harleyscars Chapter 48 Night Battle
Chapter 48 Night Battle
Like the rising tide, it spread continuously towards the location of the riverside shopping mall.
Under the moonlight, the densely packed objects rushing towards the Linjiang Shopping Mall finally revealed themselves.
There are rats, spiders, cockroaches, martial arts, snakes, earthworms, cats, dogs, and even some nocturnal birds!
Even those who were originally hostile did not attack each other at this moment.
As if robots were given orders, they had only one goal: to storm into the Linjiang Shopping Mall, kill the humans inside, and destroy everything!
Inside the shopping mall, Bai Zhou, who had just started up the internal system of the transport vehicle, was still adjusting various functions.
Suddenly, the radar interface emitted a rapid alarm!
"What's going on? Is there a system malfunction?" Wu Ou came over.
He knows a bit about mechanical structures and such.
However, I haven't had any systematic training in computer system programming.
"Let me see... something's not right!" Bai Zhou quickly pressed a few buttons, but the alarm still didn't go off.
"It's not a system problem, a huge number of mutated beasts have really appeared outside! It's a beast tide!" he exclaimed, then pressed the siren of the tank.
Waaaaaahh ...
The wavy, high-low siren sound quickly spread throughout the entire mall.
Many people were woken up by the noise and came out to check the situation.
"Dr. Wu, I won't say anything if you continue building the tanks tonight."
But then the experimental alarm system would…”
"This is not an experiment. There's already a beast tide outside. Get everyone ready!" Wu Ou leaped to the third floor and landed in front of Xu Rui.
After speaking solemnly, he rushed outside.
"A beast tide? Really...?"
Before Xu Rui could finish speaking, a figure rushed in from outside.
It's Miao Zikai, who's leading the night shift tonight.
"Oh no! There are swarms of rats and spiders outside, we can't even see the road! They're rushing over! Wake everyone up!" He gasped for breath, trying to make his description as clear as possible.
"Is it really a beast tide?" Xu Rui looked at Miao Zikai.
Miao Zikai, one hand on his knee, looked up at his location. "What good would it do me to lie to you? If you don't act now, it'll be too late!"
Xu Rui's expression changed; he realized the seriousness of the matter.
"Quickly, turn on the lights and notify everyone! All guards and hunting teams, assemble! Protect the elderly and children and get them onto the vehicles first!"
Outside, after Wu Ou rushed out of Linjiang Shopping Mall, he immediately sensed the presence of those energy beasts.
He leaped onto a tree by the roadside and looked into the distance.
"Beast Tide!"
Although he didn't know why it happened at night, and the main members were still these relatively weak but numerous source energy beasts, he understood the momentum—it was a beast tide!
"But why is the beast tide moving faster than expected?"
The timing and the types of main energy beasts are different, and they do not match the beast tide situation encountered before the rebirth.
Wu Ou has deep doubts about the cause of this beast tide.
However, now is not the time to carefully consider and explore this reason.
He jumped down from the tree trunk and quickly arrived at a place where scrap metal was piled up.
The two piles of metal, stacked together, formed a small mountain-like heap, creating a 'gap'.
Then they took out several oil drums that were as tall as a person.
Inside, there was gasoline, as well as ammonia and hydrogen that he had prepared.
He took a deep breath and drank everything from the three oil drums.
He wiped his mouth, leaped onto the top of the metal pile, and watched the approaching horde of beasts. His hands then underwent a transformation.
The hands have completely disappeared, replaced by 'cannon holes' with metal attachments.
dong dong dong dong!
A series of projectiles were launched, landing among the beasts and exploding violently, creating highly adhesive flames.
Normal source energy beasts, especially those below level five, would definitely scatter and flee in this situation.
However, this is a beast tide, and all the source energy beasts will not have the instinctive reaction of 'fear' until the casualty ratio reaches a certain level!
They will fight with their last ounce of strength, even if they are injured or dying.
That's what makes the beast tide so terrifying!
To resolve the beast tide, you either need to use overwhelming force to kill more than 30% of the source energy beasts, or hold out until they retreat on their own.
The last resort is to find the Beast King at the source of the beast tide and kill it!
"Could it really be the one from the Beijiang River!" Wu Ou thought to himself, but his hands didn't slow down.
The weapon was launched by sweeping its arms horizontally, and the flames from the explosion even formed a band of fire.
Many of the energy beasts that passed through this area were engulfed in flames and burned alive.
The flames on its body even spread to other nearby source beasts, causing more source beasts to be ignited by the flames.
If this were an online game, Wu Ou would be essentially grinding monsters and gaining a lot of experience.
Unfortunately, this is reality. Doing this only consumes source energy and he doesn't gain 'experience points' by killing those source energy beasts.
"Phew!" Wu Ou took a deep breath and his arms returned to normal.
Looking towards the mall's main entrance, Xie Rui and his team, along with the mall's elite squad, rushed out fully armed.
With firearms and melee weapons, people of all kinds gathered into small teams, using the fortified walls they had built in advance to prepare to deal with the energy beasts that were charging towards them.
Whoosh—snap!
An explosion rang out in the air in the direction of the beast tide, followed by a burst of light.
It's a flashbang!
"Holy crap, how many beasts are there?!" Xie Rui stared at the energy beasts illuminated by the light, and he still couldn't see the edge of them!
More importantly, there are even flying ones!
Attracted by the lights, they sped up and rushed towards the people on the "city wall" first.
"Attack!" Sheryl roared.
Those who then mastered long-range attack methods such as bows and crossbows and firearms began to fire.
Some strong people even used metal blocks or throwing knives as weapons to attack the birds that swooped down.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Many birds were killed or knocked down, after all, their strength was limited, and they were all below the fifth level.
Those whom Xu Rui could bring out to fight were all at the fifth level or above.
"Get down!" Miao Zikai's voice came.
Then, there was a loud bang—
boom!
A shock came from mid-air, and Xu Rui, who was standing on the city wall, was almost knocked off.
"Why are you using it now!" He turned to look in Miao Zikai's direction.
Over there are modified natural gas canister bombs!
These are the weapons they've been working on these past few days, weapons they've prepared to deal with that beast king crocodile!
"No need now. If we wait until so many mutated beasts rush up, you'll be nothing but dust by now!" Miao Zikai rolled his eyes at him, adjusting his direction as he prepared to fire the second shot.
Because at this moment, the subsequent army of ground-based energy beasts finally arrived!
Xu Rui stared at the dark mass of energy beasts, gritted his teeth, and said, "You're right, fire!"