Chapter 133 Pollution 10 Go home early
High-intensity red light radiation currently occurs at most three times a year, with an interval of at least two months between each occurrence.
Red rain has only appeared three times in total, and each time it was accompanied by high-intensity red light radiation.
For the first time, S-level pollutants destroyed an entire city. Humans paid an unimaginable price to solve it, and the habitable area for humans was reduced by a quarter.
The second time, after the base was built, prevention was timely, but the mutation rate in the base increased by five points. The city was full of dangers, and countless base rules related to human choices and moral dilemmas were set during that period.
And the third time...
It took Li Yanze no more than two minutes to put on his equipment. He fastened the straps on his body, pushed down his protective mask and tactical glasses, and he was completely wrapped in a black combat suit.
Li Yanze and his men boarded the helicopter. When they flew at low altitude, the blue sky above their heads gradually turned black like a flipping sign.
The sky is opening, and artificial light sources are gradually lighting up...
Li Yanze leaned against the cabin and took a deep breath.
The third red rain... S+ pollutants were bred outside the base. Nine companies were sent out, but only he came back alive. In this way, the base was almost overturned, and large-scale pollutants invaded.
Now everyone calls it the Great Catastrophe.
It was at that time that He Yan's father, He Yihong, the former commander of the Liming Army, was killed in action.
"Dawn is in place."
Looking down from the plane, people were evacuating the streets quickly. The R-value detector on my arm kept jumping numbers in real time, and the numbers got higher the further west I went out of the base.
If the radiation has not yet reached there, the only possibility is that there is a large amount of pollutants in the area.
"Block the door and search for weapons and protective clothing!"
The passage is long and narrow, with small houses on both sides, which were originally used to store supplies.
At this moment, they just hid in and pushed the door shut.
"It is estimated that there are 21 minutes and 13 seconds left..."
But this is not a long-term solution at all. After the sky is fully opened, the gates leading to the base are all closed.
There is no sky protection here, and they will be directly exposed to high-radiation red light.
It is not realistic to escape now. There are a large number of pollutants in the passage, which continuously spread highly polluting substances and devour blood and flesh to replenish nutrients.
They were a group of students without weapons and only had theoretical knowledge, so they were completely useless.
"We can't wait here any longer. We have to retreat inside before the gate closes."
Sander looked at He Yan who had a calm expression on the side.
He Yan and he were busy blocking the door, while the other five classmates were searching the house for emergency supplies.
He Yan put on the protective suit while rummaging through the boxes to see where he could find a handy weapon.
"But there are so many pollutants outside... We have never had actual combat, and we don't have R-reduced weapons, so it's impossible to eliminate them."
"The base alarm has sounded. Our situation has been reported. Why don't we wait for rescue..."
"What you said makes sense and is correct. If you go out, you might die or mutate..."
He Yan clenched the crowbar he had just found and swung it twice, then sharpened the tip of the crowbar. Sweat dripped down his forehead, and he closed his palms and spoke calmly.
"It may be a dead end if we go out, but staying here means we will definitely die. The first rule of the base is to prioritize the interests of the majority, and the fifth rule is to maximize the use of resources during special periods."
Sander glanced at He Yan, then he came over and picked up a stick that suits him, sneering at them as they were still hesitating.
"Do you understand? You useless people, we can only save ourselves now. These seven students are not worth sending someone to rescue them."
Sander and He Yan quickly straightened the rope. He Yan glanced at Sander and was brief and to the point.
"We are at the westernmost side of the passage and must return to the Skydome Monitoring Room on the east side in less than twenty minutes. There are three gates on the road, and the outside of the passage is full of pollutants. The inner and outer barriers are likely to have been damaged."
Sander looked out through the glass window.
The middle section of the western passage is open to the sky, with glass passages on both sides. Storage rooms of various sizes are distributed on the inner sides of the passage.
When they opened the door, they saw a glass passage. There was blood and broken glass everywhere outside, but no contaminants were seen. However, through the glass, they could see strange-shaped contaminants moving around in the open area.
They seemed to be roaming around looking for fresher flesh and blood, attacking the glass outside the glass passage from time to time. The shaking sound made the five hesitant people even more uneasy.
"If you don't have any firearms, you're just using a crowbar to hit them. Isn't that courting death..."
"Go east, and I remember there was a gun room staffed by the Sheriff's Department."
He Yan's memory surprised everyone. Who could have thought that such a thing would happen when he came here? He just browsed through it all along, but he actually remembered it.
He Yan looked at the five hesitant people, who had already walked to the door and were ready.
"So, what are your choices?"
After a moment, the seven people formed into teams of three or four, lowered their pace, and moved forward cautiously through the glass passage.
There is a layer of transparent glass separating the two, and all of it is filled with wandering pollutants.
"They are all the latest contaminants mutated by humans. They have no vision and can only locate their position by sound."
He Yan quickly came to a conclusion and conveyed his judgment in a low voice.
Generally speaking, if the newly transformed humanoid pollutants are not supplemented with nutrients, they will become this kind of D-level pollutants.
Sander was at the rear, and He Yan was at the front. A large piece of broken glass was scattered in front of them, and it was obvious that there was a gap.
"alert!"
He Yan shouted in a low voice, and just as everyone came to their senses, they heard a clear roar close at hand.
After all, they were students with no practical experience, and some of them started to panic, losing their pace and stepping over broken glass.
Crunch.
He Yan reacted quickly, raising the crowbar and using force to block the black shadow coming towards him.
No one else even saw the black shadow and knew nothing about it before it was hit.
He Yan blocked a crowbar and his arm was numb from the shock. It turned out to be a headless pollutant covered with thorns and oozing black liquid.
He Yan blocked its claws that flashed towards him, and then turned back and shouted to the stunned people: "Go!"
It has no head and cannot locate itself by sound. There is a gap in the front, so such noise will quickly attract more pollutants.
I can only run first.
He Yan hit the pollutant's chest and abdomen with a stick, forcing it to the side, leaving a little space. They immediately passed him without hesitation and ran forward.
Sander glanced at He Yan and swung the crowbar in his hand at the swinging arm.
"Compared to them, you're not such a complete loser."
He Yan ducked to avoid the attack and hit its leg with a stick, causing it to stagger for a moment.
Sander helped to hold off for a while, but he didn't see any sign that He Yan was going to get away.
"Don't fight too long! We don't have R reduction, so it's impossible to really destroy them."
He Yan was unmoved, but what he was thinking about was what Li Yanze had said to him.
"For pollutants below Class B, if they are mutated from humans, piercing their brains will be useless, but piercing their hearts will make them lose their mobility. They also need nutrients to recover, so they can still fight even without R reduction."
He Yan hit it on the waist and abdomen with a stick. When it was grabbing him from the front, he lowered his body, slid around behind it, and suddenly thrust the crowbar into its back.
The force He Yan burst out in an instant was so great that it directly pressed against the glass wall, and even the crowbar could not pull it back.
Black liquid splashed everywhere, and the transparent raincoat-like protective clothing blocked the splashing of highly corrosive and highly infectious liquid.
Normal people would instinctively close their eyes, but He Yan kept his eyes open, his pupils dark and his expression cold. He stared at it until he confirmed that it had indeed temporarily entered a state of "suspended death".
Sander was stunned. It was too reckless. If he was not careful, he would be infected. Even if he was scratched a little, He Yan would have given up. He actually fought with it in close combat.
He Yan stepped on the contaminant, lowered his head, pulled out the crowbar with force, and casually knocked twice on the dripping liquid.
There was not much time left, so He Yan and Sander quickly ran away and caught up with the people running in front.
The five of them hid in the corner, sticking to the wall and not daring to move forward.
There was a breach ahead, and at least six or seven pollutants were wandering in the passage.
The passage was narrow, and even Reckless would have a hard time getting through... He Yan was thinking when the roar of a helicopter came from not far away.
"Rescue?"
No one dared to make a sound and just used their mouths to move.
He Yan leaned against the wall and suddenly looked straight ahead. He saw a black helicopter flying low in the sky with a golden olive leaf logo and dazzling white lights flashing.
Neither Sander nor He Yan considered it a rescue.
If a large amount of pollutants come from the channel, the buffer zone will inevitably be lost, and the elite troops will only be sent to the most critical places.
He Yan was still staring blankly, would he be there?
But his body was not fully recovered, and even the R value level in his body was not stable...
"Why are they moving forward and not coming this way?"
Xander sneered and also lip-synced.
"Base guidelines."
But at this moment, the helicopter circled and suddenly hovered in the middle of the hollow field.
The aircraft flying at extremely low altitude stirred up huge air currents, making a deafening noise.
This immediately attracted all the pollutants. He Yan's heart seemed to be squeezed tight. He turned his head and looked at the plane from a distance. He couldn't see the people inside.
But he knew it was Li Yanze.
Huge waves swept in, the iron frames collided and creaked, and my nostrils were filled with the smell of rust.
His communicator lit up and He Yan opened it immediately.
"He Yan, you have five minutes."
Li Yanze's voice was steady, and even sounded like an urgent command. This was completely different from his usual tone, not the tone he used to talk to a child, a person to be protected.
He Yan said in a deep voice: "Got it, Commander Li."
He responded with the same calmness.
"Go home early."
The distorted electromagnetics gave his voice a cold, metallic quality.
Li Yanze held the handrail with one hand, sat in the cabin and looked far in the direction of He Yan and the others. The gradually dimming skylight left him with a black silhouette.
"receive."
Li Yanze smiled and answered him in a deep voice, which sounded a little muffled through the mask.
Five minutes is enough.
He Yan and his men ran to the gun room in one breath and searched it. They found a gun for each person and even four cans of spray-type R-minus, which looked like fire extinguishers.
The sound of the helicopter was noticeably quieter.
"Why didn't Commander Li come and rescue them directly, even taking us with him..."
"Shut up!"
He Yan glared at him, and Sander warned him in a low voice.
"They are heading to the buffer zone, and if you want to follow, no one will stop you."
The person who was speaking shuddered and stopped talking because of He Yansen's cold tone.
The buffer zone... that is the area outside the base. It has no sky protection and is directly exposed to red light radiation and pollutants above Class A.
They were running back to the safe zone, while Dawn was running towards the dangerous place.
He Yan found a more detailed map and after a few glances he found the relatively optimal route.
Li Yanze had just attracted a lot of pollutants for them, so it was not difficult for them to return to the safe zone.
They walked eastward without any danger along the way and passed the gate smoothly. The Sky Dome Control Room was just within reach.
After all the losses on the road, they only had a can of R-minus left and not many bullets left.
"Why don't you leave?"
He Yan in front suddenly stopped, and Sander at the end asked subconsciously, then reacted.
The connection between the Skydome control room and the glass passage was completely shattered, with even broken limbs scattered on the ground. The stench of pollutants was strong, but they could not see a single shadow.
The control room is right at the corner of the straight road, right in the blind spot.
He Yan quickly stepped over, immediately stuck to the wall, and held up a small mirror. At this time, the people behind him followed and saw the situation in the mirror clearly.
There are countless pollutants roaming outside the control room...
This situation can only be seen in the buffer zone, and it would be terrible if there were four in the urban area.
"We can only lead them away."
He Yan looked around and saw a large open room on the other side of the corner corridor, with bloodstains all the way to the ceiling.
"Lead them into the house and lock the door. Use this time to open the door and take shelter in the Skydome control room."
"How?"
"There are ready-made body parts here, and a can of R-minus."
Sander also watched for a while, and couldn't help but look at He Yan and whispered: "Are you crazy? How are you going to get out?"
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