Chapter 162 Shocking Scene
Four days later, everyone gathered in the conference room again to watch a top-secret video.
"This video was captured this morning from a communications satellite installed at the capital base. It shows a small city near the B city base. There's no large survivor base, only small groups scattered around. This city was attacked by a wave of marine life at 8 a.m. This is the fast-forwarded footage." Gu Chao said, motioning Li Hangyuan to start playing.
On the screen, creatures like red-spotted ants poured into the city from the bottom of the screen. Wherever they passed, all the zombies wandering on the streets were knocked down. In just a few seconds, the zombies were completely swallowed up as if they had disappeared, without reducing the speed of the marine creatures at all.
They climbed onto congested vehicles, chiseled open the windows, and dragged out the zombies inside to eat them.
However, since we were looking down, we couldn't capture how they actually ate.
As they passed by the neighborhood, all the small buildings collapsed, raising clouds of dust that blocked people's sight, and those creatures seemed to be buried and disappeared.
However, after a moment, they reappeared in places that were not blocked. It can be imagined that the broken bricks and stones did not hinder them at all.
In just over two hours, the tidal wave of creatures had swept into the city center, leaving behind a devastating mess.
Half of the city seemed to be submerged in fiery red sea water, while the other half was occupied by zombies.
It seemed that as the number of creatures increased, the noise became louder, and all the zombies on the other side rushed towards them, and the two sides soon merged together.
But obviously, the zombies were completely no match for the red creatures and were gradually submerged and swallowed, while the red creatures' speed remained unchanged.
They are large and small, and there seem to be seven or eight different species. They are densely packed and move quickly. They seem to have no direction or destination, and just run forward blindly.
But whenever they reach a fork in the road, they will disperse on their own and go deeper into various places along the road.
If they encounter a shorter building, they will rush forward and break the bottom of the building, causing the entire building to collapse. The ones behind them will move forward and desperately dig through the brick and stone fragments on the ground to find something edible.
If they encounter a tall building, their hard bodies can become very flexible. One by one, they can climb up the wall, smash the windows, crash in, and finally break out from the other side.
At this moment, in the upper right corner of the screen, several survivors met a lone creature at the corner of a remote alley!
Li Hangyuan enlarged the image, and everyone finally saw the true face of the creature.
I saw that it really looked like a crab, with six long, thin, straight legs with sharp spines standing on them, a huge crab claw on the left, and a round thing of unknown origin on the right. In the middle, where the crab shell should have been, it had a head and an oval body like a spider, and long tentacles at the tail, which curled up and curled around its back.
They were so large that they looked incredibly strange even from such a distance, not to mention how terrifying they were up close.
This team of survivors was obviously frightened as well.
They first retreated a distance in panic, then stopped and waited for the action of the creature opposite.
However, after waiting for a while, the creature just stayed there without moving.
They looked at each other and approached it cautiously.
One step, two steps, three steps, the distance between them slowly narrowed.
When Lu Ming saw this scene, he couldn't help but hold his breath, clenched his hands, his heart was pounding, and he broke out in a cold sweat for them.
Just when the two survivors in the front row were only one meter away from it, the red crab monster suddenly launched an attack!
It suddenly stretched out its huge crab claw on the left, clamped the survivor on the left in half, then clamped the upper body and stuffed it into its mouth!
A thin and long object flew out from the soft flesh of the right claw and hit the head of the survivor on the right. Then it quickly retracted and took away part of the man's head. Blood splattered out, and the man first covered his head. The next moment, his whole body fell to the ground as if he had no bones.
Seeing this, the survivors at the back ran back frantically. The red crab monster that caught up with them stabbed them to death with its two sharp long legs in front. Then it skewered the bodies one by one on its legs like skewers, dragged the corpses back, and began to eat leisurely.
In just a few minutes, the dog had eaten all the people clean, not only leaving out the bones but even the clothes.
"Hiss..." Everyone present gasped when they saw it attack.
Lu Ming couldn't bear it, so he frowned and turned his head away.
Gu Chao, who was standing beside her, noticed this and reached out to pat the back of her hand on the chair to comfort her.
Li Hangyuan zoomed out again and returned the perspective to the distant view.
It can be seen that at this time, the entire city was almost occupied by these creatures. No living things were left wherever they passed, and even the plants growing in the soil were dug out and eaten by them.
Some survivors tried to resist, but they were either killed before they could get close, or the weapons had no effect on them or were even bounced back. Some people shot them with pistols or shotguns, but it didn't stop them at all.
Only a few psychics used their powers to attack and force them to retreat, or successfully injured a few in front of them, but in the process of escaping or retreating, they were still caught up and eaten by the countless red crab monsters behind them.
In less than half a day, the city completely lost its vitality.
After the "inspection", they continue to flow out in the other direction of the city without stopping, rushing to the next "dining spot".
Everyone felt complicated.
They had only seen this one kind up close, and there were many other types of creatures, large and small, on the screen that they did not understand. It was hard to imagine how terrifying the scene would be when thousands of monsters besieged the base.
Gu Chao signaled Li Hangyuan to turn off the video and said, "This video indirectly confirms the information from the B City base and our intelligence, so we must continue to focus on developing people with special abilities, and collecting crystals is the top priority. Starting tomorrow, except for the logistics team, which will continue working as usual, all other teams will join in the work of clearing zombies and collecting crystals to ensure the daily supply of crystals. At the same time, the armed forces will begin selecting the vanguard and guard teams for special training, including issuing crystals to enhance special abilities."
"yes."
"Should we build another wall? Or set traps further out?"
Cheng Ming continued, "I don't think it's necessary. It will be easily destroyed, and it will cost us a lot of money, material resources and manpower. It would be more cost-effective to collect crystals."
Gu Chao also agreed with him.
"Any questions?"
Everyone shook their heads.
"Then adjourn the meeting."
The others stood up and left the meeting room, and Lu Ming stayed until the end to wait for Gu Chao.
He packed his things and they walked towards the hotel side by side.
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