Twelve hours after the end of the "cleaning" operation.
The sun was already setting outside, but inside the headquarters there was a gloomy atmosphere.
General Hamilton sat in front of the surveillance screen, looking at the huge nuclear crater in the surveillance screen, smoking cigarettes one after another, wondering what he was thinking.
Major Cole took a thick stack of reports, walked to the general, and said: "The on-site inspection report of the search team has come out, and there is no trace of the source of infection."
General Hamilton exhaled a puff of smoke and said slowly: "Even the stupidest dog will try its best to stay away from the stick after being beaten with a stick... It hides, and unless it is willing, we will not be able to find it again.
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Major Cole: "Reconnaissance drones just brought news from Utah and Arizona."
General Hamilton didn't even look up: "Bad news?"
Major Cole was silent for a moment, then picked up the report and said: "The existence of infected groups was found in both King George and Seligman."
General Hamilton: "Where are the traces of the army?"
Major Cole: "The 105th Regiment and the 179th Regiment each set up defensive camps on the state line... After investigation, it was confirmed that both have fallen."
Hamilton closed his eyes in pain.
Major Cole: "Also in California, someone uploaded a video on the Internet. A large group of infected birds arrived at Echo Park in the north of Los Angeles in the evening. They have been hovering in the sky and have not left no matter how hard they are driven away.
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Hamilton's hand holding the cigarette trembled slightly, and he struggled to say one sentence: "It is only a matter of time before the infection spreads."
Major Cole pulled out a piece of paper and said: "The President has just signed an emergency evacuation decree, requiring all states across the country to implement emergency evacuations in accordance with legal procedures."
Hamilton shook his head, indicating that he didn't want to look.
Major Cole put away all the documents and said to Hamilton: "General, this is located near the source of infection, and we must evacuate in accordance with the law."
Hamilton opened his eyes, looked at the explosion crater on the surveillance screen, and murmured: "A country that could destroy the earth ended up falling in the hands of a monster."
Major Cole frowned and reminded again: "General."
General Hamilton whispered: "Notify everyone and begin the evacuation procedures."
After saying this, Hamilton said to everyone in the room: "You all, go and leave me alone."
Watching the soldiers in the headquarters leave the room one after another, Hamilton took out a Bible and a bottle of liquor from under the table.
He opened the cap of the wine bottle and took a sip.
The pungent liquid instantly burned his face red.
Opening the Bible, General Hamilton turned to a certain page and whispered: "The Lamb opens the seven seals, announcing the end of the apocalypse."
"There was a gray horse; and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hades was with him; and authority was given to them to kill a quarter of the people on earth, by sword, by famine, by pestilence, and by wild beasts."
"Under the altar are the souls of those who were slain for the word of God and as witnesses."
"The earth was shaken; the sun became black as wool, the full moon turned red as blood, and the stars in the sky fell to the earth."
“O Lord, holy and true, how long will it take until You judge those who dwell on the earth and avenge our blood?”
After reading this, Hamilton closed his Bible and took another sip of strong wine.
Then, he took out the pistol from his waist and pointed it at his temple.
Boom!
Gunshots rang out, and in the haze of the day of apocalypse, another Wuwu soul appeared.
At the same time, Clemens took Alice and Liz to drive through the National Desert Wildlife Refuge.
Arrive at a small town less than 70 kilometers away from the Ship Mountain Refuge Camp.
Parking the Ford on a patch of grass and looking at the red light on the gas gauge, Clemens said, "We have to find a way to get some gas."
Liz opened the map and said: "There is a gas station in the center of this town, and there are some shopping malls next to it. Maybe we can find some supplies."
Clemens glanced at the sky outside the car. The sun was slowly setting and the moon was dimly visible.
"Let's move together, but be careful." Clemens said as he opened the car door: "God knows what will be here."
The three of them got out of the car, found some branches, made some simple concealments for the car, and started heading towards the center of the town.
After walking for less than ten minutes, Alice found a drinking water tap in the park.
Alice was about to turn on the faucet, but Liz quickly stopped her.
The latter put on gloves, carefully opened the faucet, then turned on the flashlight and shined it into the water.
When the light hits the crystal clear water, it is obvious that there are some small and dense black insects.
Clemens said: "The water sources here have all been contaminated. From now on, we can only use bottled or barreled processed water."
Liz said: "If the water source here is contaminated, it means that there must be infected people in this town."
Clemens nodded, grasped the wrench he brought from the car, and said to the two women: "Let's go slower and try to avoid those communities."
Liz held Alice's hand tightly and nodded vigorously.
The three of them avoided the buildings and tried to choose some open areas with good views as their route forward.
After dodging groups of infected people wandering around, they finally saw the only gas station in the town.
Alice pointed to the gas station and said to Clemens: "Dad, look, there is someone there!"
Clemens and Liz looked there, and to their surprise, there were actually traces of human activity on the roof of the gas station.
These people used the gas station as the center, laid wooden planks as air bridges, and connected all the surrounding shops into an air corridor.
The edge of the roof was sealed with wire, wooden boards, glass and cement to ensure that infected people could not climb up.
Clemens looked at the guards with guns on the roof and said softly: "Maybe we can negotiate with them in exchange for some gasoline and food."
Liz grabbed him and said, "Don't go yet, look over there."
In the center of the gas station roof, a bonfire was raised. People in strange robes were chanting something loudly around the bonfire.
A white flag slowly rose into the air, with a huge goat skull painted on it with bright red liquid.
Clemens: "What the hell is that?"
Liz: "I have a bad feeling."
A man with a huge tattoo on his upper body, holding a dagger, knocked on the iron plate on his chest.
The huge sound was particularly harsh in the night sky, and it immediately attracted all the infected people near the gas station.
Hundreds of infected people gathered around the gas station, screaming and running.
The densely packed parasite tentacles look like a black forest when viewed from above.
Alice looked at the roof curiously and asked, "Dad, what are they going to do?"
Under the watchful eyes of the three people, the people on the roof tied a naked man to a wooden pillar and carried him out.
"I'm just a passerby!" the tied man shouted miserably: "For the sake of God, please don't hurt me and let me go!"
The tattooed man shouted loudly to the infected people downstairs: "Our God is both light and darkness!"
"Our God is both a fool and a wise one!"
“Our God gave birth to all things, yet is slandered as perdition!”
"Believers in life and waiters in death welcome our God together. He is the origin, the only one, the eternal and unchangeable!"
After saying these words, the tattooed man raised his dagger and drew a bloody inverted cross on the chest of the bound animal.
Amid the screams of the victims, people on the roof tied one end of the wooden pillar with a rope and slowly lowered it to the roof.
Seeing what happened next, Liz quickly covered Alice's eyes, while Clemens forced himself to turn around and kept retching on the spot.
After a long time, Liz, who looked pale, said to Clemens: "All the infected people in the town have been attracted, which means that the nearby houses are safe for the time being."
The latter nodded: "We can take this opportunity to search for gasoline, food and clean water."
Clemens stood up, looked back at the tragedy next to the gas station for the last time before leaving, and whispered: "This is the end of the Bible. When will all this end?"