The screams gradually subsided, replaced by terrifying roars. The infected humans rushed towards the base, where they found human flesh and blood that they could not resist.
The people along the way fled desperately upon seeing this, but they were no match for the aliens, especially since these aliens were trained security officers and soldiers.
Blood stained the earth red, and the air was filled with the stench of blood. Even the strange creatures in the sea, attracted by the smell of blood, surged out of the water and approached this place.
Clouds piled up in the sky, obscuring the sun's scorching rays, and waves surged on the sea, roaring and crashing towards the shore, as if another apocalypse was approaching.
Zhou Yingying strode confidently in the wind, her hair radiating joy. The more humans liked something, the more she hated it; the more miserable humans were, the happier she became.
She had nothing to feel guilty or blame herself for, because this was the retribution that humanity deserved.
Defense post.
Uninfected humans are rapidly entering the defense camp. They are not worried about being infected now, because even if they are infected, there is medicine to restore them. Their only worry is being eaten. When their bodies are partially damaged, even the medicine to restore them is useless.
The current plantation has nearly 100,000 people, but the defense post cannot accommodate so many people at once, and the others are protected by the engineering convoy.
Inside the command post.
Lu Xinghe was arranging the guard work in a tense but orderly manner. Du Lu also sent a message that Boss Jin's men were gathering here. However, Boss Jin's men were only one of the teams. There were three other teams coming from other directions and they might arrive before Boss Jin. Sure enough, it was a feint attack, which made the base focus all its attention on Boss Jin.
"What do we do now? Most of our manpower has been sent to protect the people at the northern base. We definitely don't have enough people now," the person in charge asked Lu Xinghe worriedly.
Lu Xinghe stared at the images transmitted back by the satellite: "Although we don't have enough manpower, we have enough bullets and medicine, and..."
"And what?"
"It's nothing. Although the current situation is somewhat sudden, it's not like right after the apocalypse. We're not completely destitute." After Lu Xinghe finished speaking, he glanced at Luo Ning, who was looking at the data on the computer next to her. She and the child were humanity's secret weapon.
With this clue, Luo Ning found some information about the early days of the apocalypse. Lu Xinghe walked over and asked, "Did you find anything?"
Luo Ning nodded: "Zhou Yingying's real name is Meng Ru. After the birth of the mutant baby, her husband Feng Shicheng tried to develop an antiviral drug and submitted it to the government at the time. The first test subject was that mutant baby, and Meng Ru was also present. But for some reason, Feng Shicheng and the baby were killed on the spot, and there is no record of the results of the experiment."
Back then, it was the internet age, and any record would leave a trace. Since relevant clues can be found now, the situation back then should also have been recorded.
"It must have been compromised." After saying that, Lu Xinghe contacted the higher-ups at the Northern Base. The people there definitely knew something else.
After some negotiation, Lu Xinghe indeed obtained some information that was not available here. It was a video, which contained the part that Luo Ning wanted to know. When they saw the contents, everyone was somewhat shocked.
In the scene, everyone is wearing white protective suits, so it's impossible to tell who is who, except for Meng Ru on the hospital bed and the alien baby who is breastfeeding.
Fear was also in Meng Ru's eyes. She lay there motionless, letting the child she and her husband had been waiting for suckle. The child did not bite her, but ate quietly, looking no different from a normal child.
Luo Ning originally thought the twins were Meng Ru's children, but now it seems they weren't; there was only one alien baby born.
“This should be Feng Shicheng,” An Yuan said, pointing to a man wrapped in protective clothing holding a blue medicine.
"Please, let me try. If it doesn't work, you can kill my family of three then." Feng Shicheng's voice in the video was anxious and exhausted, clearly indicating that this disaster had also caught him off guard.
After discussing it, the others agreed to Feng Shicheng's request.
Feng Shicheng immediately went into the isolation room. When the child saw him come in, he smiled at him. Meng Ru also looked at her husband nervously and whispered something, but it was not clear from the video.
Soon after, the drug was injected into the alien infant's body, and the infant immediately began to struggle violently, revealing sharp teeth that were not in his age, making him look ferocious and terrifying.
Upon witnessing this, the personnel outside did not hesitate to raise their guns and fire. Feng Shicheng was the first to fall, his protective suit stained with blood.
"No!" Meng Ru desperately shielded her husband, the bullet piercing her body and head, then the alien infant. Soon, all three of them were motionless.
Finally, someone set it on fire, and the flames consumed everything.
"Why didn't they kill them before the experiment was over?" Luo Ning asked, puzzled. In her opinion, the experiment was not completed, and the fact that Meng Ru was still alive proved that something else must have happened later.
“Perhaps everyone’s nerves were very fragile at that time. Seeing the terrifying appearance of the alien baby, they would take direct action to prevent the situation from escalating,” Lu Xinghe replied.
An Yuan nodded in agreement: "So Meng Ru, who survived in the end, began to coldly observe the miserable lives of humans for eighty years. Then, after the development of the retrograde drug last year, she began to prepare. Now the most important thing is why the retrograde drug is not effective for her, and how she can turn back into a mutant in a short time, since she has human characteristics normally."
Luo Ning thought for a moment and said, "I'll go talk to her."
Lu Xinghe stopped him, saying, "We don't know where she's hiding right now. The enemy is in the dark while we are in the light. The best way is to lure her out."
"But is there any way to lure her out?" Everyone was stumped.
Lu Xinghe looked at the photos sent back by the satellite; the first batch of alien troops was about to arrive: "If she finds out that her plan has failed, she will definitely leave a trace."
The first wave of alien troops arrived quickly. The mutants used living people to lure the mindless aliens to the front, and these living people could also be used as shields, which was a win-win situation.
"Kill the mutants." Lu Xinghe commanded coldly. There was no need to try to make the mutants who attacked humans even though they knew there was an antidote.
"What about those mutants? Should we kill them too?" someone asked.
Lu Xinghe replied, "They will leave."
On the roof of the defense post, An Xiaoruo and Song Pei were helping to set up a sonic device, while Luo Ning and another child wore special equipment to prepare for band jamming.
"Yuanyou and Yuanyan, here's some candy for you. Come with Mommy later and help those people and animals leave, okay?" Luo Ning said, taking out two pieces of candy for the two little ones.
Lu Xinghe usually doesn't allow the children to eat this candy, so when the little dumpling saw it, his eyes lit up, and he licked the candy while giggling.
"Why does he look so simple-minded?" Luo Ning muttered to herself. Although this was her son, he couldn't escape his mother's complaints.
"Where are you being silly? You're so cute!" An Xiaoruo said as she teased her younger brothers. The little ones were a bit afraid of her because she had genes in her body that could kill alien species.
This is the current balance: every powerful species is constrained by another.
"Alright, the equipment has been successfully debugged, we can begin."
Luo Ning glanced at the surging tide of alien species, then closed her eyes and concentrated on influencing the unconscious alien species. Yuan You and Yuan Yan immediately followed suit, even though they still had pacifiers in their mouths, it did not affect their movements.
Meng Ru sensed the arrival of the first wave of aliens. This batch of aliens numbered at least tens of thousands. Even if they couldn't wipe out humanity all at once, they could still break through their military defenses. There were three more teams behind them, and she could end it all today.
The dark clouds dispersed, the sea became calm, and a ship was sailing towards them.
Having regained her alien abilities, she sensed familiar presences on the ship—the twin children she had adopted. Although they were forever frozen at the age of three, they were the children who had accompanied her throughout the apocalypse.
But why are they on that ship? Didn't she ask Wen Rong to look after them?
Just as she was about to go over to see what was going on, she sensed that the alien species were retreating, not just one or two, but a large number of them.
Looking back, all that was without consciousness, whether humanoid or animaloid, was leaving. Only the mutants were still charging forward. At that moment, human firepower pressed in, and the mutants who were hit by bullets quickly died.
"How could this be?" She stared at everything in disbelief. Had humanity come up with some new weapon yet?
She calmed herself down. It's alright. There's still Fang Hao and the other infected people. They're inside the base. No matter how strong the human defenses are, they can't stop the infection at the current rate.
But why is the base still so quiet? Have Fang Hao and the others stopped being infected? Or did they escape like those mindless mutants?
She had a vague feeling that something was wrong; there were aspects of humanity that she couldn't control.
The roof of the defense post.
Luo Ning opened her eyes. The tide of alien species had already left, leaving only those mutants who were still putting up a last-ditch resistance. In the face of carbon-based life forms, no creature could survive under the threat of firearms, but unfortunately, they remained obstinate.
"We succeeded," Lu Xinghe told her, and everyone was thrilled.
"Yes, it was a success." Luo Ning breathed a sigh of relief, then asked, "When will the other mutants arrive?"
Lu Xinghe replied, "The second wave will arrive in forty minutes, the third wave in an hour and a half, and the last wave, which is Du Lu's team, will arrive in two hours."
Luo Ning nodded, then looked towards the sea. She saw a ship about to dock; it must be Meng Ting and the others bringing the twins over.
At this moment, Lu Xinghe also received a call from Meng Ting. After listening to it, he was stunned for a moment and looked at Luo Ning.
"What's wrong?" Luo Ning asked.
Lu Xinghe hung up the phone: "Wen Rong is dead. She committed suicide after being reverted to human form by Wen Xi."
Luo Ning was stunned. Wen Rong was dead, which meant that no one would know what had happened to her in the past year.
The twins were quickly brought to the hospital. When Luo Ning saw Wen Xi's distraught appearance, she went over to comfort her and said, "It's alright, it's all over now. It wasn't your fault."
Wen Xi shook his head blankly: "Sometimes, being born is a mistake."
Her mother died when she was born, and her father neglected Wen Rong's feelings in order to take care of her when she was young, which eventually made Wen Rong hate her. This hatred then hurt many other innocent people.
The second and third waves of mutants arrived quickly, but Luo Ning and Lu Xinghe defeated them using the same method as the first wave. In half an hour, Boss Jin's team would arrive; they had the most mutants and were equipped with vehicles and weapons.
Another thing they were worried about was that Meng Ru still hadn't appeared after so long. She was like a time bomb, and they didn't know where she would explode.
Luo Ning tried hard to sense her presence, but the place was filled with the smell of gunpowder and blood, making it difficult for her to find her.
Finally, she looked at the two children in the cage. The two children were trembling, but they calmed down slowly when they saw her, as if they knew that she would not hurt them.
When Yuanyou and Yuanyan saw them, they walked over and looked at them curiously. Then they kindly handed over their candy. The twins in the cage hesitated for a moment, but in the end, they couldn't resist the temptation of the candy and took it. Yuanyou and Yuanyan laughed happily, and the children in the cage also laughed. The childlike laughter made the oppressive battlefield come alive.
"They're here!" someone shouted.
Everyone looked ahead and saw a long line rushing towards them from the horizon, more numerous than the previous three waves of aliens. The earth trembled, raising a cloud of dust, as if the mountains were about to collapse and the earth was about to split open.
Upon seeing this scene, everyone turned serious and prepared for battle. The base's heavy firepower was aimed at the direction from which the aliens came, and armed helicopters had already taken off. Luo Ning and the two children put on their sonic amplification devices again.
She was a little nervous.
A glass of water was handed to her. It was Lu Xinghe: "Don't be nervous. We still have enough firepower and medicine. Reinforcements from other bases are on their way."
Luo Ning reached out to catch the water, and when she touched his fingers, a scene similar to the present flashed through her mind: in front of the surging beast tide, she and he were running away hand in hand.
Finally, they collapsed on the grass, exhausted, having won back their lives from the clutches of death.
"We will definitely win," she said confidently.
The moment the mutants approached the defensive line, the sonic device was activated at maximum power. The unconscious mutants, receiving the change signal, began to change direction. However, this time the number of mutants was large, and they continued to advance. Moreover, thanks to their weapons and protective measures, they kept moving forward.
This was a brutal battle. Human soldiers were wounded or killed after being shot, but no one backed down. If they did not win this battle, the people from other bases and those from the northern bases who were migrating here would eventually become food for the aliens.
In the alien army, Du Lu stood not far from Boss Jin. As long as he took care of Boss Jin, the mutants would definitely be thrown into chaos. However, Boss Jin seemed to be suspicious of him and did not allow him to get close. He could only wait for the right opportunity.
After today's war ends, he can turn back into a human, regain his own emotions, and see the person he has always wanted to see.
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