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Ashe really couldn't hold on much longer.
Vampires were also human beings. Since the invention of the firearm, the first bullet killed the first vampire. Vampires were no longer invincible rulers. They would also bleed and die.
Today, human weapons had always been at the forefront of technology. No matter how strong and fast the vampires were, it was impossible for them to resist the encirclement of modern weapons.
In the United States, where guns were rampant, although there were few large-caliber weapons and heavy guns in the hands of civilians, the lethality of those light weapons was extremely terrifying when the number of them accumulated to a certain extent.
Vampires generally would not be surrounded by such a large number of people with guns. Although their glorious era had become history, they still had the speed and strength that human beings couldn't match. As long as they were careful enough and didn't fight to the death, they could break out of the encirclement before they were surrounded. When the opponents were alone, they could clear them one by one.
But Ashe couldn't break out of the encirclement according to the traditional experience and advantages of vampires in the past. She had to defend warehouse 59 until the arrival of reinforcements.
The warehouse was filled with all kinds of daily supplies. The last batch was sealed cans delivered five days ago. After that, the roads were all cut off, and no supplies could be transported normally.
If she was Buterne, she might still consider retreating, because Buterne didn't need to use blood to prove her loyalty to the king. Their blood had flowed too much for the king in the past thousand years, and Ashe was a member of the vampire family who had betrayed the oath. She carried the crime, and she could only use blood to prove herself. Therefore, she must stay here. There was no way out.
The number of thugs outside the warehouse surged to four or five hundred people last night, and more people were rushing here. The news that warehouse 59 stored a large amount of food and supplies was spreading in this panicked city like it had wings.
They were not starving people. Because of the high terrain of Kelvin, there was only water, and it had not been completely washed away or submerged by the flood. There was enough time for the citizens to rush to buy food, and it would not be a problem to support them for a month or two.
They were a group of instigated thugs. In the prelude of the global chaos, the once beautiful and civilized city of Kelvin could not avoid violence, unrest, and collapse. The gap between the rich and the poor, the accumulated resentment, the dark side of people's hearts, the loss of deterrence of the law, and so on, collectively erupted like a flood in the past few days.
Some people were simply venting, some hated the rich and powerful, some took the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, some wanted to snatch more food and other supplies, some wanted to get the pleasure of raping without being punished, and some even made a ruckus for the sake of chaos …
But there were also people who did it for ambition!
Andrew John was such a person. He was originally unemployed, living on subsistence welfare. Occasionally, he participated in robberies and thefts for things like marijuana and left a stack of criminal records in the police station.
Torrential rain was incessant, and floods ravaged the world. News came one after another in a few days. Rivers broke their banks one after another, and cities were submerged one after another. He keenly felt that the original social system was about to collapse, and the world of chaos was coming!
In the prelude to the troubled world, Andrew, who had been living at the bottom of society, knew better than the mayor that in the near future, if there was no food, he would be a bug, and if there was food, he would be a king. If there was food, he would have guns and people.
Therefore, he only did two things. One was to gather people to form a gun team for self-protection, and the other was to rob and accumulate a large amount of food and various necessities in his own hands.
He believed that as long as people had guns and food, in the future, other things, such as status, influence, power, luxury goods, marijuana, and women … Everything would be there.
Starting from three days ago, while the police were busy fighting other thugs, he and his partners avoided the eye-catching department stores and large supermarkets, and specifically picked the warehouses where supplies were piled up.
He used to work as a temporary worker in a logistics company, so he knew the distribution of the warehouses in this city like the back of his hand. Except for the large warehouses protected by the government, he didn't have the strength to touch them for the time being. The other small warehouses were all swept by him, and he occupied a warehouse that was on a higher terrain and could not be flooded for the time being. He used it to store the looted materials, and he accelerated the transportation of vehicles, ready to evacuate to the west coastline at a higher altitude at any time.
In his plan, he wanted to get a large liner, and then move all the looted materials on it. When the flood completely submerged the mainland civilization and the world fell into a vast ocean, he would be able to build his own kingdom on the liner, and he would be the first king.
That was what Andrew thought, and that was what he did. He unabashedly spread his plans for the future to his partners, describing the great kingdom they were going to build in the future … If he wanted to do great things, he naturally had to be different from other thugs. A thug who only knew how to smash and rob would not last long. In a desperate and chaotic world, if weapons and food were the first necessary foundation, then a promising future was the real banner. Only under this banner would more people be willing to follow him and build his kingdom.
But everything had a beginning, and he had to take it one step at a time. Under his deliberate promotion, more and more people were willing to follow him, and the more people there were, the more difficult it was for Chris, the road lamp who was still struggling in the low-lying area. His basic supplies were far from enough. At least, he still lacked a lot of sealed food. Not many people usually bought these things, so there were very few spares in the warehouse. Also, he was not the only one who was looting in the city of Kelvin, so he only had a small part of the loot.
At this time, he received a piece of information. Warehouse 59 contained a large number of similar food and materials. Although time was tight, and he didn't have time to figure out who the other party was, after all, someone who could prepare materials for the disaster in advance must have some background. However, after some investigation, he found that when some small forces attacked this warehouse, no police appeared, so he was sure that this large warehouse had nothing to do with the government. After some careful preparation, he began to attack unscrupulously.
At first, he thought that with more than a hundred quick shooters, even if the guards inside were a little strong, they should be able to conquer the warehouse in the afternoon. However, he found that for the first time since the flood broke out, he was wrong. The resistance in the warehouse was not strong, it was very strong.
He clearly saw that someone was shot and seriously injured, but after an hour, that person appeared again and still persisted in fighting back fiercely. But the injury was not as serious as it seemed an hour ago.
This was not the first time something like this had happened. It had happened one after another, and the morale of the partners had been severely affected.
If it weren't for the fact that his team members were strong enough to attack a power room and kill three people on the other side, he might even doubt whether the other side was human or not. Would they be killed?
Since the other side could also be killed by bullets, he was no longer suspicious and ordered to attack with all his strength without any rest.
Relying on the fact that they had the advantage in numbers, they could take turns to rest. As long as the guards in the warehouse were still human, there would definitely be times when they could not hold on anymore.
After both sides paid heavy casualties, Andrew still refused to retreat and began his first fight on the road of hegemony!
His thinking was different from ordinary people. He subconsciously felt that the stronger the other side's resistance was, the more valuable and good things were inside. Since he had already paid a heavy price, he must take it!
Because of this, he and his men attacked for an entire afternoon and night. The next day, when the hazy shimmer gradually emerged from the heavy rain, he still could not enter the main warehouse. However, it was not without success. The sharpshooters finally conquered a side door. Inside, there was a mountain of sealed cans and all kinds of sealed daily necessities. While his partners were dumbfounded, it also boosted their morale!
With these things, they wouldn't have to worry for at least a year!
However, Andrew was worried. Looking at the piles of materials piled up in the warehouse, which were more important than life in this chaotic world, he keenly felt the huge and terrifying power of the owner behind this warehouse.
To be able to start stockpiling these materials before the flood, to be able to accurately mobilize these materials in Kelvin City and even the entire United States on a large scale, what kind of insightful vision, well-informed sources, and deep background did they need to have in order to do this!?
Until this moment, even he had never believed the nonsense of the bureaucrats in the government. They said that the flood was an unpredictable emergency, which was all a lie made by the politicians. God knew how many selfish arrangements they had made in secret. Now, the mountain of disaster prevention materials was right in front of him, which also exposed the lies of the elites of the upper class!
Andrew opened the boxes one by one, revealing the dazzling sealed cans of beef. While using fierce words to arouse the anger of his partners, he urged the quick shooters to step up the attack and try to end the gunfight before noon and transport all the materials away.
He instinctively felt that danger was coming. Although the base station was submerged in the flood, and the long-distance wireless telephone communication was blocked, the shortwave radio and deep cable telephone could still be used. The owner of this warehouse must have received the news of the attack, and the rescue team was likely to be on the way.
Andrew guessed right and wrong at the same time. Ashe's reinforcements were indeed on the way. A huge army of vampires and humans set off from the west coastline. Taking advantage of the rising flood, they took private ships and sailed upstream to rescue the trapped second stronghold.
They went all the way east from Los Angeles in California and entered Arizona in the east. After receiving the urgent news from the second stronghold, they did not dare to stop for a moment.
In order to deal with the possible fatal attack of the vampire headquarters in Los Angeles, except for the more than 20 elites who were taken away by Chu Yunsheng, most of their main forces were arranged in the third stronghold, which was more important and must not be lost. That was the real nest of all the vampires who adhered to the oath, and the real strategic materials were all hoarded there. Therefore, only a small number of vampires, including Ashe, who had surrendered, could be stationed in the second stronghold. Because Chu Yunsheng would go there personally, they were not worried about what would happen in Kelvin at first. It was not until they received Ashe's call for help that they realized that the danger did not only come from other vampire families, but also from the chaotic situation and the rioting citizens.
The chaotic world was coming, and there were more and more people who took risks. In order to survive, there was no place that these people did not dare to rob.
However, there were always other vampires behind them, so they could not send their absolute main force. After a night of temporary emergency patchwork, they barely sent out a mixed fleet. Although it was huge, its combat power was only slightly higher than that of thugs.
However, the crisis of the second stronghold was originally from the attack of thugs. As long as the number of the fleet was large, it would be enough to deal with it. However, they did not expect the seriousness of the flood in advance. When the fleet struggled to the edge of Phoenix City in Arizona, they were caught in the vast sea of fleeing disaster victims.
If it weren't for the fact that everyone had guns and sufficient ammunition, even the ships would have been taken away.
Not only the victims, but also the various relief government departments that were temporarily set up also forcibly enlisted their ships to transport refugees. On the one hand, the second stronghold was frequently in an emergency, and on the other hand, the victims were accusing the government of forcibly conscripting them. This reinforcement fleet, except for confronting the indignant victims in the heavy rain, had no hope of arriving in Kelvin in time.
Therefore, although there were reinforcements, they could not arrive in a short time.
In a distant city, after an unprecedented fierce quarrel, the UA Congress finally formally signed a document authorizing the president to mobilize the most powerful navy on the planet to enter the inland for disaster relief. At the moment, in the red country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, millions of troops were rushing to the flood, and hundreds of millions of coastal victims fled their homes that had been reduced to the ocean. They crowded and trampled on each other, dragging their families … City residents who drove off-road vehicles were stuck in the crowd, mixed with the old-fashioned farmers who led pigs and chickens, carrying rice bags and vegetable baskets … They fled to the western plateau day and night.
At this moment, facing the rising sea level and the submergence of the island, the Nihon government made a decision to urgently ask for help from the mainland country in the west.
At this moment, the people on the Korean peninsula were in a mess. The southern countries tried to enter the mainland through the red north to take refuge, but they were mercilessly rejected. After firing at each other, all the people in the south, regardless of their status, had to cross the sea one after another and rush to the country that they once regarded as poor, backward, and unhygienic.
At this moment, the ancient country in the far east, which had the highest plateau in the world and was known as the backbone of the world, received urgent requests for help from dozens of countries in the same day, begging to open the border and come to take refuge.
…
At this moment, the street lamp Rix finally led hundreds of thousands of refugees out of the most difficult low-lying area and marched to the city of Kelvin.
At this moment, Andrew led his partners in the future kingdom to attack Ashe, who was getting fewer and fewer people.
At this moment, there were more Chris and Andrew's all over the world. In this chaotic world, there were heroes, but there were also devils.
…
It was also at this moment that Chu Yunsheng and his seventeen Blood Riders rushed into the city. Their hooves splashed the water, and they broke through the heavy rain. They pulled out their swords, and the cold light flashed across the sky. It was like the return of an ancient king.
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