Chapter 118: Light

As long as the direction is right, no matter how far the road goes, there will always be times when you are caught up.

The chassis of the armored vehicle is very high. Standing in the car, you can observe a very long range of surrounding distances. With the enhanced vision of the four-star parasite in Lin Xiang, you can clearly see the familiar intersection sandwiched between countless reinforced concrete buildings in the distance.

An armored vehicle was slanted across the middle of the road, with a powerful 12.7mm caliber machine gun tilted to one side. The black-coated body surface was filled with shocking dense claw marks. The dry blood marks had turned black, and a large number of shells were scattered on the ground around it, mixed with bones of unknown humans or mutant creatures. On the uneven sections, you can see the frightening biting marks.

On the sidewalk about ten meters away from the highway, another armored vehicle was stuck at the entrance of the shopping mall in the neighboring street. Judging from the black tire brake marks remaining on the asphalt road, the driver of the vehicle might have wanted to increase his horsepower to escape the death area, but in panic, he made a mistake and hit the building on the side of the road. The stuck body could not enter or exit at first glance. At first glance, it looked like a sausage stuck in a hot dog bread.

On the side and rear, the last armored vehicle spans the green belt between the slow lane and the motor vehicle lane. It seems to be retreating, with the 105-mm cannon on the roof pointing toward the intersection. An underground cellar well without the cover stuck the left front wheel, and a thick fire hydrant about meter above the ground blocked the way. It could have reversed as quickly as possible and retreated back to the road with the help of a powerful engine. However, half of the body stuck in the middle of the door and had been pulled to pieces, leaving only a spine and a few leg bones, which showed that it would never have such a chance again.

A total of three armored vehicles followed Osvid into the ruins. The mutant creatures obviously have no habit of eating metal products. It is precisely because of this that they are preserved intact, avoiding the tragic fate of being divided into human manipulators.

Claude jumped off the off-road vehicle and stood in front of the closest wreckage for a long time. There was no emotional fluctuation on his calm face. Perhaps, this calm and calm man would bury all his anger and disappointment in his heart. But the more this happens, Lin Xiang will feel that it is harder to deal with him.

"alert."

"All vehicles form a defensive formation."

"Collect residual blood samples that can be found, analyze traces and record data."

The lieutenant colonel's orders were orderly, and the skeleton warriors jumped from each car were busy next to the wreckage with technical instruments.

Lin Xiang stood on the top of a two-story building with a collapsed roof next to him. Through the high-power scope on Barrett, he carefully observed this ancient city that was not absolutely strange and not familiar.

He has been radiating the perceptual powers inside his body. This kind of astronomy from the d212 base, Cayeta Piao, is obviously much more familiar than humans. Since entering the ruins, they have been hovering near the convoy. The number is gathering more and more, and the hostility is getting stronger and stronger. If it weren't for fear of the dazzling sunshine and the strong ultraviolet rays, they would have swarmed out of their dark hiding places, fighting for these rare meat.

Lin Xiang turned his back to Lieutenant Colonel, but he could feel that Claude's eyes always slid past him intentionally or unintentionally.

Lieutenant Colonel Skeleton seemed to have some doubts about himself. But what exactly was he suspicious of?

Reason? Evidence? Or…just instinctive intuition?

The sun that passed by above the head began to gradually shift towards the west. The radiant clouds blown away by the airflow also slowly condensed, and the slightly blue sky began to become pale. As the accumulated clouds continued to increase, the depressed and dull sky also adjusted into more dark colors. It became grayer and heavier. It seemed as if an endless piece of radiant pressure was pressing on the head, and heavy lead might fall at any time.

Claude glanced at the watch that had just passed by 3:40 pm on his wrist, then raised his head to look at the gloomy sky pressing down to the ground, waved his hand to the messenger beside him with a serious expression, and said in a slightly faster and calm tone: "Get out, we have to leave here before sunset."

Before he finished speaking, a sudden burst of grease lubrication came from the air, and the metal gears were harsh and rubbing between each other. It was also mixed with a sound of shooting, which made people bite the teeth, and sand and stones slipped from high places, and objects fell to the ground due to loss of balance.

Lin Xiang turned his head suddenly and looked in the direction of countless sound sources - next to the street about 200 meters behind him, a seven-story building was slowly tilting towards the center of the road. The broken part of the bottom floor of the building made a violent and harsh continuous explosion. With the twisting of the pipes and the crushing of gravity, the "squeaking" sound caused by the "squeaking" sound, the solid reinforced concrete building completely lost its balance, and the tilting speed became faster and faster... Finally, with the violent and falling force that could not be stopped by any force, it hit the flat road.

The strong tremor quickly spread in the direction of the building's fall. People stared at the dense dust flying on the ground in the distance in a daze. The huge buildings were scattered into countless gravels, and the objects mixed in various rooms collided to produce dense cracks. When the dust flying in the air gradually drifted away, people also clearly saw that the falling building had been broken into three pieces, and countless twisted steel bars were exposed at the edge of the crack, scattered stones, glass, and various debris were piled up in the parts where the floor and the road were in contact. They were like a giant strange snake that was molting, lying there dyingly.

The building did not collapse, but collapsed.

The crowd suddenly became very quiet, so quiet that Lin Xiang could hear the sound of his breathing.

"Quick, get out of here-"

As Claude roared through the world, four armored vehicles started engines almost at the same time. A shrill roar echoed over the ruins in an instant. Skeleton soldiers standing in different directions quickly left their positions, running quickly at the fastest speed they could in their lives, jumping into the vacant carriage. Even without the orders of the lieutenant colonel, these soldiers who had a level 3 evolution or above would quickly respond to changes in the situation.

Lin Xiang suddenly ran hard and swept quickly in the gaps between the ruined houses. The broken walls and barriers did not affect him at all. His flexible figure jumped around on the sharp bricks or steel bars, and soon he was more than 100 meters away from the convoy.

He has a natural intuition about danger.

The dumping of the building was not an accident. Although the scene of the incident was far away from Lin Xiang's detection range, he could clearly detect that more and more mutant creatures were coming quickly from all directions of the ruins. They surrounded the dark drainage pipes and rushed into the inside of the building along the part that connected to the ground floor of the building and the underground. They used their sharp claws to cut the walls, tear the pipe nets, and dragged out the steel bars used as support. In the simplest and most primitive method, they violently destroyed the civilization creations of human beings in the old era.

Fifty meters behind him, another five-story building more than ten meters high fell again. Splashing gravel hit the hard car body armor plate, making a dense noise of "ding ding dong dong". It seemed to be urging people in the car to speed up as quickly as possible and escape from this terrible city full of death threats.

Lin Xiang didn't get into the car, he kept running fast among the ruins. He had a question in his mind that he could never find the answer. However, this situation should not last too long, if he had guessed correctly...

"Boom--"

The deafening roar broke his thoughts in his heart. With the help of the rush and the amazing elasticity of his legs, he quickly climbed into the roof of a ruined building more than 30 meters high from the ground. Looking into the distance, he saw a thick gray dust fog rising from the north, accompanied by a large amount of sand and stone pouring down. Judging from the outline of the object vaguely exposed in the flying dust, it should be a giant building that suddenly collapsed.

It's over!

Lin Xiang was startled, and instinctively turned his head and quickly scanned towards the east and west directions - about three or four hundred meters apart, the two buildings with obvious volume and height were pushed by two invisible giant hands, and suddenly tilted like building blocks that had lost their support. In the empty and uninhabited city, although collapsed buildings could not cause any losses, they formed an insurmountable obstacle, completely blocking the empty and straight road.

"Start up and find all possible channels to leave. These damn mutant creatures are much smarter than they thought-"

Lieutenant Colonel Claude's angry curse coincided with Lin Xiang's guess.

The creatures in the ruins have obviously evolved into unimaginable wisdom. Their way of thinking may come from eaten humans, or it may be caused by the cruel forced living environment. They fear the light, but know how to use the method of destroying buildings to block all the main roads of urban roads. The purpose of this is very clear - forcing people to leave their vehicles and walk at a slower speed.

The sun is getting heavier and heavier in the west, and the daytime in summer is very long. Under normal circumstances, the sun will not disappear after 7 pm. However, this law is obviously wrong in the radiation era. Thick radiant clouds will block most of the light. From now on, it only takes one hour at most and no light can be found in the sky.

"Bring all the weapons and ammunition, abandon the car. Speed ​​up and rush through those barriers, we don't have much time-"

Lieutenant Colonel Claude's face turned pale, and his always calm face had become distorted and ferocious due to extreme anxiety. He turned over and jumped out of the off-road vehicle, picked up an at-four rocket launcher from the back of the carriage, aimed at the bottom of a four-story building nearest behind the convoy, and pulled the trigger hard.

"Swoosh--"

The triangular winged warhead with orange tail flames drew an irregular straight line in the air and rushed straight into the open door hole on the bottom of the building. With a loud "boom", the specially modified high-explosive warhead suddenly exploded in the building. Countless open flames soared into the sky, and the flames sprayed from the windows could reach several meters away, and large pieces of gravel fell like rain. Amid the continuous explosion and burning sounds, you can also hear a faint cry, which continued, and I don’t know where it came from. These sounds sounded very strange, similar to humans, but also had the shrill howl of wild beasts.

Throwing away the air-emitting air-emitting air cylinder, Lieutenant Colonel grabbed his M4 assault rifle, passed through the obstacles formed by gunpowder and dust, stepped on the scattered gravels, and quickly rushed to the edge of the building that collapsed in the middle of the highway. Behind him, dozens of fully armed skeleton soldiers followed him.

Returning in the direction you came is the closest way to the ruins.

Lin Xiang was walking nimblely through the ruins, and his location was about twenty or thirty meters away from others. He didn't know what the definition of hunting was for mutant creatures. However, according to the human way of thinking, the crowds surrounded by people are always much more conspicuous than independent individual goals. The chances of encountering danger naturally increased exponentially.

The monsters lurking in the ruins have strong combat power. Osvid's destruction of the entire army has proved this. No one can guarantee whether there are mutants that are even more terrifying than human parasites. Lin Xiang doesn't want to try or know. Although he is interested in Lieutenant Colonel Claude's blood, this does not mean that he has to exchange his own lives.

The collapsed building blocked the entire road. With a cheetah-like speed, Lieutenant Colonel Claude leaped across the roof of the building with the help of the height difference between concrete pieces and exposed convex steel bars. He eased the rushing momentum a little, and then jumped directly from the top. The moment he landed, rolled several times in a row, completely digesting the falling kinetic energy, and then jumped up immediately and ran towards the predetermined retreat route.

The skeleton soldiers born from the training trough have received systematic and rigorous military training. Their combat capabilities are far more than ordinary humans, but this does not mean that they have the strength to be completely equal to the lieutenant colonel. On the premise that the body's flexibility and muscle explosive power are not enough to make the same movements, they can only drill into the bottom of the building and grop through the gaps formed by countless rocky steel bars.

In the shadows formed by cement bricks, countless blood-red hideous eyes flashed.

"Swoosh--"

A silver-bright thin silk shot out from the darkness directly attacked the nearest skeleton soldier. While running, he instinctively turned his body and fired a string of bullets in the direction of attack with an assault rifle. At this moment, several silk threads of the same color were shot one after another from other directions, accurately hitting the soldier's body and thighs, penetrating the bones and muscles. These silk threads have extremely strong viscosity and toughness, firmly fixing the soldier on the ground and unable to move at all. The three were short in shape, with a height of about half a meter, and their appearance changed similar to that of spiders.

The alien creatures quickly crawled out of their hiding place. With their flexible foot limbs, they raised their sharp thighs at their mouths and slashed across the surface of their prey like razors. The thighs, arms, waist and abdomen... In an instant, with extremely shrill screams from the soldiers, the complete human body had been cut into dozens of small pieces. The spiders spit out more sticky silk threads from their mouths and packaged the pieces of meat... After all, they dragged their respective spoils, like a group of robbers who had successfully divided the spoils, slowly retracted back to their nests.

The mutant creatures are afraid of the sun, but they can lurk in corners where ultraviolet rays cannot be shined and attacked. The soldiers who lost their chariot protection are the best meat on the menu tonight.

"Try to go to the place where there is light, and leave here quickly-"

Claude stood in an open space more than ten meters away from the building, aiming at the mutant creatures that could be captured in sight and shot rapidly. He did not think that these dirty dark species could pose a threat to him, but he had to rescue his men.

"Bang--"

A violent gunfire shook the city that was about to fall into darkness.

The amazingly powerful warhead blasted a pangolin creature that had just drilled out of the ground and was about to launch an attack from behind the lieutenant colonel and flew backwards more than ten meters away. A layer of hardened horny like scales grew on its back. These things would continue to thicken and harden, enough to withstand the threats of bullets and sunlight. As a price that must be paid to strengthen the body, the front of its body was extremely soft, so that the point 50-caliber warhead drilled into the chest exploded, almost completely blowing up the entire body.

Following the direction of the bullets, the lieutenant colonel saw Lin Xiang, who had just put down his sniper rifle, giving him a thumbs up at him.

Lin Xiang did not think that a mere sneak attack monster could pose a threat to Claude. It was not a good idea to expose his intentions too early. The experience of fighting Osvid made him realize the power of the high-level parasite again. Without absolute certainty, Lin Xiang would never take action easily.

This shot seemed to save Claude, but in fact, Lieutenant Colonel Skeleton didn't need such extra help at all. Lin Xiang just used this to show his attitude and reduce the other party's hostility. If possible, Claude would even include himself in a trustworthy group. When a person absolutely believes in himself and is willing to hand over his back to you, stabbing him from an unexpected angle is definitely much easier than starting a head-on attack.

There are more and more mutant creatures gathered around the fugitives, and the number has exceeded two thousand within the range that Lin Xiang can sense. They are so dense that they are all clustered in narrow underground pipes and various dark backlit corners. They grit their teeth and stare at the pieces of fresh meat running quickly in front of them, and cursing the shaking sun desperately in anxiety.
Chapter completed!