Chapter 434 Rescue
Here, in the north-central area of the northern plains, is a land covered with snow.
The perennial cold makes life here seem very monotonous, just like the white snow that stretches from sky to earth, with deathly silence and coldness everywhere.
Looking around, there are only trees with grayish-white bark stubbornly rooted in this land. Most of them are seven or eight meters or more than ten meters tall, with upright trunks. Under the rendering of white snow, even their leaves and branches are white.
Birch, a very common tree.
Because of a song, Su Xia remembered the name of this tree.
In this birch forest, there is a long-abandoned northern town. Time has cast a layer of dilapidated color on this city. The city is empty, as if no one has ever lived here .
But today, a small-scale confrontation took place in this remote town.
"Bang!"
A brass bullet slammed into the concrete exterior wall of a building, stirring up a cloud of gray dust and creating an egg-sized hole in the gray wall.
More bullets hit a swift insect below the hole.
“Squeak——”
The Swift Worm felt pain, its eyes were fierce and its expression was fierce, pus was dripping from the corners of its fang-filled mouth. There were more than a dozen bullet holes on its body, and bleeding was coming out of each hole. Its injuries were very serious, but it still had the strength to fight, and its vitality was shockingly tenacious.
After a crazy roar, the insect became furious, and unimaginable strength burst out from its limbs. It leaped up suddenly and rushed desperately towards the direction where the bullet came from.
It was a window located on the third floor of a gray concrete building.
It seemed to want to pounce, jump into the window, and bite the shooter to death.
But bullets kept firing out of the window, like a long string of metal raindrops, hitting the insect with deadly force.
"Bang-bang-bang-bang-"
Bullets rained down, and one of them hit the insect's left front leg, shattering its bones with a snap and splattering blood everywhere.
Due to the broken left front leg, the high-speed moving insect lost its balance in an instant, fell to the ground suddenly, and rolled over ten times, leaving a long trail of blood on the cold street. Its life breath dropped a lot.
The insect roared unwillingly towards the sky, its narrow eyes filled with fierce bloodshot. It lay on the ground, staring at the window.
“Swish !”
A bullet hit his head accurately, causing a burst of blood and ending his life.
No matter how unwilling it was, the insect had no choice but to fall down, with its head raised high and falling heavily.
After death, its limbs were still twitching unconsciously, as if it were still alive, and there were nearly twenty bullet holes all over its body, all bleeding.
Of course, surviving is impossible.
The unwilling roar it let out before its death was just to summon more companions to come and hunt down the humans in this city together.
"Zerg..."
High in the sky in the distance, Su Xia watched the scene quietly with a calm look.
"There are quite a lot of bugs in this city. There's probably a bug nest nearby."
Although the distance was still a bit far, with the help of the life perception glasses, Su Xia saw that there were at least more than a hundred low-level Zergs in the entire city, and there were also many insects in the nearby jungle.
They roared and howled madly, and swarmed along the deserted city streets like a swarm of locusts at an extremely fast speed, constantly swarming towards the place where the gunshots were heard.
At this moment, in this deserted and cold town, there were more than ten locations where gunshots were heard.
"There were more than ten gunshots, all concentrated in a building in the city center." Su Xia looked from afar.
The building was eight stories high and seemed to be a former office building. It was also gray, with a layer of white snow covering the roof and nearly half a meter of snow accumulated downstairs.
The window where the shooting just happened is on the third floor on the north side of the building.
There are three or four firing windows on each of the four sides of the building, which continuously kill the insects that are surrounding from all directions.
There was constant gunfire, flames spewed out of the windows, and insects fell one after another in the pouring rain of bullets.
"Oh, damn, why are there so many bugs?" A young man's complaint was heard from the window just now, mixed with the sound of bullets being loaded and the whistling of the cold wind, which sounded a little vague.
"Haha, little Peter, are you scared?" Another voice sounded from inside the window. It was that of a middle-aged man, and it sounded a bit rough.
"I'm not afraid. I just killed one!"
The young man snorted, showing off his achievements, but then complained: "I haven't taken good care of the gun in my hand. It jammed just now. When I go back, I will change it to a better one."
Just as he finished his words, a brass bullet spun out of the barrel and hit the brain of another insect with a bang, causing a stream of plasma to burst out.
The young man's hit rate was improving. He seemed to have adapted to the gun in his hand and calculated the current wind speed and direction.
"Hey, another one!" the young man groaned. "Little Maria will be proud of me when I go back. I will use the fangs of that insect as a gift and propose to her."
"Little Maria likes the handsome and strong Alexander. My poor little Peter, you are too thin and not strong enough. You have no chance." The middle-aged man said sympathetically.
"Hehe, little Maria likes warriors, and I am also a warrior!"
The young man ignored the middle-aged man's words, loaded the bullet, and fired another shot, accurately hitting a bug that was about to pounce on him.
At the side, the middle-aged man was also shooting, repelling the approaching insects.
Although the two spoke in a light-hearted manner, their expressions became increasingly heavy, because in their field of vision, the number of insects appearing was increasing, and it seemed that they could never be killed.
Not only in their direction, but people in the other three directions of the building were also facing more and more insects, and the gunshots became more rapid.
“Bang! Bang!”
One after another, the insects fell down with a roar, struggling unwillingly, roaring madly, and leaving blood and slime all over the ground.
If the killing speed cannot keep up with the speed of the bugs appearing, the building may be lost, and all of them will become delicious meals for the bugs.
"Damn, how many bugs are there?"
This was a very brutal defensive battle, with the attackers far outnumbering the defenders.
The madness of the attacking side far exceeds that of the defending side.
…
In the distance, in the sky outside the city, Su Xia looked calm. He did not take any action and was observing the situation of both sides.
He just sent some nanorobots over to help him get more information.
"There are a total of 28 people in the building. They all speak the language of the northern plains. They must have lived here all year round. Each of them has excellent marksmanship and is not an ordinary person.
“The firearms they use are not the standard firearms of the human surrender camp, nor are they ordinary small workshop products. Instead, they are products from decades ago, before the psychic era.
"They don't have uniform clothing. Several young men are thin and look malnourished. If they had joined the Mechanical Clan's surrender camp, they wouldn't be starving..."
Su Xia observed and thought at the same time, always remaining very vigilant.
Maybe it was because they were too far away, but the system didn’t pop up any prompts. Even though he saw the shared screen of the nanorobots, there was no prompt content.
In the building in the city center, there are many old military green ammunition boxes and weapon boxes, some of which have production dates and numbers printed on them.
Su Xia took a closer look and found that the production date of one of the boxes was seventy years ago.
"A batch of old military ammunition, all with markings in northern languages." Su Xia pondered, "They must have found it in this city. It must be military supplies buried underground in this city."
These people don't seem to be from the surrendered camp, they look like some kind of rebel organization.
The human soldiers in the surrender camp all have uniform uniforms and standard weapons, so they don't have to use these old firearms.
"In addition to military supplies, there are also some canned food that are decades old. They may have found them from the underground air-raid shelter." Su Xia looked at the shared screen, "But there are no fresh daily necessities, and no signs of human life. This shows that they do not live in this abandoned city. They just come here to look for supplies. Maybe they know there are supplies here, or they come here to try their luck..."
It’s hard to say whether these people were lucky or unlucky. Although they found supplies in this abandoned city, they were surrounded by Zerg.
The jungle surrounding the city was filled with Zerg creatures, numbering nearly a thousand.
There are already five or six hundred low-level bugs on the streets of the city.
“Squeak—squeak—”
Their roars merged into one, filled with ferocity and cruelty. Each one of them ran madly towards the building in the center of the city, as if they had no idea what death was. When the one in front died, the ones behind would pounce on it.
There were over a hundred broken insect carcasses around the building, and the white snow had been dyed dark green by the blood.
The cold wind was howling, carrying the foul smell of blood.
Inside the building, the twenty-eight people all looked unhappy. Some were frowning, while others looked worried. They were changing ammunition in the depressing atmosphere.
Everyone knew that if this continued, the bugs outside would sooner or later break through their defenses.
The only way to hold on to the end is death.
Faced with a large number of insects, breaking out means death as well, and may result in faster death.
No matter how you look at it, the final outcome that awaits everyone is death.
"There are more and more bugs. There should be a low-level or even mid-level bug nest in this area." said a middle-aged man wearing glasses.
"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have let everyone come together. I didn't do a good job of reconnaissance." A man in his thirties blamed himself.
"It's not your fault. The appearance of these damn bugs is so weird." said another person.
"Yes, I scouted before and didn't see any bugs at all."
"Well, little Peter wants to go back and propose to little Maria."
"Haha, little Peter hasn't given up yet?"
“…”
Everyone's eyes were focused on the thin young man, and they all joked a few times, making the atmosphere a little more relaxed.
However, this relief is only temporary.
"If all else fails, let's retreat to the underground passage. There are many connections down there, so we should be able to hold out for a while. We just need to guard the entrance."
"Unfortunately, all other exits of the underground passage have collapsed, leaving only the exit deep in the basement of this building. Otherwise, we could have left through another exit."
"Perhaps, we can use explosives to block those exits..."
"careful!"
"Little Peter!"
Suddenly someone yelled and his face changed drastically.
A bug had entered the building at some point, like a silent assassin, and had arrived on the third floor where they were without anyone noticing.
At this moment, the bug was at the stairs, less than ten meters away from the young man named Peter.
“Squeak—”
Its eyes flashed with ferocity, its fangs bared, and it pounced forward.
This short distance only takes a moment for a swift worm, a type of soldier with extremely strong explosive power and speed.
"Little Peter!"
“Get out of the way!”
Everyone's face changed, they looked anxious, and shouted at the top of their lungs, but it seemed too late.
"ah?"
Little Peter turned his head and saw the insect rushing towards him, but the muzzle of his gun was still pointed out of the window. A trace of panic flashed across his thin face, and his whole body froze, too late to do anything.
Is he going to die here today?
He panicked and subconsciously closed his eyes, not daring to look directly at his own death. He just hoped that the process of death would not be too painful.
"Dear Maria, you like the spring breeze. After I die, I will turn into a gentle breeze to protect you..."
As he thought about this, a gentle and beautiful girl's face flashed through his mind.
But at this moment, there was a sudden cracking sound, as if something hard was forcibly cut open, followed by a crazy roar.
Little Peter was very familiar with this kind of roar; it was the unwillingness of the insect before death.
What happened?
Little Peter discovered that death and pain did not come to him, but chose the worm that pounced on him.
"I am not dead?"
He opened his eyes and touched his cheeks and body in surprise. It still felt familiar, as if nothing was missing.
There was some warm blood on his clothes, which did not belong to him but to the insect.
The insect had been torn into pieces, as if it had been cut by some sharp weapon. Its trunk was broken, its limbs were separated, and the cross-section was extremely smooth and flat, as if it had been cut by a machine.
"I was rescued. The person who rescued me was..."
The joy of surviving the disaster made little Peter's body tremble slightly. He looked around and found that everyone else had a shocked look on their faces.
They were stunned and stood there in a daze, as if they had seen something incredible.
Little Peter looked again at the cracked insect corpse in front of him.
He knew very well that his teammates did not have the ability to cut the insects open directly.
"What are you all standing there for?"
A strange voice suddenly sounded outside a window, attracting everyone's attention.
They all turned their heads and looked towards the window.
Through the broken glass, they saw that it was a man in a black robe. There was not much expression on his face and his eyes were calm.
At this moment, everyone was stunned and thought of a name at the same time.
Or, a code name...
