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Shrill sirens enveloped the entire main city.

Dongdong was sleeping soundly. He dreamed that he was playing in a big balloon, and the balloon floated up into the sky.He lay on the wall of the balloon, wanting to see what the children in other balloons were playing, but he couldn't see clearly. He anxiously patted the thin rubber layer, and the whole balloon shook violently. He thought it was fun again, giggling laughed.Suddenly, a sharp object pierced the big balloon and Dongdong's dream.He cried out and woke up.

His mother casually tied his sweaty, messy hair into an upside-down braid, then put his head in her arms, and kept stroking his back: "Dongdong is not afraid, Mom and Dad are here .”

Dongdong was actually not afraid, he didn't know what happened, but he felt that his parents were very scared.The last time my parents were so scared was in an air-raid shelter. That night the sky was very bright and loud, with strange birds and fireworks constantly exploding.After that night they left their original home and lived together in a place called a temporary resettlement area.There were a lot of people, little food, and no school to go to. The children were kept at home and not allowed to go out, and the parents went out to work during the day. It seemed that they all went to the newly built weapons factory nearby.After staying for a few days, Dongdong felt bored and wanted to go back to her original home, but her parents just sighed and said they couldn't go back.

Dongdong's face was covered, and he couldn't see anything, he could only feel his mother running panting, and he heard screams, crying, and strange rattling and chewing sounds from many people around him. .

"Leave me alone, run!"

He heard it was his father's voice, but it was very different from usual and it sounded painful.He called, "Dad?"

His mother covered his head even tighter, his mouth gnawed near his mother's collarbone, and he couldn't make a sound.After a while, the mother finally stopped, lifted him up, and stuffed him headfirst into a narrow, dark passage.The mother's movement was so fast that he didn't even see what she was like, and was pushed on the ass, and the door of the passage was locked at the same time.

"Dongdong, let's play your favorite game now." He heard his mother say in a trembling voice, "You are a little postman, take the letter in your pocket to the uniformed uncle on the other side of the pipe, after the task is completed... ah!"

After a short exclamation, he heard chewing and rattling again.

"Don't turn back! Otherwise there will be no reward. Go!"

Dongdong has just turned five years old and has very small bones, but it is still difficult to crawl in the narrow ventilation duct.He felt strange, but he didn't have the ability to think too much, so he had to work hard to climb forward, hoping to complete the task sooner.

Sixty years later, the historian Professor He Hongdong described the experience in his autobiography: "At that time, I really thought everything was a game. I climbed for a long time, and my knees and palms were worn out. But maybe the tone of my mother's last order was too firm, I persevered with unprecedented perseverance. I didn't cry, didn't stop, and I kept crawling despite being afraid. Finally, I saw the faint light at the exit, which is For the first time, I felt the meaning of the word hope. Many years later, when I revisited that specific time and space many times, the dislocation and asynchrony between the individual and the group made me feel mixed feelings. Just when I was full of hope, the Lord People in the city are experiencing despair."

"Outside of the safe and narrow ventilation ducts, the real situation is that sea ghosts have already broken through the defenses of the human army, and their decline is irreversible. In recent years, historians often attribute the fault of the second ring defeat to a few people, such as being The special operations team members injected with the puppet virus or the guards in the computer room who were parasitized ignored the fact that under the conditions at the time, this kind of failure was inevitable."

At the other end of the ventilation duct, Li Shuxiu squatted and watched intently.

Xiang An Xiang pulled his arm: "Brother, it's too late, we won't be able to leave any later."

The armored vehicle had already started, and the rumbling sound of the engine made the gravel on the ground bounce up.

"I heard movement inside, there should be children there."

In such a noisy environment around, Xiang An Ning couldn't hear the movement in the pipe at all.The thermal infrared detector in his hand did not move, but Li Shuxiufei said that he has played shooting games for more than ten years, and he is especially good at listening to voices. There must be someone in the pipeline, but the distance is too far for the machine to detect.Xiang An'an has never touched a game console, which is something unique to children in the courtyard No. 2 Yulan Road, Yihuan.He didn't know whether that kind of auditory training was reliable, so he said, "I'll give you the last [-] minutes."

Shortly after the high wall of the second ring checkpoint fell, the alarm was sounded throughout the city.After a fierce battle, the army commander ordered a retreat.The temporary resettlement area has fallen, and the remaining troops cannot break through to rescue the survivors, but the nearby weapons factory has ventilation ducts connected to the warehouse of the city defense military area.I don't know who found this place, and sent out a call for help with the communicator that was not broken at that time, hoping that the military and police personnel could save the children.

After 1 minute, the infrared detector suddenly displayed an image, and a small red block was moving here.The sound of sea ghosts destroying the gate was heard not far away, and the driver of the armored vehicle was urging, pointing to the ventilation duct opening to An Xiang, and hurriedly said: "Right away! Right away!"

Another child climbed out of the ventilation duct and saw the uniformed guard uncle on the other side of the wall. He happily took out a letter that was folded in his pocket and shouted: "Uncle, I'm here to deliver the letter!"

Li Shuxiu took the letter, opened it and pretended to read it carefully, but in fact, there was only a torn newspaper in the envelope.He quickly grabbed the child's arm: "It's a very important letter, kid, let's get in the car and go somewhere."

"No, the letter is finished, I'm going back to find my mother!" The child with the braids giggled and said.

Li Shuxiu couldn't move the child, and was at a loss for what to do.

"I'll take you in the armored car first, and we'll find Mom together in the car." Xiang An Xiang said, leaning over and lifting Dong Dong up on his neck.

Dongdong was suddenly lifted up by his uncle who was as tall as a mountain and straddled his neck. When he saw the huge armored vehicle again, he yelled excitedly: "Yeah!"

The armored vehicle started, and several surviving children got together to study the internal device in a novel way. Xiang An Ning watched from the side to ensure their safety, and leaned their backs on the window of the car to block the remains of sea ghosts flying around outside. scene.Although this modified armored vehicle is extremely strong and stable, it is still dangerous to face a large number of sea ghosts.If it is not for special operations teams to clear the way and scout the route, the difficulty of evacuation and rescue will increase significantly.

Xiang An An looked at the child for a while, and waited until the armored vehicle drove out of the dense sea ghost area and drove on the vast buffer wasteland between the first and second ring roads, then he walked over and said to Li Shuxiu who was huddled in a corner with a lonely face: "You seem to have changed a lot recently. A lot."

Li Shuxiu said with blank eyes: "I feel more and more that I am a waste and will only delay my progress. They will not take me every time they go on a dangerous mission, and they have to assign a person to protect me for ordinary missions."

Xiang An Xiang asked in surprise, "You just found out?"

"...Are we going to die? The second and third rings are gone, how long can the first ring last?"

"Until the day I can't hold it anymore." Xiang An Xiang said firmly.

Li Shuxiu turned his head, not wanting to talk to the big guy anymore.He sat facing the thick armored vehicle wall for a while, hesitated again and again, and dialed Lou Yue's communication number.

Lou Yue's side was quickly connected, and the background sound was very noisy. It seemed that the first ring was planning to receive survivors from the second ring and strengthen defenses.

Li Shuxiu plucked up his courage and said, "I just heard from An Xiang that you have been looking for Ran Yu and he has disappeared."

"Do you know where he is?" Lou Yue's voice became clearer, probably because he had put on headphones.

"No... I'm not sure yet. When I went to the pond to kill the sparrow fish yesterday, I was with the escorted archers. On the way back, I wanted to go to the woods for convenience. I saw Brother Ta holding Ran Yu away , At that time, I thought that Ran Yu was injured and Tagola went to see a doctor, so I didn't think much about it. But later, the testers didn't see Ran Yu, so it was a bit strange."

The other end of the communicator was silent for a while, obviously unable to see the other side, Li Shuxiu could also feel a gloomy and oppressive feeling, he shrank his neck in fright.

But soon, Lou Yue said in the usual tone: "Got it, I'll look for it."

Li Shuxiu didn't know what Lou Yue knew, everything happened too fast, there was no buffer when bad luck came, he just felt that everything was terrible.After the communication ended, the car suddenly shook for a while.The protective cover was lowered outside the car window, and the emergency lights were turned on inside the car.The child screamed, chirping and asking if it was an earthquake.

The turbulence only lasted about 5 minutes, the protective cover was raised, and outside was a silent field covered with seaweed.Xiang An Ning went to the cockpit to inquire about the situation, and came back and whispered to Li Shuxiu, "Just now I met a wave of wandering sea ghosts, and they were lured away by your teammates."

Twenty best-of-breed special operations teams were assigned the task of escorting the retreating team.The armored vehicle that Li Shuxiu and others took was the last group to retreat. They gradually joined forces on the route cleared by the special operations team and drove towards the first ring at high speed.The sky has been overrun by dark sparrow fish, the helicopter has lost its function, the sea magnetic field makes seaweed emerge from the ground in the wilderness, and the shells and explosives have become decorations.

In addition to some survivors, the armored vehicle also needs to transport a large number of military weapons and equipment. To ensure safety, the vehicle is also equipped with bird repellent devices and automatic archery and blade shooting equipment converted from gun shooting, but the number advantage of sea ghosts should not be underestimated. .The anti-riot vehicle driven by three members of the tenth team rescued several comrades who lost blood and fainted during the escort mission, and led away a group of sea ghosts for the last armored vehicle that was retreating. Seeing that the escort mission was almost completed , less than five kilometers away from the first ring road, there was a strange creaking sound from the bottom of the anti-riot vehicle, followed by a burning smell, and the red warning light on the dashboard flashed frantically.

Ding Taitai glanced at it and said, "There is a short circuit of a part, near the chassis of the car, it needs to be repaired."

This anti-riot vehicle, which was destroyed by countless sea ghosts and sparrows along the way, can survive until now without any problems, which is already a great deal of face.

However, less than 50 meters behind is a group of black sea ghosts. Now parking for maintenance is tantamount to death.

Ding Taitai unhurriedly took out the toolbox from the storage box, took a dagger and put it on his waist, and said: "Don't stop and don't slow down, or everyone will die. I will repair you while driving, this The removal of parts will not affect the driving, but it will affect other places if it is burned."

The anti-riot vehicle was also equipped with an ultrasonic bird-repelling device, but it had already been destroyed by the sea ghosts picking up the vehicle.Sparrowfish hovered low in the sky, as if waiting for their chance to hunt.

There is no doubt that people who climb under the car to repair the car are tantamount to death.

Zhan Yiye suddenly grabbed the handle at the other end of the toolbox and said, "I'll go. I caused the trouble, and I'll solve it."

While driving, He Rongsheng said, "Sister Ye, come and drive. You are good at driving, but I'm good at repairing cars. I'll go."

The puppet virus will gradually disappear after completing certain events or with metabolism. After fighting for so long, Zhan Yiye has already regained consciousness. From the subsequent events, she is keenly aware of what she has done.

"Why did you still grab it? I didn't see you so active when the award recipient was selected to speak at the commendation meeting. How did the two of you forget that I was on the stage? If you know how to repair cars, can I understand? I have been driving this car for many years." Ding Taitai suddenly put on a rare majestic demeanor, and said, "Besides, I am the captain."

With that said, he quickly opened the car door and climbed out, closed the door tightly, and then moved to the bottom of the car.

"Captain!" The voices of Zhan Yiye and He Rongsheng's broken voices were separated by a layer of bulletproof reinforced glass, as if they were soaked in water.

A few sparrowfish circling at low altitude seized the opportunity, swooped down, and got into the bottom of the car.

Zhan Yiye wanted to open the door to kill Sparrow for help, but Ding Taitai's voice came from the bottom of the car: "Don't open the door! The chassis of the car can't accommodate two people, don't make trouble!"

Zhan Yiye had no choice but to sit back restlessly, with cold sweat breaking out from his palms.

Ding Taitai soon discovered that the situation was worse than he had imagined.But fortunately, within the controllable range, he quickly removed the scalded parts and installed new ones regardless of the blood blisters on his hands.Standing on the bottom of the swaying car was extremely exhausting, and from time to time, he had to free up one hand to swing a knife to resist the infestation of sparrow fish.After finally finishing the job, his arms and abdomen hurt so much that he couldn't feel it.The sparrow fish that hadn't been hacked to death pounced fiercely again. Ding Taitai's hand holding the steering wheel had accumulated too much blood and gasoline, and it was so slippery that he finally let go.

Ding Taitai fell to the ground, with a large area of ​​burning pain on his back, and he knew it must be bloody without looking.But he was still relieved, because the car was repaired before it fell.

Although he had instructed not to slow down, after he got down, He Rongsheng drove a little slower in order to make the car more stable.As soon as Ding Taitai fell, a burly sea ghost running ahead was just a few steps away.

The body of the anti-riot vehicle was very heavy, and there was no sound when he fell, and the people in the vehicle did not know it.

Ding Taitai clenched the dagger in his hand, looked at the sea ghost in front of him, and thought, it would not be a loss to change one before leaving.But he overestimated his existing physical strength, and when he swung his arms, he realized that his hands had been exerting too much force for too long, and he could no longer hold the dagger.

The blade fell to the ground with a crisp sound, and the sea ghost's fangs got closer and closer, Ding Taitai closed his eyes.

The fangs just touched his hair when they stopped suddenly.

Ding Taitai heard a grunt coming from the throat of the strong sea ghost. He opened his eyes and saw a strange emotion in the sea ghost's slit-like eyes, which seemed to be doubt.The sea ghosts who were lagging behind gradually came running over. The sea ghost in front of him suddenly came to his senses, carried Ding Taitai on his shoulders, and then ran away.

Ding Taitai's brain can no longer handle the current situation.

This sea ghost ran faster and faster, but it was obviously still far behind the car.But it seemed to be estimating the distance, and after a few strides, it picked up the person on its shoulders and threw it onto the car ahead—like throwing a big sack.

It's accurate.Ding Taitai was hit on the roof of the car, spitting out a big mouthful of blood, and the huge momentum made him roll uncontrollably to the side of the car.The people in the car obviously also noticed the change. Zhan Yiye and He Rongsheng opened the door, scooped up people, and closed the car door in one go, extremely coherent, without giving the sparrow outside a chance to fly in.

Both of them were surprised that the captain suddenly hit the roof of the car, but the most urgent thing is to bandage the wound of Ding Taitai, who is covered in bruises.

The car returned to normal, He Rongsheng slammed on the accelerator to accelerate forward, and Zhan Yiye looked for medicine and bandages from the medicine box.

Sitting in the car, Ding Taitai, who inexplicably saved his life, thought in shock: That sea ghost's hands are really strong.