Chen Hao
Chapter 190 Strange Injuries
Shelter 08 was in utter chaos. Military police were urgently evacuating the crowds as helicopters circled in the sky, their massive searchlights shining into the distance, illuminating a shimmering surface approaching at an alarming rate!
What was about to crash down on them wasn't a violent sea beast, but something even more ferocious: a monster.
Against sea beasts, people at least knew they could use artillery and missiles to kill them. But how could they fight the raging flood?
In that moment, humanity, the most advanced civilization on Blue Star, felt the terrifying despair.
Building after building was submerged, the flood unstoppable.
"Heat source detector! Heat source detector!"
Someone roared, trying to use the detector to see if there were any sea beasts in the onrushing flood.
But in the sub-zero temperatures of twenty to thirty degrees below, the flood water was close to freezing, and the sea beasts themselves had very low body temperatures. Without limb movement and just carried along by the flood, it was difficult to detect them with heat source detectors!
Miao Yu had considered that sea beasts might burrow out from underground. He had even set up a large number of underground heat source scanners in the shelter to prevent a surprise attack.
But he hadn't imagined that these monsters wouldn't directly attack the shelter.
They used a more cunning and brutal method!
If these floods completely submerged the shelter, the casualties would be far greater than a random rampage by sea beasts!
"Evacuate first! Use firepower to defend the upper levels!"
The commander of Shelter 08 ordered, sweat beading on his palms.
No one could remain completely calm in this situation. He seemed to hear the sound of the flood battering the buildings, as if it were right next to his ear!
Shelter 08 had as many as six thousand residents, who were now frantically rushing towards the tall buildings on either side.
Faced with the terror of this natural disaster, humans were as helpless as ants...
The flood finally engulfed them!
Shelter 08 was a cultural activity center, covering a vast area, but the buildings were not tall, only about twelve meters high. In an instant, the flood submerged the entire shelter, with nearly half of the buildings submerged in the murky, icy water.
"Hah... hah..."
The residents and military police who had just moved to the high-rise buildings on both sides looked at the raging flood beneath their feet, a look of relief on their faces!
If the flood had arrived ten seconds earlier, most of the people here would have died!
Tanks and chariots downstairs were submerged in the raging flood and disappeared...
...
Miao Yu stood on a high platform, covered in ice splinters from the frozen water droplets. Just now, the flood had submerged the area where he was standing, and he had saved a soldier who was almost swept away, nearly falling into the water himself and being unable to climb back up.
"Good heavens... what did we do wrong that you punish us like this?"
"I'm so scared!"
"Can we still survive?"
Near Shelter 01, on the high platform, Miao Yu looked at the raging flood beneath his feet, listening to the desperate and helpless cries of the people behind him, and his heart was torn apart!
"Shelter! This is command center! Immediately count the number of people and report the casualties..."
Miao Yu took a deep breath.
"Sir, what should we do?" Two adjutants walked over, their faces pale as they looked at the mighty flood.
"Don't worry too much." Miao Yu gasped, sitting cross-legged on the ground, pointing in the direction of the flood and saying, "There are many dry riverbeds three kilometers ahead. At most, these floods will flow to that position, and then they will be diverted and will not continue to wreak havoc!"
"The goal of these beasts is very clear, it's our shelter."
Miao Yu took a deep breath, and a hint of frustration appeared on his cold face, "Damn it! I calculated everything, but I didn't expect these beasts to pull such a trick!"
Everyone fell silent.
Their heavy firepower was now submerged in the flood. If the sea beasts invaded again on a large scale, they could only rely on the warplanes in the sky as heavy firepower.
But the number of armed helicopters in Nan City was extremely limited, only ten in total, and their ammunition capacity was not as good as tanks, artillery and other heavy ground weapons. If another large-scale beast tide came like just now, Nan City... I'm afraid it won't hold up!
"Let's do our best!" Miao Yu stood up straight, his expression resolute: "Be ready to die at any time!"
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Inside the high-rise building next to Shelter 08, darkness and fear shrouded the area. The survivors huddled in the corners of the building, sobbing softly.
The military police turned on the emergency lights, and helicopters circled above the building, illuminating the water below with huge searchlight beams. Two heavy machine guns were ready to fire, waiting for any sea beast to show its face in the water, and would give it two bursts of fire!
But the water surface was eerily quiet for a long time.
Time passed by, and many people prayed in their hearts, wanting the night to pass faster.
People's fear of the night seems to be innate.
Night, sea beasts, and unknown dangers, the three senses of fear superimposed together can almost make people collapse!
Many military police officers were observing the environment around the building through the windows.
The commander of Shelter 08 stood in front of the window, his face full of worry. Behind him came the sound of military police counting the number of people.
Soon, a military policeman came to report, saluted the commander, and then said in a deep voice: "The first shelter team of Shelter 08 originally had 800 members, and now 786 have been counted, and fourteen are missing... The second shelter team..."
The voice of the military police slowly sounded, and the commander's face became more and more ugly. He waved his hand and said, "Guard every entrance, these beasts in the water..."
Bang!
Crash!
Just as the commander was about to finish his sentence, the window in front of him suddenly shattered! A huge figure squeezed in!
It was the Beast King!
In the shadow of the building not reached by the helicopter's searchlights, the Beast King had climbed up against the wall!
The sudden change caused every military policeman whose nerves were already tense to explode. They raised the assault rifles in their hands and fired frantically. In the flickering light, the Beast King's indifferent eyes flashed.
The Beast King's terrifying shadow loomed over the entire floor!
Fire burst out!
Blood splattered!
The Beast King's flesh and blood were flying everywhere. At such a close distance, its evolved body could not resist the power of the assault rifle!
Finally, after thirty seconds, the Beast King turned and fled, decisively escaping out of the place where it had just broken in!
The helicopter hovering above saw this and was about to chase after it.
"Warhawk 08! Don't chase it! Land immediately and prepare to transfer the wounded! Many people are seriously injured, saving people is the most important thing!"
An urgent cry came from the intercom system.
Warhawk 08 slowly landed on the roof.
Several military police officers carried the wounded to the top floor.
"Even the commander is seriously injured?" The Warhawk pilot's face changed when he saw the wounded being carried up by the military police.
The seriously injured person was Lin Xiao, the lieutenant colonel commander of Shelter 08!
But his injuries were very strange!
It was not a broken bone, not a missing or torn limb, and even if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see where his injury was at all!
It was a circular hole in the center of his eyebrows, which looked extremely small, only as thick as a sewing needle.
No matter how you looked at it, it didn't look like it was caused by the huge Beast King just now!
"What kind of injury is this?" The pilot asked in a trembling voice. He reached out his finger and opened Lin Xiao's eyelids, only to see a pair of bloodshot eyes under the eyelids. The pupils had no focus and looked like...an idiot!
He was still alive, but his brain seemed to have suffered something terrible!
This was definitely not done by the Beast King just now!
Could it be that there were not one, but two Beast Kings who broke into the shelter just now?
Then why didn't the second Beast King kill Lin Xiao, but instead...invaded his brain?