The port city of Guangdong Province borders Shenzhen City to the north and faces Aocheng across the sea to the east of the Pearl River Estuary. Before the disaster, the port city was China's famous first-generation special economic zone. It was also one of the richest, most economically developed and highest-living areas in the world after World War II.
At this time, the first year of the disaster is coming to an end. Four months have passed since the black fog broke out on the night of November 10, 2275. The depth of winter has arrived, but the subtropical Hong Kong city still looks like spring flowers are blooming. As soon as late February passes, the temperature rises to 20 degrees. The weather is cool, so people only need to wear a light suit when outdoors.
Calculating the days, today is New Year's Eve in the lunar calendar, and the Langtang Strait, located southeast of the port city, is already a scene of sunset hanging in the west. The fiery red sunset hangs on the peak of Lantau Island, and the dim sky indicates that the day is coming to an end, which also means that the bell of the New Year is about to ring.
But untimely, there was no calm and peaceful scene at all on the coast. The shouts of fighting there were shocking, hundreds of people could be seen in the distance, and countless bloody limbs dyed the sea water as red as the horizon.
It's the Chen family's army, the Jiuge Mountain Brigade wearing blue and gray military uniforms. This elite team, which was once one of the best in South China, never imagined that it would be in such a mess right now.
Looking from a distance, thin threads kept crawling out of the jungle by the beach. After looking through the binoculars, I realized that they were venomous snakes one after another. Most of them are brightly colored and have shovel-shaped or triangular heads. At the front of their heads are black eyes and snakes that are constantly spitting out. They can swim faster than humans can run. The group of snakes in front had obviously been fighting with the soldiers of the Jiuge Mountain Brigade for a long time. The beach covered with fine sand was now full of dead bodies of people and snakes.
"Damn it, why can't we kill all these long insects?"
"Don't get distracted and be careful not to get bitten. These guys have powerful neurotoxins!"
"Form a defensive line and never allow any mutant snake to pass through here!"
"Don't use the knife, just let them get close! Shoot, shoot!"
"Da da da."
"Ah...help."
"A snake rushes in, chop it to death!"
"You beast, die!"
Although there were many mutant snakes, they were distributed on the entire beach. The interception efficiency of the soldiers was not high. Soon, several green bamboo-leaf snakes broke into the battle formation.
They circled their flexible bodies and bit everyone they met. Soon, several people were bitten, and two teeth marks less than a centimeter apart appeared on their thighs. As the pain from the wound intensified, strong blood circulation poison quickly spread throughout the body, and the most severe person had symptoms of toxic shock.
"hold onto!"
Several speed-evolved officers rushed to the rescue. They immediately flew their long knives and chopped several mutated bamboo leaf greens with red eyes and green bodies into three or four pieces.
They temporarily placed the wounded on a high ground on the inside of the defensive circle, and were taken care of by several soldiers with logistical support. There were dense crowds of people lying or sitting on the high ground. After only half a day of fighting, there were already hundreds of wounded. Seeing these soldiers whose wounds were festering, red and swollen, and some of whom were even unconscious from high fevers, one of the squad leaders who came to the rescue swore obscenities.
"Damn, why is the mutated snake venom so much more powerful?"
Another squad leader didn't want him to disturb the wounded man's rest, so he half pulled and half dragged him out of the medical tent.
"Okay, stop talking and go back for support."
"I said what's wrong! Those capable people are not
Therapeutic? Why can't we detoxify mutant snake venom! If this continues, I don’t know how many of Jiuge’s brothers will end up here! "
After dragging out his colleague, the other squad leader's face didn't look good either.
Bamboo leaf green is highly poisonous, but the lives of the soldiers should not be affected, but it is difficult to say that the injured leg can be saved.
But in this kind of world, if people like them, who have been soldiers all their lives, are allowed to become amputated cripples and incompetent trash, why don't they just kill them...
"Squad leader, the squad leader is bad!" A little soldier ran over out of breath. When he saw the squad leader, he immediately saluted and reported, "A corner of the grassland beside the forest in the west collapsed, and many large trees came out. Ant, the brothers of Dijiu Battalion suffered heavy casualties!"
"What? Lead the way. Mengzi, get some flamethrowers!"
Dijiu, Senjiu and Yanjiu are the three major infantry battalions in the Jiuge Mountain Brigade. The squad leader Mengzi who just made a foul language belongs to the Dijiu 1st Battalion as mentioned by the little soldier.
Mengzi became anxious as soon as he heard the news. Without saying a word, he put on his equipment and rushed towards the scene of the incident. Previously, Dijiu 1st Battalion was only used as a reserve team, and they never expected to encounter a sneak attack, let alone an attack from underground! Mengzi secretly swore that if something happened to his people, he would go to heaven and earth to make those monsters pay with their lives!
Several comrades also came out of the tent opposite. They all carried half-man-high oil tanks with flames spraying on their backs. They looked at each other and ran towards the scene of the incident in unison.
After a while, several backup people arrived, but they suddenly panicked. A few ants crawling out of the pits were seen swarming towards the crowd like a tide. In a hurry, the soldiers were unable to escape and almost fell into disarray.
Looking at these culprits, everyone couldn't help but take a breath.
"Where did such a big ant come from!"
These poisonous ants, which give local people headaches, are now four to five centimeters long. They have six legs and three segments, sharp pincers, and are all brown and red. Some of them have hard bristles on the top of their heads. If they hit the warrior's legs, they will puncture wounds one by one.
The few soldiers in the front row were unfortunately bitten by mutated ants and fell behind. Within a moment, dozens of ants were crawling all over their bodies. Not only do they bite human flesh with their hard pincers, they also secrete formic acid in the wounds, causing several people to roll on the floor in pain.
"Red Fire Ant!" The squad leader, known as Mengzi, was a local and immediately recognized the predecessor of this mutant beast.
"It's actually a fire ant, how could it become so big!"
"What should I do? Do you want to attack with fire?"
"Are you crazy? Xiao Cui and the others are still inside. Do you want to burn them to death together?"
"Is now the time to hesitate? If we don't take action, the casualties will be even greater!"
"But, but..."
People retreated in a hurry, and the shrill screams from the red fire ant colony seemed to resound in everyone's mind. Although the injured were crushed to death by many fire ants while rolling, more fire ants climbed up again, and soon they were covered with a layer of fire ants on the bodies of several people, just like several fire ants that were disturbed and moved out of their nests. Huge poisonous beehive.
Even when several people screamed, some fire ants crawled directly into their mouths and noses. Some victims fell into coma, and their bodies continued to twitch unconsciously.
Seeing this scene, squad leader Dai Feng knew that these people could not be saved. But how could he kill his comrades with his own hands?
"Ah ah... class, squad leader, kill
……Just kill me. I hurt so much, my whole body hurts... ugh..."
"Xiao Cui!"
Dai Feng also knew this man. He was a hard-working recruit. Before the disaster, he was still a student who had not graduated. He is still a child, how can he bear this kind of pain that is eaten away by thousands of ants!
Dai Feng shouted almost with tears in his eyes: "Shoot! Give him a good time."
But before Dai Feng's men could take aim, a violent explosion occurred in the ant colony.
"boom!"
The blast of air blew away countless ants, staggering the soldiers, and turned the explosion site into a dark pit. It turned out that another soldier next to Xiao Cui detonated the grenade. In his last conscious state, he chose to die with these guys rather than being bitten to death by fire ants.
"Xiao Cui! Liang Zi!"
As the squad leader of these two people, Mengzi was so dizzy that he pulled the trigger of the flamethrower hard.
"Hoo-boom!"
The thick fire dragon rushed straight for thirty meters, burning all the red fire ants along the way to ashes. Several people nearby opened fire, and several side-by-side fire dragons sprang out at the same time. The red fire dragon swept through the heat wave and covered the area in front.
"Retreat, retreat quickly!"
Taking advantage of this gap, the soldiers of the Jiuge Mountain Brigade retreated in an orderly manner. They knew that fighting on flat ground was tantamount to courting death, so they wanted to re-establish a defensive line.
It was also because they retreated quickly, because as soon as they retreated, the next moment the ground where they were originally standing collapsed. Several new pits appeared that were ten meters in diameter. The fire ants crawling out of the pits were not only larger in size, but some also had two pairs of transparent wing feathers. As soon as they emerged from the ground, they flapped their wings and rushed towards the battle line.
"It's soldier ants and male ants!" Dai Feng looked at these large orange or black ants with fear. How could they defend the entire sky with just these few flamethrowers?
Damn the officials, what on earth are they trying to rob! If we continue to grab it, we will all die!
With this thought in his mind, Dai Feng opened his mouth and shouted: "Don't mess around, keep shooting from the ground, and those with abilities will stop the poisonous ants in the air!"
In Dijiu's first battalion, the few remaining wind and water ability users began to use skills regardless of the consequences. But these strong winds and water jets are just a drop in the bucket, and they have little effect even in stopping the ant colony. Are they destined to stay here?
But what no one expected was that these obviously more ferocious mutant fire ants actually let them go and flew straight behind the battle line.
It is true that there is no way out, but there is only one village with dark flowers and bright flowers. Faced with a swarm of poisonous ants, who would have thought that he could still save his life? But everyone has not forgotten their mission - to stop the possible appearance of the corpse herd. For soldiers, combat missions are above all else, even their own lives!
"No, these poisonous ants are going to the back!"
"Stop them and never let them pass!"
"The first battalion of Dijiu, kill!"
The chaotic fighting started again, and the soldiers tried their best to stop the advance of the ant colony, but a considerable number of fishes that slipped through the net still passed through the battle line. It's as if something in the distance is more attractive to them than to these evolvers.
Relying on their numerical advantage, swarms of snakes and ants quickly occupied most of the beach. Near the coast, the top hundred warriors of the human race formed an arc of defense, struggling to hold on under the pressure of the tide of beasts and insects.
