Chapter 354: Aftermath of the Mist
The alien beasts did not attack the power plant in the north of the city again.
But Meng Chao and others did not relax their vigilance.
Because the space gap like a super giant whirlpool in the night sky still exists, constantly swallowing various flying monsters from the depths of the Monster Mountains.
Such as giant eyeballs and glowing jellyfish, covered with tentacles, and possessing powerful spiritual attack capabilities.
The "Lightning Golden Eagle" has a maximum speed that exceeds the speed of sound, and the edges of its wings are extremely sharp and can directly cut through the airbags of human armored airships.
There are also swarms of giant mosquitoes that gather together like a writhing storm or like a devil's hand falling from the sky. They can tightly wrap around humans and drag them directly into the air. Within a few minutes, all flesh and blood will be eaten away.
All that was left behind was a pale skeleton.
All kinds of ferocious monsters, glowing with colorful lights, wreaked havoc in the sky above Dragon City, which is a literal "dance of demons".
The fierce fighting lasted all night.
Until dawn, there are still small groups of monsters wandering around the city, relying on the ruins, ditches, pipes, and the intricate ventilation systems between high-rise buildings to deal with humans.
The sporadic sound of gunfire and the roar of collapsing buildings repeatedly tortured human beings' nerves on the verge of collapse.
With the task of guarding the power plant completed, Meng Chao returned to his old job as a reaper.
This time the fog comes, bringing nearly a million tons of monster corpses to Dragon City, which must be harvested against time, otherwise the corpses will most likely transform and cause a plague.
Meng Chao spent a whole day working at the waste-to-energy plant and the Chengbei Steel Plant.
It wasn't until dusk fell that I could drag my heavy footsteps and shake my hands that were about to lose consciousness, and return to the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau to analyze the latest progress in the evolution of monsters.
Along the way, he saw that the defense systems of dozens of residential areas were damaged to varying degrees.
At least a dozen communities have been invaded by monsters.
Although the residents fled to the shelter underground in the community in time.
However, the houses were severely damaged, and the warm homes of countless residents were turned into burning ruins.
The piles of monster carcasses, which were not dealt with in time, all rotted and deteriorated, causing a layer of yellow-green mist to float inside and outside the residential area. The pungent smell was enough to bring tears.
There were even "cracking" popping sounds coming from the seemingly intact building.
It was the sound of the monster's body decaying after death, turning into a biochemical bomb, and exploding into clouds of acid and venom.
A lot of acid will corrode the reinforced concrete in the wall, significantly reducing the strength of the building.
The venom will penetrate into the wall and be slowly released over the next few years, causing irreversible lifelong damage to the human body, especially the respiratory and blood systems of children.
In other words, these buildings that still seem to be standing on top of our homes have been severely polluted and are no longer suitable for human habitation.
Meng Chao saw many residents with confused faces, standing or squatting at the door of the fragmented community, looking at a loss.
There was a little girl with a dirty face, holding a teddy bear with missing arms and legs. The corners of her eyes were filled with tears, but she was whispering to comfort the teddy bear, as if to tell the little bear not to be afraid.
Her father rolled up his sleeves and became angry, wanting to beat the bloody monster corpse until it became even more bloody.
The mother wanted to go home and rescue some things, but the collapsed ruins of several buildings were piled together and burned by the flames sprayed by monsters. It was difficult to tell where their home was.
The scene in front of him merged with the tragic scenes in the middle and late stages of the monster war in his previous life in Meng Chao's memory fragments, reminding him that the future is not so easy to change.
It also reminds the people of Longcheng that even if they achieve a great victory on the northern route, the final victory is far from coming.
At the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau, Meng Chao learned from Ye Xiaoxing the full picture of the battlefield where the fog fell.
As expected, a lot of evidence and data show that the "monster war" has entered the second half, and the war pattern has undergone earth-shaking changes.
First, the monsters became smarter.
Even the battlefield coordination capabilities of ordinary monsters have been greatly improved - in the past, when the fog came, the time when different monsters spewed out from the gaps in the space was not exactly the same, and they often couldn't wait to attack the human community as soon as they appeared.
Human beings seize the time difference and defeat each one.
Many Heaven Realm experts have the time to clear out the monsters in one community and then fly to another community to ensure the safety of four or five communities.
At the same time, because there is no concept of formation or firepower, many monsters clearly have a numerical advantage, but they are used to lining up in a long snake formation and rushing towards the human machine gun and anti-aircraft gun positions. In addition to turning themselves into living targets
, it has no meaning other than wasting human ammunition.
But this time when the fog came, many monsters, especially mammalian monsters with relatively developed brains, and insect monsters with swarm intelligence, learned well and knew how to first gather their forces, coordinate their time, and then attack the human community at the same time.
Let the strong ones focus on one thing and lose another, and be exhausted running for their lives.
There were even a large number of monsters flying past the gates of the human communities that were waiting for battle, concentrating four or five different monsters, and simultaneously attacking the old communities with relatively weak defenses. They used the "concentrated force" method to catch humans off guard.
Second, the monsters also learned the key targets for attacking Dragon City.
Power plants, water plants, crystal warehouses, and gene farms were all attacked by monsters.
Among them, water plants and gene farms are the top priorities for monster attacks.
In addition to the monsters that came last night, there are already a group of strange beasts such as "flame rats, lightning monster pythons, and brain-eating insects" hiding near the waterworks and gene farms.
Even their suicide attacks failed to break through the infrastructure that supports the operation of Dragon City.
However, the acid and venom that exploded after death seriously polluted water sources and farms, making Dragon City's already stretched supply even worse.
Third, the monsters also learned to assassinate key human targets.
Many experts in cutting-edge subjects in Dragon City were assassinated during the fog invasion last night, or were attacked by hordes of monsters.
Although most experts survived, the casualty rate was still significantly higher than any previous fog.
It's hard to believe that the casualties of so many experts were just unfortunate coincidences.
But to say that the monsters have mastered the list of experts in various disciplines in Dragon City and took advantage of the chaos to carry out "targeted killings" sounds unbelievable and downright creepy.
Considering that alien beasts target the human brain and central nervous system, they specially prepared something like "brain-eating worms".
The concerns of the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau are most likely true - alien beasts and even "aliens" have already penetrated into Dragon City, secretly observing, thinking, and learning, and gradually developed their own "aliens civilization"
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Although the mist is coming, it is over.
The aftermath of this battle is far from over.
The first is the plague.
It is common sense in the art of war that a great epidemic will follow a great war.
Not to mention that in a foreign world like this, a place where viruses, bacteria, and cells are all overactive, and the alien beasts are very likely to target the human immune system, specifically improving the ability of the monsters to explode and spread germs after their death.
In the following more than a month, three large-scale plagues broke out in Dragon City. The sources were all new mutated strains, which were highly targeted to humans. It was not like the result of natural mutation, but more like genetic modulation.
product.
One of these plagues even caused the long-extinct zombie virus to resurgence.
The new zombie virus mutant can turn humans into extremely athletic zombies in just half a minute. They can easily jump up to three or four floors in one go. Even if they are headshot by humans, they may still be damaged in their five internal organs.
In the explosion of the six internal organs, venom carrying the deadly virus is sprayed out.
It is extremely difficult to extinguish these plagues.
Because a large number of residents' homes were contaminated and damaged by monsters, they had to live in tents and temporary prefabricated houses.
The space is small, supplies are scarce, and basic clean water and clean and hygienic food cannot be guaranteed, which naturally creates favorable conditions for the spread of germs.
Along with germs, there is also hostility between people.
Even a modest gentleman will be stimulated by the survival instinct and gradually return to his original wildness in an environment where supplies are extremely scarce.
Within three to five months after each large-scale fog falls, the crime rate in Dragon City will increase several times.
In addition to the shortage of supplies, there are also monsters coming, causing the human soul index to plummet and causing various mental distortions.
——Even if the psychic index can return to normal value after plummeting, it does not mean that there is no residual damage deep in the brain.
Just like when a wound heals, there will always be ugly scars left.
This is even more true for extraordinary people.
On the one hand, extraordinary beings are the vanguard against monsters. They are on the front line. They have to face more mental attacks from monsters, and their spiritual index is more likely to rise and fall sharply.
Even a hard piece of iron will suffer metal fatigue and break directly after repeated bending.
Not to mention the fragile and mysterious human spirit.
On the other hand, brain cells and central nervous system are stimulated by psychic energy for a long time and are inherently more likely to go crazy than ordinary people.
Occupations such as "Beast Controller" and "Mechanic" need to open up their brains and use brain waves to control biochemical beasts and runic machines. They are more likely to be invaded by alien beasts and implant evil seeds.
Therefore, every time a large-scale fog descends, there are always many heroes with outstanding military exploits who go crazy, fall into darkness, and become evil extraordinary beings who do evil.
This is very helpless and a pity.
It’s not that the Survival Committee and Transcendent Tower don’t want to solve these problems.
No one wants to watch countless citizens displaced.
No one wants to see their companions who were smiling like flowers yesterday turn into zombies with venom flowing from the corners of their mouths.
No one wants to see citizens fighting over a bottle of drinking water; and the heroes who originally swore to protect Dragon City forever were eroded by darkness and turned into demons and madmen.
Chapter completed!