Chapter 462 The Return of Darkness (Twenty-Four)
The two chatted as they arrived at the buffer zone.
It was close to 10 a.m.
The city was pitch black, with the only light coming from the flashlights turned on by soldiers on the streets.
The situation here is better than in the safe zone.
People were all dispersed and isolated, huddled alone in rooms with doors and windows tightly closed.
The advantage of being isolated is that you don't have to worry about being affected by people who suddenly mutate, and any noises coming from outside are also kept out of reach.
This gave some people a sense of security.
Many people have calmed down.
Although these people had high contamination levels in their first test, many of them showed a significant decrease in contamination levels in the second and third tests.
Order has not collapsed.
The government is still there, and the army is still there.
It's only the first day. As long as I don't become distorted, perhaps the country will find a way to figure out why the sun disappeared.
Then, find the sun again!
Xie Tu parked the tank on Street 04 in District F.
All six sentries from Group Nine are here, sitting by the roadside eating.
We've been working continuously until now, and we've hardly had any rest.
While their teammates were all there, Zhao Yong and Zhang Hai simply lay down on the sidewalk and went to sleep.
Two of them were clearly not in a good condition.
With a dazed look in his eyes, he held the bread in his hand, eating it, when suddenly it seemed as if the pause button had been pressed, and he stared blankly, seemingly unable to remember what he was supposed to do.
Look, Captain Xie's car is here.
Guo Yifei wiped his mouth and stood up first.
He was about to step forward to wait for people to get off the car when he saw wisps of bluish-green fluorescence drifting out of the car.
The little bluebird's figure gradually materialized, perching proudly on the car roof.
It glanced sideways at the group of weak sentries and quickly spotted two potential targets.
Ah, fragile waste.
The little bluebird went straight for the person whose spirit was severely corrupted, forcibly breaking through their barrier and entering their spiritual realm.
Xie Tu then opened the sunroof and came out.
In the darkness, even the best-eyed sentry could not see inside the vehicle through the sunroof.
Just in case, Xie Tu closed the skylight.
He looked up and saw a light in the distance.
It was the light from a handheld searchlight.
There was a battalion of soldiers resting next to the sentries.
It's not just ordinary people who are affected.
The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and morale was generally low. They ate food numbly to replenish their strength and slept on the sidewalk.
Hundreds of people remained silent.
Hearing the roar of the car engine, he merely glanced at the light to confirm it.
After realizing they were on the same side, the soldiers moved the light source away.
The searchlight was pointing directly at the residential area across the street.
Xie Tu noticed that the rest areas they had chosen were surrounded by densely packed high-rise residential buildings on both sides of the street.
People from several quarantine sites in Zone F should be accommodated here.
The group remained downstairs, ready to go in and clean up at any time.
"How is the situation?" Xie Tu asked.
Guo Yifei replied with a wry smile, "Things have finally calmed down a bit after we separated and isolated them, but the mutations are happening very quickly and at very high levels. Just a few minutes ago, two level eight mutants that look like mantises appeared."
“The soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Huang Liangping was severely corroded while saving them. We dare not separate again…”
Fortunately, the advanced mutants only appear in small numbers.
If a whole group of them came, they wouldn't be able to handle it.
Xie Tu nodded. "It's not advisable to split up now. Group Seven will come to support you soon. Take turns resting in shifts, and don't let your guard down."
Guo Yifei replied, "I know."
Xie Tu asked him for a map of the quarantine site.
"The map was made by volunteers and may not be completely accurate. When the entire buffer zone was relocated, there were more than 720,000 people. The current casualties cannot be counted. Only the distribution points have been roughly marked."
Guo Yifei handed him the map and couldn't help but complain, "People in the old days relied too much on technology. Now, without a computer, it takes them half a day to draw a map or do some statistics."
I can't believe they even rely on high technology for drawing.
Their mental fortitude and survival skills were nowhere near those of people in later generations.
“They can’t be compared. They live in peacetime and have never faced any life-threatening situations.” Xie Tu took the map and quickly scanned the dense markings on it.
Although the map is rough, you can still roughly see the distribution of the quarantine points.
Seeing that he was looking at him so intently, Guo Yifei couldn't help but ask, "Captain Xie, are there really S-class mutants in this contaminated area?"
Otherwise, what's the point of having a map?
Do we have to check them one by one?
"Whether it happens or not, prepare for the worst and stay vigilant at all times."
Xie Tu had a gut feeling that it was possible, but perhaps the time for the aberration hadn't arrived yet.
Guo Yifei said with a wry smile, "We carefully observed the clothing and condition of those people, trying to find out the most dangerous groups, but they were all mutants. Just by looking at their normal appearance, we couldn't tell their level at all."
That's why everyone felt uneasy.
No one has ever seen an S-class mutant.
The sentries knew they were no match for that thing.
Encountering such an encounter almost always leads to certain death.
It's like the Sword of Damocles hanging overhead, ready to fall at any moment.
This five-star contamination zone currently appears to pose no danger.
But without Xie and his daughter, the sentries might not have been able to hold on when the pollution levels first spiked.
Not to mention taking control of the entire city's situation in a short period of time.
Speaking of Xie's daughter.
Guo Yifei turned to look at his teammate who was giving him emotional support.
Huang Liangping lay on the ground, surrounded by a ring of glowing green spiritual threads, his brows furrowed, and covered in cold sweat...
strangeness.
Doing psychological counseling is clearly a very relaxing thing.
Why does Huang Liangping have that expression?
Just then, a noise came from the tall building diagonally opposite, and the roar was very clear in the silent city sky.
"Damn! They really don't let us rest for a moment!"
The two sentries quickly got up and released their spiritual forms to go and check first.
Zhang Hai turned to the soldiers not far away and said, "Send a team of men to follow us."
If there are too many, these soldiers will be needed to help cast the nets.
A group of soldiers stepped forward, numbly yet skillfully picking up their equipment, and followed the sentry's footsteps, jogging as they turned into the residential area.
High-rise buildings can isolate people as much as possible without dispersing too many troops.
There is no electricity now.
Climbing stairs is nothing for sentries, but it is an extremely physically demanding task for soldiers.
Zhao Qiang once muttered to Zhang Hai, "The five-star pollution zone is too realistic. Before the mutation, even the mutants thought climbing buildings was a physical task."
Xie Tu remained standing on the roof of the car, holding a flashlight and carefully examining the street map.
These sentinels need to grow.
With Yun Zhao here, they don't need to fear the erosion and can release their spiritual bodies at will to resist the advanced mutants.
He had no intention of getting involved.
Yun Zhao remained seated inside the car, never showing his face.
As a child, she had a terrible temper and was just a little kid.
The sentries would only contact Xie Tu if they needed anything, instead of actively seeking her out, which allowed her to temporarily conceal her identity.
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