The military used heavy force to suppress them, ranging from beatings and arrests to killing them on the spot.
This move did have some effect, at least on the surface, there was some improvement in public security. There were far fewer thugs who dared to commit random crimes in front of the army.
However, the number of the army is pitifully small, less than 10,000. Even if the few remaining police are included, there are only 13,000 people. It is simply a fantasy to completely cover the security of the entire Xijiang City.
On the surface, the rioting crowd seemed to have been suppressed, but secretly there were still many riots going on. Some lawless people took advantage of the chaos to burn, kill, loot, and loot homes, leaving the whole city in chaos.
The south of the city was even more miserable. Seventy percent of the houses were burned beyond recognition. There were connected ruins everywhere. Inexhaustible fires were still spreading in the commercial streets and pedestrian streets. Thick smoke was billowing down. Even a few rains can’t put it out
"Have you heard that there were multiple car accidents on several important roads out of the city and they were basically blocked?"
"Then how will we get out of the city, and how will the provincial rescue team enter the city..."
"Idiot, all the electrical appliances are down. How many cars do you think can still be used? If cars can't be used, it's still the same whether there are roads or not?"
"Who dares to leave the city rashly now? Are there any bugs outside the city? Besides, the west of our city is safe without bugs or strange birds. Maybe other cities are even worse than our Xijiang City. This disaster has spread to the whole province. Even the whole country”
"Then my relatives in other cities will do it... Forget it, there is no electricity, and there is no signal. I finally saved up money to buy it and it turned into scrap metal..."
"Let's consider our daily life first... There is no electricity or water, let alone work. Whether we can survive is a problem."
"I heard from someone in the army that their camp was attacked by the living dead. They used sniper rifles, mortars, heavy machine guns, grenades and many heavy weapons. As a result, not a few living corpses died, but thousands died. Soldier… "
"Maybe, isn't it because there were only a hundred living corpses in the east of the city that the army was forced to suffer so miserably..."
"The east of the city is the east of the city, and the suburbs are the suburbs. The living corpses that appear in the two places are different... I heard that the living corpses that attacked the military area had three heads and six arms, could fly into the sky, and had corpse poison all over their bodies. Anyone who touched them would become alive. corpse"
"I've also heard that several waves of citizens in the south of the city who ran to the military area for refuge were attacked by living corpses on the way, and all of them were bitten to death. There were more than 10,000 people in total. When the army went to dispose of the corpses this morning, all the corpses jumped from the ground. We got up and killed dozens of officers. If the remaining soldiers hadn't reacted quickly and had machine guns, the whole army would have been annihilated."
"Later, more than 10,000 corpses were found..."
"Later, the army sent thousands of troops to beat all the living corpses to death, and headshot them one by one. Not to mention how miserable it was... But the worst part was in the north of the city. The spiders in the north of the city were super fast and would swoop in front of you. , there was no reaction at all... I said that two to three hundred soldiers died while cleaning up the spiders, and the bullets were almost used up and they would run out soon. If that really happened, the army would have no choice but to use knives to chop them down. Completely returned to the cold weapon era... "
"If I don't have guns and ammunition, how can I defeat those monsters just by cutting with a knife? If they come again, we in the west of the city will also be in trouble."
"What we can do, we can only pray...for the rest, let's leave it to God."
In the two places where casualties were not heavy in the west and east of the city, except for a few riots, most of the citizens were discussing the catastrophe, whispering to each other, asking for news everywhere, and even some people who were mentally ill were afraid The world is not in chaos, spreading religious rumors such as "world destruction", "god punishes the world", "demons coming" and "collective repentance", claiming that salvation can only be achieved by falling into the arms of God.
At first, few citizens were willing to accept this kind of rumor, but when the rumor spread thousands of times, some people began to doubt it, especially some elderly people with rigid ideas. They actually knelt down and kowtowed, which made more people's heads rise. A layer of black shadow shrouded the sky, and the level of fear and uneasiness deepened again.
"Since we can't completely suppress the rioting citizens, we will control supermarkets, granaries, and food companies to distribute limited amounts of food to citizens, and we will never allow them to loot."
Faced with the messy situation, Commander Li had no choice but to issue this order. In fact, he had to do this. A lot of the food in the military region was contaminated by corpse poison. No one dared to eat it anymore. What was left could only be eaten again. Eat for two or three days.
If the army does not control the food in the city, I am afraid that the people in the army will also go hungry.
What's even worse is that spider larvae and beetle larvae in the north of the city have begun to spread everywhere. Even if a lot of food in the north of the city has been contaminated, those larvae have actually gone to other areas where food is stored and gnawed it. Not much wasted. food
In addition to larvae, there are many fat strip worms
The fat strip worm is a low-level insect. The mature body is as long as an ordinary person's arm and as thick as a can. It is red all over and squirms segment by segment, like giant earthworms. Their metabolism is also extremely fast and they can swallow huge amounts of food
They emerge from the sewers, and there are hundreds of thousands of them at once, swarming into various places like a tide. Although they have no attack power, they will seemingly snatch human food, and even if they are chopped into pieces, they will not If you die, you will secrete strong acid and poisonous gas. Once it splashes on people, it will corrode and cause big wounds.
Faced with the ubiquitous larvae and fatworms, the army was unable to kill them. They could only mobilize all citizens to kill the bugs with fire extinguishers, gasoline, sledgehammers and other tools. Although the effect was remarkable, But a lot of food had been lost, and several flour shops were even invaded by dozens of fat worms. All the flour was contaminated with the secretions of the fat worms, and no one dared to eat that flour anymore.
And in some dark and humid corners, blood-sucking insects will appear. They suddenly burst out and burrow into human skin, swim along the blood vessels and bite everywhere. The tragic situation of flesh and blood being separated is not so miserable. Wait until the blood-sucking insects are full of blood. It changed from a thumb to the size of a thermos bottle, and the victim had long been sucked into a skinny and emaciated corpse.
Blood-sucking bugs are impossible to guard against, and sometimes they even crawl into old residential areas, causing great panic. Fortunately, there are not many blood-sucking bugs running around, and only a few dozen citizens have been killed by blood-sucking bugs. Compared to The more than 300,000 people who died during the catastrophe are already very few.
Many stray dogs throughout Xijiang City are captured by humans and slaughtered for their meat, which is used as food.
Of course, there is another thing that gives the army a headache, and that is the awakeners and inheritors in the city.
A conservative estimate is that there are about 400 Yin soul inheritors in the city, and more than 10,000 Yang soul inheritors. The Yang soul inheritors are not bad, after all, their strength is not much better than ordinary people, but those Yin soul inheritors are It's hard to say, but the lowest level among them is also a high-level one. They have good lethality and can blow up telephone poles with one punch. They are very arrogant.
Many people are like this. After gaining strength overnight, their confidence begins to skyrocket. They think they can do whatever they want, and they think they are the protagonists of this world. They act domineeringly and do not take ordinary people into consideration.
In fact, several ghost inheritors openly resisted the army, killed several officers, snatched pistols, hid in the crowd, and disappeared. The army was unable to find those few people in the city that was in chaos and almost collapsed.
What's even worse is that a police station in the west of the city was actually attacked by a gang led by the ghost inheritor. They looted the few guns and ammunition in the police station and killed several small policemen on duty. Finally escaped
The chaos in Xijiang City is evident
"I hope... citizens can calm down... No matter what, we will protect everyone's safety... Please don't panic, everything will be fine... Please don't misbelieve the rumors... The disaster is only temporary... The province will soon There will be a large number of rescue teams coming to support us... "
The old mayor who Li Jiayu had saved was shouting at the top of his lungs in the city center. Many surviving officials also tried their best to dissuade the citizens, but the effect was not ideal. Even they officials were deceiving themselves and others, and that was even worse. Not to mention the citizens who always think the worst.
"Hey... Even my intervention is useless. If this chaos continues, not many people will suffer, and Xijiang City, which has finally developed with great difficulty, will go back for decades..."
The old mayor sighed, with a sad look on his face.
Captain Li's Chinese-character face seemed to be stiff, without any expression, but his tone had a hint of helplessness and powerlessness:
"In times of disaster, the most difficult thing to control is the human heart... Old mayor, this disaster is beyond everyone's imagination. It is countless times more tragic than the war years decades ago. Especially the broken corpses in the north of the city are... The cephalopod larvae emerge from the rotten skull eye sockets, with white and tender red and white brains. When they look at you with trembling eyes, you will feel chills all over your body. The bloody and terrifying scene is like a hell on earth, which makes you feel uncomfortable. What I saw was so shocking that I will never forget it... More than 100 of the more than 2,000 soldiers I led at that time vomited. I called them cowards, but actually my stomach was churning... "
"Captain Li, do you think Xijiang City can still be saved..." the old mayor suddenly asked.
"I don't know... No one can guarantee that those monsters won't attack again. If they come again, I'm afraid we will abandon this city completely." Captain Li was silent for a long time before speaking.
At this time, it was already past eight o'clock, the sky was blue and cloudless, and the warm sunshine enveloped the entire Xijiang City.
"Jiayu hasn't gotten up yet..." Yan Zisu said.
"Maybe he's too tired...let him rest more." Xiao Wanqing chuckled.
"But today's plan must be presided over by Jiayu. He is a prophet. Without him, we would not be able to do our best in many things..." Yan Zisu said.
"Maybe... maybe Li Jiayu was too tired last night. He was very busy. He spent the whole night practicing his double skills with Platycodon. He may have slept very late, so he hasn't woken up yet..." Ran Hongxia's face changed. Complex way.
She saw Li Jiayu carrying Platycodon out with her own eyes last night, and naturally she felt a little uncomfortable. She tossed and turned all night, thinking wildly, wondering whether Li Jiayu and Platycodon were related, and whether last night was really just a simple matter as Li Jiayu said. Working on two-person skills
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