Chapter 562 Melee in the night

"Snapped!"

  Sudden gunshots shattered the silence of the night, and the originally quiet street boiled like a pot of boiling water.

   "Tud-chug-!"

  Orange tracers shuttled recklessly in the night, and the continuous gunshots were like exploding firecrackers. The mutants in the park were caught off guard.

   But only at first.

  Those mutants seem to have long been accustomed to sudden sneak attacks.

  They dragged the fallen companions back behind the bunker, then picked up the guy, roared and launched a counterattack in the direction where the gunfire sounded.

  Ye Shi quickly glanced at the map, comparing it to the area where the gunfire sounded.

  He can be sure.

  There is no one of my own there.

  Almost at the same time as the gunshot exploded, a noisy sound came from the communication channel.

   "Fuck, who fired the shot?!"

   "Night Ten???"

  Hearing his ID, Ye Shi couldn't help spraying.

   "Did you hear the sound of the electromagnetic gun?"

   These dogs!

   At this time, I was still teasing Lao Tzu.

   "Quiet! It's not our gunfire!" At the critical moment, Lao Bai was reliable and quickly interrupted the quarrel in the public microphone.

   If you listen carefully, the first gunshot is indeed not the sound of LD-47. After playing the game for so long, he can still hear the gunshot.

  However, among the crackling gunshots that sounded later, some of them were obviously made by LD-47.

  Perhaps it was because the recoil force of the full-power bullet could not be suppressed, and the shots were very short, maintaining the rhythm of two or three rounds and one shuttle.

  Ye Shi immediately made a judgment in his heart.

  These people are using brand-name equipment!

  Although it is impossible to judge whether these people are elite from the gunshots alone, at least it can be judged that they should not be very rich.

   Could it be a mercenary?

   Just as he was thinking so, Elder Brother Fang's voice came from the communication channel. Hearing a few gunshots from McLean, Team B led by him should be very close to the firefighting area.

   "...there was a firefight on North 13th Street, and someone besides us was following this place."

   While reporting the situation, a group of photos were simultaneously uploaded to the team member's VM.

  Although the night-shrouded street was pitch black, the outline of the group of people could still be roughly seen through the light of the gun flames.

   There are about a dozen of them, wearing different styles of casual clothes, and the weapons in their hands are also different, so it is impossible to judge their camp based on their equipment.

  However, they all have a unified symbol, which is the armband wrapped around the left arm. There seems to be an elongated arrow drawn on it, and it looks like a high-voltage electricity tower or a signal tower when zoomed in.

   At this time, news came from the wind.

   "The nearby mutant tribe sent reinforcements. The terrain is complex and the number of people cannot be determined. There are twelve modified armored vehicles that can be seen."

  Ye Shi was startled when he heard this.

   "Armored vehicles?!"

  Gust: "It's just a transformation of the level of welded steel plates... But there are some strangely shaped weapons on it that I am more concerned about. These mutants may not be the same as what we have encountered before."

  Old Bai: "How long will it take to arrive?"

  Guangfeng: "Within three minutes."

   After a brief pause in the communication channel, Lao Bai made a decisive judgment.

   "We have to find a way to figure out their identities, and it is best to bring back two alive."

  The group of unknown armed forces that suddenly launched an attack was obviously just a feint attack, and did not intend to take down the research facility occupied by mutants.

  That's good judgment.

  Guerrilla warfare and fortified warfare are completely different in style and scale. He can tell just by listening to the intensity of the firefight and the distribution of gunshots.

   Apparently this isn't the first time they've harassed the mutants here.

  If these NPCs are the same as the resistance organization in Xizhou City, they are all survivors who were oppressed by mutants and the Torch Church.

   They might work together.

  Fang Chang: "Leave it to me... My group of people is likely to have an accident, and one or two should be rescued."

  Old Bai: "Ye Shi, you support him, groups A, C, and D retreat, and here we hand over to group B and investigation."

   A uniform answer came from the communication channel.

"receive!"

  In the darkness, a group of soldiers wearing exoskeletons started to move, and Fang Chang led three teammates to the rear of the group of guerrillas they were eyeing.

   Mutants are apparently also targeting this group.

  The group of green-skinned guys seemed to know that it was impossible to catch all the mice, so they planned to concentrate on catching the few jumpiest ones first.

  The guerrilla soldiers seemed to realize something, and began to shrink their positions. However, what they were facing was not ordinary soldiers, but mutants who were not afraid of death.

  Those green-skinned guys are like cancer cells, even if half of their body is blown off, they can still survive. Unless the bullet shattered the skull, a few shots in the body would not hurt them at all.

  In order to avoid alarming the enemy, the Viper transport plane parked on a tall building withdrew from the battlefield first, and flew to the evacuation point at the back.

   Lie on the edge of the building again.

  Ye Shi skillfully unfolded the bipod of the Type 15 "Python" Gauss rifle, and adjusted the scope to thermal imaging mode.

   Black and white are distinct in the field of view.

  White dots of light hiding in the darkness instantly revealed the positions of the two sides in the exchange of fire.

   "Can you see it from the three o'clock direction?"

  Comparing the map and markings on the tactical eyepiece, Ye Shi quickly determined the location of Fang Changsuo.

  A group of mutants is moving quickly in the semi-collapsed high-rise building, it seems that they intend to transfer to the side and rear of the guerrillas to establish a firepower point.

  Looking at the mutant who threw the machine gun to the side of the broken window and unfolded the bracket, Ye Shi's eyes flashed with surprise.

   Good guy!

   This group of mutants still know tactics? !

   Without time to hesitate, he immediately replied in the communication channel.

   "I saw... a team of about ten people, they are going to set up machine guns."

  Fang Chang: "Kill them!"

"receive!"

   At the same time as the voice fell, Ye Shi had already pulled the trigger.

   There was a slight arc between the barrels, and the recoil hit the shoulder armor evenly, and the stamina was like throwing a javelin.

   At the same time, the mutant who was holding a machine gun hundreds of meters away instantly looked like a watermelon hit by a sap, with red and white scattered all over the ground.

"one!"

   Against soft targets without armor protection, there is no need to charge the capacitor, and it only takes one hit to the head.

   Ye Shi, who killed one, did not relax his breath, and quickly aimed at the next target—the mutant who rushed to take over the machine gun.

"two!"

  The moment the trigger was pulled, another head was blasted to pieces.

  Two mutant fighters were headshot in a row, and the remaining eight mutants suddenly fell into a panic, screaming and not daring to touch the machine gun by the window again.

   Seeing that no one showed their heads for a long time, Ye Shi gently exhaled the stale air in his chest, and a faint smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.

   "Successfully suppressed the firepower of the machine gun!"

  Fang Chang's voice came from the communication channel.

   "Nice job! Keep suppressing...I'll do the rest!"

  The tactical eyepiece projected the aerial picture taken by the drone, which could be seen through the holographic image Ye Shi, and the team led by Fang Chang successfully intercepted the mutant team that circled behind the guerrillas.

   These guys are really different from the mutants they have encountered before.

   Although the tactics of these green-skinned guys are not proficient, they can even be said to be simple and crude, lacking in skills, but they are just right when paired with the tough physique of the mutants.

   There was a piercing buzzing sound, and it accelerated towards the ground, and the convoy of mutants reinforcements in the distance burst into flames.

   That is the handwriting of the wind.

   Judging from the power of the explosion, it is obviously the "Switch Knife" that shined in the Battle of Xizhou City. This thing can even overturn the Conqueror 10 tank, and it is more than enough to destroy a modified truck.

  The sudden explosion blocked the reinforcement convoy on the street, and this also bought some time for the besieged guerrillas to retreat.

   Those people had obviously noticed the helpers who appeared suddenly, and they were trying to join the team led by Fang Chang.

"receive!"

   replied briefly, Ye Shi continued to stare at the thermal imager, fixed his eyes on the machine gun and waited for it, but after waiting for a long time, the third head did not appear.

  A faint source of heat could be seen by the broken door, and he could be sure that the gang of mutants was still there. The group of animals would never have dreamed that their heavy snort was also a source of heat, and it was also outlined in the camera lens by the thermal imager.

  Rubbing the trigger with his index finger, Ye Shi waited a little impatiently.

   To be honest, after playing this game for so long, it was the first time he had seen such a cowardly mutant. After two of them died, they shrank behind the cover and did not dare to show their faces.

   With a move in his heart, the corner of his mouth curled into an evil smile.

   "You like hiding behind cover, don't you?"

   Just in time to try out new gear.

  Before in Luoxia Province, he thought that he could use the Gauss rifle's range advantage and armor-piercing ability to make a big difference, but he didn't expect that his expectations were in vain.

The terrain there is indeed wide, but because it is too wide, the combat distance between the two sides is far beyond the range of rifles. The ultra-long-distance combat is basically handed over to tanks, aircraft and artillery. The raids he participated in did not have sniper rifles at all. A place where you can flex your muscles.

   Just do it, Ye Shi took out a spike-shaped bullet from behind his buttocks.

   This thing is an armor-piercing projectile designed for concrete bunkers, and it is specially designed to deal with those old Yinbi who are hiding and not showing their heads.

  Put the bullet into the barrel of the gun, Ye Shi pressed the charging switch of the capacitor, and then slowly pulled the trigger.

  Current surged from the battery to the high-energy capacitor, and the hot plasma rolled continuously in the gun chamber, and was released the moment he let go of the trigger.

   There was a short explosion, and hot air squeezed out from the muzzle, creating a circle of ripples at the muzzle, and together with the mass bullet fired at high speed, it broke through the sound barrier!

  The bullet drew a hot and transparent trajectory in the night sky, blasted into the dark window like a cannonball, and directly shattered the entire wall.

  The reverse recoil caused the shoulder armor to sway slightly. Looking at the corpse emitting white light in the thermal imager, the corner of Ye Shi's mouth could not help but curl up into a smug smile.

   "Three!"

  The power of this Gauss rifle is really not exaggerated, it directly smashed people and walls.

  Although it's a bit wasteful, it's cool!

  After being shot, the mutants were obviously stunned. They didn't know that the guerrillas who came to find fault every day actually had such abilities.

  With a distance of hundreds of meters, Ye Shi couldn't hear their communication, but it seemed that they were scared out of their wits, and they didn't dare to stay behind the wall anymore, and fled downstairs one after another.

"too weak!"

  However, just when he was complacent, a warning sign crept into his heart quietly, making the hairs all over his body stand up involuntarily.

  Something is following him!

  He could faintly perceive the existence of that thing, but he couldn't perceive the specific direction of the killing intent!

   What is certain is that the guy has probably been eyeing him for a while, maybe when he fired the first shot.

   Only now is it close to within the range of his perception...

   This guy is strong!

   Immediately raised the vigilance of 120 points in his heart, Ye Shi didn't dare to take it too seriously, immediately put away the Gauss rifle on the edge of the building, retreated to the entrance of the safe passage, and shouted in the communication channel at the same time.

   "I seem to be targeted!"

  Fang Chang's voice came from next to his ear.

   "You retreat first, go to the evacuation point immediately! Our side is ready to call it a day."

  Ye Shi immediately replied.

   "Received! See you at the base!"

   One punch blasted open the rusty security door.

  The moment he retreated from the roof to the highest floor, Ye Shi clearly felt that the harbinger of crisis was getting stronger and stronger.

   Going down the stairs might run into the group of mutants head-on. Even power armor might not be able to please the narrow terrain.

   What's more, what he is good at is not fighting head-on, but shooting black guns from a distance.

  Thinking of this, Ye Shi had an idea, resolutely gave up the stairs, dodged to the elevator room, and opened the rusty elevator door with both hands.

   The elevator shaft was pitch black, and the situation below could not be seen clearly.

  He stretched out his hand and tugged at the cable hanging in the center. After confirming that the bearing capacity was sufficient, he put the hook on the lock, and then pulled the cable and jumped down the elevator shaft.

   "呲—"

  Although the weight of the power armor is more than one ton, it is still within the weighing range of the elevator system, and the process of locking and lowering is fairly smooth.

  However, the tooth-piercing metal friction sound was a bit beyond his expectation.

   "Mom... don't let this be heard."

   Shouldn't be so, right?

   Isn’t the sound insulation effect of the elevator shaft quite strong?

   Just as he was thinking this in his heart, the outline of the elevator car suddenly appeared below, and Ye Shi quickly clamped his legs and hook locks and began to slow down.

  Both feet stepped heavily on the top of the elevator car, and the elevator car creaked and shook.

  Ye Shi quickly glanced at the number on the wall, and was relieved to find that this was the tenth floor.

   Next, it should be fine to take the stairs.

  Holding the handle of the top door of the elevator car with his right hand, Ye Eleven tore it off the top of the elevator car and threw it aside.

  However, just as he was about to step in with one foot first, his expression changed slightly.

   What the hell? !

   This hole is too small!

   The top door of the elevator car is only about 1.5 shoulders wide, just enough to get stuck on his shoulder armor. If it gets stuck in mid-air when it is halfway down, Ah Guang, who is peeping at the screen, will laugh out loud.

  That's not okay!

   "MMP! You actually gave me a problem!"

what to do?

  Ye Shi immediately looked around to find a way out, but at this moment, his feet suddenly became empty, and he lost the touch of the ground.

   "Ka—!"

  The momentary weightlessness almost overturned him, and the explosion sounded above his head made him immediately realize what happened.

   Someone blew up the cable.

  The last overhaul was two centuries ago, and the elevator car, whose brake system had completely failed, lost its only traction, and immediately fell into a free fall in the elevator shaft.

  Looking at the rapidly descending floors, Ye Shi's expression changed wildly.

   Although his power armor is the legacy of the Orbital Airborne Division, it must be used with the airborne cabin. He has not heard of any power armor that can jump down with more than a ton of weight naked.

  Maybe some pentagon fighter will do.

   But it's a pity that his character is just a weak chicken in the perception department.

   "I'm blanching—!"

   Careless!

  …

  At the same time, in Hope Town, dozens of kilometers away, Xiao Yu No. 1, who was standing on the edge of the town, suddenly raised his head slightly.

   "Eeh?"

  Hearing the voice from the communication channel, Luo Yu stopped and looked back at it.

"What's wrong?"

  Yuichi and Yuer looked at each other, and tilted their heads for some unknown reason. Yu San looked around, and suddenly a sentence popped out of his mouth.

   "Blanch!"

  Luo Yu: "..."

  嗐.

  He thought that Xiaoyu had discovered something, but it turned out that he just wanted to make his mouth smell bad.

  Heaved a sigh of relief, Luo Yu was about to keep up with the convoy when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a green-skinned guy coming out through the gate of the town.

  Although it was already night and the lights under the fence gate were dim, he was sure that he could see rightly, the face under the hood was green.

   I just don’t know why, his physique is not as burly as a mutant, and his bones and body lines are closer to humans.

   Luo Yu, who was covered in countless hairs, pulled out his weapon almost reflexively, aiming at the guy's head.

   This sudden movement startled everyone around.

  Wu Wenzhou, who led the team, didn't understand the situation, and the green-skinned guy did the same thing as Luo Yu. And this also resulted in ten more rifles pointed at his head.

  Seeing the two men at war, the old guard who was on duty at the gate of the town immediately took off the rifle he was carrying on his back, and walked towards this side with it in his hand.

   "Hey! Stop it buddy! Private fighting is prohibited within 100 meters of the town!"

  Seeing the pitch-black exoskeleton, he instinctively panicked, but he still yelled loudly.

   "Mutants!" Luo Yu stared at the green-skinned guy, "Does this settlement allow mutants to come in and do business?"

   "That guy...isn't really."

  The guard's expression was a little embarrassed, as if he didn't know how to explain it, and he was even more hesitant to help that guy.

   There is no doubt that fighting with weapons is prohibited in settlements. This is the rule, especially for Hope Town, which needs to rely on trade to survive.

   After all, if there are no rules, then everything will be messed up.

   But to be honest, he didn't like these green-skinned guys very much. Even if they looked more like humans, they still had half mutant blood flowing from them.

  Especially most of them are from that tribe of mutants called "Odd".

  There is no survivor in Jinhe City who does not hate and fear those guys.

  The green-skinned guy looked at Luo Yu coldly, pouted suddenly, put away his weapon, and took off his pants silently.

   Startled by his action, Luo Yu hurriedly covered his eyes with his left hand, but in order to aim, he couldn't completely block it, so he slipped a gap between his fingers.

   "Fuck, what are you doing—?"

Huh?

No?

  Looking at the smooth green skin, Luo Yu was stunned.

  He read it in the official website. It is said that some mutants do not have dicks, especially the oldest ones.

  They did not become through breeding, but were born in cultivation tanks, and some of them were even engineers and scholars. If they didn't go crazy, they might still retain human sanity, but such existence is too rare.

  Most guys who are canned and forced to become mutants, for various reasons, will go crazy and become complete animals.

   Very few can stay awake.

  Because this kind of variety synthesized by technical means cannot reproduce, the speed of population expansion is obviously not as fast as the mainstream variety on the wasteland, so it is almost impossible to encounter it on the wasteland.

   I can't be punished by this strange guy.

  By the time Luo Yu came back to his senses, he had already pulled up his pants and walked away.

"...Mixed races, I can occasionally see such a guy, who inherits more genes from his mother, has neither reproductive ability nor mutant physique. I heard that there will probably be one or two mutant cubs out of 10,000 Well, but who knows? Mutants don't give birth in front of us."

   "Moreover, the mutants themselves don't like these guys very much, and usually regard them as a shame, and leave them in the wasteland to fend for themselves."

  Looking at the back of the man leaving, the guard on duty with a rifle squinted his eyes and continued.

"how to say?"

   "They're like mules born from a horse and a donkey, haha."

  The man laughed to ease the atmosphere, and the rest of the caravan also laughed, but Luo Yu always felt a little uncomfortable.

   This kind of metaphor is not only drawing a clear line with those "hybrids" with half of human blood flowing in their veins, it seems that even those captives who are unfortunately caught by mutants are also drawn a line.

  He doesn't know how to evaluate the former, but at least the latter is innocent and shouldn't be a joke to ease the atmosphere.

   "What's the name of that... guy?"

"Who knows, they all look alike. No one is interested in staring at their faces carefully, and they usually cover their faces. If you need to talk to him, just call him 'hey'. They are very Good hunters occasionally take on some mercenary work, the price is cheap, but they usually don’t leave the local area.”

   "If you don't leave the local area, you won't be able to run a business." Wu Wenzhou patted Luo Yu on the shoulder, and said with a grin, "Don't worry about that guy, are you interested in having a drink or two?"

   "Yeah." Luo Yu nodded, he just wanted to inquire about some local information.

  According to elder brother Fang's theory, the tavern is the easiest place to collect information, especially the tavern frequented by merchants and mercenaries.

  Wu Wenzhou glanced at the ten powerful and loyal thugs behind him.

   "Where are those?"

   These people are very powerful, but they never take off their helmets, and they have never even taken off their masks once.

  He wants to hang out with these guys if he can. Not just for his boss, but for himself.

  Luo Yu froze for a moment, then said with a smile.

   "Ah, Xiao Yu doesn't need it."

   Kohane?

  Which one?

  Wu Wenzhou glanced at the ten thugs. They all seemed to respond to the name, so that he couldn't tell who it was.

   But this kind of thing is not important, there are many strange things in the wasteland.

  He made a haha, beckoned his men to park the car at the hotel he frequented, and then dragged this ruthless man to the bar at the gate of the town.

   "Grizzly Bear and Street Lamp... the name of this tavern, this is a good place!" Wu Wenzhou, who was standing at the door, took a deep breath intoxicated, and then walked into the door with his head held high.

   Luo Yu frowned and slapped the area near his nose, then followed up bravely.

  The facade of the tavern looks ugly, but the hall and the bar are almost full, the loud and noisy voices can be heard endlessly, and the eardrum-torturing music is playing from the speakers, just like scratching a blackboard with a fork.

   Not only that, the air here is rather cloudy, besides the smell of smoke and sweat, there is also a strange musty smell.

   Can't tell what it feels like.

   But people here don't pay much attention.

   Perhaps in the eyes of most people here, this is the only way to feel alive.

   And on the wasteland only a hundred meters away, the feeling of being alive is too thin. Even a powerful Awakened may lose his life if he is not careful.

  With a radius of about a hundred miles, this is the only place where you can relax and have a drink without worrying about being blown off your head by your enemy—unless he doesn’t want to live anymore.

   While eloquently talking about the history of this tavern with Luo Yu, Wu Wenzhou found a secluded place to sit down, and ordered a few small dishes and two large glasses of beer from the waiter holding the plate.

   "In Jinchuan Province, everything else is expensive, only food is cheap."

   In fact, there is another thing that is cheap.

   That's population.

  Whether it is men, women, old people or children, it is extremely cheap in this fertile and chaotic land, usually only half the price of other places.

   But considering that this guy is a refuge resident, Wu Wenzhou tactfully skipped this kind of thing.

  Luo Yu took a sip of the beer, the mellow taste was indeed good, but there was a strange smell in the air here.

  He's noticed it since he first came here.

   "This smell always feels weird."

  Thought he was talking about the beer, Wu Wenzhou said with a smile.

   "Is it because you are not used to the wine outside your hometown?"

   "It has nothing to do with the wine," Luo Yu nodded, glanced around, and whispered, "There is something unclean."

  He didn't know what it was either.

   Xiao Yu told him.

   He said that he smelled a bad smell when he entered the town, and the closer to the tavern, the stronger the smell.

   At this time, the waiter came over with a basket of bread and a can of green bottles, and placed them on the next table.

   "Pine nut bread, a specialty here."

  The mercenary at the next table glanced at the green glass jar and asked curiously.

"What's this?"

   Before the waiter could speak, the man sitting next to the mercenary said with a smile.

   “Hope Town Special Jam! Delicious stuff that’s been trending around here lately, just try it! I bet you’ll love it!”

   "Haha, come on, I don't eat sweets, I only eat meat!"

   "Try it, I'm treating you anyway."

   Under the instigation of his good brother, the mercenary unscrewed the glass jar curiously, dipped a little bit of it with his finger, stuffed it into his mouth, sucked it, and muttered after tasting it for a while.

   "It's a bit weird, I'll try it again."

  Looking at the jar of green jam, Luo Yu suddenly recognized it, and her eyes popped out.

   Good guy.

  Nago... sauce? !

   Now he finally figured out what it was that made Xiao Yu uncomfortable...

  (end of this chapter)