Special military boots are used to step on the ground full of radiation snow, and the military boots are designed to be close-fitting, and the fifth-generation artificial leather is used. Not only lightweight, but also has the function of keeping warm. The sole is padded and thickened, and the bottom layer is covered with densely packed small steel needles to provide better grip for these military boots.
In this way, Ling Yi walked in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and walked towards the Cossacks military base with the large team. The wind picked up, and in the wind mixed with goose-feather-like snowflakes drifting down from the sky. The sky and the earth are vast, and if you look at it like this, there is a piece of gleaming white everywhere, and there is no other color except white.
This is considered a romantic weather in the old era, but it is a deadly environment in the new era. If an ordinary person is exposed to radiation snow for 10 minutes, the internal organs and skin will start to die. After 15 minutes, the immunity will drop to 0. After 20 minutes, the basic person is hopeless. The strong radiation caused a comprehensive genetic collapse, and the whole person would turn into a puddle of blood.
Like Zero and the others, the night god tactical suit almost covers the whole body, and they have to wear full-face helmets to ensure that the body is not exposed to the threat of radiation snow.
Half an hour later, the team arrived at the edge of the military base along the incomplete road. Zero can already see the high-voltage power grid that surrounds the entire base, as well as the surveillance towers behind the power grid. However, the deserted base left the power grid with only a layer of ordinary barbed wire, and there was no high-voltage current on it that could instantly electrocute people. As for the sentry towers, most of them are dilapidated, with thick cracks extending from the base of the towers to the monitoring window, and a large area of the top of the towers collapsed, leaving only one place in ruins.
And further away, there are other buildings of the military base. These low but very large buildings no longer have the glory of the past. The thick snow buried them, and only a small part of the building walls were exposed to the wind and snow.
A warning sign that says "Military Important Site, No Entry" is hung on the barbed wire at the entrance, and it is being blown loudly by the wind.
The team filed into the entrance, and according to the instructions of the electronic map, they walked towards the building of the military command center in the base. There, there is a huge underground base entrance. The entrance has a main elevator, but this machine, which needs a lot of power to support it, is apparently no longer operational. But it doesn't matter, the map shows that near the entrance, there is also a safe passage for base personnel to enter and exit.
The safe passage is driven by no electricity, and the Z-shaped ladder with reinforced concrete structure allows the personnel in the base to freely enter inside and outside the base even if there is no reliable electricity.
Going down from the safe passage is the underground base on the first floor. This is the tactical armor layer, which is composed of layers of tactical armor plates with a thickness of 50 centimeters. Its defensive power is enough to resist the attack of earth-penetrating nuclear bombs. It's a pity that this layer of defense didn't stand the test before the sudden arrival of the catastrophe, which turned the world upside down.
Today, the tactical armor layer has lost its former significance, but instead isolates the radiation and cold from the outside world, providing an environment for the survival and reproduction of the alien creatures living in the underground base.
The team entered from the entrance of the base, and along the main driveway and road signs, they found the military command post. A three-story building with a hexagonal design covering an area of nearly ten thousand square meters. Entering from the main entrance of the building, there is an empty hall. The hall is as large as an airport waiting hall, and there are many signboards indicating the different functions of each part of the hall.
Zero and the others walked into the hall quietly, and it was a mess. At the entrance, several corpses were seen lying on the ground. They make gestures of crawling in and out, but the picture is always frozen in a certain moment in decades. The flesh and blood of the corpse has dried up, but it has not completely melted, but turned into a mummy. It is conceivable that after the cataclysm, the global temperature continued to drop. Especially in this northwest land, far away from the permafrost plateau, the temperature is extremely cold.
At that time, not all the people in the base died on the day of the catastrophe, and the tactical armor layer of the underground base could resist most natural disasters. After the staff hiding in the underground base survived the first few months, they left the underground base, but they did not expect that the temperature outside the base had become extremely low. And judging from the size of the base, there is naturally a considerable amount of food reserves.
But in the past few months, it must have been exhausted. Leaving the underground base at this point, without food, they end up starving or freezing to death.
Zero pieced together the conjecture that was closest to the facts almost instantly, and as they got deeper into the hall of the command post, they saw more and more corpses. Finally, in the center of the hall, there may be hundreds of corpses gathered here. Some of the corpses hugged each other, and some hugged themselves, but without exception, they were all full of fear before they died.
These poor people have already left this world one step at a time, while the living are watching the world become cruel and dangerous day by day. In contrast, the living and the dead, but I don't know who is luckier.
This is obviously an unanswerable question, at least the people in front of them cannot answer it. So they chose to pass by the bodies of these victims silently. In front of them, there was a more cruel reality to face, and now they had no time to stay and pray for these people.
But when most of them passed by these corpses, Feng stopped.
"What's wrong?"
Sensing his stop, Ling walked back and asked.
Feng pointed to a corpse and said, "Look here."
It was the body of a woman, presumably a civil servant. On the face of the emaciated corpse, there was still a pair of flat glasses. Zero's gaze went from the face of the corpse to the chest, and then settled down. He squatted down and fingered the uniform on the corpse. The uniform has become fragile in the cold weather that has only been around for a long time. The fabric fibers of the clothes have long been frozen and brittle.
Under the uniform is a woman's body. On the withered chest, even after so many years, a flat wound still clearly appeared.
"It was homicide." Zero raised his head, looked at Feng and said.
Feng nodded, and then pressed his hands on the woman's trousers. The trousers were also turned into ashes, and the corpse appeared. In the place of her little calf, a huge void appeared. Judging from the thread-like wounds on the rest of the muscle, it looks like it was bitten by something.
"Cannibalism?" Zero frowned.
Feng sighed: "It's not impossible. Apparently this woman was killed and part of her muscles were swallowed up. In that kind of food shortage situation, even a gentle person would turn into a wild beast. But it's still Not the biggest problem."
When he said this, Su and Mapei also left the big team and came back.
Feng looked at Ling, and said: "The bigger problem is that the living corpses in the underground base data are probably not foreign objects. They were transformed by the personnel of these bases."
"So what, what's the difference between the alien living corpses and the living corpses in the base?" Su asked puzzled.
Zero finally grasped Feng's meaning, he stood up, reached out to take off the helmet, and took off the blindfold of the golden right eye. He said in a deep voice: "There is a difference. Most of the living corpses retain their instincts in life. Therefore, if the living corpses in the base are just ordinary office workers, that's all. If the soldiers change, then what we have to face is probably to take A monster with a machine gun."
Su was speechless: "You said that living corpses can use weapons? Isn't that an exaggeration?"
"It's hard to say. In this damn world, I wouldn't be surprised even if corpse wolves can use weapons." Feng also stood up, pointed to his head and said, "It's not unusual for living corpses to use weapons. Among them The mutant butchers will make their own weapons. Although the weapons they make are very crude, they are a manifestation of instinct and wisdom. In short, we have to be careful."
Looking at the corpse under his feet, Zero suddenly felt that this task might not be so easy.
By the time they found the safe passage of the underground base and reached the basement level through the spiral staircase, the other two teams had long since disappeared. Zero put on the helmet again and turned on the night vision mode of the helmet. Immediately, a dark corridor appeared in his eyes. On both sides of the aisle, there are patches of mottled walls, and rusty pipes extend along the walls to nowhere.
It was pitch black ahead, like a lightless hell. Zero nodded to the three team members behind him, and the four of them walked towards the entrance of the passage on the second basement floor with full vigilance.
Not long after Zero and the others left, Bridge retracted his head from the wall at the corner of the passage. He turned around and walked forward, and when he came to a small room nearly 100 meters away, Bridge knocked on the door. The door opened, and inside the door was the operation platform on the basement floor, but this operation room is no longer operational, but it serves as a temporary resting place for the pioneer team.
"How's the situation?" Anthony, who was resting in the corner, opened his eyes after hearing the movement. What catches the eye is Bridge's thin figure, and the scheming captain asked.
"Head, they're all down." Bridge laughed.
Anthony nodded and said: "This underground base occupies a huge area and is occupied by many monsters. Whether it is Zero or that idiot Rankin, it is not easy to get the quest items. It is conservatively estimated that it will take at least five days for them to return. When the time comes, let's welcome them at this entrance."
"It's better to have a brain. If I can't think of a good way to save energy." The big man Auram pointed to his head and said.
Anthony smiled, thinking that a guy like you with well-developed limbs and a muscular head knows what tricks are. He looked at Bridge again, and said: "Although it will take at least five days for them to come back, just in case, from this moment on, we will arrange personnel to monitor the station 24 hours a day in the direction of the exit. Bridge, just Let's start with you, every 12 hours. No problem?"
"Wrap it on me, head. Keep a fly and don't even think about flying out!" Bridge patted his chest confidently, and left the operating room.
After closing the door, the world outside the door was dark and full of oppressive atmosphere. Bridge cursed under his breath, then walked around the corner and sat down in a hidden place. Thinking that 12 hours is not short, Bridge simply closed his eyes and fell asleep. But Bridge didn't know that there were not only a few living creatures in the vanguard in the dark underground base.
Something else is approaching quietly.