Scarlet Dawn [Apocalypse]

Three months later.

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The first snow since the beginning of winter came at the same time as the holographic military exercise.

The clouds gathered, the thick gray sky pressed to the ground, and the dense snowflakes blurred the narrow gap between the sky and the ground. It was clearly at twelve noon, but the sky was as dark as evening.

In the wind and snow, the aircraft carried the reservists participating in the military exercise into the sky and flew towards the predetermined coordinates.

The temperature difference made the porthole glass covered with a layer of white mist, which blurred the gray world outside. Bai Yi was sitting in front of the window in full armor, with his chin resting on one hand, the brim of his hat was pressed down very low, and his pair of eyes under the shadow of his forehead The dark black eyes were indifferent and quiet, without the slightest wave.

"The military exercise lasted for a week, 'killing' the hostile camp and holographic creatures will be included in the total score, the basic weapon is a dagger, and there is an abandoned factory in the middle of the two camps, with a large number of holographic creatures, supplies and firearms." Ian Holding the tablet, I browsed through the exercise instructions, and picked out the key points to tell the other two people, "However, this factory and its surrounding areas contain radiation-like substances by default, and the time to enter each time cannot exceed 10 minutes, otherwise it will be automatically eliminated."

Brooke tossed the military dagger he won from Su Chen up and down boredly, grinning, and asked, "How do you kill the holographic image? Can the dagger hit that thing?"

Ian put down his optical brain and said: "The holographic technology used by the alliance for military exercises is not only concrete but also concrete. It has the same lethality and feeling as real dead creatures. The weak point is still the brain and cervical nerves. I believe they will tear your belly apart. Every now and then you feel the pain.”

Brook froze, and the dagger fell to the floor with a clang. He tightened his brows suspiciously, and asked suspiciously, "That thing can really tear open the stomach?"

"Of course not, the holographic image will not cause actual harm to you. The pain comes from the neural simulation device on our body." Ian leaned over to help him pick up the dagger, and said lightly: "But if you are bitten, you will be out of the game, and the total score will be low." Anyone with an average score of 80% will be disqualified from genetic modification."

Brooke breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Bai Yi who had been silent all this time, and said to Ian, "What's wrong with Bye? You haven't talked much these days."

Ian shook his head to express that he didn't know, and touched Bai Yi with his elbow, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Looking away, Bai Yi turned his head to glance at them, took the optical brain from Ian's hand casually, and said while watching: "There are 36 people in the two phases, 18 for each camp after an equal split, and the exercise will end early The best way is to kill all the opponents, or to delay until the seventh day, avoiding conflicts as much as possible and killing as many zombies as possible during the period, which one do you prefer?"

Brook and Ian looked at each other, and Ian asked, "What do you think?"

"The standard food is 200 grams of compressed biscuits, which is about a day's worth. The factory must go, and the firearms can give us an absolute advantage, let alone the supplies inside, but I personally don't want to stay in the snow A full week."

Brooke's eyes flooded with excitement, and he suggested, "How about the three of us go and kill Lan Fang?"

Bai Yi gestured to Ian with his eyes, and Ian touched Brook's forehead with the back of his hand, then turned his head and told Bai Yi, "It's not hot."

"That's good," Bai Yi nodded solemnly, and said seriously: "There is no medicine in the configuration, it's not good to burn your brain before it starts."

Brooke: "..."

Before departure, they had already been divided into groups according to the red and blue camps. Everyone in this cabin belonged to the red team. The faction and class division in the military academy has always been serious. No one has proposed cooperation. Bai Yi looked at the other reserves calmly. He sighed silently in his heart, what a bunch of unreliable brats.

Bai Yi: "If no one organizes after 10 minutes, we will take the lead."

Ian added blankly: "Those who don't cooperate should settle it internally first, so as not to give the other party extra points."

Bai Yi didn't speak, but stretched out a fist. Ian understood and bumped into him tacitly.Brooke's eyes wandered back and forth between the two of them a few times, and Ping Pianzui whispered, "Fortunately, you and I are buddies, otherwise I don't know how I died."

In fact, Bai Yi himself didn't like to take the lead in this matter. Su Chen only divided the camps but did not appoint a captain, which meant to test the ability of the team to cooperate.Of course, the exercise strategy itself does not require cooperation, and it cannot be ruled out that there are stupid and naive idiots who are willing to kill zombies for seven days in a safe place to earn points.

The location of the exercise is a forest area [-] kilometers away from the military academy. The terrain itself is not complicated, but the snow season and the lush cold-resistant vegetation will greatly hinder the vision. Moreover, according to Su Chen's personality, this guy will definitely not let the exercise There is a place in the district where you will not encounter any conflicts for seven days.

The apocalypse had come when he joined the Special Forces in his last life. Bai Yi's main task was to search and rescue. He didn't have much experience in field combat in the snow for a long time, but he understood that climate and survival were a major problem in this exercise, even more difficult than zombies and The hostility itself is trickier.

The communicator showed that it was still half an hour before arriving at the destination. Bai Yi let out a long sigh of relief, poked Ian with his elbow, and asked in a low voice, "Which one of us is going?"

"Because of my father's relationship, I have always been unpopular." Ian replied truthfully, "If I go there, I will fail halfway."

Bai Yi smiled wryly and said, "To be honest, I, the airborne transferee, is not much better than you."

The two people who were excluded were silent at the same time. At this time, a boy in the 27th grade stood up in the front row, slapped his hands, and after getting attention, he solemnly saluted the reserve staff in the entire cabin, and said loudly: "Hi everyone, I am Hai Deng, I would like to share some suggestions about military exercises here, and I hope everyone will cooperate..."

Bai Yi glanced at Hayden, but he didn't have any impression of this person in his head. Ian leaned into his ear and whispered: "I am a person with good strength in the same period. The point is that he is very popular."

Bai Yi smiled knowingly, "At least we'll save trouble."

Hayden's thoughts were basically consistent with their previous discussion, and the other military students in the same group on the red side had no objections. The entire deployment was completed in ten minutes, and the whole process was extremely smooth.

It was not much time before landing, and everyone began to organize their equipment.Bai Yi pinned the red armband representing the camp on his left arm, and then bent down to make a final inspection from the military boots. There was a noisy sound of reorganizing items in the cabin, but he still noticed that there was a footstep walking towards this side among them. Voice.

Bai Yi looked up at the person who came, "What's the matter?"

Hayden is a typical Caucasian man. His brilliant golden curly hair is covered by a snow cotton cap and only the ends of it are exposed. His handsome features are sharp-edged, his lips are thick, and he always has a gentle smile on his face. He nodded to Ian, then turned to look at Bai Yi, "I've heard of you, Bye of the 28th issue, Major General Fan Zhuo admires you very much."

The meaning of the other party's opening remarks is not clear. What is certain is that Hayden must have heard something bad about him. Bai Yi politely extended a hand to the other party, "Hello, Captain."

The captain's voice was very useful to Hayden. He bent his eyes with a smile, reached out and shook hands with Bai Yi, then sat on the armrest of the seat in front, and looked at the three people in turn, "After grouping, I investigated all The specific situation of people, your fighting ability is excellent, I wonder if you would like to go to the factory with me to collect resources during the exercise?"

Ian hardly thought about it, and asked directly: "We need to know the specific arrangement."

Hayden nodded to express his understanding, "First of all, I want to make it clear that I don't want the team to be downsized, so people with less ability will kill zombies near the camp to earn points. We need to spend about two days to survey the terrain, and then formulate a specific strategy plan, and this means that enough food is needed.” He breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a relaxed and sincere tone: “I know that the factory is more difficult, so I hope you can help.”

There is always a reason for being popular. It is polite for you to call captain, but he will not use his status as captain to overwhelm you. This guy can indeed speak.Bai Yi smiled in his heart. In fact, he could guess this kind of thing as soon as the other party came, but he couldn't agree immediately. He turned to Ian and Brooke, "What do you think?"

Ian: "I'm fine."

Brook shrugged, "I listen to you."

Bai Yi looked at Hayden, "It's just the four of us, too many people would be inconvenient, and I hope the sooner the better."

"After a while, the communicators will join the temporary channel to facilitate contact. After landing, other people will be responsible for finding the temporary base, and we will go directly to the factory."

The aircraft landed 10 minutes later, and the temperature difference between the constant temperature cabin and the outdoor temperature was nearly 40 degrees. Bai Yi felt as if he had plunged into the icy torrent.The flying snowflakes cut through the exposed skin like a blade, and the snow-resistant combat uniform instantly turned into a piece of hard and cold metal skin, wrapping around the body as if frozen with the flesh.

The snow covered the ground up to the calf, and the group of people waded through the snow to leave the cyclone stirred by the propellers, and only then did they feel a little better.The aircraft took off again, carrying the [-] reservists from the blue side to the other side of the forest.

The wind and snow were too heavy, and the whistling wind made people almost deaf. Hayden put on a tactical mask, gestured to another military cadet, and signaled him to take the person away first, and then greeted Bai Yi, Ian and Brook, The four moved to the lee of a pine tree.

In order to ensure fairness, the map of this woodland will be transmitted to the communicator after the two parties are in place, so even if they land first, they will not have much advantage without a map.

Bai Yi leaned against the tree trunk, and the blue light emitted by the light screen of the communicator hit the goggles. Before he finished editing the content of the message, an unread message automatically popped up in the inbox——

Hill: [I know you're here. 】

The lip line behind the tactical mask slowly raised, Bai Yi deleted the existing phrase [I'm here], and edited it to: [Where are you? 】

Hill: [My team is in charge of the security guard in the southeast, right behind you. 】

Bye: 【This place is really cold. 】

Hill: [Ah Chen specially chose it for you. 】

Bye: [I know ==]

Hill: [Get rid of the opposite party as soon as possible and let my husband hug me~^_^]

Bye: [Major General, is it really okay for you to be so biased?And you are cool, okay? ! 】

Hill: [The first question, who dares to say no?The second one is hot to the touch~^_^]

Bye: [Shameless!But I like it~]

Bye: [We are going to the factory, we will contact you in the evening. 】

Hill: [There are relatively few zombies in Ximen. 】

Bye: [Really?What else do you know? 】

Hill: [I am not the instructor of this period, I only assist in the security and guarantee. In principle, the details of the exercise need to be kept secret from me.What else do you want to know?Shall I beat Ah Chen until I tell the whole story? 】

Bye: [No need...]

Hill: [Pay attention to safety, the neural simulator is completely simulated, and it still hurts to be bitten. 】

Bye: [Don't worry. 】

Hill: [Well, I'm assured of your strength. 】

The light screen went out, Bai Yi drew out his dagger, and walked up to the other three.In order to ensure a clear voice, even face to face they also use a communicator to communicate.

Seeing Bai Yi approaching, Ian said, "There are still 5 minutes, and the blue team has just landed."

Bai Yi said: "We will enter the factory from the west gate in a while, and there will be few zombies."

Hayden asked puzzled, "I don't have a map yet, how do you know?"

Bai Yi glanced at him, and said lightly, "I have cheats."

Brook laughed out loud, but Hayden didn't understand at all, so Ian patted him on the shoulder and explained blankly: "It's just your intuition, just trust him."

Afterwards, the four of them conserved their strength and stopped talking. There was only the sound of howling wind in the air, and the countdown numbers displayed on the light screen changed extremely slowly.When all the digits are reset to zero, the communicator beeps a long time, and the map is loaded into the reading bar. At the same time, there are countless terrifying growls in the cold wind.

They overlooked one thing, there are zombies that are refreshed at the same time as the map!

Bai Yi opened his eyes suddenly, and his whole body almost turned into a swaying white shadow. He pulled Hayden who was directly opposite him, leaned forward, and cut with the military dagger.In an instant, a handful of black blood spots were sprayed on the snow, and the headless zombie wobbled forward a few steps before falling down with a plop.

The fully simulated corpse seemed to be disturbed on the display screen, distorted for a moment before disappearing, leaving a real pit, and at the same time, the total number of kills in the lower left corner of the Baiyi communicator light screen changed to the number 1.

Brook stared at the blood that hadn't disappeared, and murmured, "It's actually the same as the real thing!"

Everything happened in just a few seconds, and the temperature was more than minus 30 degrees. Hayden broke out in a cold sweat, and his heart almost jumped out of his chest. He quickly adjusted and said to Bai Yi, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Bai Yi looked around vigilantly, the muscles of his body under the combat uniform were tense, and his whole body was like a wild beast ready to go, fierce and fast, it seemed that he was the most dangerous existence in the forest and snowfield at this time.

Hayden looked at his back, and was suddenly relieved that he belonged to the same camp as the other party.

Bai Yi squinted from the corner of his eye, shook off the blood on the dagger, and reminded in a deep voice: "Don't be in a daze, you only need to be responsible for determining the route, and leave the rest to us."

Hayden replied almost subconsciously, "Yes."

It was a majestic tone completely different from the boy's appearance, with an innate aura of a leader. When he spoke, Bai Yi turned his head slightly, and the military dagger, which was cut like iron like mud, was skillfully clenched with his backhand. The whole set of movements was smooth and capable, with An indescribable sense of calm.

When it moves, it is full of murderous intent, but when it is quiet, it seems to hide its breath. Even through the goggles, Hayden can still clearly feel the sharp gaze of the opponent's predator.

Bai Yi nodded slightly, and continued: "Brook, you follow and protect Hayden all the way; Ian, you are in charge of cutting off the rear." Unknowingly, he habitually took the role of captain to make arrangements, "No matter what happens, don't Leave the team without permission, don't leave behind me, understand?"

"understand!"

"clear."