454 The Fire (2/2)
The soldier beside him gave him a thumbs up. He grinned, removed the one-time use launcher, and took out another launcher from the box beside him to install it onto the guidance device.
Red Arrow-42, one of the few weapons that could damage the Bug Vehicle other than the electromagnetic cannon.
With the assistance of anti-tank weapons, the battle began to turn as the Bug Vehicles close to reaching the wall were being wiped out. But Zhao Gang in the command tower still had his eyebrows knitted in a frown.
A total of 251 red dots were on the screen, but there were only 100 Red Arrow-42 rockets in storage. The weapon costing 4000 crystals was too expensive for the Sixth Street to have in high reserve.
At that time, the communication device connected through.
”Hello?” Seeing it was Jiang Chen, he immediately picked up.
”Get ready to look at the fireworks.” Jiang Chen laughed.
Zhao Gang was still processing as to what was going on. But half a minute later, the communication device dropped from his hand onto the ground. Staring out the window, his pupils began to widen. His mouth moved up and down in disbelief as he could not search for a single word that could describe his state.
Beside him, Chu Nan's expression was nonetheless similar…
On the wall, a soldier heard the roaring sound from a distance and raised his head.
”Look! What is that?” A person shouted out and pointed to the southwestern sky.
Dense black dots with long smoke trails.
The anti-air machine guns pointed in that direction in caution, but when they saw that those were not mutants, everyone widened their eyes in disbelief.
The rockets smashed down like raindrops and covered the area behind the Sixth Street.
Suddenly, the scorching flame columns shot into the sky and instantly engulfed the battlefield. It swallowed the two hundred something Bug Vehicles as well as the zombies and mutants flooding toward the Sixth Street.
The shell of the Bug Vehicle could easily deflect the rocket and withstand the blast of the explosion, but it could not withstand the thousand degrees high temperature. Their outside remained intact, but the soft body inside was cooked before turning into carbon dust.
The swarming fire and the thick smoke that covered the sun. Under the rain of destruction, no mutants survived.
Feeling the high heat and burnt smell drifted to their nose. The soldiers on the high wall stared at the scene blankly as their rifles rolled out of their hand without knowing.
Moments later, someone spoke the first sentence.
”This is insane.”
”…Indeed.”
”What is that…” The soldier's voice was trembling.
”…Hell?”
”Perhaps…It is our people.”
”Without a doubt.”
Feeling the scorching heat whiff to the tip of his nose, his comrade beside him closed the safety and lowered the rifle in his hand.
If this existed, rifles no longer served a purpose.
A Death Claw dashed out from the fire. It rolled on the ground in pain, but the mixed fuel that stuck to its body could not be extinguished. Rolling and turning around didn't help but made it burned faster. Slowly, it no longer twitched, it only scratched the concrete with its claws in agony.
No one bothered with the Death Claw, because everyone knew it could no longer survive.
In the distance, rockets continued to soar through the sky.
In the command tower, Zhao Gang and Chu Nan gazed at the fire in the distance.
The sky in the distance turned red.
But they didn't know if it was the dusk or the fire that illuminated the sky.