Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

In the underground fortress with hundreds of different residential areas, the main gate No. 3 on the west side has been lost, beast bodies are unscrupulously flooding the narrow streets, and the civilians who are too late to evacuate are mechanically killed.

The scattered soldiers were unable to organize an effective counterattack at all, and the final result of those who were alone was also killed by the beast after running out of ammunition.

Da da da!

On the other hand, in the No. 1 area in the center of the fortress, there were still intensive gunshots.

Boom! Boom!

From time to time, there will be violent explosions, or the movement caused by artillery, which means that the fortress has not completely fallen.

At this time, in the No. 6 area closest to the eastern gate, a group of civilians belonging to other residential areas fled here in panic, running towards the end tunnel with all their might.

Ah!

At the end of the crowd, a slender girl who was short of breath suddenly sprained her left foot and fell to the ground with difficulty maintaining her balance.

This fall made her unable to stand up even though she was already exhausted.

Help... someone help me... The girl raised her head with difficulty, and stretched out her trembling left hand, calling for help in a low voice.

But the voice was too weak, even if someone heard it, they would not spare their precious escape time to provide assistance to the girl.

The soldier responsible for covering the escape of these civilians and successfully killing a beast body turned around and retreated, looked at the girl who was crawling slowly with her hands clasped on the ground, and then at the tunnel that was so close...

Get up, hurry up!

The soldier picked up the girl without hesitation, let her right hand rest on his shoulder, and his left hand wrapped around her waist, and they rushed towards the tunnel together at a slow speed.

The soldier knew that his actions were tantamount to death, but he had to make a choice between his conscience and a few more minutes of life, and if he was lucky, a few more hours of life, he chose conscience.

Step! Step! The beast's body will not roar, but only the movement of four-legged running.

Hearing the sound of getting closer, the soldier had no choice but to turn around with the girl, and pulled the trigger of the gun with one hand.

Da da da!

Poof! Poof!

The extremely low-accuracy continuous shooting still killed the approaching beast body.

However, the one who emptied the magazine took care of this one, but they saw more pouring out from the street and the roof of the house.

Leave me alone...you run away...thank you... the girl withdrew her right hand from the soldier's shoulder and said weakly.

...

Hearing this, the soldier let go of his left hand without replying, and let the girl sit back on the ground.

However, the soldiers who freed up their hands changed the magazines, squatted on the ground and aimed and fired, which showed that the soldiers were going to smash the beast body here.

Boom! Boom!

But before the soldier emptied the newly replaced magazine, he and the girl heard footsteps behind them, and a black shadow jumped over their heads like a wind blowing beside them.

Immediately afterwards, the two saw a huge figure falling in front of them, rushing towards the center of the fortress.

And all the animal bodies within the reach of the figure were smashed and sent flying, and when passing through a narrow section, they directly smashed enough space with brute force.

In the blink of an eye, the figure disappeared from their field of vision, and the life-threatening animal body also died, and no new animal body even emerged.

Everything happened too fast, the two couldn't see the figure clearly, and the situation reversed instantly.

Block 1 of the fort.

This area is much more spacious than other areas. All the facilities and buildings, as well as the iron nets and walls around the edges, make Area 1 look like a barracks.

The fortifications all over the streets and on top of buildings, as well as the two light tanks guarding the westernmost part of the area, all confirm the fact that Area 1 is a barracks.

Boom! Boom!

The 105mm artillery salvos of the two tanks immediately exploded fragments in the street where the herd of beasts was surging, making the beasts near the center of the explosion bloody and bloody.

Dengdeng! Dengdeng!

Two machine gunners protruded half of their bodies from the tank turret, manipulating the .50cal heavy machine gun with a wet cloth on the barrel, Ah! Ah! They yelled and fired long and short bursts at the beast horde to provide fire suppression.

Less than a hundred soldiers built a position with the tank as the center, trying to block the impact of the beast body, and the few remaining boxes of ammunition were piled up in the center of the position.

The roof of the three-story house on the left side of the tank.

Report on the progress of the evacuation! The female officer in her early thirties with a hideous scar on her left face shouted.

Nearly half of the civilians have been evacuated to the surface. A soldier also replied loudly: But those guys are advancing too fast, the west is over! Captain!

Mad... The female captain who emptied the magazine stood up and looked around.

She is located on a high place, and she can clearly see the completely fallen western fortress, looking east...

?

The east side was surprisingly stable, and the civilians did not flee in a panic as imagined, or were massacred by small groups of beasts, and many surviving soldiers were closing in on their positions.

At the same time, she also saw the 20 Warrior Terminator who slaughtered the animal body in the opposite direction, and Queen John who had bypassed their position at some point and had already entered the west street...

? ? ?

What's going on? The female captain was confused.

Then under her confused gaze, John and twenty warriors swept the west side of the fort with an attack speed she couldn't see clearly.

When the soldiers below realized that there were no new animal bodies, and the situation seemed to be not right, the tens of thousands of animal bodies raging inside the fortress had already been slaughtered by John and the others.

And John also appeared in the street pointed by the gun barrels of the two tanks, gradually approaching the position.

Take care of your hands! Don't fire without my order! The female captain reminded loudly after recovering.

When she and the soldiers beside her left the roof and came down, John had already entered the position. Seeing this, the female captain ignored John's size, which was far beyond ordinary people, and took the initiative to say:

United Earth Defense Force, Captain Teece Byron, thank you for your assistance.

John nodded in response to the other party's words of thanks, and asked coldly, Captain, where is your highest officer?

After confirming that he can negotiate with John without any obstacles, Byron can finally breathe a sigh of relief, but when she heard the content of the inquiry, she replied slightly sadly:

They were all killed. I should be the one with the highest rank in the entire fortress now.

My condolences. John's tone was slightly lower, and he continued:

In this case, then Captain, gather all your remaining personnel and assist the civilians to go to the surface to wait for the transfer, and you, please come with me, I need more detailed information.

After speaking, John didn't give the other party time to react, so he turned around and walked not far away to wait.

As an officer who doesn't like procrastination, Byron can also distinguish the current situation clearly.

She looked at John's back, thought for a few seconds, then looked around at the soldiers gathered nearby and ordered:

You have all heard what the big guy said, and are ready to assist the transfer of civilians!

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Shortly after.

forward base.

In the combat command center of the central facility, Robert and a group of senior UNSC officers looked at the three-dimensional bird's-eye view of a city presented on the sand table.

It is said to be a city, but the degree of assimilation of the colonized race far exceeds that of Rabat, the capital of Morocco.

The surface has almost lost traces of human architecture, and is covered with a large number of glowing plants, as well as densely packed hundred-meter-long embryos.

According to the latitude and longitude and related data displayed together, it shows that this assimilated city is the capital of France, Paris.

For now, the fighting in Rabat is over.

From the arrival of the two Primarchs leading the two legions to the end, the whole process did not exceed 20 minutes. If it were not for the concerns of the surface civilians and the underground fortress, it would only end faster.

Another transport formation is rushing to Rabat, preparing to transfer all surviving humans to the frontline base.

And John also gave Robert and others a general understanding of what happened in this world through Captain Byron.

Now is July 12, 2030. On July 4, 2012, 18 years ago, the French coastal city of Le Havre was attacked at the same pace as the city of Elisabeth.

A large number of beast bodies emerged from the sea first, followed by a 100-meter giant beast.

The result was quite the opposite.

Before the giant beast appeared, Le Havre, with a population of only 200,000, was captured by the beast body.

The French military reacted and immediately let the fighter planes into the air, and at the same time prepared to blockade the surrounding areas of Le Havre.

Then the behemoth jumped out of the sea, making France and even the whole world realize that it is the real threat.

The air force squadron that arrived, its conventional weapons such as machine guns and air-to-surface missiles, seemed to be tickling the giant beast, unable to hurt it at all.

The French army is not UNSC, and there is no light frigate that can bombard the giant beast, but the French army has the strongest weapon among human beings, the nuclear bomb.

On the one hand, there are nearby towns that are about to be invaded by giant beasts and beast bodies, as well as the people in the towns, and on the other hand, the international situation after the nuclear bombs are dropped.

The French president acted decisively and dispatched a two-seater Mirage 2000N into the sky, dropping a 500,000-ton TNT-equivalent tactical nuclear bomb on the behemoth.

The precise detonation of the nuclear bomb finally killed the giant beast, including the inestimable army of beast bodies.

This was very impressive to Tiss Byron, who was living in Belgium on the border with France at the time and was just a freshman in high school. According to her story, people called that day Invasion Day.

On the day of the invasion, the French army dispatched chemical defense troops and successfully cleared the remaining animal bodies that had escaped from the periphery of the radiation zone. The air force also locked the portal in the shallow sea area.

Byron also said that the news and various programs of those days took turns broadcasting content related to invasion, alien and nuclear explosion.

It is said that human beings conduct investigations and researches on the portal, and try various methods, including dropping nuclear bombs again, but they cannot close or destroy the portal.

Thirty days after the invasion, France ushered in a second wave of attacks, but this time the French army and humans were naturally prepared.

Indiscriminate bombing without the use of nuclear bombs, the French army easily resolved the second wave, which greatly encouraged people's confidence in dealing with the monster.

After all, the first invasion was too sudden. In order to reduce casualties, tactical nuclear bombs were the best choice.

The sixtieth day is the third wave.

In this way, people figure out the monster attack cycle, and each time the monster will be stronger and harder to kill than before.

But at least, there was only one portal at that time.

On July 4, 2014, two more portals were opened in Sydney, Australia, and in the shallow sea area of ​​Vancouver, Canada.

The emergence of the three portals led to the emergence of the United Government and the United Military Defense Force. Humanity as a whole became unprecedentedly united and worked together to fight against the invasion of monsters.

On July 4, 2016, two portals opened in New York and Mombasa in Africa. On September 3 of the same year, Paris was the first to be destroyed by the invasion of giant beasts, and nearly one-third of Western Europe was affected.

As time goes by, more and more portals are opened, and more and more frequent invasions make people see the reality——

There is simply no way to prevent the end of the world from coming.

With the invasion of monsters, the earth's environment has become worse and worse, and it is gradually no longer suitable for human habitation.

Faced with this situation, human beings seem to have only two choices.

One, escape from Earth.

Two, hide underground.

In fact, there are three more, that is to continue to abuse nuclear bombs...

If you choose this option, humans can solve themselves in advance without using monsters.

And with the technology of this world and the power of all mankind, it is indeed possible to send a very small number of people to the moon and Mars.

But whether it can gain a firm foothold on the moon and Mars and live on for a long time is unknown.

Moreover, the human heart is the most complicated existence. Once the first item is adopted and the vast majority of people know that they will die, there is a high probability that society will fall into unstoppable turmoil.

Therefore, the coalition government announced the Underground Fortress plan on January 1, 2018.

Due to the lack of time and the convenience of mobilizing manpower and material resources, people had no choice but to build solid fortresses with a complete circulation system 100 meters below the cities, or even deeper.

It was the year when the fortress project was launched, Tees Byron, who lost his entire family, joined the army and was dispatched to West Africa for defense with the army.

2012 to 2026.

The fourteen-year war has reduced the total number of human beings from nearly nine billion at its peak to five billion.

End of 2026.

A total of fifteen portals have been opened around the world. Monsters that have undergone multiple evolutions are about to wreak havoc on the surface, and the remaining humans are forced to go below the surface.

But before going underground, the joint military defense force dropped a large number of nuclear bombs on all the portals, killing hundreds of millions of monsters in an instant, and completely destroyed the ecological environment near the portals, which affected the whole world.

However, destroying the surface environment has long been out of the consideration of senior generals.

Although the army couldn't resist giant beasts with certain resistance to nuclear bombs, they could kill small beasts. Therefore, for the next four years, people used solid facilities, maze-like tunnels, and layers of gates to hide in the fortress. Live in the city.

However, this only slows down the speed of human extinction.

Byron said that the Rabat fortress where they lived and defended was lucky. They lived underground for almost three years, and the monster responsible for assimilating the ecological environment was belatedly.

Rabat Fortress was able to calmly deal with the initial harassment by a small group of beasts.

However, Rabat, which has only 30,000 people, is not as self-sufficient as Moscow, Toronto and other large fortresses.

Until June of this year, a large number of monsters arrived one after another, increasing the pressure on Rabat.

In July, ammunition was running out, and the number of casualties continued to rise. Without the arrival of the Blood Angels and the Spartan Legion, the final outcome of the Rabat Fortress is self-evident.