There were not many staff members left in the hotel. Only one or two people were left to guard the place while the rest had gone home to look for their families.
While Li Ran and the others were sitting in the hotel lobby in a daze, gunshots rang out from outside the stronghold. To be precise, it came from the stronghold's walls.
The Wang Clan's plainclothes soldiers were standing at the entrance of the hotel discussing how to get their hands on some weapons and if they could contact the Wang Clan and get them to negotiate with the Zhou Clan to return the weapons to them.
But after a long time of talking on the satellite phone, the Wang Clan only agreed to let them communicate with the Zhou Clan.
Ren Xiaosu glanced at the soldiers at the entrance before pulling Zhou Yingxue aside and saying, "Stay here. I'll go out and have a look."
Zhou Yingxue panicked. She said in a low voice, "Master, don't run around. I'm scared."
"What's the use of being scared?" Ren Xiaosu took out two pistols and five or six magazines from his storage space and handed them to Zhou Yingxue. "This hotel is located in the center of the stronghold. If something happens here, it means the entire stronghold is done for. When the time comes, just find a place and use your seeds to set up a small shelter and wait for me to come and save you, understand?"
"Then are we still going to save Li Ran when the time comes?" Zhou Yingxue asked.
Ren Xiaosu was taken aback. "It's already good enough that you're still alive, so why would you want to save others? At most, you can't die even if you don't participate in the Anjing House trials. "
Zhou Yingxue's eyes suddenly smiled, and she was no longer afraid. "Yes, Master."
She was most worried that Ren Xiaosu would only use her to fight his way into the Anjing House and then abandon her. But from the looks of it, her mission was more important than joining the Anjing House.
Ren Xiaosu was a little baffled. Why did this woman's expression change so suddenly? She was still quite afraid earlier, but now she was smiling.
He walked outside. When Li Ran and Mu Wange saw this, they panicked. Li Ran stood up and asked, "Where are you going?"
"I'll go take a look outside," Ren Xiaosu said.
"If you leave, who will protect us?" Mu Wange said anxiously.
"What if you don't come back?" Li Ran was at a loss.
Ren Xiaosu pouted at Zhou Yingxue. "She's still here."
Everyone looked at Zhou Yingxue and saw Zhou Yingxue inspecting the firearms. No one knew how Zhou Yingxue had managed to bring the firearms into the stronghold.
Ren Xiaosu looked at the plainclothes soldiers and said with a grin, "No, they're still here. They're here to protect y 'all."
When the soldiers saw the two firearms in Zhou Yingxue's hands, their eyes lit up. "We're active-duty soldiers. Since we're here to protect everyone, we should be the ones to use these two firearms. Besides, we're better at using firearms."
Ren Xiaosu sneered, "Zhou Yingxue, if anyone tries to snatch the guns after I leave, you can just shoot them to death."
Zhou Yingxue also said calmly, "Y 'all are better at using firearms? If you can't even protect your own guns, how can you talk about using them? "
After that, Ren Xiaosu left the hotel. As a matter of fact, Zhou Yingxue was not a weak woman. She was someone who could deceive him without batting an eyelid. If these plain-clothed soldiers had any ideas about Zhou Yingxue, they would probably be killed tonight.
After leaving the hotel, Ren Xiaosu headed west. That should be the main battlefield where Zhou's Army was fighting the Experimentals. But along the way, he suddenly saw more than a dozen supernatural beings dressed in black running along the rooftops at about the same speed as him. When they saw him, they only glanced at him and did not say anything.
That was strange. Where did more than a dozen supernatural beings come from? A moment later, Ren Xiaosu saw a saber hanging from their waists. Wasn't that a ceramic saber from the Pyro Company?
Wait a minute, these people were actually members of the Pyro Company? They were probably hiding in Stronghold 74 before the Experimentals arrived.
But since they were from the Pyro Company, why did they not make a move when they encountered a supernatural being like him?
Ren Xiaosu quietly changed directions and used his shadow clone to follow them. He wanted to see what the Pyro Company was up to.
The gunfire at the top of the stronghold walls had stopped, so Ren Xiaosu did not know what was going on outside.
Slowly, the Pyro Company members and Ren Xiaosu approached the western stronghold walls. However, the Pyro Company members reported their identities to Zhou's Army and went up the walls.
Ren Xiaosu watched this through his spotting scope. He even saw Zhou's Army distributing firearms to the Pyro Company members. It seemed like the Pyro Company members were going to join forces with Zhou's Army to defend the stronghold.
The Pyro Company was going to help defend the stronghold residents behind them? So it turned out the Pyro Company members did not arrest a supernatural being like him because they had more important matters to attend to.
This subverted Ren Xiaosu's understanding of the world. When humanity faced a common calamity, even an organization like the Pyro Company would become part of the defense forces?
Actually, Ren Xiaosu also understood that if Zhou's Army were to be defeated, the hundreds of thousands of people in the stronghold would suffer. But to be honest, he really did not expect the Pyro Company would take the initiative to step forward.
At this moment, Old Li and Qin Sheng had already received the firearms distributed by Zhou's Army. However, the Zhou Clan did not assign them any specific tasks. If the Experimentals were to charge up the walls, the supernatural beings would have to fend them off.
After all, it would be very difficult for pistols and automatic rifles to directly kill the Experimentals at that time. Furthermore, the Experimentals were extremely mobile. Therefore, if an Experimental were to climb up the walls, it would be a huge threat to the entire defense system. There might even be more Experimentals charging up the walls, causing the entire line to collapse.
At that time, they would have to rely on the newly built fortifications in the city. However, that would only be used as a last resort.
Just as the Experimentals were about to launch an attack, the Zhou Clan only managed to kill a few dozen of them with their heavy machine guns before retreating into the forest.
When the Experimentals came out of the forest again, everyone on the stronghold walls was stunned. That was because the Experimentals were herding hundreds of humans who were still alive towards the stronghold. Old Li might even know some of them. They were the refugees who had fled into the wilderness to avoid the consortiums.
Logically speaking, the Experimentals should have killed anyone they saw. But it was different now. They had actually learned how to order the humans around.
Didn't the humans have heavy machine guns? In that case, they might as well kill their own kind first.
The eastern stronghold walls were also facing a similar predicament. Not only were the Experimentals herding the refugees away, but there were also a large number of soldiers dressed in the blue uniforms of the Zhou Clan. It looked like they had been captured by the reinforcements from Stronghold 73.
Should they open fire or not?
Old Li, Qin Sheng, and the members of the Pyro Company did not say anything. That was because they were only assisting in the defense, and it was not up to them to make the decision.
The commander of the Zhou Clan Army stood on the stronghold walls and quietly watched the crowd getting closer and closer to the stronghold walls. These people were crying until their voices were hoarse. Some of the children were being carried in the arms of adults, and their faces were covered in tear stains.
Meanwhile, there were a few scattered Experimentals among these refugees who were responsible for herding them away. The majority of the Experimentals were closely following them about five or six meters behind them. If the troops on the stronghold walls did not make a move, it would only take them half a minute to destroy this seemingly sturdy stronghold once they got close.
The commander of the Zhou Clan Army said calmly, "Open fire."
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