MTL - Darkness is Coming-Chapter 45 Giving one's life for the country is not enough
The white words faded, the picture emerged, and countless steel giants were imprinted in front of them.
The soldiers of the People's Protection Army, wearing helmets and uniforms, were lined up in a neat line, and there was no end in sight.
"salute!"
A deep voice burst from the loud speaker.
"Shu" only once, and thousands of hands rose in unison, neat and tidy.
"Our name!" a low male voice asked.
"People's Protection Army!" The voices of thousands of fighters merged, and the tile kettle thundered.
"Our Mission!"
"Defend the family and the country!"
"Our duty!"
"Guard every inch of the country! Guard every citizen!"
When the camera changed, a female reporter with long hair **** casually and light makeup on her face said solemnly, "Hello, fellow Yuanjiang compatriots! I am Li Jing, the former intern reporter of the Metropolitan Channel. The soldiers of the 258th Brigade in Yuanjiang City."
"I believe that everyone has some understanding of the catastrophe that has occurred in the past few days, beyond our understanding. First, the virus broke out, and then there was a corpse wave similar to a biochemical crisis in major hospitals. Countless people lost their lives as a result. Including, including our relatives."
The female reporter Li Jing was talking, her voice began to tremble, her tears couldn't stop falling, she covered her mouth with her hands and made a whimpering sound, unable to speak.
Less than half a second after the camera turned black, the female reporter reappeared in the picture, her face was light makeup and she was crying, and her long hair had been untied and draped behind her shoulders.
Apparently the part where her emotions are out of control has been edited and edited.
"I'm Li Jing from City Channel, I'm sorry." Li Jing regained her composure and continued, "I believe everyone feels boundless fear and despair like me."
"However, please keep calm and don't give up on yourself. Because the soldiers of the 258th Brigade are still fighting **** battles to save our lives and homes, please don't let their blood and sweat go to waste, please don't give up hope, please cherish your own Life, don't commit suicide."
"Next, I will conduct interviews with many people in the temporary refuge camp. We will not edit or modify the content of the subsequent interviews. I will definitely bring you the most authentic records." Li Jing finished speaking and rushed to the camera. Nodding, "First of all, I will go to the troop garrison camp to interview the brigade commander of the 258th brigade, Colonel Zhao Jiang."
The picture shakes, and a middle-aged man in military uniform with a national character face appears. The pine branch green epaulette plate of the military uniform is decorated with two thin golden bars and four star emblems, showing his identity.
"Brigadier Zhao, hello."
"Hello." Zhao Jiang nodded slightly.
"Can you briefly introduce the current situation?" Li Jing cut off all unnecessary nonsense and went straight to the topic.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Jiang replied: "A few days ago, an air-borne mutated virus broke out in Yuanjiang, and the late Mayor Liu ordered the entire city to be sealed off. After that, all the patients who died of the virus became infected with the virus. Strongly aggressive monsters that eat people when they see them - according to your definition, they have become zombies. At that time, our department had entered the urban area to prepare to support the major hospitals that were severely affected by the disaster, and the dome descended the day after tomorrow, blocking our communication with the outside world. All connections, so far, we haven't found a way to break the dome or communicate with the outside world."
"Okay, that's exactly what I know. Sorry, you just said, the late Mayor Liu?"
"Yes." Zhao Jiang said sadly, "Mayor Liu and others have died in an accident at the air raid shelter command post. At present, we are doing our best to rescue the affected citizens and try to restore contact with other departments and institutions."
"So far, the 258th Brigade is still fighting alone, isn't it?"
Zhao Jiang nodded and said, "Yes, in the future we will recruit new troops and gather the remnants of the military and police. We also hope that the reserve soldiers, retired soldiers and capable compatriots will stand up and join us on their own initiative to contribute to the construction of the home city wall. Add bricks and mortar."
"Are you confident to defend Yuanjiang and protect all the residents of Yuanjiang?"
"Our 258th Brigade will definitely do our best to ensure the safety of every compatriot. But we also hope that the residents farther away from our department can overcome their fears, be brave, and work hard to save themselves!"
"Brigadier Zhao, please answer my question directly: Do you have the confidence to protect all the residents of Yuanjiang?"
Zhao Jiang was silent, and then nodded affirmatively: "Yes, I have confidence!"
"Okay, I also have confidence in you and your troops." Li Jing turned her head and said to the camera, "Before the deadline, the 258th Brigade had wiped out many corpses with few casualties. The following short video is one of them. A corpse killing operation, because the picture recorded by the mobile phone is not clear, please understand."
The short video starts out as a purgatory scene.
screams all over the hospital inside and outside, blood is flowing in rivers, but not many corpses can be seen - all the corpses have entered the stomachs of those cannibalistic monsters.
Countless zombies are running wild, as long as they are caught up, they will die.
The foul-smelling wind seems to be blowing out of the screen, and even the daring people will break into a cold sweat after watching the unprocessed and horrific scenes.
"Boom"
A thunderbolt rang out from the blue, and the thunder exploded.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
All obstacles and all commanding heights vanished in the shriek of the cannonballs, and the overwhelming explosions continued one after another.
Bricks, concrete, and stumps were flying in the air, the unbearable smell of gunpowder smoke overwhelmed the stench, and the furious artillery fire overwhelmed the screams.
After the strong light, the world in front of the camera seems to have been wiped out by a devastating blow, leaving only gray and black.
When the picture became clear again, there were only dozens of terrifying zombies left, in twos and threes, wandering sporadically, like broken puppets.
Immediately after the machine gun fired, even if only one bullet passed by, the zombies who were hit would have their hands and feet broken immediately. If anyone was hit in the head, the entire head would be blown up by a 12.7mm bullet on the spot.
The barrage composed of several heavy machine guns swept through, and only a few zombies were left with the ability to move. They finally found their target and began to charge the soldiers of the 258th Brigade.
But under the precise strikes of the snipers, they finally failed to rush out of the ten-meter distance.
The soldiers of the infantry company who had undergone years of coordinated infantry and artillery training wore masks and stayed in place reluctantly.
"As you can see, zombies are vulnerable under the firepower of the modern army. Please have the same confidence in the soldiers of the 258th Brigade as I do." The female reporter's voice sounded again, "Let's interview the rescued Citizens who went to the temporary shelter."
Helicopters coming and going under the dome brought back batch after batch of weeping survivors.
They were all placed in temporary refuge camps, and no one dared to move in in the areas that were not cleaned up.
"Hello, I'm Li Jing from the original city channel." Li Jing found an old man with white hair in the tent area and explained her intentions, "What do you want to say to the compatriots in front of the TV? say?"
"My wife is gone, and my son and grandson's family are missing and cannot be contacted." The old man said while sorting his clothes and bedding and folded them into squares.
"I understand your grief very well. I also lost my family in this disaster. What are your plans?"
"I've lived long enough, and I don't have much hope now. I want to show off my residual heat, but they say I'm too old and won't let me return to the team." After folding the bedding, the old man got up and tried to stand up straight, and said loudly, "When I was When the tank was opened, they were not born yet! I figured it out, no matter if they let me or not, my old man will fight to the end with a kitchen knife and a cane!"
Li Jing did not respond for a long time, but finally thanked and left silently, and found the next interviewee: a young couple.
"What can I say, the two of us came to the city from a remote place to work hard, and we finally saved enough money to buy a house. Now that it's gone, how can we live in the future." Clenching your teeth and smoking a cigarette,
"What are your plans for the future?"
"Do you really put what I said into the documentary? Won't you change it?" the man asked.
"Yes."
"I'm probably going to join the army, Mom and Dad. If one day you see this documentary, but you don't see me going back, then forgive the child for being unfilial and not being able to support you." The man suddenly knelt on the ground and said.
"Thank you for your bravery, thank you for your willingness to stand up and do your part to defend Yuanjiang." Li Jing said.
The man shook his head and said, "I'm not the kind of person who is full of blood. I have discussed with my wife for a long time. No one knows how long the dome in the sky will last. Now the food distribution is still sufficient, but it will definitely become less and less in the future. I I think the government army will definitely not support idle people, and joining the army early will not only ensure that you have a place here, but also learn some skills to protect yourself."
The woman cried even louder: "Who has discussed it with you, I don't agree! I'm pregnant, what if you have three strengths and two weaknesses, and my child is born without a father."
The man went to persuade, the woman punched and kicked, and Li Jing left in silence again.
One interviewee after another answered the same question to Li Jing, and Li Jing left in silence again and again.
"Finally, we are going to interview two soldiers of the 258th Brigade of the Defence Force." Li Jing paused before continuing, "They may have been infected because their masks fell off during the previous operation, and they have been separated and isolated."
Across the thick glass, Li Jing was talking to a soldier in a calm conversation.
"What are your plans or thoughts now?" Li Jing finally asked.
"It's nothing, my parents died early, and I didn't get married. I don't know who should get the pension. If I get infected and can't be saved, I'll find a way to blow my head off." The young soldier's face was ashen. , "I really don't want to become a zombie, it's so disgusting, I can't even think about it."
"Then are you afraid?"
"I'm afraid, what I'm most afraid of is not death. I'm most afraid of staying here and waiting for death. Time goes by too slowly. If the platoon leader hadn't figured out a way to relieve my boredom, I would have wanted to kill myself." The soldier replied. .
After thanking Li Jing, she went to interview the second quarantined soldier.
This time, different from the previous faces that looked like mourning students, the faces that appeared in front of the camera were bright and bright.
"Hello." Li Jing hesitated for a while, apparently also confused by the energetic look of the other party.
"Hello, hello." The warrior replied with a smile, showing his white teeth.
"I am..." After a simple question and answer, Li Jing threw the question again: "So what are your plans or thoughts now?"
The warrior nodded and said, "Work hard. If you don't get infected in the end, go back to the front line. If you get infected..."
The young soldier paused for a while, took a deep breath and said, "If I am infected, I will voluntarily transform into a zombie for the scientists and medical scientists in the camp to study, I hope they can make good use of it, and I hope my family can share a little more pension, It's not easy for my mother to be alone."
The picture freezes. Obviously not only Li Jing, but also the photographer was shocked.
"You, why did you make such a decision?" Li Jing blurted out.
"My grandfather fought in the Anti-Japanese War and my father fought in the Vietnam War. I remember a sentence they both said since I was a child."
"To die for the country, once is not enough!"
(I would like to pay tribute to the martyrs and brave warriors who have dedicated themselves to the country with this chapter. Thank you for not being afraid of hardships and death. Thank you for blocking all the darkness from where we cannot see.
I don't know what war looks like, thank you for letting me never know what war looks like, salute! )
