Atlantic City has become a very interesting place now. The days and nights here are equally dead, but essentially, the days and nights here are equally lively.
The calm on the surface does not represent true peace. In fact, everyone in the city is tensing up every second, always preparing for a life-and-death battle. Maybe they are facing a mutated monster. The monster, maybe a hostile soldier, or even friendly fire losing its mind.
People have their limits, and most of us understand that it is difficult for a person to concentrate for forty-five minutes, let alone for hours or even days.
Fatigue can drive people crazy, and collapse is much easier than imagined. Anyone can try it at home and use a camera to record their own changes. As long as they don't close their eyes or doze off for more than thirty hours, then The personality of a person will become completely different from usual, the brain will no longer have the ability to conceal and control one's emotions, memory and thinking will become slow, and in severe cases, confusion and obstacles will occur.
At this moment, most of the imperial soldiers, guerrillas, members of the Freedom Front, and civilians in Atlantic City are already in this situation.
A good night's sleep may mean a long sleep. Teams with a larger number of people can rest in batches as planned, but teams with several to dozens of people will only have very little sleep time. Because of the power of the mutated monster, there must be at least two people standing guard. This is only when one monster is encountered. What if two monsters come at the same time, and the two sentries are killed instantly before the alarm is sounded
The key is to talk about mutant monsters. For ordinary people, they are too deadly. It is not easy to kill one. A team of less than ten people can even find it in time and get the upper hand to kill one. It is also difficult to ensure that no one will die after the monster.
Of course, there is no fixed frequency of monster attacks. You may not encounter one in ten hours, or you may encounter ten in one hour. In either case, you will not be able to rest normally.
After so many days of hard work, you can imagine the mental state of the people in the city. The city is particularly dangerous at night. If you walk struttingly on the street, you may be killed by a bullet fired from nowhere, because those who shoot are no longer able to tell whether you are a friendly force or a human being at night.
That night, Gambling Snake scouted around at extremely fast speeds, almost covering most of the city. No one found him, not even monsters could catch him.
Along the way, Gambling Snake discovered many hidden corpses of civilians. Some people were hiding very secretly, but without exception, those who tried to hide in one place died, and all the corpses were eaten. All. It seems that the way those monsters find prey is by no means purely relying on vision. According to Betting Snake's speculation, "smell" and "heat" are the two most likely methods they use.
The sketch of the city drawn by Feng Yan still had an outline in Gan She's mind. He went to the shopping mall specifically to see how the common people gathered together were doing. As soon as he got there, he smelled a strong smell across the street. The smell of blood.
It has become a nest of mutated creatures. There are at least a dozen monsters lurking in the huge shopping mall. It seems that the civilians failed to hold on to this position. The food and supplies inside have now become prey for monsters to hunt. There are still some blind people who try to go in and explore. Maybe their sense of smell has been used to it. The smell of blood might be because they were too tired and lost their ability to think, or it might just be because they were too hungry. All in all, walking into a shopping mall is definitely a very bad decision.
Seeing this situation, Gambling Snake felt a little uneasy. He was worried that the person he was looking for in this mission had died in the shopping mall. But then he thought that the Jeff and his son he met during the day were also civilians. They probably escaped from the shopping mall, or... they were kicked out because Jeff's father was infected. This kind of thing is normal. In order to protect themselves, a large group of people will often push others into the fire pit without hesitation and give them guns. This is considered humanitarian.
Maybe I could get more information from Jeff after I returned, so I didn't jump to any conclusions. I just left the shopping center and continued what I was supposed to do, trying to find other survivors of evolution.
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"No. 037, this is No. 025. Please answer No. 037, over."
"This is No. 037, over."
"No. 037, report your location and battle situation, over."
"We are..." A sharp buzzer suddenly came from the communication device.
"No. 037, we cannot lock your location, please answer."
"Sir... here..." The buzzer interrupted the response again.
Soon, No. 025 completely lost the other party's signal.
"It's like this again. After entering the power plant, the communication was interfered by unknown interference." A commander of the HL Army wearing a colonel-level military uniform pondered this with a solemn expression.
The communications soldier next to him said: "Sir... In order to restore power, this is the third missing team."
"I know..." the colonel said, "but we must continue to try. Only when the power is restored can we have a chance to evacuate Atlantic City on a hover shuttle. Otherwise, even if the disaster of mutant creatures is solved, this is still a siege. We will either be captured or captured." Die in battle." He frowned and hesitated for a long time before speaking: "Order the troops to prepare for battle. At daybreak, we will directly attack with large forces."
"But... Sir, the reason why the team disappeared before..." The communication soldier's words did not imply that there were mutant creatures in the power plant, but meant something else. After all, it was impossible for monsters to use instruments to interfere with communication signals.
"Needless to say, even if there is a regiment of troops ambushed inside, we have to go in. Every extra day we wait, we lose a day of supplies and a few more people die. I've had enough! I don't want to die in this damn place. shouted the colonel.
"Yes, I obey my orders." The signal soldier got the order and left.
When the colonel saw the other party walking out of the temporary command post (an office in a casino), he showed his fatigue. He opened his hand to support his forehead. He had a severe headache. It was an old problem. He hadn't slept for several days and was under great pressure. , how can it not happen
He took out the last cigarette from his coat pocket and lit it for himself: "South Africa, Long County, Western Europe... Now it's North America, phew..." He blew out the cigarette and seemed to be sighing at the same time: "Although the world is Big, but as soldiers of the empire, maybe we will have nowhere to escape... "
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Blood Owl and Zuo Dao came to the power plant together, and did not encounter a single monster along the way.
According to Zuo Dao's understanding, this was the blood owl's domineering display, which scared those creatures away.
The two of them entered directly through the gate. As soon as they took two steps into the power plant, the blood owl suddenly said: "Someone is here."
Zuo Dao shouted low, jumped back a big step, opened his arms, and made a martial arts move like a street performer: "Where is it?!"
In the darkness in the distance directly in front of them, the sound of footsteps was heard, and a man's voice sounded: "You are also a person with abilities." As he spoke, the man walked to a place within Zuo Dao's sight.
As soon as he saw him, Zuo Dao knew his identity. The weird uniform was reserved for high-level members of evolution.
"Since you can detect my presence, it means you are somewhat capable, but... I advise you to go back." The man's face was like most senior members of evolution, stiff and dull, like a face of a living zombie.
The blood owl looked at this man for two seconds, then regarded him as nothing, walked past him, and said to Zuo Dao: "You deal with this man."
"Huh? Hey! What's going on?" Zuo Dao asked in surprise.
"He's too weak, I'm not interested." Blood Owl added.
"You're looking for death!" the man yelled. He turned around and caught up with the blood owl, putting a hand on his shoulder, but after a few seconds, a look of surprise appeared in his eyes.
The blood owl turned his head and said coldly: "You shouldn't have turned your back to that guy."
The man fell to his knees involuntarily almost as soon as he heard the words. Zuo Dao's sword energy unceremoniously attacked from behind and penetrated both of his knees.
"He looks really weak..." Zuo Dao became bolder when he saw that the opponent was so easily attacked. He thought to himself: Anyway, this guy can't even stand up. It should be no problem for me to stop him.
As a result, the man simply fell on his back, straightened his arms and unleashed an invisible attack on the approaching Zuo Dao behind him.
With Zuo Dao's current cultivation level, he is very sensitive to energy. He can still differentiate between things that are invisible to the naked eye. Facing this sudden attack, Zuo Dao stabilized his Sipingma, leaned his upper body back, and used a special The ugly movement avoided this wave of attacks, and the invisible force only slightly touched the tip of Zuo Dao's chin.
"Hey! What the hell is this!" Zuo Dao touched his chin, and the rubbed part was actually a little numb.
"Electromagnetic wave." Blood Owl said, "But it's too weak." He continued to walk forward, not afraid of the other party attacking from behind. In fact, the person had already tried it when he held his shoulder.
Even that person couldn't break through the energy defense that covered the entire body of the Blood Owl in his unconscious state. It was indeed a bit weak.
"Compared to the electric shock of Thunder Fire, he is far behind." The blood owl commented disdainfully: "It relies on the bioelectricity generated by the genetically modified body, huh... This kind of power is almost enough to cure Internet addiction."
Zuo Dao asked: "Hey! How can I subdue him?! Is this man alive and useful?"
"Break his shoulders." The blood owl said this in a tone that was like "put on slippers" or "turn left at the intersection ahead." It was an understatement and he didn't take destroying other people's bodies seriously at all. As he spoke, he walked easily to a wall and looked at the map of the power plant.
How could the evolution guy sit still and wait for death? He quickly rolled over and repeated his old tricks, trying to attack Zuo Dao again. This time Zuodao was prepared, but the situation was completely different. Considering how insignificant this guy was, one can use a line commonly used by Saints to describe his actual combat ability - it would be useless to use the same move twice on him. use!
He condensed the sword energy of the god on his fingertips, and with two quick sounds, the incoming electromagnetic impact was eliminated. Zuo Dao himself took advantage of the situation, found the right moment, and kicked the man in the chest who was sitting on the ground and could not stand up.
He kicked the other party so hard that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and he couldn't hold his breath for a long time. If the body hadn't been genetically modified, most people would have died if their hearts were so suddenly turned against them.
At this moment, Zuo Dao felt more at ease, as the other party would not be able to resist fiercely for at least a minute. He put away his power, stepped forward and twisted the man's shoulders with his bare hands until they fractured.
After all, they were genetically modified people, and they didn't scream when they were treated like this. Their pain nerves had long been paralyzed, just so that they could not be affected by pain during the battle and could calmly concentrate at all times.
The blood owl looked at the map on the wall in the distance for a while. Then he smashed the glass with a punch, took the map out, walked back, threw it to Zuo and said: "Let's go."
"What should I do with this person?" Zuo Dao asked very ignorantly.
"You want to carry him on your back?" the blood owl asked.
"Then he won't take the opportunity to bite my face off?" Zuo Dao replied.
"Then what are you asking about? Of course you threw him here." The blood owl gestured to Zuodao with his eyes, and looked at the man's legs and shoulders: "He can't run very far by crawling on his chin."
Zuo Dao rolled his eyes and walked towards the man again: "Let me break his waist too, so that he won't have to roll away."
"Don't! Don't! I won't run! I'll stay here!" The man was shocked and quickly begged for mercy.
Zuo Dao sneered: "I will believe your nonsense!" He has always judged the integrity of others to the same standards as himself, so he almost never gets fooled.
"If you break your waist, it will be difficult to move it later." Blood Owl reminded.
Zuo Dao turned around and looked at the man again with "reluctance": "Okay, let's let you go for now. If you drive away..."
"Don't dare! Don't dare!" This man, who was quite arrogant when they first met, has completely turned into a coward after learning the methods and perverted personalities of these two people.
Xue Xiao and Zuo Dao threw the man in the first factory building after entering the main entrance of the power plant, and then walked inside.
"By the way, he won't be eaten by monsters, right?" Zuo Dao walked for a while and suddenly remembered this matter.
"This is a thermal power plant." Xue Xiao said.
"What's the meaning?"
"Temperature." The blood owl explained with leaping thinking: "The mutated monsters in the city are all cold-blooded animals, and their body surfaces also maintain low temperatures. Although this power plant has stopped working, the residual temperature here is also obvious in other parts of the city. It has to be high. So you see, there are no monsters in the nearby area."
"I see." Zuo Dao thought: "Yes, no wonder Fengxuan's ability is very effective against those mutated monsters." He turned his head: "Then the evolution guy we met knew this. Is that why you’re hiding in the power plant?”
The blood owl didn't answer. He was thinking about his plan. Suddenly, he stopped and said: "That's the main factory building over there, and the building next to it is the office. I'm going to check a few engine units and assess the situation. You Go to the office building and look for useful information, such as drawings of how to deal with this situation, or paper documents such as backup plans."
While listening to Xue Xiao's words, Zuo Dao took out the blueprint that Xue Xiao had just given to him from his pocket: "Hey... did you memorize the map?"
"Nonsense, I tore it off for you to see." The blood owl replied: "Also, don't fold things like maps, they should be rolled up." After that, he walked away.
Zuo Dao was stunned on the spot, so embarrassed that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear. He had thought that he was a smart person since he was a child, but since he joined the Inverse Cross, he fully understood the words of Confucius: When three people are together, there must be one who is my teacher. .
In fact, when Zuo Dao is in the reverse cross situation, there is no need to gather three people. Anyone you meet can teach you a lot. Just say what you want to do, right? Do you want to set off a global financial crisis, build a spaceship, learn killing skills, or save the world by hanging a pot
Even the blood owl, who was originally regarded as a perverted murderer by leftists, gradually showed his intellectual abilities after being exposed to him for a long time. Looking back now, when I was working as a middleman for Blood Owl in Venice, didn't this guy mainly buy scientific research equipment
The cleverness of the left-handed people has become nothing compared to the academic knowledge of the people around them. The longer they stay in this organization, the more they feel that it is unsafe to leave this organization. If they go against this group of people, there will definitely be no way to survive.
"Don't be stunned, do you think you have plenty of time?" the blood owl said without looking back. He could tell through his emotional reaction without using his eyes that Zuo Dao was standing still.
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At the same time, another uninvited guest arrived on the street outside the power plant.
This man is also wearing Evolution's dark blue high-end uniform. There are obvious stitching marks on his face, neck, and hands. Seams and stitches can be seen everywhere, as if this man's skin is sewn together with countless pieces of skin.
The tailor looked around for a moment, then set his sights in the direction of the power plant gate again, and thought to himself: Just now, it was clear that there was a feeling of capable people fighting, but it disappeared so quickly. Is it because the gap between the two sides is huge...
"Huh?" He suddenly lowered his head and looked at the corner in front of him.
"Meow..." A black cat ran out from there and looked up at the tailor. A pair of green cat eyes glowed strangely in the darkness. It barked again, then turned and darted back into the darkness.
"Tch...it turns out to be a cat." The tailor muttered to himself, "It's better to go in and confirm." As he said this, he walked into the power plant.