Qiu Shi did not completely believe what Chen Dang said. Everyone in Donglin Town seemed more unreliable than Li Feng, including the ordinary residents.
But the explosions that sounded one after another in the jungle were credible, and the smell of gunpowder that spread quickly with the wind was also credible.
Donglin was under siege. No matter who the attackers were, they were in danger at this moment.
"Turn off that damn blocking feature of yours." Qiu Shi said.
"That..." Before Chen Dang could finish his words, there was another explosion.
Some chaotic dots appeared in front of Qiu Shi's eyes, and then he saw the map. The constantly flashing tiny numbers reminded him that the map was constantly collecting and updating the surrounding environmental information.
"Okay, no need to turn it off. Your shielding system has been blown up." Qiu Shi put on his headphones, turned around and stepped onto the stair railing, slid down the railing a few times, and then jumped down.
Xing Bi jumped down as well.
Hu Xiaoling slid down like Qiu Shi did. When he was almost at the bottom, he broke the railing and landed successfully.
"Follow me." said Qiu Shi.
"Yeah." Hu Xiaoling raised the gun in his hand.
Chen Dang jumped down while pulling the rope: "The defense on the west side is weak."
"Let's go east." said Qiu Shi.
"Find a way out," Xing Bi said, "Go behind them."
"Thank you." Chen Dang said as he glanced at them, turned around and jumped onto a passing car, took a box of weapons from the car and threw it next to them, then followed the car in the direction where the explosion was most severe.
"Fuck!" Hu Xiaoling knelt down when he opened the box, took out the equipment from it and hung it on himself, "Can we take these back to Yuncheng? Zhao Lu and the others will go crazy!"
"Pay attention to the weight." Qiu Shi gave instructions and picked up a gun and a few mines to take with them. They were going to launch a surprise attack, and too many weapons would be useless.
Xing Bi's direction was indeed east. Qiu Shi didn't know how he determined that if he went around to the east, he would be behind those people, but he didn't ask and just followed him.
When passing through the town, I could see that the residents were already fully armed and were beginning to disperse in all directions in a well-trained manner. Not a single person was running around.
"Fuck," Hu Xiaoling said, "What kind of town is this? The ordinary residents are above the level of our City Defense Bureau."
The map shows that there is a gap ahead caused by the fall of an old tree. After climbing over the wall and jumping out, you can follow this gap into the jungle.
Qiu reported the coordinates: "There are two biochemical bodies outside."
"How did you know?" Hu Xiaoling asked in shock.
"Donglin's," Xing Bi said, "is not a symbiote."
"You know this, too?" Hu Xiaoling asked again in shock.
Xing Bi had already climbed up the wall and asked, "Can you get up?"
Qiu Shi rushed forward a few steps and climbed up using his momentum.
"Ask me? Sure." Hu Xiaoling's speed was not slow. The corpse collector had been living outside the city for a long time. Behind his shelter were all kinds of mountain blades, so climbing was considered a basic skill.
After climbing over the wall, the light from the town's torches disappeared, and the surroundings fell into darkness. Under the huge and dense tree canopy, neither the moonlight nor the starlight could penetrate.
The two Donglin biochemical bodies in the tree heard their movements and tapped their boots a few times.
Xing Bi also knocked twice on the tree trunk, and the person on top became silent.
"What kind of communication signal is this?" Hu Xiaoling lowered his voice, "Is it used exclusively inside the biochemical body?"
"Yes." Xing Bi replied, "Poison him and make him mute."
Qiu Shi slapped Hu Xiaoling on the head and said, "Shut up and follow me."
There was no fighting in the jungle on this side, probably because the terrain was too complicated. Although there were no rocks and mud on the ground like in the dense forest of Yuncheng, there were thick and tangled tree roots protruding from the ground underfoot. There was almost no flat ground, and one would be tripped if not careful.
Xing Bi moved forward silently and quickly. After a short while, he could see that his dot on the map was about fifty meters away, and then he kept this distance.
The gunfire in the distance suddenly became more intense. Donglin's armored vehicles had already driven out of the town and began to counterattack.
At the same time, Qiu Shi saw two bright spots appear on their left on the map.
Heading in the direction they just came out, maintaining the same distance and moving speed.
"Symbiote," Qiu reported the coordinates and quickly moved towards the one closest to him, "Two."
Xing Bi quickly approached the first one, and with almost no sound, the small dot disappeared.
Qiu Shi could see a gray shadow in the darkness. At the moment of his companion's death, the shadow froze for two seconds. He took this opportunity to fire a shot.
After a muffled sound, the small dot disappeared from the map.
"Fuck," Hu Xiaoling couldn't help but said, "What am I here for?"
Two cracking sounds were heard, and Xing Bi still crushed the necks of the two symbiotes.
As he continued to move forward, Qiu Shi kept wanting to curse. The tree roots on the ground were completely invisible, and some of the ridges were as high as a person's thigh. Walking a hundred meters was more tiring than climbing a fucking mountain.
But then he realized the correctness of this path.
At the extreme point of map detection, several bright spots appeared at the top, constantly moving, appearing and disappearing on the map.
"There is a group three hundred meters ahead," said Qiu Shi.
"They might be on the tree. I'll go from above," Xing Bi stopped. "They will sense each other. After I get rid of the first one, they will find it."
"Yes." Qiu Shi responded, turned around and told Hu Xiaoling, "Follow me and throw grenades later."
"No problem!" Hu Xiaoling lowered his voice.
"Hurry up." Xing Bi said and started to move forward faster.
He didn't consider the speed of his human partner and his human burden at all, but in this situation, he had no choice but to follow closely.
When the corpse collectors collect corpses at night, it is usually Qiu Shi and Zhao Lu who go. In this darkness, he can still adapt to it. He grits his teeth and squeezes out some potential to jump and run between the tree roots.
Hu Xiaoling behind him was running in a mess, and it could be heard that he was trying his best.
After a few minutes, they stopped.
Qiu Shi couldn't see where Xing Bi was. He could only see his little red dot in front of him on the right on the map.
They were already very close to the symbiotes and could see swaying figures and a car. It looked like a group was preparing to send reinforcements there.
After Hu Xiaoling was ready, Qiu Shi whispered the coordinates of the symbiote closest to Xing Bi: "Let's aim at the car."
Then I heard the sound of leaves shaking, but I couldn't tell whether it was someone or the wind blowing.
The little bright spot disappeared.
When Xing Bi rushed towards the gathering point, Qiu Shi suddenly raised his hand and threw the grenade in his hand. Because the distance was not close enough for throwing a grenade, he almost used up all his strength, and his back hurt a little when he raised his hand.
Hu Xiaoling also threw the grenade in his hand, but the distance was not enough.
However, Qiu Shi had not originally considered it as his share, the explosion was mainly to increase the momentum.
The mine thrown by Qiu Shi exploded very close to the car, followed by the one thrown by Hu Xiaoling.
After two loud noises, several dots on the map disappeared, but Qiu Shi discovered that two small dots were rushing towards him and Hu Xiaoling at a very high speed.
Gunshots were heard from Xing Bi's side, and his voice came from the headset: "Up there."
"Xiaoling," Qiu Shi immediately threw himself under the huge tree roots in front of him, raised his gun and aimed at the treetops, "right above you."
A figure jumped down from the air and fired two shots in their direction.
One bullet hit the tree root next to Qiu Shi's face. Broken wood chips swept Qiu Shi's face, which was burning. Another bullet hit Hu Xiaoling's arm.
The figure had already landed on the ground. Qiu Shi gritted his teeth, leaned out half of his body, and fired a shot in that direction.
Based on his experience in collecting corpses and guarding against the sudden appearance of infected people over the years, plus the fire from the explosion over there, the bullet still hit the figure above the chest, but Qiu Shi was not sure whether it hit the neck.
Hu Xiaoling also fired a shot over there, and another figure had already fallen to the ground, having fired almost at the same time as Hu Xiaoling.
Qiu Shi didn't bother to see whether Hu Xiaoling was shot again. He rushed over and pushed Hu Xiaoling away, then fired two shots at the figure. When the symbiote fell to the ground, Qiu Shi was sure that he was shot in the neck.
When he glanced at the symbiote that had fallen to the ground, he suddenly realized that the person was no longer there.
When he turned his head to look again, he only saw a shadow.
Then he was thrown to the ground, his head hit the tree roots behind him hard, and then hit the ground again, and the gun in his hand was knocked out of his hand.
He reached out to the side to feel for the gun, but a hand grabbed his neck. At that moment, he didn't even feel uncomfortable, but he seemed to see his grandmother, whom he had just chatted with before.
Hu Xiaoling must have been shot twice, and when he rushed over to knock the symbiote off him, his strength was too weak.
Qiu Shi touched the knife on his leg with some difficulty, but his hands were weak and he couldn't exert any strength.
Xing must have fallen from the sky.
Qiu Shi saw it very clearly.
He saw Xing Bi falling and punching the biochemical creature on the back.
After a muffled sound, the creepy sound of bones breaking was heard.
Xing Bi's hand came out from the symbiote's chest, grabbed the hand that was pinching Qiu Shi's neck, and pulled it back.
The bloody scene before him was filled with an oppressive and murderous aura. Qiu Shi was instantly shocked and filled with an indescribable fear. It took him two seconds to start gasping for breath after the pressure on his neck disappeared.
Xing Bi stood in front of him, and the corpse of the symbiote slowly slid off his right arm and fell to the ground.
Xing Bi's face could not be seen clearly in the fire of the explosion behind him, but black and red blood could be seen on his right arm, dripping slowly along his fingertips.
Xing Bi took off his coat, wiped his hands with his clothes, threw it aside, bent down and stretched out his left hand: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Qiu Shi grabbed his hand and stood up with the help of his force.
When standing face to face with Xing Bi, he looked into Xing Bi's eyes, and Xing Bi also looked at him.
"If I shoot you will hit me." Xing Bi said.
"I know," Qiu Shiye took off his coat and wiped the blood off his face, "but I've never seen such a killing move before, I was shocked."
"Are you scared?" Xing Bi asked.
"It would be a lie if you weren't afraid for a few seconds." Qiu Shi looked at him, thought for a moment, and then sighed, "I guess you know what a first-level submersible guard is."
"Is Hu Xiaoling dead?" Xing Bi asked.
"… He's not dead," Hu Xiaoling leaned against the ground next to him, "He can still be saved."
"Let's drive over there." Xing Bi said.
"Yeah." Qiu Shi went over to check Hu Xiaoling's injuries. He was hit by two bullets, one in the arm and the other in the shoulder, both on the left side.
"Find a box and drag him away." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Fuck."
The car was not bad, a modified all-terrain vehicle with very high wheels and a lot of shrapnel marks on the body, but it had no effect on driving.
It would probably be difficult for this car to run on the complicated terrain just now, but if it drives towards the entrance of Donglin Town, it will be fine. The key is that this car has a cannon and a machine gun that looks like a cannon.
When Hu Xiaoling saw these weapons, he couldn't suppress the excitement on his face. He would rather carry the vehicle with injuries than abandon it.
"There are not many of them," Xing Bi said, "no more than thirty."
"How did you know?" Hu Xiaoling sat in the back of the car, covering his shoulder.
Qiu Shi also looked at him, wanting to know the answer. After all, there was no useful information on the map now.
"I can feel it," Xing Bi glanced at Qiu Shi, "You can also say you heard it."
Qiu Shi nodded without saying anything. Xing Bi was also a symbiont, and a symbiont that was constantly adapting and improving.
"Who is driving?" Hu Xiaoling asked.
"I'll drive." Xing Bi sat in the driver's seat.
Qiu Shi sat next to him, picked up the machine gun mounted on the front of the car and studied how to use it.
"Tell me if you want to fire." Hu Xiaoling held the gun in the back seat.
The car was very bumpy after it started moving, and it often swayed left and right at an angle close to 90 degrees. Qiu Shi grabbed the frame and felt like he was going to be thrown out. Hu Xiaoling, who was behind him, was so fond of the gun that he actually managed to hold on to it.
The dense gunfire and explosions ahead gradually became clearer. The combat effectiveness and destructive power of dozens of symbiotes were already amazing. If there were more, I wonder what the scene would be like.
The map in front of Qiu Shi began to show some terrain that had been changed by the explosion, as well as patches of black infected stains and more and more small bright spots, but in this situation, he could not distinguish between friend and foe.
No, I can’t tell the enemy from the enemy.
However, they were coming from the side and rear, and were driving the symbiote's car, so the enemy couldn't tell them apart, which was the biggest advantage.
"Front left," Xing Bi said, "There are three in the treetops above."
Qiu Shi lowered the gun and fired at the three bright spots on the tree. Three figures fell from the tree.
After this attack, the symbiote immediately discovered their presence and several small dots rushed towards them.
"Get off the car." Xing Bi said, "Fire a shot in front of Hu Zheng."
Qiu Shi and he climbed out of the car from both sides of the door at the same time. Hu Xiaoling bent over and fired a shot towards the front.
When Qiu Shi raised his gun and aimed forward, Xing Bi had already rushed over.
But this time Qiu Shi could see that his distance was always about thirty meters. After clearing out the two closest to him, he returned to the car.
"Are you not going to fight anymore?" Qiu Shi glanced at him.
"Let's all take some losses," Xing Bi said, "Donglin's fighting power is stronger than Yuncheng's."
"I see," Hu Xiaoling said, lying on the back seat, "We don't need to work too hard, there's no benefit... We must take these equipment back, so that this trip is not in vain."
Qiu Shi didn't say anything else, and Xing Bi didn't say anything either. They just squatted quietly by the car door without moving.
After waiting for a while, Qiu Shi felt a little worried, so he slowly moved to the side of the car door and squatted down.
Xing Bi glanced at him and spoke in a low voice so Hu Xiaoling couldn't hear it, but he could hear it clearly in the headphones.
"Want to control me?" he asked.
"No," Qiu Shi stretched out his hand and squeezed his wrist, "I just wanted to ask if you are okay."
"It's okay," Xing Bi said, "If there is any problem, I will tell you in advance."
"I want to contact Li Feng," Qiu Shi said, "I'm afraid they'll block me again later."
"Yeah." Xing Bi responded.
Qiu Shi could feel that there was something wrong with Xing Bi, but not the kind of thing that required control. It was more like he was depressed, or a little uneasy.
As he grew up, he faced despair almost every day, and he was very sensitive to these negative emotions.
Xing Bi felt his gaze, turned around and looked at him, but said nothing.
But after a moment of silence, Xing Bi leaned over and leaned on him. There were four explosions in succession in the inner city, with the last explosion even causing a power outage in a district of the inner city.
The entire inner city was in chaos. Everyone seemed to feel for the first time how important the Security Bureau was. Li Feng sat in the car and his phone never stopped ringing.
As he passed through the valley tunnel, he looked at the crowd outside running panickily in the thick smoke and flames after the explosion, and could hear all kinds of crying, shouting and cursing through the car window glass.
A lot of infected people have also come in. Even if these fleeing people can escape casualties in this attack, it is not known whether they can survive the subsequent infection investigation.
When facing these things, residents of the inner city and the outer city are equal.
"The explosions are all in the areas where the refugees have been newly introduced," the secretary kept reporting the situation to him. "The feedback shows that the city defense department has blocked the city from the inside, and the army is deploying defenses to the outside... Inner city alarm! Traces of biological organisms have been detected..."
The biological bodies came in from the sewage outlet. When the City Defense Bureau just arrived at the location and prepared to block it, a huge explosion collapsed the sewage outlet. One-third of the underground ditches that had not seen the sun for a hundred years could see the stars of Cloud City. The biological bodies and the infected people instantly broke through the City Defense Bureau's useless and half-formed defense line that could only suppress refugees.
It is a smart decision to choose the sewage outlet to break through. There is a rift outside and the defense itself is very weak, but for biochemical bodies, it is not difficult.
Now the troops in the inner city are concentrated in several important locations. Water, electricity, and material warehouses are all the territory of the Security Bureau. Li Feng began to have a headache after listening to the reports.
Even though Yuncheng only appears peaceful and harmonious on the surface, it has indeed been a paradise for too long. Many people may have forgotten the dangers of the outside world. Faced with such a sudden situation, everything is so helpless and chaotic.
The driver drove him to the Ministry of Emergency Affairs, where Colonel Xu and Minister Liu were already there. Director Wu arrived a few minutes earlier than Li Feng and was standing in front of the screen looking at a bunch of flashing data and information.
Their small conspiracy team originally had an external liaison group, but now the group leader had been killed in an explosion on the way to a meeting.
"Director Zhang can't come over," Colonel Xu said, "For the time being, we..."
"Is he dead too?" Li Feng asked.
Colonel Xu frowned and looked at him.
"He is not dead," Minister Liu said. "He is cooperating with the military search at the scene."
"Director Li, do you have any opinions about Director Zhang?" asked Colonel Xu.
"Yes, usually." Li Feng sat down and yawned in the midst of his busy schedule. "No, not when I have to work. I'm just afraid that he will die."
Li Feng was telling the truth. Whether they get along or not depends on whether they are stupid or not. The City Defense Bureau has cooperated with the Security Bureau for so many years, so there should be some tacit understanding between them. If Zhang Qifeng died now, there would definitely be chaos if someone else took over.
"Our security system shows that there are seven biochemical bodies in total," Director Wu introduced the situation to Li Feng, "but now..."
There was another explosion outside, very close, and the lights in the conference room flickered several times.
"We're not sure if more biochemical bodies will enter," Director Wu was calmer than usual in the critical moment, and he didn't stop talking. "We will provide the coordinates to the military in real time for cleanup, but..."
"But so far none of them have been cleared," said Li Feng.
"Yes," Director Wu nodded, "Their movement speed and defense level are obviously higher than those biochemical bodies we have encountered before."
"Seven level one," Li Feng said, "From what I heard, there are also the possibility of seven level one symbiotes."
There was a brief silence in the conference room, and noise coming from outside could be heard.
"Yes." Director Wu said, "It may be difficult to clean them up quickly in a short period of time. I am afraid that their goal is not only to destroy the facilities in the city..."
Li Feng's pet prompted that someone was contacting him, and this special prompt tone belonged to Qiu Shi.
"I'm going to take a call." Li Feng quickly stood up and walked out of the meeting room. He put on his headphones in the corner of the corridor. "Qiu Shi?"
"To make a long story short," Qiu Shi's voice came out, accompanied by the sound of gunfire, "We were attacked by surprise in Donglin."
"Symbiote?" Li Feng asked.
"How did you know?" Qiu Shi was very surprised. Without waiting for his answer, he asked again, "Did something happen in Yuncheng?"
"Are you and Xing Bi safe? Have you seen Hu Xiaoling?" Li Feng asked.
"How are Zhao Lu and the others?" Qiu Shi asked and quickly answered his question, "They are safe. I have seen them."
"The symbiote's target is the inner city, and the outer city is now hiding and watching the fun." Li Feng said.
"Is the situation serious?" Qiu Shi's voice was a little low.
"Not bad," Li Feng said, "Do you know anything about these symbiotes? There are seven in the inner city now, and it's difficult to clean them up."
"Li Feng," Xing Bi's voice came out, "Let Lin Sheng go out and clean up. He alone is enough."
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These days I’ve seen some people unable to tell the difference between this body and that body. A cute guy in the comments helped to explain it, so I’ll summarize it again here.
Biochemical body: It is an artificial human, a chemical reaction system with metabolic capabilities and the ability to maintain a certain form for a certain period of time (the latter sentence is copied from a certain Baidu encyclopedia).
Symbiont: A biochemical organism that actively chooses to allow fungi to enter and coexist in its body (it will not die, and a first-level symbiont that is strong enough can become the main symbiont and control other symbionts, such as us Bibi and Lin Sheng).
Infected: Humans infected with the fungus will lose their self-awareness (and die). Now, this latent infected person is completely controlled by the main body (and will die after using it up).
If what I said is incomplete, please help me to supplement it⊙▽⊙.