454 The Fire (1/2)
Chapter 454: The Fire
Translator: _Min_Editor: Rundi
Outside of the east gate of the Sixth Street, broken limbs were scattered on the ground. The thickened blood and zombie fat mixture formed a hard shell and covered any visible surface.
A soldier on the wall gulped and slightly moved his finger on the trigger. The tragedy and disgust under the wall made his skull feel numb.
The sentry guns on the wall moved at a uniform speed with the red sight scanning outside of the wall, searching for any suspicious target. The higher towers were installed with Type-50 electromagnetic pulse cannon or Type-99 anti-tank cannon. The soldiers responsible for firing were taking a nap beside the cannon as a lot of them haven't closed their eyes for over 24 hours.
”They are almost here.”
Inside the command tower, Zhao Gang gazed at the red dot on the hologram screen with his eyebrows twisted together. The drones captured the mutants' distribution outside of Wanghai. The red box labeled ”Bug Vehicle” gave him an ominous feeling.
As an ex-Qingpu survivor who survived for over ten years on the wasteland, he knew exactly what the ”Bug Vehicle” was. He hid into the Sixth Street along with his father that year to survive through the first mutants flood.
”The First Corps is still not here.” Chu Nan also looked tense beside him.
”They already left from Shenxiang, but with their current speed, they may not arrive until tomorrow.”
”This is an absolute disaster,” Chu Nan looked at the halted blue dots on the map as he exclaimed.
When he was a pilot at Liuding, he never met something like the mutants flood. The mutants flood seemed to be only limited to land as the mutants in the ocean didn't exhibit any oddity. Therefore, the Bohai that was stationed beside the harbor would only need to retract the foldable suspension bridge for the zombies and mutants to be stuck on land.
The occasional mutants that could fly onto the dock were killed off by soldiers or power armors holding flamethrowers without the need for him as a pilot to head to the front line.
”This was a disaster to start with.” Zhao Gang stared outside the wall.
Another round of mutants attack began!
”It's the Bug Vehicle!”
Followed by a shout, all the soldiers napping woke up and stared down the wall.
On the soft but powerful bug body was a shell as durable as a rock. The shell as smooth as the mirror surface protected its weak head and fragile body. It crawled at an even speed, leaving a disgusting white trial on the concrete surface. It was just like a giant snail with its head covered, but it was not afraid of salt…
It could easily climb over high walls and swallow any of live creatures along its path.
”Machine guns fire! Cannons prepare to shoot, fast!”
Tatatata-!
The soldier kneeling behind cover fired the machinegun and unleashed its fire along with his comrades. The sparks reflected on his face vividly displayed his look of despair.
Bullets splattered and only left thin dents on the surface of the Bug Vehicle. The dense calcium shell was formed from the interlayer of graphene and hexagonal silicon mesh, which was close to the strength of B Grade steel, and the thickness of the shell close to 500mm was like a wall.
The Type-99 anti-tank cannon fired. A bright orange shell soared through the sky. But when it hit the ”snail shell”, it was deflected at a 90 degrees angle.
”Fu*k, it bounced off!”
With a loud roar, the soldiers reloaded.
At the same time, the Type-50 electromagnetic pulse cannon unleashed its blue electric arc and the 5 kg bomb instantly vaporized the shell. In front of the Bug Vehicle that rendered all anti-armor bullets useless, only the electromagnetic cannon posed a threat.
The problem was the limited number of electromagnetic cannons deployed in the Sixth Street. Only four cannons were distributed to each wall with each cannon responsible for defending a defense line of over a thousand meters. But there were at least hundreds of Bug Vehicles attacking the north wall.
The Bug Vehicle that lost its shell didn't die yet. It crawled on the ground like a snail before quickly dying under the machine guns fire.
A soldier with a rocket launcher kneeled down by the wall and aimed at the Bug Vehicle closest to him.
Target Locked.
He pressed the trigger.
The exhaust burst out as the rocket launched five meters out before readjusting course and blasting into the sky. Five seconds later, the rocket smashed down like a meteor and penetrated the shell of the locked on Bug Vehicle. The ”snail shell” suddenly stopped in its track before it was blown three meters into the air and the bug hidden inside was instantly shredded to pieces.
”Nice shot!”