There are hundreds of different residential areas in the underground fortress. The main gate No. 3 on the west side has been lost. The beasts are unbridled in the narrow streets, and they are mechanically killing civilians who have no time to evacuate.
The soldiers who were scattered everywhere were unable to organize an effective counterattack. Moreover, if they were left alone, they would eventually be killed by beasts after their ammunition was exhausted.
"Da da da!"
On the other hand, intensive gunshots were still heard from Area 1, located in the center of the fortress.
"Boom! Boom!"
Occasionally there will be violent explosions or noises caused by artillery, which means that the fortress has not completely fallen.
At this time, in Area 6 closest to the eastern gate, a group of civilians belonging to other residential areas fled here in panic and ran towards the end tunnel with all their strength.
"Ah!" said.
At the end of the crowd, a girl with a slender figure and shortness of breath suddenly lost her left foot and fell to the ground unable to maintain her balance.
This fall made it impossible for her, who was already exhausted, to get up again.
"Help...someone help me..." The girl raised her head with difficulty, stretched out her trembling left hand and whispered for help.
But the voice was so weak that even if someone heard it, they would not spare their precious escape time to provide aid to the girl.
The soldier who was responsible for covering the escape of this group of civilians and successfully killed an animal body turned around and retreated. He looked at the girl who was crawling slowly with her hands on the ground, and then looked at the tunnel that was so close...
"Get up, quickly!"
The soldier didn't hesitate to pick up the girl, put her right hand on his shoulder, and put his left hand around her waist, and slowly rushed towards the tunnel together.
The soldier knew that what he was doing was tantamount to death, but when he had to make a choice between his conscience and a few more minutes or, with luck, a few more hours, he chose his conscience.
"Tap! Tread!" The beast's body will not roar, but will only make the sound of four legs running.
Hearing the sound of getting closer, the soldier had no choice but to turn around with the girl, held the gun with one hand and pulled the trigger.
"Da da da!"
"Poof! Poof!"
The continuous burst of fire with extremely low accuracy still killed the approaching beast.
However, after the one who emptied the magazine took care of this one, they saw more pouring out of the streets and on the roofs of houses.
"Leave me alone...just run away...thank you..." the girl said weakly as she retracted her right hand from the soldier's shoulder.
“…”
Hearing this, the soldier released his left hand without replying and asked the girl to sit back on the ground.
But the soldier with his hands free changed the magazine and squatted on the ground to aim and shoot, indicating that the soldier was preparing to fight the beast right here.
"Boom! Boom!"
But before the soldier could empty the newly replaced magazine, he and the girl heard footsteps coming from behind, and a black shadow leaped over their heads like the wind beside them.
Immediately afterwards, the two saw a huge figure falling in front of them and rushing towards the center of the fortress.
Moreover, all the beasts in the path of the human figure were shattered and knocked away. When passing through a narrow section of road, they would directly use brute force to create enough space.
In less than a blink of an eye, the human figure disappeared from their sight, and the life-threatening beasts also died, and no new beasts even emerged.
Everything happened so fast that the two of them could not see the figure clearly, and the situation was reversed in an instant.
Fortress Area 1.
This area is much more spacious than other areas. All the facilities and buildings, as well as the iron mesh and walls around the edges, make Area 1 look like a military camp.
The fortifications scattered across the streets and on top of buildings, as well as the two light tanks guarding the westernmost part of the area, all confirm the fact that Area 1 is a barracks.
"Boom! Boom!"
The 105mm artillery salvoes of the two tanks immediately exploded into fragments in the streets where the beasts were surging, leaving the beasts near the center of the explosion bloody and bloody.
"Thum thump! thump!"
Two machine gunners leaned out half of the tank turret and controlled the .50cal heavy machine gun with a wet cloth on the barrel. They shouted "Ah! Ah!" and fired long and short bursts at the beast tide to provide fire suppression.
Less than a hundred soldiers built a position with the tank as the center, trying to block the impact of the beast. In the center of the position were stacked the few remaining boxes of ammunition.
The roof of the three-story house on the left side of the tank.
"Report on the evacuation progress!" shouted a female officer in her early thirties with a hideous scar on the left side of her face.
"Nearly half of the civilians have been evacuated to the surface." A soldier also shouted back: "But those guys are advancing too fast, and the west is over! Captain!"
"Mad..." The female captain who emptied the magazine stood up and looked around.
From a high position, she could clearly see the completely occupied western fortress, looking east...
?
The east side was surprisingly stable. The civilians did not flee in panic as expected, or were massacred by small groups of beasts. There were even many surviving soldiers closing in on their position.
At the same time, she also saw twenty warrior terminators who were slaughtering the beasts in reverse, and Queen John who had bypassed their position at some point and had entered the street to the west...
???
"What's going on?" The female captain was confused.
Then under her confused gaze, John and twenty warriors swept the west side of the fortress at an attack speed that she could not see clearly.
By the time the soldiers below realized that no new beasts had appeared and something was not right, the tens of thousands of beasts that were raging inside the fortress had been slaughtered by John and the others.
John also appeared in the street pointed by the barrels of the two tanks, gradually approaching the position.
"Watch your hands! Don't fire without my order!" the female captain who had regained consciousness reminded loudly.
When she and the soldiers beside her left the roof of the building and came down below, John had already entered the position. Seeing this, the female captain ignored John's far larger size than an ordinary person and took the initiative to say:
"Earth United Military Defense Forces, Captain Tis Byron, thank you for your assistance."
John nodded in response to the other party's words of thanks and asked coldly: "Captain, where is your highest officer."
After confirming that she could negotiate with John without any obstacles, Byron could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but after hearing the content of the inquiry, she replied slightly sadly:
"They were all killed in action. Now I should be the one with the highest rank in the entire fortress."
"My condolences." John's tone was a little deeper and he continued:
"In that case, captain, gather all your remaining personnel and assist the civilians to go to the surface to wait for transfer. And you, please follow me. I need more detailed information."
After saying that, John turned around and walked not far away to wait without giving the other party time to react.
As an officer who doesn't like procrastination, Byron can also clearly understand the current situation.
She looked at John's back, thought for a few seconds, then looked around at the soldiers gathered nearby and ordered:
"You all heard what the big guy said, prepare to assist civilians in relocating!"
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Shortly after.
forward base.
In the combat command center of the central facility, Robert and a group of senior UNSC officers looked at the three-dimensional aerial view of a city presented on the sand table.
It may be said to be a city, but the degree of racial assimilation of the colonized people far exceeds that of Rabat, the capital of Morocco.
The surface has almost lost all traces of human construction, and is covered with a large number of luminous plants and dense "embryos" that are hundreds of meters long.
According to the longitude, latitude and related data displayed together, it shows that this assimilated city is the capital of France, Paris.
At present, the fighting in Rabat has ended.
From the arrival of the two primarchs leading the two legions to the end, the whole process took less than twenty minutes. If it were not for the concern for the civilians on the surface and the underground fortress, it would have ended much faster.
Another transport formation is rushing to Rabat, preparing to transfer all surviving humans to the forward base.
And John also gave Robert and others a general understanding of what was happening in this world through Captain Byron.
"Now" is July 12, 2030. On July 4, 2012, 18 years ago, the French coastal city of Le Havre suffered an attack at the same pace as Elizabeth City.
First, a large number of beasts emerged from the sea, followed by a giant beast of 100 meters.
The result is exactly the opposite.
Before the giant beast appeared, Le Havre, with a population of only 200,000, was captured by the beast.
The French military reacted and immediately sent fighter planes into the air and prepared to blockade the surrounding areas of Le Havre.
Then the giant beast jumped out of the sea, making France and even the world realize that it was the real threat.
The arriving air force squadron, with its conventional weapons such as cannons and air-to-ground missiles, was like scratching the itch of a behemoth, unable to do any harm at all.
The French army is not the UNSC, and it does not have light frigates that can destroy behemoths with one shot, but the French army has the most powerful weapon in mankind, nuclear bombs.
On one side are the nearby towns and the people in the towns that are about to be invaded by giant beasts and beasts, and on the other side is the shock to the international situation after the nuclear bomb was dropped.
The French president made a prompt decision and dispatched a two-seater Mirage 2000N into the sky to drop a 500,000-ton TNT-equivalent tactical nuclear bomb on the beast.
The precise detonation of the nuclear bomb finally killed the giant beast, as well as the incalculable army of beasts.
This left a deep impression on Thies Byron, who was living in Belgium on the border with France and was just in her first year of high school. According to her story, people called that day "Invasion Day."
On the day of the invasion, the French army dispatched chemical defense troops and successfully eliminated the remaining beasts that had escaped from the periphery of the radiation zone. The air force also locked the portal in the shallow sea area.
Byron also said that the news and various programs in those days took turns to broadcast content related to "invasion", "alien" and "nuclear explosion".
It is said that humans have investigated and researched the portal and tried various methods, including dropping nuclear bombs again, but they were unable to close or destroy the portal.
On the thirtieth day after the invasion, France faced a second wave of attacks, but this time the French army and humans were naturally well prepared.
Carrying out indiscriminate bombing without using nuclear bombs, the French army easily defeated the second wave, which greatly encouraged people's confidence in dealing with the "monster".
After all, the first invasion was too sudden. To reduce casualties, tactical nuclear bombs were the best choice.
The sixtieth day is the third wave.
In this way, people have figured out the attack cycle of monsters, and each monster will be stronger and harder to kill than before.
But at least, there was only one portal at that time.
On July 4, 2014, two more portals were opened in the shallow waters of Sydney, Australia, and Vancouver, Canada.
The emergence of the three portals led to the establishment of the "United Government" and the "United Military Defense Force". Humanity as a whole became unprecedentedly united and worked together to fight against the invasion of monsters.
On July 4, 2016, two portals were opened in New York and Mombasa, Africa. On September 3 of the same year, Paris was first destroyed by the invasion of giant beasts, and nearly one-third of Western Europe was affected.
As time goes by, more and more portals are opened, and more and more frequent invasions allow people to see the reality clearly——
There is simply no way to prevent the "end of the world" from coming.
The earth's environment has also become worse with the invasion of monsters, and it is gradually no longer suitable for human habitation.
Faced with this situation, humans seem to have only two options.
One, escape from the earth.
Two, hide underground.
In fact, there are three more, which is to continue to abuse nuclear bombs...
If you choose this option, humans can eliminate themselves in advance without using monsters.
And with the technology of this world and the combined efforts of all mankind, it is indeed possible to send a very small number of people to the moon and Mars.
But whether we can gain a firm foothold on the moon and Mars and survive for a long time is unknown.
Moreover, the human heart is the most complex existence. Once the first option is adopted and the vast majority of people know that they are waiting to die, there is a high probability that society will fall into unstoppable turmoil.
Therefore, the coalition government announced the "Underground Fortress" plan on January 1, 2018.
Due to time constraints and the convenience of mobilizing manpower and material resources, people had to build strong fortresses with complete circulation systems a hundred meters below each city, or even deeper.
It was the year that the fort plan was launched that Thies Byron, who had lost all his family members, joined the army and was deployed to defend West Africa with the troops.
2012 to 2026.
The war that lasted for fourteen years drastically reduced the total number of humans, from nearly nine billion at its peak to five billion.
End of 2026.
A total of fifteen portals have been opened around the world. Monsters that have undergone multiple "evolutions" are about to wreak havoc on the surface, and the remaining humans are forced to move underground.
But before going underground, the combined military and defense forces dropped a large number of nuclear bombs on all portals, instantly killing hundreds of millions of monsters and completely destroying the ecological environment near the portals. The entire world was affected by this.
However, destroying the surface environment has long been out of the scope of senior generals' considerations.
Although the army could not resist the giant beasts with certain resistance to nuclear bombs, it could kill the smaller beasts. So for the next four years, people used solid facilities, maze-like tunnels, and layers of gates to hide in the fortress.
Survive in the city.
However, this only slows down the rate of humankind's demise.
Byron said that the Rabat Fortress where they lived and defended was relatively lucky. They had lived underground for almost three years before the monster responsible for assimilating the ecological environment "belatedly arrived."
The Rabat Fortress could handle the initial harassment by a small group of beasts calmly.
But with only 30,000 people living in Rabat, its self-sufficiency is completely inferior to that of large fortresses such as Moscow and Toronto.
Until June this year, large numbers of monsters arrived one after another, which increased the pressure on Rabat.
In July, ammunition was running low and the number of casualties continued to rise. Without the arrival of the Blood Angels and the Spartan Legion, the final outcome of Rabat Fortress was self-evident.
Please remember the first domain name of this book: ._