Updated: 2012-06-25

Huge balls of steam erupted into the air, rusty gears made a tooth-sore sound, and God knows how many days the gates of the base hadn't been opened. The half-meter-thick alloy door retracts inwards and then opens to reveal a jagged slit. The bottom wheel brushed against the rusty rails on the ground, and the violent friction shook the rock powder on the door and kept falling, like a gray rain.

An old-fashioned off-road vehicle from the old era was driven out, a modified vehicle with a powerful heavy machine gun mounted in the back seat, with a range of up to 1,000 kilometers and a combat rate of fire of up to 300 rounds per minute. Its excellent suppressive power and destructiveness make this vehicle the most powerful weapon of war at the Z7 base.

Now, however, the chariot is heading to Silvertree City, three hundred kilometers away, to bring back enough medicine for the base.

The sky is clear.

But this is not good weather, on the contrary, there is no cloud barrier, and the sun with strong ultraviolet rays bakes the whole land. Although the amount of radiation on the ground is not as high as it was on the day of the cataclysm, no one wants to be exposed to the surface in broad daylight. Although the firepower of the off-road combat vehicle is fierce, it does not have a good radiation protection system. Compared to this old era, the fully armored combat vehicle, which is now sought after by major companies and chaebols, is more suitable for daytime operations than this old vehicle due to its newly developed radiation protection armor plates.

Naturally, the Z7 base is not able to afford armored combat vehicles, even the oldest models.

For several people on a mission, the night is a more suitable time for action. But the living dead wandering in Silvertree City dispelled their thoughts.

The Living Dead, also known as the Living Corpse, are virus-infected and mutated humanoid monsters, which are very different from the zombies that often appeared in novels in the old days. Living corpses have a keen sense of smell for fresh blood, and the strength and flexibility of their muscles give them greater strength and speed than ordinary people. They are agile and agile, can easily climb windows and ceilings, and can tear apart a grown man with their bare hands, making them very tricky monsters.

The Living Corpse is a social monster that usually wanders the ruins of a city in groups, eating all living people and animals before migrating to other areas.

There was no living thing in Silvertree City for a long time, but there were still a small number of living corpses hovering there. The living corpses that remain in the city are some years old, and although they are still able to move, their liliang and speed have greatly deteriorated. But despite this, they are still adversaries to be taken lightly.

The living corpses are active at night, and they are afraid of the sun and all things shiny, so during the day, the living corpses mostly sleep in the shadows of the ruins. This is also the reason why the base chooses to operate during the day. At night, the danger of the mission doubles.

Zero sat in the back compartment, with the other four soldiers.

These are not the same soldiers that you saw in Old Jack's room this morning. Their warriors' aura was stronger, and their equipment was better than those men, at least they had standard automatic machine guns instead of rifles. This machine gun is not very powerful, but it can be fired continuously, so the fire network it forms should not be underestimated.

Rickult was driving the car, cursing Old Jack for letting him participate in this dangerous mission. He had made up his mind to pretend to be sick, but Old Jack's words told him to join the team of this mission obediently.

"We don't take patients at our base. Hort, if you're too sick to go on a mission, I'll have to throw you out of the base. When Holt excused himself from his mission with illness as an excuse, Old Jack said.

Being abandoned by the base means that you have to face the endless dangers of the wilderness alone, without any material assistance, which is no different from suicide.

Old Jack had always said he would do it, and Hort had no doubts about it, so the Negro made a wise choice at once.

"Don't complain, Holt. If you come back this time, the reward will be enough for you to go to the settlement and find the prettiest woman to sleep with for ten nights, be content. ”

A middle-aged soldier with a cigarette in his mouth and a scar on his right eye Daxiao said.

"Shut up, Zuoge. I'm not like you're a soldier, I'm just Miss Leah's bodyguard, so why should I go on such a dangerous mission with you old ghosts? Hult flapped the steering wheel and foamed at the mouth.

The four soldiers burst into laughter.

Zuoge's eyes looked at Zero, who had been silent, and said, "If you want to talk about rookies, we still have one here." Hey, yellow man, I heard that you are a survivor, aren't you going to introduce yourself?"

Zero didn't answer, and a young soldier sitting across from him said, "I also heard that you have a wonderful eye. Let's see, don't hide like a. ”

His words were immediately echoed by the other two soldiers, who simply ignored them.

Impatient, the soldier reached for the brown goggle that Zero had put on his face, something he had received from Holt before his mission, and Zero had wanted sunglasses, but the Negro had only that. And along with this goggle, in addition to two boxes of magazines, there was also a steel dagger.

Right now, the dagger suddenly came into Zero's hands. A cold light came out, and the dagger blade pointed at the soldier's throat. If he went any further, the sharp dagger would cut a hole in his neck.

The soldier stopped.

Except for the left, the other two soldiers angrily raised their guns and pointed them at zero, and the car was in chaos.

"Hell!" Hult didn't expect this to happen, and quickly stopped the car, saving the car from bumps and unnecessary variables.

Zero didn't look at the two barrels of the gun pointed at him, and the eyes under the goggle were firmly fixed on the soldier who was starting to sweat due to nervousness, and said lightly: "I don't want to cause trouble, but when trouble comes to the door by itself, I don't mind solving it." ”

"Put down the dagger, I said put it down, or I'll shoot!"

The other two soldiers shouted, their fingers already moving towards the machine.

"Stop it!" Zuoge, who had been silent, shouted violently, "Carl, Tony, you put the gun away for me." ”

He looked at Zero again: "And you, yellow man, your dagger should be pointed at a monster or an enemy, not a companion!"

Zero looked at him and slowly withdrew the dagger: "I'm just on a mission with you, as for my companions, I shouldn't be able to talk about it." At least, I don't see any tacit understanding between the two of us. ”

Seeing that Zero withdrew his dagger, the other two soldiers lowered their guns. The young soldier, who was pointed at with a dagger with a zero, sat down on the parking space almost collapsed.

Zuoge looked at Zero, shook his head, and said, "I know you don't trust us, and likewise, we can't fully trust you. But sir, this dangerous shijie can't survive on her own. In order to survive, more often than not, you have to entrust your back to others. ”

"I'll try my best. "Zero to make the maximum commitment.

The tank moved on.

In the car, Zuo Ge took the initiative to introduce his team. Zoge himself is a veteran and the commander of this mission. The two people who raised their guns just now, Carl and Tony, were firefighters, and the two were responsible for suppressing the fire. As for the young man who ignored Zero just now, this soldier named Allen is a sniper. Zuihou is a black man, Hott, who is first and foremost Leah's bodyguard, who plays well with pistols, and who is also a demolition expert, which is surprising.

"Zero, good at hand-to-hand combat, long-range fire support or something. He also dabbles in reconnaissance, tracking, and trapping. Zero briefly described his specialty.

Zuoge nodded, Zero is an ordinary person without any evolution points despite being a survivor. But judging from his actions to subdue Allen just now, this person should be a skilled veteran, which Zuoge trusts his own judgment, and also understands that Weishenme Old Jack will let a newcomer participate in this mission.

This was a test for Zero, and it was for Old Jack to determine if Zero had the qualifications to stay at base. In the words of old Jack, the base does not raise idlers.

There are no words along the way, and the Zero and this team still needs to run in. It's just that this kind of run-in is not suitable for conversation, fighting, and it accelerates this run-in even more.

Just as Silvertree City was in sight, a group of people were moving in front of the chariot on the left side of the road.

Zero's right eye, hidden behind the goggles, was immediately approached after giving a command from the depths of consciousness. So he clearly saw that more than a dozen ragged men were taking turns enjoying a woman's **. In the crowd, the excited roars of men and the mournful screams of women mingled in a particularly harsh manner on this silent highway.

Obviously, this unbearable behavior touches Zero's moral bottom line. Subconsciously, his hand tightened on the miniature machine gun placed next to him.

"Leave them alone, and you can't do anything about it. The corner of Zuo Ge's eyes just caught zero subtle movements, and the captain said casually: "This shijie is very different from the old times. There is no law to follow in the wilderness, and whoever has a strong fist is the law. It's a common occurrence in the wilderness, and there's something more heinous than you've ever seen. So you don't have to bother, you can't control it, unless you think you're God, hey. ”

Grabbing the finger of the machine gun, gradually let go. Zero felt a sense of confusion in his heart, his view of shijie was still stuck in the cognition of the old era, and it was difficult to adapt to the fact that shijie had become chaotic in a short period of time.

It's a time of the jungle. Zero sighed in his heart.

The off-road chariot quickly passed by the mob, and a man who had just been satisfied from the woman's body fell on the chariot passing by the roadside. He immediately shouted, picked up an old pistol from the ground, and fired at the chariot.