Chapter 619: Reorganization of the Infected
As night fell, the city was no longer as noisy as before. There were only infected people wandering on the streets. The huge bone blades and bone spurs on the arms of these infected people dragged on the ground, making a harsh friction sound.
The skyscrapers were lifeless. The survivors hiding in the buildings did not dare to make any noise or light. Any abnormality would attract the infected wandering on the streets.
Outside the city, the assembled biochemical prevention and control troops were neatly arranged in hundreds of queues.
These queues were led by robot troops, followed by imperial soldiers. In the middle of the team were wheeled armored vehicles, and the three rapid-fire guns on the armored vehicles kept turning in disorder.
"All troops, set off!"
"Eliminate any abnormal targets you see, and tie up all the survivors on the spot to prevent the spread of infection."
With the commander's shouting, the robot troops began to march in an orderly manner along the wide roads of the city and approach the city.
One armored vehicle after another followed closely, and the turrets on the vehicles were all pointing to the front of the road.
At this time, the infected in the city also noticed something was wrong. Like a tide, the infected rushed towards the mobile defense line of the biochemical prevention and control troops from all directions.
The sounds of their running gathered together, and through the continuous overlap between the high-rise buildings, a sound like a landslide was formed.
Before these infected came into sight, the rapid-fire guns on the armored vehicles had already started firing, and shells mixed with light bullets were shot into the tide of infected people.
The leading infected raised their hands to block these shells, but the armor-piercing ability of these rail rapid-fire guns was too strong, and the infected bone blades were directly shattered without any blocking effect.
The shells that shattered the bone blades blew a basin-sized hole in the chest of the infected person and then penetrated dozens of infected people before completely losing kinetic energy and falling to the ground.
The shells fired by the prevention and control troops occupying the southernmost end of the north-south road in the entire city formed an invisible wall, and all the infected who wanted to rush over were pierced and collapsed to the ground or beaten into minced meat.
The infected who sensed the threat suddenly stopped and began to retreat.
"What are these infected doing? Are they retreating?" The commander looked at the retreating infected through the long-sighted system on the helmet and had a series of doubts.
"Robot troops move forward!" The commander hesitated for a moment and decided to seize this opportunity.
At this moment, where the infected retreated, one by one, the infected piled up on top of each other, and the cells on their bodies directly passed through the few pieces of clothes left on their bodies and merged with each other.
After a while, a meat ball wrapped in bone armor appeared in the middle of the road.
The diameter of the meat ball was at least 20 meters, and there were six tentacles on both sides of the meat ball. These six tentacles gently moved on the ground, and the meat ball began to roll forward.
Accompanied by the sound of objects rolling on the ground, tens of thousands of huge meat balls rolled from the end of the road towards the direction of the biochemical prevention and control troops.
The rapid-fire guns on the armored vehicles hurriedly aimed at the meat balls and fired frantically, but this time the shells fired by these rapid-fire guns only penetrated the thick bone armor on the surface of the meat balls and then stopped moving. After a while, they were swallowed by the meat balls and turned into metal sheets attached to the outer layer of the meat balls.
As the number of shells fired increased, even a thin layer of metal appeared on the surface of the meat balls rushing in front.
"High-explosive bombs! Call for air bombing from warships!" At this time, the commander did not care about protecting the city's infrastructure and directly ordered the troops to withdraw armor-piercing shells.
After replacing with high-explosive bombs, the effect was obviously much better. After being hit by high-explosive bombs, a large pit was directly blown out on the surface of the meat balls, and a large amount of bone fragments were splashed.
Above the city, the warships were already in place, and the rail guns under the warships aimed at the rolling meat balls and began to roar.
One by one, the shells that fell from the sky directly blew these meat balls into splattered minced meat!
However, before the soldiers could cheer, thousands of meat balls suddenly shot out from the high-rise buildings and flew towards the warships in the air.
Although the close-in defense guns on the warships fired desperately and shot down most of the meatballs, there were still dozens of them that hit the armor of the warship by chance.
These meatballs turned into flat shapes directly outside the warship and spread along the armor of the warship.
Soon all the weapons of the warship could not turn, and the muzzles were blocked by the bodies of these creatures.
After a while, these infected people even got into the propellers of the warships. After a few small explosions, the warship tilted to the ground.
"What kind of monsters are these!" Li Mingze, who watched the process of the warship being destroyed through holographic images, was shocked.
He originally thought that it would only take some time to eliminate all these infected people with low defense, but now it seems that this is not the case.
These infected people can actually combine together to become individuals with various strange functions!
"Is the spread of this virus under control now?" Li Mingze frowned and asked Tianyi.
You must know that he has ordered the fleet to guard the outside of each city, and any creature that leaves the city without authorization will be bombarded into slag by the artillery fire from the sky.
"Your Majesty, the situation is not optimistic. Take a look at this!" Tianyi said and sent a video to Li Mingze.
On a deserted wilderness, a shell fell from the sky and drilled into the soil. Soon, a piece of land suddenly collapsed, and a huge snake-like creature with a diameter of more than ten meters, composed of countless infected individuals, jumped out from the ground and jumped into the air.
The head of this monster is a digging organ composed of bone blades from thousands of infected arms. With the movement of muscles, this "drill" composed of bone blades is still turning.
"Because there is magma under the terrain where this monster is located, it has no choice but to come to the near surface and was discovered by our scanners. Our warships used earth-penetrating bombs to force it out."
"But! We don't know how deep it can dive into the ground. After all, the scanning devices on our warships are not professional and can only detect a limited depth."
"Therefore, we have no idea whether these infected people have moved to other places through the underground!"
"Now these infected people are like time bombs, hiding everywhere in our colony."
"If we don't catch them all, our colony will not be safe."
"I have mobilized prospecting ships to go to various colonies. The scanning devices on the prospecting ships can easily scan the center of the earth."
"We must first find a way to evacuate the people who are confirmed to be uninfected. These planets are too dangerous now!" Tianyi sighed.