In the darkness of the night, Zhang Xiaoqiang and hundreds of evolvers climbed out of the sewers one after another. Just as they stood on the surface, Zhang Xiaoqiang could hear metal music coming from the city center. He could not help but turn his head to look at the city. The city was as dark as the rest of the world. Only the tall buildings could be seen, and they looked like tombstones in a cemetery waiting to be forgotten …
The beetles in the night sky did not stop. They flew around and made a buzzing noise, like countless mosquitoes lingering in one's ears. It would make any normal person feel annoyed. Zhang Xiaoqiang and the other evolvers were equipped with night vision goggles. In the green field of view, black dots could be seen flashing on the goggles. Everyone was rushing forward, not wanting to stop for even a second longer. It was as if there was an invisible hand chasing them from behind. Zhang Xiaoqiang, who had prepared for the worst, looked up at the sky nervously, searching for the knife-arm worm that might appear. He almost tripped and fell more than once. This situation persisted until they entered the underground hangar.
The door of the hangar was already open. Zuo Tian brought a few survivors with rifles to guard the door. When Zhang Xiaoqiang and the rest appeared in the night, Zuo Tian nodded heavily and shouted a few words to the people behind him. Then, a group of survivors silently walked out of the hangar. These survivors were all connected by various copper core wires or telephone wires. Zuo Tian had predicted that it would be difficult to walk in the dark, and in order to prevent people from falling behind, he tried his best to connect thousands of people together.
Zhang Xiaoqiang stood at the side in silence. The evolvers and marines with night vision goggles directed the survivors to grope their way into the sewers. One hundred of the marines carried the tiny child in their arms and moved first. A team of more than two thousand people moved in the dark, and no one dared to make a sound. From the adults to the children, they were all tied up with ropes. Even if there was an accident, they would not make a sound.
There seemed to be no end to the survivors as they kept coming out of the hangar. Zhang Xiaoqiang, who was standing at the door, felt that time was passing like a year. Every minute and second of waiting was torture. His sharp eyes kept glancing at the survivors, and he secretly prayed that the one who came out would be the last one. After more than an hour, no one else came out of the hangar. At this time, Zhang Xiaoqiang did not hesitate to turn around and retreat into the sewers.
The team of two thousand people was huge, and it was even more difficult to move forward in the dark. Many people sprained their ankles more than once, and some of them were in so much pain that they would rather sit on the ground than get up. At this time, some evolved humans walked up to them and cut the ropes binding them. Two kilometers was just a short distance in the day, but in the night, it was the longest two kilometers of anyone's life. Even those who had sprained their ankles would not be able to walk the entire distance in their lifetime.
Zhang Xiaoqiang protected the stumbling evolvers and continued to move forward. The sound of their footsteps formed a huge sound wave in the silent night. Zhang Xiaoqiang regretted not letting them walk barefoot.
The survivors could not see their helpless companions reaching out to them for help, but the evolvers and the Marines could. However, no one was willing to help them, and their hands that were holding guns could not help them either. The silent night was full of danger, and they were the last line of defense before the danger arrived. The life and death of thousands of people could not be compared to the life and death of a few people.
The front of the evacuation team had reached the entrance of the sewer. Zhang Xiaoqiang had just left the airport. The route that took them less than ten minutes to arrive was ten times longer. Zhang Xiaoqiang had to suppress his anxiety and slowly moved forward. Thousands of people walked forward in silence like a funeral procession. When they finally reached the entrance, Zhang Xiaoqiang let out a long sigh. However, reaching the entrance did not mean that they were safe. The entrance was too small, and the survivors were not evolvers, so they could freely enter and exit. The first to enter were more than two hundred children. After they disappeared, it was the turn of the women, followed by all the skilled people, and finally, the ordinary evolvers. This was the rule that Zhang Xiaoqiang had set. Once they encountered danger, the people at the back would be abandoned. Although it was cruel, it was the rule of the apocalypse.
When he made the plan, he always felt that the evacuation route would be the most dangerous. However, when he actually started, Zhang Xiaoqiang realized that the real danger was when they were waiting to enter the sewer. Thousands of people were anxiously surrounding the entrance, and the tense atmosphere was like the pressure that was stored in a boiler. Zhang Xiaoqiang stared at the people entering one by one. When six hundred women entered, his eyelids twitched slightly. When more than two hundred skilled people entered, his anxiety decreased a little. When half of the remaining people entered, Zhang Xiaoqiang felt that the longest wait was coming to an end. Just when he thought that the situation was settled, Li Yuehan suddenly pulled his sleeve.
He turned his head to look at Li Yuehan, but Li Yuehan was not looking at him. Li Yuehan was looking at the night sky, and the pure black eye mask was reflecting flashes of light. No one knew when there were shooting stars in the dark sky, but if he looked closely, he would not be able to see what they were.
There were planes exchanging fire in the night sky, but weren't the dim red dots of light machine guns?
Because it was too high up, many people could not see the abnormality, but Zhang Xiaoqiang could see the stray light of the stray bullets fired by the two sides. An aircraft was chasing behind, and the stray bullets fired by it were several times more than the ones in front of it. It was like a fan, so dense that it was impossible to see where it came from. Zhang Xiaoqiang, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, could tell that it was the concentration of at least ten machine guns. There was only weak firepower in front of them. From time to time, there would be dazzling light beams flashing in the rain of bullets, and every light beam would explode like fireworks.
"A transport ship?"
Zhang Xiaoqiang's heart suddenly jumped. He recognized that the red light was a laser defense system. If that was the case, the two sides fighting in the sky were his subordinates and New Era?
Just as he was deep in thought, 12 black objects with small parachutes began to descend. When he saw them, he thought that they were paratroopers. Wasn't landing above Okinawa just seeking death?
"Zhang Xiaoqiang, not good, that's a bomb …" Li Yuehan finally woke up and opened his mouth to warn Zhang Xiaoqiang. Zhang Xiaoqiang was shocked. He looked at the parachutes in disbelief, and the keywords New Era, air raid, and airport flashed in his mind. The next moment, a huge ball of fire covered the entire airport. The moment the dazzling ball of fire exploded, the entire airport shook violently. Under the fire, the ground of the airport arched into twelve huge arcs. A few helicopters that happened to land on the arcs could not suppress the arched things in the arcs and overturned one after another. Then, twelve dazzling white lights scattered from the cracks in the arcs, dispelling the darkness completely. At the same time, it also exposed the sky full of insects to everyone.
"Giant penetrator … New Era wants to kill us all …" Li Yuehan shouted again. Zhang Xiaoqiang's heart sank. The spreading white light enveloped the entire airport. The wide airport was like a soil dragon turning over. Layers of hard runway shattered in the huge tremors. Large and small runway debris shot into the sky like a fountain, and the floors were also collapsing. The scattered buildings in the airport were not close to each other, but they collapsed together in this huge catastrophe. The invisible air wave rolled up the visible gravel and dust, and the huge wave of the explosion swept across the entire area. The shock wave of the explosion almost destroyed everything in its way. One helicopter after another was swept into the air and broken into pieces. The propellers were like children's toys flying all over the sky, and pieces of the fuselage were thrown everywhere in the air.