210 Explosion in the Background, The Conclusion of the Attack on the Philippine General Hospital (1/2)

Day 25 – 2:45 PM – Philippine General Hospital, Ermita, Metro Manila

”Fall back! Fall back!”

Frantic yells from the soldiers could be heard all around the compound could be heard under loud noises produced by the huge tentacles as they demolished everything in their paths. The remains of the main hospital building, the trees, the vehicles, the other buildings, the people and even the infected were swept away. Many who witnessed the scene lost their will to fight and ran away with their tails behind their legs.

There were those that managed to get away but there were those who were unlucky. Those who received the full force of the whip like strike of the tentacles flew with their mangled bodies. Their arms, feet, legs or even their necks were bent and turned in the wrong angles while different parts of their bodies were heavily lacerated splashing blood in the places where their dead bodies landed. Aside from those that where killed that way, there were also those that were caught after some of the tentacles coiled inwards, trapping them.

Those that were caught tried to pry themselves away both in fear and panic. Even though they were caught, they should still be able to help themselves out of the entrapment since the tentacles did not coil on them tightly. However, they found themselves being grabbed by something in different parts of their bodies and were unable to move. Looking at their bodies, they saw dozens of hands grabbing different parts of their bodies like in some horror movies. All of those hands and arms grabbing them were all rooted from the huge tentacle around them.

They were finally able to look at it closely. The tentacles were made of flesh and that was exactly right. However, both the huge mound and the tentacles were made of thousands of infected bodies fused into one. The tentacle that trapped the poor Mutators and Evolvers was a tentacle made of torsos and arms while the tentacles that whipped everything away was a tentacle made of waists and lower limbs. One of the tentacles even clad a black color and looking at it closely, that black color was because the majority of the tentacles were made of decapitated heads.

One tentacle went straight into the front of the hospital coiling around the dead body of the huge infected earlier. It could be seen that the tentacle coiled on it gently and lifted the lifeless body up bringing it closer to the female infected in front of the mound of flesh.

With the huge body of the killed infected suspended beside the woman, she looked too little as her body was of normal size of a person. She reached out for the bloody and destroyed face of the huge infected. In her pale colored eyes, there was an expression of both sadness and anger. She sharply turned her head and she stared at the building in front of the hospital compound.

To be exact, the female infected was staring at Mei who was doing the same. The two women clashed with stares, one infected and one human. Mei was expressionless but the female infected was brimming with rage.

CRYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

The female infected bellowed in rage. The screeching sound was too loud compared to a person of her size should be able to emit.

Strangely, all the people in the hospital compound felt sluggish and their movements slowed down a lot.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!

The tentacles trashed even more killing more people while those that were caught were brought into the mound of flesh. The mound of flesh opened and the caught people were thrown inside. Only their screams of fear, helplessness and despair were the only things heard before the opening closed.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Loud gunshots from the snipers echoed with their shots aiming for the woman.

However, several smaller tentacles emerged from the mound and protected her even before the shots were made. Each of the arm sized tentacles were protected with hard skin and fleshy armor disabling the bullets from punching through.

The shots stopped as the snipers were all dumbfounded.

BANG!

Another shot echoed and it was from Mei who aimed between the gaps of the tentacles. The shot through the woman's forehead or it should have been. At the last moment, the woman sharply leaned her head to the right which made the bullet only scrape her ear.

”The hospital is a lost cause. Switch to Plan B.”

Major Lopez's serene voice echoed in everyone's radio.

Plan B. It was the plan to decimate the whole compound using explosives and flames. This plan was only the alternate one due to the fact that the military did not want to destroy a place that should contain a lot of medical supplies, equipment and apparatus. If they managed to clear the infected here while keeping the hospital intact, they would be free to collect the mentioned things.

Now however, the main hospital building was decimated while the other buildings were severely damaged to the point of collapse. It would be very unlikely for them to find usable equipment and items in that huge pile of rubble. Not to mention that there was a monstrous infected that could not be dealt with in a direct combat rendering all of them helpless.

With the Plan B in effect, everyone would need to retreat away from the vicinity of the hospital. All this time while everyone was fighting the infected, several soldiers of the assault units had planted dozens of very strong improvised explosives that could only be detonated by the designated wireless remote. This was in case that they were not able to eliminate the threat in the hospital in time or there was no way for them to leave the hospital intact. Some of the explosives were even attached to the tentacles by skilled soldiers.

Since Plan B was announced, everyone ran away to vacate the area but it also happened in chaos. The private groups that participated were not trained soldiers and were not trained to retreat calmly in unfavorable situations. There were those that managed to remain calm but most did not.

***

”Infected woman know that we are here.”

Mei said with a frown.

”Mama, that infected is a psychic.”

Iola tugged the hem of Mei's clothes and said while her purple colored eye shone with faint light.

”A psychic infected?”

Odelina was also surprised because of two reasons. One was because the existence of an infected that was also a psychic but also surprised that Iola could tell.

”Yes, Auntie. That scream is some sort of psychic attack.”

The other people around them also heard the conversation of the three but hearing the word ”psychic” made them feel that it was inconceivable.

”Everyone, let's go! Plan B is initiated. We need to leave this place!”