Chapter 283 Besieged on the Rooftop
The rain was heavy and the sky was gloomy.
It had been raining for two days in a row, but the temperature outside had not dropped. In this humid and hot weather, people were wrapped in airtight protective clothing, which made it even more stuffy and uncomfortable. Everyone was sweating layer after layer.
What was even more uncomfortable was that once you put on the protective clothing, you couldn't eat or drink, and you couldn't go to the toilet at will.
But even so, everyone didn't dare to take off the protective clothing casually.
After all, many people were infected before they even had the chance to put on protective clothing. In contrast, they were able to survive the plague outbreak two days ago because they had the protection of the troops.
Huang Yue and Zhang Dong stood at the bottom of the stairs, looking up with a numb expression at the troops who were breaking the lock
in front of the rooftop security door. In the past few days, they have moved to two shelters. The first time was in the gymnasium. There were still many people at that time. There were fifty or sixty team members and civilians. The second time was in the underground warehouse of a supermarket.
They originally thought that this was just an ordinary acute disease. As long as they were protected by the troops, they could get on the plane to leave Fran as soon as possible. But the current situation is too different from what they imagined. Not to mention ordinary people like them, even the troops who protected them all the way are slowly decreasing.
Some people were infected and were directly ordered to be killed by the captain of the troops. Some people were afraid and fled directly under the cover of night...
Before today, there were only five members left in the troops, the captain and four team members. Huang Yue and Zhang Dong knew in their hearts that if it weren't for the captain, the team would have disbanded long ago.
The tragic thing is that this morning, they found that the captain was also infected...
At that moment, they really thought they were in despair. Fortunately, in despair, the troops received the news of the evacuation of the whole city. The city is completely out of control. No matter how many guardrails and shelters are set up, they can't resist the deterioration and infection.
The army headquarters stated that from today on, no more supplies will be airdropped into the city. They have established better-defended shelters in various places outside the city, and require all troops and ordinary people in the city to evacuate.
However, it rained heavily for two days, and the rain mixed with the blood, flesh and pus of the parasites. The water on the ground was all corrosive. Their car had already come to the east side of the city. It seemed that they could reach the suburbs by driving east or south for more than ten kilometers, but the tires of the car were completely broken.
They were all wearing chemical protective suits. They originally thought that they could get out of the car and walk. Maybe they could meet other evacuation teams whose cars were not damaged, or find a car that could be driven.
But when they arrived nearby, they saw a large number of parasites in the rain. Louis, who was temporarily acting as the captain, acted decisively and immediately took them to bypass, but the situation in this area was very bad, and there were parasites blocking the road everywhere.
They didn't have much flamethrowers left, and it was raining heavily, so the flamethrowers were ineffective. They didn't want to waste them, so they finally took shelter in this building.
This building was the tallest in the area, and since it wasn't a residential building, Louis thought there might be fewer parasites inside. They could break through to the top floor and try to call for help.
Louis and his team knew that when the whole line was evacuated, in addition to driving out of the city on their own, the troops would also send helicopters to relocate some civilians who were unable to leave the city on their own.
However, their communication equipment was accidentally contaminated by the blood, flesh and pus of the parasitic rats when they evacuated the underground warehouse shelter, and the communication signals in the entire city were completely cut off, so they were temporarily unable to contact the headquarters.
But they still had a few magnesium sticks left, hoping to send a distress signal when the helicopter passed by.
After Kao broke through the door lock, he found that the door of the safety staircase was locked from the outside, which means that someone locked the door after reaching the top of the building, which means that there should be someone on the top of the building! Before
they could go out to check, the team members Joan and Joseph, who were on guard at the end of the team, shouted: "They are coming up!"
They were referring to those strange-looking fungus parasites. The heavy rain in the past two days nourished the growth of the fungus. The parasites dragging fungus hyphae were blistered by the water and looked more and more weird and ugly.
Some of these parasites followed their team from outside and slowly wandered in, while others were attracted by the crowds and movement and swam out from all floors of the building.
The safe building only had two directions, up and down, and the bottom was blocked, so they could only run to the top of the building.
Louis and Kao pushed open the door and made way for those in the middle to hide on the top of the building first, but the safe door had been destroyed and could no longer be locked from the outside. They had to eliminate these parasites in the building, otherwise if they were chased to the top of the building, it would only pollute the last area where they could hide.
Joan and Joseph had already turned on the flamethrower, which was many times more effective when used inside a building than in the rain, but there were too many parasites and they slowly gathered.
Looking down from their position, they almost covered the entire staircase with them. If they got close to them and exploded, their protective suits would not be able to withstand them at all.
If the line of defense of the two of them was breached, the others would have no way out.
Kao stood by the safety door and looked down, then returned to take the last flamethrower from Louis, asked Louis to stay and wait for the helicopter, and he was going to rush down to fight those parasites.
His life was saved by the captain, who was a man with a stronger sense of responsibility than anything else. His only wish before his death was to protect these people. He handed this unfinished task to the four of them, and he did not want to disappoint the captain's trust and expectations.
Just as he was rushing down in response to Louis's call, someone grabbed him from behind.
**
Youxi's eyes once again passed over the familiar face in the other person's protective suit, and she frowned: "What's your name?"
"Who are you?" Kao looked at the other person in surprise, and found that he couldn't get rid of her hand.
This person was not in their team. She looked like she was wearing a protective suit, but her protective suit was completely different from theirs. It was like a layer of transparent colloid and looked light and thin.
She wore a very small mask on her mouth and nose, like a breathing device, but he didn't see any oxygen cylinders in her protective suit.
Because they were supported by airdropped supplies, they had no shortage of food and drink in the shelter, but after hiding and being intimidated for several days, they were inevitably disheveled.
But the other person looked clean and tidy, wearing a clean short-sleeved shirt and hot pants under the protective suit, as if he had just walked out of a safe bedroom.
"Forget it." You Xi didn't continue to worry about the name. She showed up to save people because she saw the target of the previous mission, but she didn't expect that in this team, in addition to the target of the mission, she would see another face that could not appear here.
But since she decided to save him, she had to do it quickly and effectively.
She pushed him out of the safe door and raised the flamethrower in her hand: "Everyone go to the top floor, don't block the corridor!"
After Youxi finished speaking, she held onto the handrail of the stairs and jumped directly from the twelfth floor to the eleventh floor, and then jumped from the eleventh floor to the tenth floor, landing behind the two team members: "Get out of the way! Go to the top floor!"
The flamethrowers in Joan and Joseph's hands were about to run out of steam, and suddenly someone "fell from the sky". They were all startled. The next second, the other party turned on the flamethrower in his hand, and flames gushed out again. Even through the protective layer, the scorching high temperature could be felt.
But this high temperature made them feel safe. After all, only fire can effectively and thoroughly eliminate parasites nowadays.
The two took a step back and did not go to the roof. There were more and more parasites in the stairs. She was alone and could not defend this place at all.
You Xi guessed their thoughts. Even if she had a constant supply of fuel, it would take time for the fire to burn. She really could not defend this place alone, but she did not intend to defend it.
She killed several fungus parasites in the front row who had already swayed to the ninth floor, then turned around, grabbed a team member, shouted "Go", and ran up.
Another team member followed subconsciously and brought them back to the eleventh floor. The flamethrower in her hand had been replaced with a small rocket launcher. She bent down, looked at the direction of the building, and quickly fired at the position between the tenth and ninth floors.
Boom!
With a loud bang, everyone else felt the building shaking.
After the flames and smoke dissipated, when several team members checked again, they found that the stairs leading up to the ninth floor had been completely broken. No matter how many parasites there were, they could not climb to the tenth floor, which meant that their way forward was cut off.
"Wow--" Qiao An exclaimed in surprise, indicating that as long as the parasites did not learn to climb high, they would not be able to get up.
Youxi put away the rocket launcher and did not deliberately hide her specialness.
However, at the critical moment of life and death, the world around her was already like this. As for Youxi's peculiarity, others were just surprised and did not pay too much attention.
She went upstairs again, motioned for others to close the door, and then moved a few heavier decorative objects on the side to temporarily hold up the stair door.
Kao came over and answered the question she asked before: "Hello, my name is Kao, thank you for saving us."
Youxi looked at the face in the other's protective suit again. The other's eyes looked at her with a little confusion and a little complexity.
I don't know if this confusion and complexity is because of her weapon that appeared and disappeared out of thin air, or because of herself.
She was not mistaken, she remembered this face. But at that time, he was not as young as he is now. Maybe he just changed his clothes, changed his hairstyle and hair color, or made other changes.
At that time, his name was Ron.
**
In the evening, two helicopters passed by this area, but I don’t know if it was because the magnesium sticks were not bright enough, and the heavy rain blocked the helicopter’s vision, so no matter how the team members shook the magnesium sticks, the helicopters did not find the people on the roof.
The sky gradually darkened, and the magnesium sticks were used up. The people standing in the rain were tired and hungry, and their hearts gradually cooled down.
Youxi had already sent a message to Lin Wu before leaving the tree house to change the way they met. The tree house was also put away after she left, so at this moment, she was sitting quietly in the rain on the side, waiting, just like them.
She was wearing a "self-cleaning protective suit". Although the word "clothing" is in the name of this prop, it does not actually look like clothes, but two bracelets that can be worn on the wrists.
When needed, the bracelets are activated, and a transparent gel-like protective layer will form on the outside of the entire body from head to toe. Whether in terms of lightness or wearing steps, it is many times better than ordinary chemical protective suits. Ordinary
chemical protective suits are bulky and cumbersome to wear. In addition, except for the mask area, other parts are opaque, which will affect the vision to some extent when moving.
Now, this "self-cleaning protective suit" is as convenient as her second layer of skin, except that it needs to be used together with an oxygen mask.
She didn't know whether the ten uses were calculated according to the number of activations, or whether each activation had a duration and would only be counted as one use after the duration was used up.
Anyway, as far as I can see now, after her first activation, the number "10" automatically popped up in the black screen area on the bracelet.
She also wanted to see how long a single activation could be used continuously if it was not put away.
Others did not dare to disturb her and sat on the other side of the roof.
When the first helicopter passed by, the originally quiet people stood up and shouted at the top of their heads with all their might. One team member even used the only remaining flamethrower to spray flames several times in a row to attract the attention of the helicopter above.
But all these were useless. Youxi wanted to help, but she had no flying tools. In this situation, even if she could bring them down from the outside of the building to the ground and then take out the car, the tires of the car would not be able to hold on for too long.
Their only chance of escape was to attract the attention of the helicopter, let the helicopter drop the rescue basket, and take them away from the air - wait, attract?
Youxi suddenly thought of a tool that she had overlooked, which was a small gift in the fairy tale park bracelet.
A moment later, a red firework shot up into the sky. This firework was like a meteor, rushing straight into the sky from a low altitude, and then blooming like a flower at a certain height, and then began to flash various pictures.
First, there was a beautiful, huge silver-blue crystal shoe, then a beautiful red rose, then a silver mirror with black swirls, and then a castle covered with vines and flowers...
Even if the pilot on the helicopter was blind, he would have noticed such incredible fireworks. The plane approached the direction of the fireworks, and then another blue firework rose from the roof of a building below. This time, the blue firework was like a beautiful bird, circling around the roof of the building that was emitting the fireworks.
The team members on the helicopter adjusted the direction of the searchlight and looked down at the roof at the same time. Under the light of the searchlight, a dozen people on the roof were waving their hands vigorously at the helicopter, shouting and jumping.
"Great! We're saved!" Huang Yue hugged her husband tightly, and hope was born again in her despair.
Twice, she was saved from despair.
This feeling of seeing hope again at the end of the road is simply incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it.
Kao turned around and wanted to find the young woman and let her get on the helicopter with everyone. He even secretly talked to the team members and the people to keep silent about her specialness.
But when he turned around, there was no trace of her on the top of the building.
He saw the calm and composed look of the other person while carrying a rocket launcher and firing it. Suddenly, the flashing picture became blurred and distorted. He seemed to be somewhere in a chaotic street, and the other person took back the rocket launcher from the car window and raised the window regardless of his shouting...
He could even see her fair cheeks and tightly pursed lips...
How could it be?
The other person was wearing a mask the whole time, so how could he have seen her face?
**
When everyone on the roof was evacuating, Youxi had already landed on the ground along the rappelling rope, and quickly crossed several streets under the cover of darkness and came to another building outside the intersection.
Because she was running at full speed, faster than the speed of the car, she often flew past the fungus parasites along the way before they could react.
By the time they realized the explosion, Youxi was already more than ten meters away.
She had observed this building when she was in the tree house. The building was not very high, only five floors, and it was an indoor parking lot. There was no way to go directly to the top of the building, so she had to climb up by herself.
When she was climbing up along the edge of the building, someone reached out from above and lifted her up.
"How long did it take?" Youxi smiled at the other party.
Lin Wu smiled back at her: "About half an hour, I got the ticket too."
The other person was wearing the same "self-cleaning protective suit" as her, and it looked like he had done a lot of tasks, so he could get better task rewards.
"Is there a time limit for the number of times this protective suit can be used?"
"Yes, the longest time is 24 hours. It will automatically clean when the time is up, and it will consume one time at the same time." Lin Wu pointed to the bracelet, indicating that the numbers would jump by themselves, "If it is not put away within 24 hours, it will automatically clean before it is put away, and it will consume one time at the same time."
You Xi understood that her activation had not reached 24 hours this time, but as long as it was put away, it would be cleaned and counted as another use.
But now it was dark and the rain was still heavy. She couldn't run with Lin Wu for too long at the same speed. It was safer for them to return to the tree house.
You Xi opened the tree house, Lin Wu held up an umbrella, and the two of them put away their "self-cleaning protective clothing". The protective clothing took ten seconds to automatically clean before putting it away, and then all returned to the bracelet.
For safety reasons, You Xi took out the disinfectant and disinfected the two people again, and then entered the elevator together.
The elevator door opened, she changed into slippers, put a new pair next to her, turned on the camping light next to her, and said to Lin Wu: "Welcome to stay."
That night, when the two of them took a shower, changed their clothes, and sat at the bar to prepare for dinner, their mobile phones received new messages at the same time.
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