Scarlet Dawn [Apocalypse]

This piece of woodland used for military exercises is located in a basin surrounded by mountains. The two camps occupy the east and west sides respectively. The abandoned factory is located in the center of the basin, and the terrain gradually turns down as you go forward.

It is very easy to get lost in the jungle under the snow curtain, and the scenery in sight is very similar. Hayden, who was walking in the circle surrounded by three people, kept his eyes on the holographic map for a moment, and the relevant content learned in the military school kept replaying in his mind. The temperature of [-] degrees froze the snow combat uniform, but his innermost tactical vest was already soaked with sweat.

Four hours later, the snow continued unabated, but the wind stopped, dense snowflakes fell, and there was a low growl in the quiet air from time to time, or the friction sound of staggering walking, and the number of dead creatures was completely beyond expectations , the current situation looks like it will only get worse on the factory side.

The snow on the ground has covered the knees, and Bai Yi's legs are completely frozen, and there will be a pain like skin cracking when he moves even slightly. In the low temperature environment, in order to preserve physical strength, there is almost no redundant communication between the four of them. Bai Yi can't even breathe. Adjusted to the lowest level, a pair of eyes are clear and clear, always paying attention to every slight movement in the forest.

Suddenly, a "wait a minute" sounded from the communication channel, and at the same time, the coniferous bushes not far away shook violently, accompanied by wheezing and wheezing sounds, and a sky-shattering roar rang out.

This kind of voice is probably not an ordinary zombie——Bai Yi's eyes darkened, and he stepped back vigilantly in front of Hayden, and said in a deep voice, "Put away the map first, and we'll talk about anything after killing."

Hayden also noticed the abnormality, and immediately pressed the light-extinguishing screen, drew out the dagger, and slightly retracted his frozen fingers.

"This...could it be—?" Someone in the communicator asked.

"Shh-"

Bai Yi quickly raised his hand to signal silence, narrowed his eyes behind the goggles, put his middle and middle fingers together and made a "dispersion" gesture with a light tap sideways. Take cover and keep an eye out for movement behind the bushes.

The foul-smelling breath was steaming, and a half-rotten animal head protruded from the grass. The Asian gray wolf made by the holographic image was enough to make a real one, and even the smell was equally disgusting.The beast's jaws were pulled together, and its purple tongue was pulled out. The sharp teeth gleamed coldly, and the viscous saliva dripped and fell on the snow.

All the students participating in the military exercise are students who have not been genetically modified. Is it too difficult to lose the beast?What is Su Chen trying to do?Bai Yi suppressed the doubts in his heart, and watched the number of beasts closely with the gaps on the sides of the tree trunks - when the last one got out of the grass, he heard a weak gasp from the communication channel.

Five... With only a dagger as a melee weapon at hand, the difficulty is indeed not small.

The leading wolf was sniffing greedily on the surface of the snow, pawing at the snow with its forelimbs, its eyes covered with white film were bulging, and the other four were quietly waiting aside.

Even the hierarchy within the population is highly simulated, so these holographic images should also have the five senses and muscles as terrifying as real zombie wolves - Bai Yi made a judgment in his heart, and tapped the communication headset with his fingertips through the cotton cap.

He kept his voice so low that he wasn't even sure his teammates could hear him.

"First, no one is allowed to act without my order."

"Second, climb up the tree as soon as possible after the fight starts."

"Thirdly, I need a dagger. Whoever it is, throw the dagger at the tree where I am hiding in ten seconds."

"What's the problem?"

Two light knocks sounded on the communication channel one after another. Bai Yi noticed that Ian, who was not far away from him, did not give any feedback, so he made a questioning gesture towards him.

Ian said simply: "I will help you."

The five zombie wolves were really difficult for him, Bai Yi hesitated for a moment, and said, "Then I will trouble you."

After everything was deployed, Bai Yi held his breath, raised his left hand, and counted down tens of seconds to prepare with gestures.

When the last finger was retracted, the hand was clenched into a fist, and a dagger cut through the snow curtain and plunged into the tree trunk with a bang.

The sound immediately attracted the attention of the five beasts, and then the four of them moved at the same time.

Brooke and Hayden climbed up the dead tree closest to them, and Ian approached quietly.

Bai Yi squeezed his dagger between his lips, stepped on the handle of the military dagger stuck on the tree trunk with his military boots, jumped up with his strength, and grabbed a branch above his head with both hands. Tensely accumulating strength, a loop directly stepped onto the branch to stabilize the body.

——At the same time, at the position he was avoiding a second ago, several gray wolves screamed and bumped into each other.

Bai Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I'm three and you two, you do it first and choose by yourself."

Ian didn't speak, he weighed a stone that he had already held in his hand, and glanced sideways, the stone was released from his hand, and flew towards a tree trunk not far away.With a bang, the attention of the zombie gray wolf shifted again, and his voice sounded on the channel, "Whoever moves fast, the fifth one will be his."

Bai Yi silently raised the corner of his mouth and replied, "Yes."

His voice fell silent, the branches trembled slightly, Ian kicked his feet, and the two of them almost became a blurred afterimage.

The knee-high snow seriously affected the movement speed of ordinary people. Ian didn't realize it, and he was as nimble as a swift and fierce cheetah, and went straight to the nearest zombie gray wolf.Bullying from close quarters, the military boots kicked up a pile of broken snow and kicked the wolf's head sideways. With a click, pus and blood flew out from half of the lower jaw. The zombie wolf backed away screaming and screaming. Ian followed closely behind, catching the beast In the second of pain, the dagger pierced through the head, nailing it into the snow.

Two meters away, Bai Yi cut off the wolf's head directly, and the rancid blood splashed on the jacket of the combat uniform. The two corpses that had died within a few seconds of each other twisted and disappeared. Bai Yi and Ian looked at each other, and then looked away. Move on to the next target.

In the communication channel——

Brooke: "It looks so boring, can you give me the fifth one?"

Bai Yi: "I can give it to you, but your dagger is still on the tree trunk, how do you kill it?"

Brooke smiled triumphantly and said, "That's Hayden's~"

Hayden said depressedly: "Just now he snatched my dagger..."

Ian: "Being able to get the dagger from Brooke, I really misjudged you."

Hayden: "..."

Brook frowned, and said angrily, "What the hell do you mean?!"

Ian added calmly: "Look, Hayden, he is a muscular mallet that can't even understand the literal meaning. He has well-developed limbs and a simple mind. Do you think he is bad?"

Hayden: "..."

Bai Yi: "Hey, if no one comes down again, the fifth one will die."

Brook and Hayden jumped down from the tree trunk, and Hayden went to pull out his own dagger. Ian walked over and glanced at the wolf whose limbs were chopped off by Bai Yi, struggling and howling, and said expressionlessly: "I can't see you There is still such a habit."

"It's too boring to walk for a few hours. Forgive me for venting." Bai Yi pulled off his tactical mask, took a deep breath of the bitter air, gave Ian a naughty smile, and then went around to talk to Ian. Brooke said: "I left it for you, thank you~"

Brook walked over enthusiastically and began to poke the wolf with a dagger. Ian's brows were tightened, and he looked at the bloody scene in front of him and Brook who was enjoying it with a complicated expression. He sighed silently and turned to the other two. .

Bai Yi sat on a collapsed tree trunk, grabbed a handful of snow and wiped the blood off the blade of the dagger, and said to Hayden without raising his head, "What happened just now, why did you wait?"

Hayden put the dagger back into its sheath, walked around the two of them, opened the holographic map that came with the communicator, pointed to the four small red dots gathered together on it, and said: "This is our current position, and here It's a factory."

Bai Yi looked at the two landing points of his finger gestures in turn, and asked, "What's the problem?"

"Now we are only 1.7 kilometers away from the factory vertically. According to the rules, the radiation zone is within three kilometers outside the factory. After we enter, the timing device will be automatically activated, but—"

"The timing system is not activated." Bai Yi completed the sentence for him after glancing at the still light screen of the communicator, "What do you think this means?"

Hayden was silent for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "It may be that I misjudged the direction, we are still far away from the factory; or it may be that the timing system failed, and it did not start automatically after arriving at the predetermined area; and..." He respectively After seeing Bai Yi and Brooke, he bit his lower lip and asked hesitantly, "How likely do you think the map is wrong?"

"Very low," Ian said. "The preparation for the military exercise took several months. There has never been such a low-level mistake as a map error before. I think it is unlikely."

Bai Yi thought over Hayden's previous words over and over again, and instead of rushing to draw conclusions, he asked, "Why do you think there is a possibility that the map is wrong?"

"Because the terrain data does not match the actual situation on the road," Hayden pointed out several slightly more obvious landmarks on the holographic map, and explained: "We are heading all the way to the center of the basin. According to the speed calculation, we should encounter a winter road two hours ago. A dry riverbed, but we didn't go through this riverbed until half an hour ago, so there was a 1.5-hour gap."

"So you think the map is wrong?" Bai Yi asked.

Hayden concluded: "Yes, I think there is a distance difference between this set of maps and the actual terrain. The distance is roughly the distance we traveled in 1.5 hours, and this is only the difference in the same direction. I don't know. Are the coordinates in other directions correct?"

Bai Yi nodded thoughtfully and said nothing.

At this time, Brook behind them suddenly gave a snort, and asked loudly: "Are you sure that the weakness of the holographic creature is also the brain and cervical nerves?"

"I'm sure, the first four are all dead like that," Bai Yi replied with his back to Brook, "And they will disappear automatically after they die. Let them die when you've played enough."

"It's dead," Brooke said.

Bai Yi turned his head and urged, "Come here when you die."

Brook stepped aside and pointed to the motionless corpse at his feet, "This one hasn't disappeared..."

At his feet, blood and brains were smeared all over the ground, and the air was filled with the rotten smell unique to dead creatures. The dirty blood was stuck to the mane on the top of the gray wolf's head, and the handle of the military dagger that hadn't been pulled out was stuck in it.Bai Yi's heart sank in vain, and then looked at Ian and Hayden respectively. The goggles blocked each other's eyes, but the trace of uneasiness was clearer than the smell of blood.

Hayden looked at the two silent companions separately, and asked, "This is... what's going on?"

"It's not a good situation," Ian said.

Bai Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and said simply, "Go and have a look first."

The three of them came to Brook together, and Bai Yi knelt down on one knee to personally inspect the zombie wolf's body.

When he stopped, Ian asked, "How is it?"

Bai Yi stood up, returned the bloody dagger to Brook, kicked the stiff corpse of the beast with the toe of his boot, sneered, and said, "It's just true."

"Really?" Hayden was shocked and asked, "Are you sure?"

Bai Yi didn't look at him, raised his chin towards the corpse, and said, "You can check it again, and you'd better tell me that it doesn't disappear because of a malfunction of the holographic technology." After speaking, he turned on the light screen of the communicator , find Silverson's number, and directly apply for voice communication.

There was a busy tone in the earphones.

Ian walked up to him and said, "Communication blocking?"

Bai Yi pursed his lips and nodded, "The temporary channel is not affected. It should be blocked regionally. We must find a way to notify Hill and Achen." Group other students, tell them not to come out to collect points, there are real dead creatures mixed in the holographic image, it is very dangerous here."

The voice fell, and the coniferous bushes not far away shook again.