under the tower

Ji Xi was not feeling well, so she went back directly after eating.

It was a weekend, and the base was crowded with people, and there were many resting officers on the streets of the Colossus District.

Ji Xi walked through the bustling crowd, as if he was also infected by the cheerful atmosphere of the holiday around him.

It's a pity that Yanyi has to be on duty today, otherwise they could go to a nearby cinema to watch a movie.

He walked slowly, bathed in the clear sunshine in late spring and early summer.

Suddenly, a long and heavy sound was heard over the base, and all broadcasting speakers that emitted signals vibrated at the same time, and the sound was also made by the smart assistant in Ji Xi's ear.

"Emergency notification, emergency notification, the outer city defense wall sensed the attack of abnormal people, please go to the central square of Jumen District to gather immediately, if you don't arrive within 15 minutes, you will be punished as a defector—"

"Notify again, please go immediately..."

The moment the alarm sounded, there was an uproar all around.

Ji Xi saw that many officers on the street who were still brimming with bright expressions stopped in their tracks, their faces stiffened.

They may have received the same message.

Ji Xi had signed a certificate of life and death on the day of the report, and all officers who enlisted in the army should be like this—when the base is attacked by mutants, the base will randomly dispatch some troops to destroy them. In times of crisis, all officers are obliged to obey at any time. The arrangement of the base, regardless of the official position, must go to the front line, otherwise it will be punished directly with the most serious crime of defection.

This is the first time Ji Xi encountered a large-scale attack by abnormal people after joining the army, and was very "lucky" to be selected.

A bead of sweat appeared on Ji Xi's forehead. The moment he received the news, "15 minutes" was the deadline. He didn't hesitate too much. Following a large group of officers rushing towards the Jumen area, he clicked Watching the smart assistant send a message to Yan Yi, among the running and noisy crowd, the two of them received each other's message almost at the same time.

Yan Yi: Giant gate.

Ji Xi: Me too.

At the last moment, Ji Xi broke into the last shuttle bus to the Jumen area. The bus was full of people's heads. Many people even came up in their pajamas without combing their hair.

The news from the base came unexpectedly.

The shuttle bus arrived at the destination very quickly, and Ji Xi got out of the bus with the tide of people. At this time, the entire central square of Jumen District was crowded with people. Not many, these officers still maintained a good quality in an emergency, but it was obviously not a pleasant experience to be called out of the city suddenly on a vacation, and everyone's expressions were quite heavy.

Heavy armored vehicles drove over from the main road and parked at the edge of the square, followed by trucks carrying various weapons and bombs.

The entire base immediately entered a state of emergency, and a dignified and urgent atmosphere dissipated in the rust-smelling air.

There were too many people in the whole square, Ji Xi was squeezed in the middle, he was sweating profusely while trying to send a message to Yan Yi.

Ji Xi: Where are you?I've already arrived.

Yan Yi: Wait for the news.

Ji Xi didn't understand what this sentence meant, was Yan Yi waiting for the news, or did he let himself wait for the news?

After a while, the prompt sound of the smart assistant gave him the answer.

The cold mechanical female voice said: "Dear Mr. Lu Xi, it has been detected that you have arrived at the designated place, thank you for your cooperation. The team has been automatically assigned to you. Next, please board the armored vehicle with the license plate number B·D02, thank you .”

Ji Xi breathed out the oppressed air in his lungs, and immediately sent the license plate to Yan Yi. He experienced this for the first time, and he was actually at a loss. The central square was crowded with people, and the entire square was densely packed with armored vehicles. , he didn't even know where to find his own, so he could only search with his eyes blankly.

Yan Yi: Area D is to the west.

Ji Xi understood immediately, and ran towards the west side of the square where the armored vehicles were parked.

Ji Xi: What's your license plate number?are we together

Yan Yi: No, you take care of yourself.

He seemed very busy, and each message was a few short words, and the replies were not quick.

What Ji Xi didn't know was that at the moment the base issued an emergency notification, Yan Yi's side had already exploded.

As the lowest-ranking non-commissioned officer in the entire army, Yan Yi has no vacation. He was sent to the guard post in Changshi District today to be on duty. Five minutes after the alarm sounded, Bai Qihuan made a voice call to him through their encrypted communication channel.

The situation was urgent, and Bai Qihuan's voice was extremely dignified: "Boss, have you been sent? The Chang family is going to kill this time."

Yan Yidao: "How many of our people have been killed?"

Bai Qihuan replied: "Two-thirds, all the data I can find so far, the real situation may be even less optimistic."

Yan Yi: "They did it too obviously this time."

Bai Qihuan: "Chang Wentao is clearly jumping over the wall in a hurry, planning to tear us apart! He doesn't care about that agreement anymore! He will hold everyone back even if he dies!"

Yan Yi: "You send out the weapons that can be adjusted first, and the abnormal people outside the city must be suppressed first no matter what, otherwise the loss will be too great."

Bai Qihuan anxiously said: "It's already being delivered, boss, what about you? What you told us last time...can you restore your memory first?"

Yan Yi: "It's too late, take care of the people in the city and wait for me to come back."

Bai Qihuan slapped the table angrily, and cursed angrily: "The Chang family's bastards! They dare to play like this, and at worst, we all die together!"

Yan Yi sighed, but his tone was very solemn: "Bai Qihuan, listen carefully, this is an order."

"Even if I die, the fuse cannot be ignited, understand?"

Bai Qihuan was trembling all over: "You fucking...you fucking...how can you still say such things now! What do you think of us, yourself?"

Yan Yi's voice was extremely calm: "They didn't dare to act openly. They didn't dare to do it before, and they don't dare now. You are human beings first, and my subordinates second. Only after I protect you can we talk about other things."

He finally said three words: "Trust me."

With a sound of "beep", the signal is beyond the reachable range, and the communication is automatically interrupted.

Bai Qihuan slipped and fell to the ground, gritted his teeth and punched the floor hard, blood spattered from his hands.

On the other side, Ji Xi has already found his armored car, the smart assistant automatically performs identification, the special bulletproof door automatically opens, and Ji Xi sneaks in.

In addition to the driver, there were two officers sitting in the car. Ji Xi was the last one. There was a military uniform on the seat, and there were portable pistols, knives, grenades, compressed dry food and a bottle of drinking water under the seat.

Neither was acquainted with him, and they greeted each other briefly.

One of them has the same military rank as Ji Xi, and is the deputy company commander of the logistics department, named Han Ming.The other person is the chief technology officer of the Communication Division [-], named Peng Yuanzhou.

The driver who claimed to be Lao Chen started the vehicle, and the armored vehicle followed the mighty team ahead and drove out of the town.

Ji Xi changed her clothes in the car, put on her equipment, and watched the scenery out of the window quickly retreat.

The residents of the base have also received emergency alerts about the siege of the mutants. People with panicked faces are fleeing on the road, or looting supplies, and more are ordinary people hiding in their houses and watching them from the windows. Their eyes are full of excitement. With anticipation and trust, he watched the armored vehicles drive towards the city gate one after another.

Last time, Ji Xi was still one of them, but this time he became the soldier who resisted at the front line.

Ji Xi had an inexplicable sense of mission in his heart, he thought that he should protect them well.

Strangely, he hadn't had such an idea before.

When Ji's family was still there, he lived high above the clouds, he didn't care what happened below, what those people lived for every day, what was worry and fear, he would leave himself when he felt extremely bored The pure land under your feet, take a look at the underground world, like a tourist who is curious about the strange environment.

Even in the meantime, always maintain a distance.

But as he walked through this street at the moment, what he thought of from the fleeting hopeful eyes on the side of the road were the fresh faces of the past.

The kind and old Grandpa Shen, the strong and lively Chi Miao, Qi Hao's children who watched their father die tragically, and Yu Chengyuan who was blind in one eye, and the children in his grocery store who lost their dignity but lived full of gratitude them.

Even the sticky feeling on hands when cleaning up their feces is vivid.

Ji Xi remembered that at the beginning he would vomit for a long time just by looking at it, but now he can think about it calmly.

Before he knew it, he had already begun to feel bitter about the inevitable passing of life, and felt injustice and sorrow for the rough fate of those people.

He began to hope that those weak companions would no longer be bullied by suffering.

Armored vehicles lined up just outside the city.The base's early warning system for abnormal attacks is very advanced. At this time, a satellite cloud image is displayed on the display screen next to the driver's seat. It can be seen that abnormal people have begun to appear one after another around the entire Beicheng base, and a large wave of abnormal people is about to attack. Still on the road about three kilometers away.

They want to destroy them all before the mutants destroy the gates.

There are three gates in the gate of the base. The outermost is a moat, followed by a high-voltage power grid, and finally the real iron wall.

These three defensive gates can be said to be seamless in theory, but any man-made equipment has an upper limit. Once the number of deformed people is too large, the moat will be filled no matter how deep it is dug, and the high-voltage power grid will eventually be overturned. In the past, no matter how strong the outer wall was, cracks would appear and finally collapse completely.

The cannon above the city gate is ready, the suspension bridge in the center is slowly pulled away, and the gate is opened, forming a smooth and spacious road leading to the outside of the moat.

Afterwards, the armored vehicles drove out of the city gate one by one in an orderly manner, and attacked the place where the red dots in the cloud map were gathered according to the navigation route.

The base is surrounded by a vast plain, so deformed people can be seen from a long distance away. All enlisted officers have excellent eyesight, so there is no need to command. Han Ming and Peng Yuanzhou have already raised their sniper rifles and pulled out of the car Windowpane, aiming at the anamorphic figure shaking in the distance.

The distribution of personnel in their car was very delicate. Han Ming was in charge of logistics, Peng Yuanzhou was technically a technician, and only Ji Xi was barely able to fight.

Theoretically, the logistics department and the communications department are usually out of the field, and only the officers of the general headquarters will encounter the situation of fighting the deformed people head-on.

But just looking at the postures of Han Ming and Peng Yuanzhou holding guns, Ji Xi knew that they were not without professional training.

"Bang bang" two sharp gunshots, red and black blood flowers bloomed on the plain, two deformed people were headshot with precision, and their bodies fell to the ground convulsively.

The two didn't have any communication, they just quickly started looking for the next target.

They have not yet entered the center of the abnormal crowd, so the number around them is not too much now.Lao Chen is an experienced driver. He explained: "Our cars won't be able to drive in for a while. Even if there are too many tanks, it will be dangerous. We have to 'slip' them next to them, so everyone must fasten your safety gear. Take it, the speed of the car will not be so stable then."

Ji Xi understood what he meant.

Han Ming and Peng Yuanzhou were no strangers to it, but their attitude towards Lu Xi was very cold.

"Mr. Lu." Han Ming even said, his tone was not obvious disdain, but the title he used was alienated thousands of miles away, "If you miss, please don't waste bullets."