Chapter 445 Nowhere to Run Now

  Chapter 445 There is no place to run now

  Two white smokes split in the flames of the explosion. Under the gaze of everyone, one fell into the valley and the other fell into the airport.

  If the missile successfully hit the runway, it would be enough to blow a deep pit in the center of the airport.

  However, as luck would have it, the H-55 “Hurricane” was on its way to take off and it was too late to stop.

  ”Shit!”

  Looking at the white track printed on the window, Colen, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, had a mad face. He cursed and pushed down the throttle.

  The flames from the twin engines suddenly increased, pushing the plane forward at a faster speed.

  At the same time, he slightly turned the rudder to the left, trying to avoid the speeding missile.

  However –

  danger was still one step ahead of him.

  Although the missile did not hit the plane directly, but fell beside the runway, for a missile with metal hydrogen charge, it actually made no difference whether it hit directly or not.

  ”Boom!”

  The blast spread at a terrifying speed, carrying shrapnel and gravel that hit the side of the plane, instantly turning the right wing of the Hurricane into a sieve.

  One engine suddenly stalled!

  With the left engine still running, the plane made another sharp turn on the runway, and the landing gear was violently broken.

  With a tooth-grinding sound of steel friction, the bomber suddenly rolled over, and the broken wing dug a hole in the ground. The

  window of the plane was covered with a layer of cracks, and finally broke into countless fragments with a bang.

  Coulombe, with a hideous face, groaned and lost consciousness in an instant in the dizzy tumbling.

  But before he lost consciousness, he still struggled to stretch out his right hand and pressed the button next to the joystick.

  That was the button for delayed explosion, with a preset time of half an hour, and only he knew the password to unlock it.

  Although the troops stationed at the airport would not necessarily lose, General Griffin had told him not to overestimate General McClane’s level.

  He didn’t care whether he would die or not, he only cared about the Marshal’s ambition to conquer the world.

  If the ground forces failed in the end and failed to successfully recover the nuclear warhead.

  At least, the Alliance must not get it…

  …

  At the same time, above the airport.

  Looking down at the ground through the window, the pilot sitting in the “Sabre” fighter was completely dumbfounded.

  In the previous round of dive, he successfully shot the strange-looking plane into a sieve with the machine gun, but he didn’t expect that thing still had a missile that had not been fired! ?

  What he didn’t expect was that the pilot on the opposite side knew that he only needed another round of strafing to send them away, but he had no intention of parachuting at all, and even completely gave up maneuverability in exchange for a horizontal speed that broke the sound barrier!

  Everything happened too fast.

  In a Mach-level battle, both sides only had a few seconds to judge.

  His Adam’s apple moved, and he squeezed out a few short syllables from his throat with difficulty.

  ”Damn…”

  What kind of lunatic was he fighting with?

  There were nearly 200 machine gun bullets left.

  Although it was still possible to make another dive to the ground, it seemed unnecessary.

  Without the protection of the reconnaissance vehicle and the machine gun position, General McClane’s position had been overwhelmed by the barbarian cavalry.

  At a distance of 200 meters, these cavalry were like a joke.

  But at a distance of 20 meters, no one could laugh.

  Especially in the open Gobi Desert…

  the wreckage of the plane in the middle of the runway gradually began to emit thick smoke.

  Looking at the wing fragment inserted into the belly of the plane, the pilot seemed to have thought of something, and his face changed instantly.

  Without any hesitation, he immediately turned the nose of the plane to the west and pushed the throttle lever to the bottom.

  At the same time, he was pressed tightly on the seat by inertia, and shouted loudly in the communication channel where only he was left.

  ”…This is Sabre! We were blocked by the Alliance ground forces, and the ‘Hurricane’ cannot take off! The mission cannot continue! Request to return!”

  ”Repeat, request to return!”

  The nearest airport is 1,000 kilometers away, so of course no one can answer him.

  But whether anyone answered or not, he had to retreat…

  …

  Not only the pilots in the sky were dumbfounded, but also the real air force standing on the ground.

  McClane, who had just got on the jeep, looked blankly at the airport with black smoke, and a trace of despair gradually appeared in his eyes.

  Not only because it was his last and only way out.

  But also because of the things placed on the plane…

  The officer holding the steering wheel swallowed his saliva and looked to the side nervously.

  ”General… are we still going?”

  They originally planned to stop the plane at the airport.

  But now it seems that there is no need for this.

  General McClane’s Adam’s apple moved, and after a long while, he squeezed out this sentence from his mouth.

  ”It’s over.”

  After the voice fell, his shoulders leaning on the seat also relaxed.

  The officer sitting next to him was stunned, looking at General McClane with surprise in his eyes.

  This high-spirited man in his prime seemed to have aged more than ten years in an instant…

  The sound of rolling hooves boiled in the southern part of the camp, and the noise was accompanied by the overwhelming shouts of killing.

  As the elite of the Petra Fortress, every horse of this cavalry was a black horse from the Great Desert. The people on horseback were all brave warriors without exception.

  After losing the protection of heavy firepower, the defense line on the south side of the legion camp was instantly trampled to pieces. The cavalry rushed into the camp one after another, rushing around in the camp, stabbing anyone they saw with bayonets, or firing with rifles, killing people and horses in the camp for a while.

  ”Capture the enemy commander alive!” The captain of the personal guard who was charging in front shouted loudly.

  However, everyone was already blood-thirsty, so how could they listen to what he said? The corpses of people who were hit and stabbed to death were everywhere, and many of them knelt down to surrender.

  Surrender?

  Why didn’t you think about it when you were squatting behind the machine gun before?

  Even if you want to surrender –

  wait until I kill half of them!

  Thinking of the teammates who died in the charge, the cavalrymen on horseback roared.

  Whether it was the Willant people who came from afar or the soldiers of the Falcon Kingdom.

  At this moment, they were all meat on the chopping board. As long as they rushed out and stood outside the tent, they would die.

  And those hiding in the tents were not easy.

  In order to avoid the horses’ legs being entangled in the tents, the cavalrymen would not rush into the tents at all. Instead, they used lighters to light bottles filled with cotton wool, kerosene and alcohol, and then threw them into the tents fiercely.

  This special Molotov cocktail is much easier to use than a grenade, and it is cheaper to make. It works better if you shake it before using it.

  Seeing the fire in the rear, Centurion Wester immediately brought people back from the western front to support.

  Although the garrison of Petra Fortress is large in number, its combat effectiveness is completely different from that of the Falcon Kingdom.

  Many militiamen are even more neglected in training. They can’t even dig a foxhole properly. They think that digging a hole and burying their heads will be enough, but they don’t know that half of the back of their heads are exposed in the eyes of the other side.

  That was why he had the spare energy to send out a thousand-man escort army, and after regrouping, they fought back to the direction of the airport. However

  ,

  he had just reached the edge of the camp on his tricycle, and before he could go in to help, he saw a flash of fire in the east.

  ”Boom!”

  Before the deafening sound of the artillery came, the flames of the explosion bloomed on the sand dunes.

  Before the two teams of ten had time to disperse and lie down, they were directly wiped out by the high-explosive bomb.

  ”Tanks!” A centurion shouted desperately, “Everyone disperse!”

  However, this desperate cry was useless, not even a dying struggle.

  That was a tank!

  And there was more than one!

  In the distance, the horizon that was gradually shrouded in darkness, black dots appeared.

  Tanks lined up in a row, with the black muzzles of the guns uniformly raised forward, and behind them was a vast rolling dust.

  Looking at the steel torrent that appeared on the horizon, the faces of the soldiers of the Falcon Kingdom were filled with despair.

  They didn’t even have anti-tank weapons.

  There was no way to deal with that kind of guy!

  The previous shell was just the beginning.

  After the first shell hit, the other dozen tanks also opened fire.

  The empty Gobi Desert was instantly filled with deadly dust, clearing vacuum zones the size of basketball courts.

  All organic bodies that were touched by the explosions were instantly blown into a pool of minced meat.

  Even if they were not directly hit, countless people were killed by the fragments of high-explosive grenades and had their internal organs shattered by the air waves of the explosion.

  Half of the nearly full-strength thousand-man team was wiped out in just one round of volleys.

  The caliber of the shell was obviously more than 100 mm, and it might be 150 mm or more.

  There were no fortifications or bunkers to hide in.

  Facing the king of land warfare, the tank, what awaited the infantry was nothing but a one-sided massacre.

  Now only the tank guns were firing.

  When they approached the effective range of the coaxial machine guns, they would also be waiting for the staggered machine gun fire network.

  Climbing up from the overturned motorcycle, West looked at the steel torrent in the distance. Bewilderment first appeared in his resolute pupils, and then turned into bottomless despair.

  ”…It’s over.”

  Everything is over…

  …

  The battle outside the Lost Valley is over.

  With the arrival of the Alliance tank troops, General McLennan completely gave up hope of escape. In

  fact, it was too late.

  Unless it was an airplane, nothing could escape 100 kilometers away within an hour.

  ”General…what should we do?” The officer sitting in the driver’s seat of the jeep looked at General McLennan next to him in despair.

  He didn’t even know where to escape.

  McLennan’s Adam’s apple moved, and he couldn’t squeeze out a word for a long time.

  He didn’t think he was a failed commander. He had dispatched every unit to the position where it should appear and made the most correct deployment.

  However, he couldn’t conjure up a 10,000-man army out of thin air, let alone let a non-existent unit launch an attack.

  What about Griffin’s tanks?

  Even if Camp 530 fell, at most 1/3 of the tanks would be lost.

  That guy couldn’t have thought that if the Alliance guessed their plan, they might send a mobile force to raid the airport.

  But what about the Conqueror tank? What about

  the “Wanderer” that was praised by the army?

  Why did he only see the tanks of the Alliance?

  And how did the defenders of Petra Fortress suddenly get out of their tortoise shells?

  Didn’t the nobles of the Falcon Kingdom swear solemnly that even if they were beaten to a pulp, those people would not get out of their tortoise shells?

  What link went wrong?

  He couldn’t figure it out.

  But…

  it was meaningless to say all this now.

  In front of a three-phase bomb with a million-ton equivalent, all struggles were redundant.

  McLen silently pulled out his pistol, tremblingly pointed it at his chin, and opened the safety.

  He closed his eyes, but his trembling index finger seemed to be filled with lead, and he didn’t pull the trigger for a while.

  He put the gun down with a face full of shame, and looked up at the sky that had already been dyed with night.

  Whatever…

  it was just a different way to die.

  The sound of artillery from the northeast was getting closer and closer, and in the south was the trampling and shouting of the cavalry.

  The officer sitting in the driver’s seat suddenly started the car and stepped on the accelerator.

  His back suddenly leaned against the seat. McClane rarely got angry, but just asked with a wry smile.

  ”Where are you going?”

  ”The valley! As long as we hide in the valley! We have a chance to survive!” The officer’s boot sole was welded to the accelerator, and his eyes were bloodshot.

  In theory, this may be true.

  Whether it is cavalry, infantry or tanks, they will all be reduced to ashes in a nuclear explosion…

  There are chemical protective suits and other survival tools in the trunk of the jeep. If we hide in the valley, we may really survive.

  McClane’s desire to survive was rekindled.

  However, at this moment, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a truck speeding out of the valley in the distance and rushing towards the direction of the airport. What does

  that car want to do?

  McLen frowned slightly.

  He had an ominous premonition in his heart.

  Just like the ominous premonition a few days ago…

  …

  on the truck.

  Sis, who was holding the steering wheel, glanced at the rearview mirror, then looked at the flaming plane in front, and tapped his index finger on the headset and said.

  ”Awei, have you thought about it.”

  ”Yeah! I’ve thought about it!”

  The short hair was blown into a chicken coop, and the tail standing at the machine gun position nodded, with a rare serious expression on his face.

  ”I thought about it when Teddy died… Maybe everyone is alive.”

  Sis showed a surprised expression on his face.

  Including Zhimahu sitting in the co-pilot seat, and Rourou in the back of the car.

  ”…Digital life? Or something like that… Actually, I don’t really understand it either, including other NPCs. I always feel that they are not just supporting characters in RPGs, or tools that give us tasks.”

  ”They can cry, laugh, have people they hate, and people they like, and manage their own lives. They don’t just repeat things in the settings, but really live well, just like we do in reality.”

  As she spoke, she became troubled and didn’t know how to describe it.

  Sisi glanced at the rearview mirror and fell into deep thought.

  ”Well, but if you think so, those enemies we killed…”

  Wei said in a positive tone.

  ”They are also alive.”

  ”Then…” Zhimahu opened his mouth blankly.

  Wei said without hesitation: “But even so, I will still shoot when I have to! Anyway, robbery and murder are not good. If the bad guys refuse to surrender, more people will die. So if you don’t plan to surrender, let them die.”

  Sisi looked at the rearview mirror in surprise, and the tail that couldn’t open his eyes because of the wind.

  But she didn’t say anything else.

  In fact, she had thought about this question a long time ago, but her sense of substitution is more flexible.

  Even if she is an Oscar-winning screenwriter, it is impossible for every plot and every character to please everyone, not to mention that it is just an ordinary RPG game.

  She will choose the substitution that she is interested in.

  As for the others, it’s up to her.

  In reality, you can’t kill people casually, but in the game…

  you can just kill them.

  ”I say… can you dismantle a nuclear bomb?” Looking at the burning plane, Rourou, who was clinging to the truck box with his claws, shouted nervously.

  ”Oh! No!”

  Rourou said with a smile.

  ”Then what’s the point of us going there?”

  ”There must be something we can do…”

  Zhimahu comforted Rourou. In fact, she didn’t know what to do. She was just a teacher.

  Tail: “That’s right! For example, send a nuclear bomb into the valley!”

  Rourou was stunned.

  ”But in this case, the ruins will be…”

  ”That’s right, save the copy or save those people outside, this is actually a multiple-choice question…” Sisi, who was holding the steering wheel, said casually, “So I asked Awei to think about it.”

  Rourou: “What if we drive the truck as far as possible?”

  Sisi: “To the west is the Petra Fortress, and to the east are friends of the Skeleton Corps, so we can only run to the north. I don’t mind sacrificing… Want to bet on how far we can run before the explosion?”

  Wei: “It’s okay, Rourou, the game map is so big, A Guang will make two more!”

  Rourou sighed and sat back in the car.

  ”That’s right.”

  Anyway, the benefits of this trip are not small.

  The power of nuclear bombs detonated in different places is different.

  Among them, the one with the greatest killing effect on personnel is undoubtedly air explosion.

  Whether it is shock wave or radiation killing, air explosion has the widest coverage, and radioactive dust can even be carried by airflow to hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away.

  The second is ground detonation.

  A deep pit will be formed at the center of the explosion, and part of the shock wave will be released upward in a cone shape.

  This detonation method is mainly used to destroy fixed fortifications, and the effect on personnel is slightly less.

  As for the underground detonation, it is mainly nuclear experiments.

  There is a deep enough cave in the center of the Great Rift Valley, which should have been blasted out by some kind of orbital weapon. Although part of it has been buried over time, it is still a hundred meters deep.

  Their goal is there.

  As long as the nuclear bomb is sent into the almost vertical tunnel, the impact of the explosion can be minimized.

  The truck stopped next to the airport.

  The group got off the car quickly.

  Grabbing the engineer shovel next to the seat, Sisi was about to step forward, and Rourou volunteered to stand up.

  ”Let me do it!”

  Although it is inconvenient for the alien sequence players to operate the tools, most of the panel data is ridiculously strong.

  Confirmed the location of the bomb launcher.

  Rourou roared with all his strength and removed the drooping steel plate, revealing the nuclear warhead buried inside the belly of the aircraft and the metal bracket that fixed the warhead.

  Fortunately, this thing can be disassembled.

  Ignoring the hair that was scorched by the fire, Rourou used all her strength to forcibly break two aluminum alloys, and finally pulled out the nuclear warhead, which was about one person tall, along with the bracket from under the belly of the aircraft.

  Looking at the cylinder on the ground, she suddenly felt scared and looked at her teammates carefully.

  ”…Will this thing explode?”

  Sisi shook her head.

  ”I don’t know. It would be best if it doesn’t explode. What we have to do is just in case.”

  …

  On the other side, somewhere in the Lost Valley.

  Wake up from a coma.

  Luoyu shook his dizzy head and looked around, and a trace of confusion gradually appeared in his eyes.

  ”…Where is this place?”

  It was pitch black in front, like an unknown cave. The few rays of light behind him were mixed with the sound of whistling wind, and it must be very high.

  Yunting does not have an ejection seat, but instead has an ejection capsule with stronger protection.

  The parachute was not fully opened, and the ejected escape capsule crashed directly into the mountain, with the front half stuck in the cave and the back half exposed outside.

  Judging from the scattered concrete slag around, this place does not look like a naturally formed geological structure, but more like it was made of inferior cement.

  According to posts posted by other players on the forum, nearby residents have given the Lost Valley a mythological color. In the early days, there were believers who believed in the God of the Sky. This must be the temple they built… or a corner of it.

  But Luoyu always felt that this was more like a pit dug by “tomb robbers” than a temple.

  However, things that happened 100 years ago cannot be verified.

  Maybe there were no believers at all, just a few scavengers who came to pick up garbage, and they were labeled with labels that they might not even know in the rumors.

  This kind of coincidence has happened in history…

  Climbing out of a pile of wreckage, Luoyu found the survival tools placed in the ejection capsule.

  A 5mm caliber pistol, two 15-round magazines, basic medical supplies such as bandages, and tools such as flashlights.

  Unfortunately, the co-pilot brother did not survive after all. There was only a pool of blood in the squeezed seat, and even the complete body could not be found.

  Not to mention the VM tied to his leg.

  Luo Yu mourned for him in his heart, then put his survival tools into the backpack, walked down the cave with a flashlight, trying to find an exit. The

  wide cave led to an unknown place, but the dark red bacterial plaques in the corners looked particularly familiar.

  Swallowing his saliva, Luo Yu pulled out the pistol and loaded it, holding the flashlight in his left hand and shining a beam of light, and walked forward cautiously. There

  were more and more bacterial plaques on the wall.

  A rusty escalator appeared in front of him.

  The top was buried by large rocks, and the bottom was a bottomless black.

  He had no other choice but to keep moving forward.

  Especially when he walked down through a broken staircase, at least half of the wall was covered with red spots.

  Not only that.

  Even the surrounding air had a hint of rotten spores.

  As Luo Yu expected, a gnawer appeared in front of him.

  However, just as he lowered his footsteps and was about to walk over and kill the guy with a knife, the gnawer seemed to have discovered him.

  Then…

  he spoke.

  ”Hey, is that a flashlight? Don’t point it at me, slime mold hates glowing things.”

  Luo Yu was stunned, and the gun in his hand almost went off.

  ”You can talk!?”

  ”What do you mean I can talk… Your accent is really weird, is it a dialect?”

  Luo Yu stared at him, took a step back, moved the flashlight away, and asked vigilantly.

  ”Who are you?”

  ”Who am I… Well, this is a good question, but I can’t remember it very clearly.” The man didn’t seem to take his gun to heart and replied casually.

  Luo Yu’s eyes were blank.

  What the hell?

  ”I can’t remember clearly…”

  ”Names are for others to use. No one has been here for so long that I forgot it.”

  The man laughed heartily, still with his back to him, without turning around.

  Luo Yu stared at the back of his head.

  ”Can you turn around?”

  ”Are you sure?”

  ”Yeah…” Luo Yu nodded.

  The man didn’t act pretentiously, and turned around generously.

  However, the moment he saw this guy, Luo Yu was completely stunned, and couldn’t help but squeeze out a “fuck”.

  That face –

  no, it can’t be considered a face anymore, it’s like a rotten wood that has been soaked for a long time, ugly to the point of being hideous.

  The rotten wood-like lips opened and closed, and the man said in a happy voice.

  ”By the way, I haven’t seen a living person for a long time. After seeing you, I remembered a little bit of the past…”

  After a pause, he continued.

  ”You can call me, White Dove.”

  Luo Yu was slightly stunned, and seemed to have heard of this name vaguely.

  At this time, he suddenly remembered the book translated by Sisi on the forum before.

  With a trace of disbelief in his eyes, he asked in astonishment.

  ”…Are you a researcher at the academy?”

  Bai Ge thought for a while.

  ”Academy… Oh, that’s such a nostalgic name. Are those nerds still there? Or have they been soaked in the swamp and moldy?”

  ”Probably still there…”

  Although it was just the background board of this game.

  Looking at that terrifying face, Luo Yu couldn’t help but continue to ask the question that he was most concerned about.

  ”Wait, didn’t you die many years ago?”

  Bai Ge nodded.

  Perhaps it was because he hadn’t met a living person who could communicate for a long time, he chattered non-stop.

  ”Well… If nothing unexpected happens, I should grow old in an ordinary way, lying in a coffin like other old men, but I finally couldn’t help my curiosity about this ruins. There’s no way, the people in the academy are like this, it’s hard for us to control our interest in the ruins… Even though I’ve been away from the academy for many years.”

  Luo Yu’s expression was a little subtle.

  The chief researcher of the alliance came from the academy, but that guy’s curiosity about the ruins was average, and he was more interested in the coffee machine in comparison.

  ”So what’s your current state?”

  the man confessed straightforwardly.

  ”Symbiosis.”

  ”Symbiosis?!”

  The man smiled as he saw Luo Yu’s eyes widen.

  ”Don’t be so nervous. Symbiosis is not parasitism. Two organisms depend on each other, share each other’s prosperity, and possess without possessing… Don’t you think this sounds great?”

  Before the man in front of him could come to his senses, Bai Ge looked at the dark corridor behind him.

  ”By the way, let me introduce you to my partner… Hey, Xiao Hong, come out and say hello to the guests.”

  A creepy feeling climbed up Luo Yu’s back.

  He turned around stiffly, only to see an eight-foot… or maybe nine-foot-tall humanoid creature.

  With the residual light of the flashlight, he saw the blood-red color.

  Its facial features were abstract, and its mouth and nose had only a rough outline, without any gaps, as if it had not yet evolved.

  Its eyes were particularly special, a hemispherical shape similar to that of a fly, composed of countless hexagonal structures, and faintly emitting a scarlet light.

  Two slender arms hung at its sides, with trumpet-shaped openings at the front, like the cuffs of a garment, but no hand structure could be seen.

  As for the lower limbs, they were even more abstract.

  Below the slender waist was an inverted cone-shaped fungal blanket, which looked very much like the hem of Lissandra’s skirt.

  At first glance, this thing looked a bit like the evolved form that appeared in the last wave.

  But it was not as ferocious as that guy.

  If there was any difference, the one that came out of the center of Qingquan was more like a shark with a bloody mouth, while the one in front of him at this moment was more like a dolphin.

  Tentacles as thick as index fingers floated from behind it, like a dolphin’s mouth, surrounding him, but not very close.

  Looking at the tentacles that were so close, Luo Yu swallowed nervously.

  He didn’t know what this thing was.

  But he hoped that the dog planner could behave like a human being.

  ——

  (Thanks to the leader “Schrodingerx” for the reward!!!)

  (End of this chapter)