The joint police convoy from the two cities finally arrived at the outskirts of the small town of Ojai. The blond police officer sitting in the back seat of the pickup truck looked outside through the window.
Due to the power outage and chaos, the outskirts of the town were surprisingly quiet.
You know, this is the United States.
When a town falls into chaos, the vast majority of residents will not watch curiously, but hide in their houses with guns in hand to protect themselves and their families.
Even though the security of the United States has been improved in recent years, residents still do not take the risk of going out of their houses.
After all, some people just like to take advantage of the chaos, shout "Give us human rights" to carry out a wave of "Happy Free Shopping", do all kinds of smashing, looting and burning, and then call "Police" when they are arrested.
Abuse of violence!".
The convoy moved along Route 33, which ran through the entire town.
At this time, the police officers also discovered that at regular intervals on both sides of the road, they could see burning or burned houses and shops.
When the snow stopped, the fire could still be suppressed, but now that the snow has stopped, the fire is getting bigger and bigger. The apartments and buildings in the rows will be infected, and the fire will break out.
At this time, in order to save their lives, the residents had to run outside with their families. Many people were wearing pajamas, and at most they put on a cotton coat or down jacket.
The local firefighters were overwhelmed, while a small number of local police officers maintained order at the scene and assisted residents to relocate as much as possible to the town's only high school for temporary resettlement.
Observing this, the blond police officer did not find too many strange things.
At least for now, it was just a large-scale fire or riot, but the intelligence obtained was still too little, so the blond police officer did not relax his vigilance.
The police officer driving the pickup truck and Joel in the passenger seat also looked solemn, especially Joel, who had been a police officer for more than ten years.
Because in a small town of more than 8,000 people, the chance of such chaos happening is really too low.
Christmas is the day when everyone relaxes their vigilance the most. Coupled with the blizzards that can delay all types of flights, as well as power outages and network outages, Ojai is unable to receive large-scale support from the outside world in a short period of time.
It shows that this is an organized and premeditated emergency.
Joel doesn't believe that those people who only know "freedom every day" can catch up with so many coincidences.
"Pa-, pa-."
Suddenly! The police officers sitting in the car vaguely heard the intensive gunshots coming from the center of the town.
Immediately, the police officer driving the pickup truck sped up.
Joel operated the radio installed on the pickup truck, adjusted it to the local police channel, picked up the walkie-talkie and asked:
"This is Sergeant Joel Miller from the Oxnard Police Department. We and my colleagues from the Ventura Police Department have arrived in Ojai. Who is the person in charge here? Is there any area that lacks police resources?" p>
"Hey... I'm Captain Marvins Nest of the Ojai Police Department! Thank you for your support!!" came the excited reply from another middle-aged police sergeant on the intercom.
"Pah-!Pah-!"
While Captain Marvins was responding, Joel and other police officers could clearly hear the sounds of a more intense exchange of fire coming from the other end.
There was a pause.
Marvins continued: "Please rush to the shopping mall in the center of the town as soon as possible! We need...fast! Drag Tom back quickly! Damn it!
A group of crazy guys kidnapped the residents of the town and occupied the mall, saying not to interfere with their ceremony! Those guys also have fully automatic firepower! Mad! We need support!"
"Understood! We'll be there soon!"
End the communication with the other party.
The atmosphere in the pickup truck and even in the entire mixed fleet was extremely solemn.
Now it is certain that what they are about to face is not the "free every day" crowd, but a different kind of thugs holding prohibited arms.
As a result, the speed of the mixed fleet increased a lot.
"Whoa!" The snow shovel on the front of the pickup truck pushed away the snow to clear the way, leading the convoy to the mall.
Soon.
The medium-sized shopping mall built on the east side of Highway 33 appeared in the sight of Joel and the police officers.
At the same time, I also saw a police car riddled with holes not far from the south side of the mall. There were a lot of bright red blood stains on the snow around the police car.
The bloodstains extended outwards to the "position" about 100 meters away from the main entrance on the south side.
The so-called position is actually composed of seven police cars arranged in a fan-shaped row. The police officers rely on the front of the car with the engine to act as a bunker to confront the armed elements hiding inside the mall.
It's said to be a confrontation, but in fact it's more like once you try to push forward, you will be suppressed by the firepower of the militants, so you have to be in this position.
Among them, there was another police officer who was leaning on a police car and clutching his abdomen with his hands, but blood was still pouring out from between his fingers.
Bright red dyed the snow.
Seeing this situation, the mixed convoy quickly drove out of Highway 33 and arrived at a simple position built by local police.
In an instant, the size of the position more than doubled.
The police officers who came to support from two cities quickly got out of the car and opened the trunks one after another, revealing the firepower they "carried with them".
Joel, the blond police officer and other officers from the Oxnard Police Department even took out an assault rifle that looked like an MA5B from the trunk and put on their exclusive "sports sunglasses."
As a seaport city with a population of nearly 200,000, Oxnard and its city government are definitely considered wealthy.
Therefore, the Oxnard Police Department is fully capable of introducing a batch of police-style MA5D rifles, as well as holographic glasses that can provide functions such as assisted vision, calibrated shooting and information sharing.
With the support of colleagues in the two cities, the originally depressed local police officers immediately became energetic.
Joel and the corporal from Venlatu contacted Sergeant Marvins, who was in charge of the local police.
The blond police officer and the police officer driving the pickup truck were squatting next to the police officer who had an abdominal injury and became unconscious.
"This injury...man! Hold on! Don't sleep! Don't sleep!"
The police officer driving the pickup truck said loudly, fearing that the other party would faint and pass out.
"..." However, the blond police officer said nothing and directly took out a small white spray can from the tactical bag hanging on his right waist.
Immediately afterwards, the blond police officer tore off the wounded man's clothes and pressed the button on the wound on his abdomen.
"Bah~" The white foam-like tissue quickly covered the wound.
When the blond police officer took back the spray can, the foam had solidified, completing the hemostatic effect.
"Huh?! New here, where did you get the biofoam? This is something only special forces have!" the police officer driving the pickup truck said in confusion.
The blond police officer ignored the inquiry, but stood up and showed his ID to Marvins, Joel and another corporal and said in a deep voice:
"Department of Homeland Security, Domestic Crisis Response Covert Agent, Leon S. Kennedy, I need the cooperation of everyone here."