Meng Chao could not decide whether he should continue chasing after Gao Ye or follow up on the rat horde.
Right when he picked up Ye Xiaoxing's call, he heard the captain of Group 9 say anxiously, "Hurry up and come to the surface!"
Meng Chao and Lu Siya looked at each other. They walked along the slanted pipe for a while before they climbed up a simple ladder and lifted the manhole cover to return to the surface. They noticed that the southern part of the city was already in chaos.
They turned on the military-grade tactical computer and received the information Ye Xiaoxing had just sent them. It was the surveillance footage of the intersections in the southern part of the city.
They could clearly see that half an hour ago, black "fountains" had suddenly gushed out of the corners, drains, and manholes in the southern part of the city. They surged toward the residential areas like a tidal wave, and they targeted the temporary tent areas.
Naturally, it was the rat horde that filled the entire area.
In the past, before the monster invasion, the tearing of space-time rifts would produce ripples beforehand, which would be detected by the weather department. From then on, they would send out the fog warning, and the residential areas within the area would be fortified. The residents would also be on guard and be ready for battle.
The rat horde today was strange. It should be the locals under Dragon City. They were not sent over from outside the city. The weather department had not released any fog warnings until the second before the rat horde surged out. Naturally, none of the residential areas had been fortified by even 10%.
Besides, the residents had their homes destroyed in the previous monster invasion. They were still living in the simple tent areas, so it was impossible for them to fortify the area.
The rat horde charged straight into the residential areas and residential areas to engage in close combat with the citizens.
For a period of time, Meng Chao heard chaos and sounds of fighting. It was as if a pot of porridge had been boiled and a batch of popcorn had been baked at the same time.
Ye Xiaoxing spoke hoarsely in the communication channel. Hundreds of residential areas in the southern part of the city had been invaded by the rat horde. Based on the signs that the rat horde had appeared at the same time, it was a premeditated large-scale attack.
"What do you mean?"
Lu Siya was wearing leather boots with steel plates and spikes. She kicked a dizzy rat into the distance and asked in puzzlement, "Are the abnormal beasts thinking of using these rats to break Dragon City's defenses?"
Meng Chao had the same question in mind.
Even though they could use the rat horde to avoid the alarm from the weather bureau and prevent Dragon City from quickly fortifying the city, they were still in a dangerous situation.
But rats themselves were very weak, and they could barely be considered monsters. Dragon City was a place where the people were strong and every family had weapons, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, hooks, and forks. What could a rat horde do?
As expected, the drones sent out by Team 9 quickly captured the scene from the sky above the nearby community.
It was the evening rush hour, and the streets and all kinds of transportation were crowded with people.
The sudden outbreak of the rat tide had caused chaos in all forms of transportation, including the subway. It had also caught the various communities off guard.
But very quickly, the residents reacted and carried out the most resolute attack on the rat tide.
On the bus, many office workers were wearing leather boots with steel plates and sharp blades. Some of them had soft swords and whips around their waists. Some of the women lifted their skirts and pulled out cold daggers from their thighs.
In the residential area, every household had a secret weapon to deal with snakes, insects, rats, and ants. It was a large net with excellent elasticity. When the net was cast, it could catch several rats and throw them to the ground.
With the arm strength of Dragon Citizens, they could break their tendons and bones, and their brains would splatter.
Hence, the commotion only lasted for a moment before it calmed down.
But Meng Chao smelled a scheme.
'They snuck into Dragon City and controlled so many rats. They even had to make them go berserk at the same time and attack the places with the most people. The abnormal beast must have spent a lot of effort to do this, and it's all for the sake of letting the citizens relax on their way to work?'
Suddenly, Meng Chao's pupils shrank.
The screen of the tactical computer showed twenty pictures at the same time.
His gaze was fixed on the sixteenth picture at the top left corner.
He tapped the touch screen gently, and the drone in the distance immediately received the order to lower its altitude so that Meng Chao could see the things on the ground clearly.
It was a man with a shiny head and a body that was built like an iron tower.
When the rat tide surged into a bus, he was the first to rush out and fight against the rat tide. In one breath, he trampled eight rats to death. In fact, he used his huge palms to crush two rats.
But his face and arms were also scratched by the rat's sharp claws and teeth, leaving a few bloody marks.
Right now, the roads were filled with buses that had exploded because the rats had crawled into their crystal engines. The entire street was blocked.
Before the ambulance arrived, he sat by the road and rested.
Meng Chao saw the man wave his hand and refuse other people's help to bandage his wounds. He smiled and moved his lips as if he was saying, "It's just a small injury. You don't have to trouble yourself with it."
Then, the man leaned against a tree and closed his eyes, as if he was really tired and fell asleep.
Even in his sleep, he was spasming in a neurotic manner, as if he was having a nightmare.
Strands of green veins spread from his arms and shoulders all the way to his face.
The man only slept for half a minute before he opened his eyes. They were filled with confusion and … a brutal light.
But he did not stop spasming. Instead, it became even more intense. He was like a deranged dancer, but he also looked like he was still immersed in a nightmare that he could not free himself from.
Soon, someone noticed the man's strange actions.
But before they could cry out in surprise, the man had already activated his unbelievable motor abilities. He used all his limbs and charged forward like a mad dog that weighed more than one hundred kilograms.
Meng Chao saw the man send a citizen who had just fought with him flying. He crashed into the bus like a kite with its string snapped, causing the bus to sway violently. The citizen coughed up blood and fainted.
The man pounced on another citizen and opened his mouth. He revealed his protruding canines and bit down on the citizen's neck.
No, it was not just the man. Meng Chao saw from the other CCTVs that there were plenty of citizens who had just fought against the rat horde in the south of the city and were injured gloriously. In just a short minute, they turned into zombies!
"… Virus!"
Meng Chao's mind raced, and he instantly registered what was going on. He shouted into the communication channel. "Captain Ye, the rat horde is carrying a new mutated zombie virus. Their goal isn't to use the rat horde to destroy our defenses, but to spread the virus!
"Damn it, this new mutated zombie virus acts up really quickly. It will act up half a minute after you're scratched or bitten. Once it acts up, your motor abilities will increase by leaps and bounds. It doesn't look like a pure zombie virus. It's more like the amalgamation of a zombie virus and rabies virus. It's most likely a product of a lab and an evil biochemical weapon!"
"Roger that."
Ye Xiaoxing said gravely. "I've already reported the situation here to the higher-ups. The southern part of the city will soon be in the highest state of alert. The superhumans from the other regions are rushing over as well. Stay where you are and be prepared to save the citizens at any moment."
Before he could finish his sentence, a shrill alarm sounded.
Three long and two short red alerts urged all the residential areas in the southern part of the city to speed up the fortification process.
The vanguard of the Red Dragon Army also arrived at the regions in the southern part of the city with armored airships. They released steam, descended, and released ropes. Squads of elite warriors descended to a height of eight meters before they let go of the ropes. They jumped down and landed lightly on the ground.
Although the streets were blocked by the paralyzed buses.
However, there was a large number of runic chariots that looked like giant spiders and crabs. They stretched out their long legs and directly passed over the buses. Only when they arrived at the crossroads did they sit down. Then, turrets rose from the roof and rotated 360 degrees, tightly guarding the streets.
Although many citizens who were scratched and bitten by the rats turned into zombies in just half a minute.
Dragon Citizens had been fighting against zombies since half a century ago, so they would not be so terrified by such a small scene that they wet their pants.
When they faced the monstrous and howling zombies, most of the citizens did not choose to retreat. Instead, they bravely went forward to fight against the zombies.
As the southern part of the city entered the "red alert state", the underground arsenals that were hidden in the streets and the entrances of the big shops, which were painted with eye-catching butter paint, slowly rose, and the covers were opened, revealing the guns that were full of them.
The citizens surged forward and took away the guns in a flurry. With familiar movements, they loaded them with ammunition and executed tactical maneuvers with well-trained movements. They found hiding spots and locked down the streets.
With guns in hand, their confidence increased by leaps and bounds. They fired at the zombies nonstop, and the horror movie turned into a gunfight movie and an action movie.
Soon, the superhumans living in the various regions of the city rushed over to provide reinforcements.
The Heaven Realm superhumans used maglev and flew over from the sky.
The Earth Realm superhumans wore the 3D mobile suits used by superhumans and jumped from the skyscrapers to the city.
With the defense of the normal citizens, the Red Dragon Army, and the superhumans, the rat horde outbreak and the spread of the zombie virus did not manage to completely destroy the order in the southern part of the city, even though they came with an aggressive momentum.
However, the zombies this time seemed to be smarter than normal zombies. When they noticed that they were not the opponents of guns, armored vehicles, and superhumans, they were like cunning monsters. They crawled into the depths of the residential areas or the corners of the alleys and alleys.
The chaos in the southern part of the city would continue for a long time. It was bound to be a sleepless night.
Bang! Bang!
Meng Chao held his gun and hit a zombie's knee.
The zombie that had wanted to pounce on the innocent citizens immediately fell to the ground.
It continued growling madly and struggling with all its might. It scratched the ground and tried to crawl to the innocent citizens.
But Meng Chao stepped on it and handed it to the Red Dragon Army, who surged forward.
"Why didn't you just shoot their heads?" Lu Siya asked when she caught up to him.
"These people are infected with the acute zombie virus, so they might have a chance of survival and recover to normal."
As Meng Chao spoke, he looked around him. Flames burned fiercely, gunshots rose and fell, and the streets were incredibly chaotic.
His eyes were filled with puzzlement.
They shone with the light of memories from his previous life.
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