Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was fast asleep, was awakened by the loud alarm outside the door.
This was the first time people had heard such a sharp and urgent alarm since they moved into Hope Base.
[Level A Alert! All residents of the building are requested to bring food and water and evacuate the base in an orderly manner under the guidance of the building manager and security personnel!]
[Repeated! Level A Alert. All residents in the building are requested to bring food and water and evacuate the base in an orderly manner under the guidance of the building manager and security personnel!]
[Breaking news: Alert upgraded! All residents within the base are requested to bring food and water and evacuate the base within three hours!]
[Alert escalated! Alert level upgraded to S!]
Before people could even react to the Level A evacuation alert, the alert level was immediately escalated to Level S+.
In the dead of night, the Hope Base was like a pot of water being boiled over a wood fire, instantly reaching its boiling point and bubbling violently!
The sounds of hurried footsteps, chaotic shouts, and heart-wrenching warnings from loudspeakers... all converged in mid-air, followed by a deafening roar as the defensive turrets on the base tower opened fire.
Zhao Xiaoxiu's eardrums throbbed with pain from the loud explosion.
In just a moment, she was enveloped by Zhao Gang, who had transformed into fleshy flesh, and shielded from the intense sounds of gunfire.
The continuous explosions lasted for a full five minutes before stopping.
At this moment, all the lights in the base were turned on, and the sharp whistles of the building manager and guards urged them on, penetrating the entire unfinished building.
The residents, stunned by the sounds of artillery fire and explosions, finally realized they had to escape!
"Bang bang bang!"
Meng Laoda pounded on Zhao Xiaoxiu's door, calling out, "Brother Gangzi! Brother Gangzi!"
Zhao Gang pulled Zhao Xiaoxiu out of his body, quickly transformed into human form, and while extending countless tentacles to sweep across the room, he shouted loudly to the door, "You guys go first!"
Hearing a sound from inside the house, the Meng family breathed a sigh of relief.
When it comes to escaping for their lives, there's no time for politeness. Besides, the two brothers had an elderly mother to take care of. Knowing that Zhao Gang's evolutionary abilities were strong and that they didn't need to worry about him, the two brothers immediately helped their mother upstairs and rushed downstairs.
Zhao Xiaoxiu's clothes were covered by tentacles. She finally realized what was happening, quickly jumped off the bed, put on her shoes, and wrapped Abebe around herself.
Seeing the tentacles flying all over the room and stuffing supplies into backpacks, Zhao Xiaoxiu quickly reminded them:
"Dad, once we get out, please don't expose your second tentacle unless absolutely necessary."
Zhao Gang nodded. "I know."
He packed all the nutrient solutions in the house, filled all the empty bottles with edible water and put them in his backpack, and didn't forget his satellite phone and flashlight.
There were also Zhao Xiaoxiu's clothes, the remaining half of the pumpkin, and two bunches of tomatoes.
The backpack was stuffed full.
Because more than a dozen tentacles acted simultaneously, the entire process took less than half a minute.
Zhao Gang slung his backpack over his shoulder, strapped the machete to it, held the cub in his arms, opened the door, and rushed out.
The fifth-floor staircase was packed with people, and some people, in order to escape the unfinished building more quickly, slid down from the balcony by hanging from ropes.
Many evolved beings have demonstrated their evolutionary abilities.
Some of them defied gravity, running along the wall like geckos.
Some of them have hands like monkeys, able to firmly cling to various power lines and drying ropes, and can jump from more than ten stories to the ground in a few leaps.
Others don't use the stairs; instead, they hang upside down from the ceiling like bats, walking along the ceiling, which isn't crowded at all.
All the freight elevators in the unfinished building were activated, and people with mobility issues were guided down the stairs by security guards.
Everything seemed chaotic, but in fact, it was orderly.
Overhead, the wind howled from the rotors of transport helicopters.
The wind stirred up dust, and Zhao Xiaoxiu squinted as she looked up.
The base's evolved soldiers quickly loaded the stored supplies onto the planes in batches.
The plane, loaded with supplies, flew out of the base, protected by the base's jammers and avoiding the mutated birds circling overhead.
Escape is not unfamiliar to the survivors in the base.
Long before this, humanity had experienced countless battles and races against mutated plants and animals.
The withdrawal is mostly to allow the base's troops to fight more freely.
If successful, then everyone can come back.
Even if it fails, as long as the people are saved, the base can still be rebuilt.
This was the first time Zhao Xiaoxiu had experienced such an emergency evacuation.
She had never seen such a scene before.
A storm gathered over the base, as if a giant hand from outer space had torn a rift in it.
Lightning flashed and shifted within the crack, forming a powerful vortex that continuously devoured the surrounding clouds and mist.
The darkness concealed it entirely until beams of searchlight shone upon it, revealing to the astonishment of people that a giant black whale was suspended in the center of the whirlpool.
The giant whale was entirely black, and its length stretched across the diameter of the entire city.
It's hard to imagine the devastating impact it would have on the entire Hope Base if it were to break free from the suction and fall.
The artillery fire had stopped because, after the first wave of attacks, the base forces discovered that the artillery fire couldn't reach the giant whale at all.
It's not that the distance is too short.
Instead, there are many invisible spatial vortexes around the giant whale.
Those vortexes were like thunderclouds above the head of a giant whale. No one knew how they were formed, why they happened to descend right above the base, or why they sent a mutated giant whale that should have been swimming in the deep sea into the air.
Suddenly, the evacuees heard a cry that sounded like a human infant screaming in a vast, dark, enclosed space.
It possesses an ethereal quality imbued with an unknown and indescribable terror that strikes straight at the soul.
Everyone seemed to have been put on pause, inexplicably stopping, gazing up at the giant whale that kept emitting ethereal cries in the deep sky, their eyes gradually turning frenzied.
It's the SHASI virus at work.
Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was being held in Zhao Gang's arms, was unaffected.
She stared in astonishment at the giant whale that kept roaring, and murmured uncertainly:
"It was afraid, terrified, and angry..."
It's as if they don't know why they suddenly appeared here, so they shout and cry out, hoping to get a response from their kind.
The pebbles on the ground were bouncing around, the tremors were getting stronger, and it felt like something was trying to crawl out from underground.
A rustling sound could also be heard coming from the forest outside the firebreak.
The whale's call triggered a resonance, drawing in the dormant, mutated plants and animals.
The strong tremor startled the stunned people, and the viral immunity agent injected upon entering the base proved effective at the critical moment.
They pulled the people who were about to descend into madness back to their senses.
The announcer shouted hoarsely: [The base's self-destruct sequence is about to be activated! Civilians, please evacuate immediately!]
Come on, come on!
They absolutely will not allow these mutated plants and animals to defy the former rulers of the planet!
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