Night finally fell completely at the moment when the troops were assembled.
The heavy rain during the day had exhausted the thick cumulus clouds, leaving only a faint dark blue sky with bright stars and a misty purple moon.
In previous civilizations, if there were brilliant starry skies, there would be no clear moonlight.
But in this era, Ziyue is like the most responsible guard. No matter what kind of night it is, it will always appear as usual, as if it is on duty.
"It's a good weather." Tang Ling thought, and in front of him, an elite warrior was kissing his weapon, a folded spear, and murmuring a prayer.
At this time, the entire team's action plan has been announced and the troops are about to set off.
No one knows how many people will lose their lives in tonight's battle? Prayer seemed to be the only solace.
But is it useful? Tang Ling didn't believe in anything imaginary. What interested him was that the commander of tonight's operation turned out to be Ralph.
That day, he conducted his first assessment, the Ziyue squad leader who was responsible for maintaining order during the bloody cage battle.
Now, in less than two months, we have to fight side by side.
Life is not permanent.
**
July 11, 2177, Friday night.
22:16. It had only been two hours since the team set off, and the sudden chill had enveloped the entire night.
There is no longer the sultry heat of summer nights, there is just a bone-chilling cold wind blowing through the warehouse area brightly lit by searchlights.
Under the illumination of the light, the warehouse area with broken walls and standing in the ruins of the battlefield is clearly visible. A total of 37 small rectangular warehouses are like rows of boxes.
People can't help but wonder what's in these boxes
At the edge of the northwest corner of the warehouse area, Warehouse No. 19.
In the dense warehouse area, it is just a small warehouse with the same rectangular shape, perhaps because it stores items that require ventilation. There are rows of narrow windows at the top near the eaves.
Time passes.
Even though this warehouse was close to the universal energy stone, it was already somewhat dilapidated. The night wind blew through the narrow windows and made the window edges creak.
'Huh', Tang Ling took a slight breath. Even the cold night wind could not reduce the heat in his body caused by strenuous activities.
The hot sweat on his forehead formed in just a moment and rolled down from the corners of his eyes.
"Andy, take three steps back to the left." A hoarse voice came from Tang Ling's throat. The moment he shouted, he had already rushed out.
With a leaping step, he directly crossed a distance of more than three meters. Before he landed, his body stopped suddenly, turned around, and swung out a C-level alloy long knife.
A stream of black, slightly viscous blood rose up. A corpse on Andy's left suddenly stopped moving. The next moment, its head and neck were separated. The shriveled head fell to the ground and rolled out four to five meters. distance.
"Thank you." Andy was a little shocked. Tang Ling pulled Andy behind him and said, "Something is wrong."
Before he finished speaking, Tang Ling's expression changed. He pulled Andy and leaned over suddenly. A mutated corpse man with a slightly deformed body and extremely strong jumping ability - a first-level crawler, emerged from their body. Above the body, almost touching their scalp.
"My mistake." Yu's voice came. The next moment, Yu also passed over Tang Ling and Andy's bodies. His right hand with a metallic luster grabbed the back of the crawler that had just stopped. He dug his five fingers into the flesh and pushed hard. Lifting it, the spine of this first-level crawler was broken.
The crawler struggled twice and then stopped moving.
With black blood all over her body, Wei An quickly ran out from a corner where torn bags were piled, kicked over the crawler, and then quickly and skillfully disemboweled it, looking for the heart of the crawler. .
A slightly filthy crystal was dug out from the crawler's heart.
Wei An threw the crystal towards Tang Ling.
Tang Ling took the crystal and stuffed it into the small leather bag he was carrying without even looking at it. At this time, Auston and Amir ran over from the southeast corner with Christina, both of them panting. There was black blood all over his body.
"Is there any water?" Auston ran straight to Tang Ling's side and asked loudly before he sat down.
Tang Ling threw a water bag to Auston and warned: "There is not much water left. Remember to wipe your hands and don't drink the corpse's blood. There is no guarantee that there is no deadly fungus in it."
Auston drank some water, threw the water bag back to Tang Ling, and said directly: "You can still take care of this? How about it? Can I go out to the north of the warehouse?"
Andy lowered his head in despair, his expression already showed that the situation was not good.
The north exit of the warehouse has been completely sealed, and there are at least a thousand corpses gathered there.
Seeing Andy's expression, Auston cursed and kicked the broken body of a zombie away from his feet.
"Save some energy." Looking at Auston's actions, Tang Ling frowned slightly, leaned against the corner, and took the time to regain his energy.
"So what if we save? We will die here sooner or later. Choose, would you like to live as a corpse, or commit suicide completely at the last moment." Auston said with a sneer.
Through the broken window of the warehouse, one could still see the purple moon and stars in the night sky. The distance that seemed within reach turned into a chasm that seemed insurmountable.
No wonder Auston was so frustrated.
The battle has deviated from its original 'track' more than an hour ago! No one expected that in the northwest corner, the so-called safest small area closest to the warehouse exit, there would be so many densely packed and endless corpses.
Originally, this was not the case.
The entire action plan is very clear. Ten Ziyue warriors will form the "vanguard" to clean up and lure away all the corpses wandering outside the warehouse.
Then, the entire warehouse area was divided into twelve areas.
The hundred-man team, which is composed of a hundred-man elite regiment, the first reserve battalion, and soldiers who are on duty tonight, are responsible for these twelve areas of different sizes.
The purpose of the mission is just to clean up the warehouse and all the corpses around the warehouse.
Two teams from the First Reserve Battalion participated, and the area they were responsible for was the relatively safest area.
Just at the northwest corner of the exit of the entire warehouse area, it is formed by three relatively small warehouses.
Among them, the Peak Team is responsible for two warehouses, and the Raptor Team is only responsible for one of the warehouses.
When you encounter an invincible mutated zombie, such as the Iron Slayer, the Five Elements Evolver, etc., you can send out a signal flare, and the Purple Moon Warriors will naturally come to support you.
The Raptors team's initial operations were extremely smooth.
We entered the designated warehouse No. 19 with almost no obstacles along the way.
There are about 400 corpses hidden in this warehouse. This is the number Andy has determined.
After all, he was the fastest and most agile, so Tang Ling arranged for him to do some reconnaissance first.
There were more than 400 corpses, which was considered a safe number for the Raptors team. After learning this answer, Tang Ling still wondered if he had been too careful
In this way, no extra arrangements were needed, and the Raptors team went directly into the warehouse.
If everything goes well, it will take less than an hour to clear out the more than 400 corpses, and the Raptor Team can withdraw from the battlefield.
But the fact is that it was only the first forty minutes that went smoothly. From then on, the small warehouse No. 19 was surrounded by a sea of corpses.
(End of chapter)