's dangerous!" Bai Jie wiped a handful of sweat from her face.
She had seen on the news before that the soldiers of the Vilia Imperial Army were inhumane, and their officers often violated the laws of international warfare in the universe. Since the surface of the planet of Basel was occupied, there have been many cases of Blood Wolf Legion soldiers abusing and killing prisoners of the Federation Army, and even ordinary people. Moreover, there are many female Union soldiers who have been gang-raped countless times before being killed.
Bai Jie didn't want to be caught and gang-raped by the soldiers of the Vilia Imperial Army, just thinking about it, she felt that the cold hairs on her body were standing upside down one by one!
"Let's go!"
The patrol of the Vilia Imperial Army just now had slowly walked away, and Tom quickly pulled Bai Jie, who was still stunned beside him, and the four of them quickly ran across the intersection.
After running two more blocks ahead, Tom finally stopped in front of a small clinic next to a church.
Behind her, Annie and Doctor Wang were already exhausted and panting, and Bai Jie's back was also slightly sweaty.
Tom gently pushed open the door to the clinic, which was also unlocked.
The inside of the door was dark, and Tom didn't dare to turn on the light, so he groped his way inside from memory.
In the dark, a cold wind blew, and a pungent and unpleasant smell suddenly came from the clinic, which looked very eerie. Bai Jie and Team Doctor Wang both followed closely behind the fat man, and both of them were extremely frightened.
Anne retched twice from the strange stench, but she was slightly better than Bai Jie and Doctor Wang. Because when she was a nurse at Auckrantis First Hospital, she had been to this small clinic a few times, but she had never met Tom, and the two of them did not know each other at that time.
"Bang dang!" Tom, who was at the front, tripped over something and nearly fell. He took out his lighter and lit it, and it turned out to be a chair that had fallen to the ground.
But by the faint light of the fire, Tom's eyes skimmed to the floor not far away, and there was a man lying there!
Tom hurried over and shone the lighter of the lighter on the man's face, and immediately recognized the man as the owner of the small clinic and the head of the Gloria guerrillas' point of contact in the city of Oaklandis.
The owner of the clinic must have been dead for a while, and the corpses were all starting to stink. Tom roughly took a look, and he had been killed by the bullets from the Energy submachine gun, and his body was littered with seven or eight bullet holes. The blood on the floor had long since dried up, turning into a black clot.
Was this secret point of contact exposed before it was attacked by the Imperial Army, or did the Imperial Army really go on a killing spree in the city of Auckrantis and commit such a shocking act as the massacre of the city?
With doubts, Tom endured the stench of the house and checked the entire small clinic, not knowing that he had found anything useful. The clinic was very messy and had apparently been rummaged through several times. Tom circled inside and out, only to find the clinic owner's wife in the bedroom on the second floor, also dead. From the naked body, it is clear that she was raped before she died.
By the time Tom came out, Bai Jie, Anne, and Doctor Wang had already hid outside. Because the clinic is so smelly, even medical staff like Doctor Wang and Anne can't stand it, let alone Bai Jie next to him.
Tom didn't think it was a big deal, he had been on the battlefield, he had seen the dead, and now the corpses in the clinic were once his comrades.
Facing the corpse of his comrade-in-arms, Tom's heart has begun to ignite the anger of revenge, he will never let his comrade-in-arms die in vain!
"What now?" After turning around a lot, she still found nothing, so Bai Jie had no choice but to ask Tom.
Tom looked up at the church next to the clinic and said, "Let's go there and have a look." ”
With that, the four of them climbed over the wall and entered the garden of the church.
Originally, Bai Jie wanted to enter through the gate again, because the shops on the road and the clinic just now were not locked, wouldn't it be more convenient to walk through the gate?
As a result, Tom stopped him.
The fat man told her that a place like a church, with its spacious prayer hall and numerous rooms of all sizes, was suitable for military garrisons. So if you walk in directly through the door, it is likely to be a tragic end that you will send to others for nothing.