Ancient Invasion

By Davon Works

When ancient monsters landed unstoppably from the ocean to invade.

Fear of death triggered a panic that

Hands tied, mankind fled the coast, heading inland to survive.

Surviving the sea of corpses and blood.

Xu Xiao, who became a monster.

The blood of innocent lives became the cocoon that trapped her.

If metamo

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ernest Lardizabal
• Release date: Mar 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869311771

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Chapter 4 - First Wave Impact

To be precise, downtown Ningzhou was not near the sea, and it was a few minutes' drive to the east before entering the coastal city of East Birch. Around 3:00 p.m., the East Birch fishing boats that went out to sea have already returned to the sea, this is the first time they went out to sea after the meteorite attack, and the results are all defeated.

By this time, the fishermen hadn't been notified about the evacuation; the waters were oddly tight on July 22, and although the winds were calm, the signal always made a zippy sound as if it was being interfered with by something, so most of the fishermen didn't go very far before choosing to return.

And just what was salvaged offshore made them frown.

The fish that used to be alive and jumping were not there, not to mention that even the shrimps and crabs that were fished up were all dead. The whole sea is like a cataclysmic disaster, all the creatures are dead.

Looking at the disgusting mass of floating corpses in their nets, the fishermen chose to throw them back into the sea.

The boats that came back were empty.

Approaching the coastline, they found that there were actually quite a few surveillance ships patrolling, and when the radio communication on the ship was not working, those surveillance ships played it over and over again on their loudspeakers.

All fishing boats dock immediately!

Coincidentally, mixed in with the fishing boats, there was also a smuggling ship. Recently, the world was in chaos, and they had fished out a lot of good stuff to sell in various places. Hearing the monitoring ship shouting like that, these guys instantly panicked. Instead of docking, they pretended not to hear it and sailed towards the far harbor.

But the monitoring ship is in a hurry. The order from the top is to mobilize for emergency evacuation!

For the coastal city, this emergency added 100,000 fire signs, is the most expedited order in the dynasty. The lower end of the coastal regulators received the order, but also thought it was which country sea attack came, but these departments who do not have a point in the relationship between the top, a little bit of understanding suddenly stupid.

A monster rampage emerging from the sea?

The first thing anyone who knows about this news is skeptical, it's not like making a sci-fi movie with such unbelievable news.

But after someone in a small area got the bloody scene of the landing of the Australian monster, the head of these regulatory departments could not care less about the consequences of being thoroughly investigated afterward, pulling their own family members to immediately move to the inland city to escape, no matter what is certainly a small life is important, leaving only some unidentified subordinates to go out to the monitoring ship.

The ones in the monitor ship were no fools, and with the unusual actions from above, coupled with the news they were able to pick up about the major evacuation of all the coastal cities, they couldn't wait to get out of there early.

The unusual behavior of the smuggler's ship drew the monitor ship into action, amplifying the broadcast in the first instance.

The sound was a warning to the fugitives, but to the monsters lurking in the sea about to awaken, it was like a signal calling to them.

A dead body rises from the bottom of the sea and drifts down the waves towards the shore.

The sides of the long coastline soon piled up with these red-tide densities, and the cliffs of the coast, the sides of the beaches, and so on, were all layered with this stuff.

The fishing boat docked with difficulty almost out of the midst of these, and the monitor ship, noticing the anomaly, stopped and docked.

Unfortunately they didn't have time to leave again, with someone exclaiming, What's that?!

Sharp knuckles quickly tore apart the bodies of the humans following them, and a three-meter-long monster like a horseshoe crab rushed in first. Followed by a fifty-centimeter black worm-shaped monster like a silkworm, drilling into the human on sight, emitting a zippy grinding sound.

The monsters came so suddenly that those who didn't react at first became their delicacies.

Those who reacted pulled their legs and ran, but unfortunately, these monsters looked bloated, but their movements were very agile. Like a raging tide, they quickly engulfed the people fleeing in front of them and launched a ferocious massacre.

Instead of the golden color of the sandy beaches, the coastline has turned pitch black, and the fast-crawling monsters are pushing inland at an alarming rate.

Why are you standing there? Hurry up! Xu Yuan stopped in his tracks, no matter how fast the people around him ran, he wouldn't leave without his sister.

Something's wrong. Xu Xiao once again looked in the direction of the eastern coast, only to feel her heart beating faster and faster, constantly rushing against her chest, powerful and restless.

There was an odd and dangerous smell in the air, fishy, unusually fishy. As if not far away is the slaughterhouse, put a dead pig's blood the kind of unbearable stench.

Xu Xiao touched her backpack and looked at Xu Yuan, No, the train station is too far away from our house to make it, and I'm afraid the speed of the train is not enough. Her voice was low on the last sentence, as she herself couldn't understand why she felt that the speed of the train wasn't even enough.

Xu Yuan: Even less so by car.

He casually pointed out that those cars were jammed together sideways on the road, not listening to the traffic police at all.

Xu Xiao thought for a moment, Let's go, let's go take a plane.

Are you sure? Xu Yuan was silent for a moment, his dark eyes staring dead on at Xu Xiao, There are very many people who want to leave right now, and I'm afraid the airport may not always have flights.

Xu Xiao: There's always something to try. Now that the cars are blocking the road and the train station is far away, the only thing left is the airplane, so if we don't leave early it will be too late.

Xu Yuan's eyes were puzzled, What are you panicking about? There are still so many people who haven't left the city.

Xu Xiao opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything.

It all started with some kind of intuition she had, something that felt so real and yet had no facts to back it up.

Xu Yuan quietly looked at her for a while and suddenly took her hand, I knew you had a lot of troublesome things. Let's go, go to the airport, although I don't think an airplane is necessarily the fastest way to leave.

But he did what she told him to do.

Xu Xiao nodded, looking at Xu Yuan's thin and slender back, his heart slightly warmed, he was like this, bad breath but never questioned, even if Xu Xiao couldn't tell the reason, he would choose to believe her words very directly.

Wait. Xu Xiao stood still again.

Xu Yuan tensed his face, his tone unpleasant, What else is there?

No, we're not going to the airport, you can't go through security without papers.

Xu Yuan sniffed, but his face became eased as he said without stopping his steps and without turning his head back, I thought you wanted to leave me behind and run alone.

With that he let out a soft chuckle, the laugh was low and short, I forgot, your memory is that of an old man, you even forgot about the fact that I'm a guy of unknown origin, how could I possibly have an ID to get on a plane.

Xu Xiao made a strong effort to hold his hand tightly and said with a straight face, What unknown origin? As I said, you are my brother.

Unexpectedly, Xu Yuan did not listen to her words, his eyebrows wrinkled up, muttered who is your brother, and his forward direction did not change.

Xu Yuan!

Cut the crap, Xu Yuan said, I can often blend in at the train station, and there are ways to do the same at the airport.

Seeing Xu Xiao looking at himself worriedly, Xu Yuan raised his arm.

Look at my fingers, don't forget what I did once upon a time.

The long and slender fingers with well-defined bones, only a few lone ones remained on Xu Yuan's palm, usually he would always hide his disabled parts intentionally or unintentionally, Xu Xiao knew that he had a strong sense of self-esteem and was actually not willing to show his defects to others.

He had made it this far, and Xu Xiao was not a pretentious person, so she vigilantly looked to the east again and followed Xu Yuan's pace.

Xu Yuan followed her gaze to the east and could not feel anything.

There was also doubt in his mind as to what she was afraid of.

But when the siblings rushed to the subway entrance, only to find that the crowd has already formed a long queue, armed police with guns to maintain the stability of the queue, people in the queue impatiently looking ahead, but unfortunately half a day did not move over.

The siblings forgot that the quickest way to the train station is also the subway!

Looking at the people carrying large bags, some even carrying their own family's rice and grain on their backs as they went out, Xu Xiao and Xu Yuan exchanged glances and didn't join the long queue that had formed.

The queue was large and dense, and everywhere you could see groups of acquaintances chatting.

Heh, old Li ah, you actually didn't bring anything, I'll see what you eat halfway.

You people, what's the point of carrying so much food, I'm telling you, there's no point at all, it's inconvenient to move not to mention, how much can you eat alone, or you have to be like me, look, my bag is full of medicine, it's lightweight and practical. Old Li tilted his head in triumph and laughed.

His behavior, however, drew laughter from the crowd.

You think you're carrying a pharmacy, what's the use of bringing out the ones you always have at home? Also bring a first aid kit gauze, you think it's an earthquake, everyone has broken arms and legs?

But honestly, why in the world did we suddenly evacuate ah, you do not know that our neighborhood committee director, a loud voice put hard to interrupt my lunch break to drag me out the door. Mobilization of the formation so big, not really going to war, right?

......

Xu Yuan's eyes twinkled as he pulled on Xu Xiao's coat, Follow me.

Where to?

Hurry up and get a bike and ride over there, or do you think there's public transportation for you now? Luckily our house is not far from the airport, just a few kilometers away.

Xu Yuan's memory was good, especially the location of some of the expensive and big-ticket items near his home, and stomping around to observe them had been a habit for many years. He pulled Xu Xiao to run through the crowd and soon found a few semi-new bicycles in the streets and alleys.

I'll pick the lock.

Xu Yuan walked over without thinking, and when he saw Xu Xiao staring at him, he explained extra, Their owners only come over every other day, and today just happens to be the time when they're not around.

Unexpectedly, Xu Xiao just shook his head and waved his hand to push Xu Yuan to the side: No need for you to come, stand aside.

Only to see how she exerted her force, her hands yanked, and in Xu Yuan's dumbfounded expression, the bicycle lock just broke off like a paper tape. He knew that her strength became different, but definitely could not imagine that it would come to such a point that the tightly bitten lock actually shattered into several strips!

With a clang, Xu Xiao threw the broken lock to the ground and shoved the car directly into his brother's hand: Hurry up and go."

Xu Yuan winked, The police should be glad that they don't have to arrest you, otherwise who would be able to lock you up.

Xu Xiao gave him a chestnut on the head, Any more nonsense and I'll really leave you behind!

Seeing that she just pedaled herself forward, Xu Yuan clenched his teeth, pedaled hard, and the bike quickly rushed to her side.

Xu Xiao was still half a step away from him at first, and slowly her speed became faster and faster, and Xu Yuan could only even use his maximum speed to keep up.

The street all kinds of models of cars have been crowded into a pile, collision scraped the vehicle across the center of the road quite a lot, which also caused a lot of obstacles to those who drove away. Especially the airport highway this road, simply lined up a long line of vehicles.

There was no way that the city leaders and the wealthy businessmen and women within the city received the news not much earlier than the citizens.

The disaster was so sudden and unbelievable that the people who had not yet recovered from the rescue of the meteorite disaster in front of them were now immediately ordered to evacuate. And these people, like the heads of the coastal regulatory authorities, had obtained the image data of the monsters surging onto the land, and basically were the first to consider airplanes to escape.

But who did not expect, the more you want to escape, the more difficult it is, a long line of vehicles raw blocked the road.

The person stuck in the vehicle was honking his horn anxiously, but he didn't realize that the window whooshed past two sharp cycling figures.

Flower ...... Blossom eyes, right?

By the time the frozen people blinked again, the two figures had already crossed over them as fast as lightning, quickly turning into two black dots.

Highly pedaling the bike was not as laborious as she imagined for Xu Xiao, not a burden, but instead gave her the comfort of accelerating and flying.

She was sure that she could have left her brother behind by a large margin and still had more speed if she had wanted to.

At this moment, those manic, agitated forces in her body were gradually stimulated, causing her entire body to fall into a state of metaphysical and frenzied fervor.

But just then, she had heard a hissing sound that was getting closer and louder.

This sound was accompanied by the rustling of many things rubbing against the ground as they crawled, coming in furious surges at breakneck speeds.

Even Xu Yuan, who was pedaling with all his strength, heard those unusual sounds.

Did you hear those voices? He shouted. His short, dark hair was already soaked with sweat, clinging to the corners of his forehead, and beads of bean-sized sweat barred their way down his forehead.

Xu Xiao's heart tightened, just the sound of it had already caused the power in her body to boil and undulate uncontrollably, between thoughts, she suddenly grabbed the handlebars of Xu Yuan's bike next to her with one hand, Hold on tight!

Huh? Ah... the steep acceleration caused even Xu Yuan, who had long been straining his old-fashioned expression, to let out an involuntary shriek.

Eight kilometers, eight whole kilometers, until she stopped, Xu Yuan's face was a little white and cold.

She actually just grabbed his car with one hand and weaved on the highway, and dodged the cars blocking the road just right. In the end, Xu Yuan could no longer see the surrounding scenery clearly, only hearing the whistling wind in his ears and breathing hard.

Looking at the time, less than ten minutes time, they have arrived in front of the terminal building, according to the distance, just now the speed of at least one hundred kilometers per hour, actually faster than the car?

Xu Yuan gasped for air and looked at his sister half speechless.

Xu Xiao didn't know how to explain and simply didn't speak. The feeling that her blood was boiling, she couldn't talk about it. The high speed movement where she could still clearly judge the weird dynamic vision in front of her, she couldn't speak either.

Finally Xu Yuan smoothed over his breath, gave her a blank look, and gasped, Next time you're like this ...... please give me ...... a word first ......

Xu Xiao pursed his lips and hmmmed.

The interior of the airport was far more chaotic than the streets, and those who came here were informed people who had received all sorts of news and were more anxious than the average citizen to get out of such a dangerous place.

The entire floor of the waiting hall was littered with clutter, stepped on by countless people, at this point no one cared about those out-of-body things, they looked at the tightly packed army-controlled security entrance in despair, not knowing when they would be able to leave.

When Xu Xiao and his two men came in, the airport hall radio was broadcasting over and over again, Please take the initiative to queue up the stranded travelers, it is now a temporary emergency, all passengers are exempted from boarding formalities for check-in, and boarding will be done directly from the security entrance.

The siblings looked at each other, and Xu Xiao said to Xu Yuan, If we can't get in after ten minutes, we'll ride our bikes out of town.

Inside the downtown area of Ningzhou, it was in a state of panic at this time.

Due to the monster wave triggered in advance by the neighboring coastal city of Donghua, Ningzhou faced the first wave of impact more than twenty hours earlier than other coastal cities in the Celestial Kingdom.

The situation in East Birch City changed too quickly and too suddenly, and by the time the troops reacted, the entire city was in ruins, with empty streets sprinkled with human blood and broken flesh.

And the monsters didn't stop their forward progress by satiating themselves with this meal; they stalled within East Birch City for less than half an hour before continuing to push inland.

Citizens who had not yet left the city at this time and were stranded in Ningzhou City could clearly and truly see the intense outpouring of fighter jets as well as the blinding flashes of fire that exploded in the distance when a missile struck.

World War?

Many people's first reaction is this.

Those deafening explosions forced them to finally realize that the situation was critical, and they fled out of the city in a hurry.

Xu Xiao's hearing at this time as well as reached an unfathomable intensity, after staying at the airport for less than ten minutes, the explosions from the missile strikes rang out abruptly, close to filling her ears were the screams of people, messy running sounds, alarms as well as the sounds of large buildings collapsing.

Most clearly it was accompanied by the rustling sound of a human *being* torn to shreds.

Because as the friction sound of these crawling creatures intensified, the power in Xu Xiao's body became even more foolish, like leaping and cheering their arrival.

She gasped, her body trembling uncontrollably from extreme self-control.

Seo Won was the first to notice her difference and hurriedly held her up.

But this support does not matter, the touch will feel her higher body temperature, Xu Xiao's white face, as if stained with a layer of rouge, her pair of eyes are also covered with water mist, under the water mist is all reddish blood.

Xu Yuan thought to himself, sure enough, the fever hadn't gone down yet, and he had to find a way to squeeze into a place with water to give her a cool compress.

Looking around at the crowd that was crowding and shoving, he was again uneasy about leaving her alone, fearing that if she couldn't support herself and collapsed, she would be trampled by the crowd just like that.

I knew it would be like this, what was the point of showing off just now. Xu Yuan grumbled with his mouth, but hung his backpack on his chest before carrying Xu Xiao on his back.

Chapter V. Airport riots

Many times, Xu Xiao thought about whether he was right or wrong to take in this child.

Nowadays, the injustice and unfairness in the society is not something she can control as a girl who has not yet entered the society, and it is not for her to recognize the good guys and the bad guys.

The line between a good man and a bad man is often thinner than a piece of paper. The benefactor who once made you grateful may be wearing a false mask of hypocrisy, amiably carrying a bowl of soup with arsenic and watching you drink it with a smile.

After all the experiences during the bouncing around relatives' homes, Xu Xiao has actually become less casual about trusting people.

Leaving Xu Yuan behind was an impulse. She had also worried that the child who had grown up over the years in the dark corners of society would just disappear one day and take with him the pitiful amount of money her mother had gotten in exchange for her death.

But now, lying on his still somewhat thin but very reliable shoulders, feeling his somewhat unsteady steps, Xu Xiao's eyes burned and silently pressed a few points closer to his head.

The teenager's figure was still a bit thin, even though he had grown well over the past two years, it was still quite a strain to carry Xu Xiao, who was nearly one meter seven tall.

Coupled with the fact that he had just pedaled his bike at high speed for so long, the physical exertion was too great, and his legs were a little shaky just after he had carried her.

Xu Yuan dealt with the pushing crowd while carrying his sister, but he didn't expect her cheeks to actually come so close to him, her burning breath suddenly sprayed on his ears, and the unique fragrant body fragrance of a young girl drilled into his nose one by one, causing his mind to be confused, and the roots of his ears to turn red.

Perhaps in Xu Xiao's eyes, he had always been that little yakuza lying on the ground with a gray head and serious injuries, a child in need of love and protection.

Yet in his eyes, she was the most beautiful woman in his heart.

He opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, tightening his face with a displeased expression, while his cheeks were tinted with a reddish haze that Xu Xiao couldn't see.

Man, a very complex creature.

In everyone, there is no lack of solidarity, self-sacrifice and other human glory, especially in the face of disaster, the more kind people, the more likely to burst from the heart of this characteristic.

However, people also have more selfish, sinister, ruthless and brutal character, rationality is just a reciprocal equation, once the survival environment is poor, facing the survival of life and death, negative and dark emotions, it will be difficult to suppress.

Before Xu Yuan could take two steps, a woman's screaming voice came over, laced with panic.

There are monsters in the city and people are being eaten! I want to leave! Let me go! She couldn't wait any longer, and a MMS from a friend in town crushed all her nerves.

She shouted so loudly, and those who knew a little about the situation sat down likewise, as if they had received a compulsion to do so.

Let us go!

We've been waiting for hours, when do we have to wait?

There was even a fat woman whose face was green with fear who tilted her head and screamed at a soldier with a gun in front of her, Do you know who my husband is? If you don't let me through, can you afford to take the blame if anything goes wrong?!

The tight-faced soldier glanced at her, I don't know. Even if you're the President, you'll have to get in line.

Call your leader over here, no, call your officer! The fat woman was plastered to break free of the damn blockade.

Those after her yelled back, Let us through, let us through!

The voices were like a tidal wave, one after another, gradually reverberating into a lurid sound wave in the confined space of the airport waiting room.

That's what happened when our Chief of Staff came over! The soldier didn't budge an inch.

Give me your chief of staff's phone number, I'll call him, I don't believe I can't get out of Ningzhou City today! The fat woman's voice tone became more and more drawn out.

Shut up! I'll shoot anyone who makes any more noise! The domineering, low bellowing voice of a well-built man wearing a uniform with the rank of Major General made the ears of several people standing around him perk up.

Chief of Staff, she ......

The man waved his hand directly to interrupt the soldier's words, his voice strong: You did nothing wrong, continue!

Yes.

This chief of staff is called Pan Weiguo, a military district chief of staff who has just been promoted to the rank of major general, only forty years old, he comes from a military family, and the influence of his family has always made his style more hardcore. His ability to

He was also one of the people who knew the inside story of this mission. He was also a human being, and it would be a lie to say that he wasn't afraid. As the leader of the combat unit, he was even more aware of the horror of those monsters that appeared out of nowhere from the sea.

However, having been assigned the task of being in charge of the airport evacuation in Ningzhou, he had to stick to it to the end.

The ignorant, usually spoiled official wives have no idea of the consequences once they are in disarray. There are a limited number of airplanes, and the runway and dispatch have to be prepared. If a large crowd breaks through this barrier and floods onto the runway, then no one will be able to leave at the end of the day!

What are the consequences of staying behind, Pan Weiguo's undershirt was in a cold sweat whenever that thought popped up.

He was a soldier, a soldier who had been raised by his family to have excellent combat command skills, yet he had no real solution to the destruction that was coming.

In fact, he hadn't been wrong, and Ningzhou had suffered the most casualties because it had been invaded earlier than the other coastal cities due to the accident along the coast. If he was keeping in touch with his comrades on the front lines of the city right now he would know that there was no longer a single person to contact.

The monsters that emerged from the sea had amazing defenses and were extremely fast, especially the small but flexible silkworm-like thread-like monsters that rushed to the forefront, and once they were contaminated, they would be drilled into their bodies, and it would not take more than a few seconds for them to take a life.

Downtown Ninjo gradually turned into a dead ruin amidst shell bombardment and human screams.

What do you mean? Huh? Shoot me, all right! Come on! Heh, I just don't believe it, the people's troops don't serve the people and turn their guns on their own people!

In the face of the fat woman's shrewdness, Pan Weiguo made a wise decision, with a look, two soldiers stepped forward, regardless of whether she was a woman or not, and punched her.

As the fat woman's eyes rolled white and crossed the floor, Pan Weiguo raised a finger, his voice resounding, I emphasize again, whoever makes trouble, I'll deal with them, without any mercy!

Xu Yuan had already placed a cold water towel on his sister's forehead, it wasn't as if he hadn't heard the commotion ahead, it was just that in his opinion, the chances of them wanting to get out of here quickly were a few points less.

But with Xu Xiao in this state, I'm afraid it would be difficult for them to escape on bicycles again.

Xu Xiao similarly saw this, and she was anxious in her heart, a minute late was dangerous.

Suddenly, a little girl ran out of the crowd, and a man shouted from behind, Tong Tong, don't run!

I don't want to! Mommy got bitten by a monster! The little girl shouted.

The crowd sniffs and quiets for the first time, the knowledge that children don't lie is a bit of an understatement, but as the crowd disperses in the direction they ran out of, the small space that is vacated is sprawled out with a young woman spattered with blood and water.

She pressed down on her leg as hard as she could to try and stop the bleeding, but the blood continued to pour out until her side was all drenched in red. She turned her eyes around and hissed in fear, Doctor, is there a doctor around? Save me ...... save me ......

But none of them dared to move.

Didn't that little girl just yell? She was bitten by a monster. They don't even know what bit them, how dare they touch this injured young woman, what if she has some kind of virus on her?

The two Xu Xiao, who were closest to her, frowned slightly, they could still clearly see a fruit knife inserted by the young woman's leg, where it was bitten, it was clearly man-made.

It is said that the human heart is numb, Xu Xiao today to see deeply, those who clearly see the truth turn their heads and turn around and pretend not to see the indifference.

Maybe they don't want to be indifferent either, it's just that we all have a common goal right now.

At this time, only another sharp female voice called out, Is the monster mixed up among us?

Her voice caused the crowd, which had returned to calm, to boil up again.

If the female voice just now only made those people feel more anxious, as the fat woman did, most of them panicked when that voice shouted now.

For seeing blood!

Because so many people have witnessed people being attacked dying!

In times of crisis, no one bothered to look deeper into why the same female voice was shouting both times;

No one checked to see if the mom who was supposedly bitten was actually bitten;

Even less noticed that the man chasing the little girl had picked up his daughter and stood eye to eye with the woman who had screamed that the monster was in their midst.

Underground love for so many years, now can finally solve the obstruction of the main room name hand in hand, they are excited, actually did not even give half a bit of pity to the fallen woman, just excitedly waiting for this opportunity to be able to rush out.

Escape!

That's the only word that comes to almost everyone's head.

The crowd waiting for the plane rioted!

They panic because they don't want to die.

Anyone who wants to live, and most of them are even more people with ten thousand dollars of wealth and lofty status, they want to live to enjoy their lives even more.

The security checkpoints were slowly releasing one by one the passengers lined up to enter the plane ride, and no one expected a sudden riot like this in the back.

Hundreds of people frantically surged forward, trying to grab the chance to get out, the chance to live!

Icy gunshots finally rang out, and the maddened crowd fell in rows.

Pan Weiguo had an iron face, and a hint of pain passed through his eyes. If he could, he didn't want to take action against his own people, but for the safety of more people, he had to do it.

The stunned people backed away, staring daggers at the bodies on the ground.

If you don't rush, you'll die. If you rush forward, you'll die now.

The soldiers who made the move looked at the bodies, and a deep apology rose on their faces, but they were soldiers, and even if the orders were unreasonable, they had to obey and carry them out.

Ringing, Pan Weiguo's cell phone rang at this time, and his face finally eased after he answered a call from his top boss.

Now, I'm going to give you one minute for all of you to line up in 7 columns! Pan Weiguo picked up the megaphone and shouted, If you observe order, I'll let you all enter through all 7 entrances at the same time to take the airplane right now!

He did not say that he had received the news that the situation in Ningzhou was now the most serious, and the whole country had urgently mobilized a large number of planes, military helicopter gunships and all, based on the maximum number of airports in Ningzhou that could withstand the situation, to make sure that as many people as possible could leave safely.

After receiving this call, Pan Weiguo already knew that within the city limits of Ningzhou, perhaps only the neighboring inland suburban airport here still had living people.

For once, the crooked-minded, the impulsive, the various people who wanted to leave as soon as possible obeyed.

There are less than three thousand people stranded here, seven columns, each column of hundreds of people, at the same time, if you go, it will not take much time. This time, people are crazy to grab the position of the column, a time of shouting and cursing and crying in all directions.

Xu Xiao's two men were in the fifth column, and halfway through the line, they only heard a loud boom as the munitions dropped by the fighter jets exploded in the parking lot closest to the terminal, and the entire building shook violently.

The crowd let out a burst of screams, and Xu Xiao crouched down holding Xu Yuan's head as fast as she could.

He didn't help himself, and at this time, he was close to his sister's soft □ breasts, Xu Yuan's face reddened for a moment, and his body was also moving, and his eyes overflowed with shyness.

The soldiers who were originally maintaining order at the security check entrance received a unified order at this time, and all of them crossed the crowd toward the main entrance of the terminal building to form a single line.

The rustle of crawling at breakneck speed was clearly audible to everyone present at this point.

What followed was a succession of gunshots.

Xu Xiao's body, which had just been feverish and restless, actually calmed down quickly after actually seeing the form of the monster that had attacked.

Her eyes widened unconsciously, faintly glowing with a hint of gold.

Between her pupils contracting slightly like a wild animal, she could see more clearly that at the front, the soldiers' bullets could break or smash those silkworm-shaped, multi-legged monsters less than a meter long, but those bullets could only force back the horseshoe crab-like monsters with hard black shells and waving flailing limbs. There were also some monsters of indescribable forms that were waiting to break out at the back with their teeth and claws.

The distance between them and the soldiers' defense line gradually decreases.

Hundred meters.

Fifty meters.

......

But the speed of their advance was hampered, and although they weren't afraid of guns, it didn't mean that they could keep from retreating under the intense bullets. It was the steadfastness of the soldiers at the front that ensured that all of these thousands of people were finally evacuated into the interior, towards the runway for boarding.

The tower command room at the airport had its doors and windows completely closed, and the commanders were securing the last of the planes for safe takeoff, but they knew that they feared they would not have another chance to leave.

All the doors of the terminal were also completely closed at Pan Weiguo's order, and the ground crew followed the crowd as they fled.

The soldiers in the front line of defense had no way to retreat.

Soon, the thin defense line of soldiers was surrounded by the ferocious tide of monsters coming in.

Faced with a black mass of all kinds of monsters, the soldiers who appeared isolated lowered their guns in their hands. They were trembling all over, and some of them even looked frightened and shed tears. They were all human beings, with fear and love of life, who would want to die until the last moment?

The last thing you could do was to shoot your comrades across the room the moment the monster lunged forward.

A bullet, once and for all, is better than the pain of being torn alive. If you are brothers, let each other go in peace.

In the time that the soldiers in front of them made with their lives, they allowed several airplanes to take off one after another.

Xu Xiao and Xu Yuan were crammed into the large military helicopter that had been temporarily called in, and nearly a hundred people were packed together like sardines.

The propellers turned up, the plane was ready, and the tires slowly came off the ground.

Chapter 6: Separation of Life and Death

Just then, the wave of monsters had poured into the airport runway.

Several civilian airliners no longer had a chance to take off, and the one closest to the terminal was quickly and densely crawling with monsters.

The passengers who were boarding the closest airplane to the only helicopter where Xu Xiao and the two of them were located saw the bad situation and turned around to run towards the helicopter.

The airliner was too late to take off, but the helicopter was already in mid-air.

In order to stay alive, the dozen or so people who came running wildly for the 100-meter sprint had long since surpassed the speed of a sprint flyer, setting yet another round of world records.

Pull us up!

Release the soft ladder! The helicopter pilot shouted to his comrades in the cabin.

The helicopter slowly lifted off, kicking up powerful air currents, and the soft ladder below hung next to a dozen or so desperate flyers who were scrambling up the ladder, no one wanting to be below the most dangerous of them all.

The soft ladder wasn't anyone's forte in climbing it, and it swayed even more as they scrambled to be the first.

Still, the monsters were too fast, and several of the first ones to rush over began to lunge at the people hanging from the soft ladder.

The pilot's face sank as he heard the screams from below, the direction of the aircraft was turned at an angle, and with a click of his finger, the lower end of the helicopter gunship opened fire.

The monsters that were hit let out strange cries of zizz and hissed as they landed on the ground, but soon they came charging forward again.

The helicopters rose unchanged, and the firepower did not diminish. The people on the airplane were ordinary people who had never experienced such a scene. At this time, no matter whether they were familiar or not, they all hugged each other in fear.

Xu Xiao and Xu Yuan tightly embraced each other, both of them biting their lips with pale faces and trembling bodies.

Especially Xu Xiao, who now had more sensitive senses than ordinary people, and did not know how to control this power. The sound of the gunshot was so close that it was already deafening, but to her, it was even more of a loud noise like her eardrums wanting to crack, causing her a great deal of pain.

Steeply, someone exclaimed, Oh my God! The airplane is being pulled by them!

Only to see that the group of monsters below changed their strategy slightly in front of the powerful firepower, like humans, knowing to avoid the front. Turning their eyes to overlap each other, their knuckle limbs tightly entwined, like a long black chain, constantly extending upwards, the uppermost one had already wrapped around the soft ladder of the helicopter.

The intelligence of the monster was shocking, the pilot gradually felt a strong pull from the ground, the helicopter had signs of losing control.

Throw the soft ladder down!

At this point, the pilot can only guarantee that the ones in his plane can leave safely, and nothing else can be assisted.

Don't! Help us, we'll be up in a minute!

Seeing that they were going to be abandoned, the people on the soft ladder went up even more frantically.

The strength of the pulling chain formed by the monsters below gradually increased, and the people on the soft ladder again exploded with a strong potential for survival. The airplane, which was already somewhat out of control, became even more shaky and rapidly fell to one side and tilted.

The people in the airplane were supposed to be standing right next to each other, not pulling on anything. As soon as the plane tilted, many of them let out a scream and plummeted downward.

Xu Xiao also only felt a slip under his feet, and his body involuntarily slid out of the airplane together with Xu Yuan.

Luckily, the two had been standing relatively close together, and the moment they fell out of the plane, the soft ladder had fallen and the plane quickly righted itself.

The moment he fell out, Xu Yuan reacted extremely fast and clasped the edge of the cabin with one hand and pulled his sister's wrist with the other, although his backpack fell from the airplane, but as long as he pulled the person, he was fine.

Unfortunately, he was always still a half-grown teenager, without strong enough arms, much less complete fingers. He was already barely able to bear his own weight with one hand, let alone having to pull Xu Xiao through the shaking of the airplane.

In less than two seconds, his three fingers gripping the hook showed signs of loosening.

At this moment, he knew he and his sister were hopeless, and he couldn't catch them anymore ......

But just at this time, a sharp pain came from his wrist that was pulling Xu Xiao, his fingers involuntarily loosened, and when he reacted, all he saw was the figure of Xu Xiao falling down.

Xu Xiao! Xu Yuan's body reacted one step faster than thinking, his hands were loose, and he saw that he was about to jump after her, but a pair of hands reached out behind him and pulled him back.

Catch!

My sister fell! Xu Yuan roared with red eyes.

But the one who grabbed Xu Yuan was one of the soldiers in charge of the evacuation of the group, just now that instant, more fell down was standing by the door of his comrades, looking at the quickly surrounded by a group of monsters and torn to pieces by his comrades, he is also red-eyed and bad, a punch to pull up after the still screaming Xu Yuan knocked over to the ground.

What? She fell down and you want to follow her to her death! If I had known you were so useless, I would have thrown you down! If she hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have bothered to save you, I can only hold you back, you know!

The soldier who yelled over to Xu Yuan was furious, damn brats don't realize that some people don't stand a chance even if they struggle to stay alive!

The survivors around them were shaken and cowering in the corners of the plane in clusters of panic.

Xu Yuan sprawled on the ground, his face hot and painful, since childhood there has been no shortage of beatings, more painful and more brutal have, but there is no time like now so painful to the bottom of the heart.

How did he let go? He actually dropped her!

Hands clenched into fists with death, Xu Yuan lay on the floor, face down, with tears of silent remorse dripping down his face.

He blamed himself for letting go of his hand due to his lack of strength, trading Xu Xiao's life for a chance to be saved.

He's too weak if his hand isn't disabled ...... if he's stronger ......

He's not happy about it!

The helicopter gradually lifted off the ground, free from the hold of the ground monsters.

Standing on the edge of the cabin, all that could be seen below was the crumbling city of black smoke, a cascading tide of black monsters surging through.

As he fell from mid-air, Xu Xiao's line of sight did not leave Xu Yuan's body until he saw him being pulled up, then he revealed a trace of a reassuring smile.

It was but an instant from sliding out of the cabin to crashing down to Xu Yuan pulling on the iron hook at the edge.

Compared to Xu Yuan, Xu Xiao's eyesight that had become somewhat perverted now, in that moment of violent shaking clearly saw the expression of a soldier at the edge of the cabin who hesitated to pull them up.

She noticed that the soldier had also only clasped his hand on the edge of the cabin, and if he went to grab someone with one hand, he would probably only be able to pull one person under the violent shaking of the plane's fuselage. Therefore, the soldier's face was hesitant, because once he reached out, not only would he not be able to save them, he was afraid that he himself would have to be planted out of the cabin.

Either both die together.

It was either that or take a gamble on the soldier and see if he could save them both.

Either that or she falls and bets that he'll be rescued.

Faced with several possibilities, Xu Xiao quickly made a decision.

Raising her eyes to look deeply at Xu Yuan, Xu Xiao raised her hand and struck his wrist heavily, forcing him to let go of her.

All people fear death, not everyone has the courage to give their lives for others, and reason often leads a person to abandon deep feelings that were once established.

But Xu Xiao's hope in that moment was to give him a chance to live.

The distance between life and death was often just a thought away, and Xu Xiao closed his eyes in resignation.

The fall was extremely short and seemed like it was extremely long.

As she crashed to the ground, she felt the impact of a powerful force make her a little dizzy, but there was no sharp pain of broken bones as she had imagined.

A bloody odor first filled the surroundings, and Xu Xiao's pupils tightened as he fixed his eyes on it.

What came into view was a pair of black bean-like compound eyes, and inside the exaggeratedly huge mouth, it was covered with sharp teeth that glittered with cold light, and there were a few blood-stained cloths and scarlet meat tendons from the army uniforms hanging on the sharp teeth.

The huge head was as wide as half of Xu Xiao's body, and the body stood tall with the support of the tail, revealing a circle of black abdominal flesh, and the sharp and slender jointed limbs cautiously danced in a tentative manner.

Apparently the monster was a bit strange, not directly attacking Xu Xiao like it did with ordinary people, but instead hovering around with some hesitant doubt.

Xu Xiao's heart had never beat so fast as it was right now, her heart pounding powerfully in her chest as if it was about to burst out of her throat the next moment. Facing this kind of monster so closely and directly, she was afraid, she was at a loss for words, and the innate human desire to survive forced her to force herself to suppress her screams of terror back into her throat.

The pungent gore around her made her sick to her stomach, and she braced her hands against the ground, meeting the monster on all fours, even her breath becoming faintly audible.

The monster also locked onto Xu Xiao's movements, from time to time stretching out its knuckles in the air to try and move forward.

Around them, there were still a large number of monsters witnessing all this, but they did not launch a swarm attack, nor did they leave, instead, they surrounded Xu Xiao, vigilantly and carefully keeping their distance from her.

Xu Xiao had never thought that he could be so peaceful in the midst of a swarm of monsters.

She eyed the scene around her where the bodies of some of the humans that hadn't yet been devoured were being partaken of by the monsters; they were cold, brutal, and highly aggressive, and such monsters, while not turning a blind eye to her, kept a considerable distance.

The only one that seemed to have a leap of faith was the one on her front.

After a long time, Xu Xiao felt the pain in her body disappear, she looked at the endless black monsters around her, clenched her teeth and stood up.

However, she did not expect that when she moved, the monster was immediately stimulated in general, and its mouth opened completely, letting out a hiss as it rushed to bite at Xu Xiao's head.

There was a click, a cracking sound of something hard penetrating the body.

The shell of the monster, which bullets couldn't even penetrate easily, shattered and fell to the ground like an eggshell.

After Xu Xiao opened his eyes, which were tightly closed in resignation, what he saw was the monster's sticky body | liquid flowing from his arm, as well as the monster's body which was still trembling and writhing.

The moment it attacked, out of instinct, Xu Xiao reached out to block it, and her white jade smooth arm just plunged hard into the monster's head, as if her hand was touching a piece of soft tofu.

Not only that, but she herself didn't understand what was happening, that those arms could actually churn the monster's insides into a crumbly mess.

Retracting his hand, Xu Xiao saw the monster softly sliding down to the ground, too dead to die.

The tiny golden scales that had vaguely surfaced on her arms disappeared without a trace.

An unconscious block directly killed a monster, Xu Xiao did not think that he had such a perverted power.

Is that why those monsters avoided her?

She had a feeling that she hadn't even touched the introductory level of power within her.

With one step, the monster following behind Xu Xiao advanced a step, but the monster opposite her took a step back.

They did avoid her, and though she looked no different than a human and smelled of a body that made them extremely appetizing, their life forms had a most instinctive knowledge of sensing what was a threatening presence.

What's more, to them, rank was irreversible. They could sense the vaguely emanating pressure of a higher rank from her body that made them have to back off.

Stepping on the ground and not knowing which poor people's pieces of flesh were on the ground, Xu Xiao finally couldn't hold back and after vomiting twice in disgust, he walked out of the airport hall with a white face.

Black smoke billowed everywhere from what had once been an airport highway, and the fighters ahead had retreated to take up positions in cities further inland.

Lift your eyes and look at the mess.

People were trying to escape and ended up jammed in the road and no one ended up escaping.

The cars lined up in a long line fell to the ground, some of them were shattered by the monsters, and some of the blood on them had already congealed, on the highway, apart from the traces of the shells, there were puddles of blood and shattered corpses, and a large number of monsters were still coaxing the remnants of the leftover meat, and only when Xu Xiao approached would they hesitate for a moment and then back off to make a way out.

Xu Xiao's two eyes were sour, gently sighed, this city, I'm afraid that it is difficult to have living people.

Lifting her arm, she checked again, the tiny scales that had been there when she killed the monster could not reappear no matter what she did now.

The recent consecutive mutations in her body, the instantaneous pleasure and strength of killing the monster, all of these made Xu Xiao's heart begin to panic, the bloodlust and violence that welled up in the deepest part of her body was like a slowly invading poison, letting her experience the power of possessing strength while also corrupting the humanity belonging to herself.

Whether she was no longer human, whether she would one day become the same as them.

The mental shock was too strong, so much so that instead of going out of the city in the normal direction, Xu Xiao stared ahead with his eyes woodenly as he slowly walked into the city of Ningzhou.

Chapter 7: The Survivors

By the time the sun sank below the horizon, Xu Xiao had already re-entered the inner city. The backpack on her back was still there, but communication tools like her cell phone were shattered into crumbs, and with Xu Yuan's backpack having fallen off, there was no way to contact him to report that she was safe.

No monsters dared to attack her along the way, and she just wanted to find a place to land and rest first.

Power and communications within the city have been completely paralyzed, with the water system fortunately still functioning.

Finding a supermarket and grabbing some random dry food, she shattered a department store window and grabbed a few new sets of clothes before the night □ came to an end, and found a hotel to rinse off the blood that had stained her body in an unoccupied room.

Even if the smell of blood was still heavy, she gradually and reluctantly adapted, and after vomiting repeatedly a few times, she began to be able to swallow some food.

Nibbling on dry food and drinking cold water, her food intake was terrifyingly large ever since her body produced changes. Eating a large amount of food continuously, her stomach didn't bulge half as much as if the food had just been swallowed and completely digested.

The city in the darkness was even more terrifying than in the daytime, the whole city was deathly silent, and every now and then the horrible hissing of the monsters rang out.

The unseen horrors were more palpable in the unlit night.

Fumbling, Xu Xiao picked up a cell phone at the hotel reception, changed his card, logged on to microblogging, QQ sent a message that he was safe, the wireless network was also paralyzed.

Communication and internet are no longer available.

Staring at her cell phone which was the only light in the darkness, Xu Xiao didn't know if there was any chance for Xu Yuan to go online and see the message she had left, she grabbed the hotel bed and wrapped it around her body and just curled up against the wall and dozed off. She was really too tired and weak, in fact, her body had no problem, it was mainly the mental exhaustion brought about by the continuous tension.

She was a light sleeper, and as soon as she went to sleep she would dream that she had turned into a gaping monster, drooling and snatching human flesh from her companions, and finally being wiped out by human armies under fire.

Don't kill me! Don't! I'm human!

In the deep darkness of the night, she woke up over and over again, and forced her shivering self back to sleep.

From time to time rustling noises passed by, many of them hesitating for a moment in front of her room door before fading away again.

The nightmarish day of July 22 passed, and Xu Xiao ushered in the morning of July 23 amidst a cacophony of noise.

She landed in the hotel across the street is the City Public Security Bureau, pushed open the window to look out, but also to see the dense stacked waves of monsters gathered.

Dang! Dang!

They were using their sharp knuckles to pound hard on a special riot van that was trudging past the entrance to the city's Public Security Bureau.

After meeting with the monsters for so long, Xu Xiao also knew a little bit about their habits. They were extremely hungry and mainly fed on humans, and the only thing that could attract them to gather was human flesh and blood.

I didn't realize that there were actually other survivors, but looking at the number of these monsters around, that car wouldn't last long.

Xu Xiao looked at her hands, unlike in the nightmare, she wasn't a monster yet, she was still human.

But she was also aware that she was different from ordinary people. Perhaps now because of that difference, she could use her odd powers to help others.

I don't know how far I can go, but let's go check out the other side first.

Taking a deep breath, Xu Xiao put on his own backpack and trailed over.

City Public Security Bureau diagonally across the street is a large supermarket Wal-Mart, next to the supermarket is the Rainbow International Mall, riot control vehicle steeply accelerated, crashed into the supermarket, falling broken bricks and walls quickly buried the front end of the car solidly, leaving only a window of the part of the car.

The driver was obviously very skillful in not giving the monster a gap to rush into the wall while keeping the car mostly intact.

The window was quickly rolled down and a man moved nimbly to get out of it.

When the monster wave hit, Ning Zhou City received evacuation information, and all large-scale outlets were closed. Compared to those small stores that lived on the street, this place was instead much cleaner and safer.

Only this safety is also temporary; the man must get what he needs before they burrow into the sale.

Xu Xiao didn't want to be seen head-on as she walked out of the swarm of monsters unharmed, she turned the corner and looked at the transparent corridor on the second floor of the mall, her legs slightly bent as she leapt up.

Xu Xiao, who couldn't even pass the one-meter-three long jump in school, jumped so gently that he actually reached out and reached the second-floor window.

This action is the same one that the monster did yesterday when it lunged from the ground at the man on the soft ladder.

What they could do, Xu Xiao gradually had the mentality that