Half a month after the world touched.
On the edge of a small town in India, several young men and women with guns were walking cautiously on the streets.
They climbed over the chaotic driveway, others took cover in the corners, and one of the girls slowly climbed to the roof of a half-collapsed small building.
The town was not a contact zone, but it seemed desolate and quiet, with neither civilians nor troops to be seen.
“It stinks in here… I feel so sick… Amira, do you see anything?”
The girl called Amira held up her sniper rifle, using the sniper scope as a telescope, and observed into the distance.
Her focus is on a few stores and a medium-sized clinic organization.
Her face was covered with fine beads of sweat, and in the sniper scope, the walls, the ground and many other places were covered with blood.
Perhaps because she hadn't come down for too long, another woman climbed up and asked in a low voice about the situation.
"I didn't see anything! I came down."
The girl glanced at the man and her nervous companions below, then climbed down.
These people did not wear military uniforms, but they had rifles and other weapons because they were originally considered Indian soldiers.
But they were not trained regular troops, but rather new soldiers temporarily recruited on a large scale from various states across the country.
Although India is a world power in terms of both population and area, its state machinery response capability is clearly not even in the second tier, and may even be worse.
The only advantage is the demographic dividend, which enabled them to quickly raise a large number of troops under the global conscription wave.
However, there was a serious disconnect in the construction of a high-quality officer tier. The original army generally lacked middle and low-level officers with cultural standards, and the subsequent construction of new recruits was even more chaotic.
This leads to a very strange phenomenon.
India, which reluctantly joined the World Alliance, formulated sophisticated strategic plans based on the defense plans commonly adopted in the World Alliance and combined them with its own.
However, they set their sights too high and overlooked their own weak foundation. Their mature military system was not sufficient to support a strategic plan to accurately control more than one billion people.
The original million-plus veterans were already of varying quality, with illiteracy and old age being the norm.
In order to allow the millions of newly recruited troops to quickly form combat effectiveness, they broke up the original veterans into small groups and inserted them into various new recruit corps, preparing to use the old to guide the new and improve the combat effectiveness of the entire army.
The idea is good, but the old soldiers originally lack qualified basic officers, and all of these old soldiers are inserted into the recruit corps as single officers.
In the doomsday atmosphere, the chaos of people looting supplies, the violent law enforcement of the police, and the chaotic supply of international military supplies have aggravated the panic of Indian recruits. In addition, the psychological counseling construction is not up to standard. Not to mention the old soldiers leading the new recruits, the situation is completely the opposite. The consequences can be imagined.
To say that the overall military system is neither high nor low is to give face to India, but in the eyes of the World League observers, it is simply a mess. Such stupid moves have not only shocked the major countries in the World League, but also scared some Indian generals.
The World League Convention sent a warning to India through observers and cooperated with the knowledgeable reformists in India to take remedial measures.
There are still many people who truly understand. At the critical moment, with the president as the core, senior military officials who were originally responsible for the chaos stood up to restore order.
Some of the re-recruited older veterans will be mixed with the active troops, and then new soldiers will be drawn in to supplement the remaining troops. At the same time, the active regular army of 800,000 will be maintained, and the number of active troops will be expanded by 30% per squad in the form of new soldiers.
This retains a certain level of combat effectiveness at the military level, but the consequence is that the troops actually composed of new recruits will be even less efficient.
At the same time, due to the vast territory and population, these armies must be prepared to go to the front line after simple training, and the dark tide is coming early.
Apart from the stability of the main areas during the first wave of contact warfare, the marginal battles often saw a serious collapse in the morale of the recruits, and it was common for them to flee the front lines.
India's outrageous actions have made the scalps of all the countries in the World Alliance tingle, especially China, as a major neighbor, which is on high alert on the border front.
From the central leaders and special security teams to the grassroots troops, no one has placed any hope on India being able to hold back the monsters within its borders. The situation of some small countries on the edge of the two major powers may even be worse than that of India.
The young men outside the city of Jialuo at this moment were the deserters of the defeated Indian army.
Amira and her companion carefully climbed down the building and approached their companion.
"It's noon now. Maybe those monsters really don't like the sun."
"It is also possible that they have left here and are fighting with the regular army... After all, this place..."
Another man interrupted.
"After all, if the people here hadn't escaped, they would have all died..."
This is the price of the army's slow response. The leaked monsters range from large and small to powerful and weird, and it is difficult for ordinary people to contend with them.
While referring to the series of strategic plans shared by the World Alliance, they do not have the ability to implement them accurately because their military quality, weapons and equipment, and even infrastructure and transportation capacity are not up to par.
When talking about these heavy topics, everyone felt a little depressed.
"There are two supermarkets and a clinic over there. Should we go find medicine first or go to the supermarket first?"
“Supermarket!” “Supermarket…” “Supermarket!”
Seven or eight people all chose to go to the supermarket first.
Soon, they arrived at a supermarket with a broken door. Several people tightened their guns in their hands, and they could see the nervous expressions of their companions.
"Go...be careful!"
He tiptoed in, one step at a time, his eyes constantly scanning the surroundings.
Several shelves in the supermarket were collapsed because they had been looted before the dark tide came. Therefore, there were few desired foods among the scattered goods on the ground.
Many places are rendered dark red.
"There's blood everywhere..."
Amira's words made everyone breathe faster. Suddenly, she paused, and saliva could not stop flowing from her mouth.
"Here! Bread and luncheon meat!!"
This heavenly sound quickly attracted everyone, and several people rushed to the shelf like crazy, tearing off the packaging and stuffing the bread into their mouths, not caring whether the bread was out of date or not.
"Don't just eat, pack it!!"
Amira stuffed a piece of bread into her pocket, took a breath and then started calling out to her companions. Only then did they take off their backpacks, unzip them and stuff things into them.
“Roar~~~~”
A roar of a wild beast was heard from afar, and everyone's movements gradually froze.
Vegetation systems all over the world are now extremely lush. This small town itself does not have any tall buildings, and with the reduction of human activities, a large area of it has come into contact with the forest in just half a month.
"It's okay, it's okay. It's probably a wild animal passing by."
As soon as one of the men finished saying this in a comforting tone, everyone heard more beast roars, which became louder and louder.
These few people were not veterans with military training. Having witnessed the cruelty of the front line, they had long been frightened birds. At this moment, they were so scared that their faces turned pale.
"No, it's not necessarily those monsters. There are many roars of earth beasts in it..."
However, within a few words, all kinds of strange noises were heard inside the town. Most of them were sharp and abnormal, and some sounded like shrill cries, which was creepy.
"Hide! Find a place to hide quickly!!"
It was obviously inappropriate to go out now, so they chose to rush into a door on the side of the supermarket, then blocked it with debris, and then went up the stairs.
This building has about four or five floors, and the ceilings are quite high. Apart from the supermarket on the first floor, I don’t know what the functions of the floors above are.
There were many rooms on the second, third and fourth floors, and it was unclear whether it was a hotel or an apartment. However, the bloodstains everywhere in the corridor made them dare not stay there, and they went directly to the top floor, the fifth floor.
Upstairs was a place that looked like an entertainment room. It looked unobstructed, with no small rooms and no suspicious dead corners. Apart from being a little messy, there was no trace of blood.
Several people breathed a sigh of relief, at least there were no monsters.
After securing the entrance door, Amira carefully leaned over the window of the activity room and looked out.
This place can be regarded as a commanding point in the town, and my companions slowly approached.
Several people were sweating coldly.
This originally dead town seemed to have come alive, with many strange human-shaped creatures running out of the houses in many places.
Judging from the torn clothes, it is very likely that they were once human beings, but now they all look a little deformed.
Some of them were on all fours while others were jumping forward. What was similar was that their deformed fingers were often very thick, many of them had claws, and their heads were mostly much larger than those of ordinary people. Their mouths seemed to be open to the chin, revealing hideous teeth.
From some collapsed houses, from some intact residences, from some shops, and even from the clinic they had found before.
These monsters were very fast and rushed out of their hiding places as if stimulated by the roars of the beasts.
Even though the doors and windows on the 5th floor were locked, everyone still felt that the stench in the city became stronger with the appearance of these monsters.
"So this stench comes from their..."
"Shhh!!!"
Amira's breathing was a little rapid, and the others who saw some details from the sniper scopes that were passed around in turn were not much better.
"What are these things..."
"No, I don't know... but some of them are wearing clothes, and, and some are in human form..."
"Zombies?"
A man wearing glasses swallowed his saliva and wiped his sweat with his sleeve.
"No, I saw some information on the Internet... These might be mutant ghouls!"
In the forest outside, countless wild beasts were roaring, and herds of beasts were migrating in the woodlands around several cities.
If you look from the sky, not only the city of Garo, but also some villages, towns and cities outside the nearby forests have been flooded with zombies.
Some still have human form, while others have transformed into twisted giants or hunchbacked monsters.
The dust they raised gathered towards the surrounding forests from several directions, and the dust from Jialuo City was only a small part of it.
Two J-type reconnaissance planes flew overhead.
“Ka-ka-ka…”
High-speed cameras and video cameras are constantly working.
The distance between them is less than 50 meters to ensure the efficiency of ultra-short wave communication.
In this day and age, the concept of airspace has become very vague. India naturally cannot provide shared intelligence in areas that it cannot control, but China will not relax its surveillance here.
"Number 1, what's that down there?"
The drivers looked at the ground through the cockpit window, and they felt bad about the things that were popping up in the surrounding towns.
"Like ghouls, but what are they doing?"
"We know too little about their habits, but I feel like they are...hunting?"
The fighter planes flew back and forth in the air for several circles, and finally the two planes gave up the idea of using warheads to attack the ground. On the one hand, carrying weapons would have little effect on a monster tide of this scale and would easily alert the enemy.
On the other hand, this is not their own territory after all. There is a huge difference between reconnaissance and attack. There is no way to contact the command center over a long distance. An Air Force major and an Air Force captain dare not make such a decision privately.
“Woo~~~~”
The sound of the plane flying low also alarmed several people in Jialuo Town who were trembling with fear. Amira could even see the logo on the Chinese fighter plane through the sniper scope.
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