"Zhang Xiaoqiang … What's the situation now?"
Lu Xiaobu pulled up Zhang Xiaoqiang, who was struggling in the water, and asked him about the situation at the frontline.
Zhang Xiaoqiang did not answer immediately. He looked at the other team members and shouted, "Hurry up and insert the rebar to make the traps. You have ten minutes …"
While the team members were busy working, Zhang Xiaoqiang briefly told them about his achievements. When they heard that Zhang Xiaoqiang had killed more than five big black fish, the others were surprised. After all, those things were not easy to kill. Even though they were in a desperate situation, Zhang Xiaoqiang's achievements had boosted their morale.
"Zhang Xiaoqiang, I've already reported it to the other side, but Miss Yang Ke-er insisted on coming over. Zhang Huai'an and the rest don't know what to do."
When Zhang Xiaoqiang heard Huang Quan's report, his head started to hurt …
"There's movement … They're coming, get ready …" A team member who was eavesdropping at the entrance of the cave shouted loudly while sounding the alarm. He quickly stepped on a foot-wide path along the wall of the cave and returned to his teammates.
No one was alarmed by the alarm. Hadn't they been waiting for this moment for a long time?
"I see it. Open fire …" Dozens of flashlights hovered at the entrance of the cave. A squad leader was the first to discover a big fish with half of its head peeking out from the edge of the cave. With an order, intense gunshots rang out in the cave.
Countless bullets collided and gouged into the stone walls of the cave entrance. Bursts of rock dust mixed with crushed stones rose up, temporarily covering the entrance. A thick and slender shadow suddenly rushed out of the gray fog of ash and stones.
The big fish, which was more than six meters long, fell into the huge pit the moment it rushed out of the cave. Rebar spears stabbed into the pit through the gaps between the scales on the big fish's body. After a sad cry, the big fish was suspended on countless spears. The big fish writhed violently on the spears, but the spears continued to penetrate deeper into its body.
"Cease fire … cease fire … Heavy machine guns aim at the head … Open fire …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang naturally became the field commander. He knew that random shooting would not bring more damage to the big fish. Since that was the case, why not save some bullets?
Three long chains of fire pierced through the fish's head amidst the roar of the machine gun. Under the heavy bombardment of the high-density firepower, the fish's head was quickly pierced through. In just a few seconds, only half of the fish's head was still attached to its body, while the other half had turned into bone fragments scattered at the bottom of the pit.
"Three minutes … Less than three minutes … That's amazing …" Lu Xiaobu raised the rifle in his right hand and rested it on his shoulder. He looked at the motionless fish and muttered to himself. When the team members were fully equipped, killing the fish was as easy as killing a chicken?
"Pay attention … check the magazine … the next wave of attack is coming …" Zhang Xiaoqiang looked at the dead fish at the bottom of the crater and gave another order. This was the first one killed by the team members, it definitely wouldn't be the last.
"It's coming again … Open fire … It's falling in … F * ck, cease fire, it's none of our business anymore …"
"There's more behind … Continue firing …"
"How many is it now? I can't even count … This feels good … Ahhhh …"
In the hall on the first floor, the sound of gunfire and the team members' howls and orders rang out incessantly. The howls reached the ears of the women on the second floor. Hearing the sounds of battle, the women did not feel any passion or excitement. They only felt fear.
The second floor was different from the hustle and bustle of the first floor. It was cold, desolate, and oppressive. On the simple stone table in the middle of the room, there was an oil lamp covered in dust. A flame the size of a soybean was burning on a match rope that was soaked in kerosene. The dim and weak light shone on the surroundings, making it look like shadows.
Under the dim light, close to a hundred women sat in front of the oil lamp. The women were of different ages, and a dozen of them were carrying their children. No one spoke. In this silent space, they waited for their final fate.
"Sister … Are we going to die?"
The youngest girl asked the woman beside her. The woman beside her looked to be in her late twenties. Her appearance was average, and her face was numb. The difference between her and the little girl was not the age difference between them, but the difference in the way they dressed.
The little girl was wearing a full set of long johns. Even though it was a little out of place in the middle of summer, it was much more pleasing to the eye compared to the woman who was wearing a full set of straw clothes.
The woman was wearing a straw coat, and the skin that was exposed was covered with large red spots and calluses.
The calluses covered her wrists, neck, and thighs. It was as scary as snake scales growing on her body.
When the woman heard the little girl's question, she turned her head and glared at her. "You f * cking b * stard, I want to chop you into pieces, you shameless b * tch. If you want to die, die far away. I won't die even if you die ten thousand times. You f * cking b * tch …"
It was still the second floor, and it was still the same bean-sized flame. The faces of the surrounding women flashed indistinctly. The women used all kinds of vicious words to curse the little girl who was only fourteen or fifteen years old. A strange atmosphere appeared in the space of the second floor. More than a hundred women slowly divided into three groups.
The group led by the woman who was pulled out by Zhang Xiaoqiang used to be Gao Dezhu and his son's women. They were all wearing cloth clothes, and the women who were wearing straw clothes but didn't have many calluses on their bodies made up of more than thirty people. The rest of the women were covered with calluses and calluses.
The little girl's eyes were filled with tears, and they glistened in her eyes as if they were going to fall in the next moment. The little girl didn't dare to cry. Other than the woman who scolded her, all the women in straw clothes looked at the women in cloth clothes with a mocking and malicious gaze.
At this moment, the women were divided into two opposing classes, the opposition between the women in straw clothes and the women in cloth clothes.
Among the hundreds of women, the women in cloth clothes made up less than ten percent. They were the absolute minority, and they panicked at the hostility of the women in straw clothes. They unconsciously gathered together and trembled. They knew why. As women, they clearly understood the emotion that the women in straw clothes were showing at this moment. It was jealousy.