Chapter 288 - Crisis outbreak I (1/2)
Chapter 288 - Crisis outbreak (I)
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”Have a cigarette?” ”Captain.”
On the southeast side of Remus' perimeter, a soldier who was climbing down an iron ladder from the watchtower took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket and asked Glenn.
Greene is 35 years old, just before his prime, the golden age of his life. With his height of 190CM and solid muscles, Glenn looked like an iron tower. He had a squarish face and a chin full of green stubble. Glenn's neck was short and thick, which made him look like a lump of iron.
In fact, during his 20 years as a mercenary, Glenn had won the title ”Iron Man” for his eternal faith. In fact, the strength and defense of the fifth stage made Glenn look like an iron man, and he would never fall.
In Remturi, he and two other powerhouses of the fifth step became the city's captain. Each of them had around a hundred soldiers under their command, and all three of them had different chiefs. Like Green, his team was mainly responsible for the night defense. Glenn worked from six in the evening until eight in the morning. For this, he was paid one thousand yuan a month.
This reward was already very high in the wilderness. After all, ordinary soldiers didn't even earn a hundred dollars a month.
He took the cigarette that the soldier passed to him, and after the soldier tapped it with his lighter, a red light appeared in the darkness. Following that, a second red light lit up. However, the soldier had also lit one.
The soldier took a drag on his cigarette and slowly exhaled a mouthful of hot, spicy smoke. The soldiers looked up at the flashing red lights in the residential area. It was already late at night, and the citizens living in the buildings on the surface had long since fallen asleep. Thus, the scene of the ten thousand lights also disappeared. But there were still warning lights flashing, like lighthouses in the night.
”What is it? You want to rent a house there too? ” Glenn yawned and stared at the soldier blankly.
The soldier smiled and shook his head, as if trying to shake out some unrealistic idea. ”I do, but I'm still single. It would be a waste to rent a single unit.”
”Then hurry and find a girl.” Glenn said with his usual expressionless face.
”Who would want to live with someone who doesn't know what tomorrow will bring? When I need to, I prefer to go to the red light district and have fun with some girls. At least that's what you want me to do. ” The soldier laughed and said.
Glenn lowered his head and spoke in a voice that he could only hear, ”In this world of dog shit, who knows what will happen to their tomorrow?” Perhaps, those men … ”
”Captain, what did you say?” The soldier obviously didn't hear what Glenn said, so he asked with his ears stretched out.
”Nothing.” After putting out the cigarette and putting it in his pocket, Glenn looked at the soldier and said, ”It's still a long night and I'm feeling refreshed.”
The soldier immediately straightened up, dropped his cigarette, and saluted. ”Yes, sir.”
Glenn nodded and walked to the next post. After walking a few steps, he stopped. Without looking back, he said, ”Next time you go to the red light district, don't forget me.”
”Yes, captain!”
The cheers of the soldiers came from behind. Glenn's poker face finally revealed a faint smile. He continued to walk, but at that moment, a slight vibration came from beneath his feet, leaving Glenn in a daze for a while.
Earthquake?
Glenn froze for a moment, but the vibration had already disappeared, as if nothing had ever happened. Glenn shook his head and didn't take the vibration to heart.
The soldier climbed up the iron ladder to the watchtower, where another young soldier was yawning. Seeing his comrades, the soldier immediately straightened himself.
”Relax, Yarvik.”
”Yes, sir.”
Jeno shook his head and said to the recruit, ”Yarvik, how many times have I said that? ”The word 'sir' only applies to Captain Green.”
”Yes, sir!”
He shook his head wordlessly and made a gesture. ”Take a rest, I'll stand guard, and I'll change my watch in two hours.”
”Yes, sir.” After saying that, the young soldier Yarvik walked to the corner of the sentry tower and sat down cross-legged. He then carried the gun and went to sleep.
”He's still a child.” he exclaimed, his hand on the railing of the tower, his eyes darting to the darkness of the earth.
After Theon stepped down, Chownok went on a massive conscription campaign. A teenage Laid-Bird recruit like Yarvik accounted for more than half of the total number of soldiers, and veterans like Jaino disapproved of the new chairman's actions. A soldier was not someone who could become a qualified warrior just by putting a gun in his or her hands. For the new President, however, there did not seem to be any such considerations.
He was more concerned with the number of soldiers than with their quality.
The wilderness under the night sky was especially cold and desolate. The ruins of the distant city became a strange silhouette under the night sky. It was as if they had stood here since the ancient times and had not changed in the slightest. But Jenner knew that before the catastrophe, there were at least three million people living in the huge city where Remus was living.
Magnificent!
In his mind, a very ancient word surfaced. In the new era, there were large cities, but they were far from the meaning of the word 'bustling'. Remulte was one of the larger cities in the wilderness. But Gino still did not think it could be associated with prosperity, and neither the civilization of the city nor the economy were up to the standards of the old days.
At this moment, in the midst of Gino's absent-mindedness, there seemed to be shadows moving in the distance.
Shadow?
When the word was captured and expanded indefinitely in his blurry mind, Gino immediately picked up the field glasses that hung nearby. The telescope was already in night vision mode, so when Gino picked it up, he could see clearly through the telescope, but it was covered in red.
As Gino adjusted the magnification of the telescope, the image in the device was instantly zoomed in, and Gino saw a person.
To be exact, it was a woman. She was wearing a nurse's robe that reached to her knees, revealing a pair of long, straight legs. She was clearly still wearing her stockings, but they were riddled with holes, revealing the skin of a woman. She was dirty, the soldier thought when he saw her.
Indeed, the woman in the telescope was far from clean. Large stains appeared on her clothes. Under the Red Night God mode, the stains looked like clotted blood. One side of the woman's face was wrapped in gauze, and she looked wounded, so the unnatural feeling of walking was perfectly explained. But when Gino saw her face, half its forehead missing, the soldier knew what he was seeing.
A live corpse, a female live corpse! There was no doubt that women were such cursed monsters. The dead body, under the intervention of a virus, mutated, and the dead came back to life. They have no intelligence, only the primal instinct to kill, and hate all living things. Any living thing that entered their line of sight would be mercilessly killed.
At the same time, when necessary, they release the virus from their bodies through saliva and blood, thus transforming their prey into their own kind. This was the special breeding method of living corpses. It was also the fastest and most effective breeding method among all mutated organisms!
The telescope quickly adjusted the visual distance in his hand. The soldier soon saw a large shadow moving behind the female corpse. Large numbers of living corpses were moving like ghosts from the ruins of the city in the direction of Remete, and Gino could not imagine what it would be like to let the army of the dead pour into Remtner.
”Warning!” Quickly, Yarvik, inform the captain, large amounts of living corpses have appeared! ” cried Gino, hoping his companion would act immediately.
But there was no response.
Damn it! I said the recruits weren't reliable!