Night falls.
The busy day in Chasing Light City is over.
No, to be precise, the busy day of Chasing Light Army is over, and the nightlife of Chasing Light City has just begun.
At seven o'clock in the evening, all the city gate winches in Zhuguang City rotated at the same time, and the city gates fell with a thumping sound.
Starting from this time, people in the city are not allowed to leave the city, and people outside the city are not allowed to come in.
If a caravan comes from afar, they can only rest outside the city tonight until the city gate opens at five o'clock tomorrow morning.
The city is still brightly lit. With two power plants, Zhuangguang City has sufficient power supply, and many shops are hung with neon lights.
On the streets and alleys, hotels and restaurants are crowded with people.
The mutton kebab stall exudes the aroma. People exchange cups, drink and chat, discussing that the light-chasing army will leave the city today and will definitely eliminate those robbers who do not know life or death.
In some high-end consumption places, people can also sing, dance, drink tea and get massages.
In the bar, men and women who have been suppressed for a long time by the apocalypse are partying. From time to time, a pair of wild mandarin ducks hook up together, looking for a place to vent their passion.
Luxury cars, fine wine, neon lights, and hazy nights constitute the night life of Chasing Light City.
However, this is the central and western part of the outer city, and the east part of the city is relatively quiet.
There are not many people living along the Fengming River. The high-end community here has been built recently and the decoration has not been completely completed.
On both sides of the river bank, there are rows of shops.
A wide road has been built along the river bank, and there are also white marble railings on the bank.
The transplanted green belt has been transplanted here, and the evergreen pines stand tall and tall all year round.
Many of those shops have been sold and are currently in the renovation stage.
Some even have plaques with ambiguous names.
With names like "Yellow Scent", "Yihonglou" and "Baihua Pavilion", people will know what they are for at a glance.
There are even some building boats appearing in the river.
During the day, workers painted the buildings and boats, each with bright colors and pink curtains.
It is also clear what this is for. This is the place where we will drink flower wine in the future.
In the Hanyue Empire, this kind of thing is not illegal, and after the end of the world, this kind of thing will be inevitable in survival bases everywhere.
This will be the gold-exploding cave of Zhuguang City in the future, and it will also be an important part of driving the economy.
Although this place has not officially opened for business yet, you can already imagine the grand scene here in a month.
The people who worked during the day have left, and the place is now empty.
Occasionally, patrol motorcycles from the Public Security Department pass by on the street, but they don't stop here. They just run around along the river, and no one is allowed to come here to fish at night.
A street-facing shop called Yihong Building.
This is a five-story independent building that will be a leisure club in the future.
But tonight, the place was crowded.
Everyone stayed quietly inside the house, not turning on the lights or talking loudly, and nothing unusual could be seen from the outside.
There are at least three hundred people staying on each floor.
In the lobby on the first floor, a mutant leading a team was observing the situation outside from the window.
From his perspective, he could see the city wall in the distance and the water gate at the end of the river.
"Boss Bai, is the person who delivered the weapons here?" someone asked behind him.
Boss Bai turned back and glared at him: "Are you too nervous? I have told you so many times that the action time is eight o'clock. The divers will go into the water five hundred meters away from the city, and then bring the boxes with weapons. Come here and avoid the defenders on the city wall. It will take at least twenty minutes to half an hour to reach us. If we can move at half past eight, it will be considered fast. Look at what time it is now."
The man looked at the time. It was now 7:43, and there were still ten minutes left before he could move outside the city.
Suddenly he smiled coquettishly: "I'm impatient, but you can't blame me entirely. A big scene like today may never happen once in your life. My heart is beating so fast right now."
After he finished speaking, there were people around him who kept nodding, indicating that they felt the same way.
In fact, Boss Bai is also very nervous. After all, what they are going to do tonight is too shocking.
Once the weapons are delivered, they will immediately go to the south gate and launch a surprise attack on the city wall.
There are many things involved in this process, including whoever takes the sniper rifle and kills the sniper in the sentry tower first. Who is responsible for feinting and attracting attention. Who acted as a commando and stormed the city wall. There is a strict division of labor as to who turns the winch, who sends the signal, etc.
Even after taking down the south gate and opening the city gate, there was a detailed battle plan.
Once this is successful, the Light Chasing Army will change hands, Tang Zheng will have no choice but to flee in embarrassment, and the Northern Territory will be completely controlled by the alliance.
People like them must have also risen with the tide, and they have become rich with promotions.
Thinking of what might happen in the future, Boss Bai's palms began to sweat nervously.
He just felt that time passed so slowly now.
While waiting boredly, he cast his gaze on the surface of Fengming River.
The river flowed loudly, and occasionally there were ripples on the water surface, which must have been a big fish passing by.
"When I win, I will retire here, fishing and drinking during the day, and spending money here at night. It will be a life like a fairy."
Boss Bai and the others stayed in the building, anxiously waiting for the movement in the river. They expected that at the next moment, divers would come up from the river and deliver boxes full of weapons to them.
Seven fifty-five.
Outside Zhuguang City.
The cool night breeze blows, and the trees among the mountains and forests sway.
A mutated owl with a wingspan of nearly two meters flew across the mountains and made a "coo" sound.
The screams penetrated people, accompanied by the night wind, making people shudder.
About six hundred meters outside the city, a group of people were crawling on the bank of Fengming River.
There are a hundred people here, all wearing black diving suits and goggles, and carrying oxygen bottles behind them.
It is difficult to see in the dark river at night, but these frogmen have undergone professional training. Even when the Alliance was stationed in Light Chaser City, they swam through this section of the river and could touch it with their eyes closed.
The frogman leader who led the team was lying in the grass on the shore with an infrared telescope in his hand.
Beside him were huge iron boxes.
Inside these boxes are weapons sealed with plastic tarps.
Heavy machine guns, sniper rifles, grenades, explosives, rocket launchers, bullets, you name it.
These things were all prepared by Xie Jinshan for them, and they cost a lot of money.
Some of these weapons even come from Light Chaser City.
But the frogman leader doesn't care about that. He is only responsible for delivering the weapons into the city, and it's done.
In the field of view of the telescope, the situation on the top of the city of Chasing Light is clearly visible.
A group of city-defending soldiers from the Light Chaser Army patrolled over.
There were eight people in a group, and the leader also led a military dog.
The military dogs also wore body armor, sniffed around with their big tongues out, and walked along the city wall. They were very dedicated.
Soldiers holding guns also walked on the city wall.
The frogman leader knew that the light-chasing army's patrol basically passed through this area once every half an hour and never stopped for 24 hours.
But this night, the area they can monitor is smaller, and the darkness will block many things.
Avoiding patrols is easy, but avoiding searchlights is a bit more difficult.
The sentry tower on the city wall is nearly thirty meters high from the ground. The high-power searchlights on it are turned on to explore over and over again outside the city.
Those soldiers of the Light Chasing Army made the frogman leader feel like robots. These guys hardly knew how to get tired. No matter which shift they arrived at, they never showed signs of being lazy or cunning. This was really a remarkable thing.
They turned on their searchlights, and the incandescent light swept over everything outside the city.
Fengming River also scanned the area, but the dark river at night was really not interesting, and he could basically see through it at a glance.
This kind of light can even reach a depth of two meters below the river water, but cannot be seen further down.
The frogman leader looked at the time. It was eight o'clock in three minutes.
Today's action, he knew, was very dangerous.
Everything is easy if they are not discovered. Once they are discovered and the helicopters of the Light Chasing Army chase them out, I am afraid they will all be left here.
After all, their opponent was Tang Zheng, the overlord in the Northern Territory.
The leader of the frogmen took out a cigarette, but did not smoke it. Lighting a fire in the dark night was courting death, even if it was a cigarette butt.
He sniffed the direction of the tobacco and put the cigarette back.
He felt in his pocket and took out a photo.
It was a picture of his daughter, an eight-year-old girl.
He is a lucky man, his daughter is still alive and currently in the University City base.
The leader of the frogmen doesn't have any other abilities, he just has a good aptitude for water, which is the main reason why he can become the leader.
As a father, he needs to make money and give his daughter a good life.
So this time, he accepted the task without hesitation.
Xie Jinshan promised that as long as he succeeded, he would receive a reward of 50,000 light yuan.
In this era, 50,000 Guangyuan is undoubtedly a huge sum of money.
Looking at the photo, the leader of the frogmen said softly: "Daughter, after this success, dad will retire from the army. From now on, dad will take you to live in Zhuguang City. I heard that there will be a school here. Dad will be rich. When the time comes, We can go to school, and daddy will pick you up and drop you off every day and make delicious food for you, okay?"
Gently kissing the photo of his daughter, he put the photo back into his pocket.
It's already eight o'clock.
The gentle father just now turned into a tough guy in an instant.
"The first batch of frogmen, 30 people, enter the water!"
30 frogmen pushed the heavy box and slid into the river.
The weight of the box is designed to be just right, so it can sink but not sink. The frogman can easily pull it in the river water below three meters.
The night wind blew over the water, causing the waves to ripple slightly. Searchlights occasionally swept over the water, and those who looked at it felt frightened.
The frogman leader was on the shore, looking at the water with his binoculars, his heart in his throat.
May God bless the Union, Amen!
(End of chapter)
