“Hurry, hurry, hurry…” Qiu Shi whispered, staring at the infected person on the screen who was rapidly approaching Bai Zhan. His hands were clenched in anxiety, and the wound on his palm that had just been bandaged was throbbing with fresh pain.
The images sent back by Bai Zhan were a bit confusing. The disturbed water flow was wrapped in chaotic floating bubbles, and fragments of water plants kept floating past in front of him, coupled with the shaking camera when Bai Zhan turned his head to observe.
Qiu Shi felt like he was having trouble breathing.
"How could the infected stay in ambush underwater for so long?" He frowned.
"There must be a place in the research institute that can directly connect to the sea." Xing Bi said.
The two fastest infected people rushed up, approached his legs at a speed faster than Bai Zhan, and then hugged him at the same time.
Bai Zhan kicked twice, but the underwater resistance plus the weight of the infected people meant that his legs couldn't exert as much force as on land, and he failed to shake off the two infected people.
The infected people had sharp hooks tied on their wrists. With a wave of their hands, the hooks pierced into Bai Zhan's legs. Then they were pulled out and blood immediately gushed out.
The picture was immediately dyed with a chaotic blood red.
"Give up the thrusters!" Xing Bi said.
The power of the thrusters was no longer able to carry the weight of Bai Zhan and the two infected people who were holding his legs, but instead affected Bai Zhan's movements.
As Xing Bi opened his mouth, Bai Zhan raised his hand and cut the straps of the thrusters, and he and the infected people began to fall to the bottom of the sea.
Then he pulled out his gun and fired two shots at the infected person who was holding his legs, hitting him right in the middle of his eyebrows. However, the infected person's arms seemed to be locked in the joints, and he did not let go even after his death, and still held Bai Zhan's legs.
Bai Zhan drew his sword and chopped off their arms, finally getting rid of the entanglement.
But he did not start to float up as Qiu Shi expected. Instead, after floating up for a short distance, he began to swim forward along the underwater tunnel as planned.
Without thrusters, his speed slowed down a lot, and the infected behind him quickly gathered towards him.
"What are you doing!" Qiu Shi shouted.
The target of these infected people is very clear, that is Bai Zhan. He doesn't believe that Bai Zhan can't see it. Is it crazy to continue investigating at this time
A homeless man holding a double thruster swam in front of Bai Zhan. Bai Zhan grabbed his feet and the homeless man began to carry him forward.
There were a few quick taps in the headphones.
"What did he say!" Qiu Shi turned and looked at Xing Bi.
"There is a plan." Xing Bi had taken off his coat and put on goggles without knowing when. "He will cooperate with the vagrants to clear out these infected people."
"What are you going to do?" Qiu Shi asked.
"I'll go pick them up," Xing Bi pressed his headset, "Jiang Liu, go find a speedboat from the homeless. I need it right away."
Qiu Shi didn't say anything, just stared at him again, then turned his eyes back to the screen.
Xing Bi would definitely go there, no matter who was under the water over there, not to mention that it was Bai Zhan.
The junior brother who had fallen into Zheng Ting's hands in order to help them evacuate, the junior brother who had been thought dead for so many years, after meeting again, even though he couldn't understand why he chose to become a symbiote, he still chose to believe in him...
Another homeless person came in front of Bai Zhan. He grabbed the legs of two homeless people with one hand each. The homeless people led him forward. The data of the underwater tunnel was constantly refreshing on the right side of the screen.
As he went further, Qiu Shi saw a circular underwater building, a huge oblate shape, which should be part of the research institute.
"Fuck." He couldn't help but sigh.
But the problem now is that the tunnel is very long. There is still a long distance from the location where Bai Zhan saw the building to the actual arrival. In this situation where there may be an ambush in front and pursuers behind, and the homeless people he is pulling need to float up to breathe, it is impossible for Bai Zhan to get there.
"Bai Zhan!" Qiu Shi said, "What kind of brainless plan is this? Are you going to lead a group of infected people to charge like this? You're just a tour guide!"
Bai Zhan raised his middle finger in front of the camera, and then pointed it backwards.
As he turned his head to look behind him, a group of infected people appeared on the screen, following closely behind Bai Zhan in a chaotic bubble, like a group of monsters chasing their prey.
What surprised Qiu Shi was that these infected people all had oxygen tubes in their mouths.
In this situation, Bai Zhan actually had the confidence to give him the middle finger
But soon Qiu Shi saw the homeless people. There were ten homeless people who followed Bai Zhan. Two were in the front, and the other eight were divided into two groups, following on both sides of these infected people.
Then a thin ray of light flashed among the nomads, like a spider's thread, passing across the top of the infected.
“Fuck,” he whispered.
This familiar feeling immediately made Qiu Shi vaguely understand their plan.
"I'll go to meet them." Xing Bi stood up. Jiang Liu was already waiting at the reef in the Youmin speedboat.
Qiu Shi glanced at him and said, "Yeah."
"Don't worry," Xing Bi tapped the screen a few times, and the screen was divided into two parts. Xing Bi brought a camera, "Maybe we should start the attack in advance."
"The last batch of support sent by Lin Sheng has not arrived yet." Qiu Shi said.
"We can't wait for them to arrive," Xing Bi said, "Let them clean up the place with one strike."
"Yeah." Qiu Shi responded.
Xing Bi pinched the back of his neck twice, opened the car door, got out, jumped onto the reef, and quickly went to the beach.
Qiu Shi retracted his gaze and saw on the screen that the two groups of vagrants had sunk to the bottom of the infected people, one on the left and one on the right. When the sunlight occasionally shone through the sea, he could clearly see that the thin steel wire was stretched straight.
The homeless people held the steel wire with one hand and raised the propeller with the other, while kicking the water hard to swim upwards.
The steel wire instantly wrapped around the waist of the infected person. The vagrants on both sides kept the same speed as the infected person while moving towards the middle. The steel wire wrapped the infected person into a bundle like a bundle of wood.
Then the two groups of homeless people on the left and right switched directions and began to pull the tightening wire violently back.
The infected person was strangled by the steel wire but still dragged the homeless person forward desperately. Threads of black blood began to float in the sea water.
Bai Zhan let go of the homeless person who was holding him, turned around and swam towards the infected people. The infected people around him were tightened, but those trapped in the middle still had a chance to break free.
The wire must be retracted into place quickly, but with nowhere to gain leverage in the water, the swimmer's speed is not enough.
Bai Zhan swam to the bottom of the bundle of infected people, turned over and stood upside down, and kicked the tightened steel wire below with all his strength, just like slapping a stuck knife. The steel wire instantly embedded into the bodies of the infected people... Then he swam away a little, splashed water and kicked them again.
Then I saw the homeless man above using the force of his feet to pull the wire back in.
The infected people entangled in the middle were cut into two parts unevenly and scattered in all directions, like black flesh and blood fireworks exploding in the water, cruel and horrifying.
The picture was no longer clear, and all I could see was black sea water and the remains of the infected.
Qiu Shi leaned back in his chair and breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, Bai Zhan was safe for the time being.
On the screen, we can see that Xing Bi and Jiang Liu are already on the sea in a speedboat and will soon be above Bai Zhan.
Feng Zhi's voice came from the headset: "A large number of infected people have been found gathering in the south."
"I have an infected person here," Sang Fan said almost at the same time, "and the main body is very close!"
"Begin the attack," Xing Bi said, "Qiu Shi, go to the entrance to join us, and the three teams will provide long-range cover."
"Got it." said Qiu Shi.
The soldier on guard outside the car quickly returned to the car and set up his gun next to the shooting position.
The driver started the car and rushed towards the entrance ahead.
Qiu Shi bit the whistle that Bai Zhan gave him, leaned half of his body out of the open car door, and blew the whistle.
One long, two short.
A sharp and somewhat sad whistle sounded far away along the coast.
Then there was one long and two short ones.
The surroundings were originally so quiet that only the roar of the waves could be heard, but suddenly, chaotic roars and shouts broke out from near to far. From the sea surface to the distant coast, the crazy moment that the vagrants had been looking forward to finally arrived.
A shell flew from behind and exploded in front of the right side of Qiu Shi's car. When the car rushed over, Qiu Shi saw the infected person who was blown away.
"Have you contacted Bai Zhan?" Qiu Shi returned to the back seat, quickly fastened the gun holsters and knife bags on his legs, and took out a rifle.
"Wait for him to float up." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi could see from Xing Bi's surveillance footage that the sea water was all black where the speedboat stopped, and there were a lot of body parts floating around the boat, rolling up and down as the waves hit it.
The infected rushed out from under the reef on the left, and the main body could be seen following them.
249 was indeed getting anxious. The main body no longer hid behind the infected, but sent all of them out to stop them.
"We have reached the entrance," Xu Jie's voice came, "It's full of infected people."
"Don't let them retreat into the tunnel, kill them," Xing Bi said, "Find the main body. The infected people can't pass the security facilities in the tunnel. There must be a main body who can pass with them or in there to support them."
"I'm here," Ji Sui's voice sounded, "Let's charge in and fire two rounds to provide cover."
Several golden arcs streaked across the sky, and explosions were heard from the direction of the entrance. The heavy weapons of the Yuncheng team began to concentrate firepower on the entrance.
Qiu Shi's car quickly approached the entrance. The surroundings were already in chaos. Silent infected people continued to pour in from all directions, and the crazy vagrants in between were screaming and laughing loudly.
The soldiers of Yuncheng were the only calm beings in the chaos, with neat uniforms and complete weapons. Their experience in melee combat was not as good as that of the vagrants, but they were able to use their powerful firepower to lead the vagrants in concentrated attacks, speeding up the process of clearing the infected.
The car stopped in front of a small building that had half collapsed, and Qiu Shi jumped down with the soldiers in the car.
The driver and Song Heng stayed in the car.
"Song Heng guarantees communications and data." said Qiu Shi.
"Got it." Song Heng replied.
Qiu Shi left the road and jumped onto the rocks. In front of him he could see a crowd of chaotic people.
The entrance to the research institute is inconspicuous in the crowd. You can tell at a glance that it has been destroyed. The tunnel entrance, which should have been spacious and magnificent, is now only half left. It is estimated that it was blown up when the bridge above was destroyed.
The rocky beach they passed by had been cleared by vagrants and was full of the bodies of the infected, with a few bodies of vagrants occasionally seen.
Qiu Shi shot at the infected people in the distance while looking at the sea.
"Xing Bi, location?" he asked.
"Just fished it out," Xing Bi said, "and is returning now."
Qiu Shi opened the map and took a look. He selected a reef about 500 meters away from the entrance and reported the coordinates to Xing Bi: "Go over and meet up."
The battle at the entrance was not very smooth. Cannons could not be used too close to the entrance. If the entrance was destroyed, the follow-up would be very troublesome. We could only rely on hand-to-hand combat, and the infected were blocking the door, making it difficult to attack. There were also new infected people constantly entering the beach.
When Qiu Shi and a few soldiers ran to the reef, they saw Xing Bi's speedboat approaching on the sea from afar.
He breathed a sigh of relief, leaned behind the reef and looked towards the entrance through a telescope.
Only half of the entrance is on the beach, and the other half is buried by collapsed rubble, so there is very little tunnel on the coast, and it is almost impossible to enter by destroying a part of it.
The speedboat rushed to the shore and stopped next to the reef.
Qiu Shi found that there were only three people on the boat: Xing Bi, Jiang Liu and Bai Zhan. Perhaps because the boat had limited load-bearing capacity, the other vagrants were brought back by clinging to the edge of the boat.
“Thank you for your hard work…” Qiu Shi hadn’t even finished saying “thank you for your hard work” when a group of homeless people who had just been pulled out of the sea, led by Lao Qi, rushed towards the melee over there, screaming.
"You're welcome." said Bai Zhan.
"Who told..." Qiu Shi didn't finish the sentence. He came to his senses halfway through. He really wanted to say this to Bai Zhan. Bai Zhan almost died in the sea.
"How is the injury?" Qiu Shi glanced at the soldier next to him. The soldier quickly took out the medical kit he carried with him and took out a bio-repair injection.
"No big deal." Bai Zhan said.
"Do you want me to give you the injection?" Qiu Shi took the injection.
"My arm is not broken." Bai Zhan took the injection and poked two needles directly into his leg through his pants.
"You are indeed hanging out with the vagrants." Qiu Shi watched his actions.
"Should I take off my pants to get these two shots?" Bai Zhan asked.
"Your pants are not in perfect shape. They are torn with holes on the left and right. You don't have to poke the pants into any hole you want to poke a needle in!" said Qiu Shi.
"It seems that the entrance will be inaccessible for a while." Xing Bi said.
"From the sea, or somewhere else," Bo Zhan said, "If they can ambush people in the water, there must be a way in and out."
"No." Qiu Shi refused decisively. "It's too risky. No one knows how many people they have ambushed in the water. We don't know the terrain at all. Going down is almost like committing suicide."
"From a design perspective," Song Heng's voice came from the headset, "In addition to the tunnel, the main part of the institute must also have a connection to the sea..."
"Let's consider this plan as an alternative," Qiu Shi said, "First consider the entrance..."
As he looked towards the entrance, he saw something in the air.
It was like a vague umbrella, floating from south to north at the same time.
"What is that?" He picked up the telescope and looked over nervously.
There is someone under every umbrella.
"Paraglider," Xing Bi turned his head and looked over. "Whose people are they?"
"They are not vagrants, they don't have this thing." said Bai Zhan.
"A speedboat is coming," Xu Jie's voice came from the headset, mixed with the sound of gunfire at close range, "I don't know who they are."
"Protect from behind," Xing Bi pressed his earphone, "Keep your eyes on the sky."
"receive."
The small pet that Qiu Shi stuffed in his thigh pocket vibrated a few times. He was a little surprised. This place was already beyond the distance where the small pet could receive information from Yuncheng. Who would use this thing to contact him
When he took out his pet, it automatically answered the call, and a familiar voice came out: "Qiu Shi."
"Old Deng?" Qiu Shi was surprised. After a pause of two seconds, he suddenly turned his head to look at the paragliders in the sky, "Is that you?"
"We're not too late!" Deng Yeye's voice was a little intermittent in the whistling wind. "The main force is still five kilometers away from here. Our people have already joined up with the immune people on Chen Dang's side! We can cut them off from behind!"
"Fuck," Qiu Shi had never expected, "How could you..."
"I said I would always follow you," Deng Yeye said, "Well, let's keep our promise."
"Thank you." said Qiu Shi.
"No thanks, I'm not helping anyone," Deng Yeye said, "This is a battle for everyone."
Deng Yeye and his group who came from the air were not many in number. They towed a paraglider in a speedboat and fired at the infected people on the ground as they flew through the air, then turned back.
The aerial vision is better, and the infected people gathering in groups were quickly disrupted by the aerial raid.
Ji Sui and Xu Jie led their men into the tunnel.
"Let's go in," Xu Jie said, "There is a door in front, it's open."
"Sang Fan, cut off the attack from behind," Xing Bi said, and started running towards the entrance, "We'll be there soon."
"Got it!" Sang Fan replied.
Qiu Shi opened the map and took a look. The situation inside the tunnel could not be displayed. The small bright spots of Xu Jie and Ji Sui who had already entered the tunnel did not appear on the map.
"There's a shield inside," Qiu Shi shot a burst of bullets at the infected people rushing towards them, "Be careful."
"Is the call clear?" Ji Sui asked.
"Clear." said Qiu Shi.
"Enter the inspection area," Xu Jie said. Chaotic sounds of hacking and killing could be heard in the background. The internal structure of the tunnel was unclear, so they couldn't shoot and could only use knives. "It's well preserved. This door must have just been opened."
"There are their people inside," Bai Zhan said, "We can continue to go in after we get there."
"Got it." Xu Jie replied, "The gate to the inspection area has been destroyed. It's safe for now. I'll wait for you... to evacuate!"
"Retreat!" Ji Sui also shouted, "Retreat!"
Qiu Shi's heart sank suddenly: "What's going on!"
"Sang Fan, take your men away from the entrance!" Xu Jie shouted.
"Got it! We are retreating!" Sang Fan said, "What's wrong?"
"The inspection area is closed," Xu Jie said, "Don't come over here, don't come over here."
"Isn't the door destroyed?" Qiu Shi's voice was hoarse. He followed Xing Bi and stopped. He quickly retreated to the reef nearby. He felt his hands getting cold.
"There is a hidden door." Xu Jie said.
"Who is in there?" Xing Bi asked.
"Ji Sui and I, three soldiers," Xu Jie said, "We have cleared out the infected."
"Is the air normal?" Xing Bi asked.
"Normal," Ji Sui replied, "I think... 249 is going to blow up the tunnel."
"Check the interior immediately and find the exit," Bai Zhan said, "Emergency button, emergency passage..."
Before he finished his words, a muffled sound came from below, and then Qiu Shi felt the beach under his feet shaking, and the sea water was rippling with irregular waves.
"Ji Sui!" Qiu Shi roared.
no respond.
Then the sea surface at the entrance of the tunnel suddenly collapsed as if it was sucked by something, forming a vortex.
"Xu Jie!" Qiu Shi yelled again, "Ji Sui!"
There was no sound from that end.
"The tunnel collapsed!" Sang Fan shouted, "They are buried inside."
"Continue to clean up," Xing Bi said after two seconds of silence, his voice steady, "There's no need to guard the entrance now, just kill as much as you can."
"Got it." Sang Fan said.
"Contact Lao Deng," Xing Bi looked at Qiu Shi, "ask them to come down."
"Yeah." Qiu Shi responded and answered Deng Yeye's call.
"What happened?" Deng Yeye's voice was filled with anxiety. "Who blew it up?"
"249," Qiu Shi said, "you come down."
"Is there anyone trapped inside?" Deng Yeye asked.
The speedboat on the sea was heading towards them.
"Yes." said Qiu Shi.
Deng Yeye and her people landed on the beach.
"What's going on!" she rushed over.
"Let us borrow the speedboat and umbrella," Xing Bi said, "and let the brothers who drive the boat lend them to us as well."
"Okay, what's the matter?" Deng Yeye tilted her head towards the two people beside her, and they quickly took off their umbrellas.
"We are going to the main building of the institute," Xing Bi pressed the headset, "Song Heng, how much data do you have about the main building of the institute? Can you determine the location that may be connected to the sea?"
"I can't be sure, but there are three most likely locations," said Song Heng.
"Send it to me." Xing Bi said.
"Okay." Song Heng replied.
"Sixth brother," Xing Bi looked at Jiang Liu, "Find a few homeless people and go down from the explosion point just now to investigate the damage in the explosion area."
"No problem." Jiang Liu nodded, turned around and ran without delay.
"Let's go over there, you, me, Bai Zhan, and Lao Deng," Xing Bi looked at Qiu Shi, "just try to get in."
"Are you sure?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Under normal circumstances," Xing Bi said, "I would save Xu Jie and Ji Sui first. They might still be alive. The sooner we save them, the more hope they have of survival."
"249 knows us very well," Bai Zhan said, "He knows that Xing will never abandon his team members and his brothers."
"So..." Qiu Shi looked at him.
"So now I'll give up for once," Xing Bi said, "and go straight to his lair."
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To be continued tomorrow⊙▽⊙.