Why now?
The wartime intercom on Song Xuan's waist suddenly burst into a piercing electric sound, followed by a patrolman's distorted roar: "Emergency report, the Hyena Gang is attacking at night! The Hyena Gang is attacking at night!!!"
"A breach has been blown open in the East District wall, and a mutant mantis has flown in! I repeat, the East District wall..."
A violent explosion cut off the communication, followed by a horrifying chewing sound and the crisp sound of bones breaking.
At the same time, the explosion at the wall was like a signal. Immediately afterwards, the entire outer city was like a lit powder keg. A series of explosions rang out from all directions, and the pillars of fire that shot up into the sky dyed the night sky blood red.
Unexpectedly, the Hyena Gang acted so quickly. They launched a surprise attack on the night when Leviathan just finished the selection competition, and directly sent spies who had been planted in the city in advance to launch an attack.
Song Xuan switched the channels on the intercom with a serious expression, quickly communicating with the department under his command and deploying a counterattack and defense.
"Team A, immediately go to the east wall for rescue. Team B, activate the outer city's underground defenses and seal off all sewers leading to the core area!" He held down the intercom button with one hand, his voice eerily calm. "Team C, keep an eye on Hao Feiyang in the interrogation room. Don't let him escape!"
There was another deafening explosion, and the gap in the East District, less than two hundred meters away from the clinic, widened again. The shock wave overturned the vehicles on the street and instantly burned several patrolmen who had no time to dodge into charcoal. The flames swept over like a wave.
The explosion shook the entire clinic. A tide of mutant beasts could be seen rushing from the gap to the top of the wall, and then being beaten down by the defensive forces guarding the wall.
Among them are not only mutant hyenas, but you can even see mutant lizards and some strange mutant beasts.
Because there were rare flying mutants among the attacking mutants, the guarding troops had already started to suffer considerable casualties.
Fortunately, the solid alloy gate has not been breached yet and can still keep most of the mutant beasts out.
"Leviathan's lackeys..." A huge man stood outside the wall, laughing shrilly through a loudspeaker, "Tonight, the whole city is your grave!"
The Hyena Gang, which has never been a big deal, has always been hanging around in garbage and polluted areas. Occasionally, they would provide exotic beast cores to the City of Black Gold in exchange for supplies. No one knows where they suddenly got the ability to drive mutant beasts, and they became an organization more threatening than the Hive in the garbage area.
Judging from this statement, the Hyena Gang is not just here to demonstrate, they want to massacre the city!
Liu Xia gritted his teeth and stared at the still-on red light in the operating room. He couldn't help but punch the wall, leaving a deep dent. He roared in anger, "These bastards! Why did they choose this time?"
As long as they wait until tomorrow, when He Tianlin's heart is installed, they can leave here at any time!
Song Xuan quickly deployed the last command, turned to look at Liu Xia, as if he wanted to imprint her deeply in his mind, and then held Liu Xia in his arms without question.
Song Xuan reluctantly buried his head in her shoulder and said sullenly, "Xia, I have to go to the East District wall for support. You stay here and don't go out!"
Not far away, a series of explosions were heard from the east direction, and the flames illuminated half of the night sky red.
"You stay here and guard the clinic." He glanced at the red light of the operating room and listened to the roar of curses from the tremors inside. "If the city falls... this place will be the last refuge."
Liu Xia slowly relaxed her clenched fists and hugged his straight back, feeling mixed emotions.
Song Xuan didn't delay any longer. He released his arms from hugging Liu Xia, stuffed a communication device into Liu Xia's hand, and turned around to stride towards the door. However, he paused before stepping over the threshold. He restrained himself and didn't look back, and walked out directly.
He was afraid that if he looked back he would become soft-hearted, and he could not allow such emotions to appear at this moment.
It is Song Xuan's duty to protect the Black Gold City, and he must live up to the uniform he wears.
Although he did not agree with some of the rules and practices of "Leviathan", this was the place where he grew up. If it were not for "Leviathan", he would have died from the injury on his right hand.
Unlike Liu Xia, Song Xuan could leave because he didn't agree with this place, but he couldn't allow the Hyena Gang and those bastards to destroy this city. There were many people in this city who had watched him grow up. Once the city was broken, no one would be spared.
Even if he left the City of Black Gold, if a war of life and death really broke out, he would come back to do his part.
Liu Xia looked out the window and soon saw Song Xuan's figure rushing into the smoke-filled street. A cold light flashed between his metal fingers, and he cut a traitor from the Hyena Gang who was causing damage on the street into two halves, and quickly rushed towards the East District.
Suddenly, a sharp chirping of insects tore through the night sky, and above the city came the trembling sound of huge wings.
A large number of dark green mutant mantises, relying on their short-term flying ability, have actually broken through the fire blockade of anti-aircraft guns and flown over the city wall into the outer city.
However, they could not fly far and landed within one kilometer of the city wall. Their bodies had a metallic blue-gray luster, and the edges of the sickles on their forelimbs were covered with serrations, flashing a cold light in the moonlight, and their huge compound eyes flashed a dangerous red light.
Wherever these mutated mantises, which were as big as cars, went, the lampposts broke neatly like straws, the electric wires were cut, and dazzling sparks burst out, and the street was instantly plunged into darkness.
The civilians hiding in the building were terrified and prayed that these flying mutant mantises would not discover them.
Panic spread like a plague on the streets.
Many civilians rushed out of their homes, holding their children and supporting the elderly, stumbling and fleeing amid the flames and explosions.
Since it was a night raid, many people were in disarray, and some didn't even bother to wear shoes. They walked barefoot on the road covered with shards of glass and metal, bleeding but not daring to stop.
"Go to the inner city, go to the inner city quickly!" Someone in the crowd roared, pointing to the towering steel wall in the distance.
That is the last line of defense in the core area of "Leviathan", with tighter defenses. Even in the case of spy infiltration, no sound of explosions has been heard in the inner city.
Outside the clinic, some people came to seek help, including the noodle shop owner Lao Wu and the big man Sun Zhuang who was in charge of guarding the clinic.
As a neighbor for decades, Old Wu knew that the clinic was equipped with some bulletproof facilities, so he took the lead and led several neighbors living nearby to take shelter. They happened to meet Sun Zhuang who was rushing to the clinic.
The sickle-like insect limbs swept across, and an old man walking behind who had no time to dodge was cut in half. Blood splattered on the backs of the fleeing crowd, but no one dared to look back.
"Open the door! Please open the door!" The door downstairs of the clinic had been locked and was banging on by several pairs of hands that had run to the door in advance.
Sun Zhuang, who fell behind to help, was sweating profusely, but was blocked by the crowd and couldn't get through. He hurriedly shouted: "I have the key, get out of the way, get out of the way!"
With a scream, the mutant mantis rushed up again, waving its huge sickle, but Liu Xia ran downstairs to open the door, raised his gun and accurately shot it in the compound eye. Green juice splashed from the compound eye, and the mutant mantis hissed and retreated several steps.
"Take them in!"
Liu Xia stepped aside to make way, reached out and grabbed Sun Zhuang, who was supporting the old man, and calmly whispered, "Brother Zhuang, Doctor Lin is performing surgery, please keep an eye on the operating room for me!"
"Okay!" Sun Zhuang didn't bother to say anything else. He wiped the blood off his face and responded quickly.
Then, Liu Xia walked out of the gate and stood in the yard, locking his eyes closely on the three mutant mantises that flew into the yard again.
I don’t know if they were attracted by the screams of their injured companions, but they actually gathered all the mutant mantises nearby here.
Liu Xia did not carry most of the bullets with him, and there were only three magazines left in his tactical belt. However, dealing with these mutant mantises was not a difficult task for Liu Xia.
The alloy dagger was pulled out from the eye socket of the last mutant mantis, bringing out a puff of fluorescent green mucus.
A long milky white line suddenly shot out from the tail of the mutant mantis's abdomen, wrapped around Liu Xia's legs like a living thing, and began to tighten.
Liu Xia tore open the long, flat white thing with his hands and found that it was actually a mutant parasite hidden in the body of the mutant mantis.
In reality, this thing likes to parasitize mantises and some fish. Now after mutation, it has formed a symbiotic and fighting relationship with the parasites. It is extremely disgusting.
Liu Xia took several steps back out of disgust, leaning against the wall and breathing slightly, but he did not relax at all, because the ground was shaking slightly and strangely. This was not the tremor caused by the aftermath of the explosion, but some more intensive and more terrifying movement.
She wiped the insect blood off her face and looked at the gap in the eastern city wall. The gap, which was originally several meters wide, had now been torn into a crack of more than ten meters. A tide of mutant beasts was pouring in from the gap.
More than a dozen flamethrowers spewing flames roared wildly, burning the mutant beasts that rushed into the gap, burning their fur and flesh and making crackling sounds, but those mutant beasts seemed to be possessed by demons, not afraid of death at all, and charged forward with suicidal behavior.
These mutant beasts were originally the product of nuclear pollution after the war. The surviving humans had to fight them to suppress their numbers. Most of the time, they lived in peace. As long as humans did not enter the contaminated area, ordinary people could still survive.
Now these mutant beasts have become weapons of the Hyena Gang, killing another group of surviving humans.
An overturned transport truck was lying across the middle of the road, and the burning cargo box blocked most of the way. Several strong men were trying to push away the obstacle, but were chopped into several pieces by the sickle of a mutant mantis swooping down from the air.
Most of the people living in the outer city are civilians who are powerless. The prosthetic limbs on them are only suitable for carrying, transporting and other tasks, and they are simply unable to compete with these mutant beasts with amazing attack power.
The sound of raging fire and gunfire continued to resound over the Black Gold City. The screams of humans and the roars of mutant beasts echoed each other, and the cries of civilians shook the sky, making Liu Xia truly feel the cruelty of war for the first time.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!!!"
A series of violent crashes came from the city gate. The mutant giant elephant, which was as big as two trucks, made a loud noise with every step it took. Poisonous mist was seeping out from the cracks in its skin, which was corroded with cracks. Riding on its back was Xue Long, the man who had just made the harsh words from the Hyena Gang.
"Song Xuan!" Xue Long's voice echoed through the loudspeaker at the city gate, carrying a harsh electronic cacophony. "Do you think you can turn the tables just by killing a few little bugs?!"
"I'm going to grind you all into pulp today!"
The heavy footsteps of the mutant giant elephant caused the ground to crack. Xue Long suddenly pulled the rope that was deep inside the giant elephant's body, causing the giant elephant to let out a deafening roar. Its long trunk swept across and hit the alloy city gate again.
The city gate inevitably made a creaking sound, and was already unable to bear the weight after being hit repeatedly.
Song Xuan stood on the top of the eastern wall. Although he had actively deployed soldiers to come to the rescue, the Hyena Gang was obviously well prepared this time. Not only did they arrange for traitors to cause sabotage in the city, they even had giant beasts like mutated elephants.
There are very few mutated giant elephants in the polluted area. Although they are huge, they never actively attack humans. As long as hunters do not provoke them, they will live in peace.
This time, it was actually used by the Hyena Gang as a weapon to attack the city, which was completely impossible based on past experience.
What on earth happened to the Hyena Gang that made them so aggressive?
I'm afraid the eastern city wall can't be defended.
Song Xuan turned his head to look in the direction of the clinic, then suddenly jumped off the city wall. An incendiary bomb accurately hit Xue Long's shoulder, knocking Xue Long, who was sitting on the giant elephant, staggering.
"You bastard!" Song Xuan sneered, his cynical smile still on his face. "I haven't seen you for a few days, and you've become quite arrogant!"
The mutant beast that was originally attacking the rift, as if it had smelled fresh meat, rushed towards Song Xuan violently.
Before Xue Long could react, Song Xuan's aura suddenly subsided, as if even his breathing had stopped. He held the gun in both hands, his body slightly lowered, the muzzle of the gun steady as a rock. The two bullets were fired almost simultaneously, but drew completely different arcs.
The bullets seemed to have eyes, accurately killing any mutant beast that dared to approach him, or any member of the hyena gang that drove the beast tide.
"Bang! Bang! Bang bang bang!!!"
Xue Long's pupils suddenly shrank, and he instinctively dodged to the side before he could even sit still. However, the bullet seemed to have predicted his movements, and even though it avoided his vital parts, it still exploded on his body, creating several bloody spots.
Bullets poured down like a rainstorm, and except for those mutant beasts that were about to pose a threat to him, almost every bullet accurately hit the weak spots of rotten flesh at the joints of the elephant's legs.
Green corrosive pus and blood splattered, the mutant giant elephant wailed and fell to its knees on the ground, and Xue Long was thrown out by inertia!
"Ugh!" Xue Long groaned, and his huge body, which was two meters tall, rolled over and crashed into the group of mutant beasts, crushing several mutant hyenas.
Without the mutant giant elephants charging at them, the alloy city gate was finally safe for the time being. Song Xuan's firepower suppression temporarily slowed down the frequency of the Hyena Gang's siege.
But this is just a drop in the bucket, and the endless tide of beasts continues to hit the cracks.
Although gun fighting techniques were extremely powerful, they also consumed a huge amount of bullets, and Song Xuan soon began to run out of ammunition.
A silver wire suddenly shot out from the mechanical hand and embedded into the top of the city wall. He planned to climb back into the city with the help of this steel wire, but he was constantly attacked by the mutant beast and could not realize this plan.
Xue Long, who had climbed up from the mutant beasts, discovered Song Xuan's plan. He suddenly grinned and spat out blood foam. A strange light flashed in his eyes, and his hoarse voice seemed to follow him like a shadow.
"Where do you want to go, Deputy Commander Song? I haven't had enough fun yet!"
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