163 From Evacuation into Desperation (2/2)

The soldiers tried to fight back shooting the flies but even if they could hit and kill some of the large flies, more and more would just flock towards them. It did not take long for casualties to occur.

In front of their vehicle, a fly landed on the back of a defenseless worker that was working on one of the vehicles earlier. The legs of the fly drilled on the unfortunate worker's back before the fly's pointed tongue shot towards and pierced through the worker's neck. The tip of the fly's tongue that drilled into the worker's nape could be seen on where his Adam's apple should have been. The worker looked shocked as the pain permeated his mind before he fell on the pavement profusely bleeding from the hole on his neck and back.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.

Not far from them, a soldier shooting the flies was ganged by several flies. Not only that his body was pierced by the legs and tongues of the flies, one of the flies shot its tongue unto his left eye. Before the soldier fell, the tongue retracted pulling the pierced eye along with it.

The scene was worse at the side of the refugees. About half of the refugees had not boarded the vehicles yet. Due to the sudden emergence of the swarm of the infected flies, the queue of refugees fell into disarray. They started running and pushing each other. The weaker, older and younger ones were pushed around with some of them ending up trampled under the feet of other people.

Some of the refugees made it into their vehicles while some managed to squeeze into vehicles that should have been full already. Unfortunately, there were those who became muddle headed due to panic and ended up running back into the rooms and buildings they should have abandoned already. Furthermore, there were also those who forced open some of the vehicles with weaker refugees wanting to enter the vehicle but just ended up letting the flies enter the vehicle before they could.

It was a disaster.

In the short moment, a lot of people, with the majority being the refugees died due to the flies. Screams of despair and pain echoed across the settlement along with the deafening sounds of gunshots and buzzing of the wings of the flies.

It did not take long and outside the vehicles were filled not only with swarming flies but also infected. Those people who died due to the tongue of flies piercing their body immediately turned into infected.

Those who Mark pushed into the vehicles were all frightened. Even the soldiers Keene, Irene and Oscar were not an exception as they tried to shrink their bodies hiding from the flies.

”Keene! Irene! Where are you?!”

Captain Dela Rosa's worried voice echoed from the radio. He did not even try to abide the military protocol on radio communications anymore. The sounds of gunshots could also be heard in the background.

”Father, I'm fine, Irene is with me. Luckily, we've been ”violently” pushed to safety inside a multi-cab.”

Keene replied. The sigh of relief could be heard from the other side.

”The multi-cab with the LPG tanks? Is Pvt. Oscar there?”

”Yes, he's here.”

”Good.”

Next was Mark.

”Mark? Are you there?”

”I am.”

”Alright, prepare for departure.”

Several more radio confirmations followed but not everyone mentioned was able to answer back.

Then, the radios that were issued to the drivers sounded all over the convoy.

”To everyone who is still alive, we'll be departing from this settlement. Carefully follow the vehicles in front of yours. Godspeed!”

Then, the roaring engines of the vehicles sounded one after another.

BRRROOOOR! BAM!!!

The main gates were smashed open by the leading dump truck. The V-shaped ram of the dump truck parted the infected that started to congregate outside the gates allowing the vehicles behind to go out safely.

As they exited the settlement, the vehicles would ram unto the flies and infected but the modifications on the vehicles kept the vehicles from falling apart. While the vehicles of the remaining survivors and soldiers moved, about less than half of the vehicles remained in place. Majority of the vehicles that remained in place were vehicles that were supposed to transport he refugees.

Under the wheels of the leaving vehicles, many bodies were crushed into pieces. Those were bodies of those who supposed to be leaving the settlement with everyone else.

The people inside the moving vehicles could also see several refugees that ran back into the classrooms who seemed to be pleading not to get left behind. Unfortunately, there was nothing the soldiers could do anymore. They suffered a huge blow themselves. This swarm of flies was not something that everyone here could handle. Those who were left could only fend by themselves.

Some of them could not accept being left behind making them run out trying to catch up to the vehicles only to get swarmed by the flies and infected.

When they left, the sounds of the vehicles attracted some of the flies but as several screams echoed inside the settlement, the flies started to lose interest on the vehicles that they could not see the people inside and continued ravaging the both the living and dead bodies of people that remained inside the settlement.

Many soldiers felt downhearted due to what happened. They know that it was not their fault but they still felt the guilt trying to overwhelm them. Dead bodies were one thing but they had to abandon people that they were supposed to protect.

Driving on the intended route, the remaining soldiers that were dispatched to scout and delay the horde managed to catch up. Their numbers also dwindled significantly but they felt more remorse seeing what remained of the supposed to be large convoy heading to Bay City.

Whether they want to accept it or now, they suffered an aggrieving defeat this time. They lost miserably.

They could not help but think.

”If it was like this, would there be any chance for them to survive in the future?”

Still, that thought was for tomorrow. What they needed to think about now was to not let the horde catch up to them.