Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 971 A giant beast suddenly appears!
At this rate, they will find Bianca's hiding place in less than two minutes.
It was impossible to hurt these men in black with just a broken bayonet and a fragmentation grenade - Bianca saw with her own eyes that the soldiers of the Gray Fox squad fiercely fired at them with heavy machine guns. The 12.5mm caliber BMG ammunition could directly hit the human body and break it in half , but it couldn't even penetrate the bodies of these men in black.
These men in black could even withstand this level of firepower, walk up to the enemy and pierce the enemy's body with the tentacles that emerged from their bodies in front of the horrified soldiers.
They are not human beings at all, but complete monsters living in human bodies!
Bianca once thought that these men in black were the shells of the Seeds of Erosion. She also tried to attack them with active ammunition, but after she injected all the active ammunition, enough to kill a giant mutant, into the body of a man in black, she realized one thing - either these men in black and the Seeds of Erosion were not the same kind, or they had already developed resistance to active ammunition.
The only time a man in black was successfully killed was when Bianca used an explosive crossbow to blow down a residential building. A huge concrete block fell from the sky and smashed a man in black into a pulp before he could dodge.
The man in black who turned into meat paste did not crawl up from the ground, nor did he return to human form - although Bianca only had a few seconds to observe the results of the battle, she could still be sure that the guy should be dead.
If she wanted to kill these men in black, she had to use powerful killing methods to completely destroy their bodies. That was why she designed the explosive trap... Unfortunately, the men in black did not take the bait.
Looking at the fragmentation grenade in her hand, Bianca couldn't help feeling a little regretful - if it was a crystal energy bomb, then she could at least take a few men in black with her before she died. However, with the destructive power of the fragmentation grenade, even if it was detonated at zero distance, it would not cause any effective damage to these monsters.
Bianca was a little unwilling... This ruin was surrounded by the enemy. Even if she wanted to escape, she had to break through the black-clothed men's encirclement first. But her current state and remaining physical strength could not support her to do so - let alone fighting these black-clothed men, even if there were no enemies around, she would probably find it difficult to get out of this ruin.
The chill gradually penetrated into his bones. It was not just because of fear. It was 1:00 a.m., the lowest temperature on Alpha. The heat absorbed by the sunlight during the day had been dissipated. In the East 9th District, where the temperature control system had been lost and the enclosed space had been destroyed due to the "Alexander Incident", the harshness of the environment was not much different from that in the wilderness.
The new East District 9 was built less than two years ago. It was said that the old East District 9 was completely destroyed because a heretical sect summoned troublesome creatures there. Before the new East District 9 had time to prosper after its construction, it once again encountered Alexander's " Ultimate Judgment".
Although the East 9th District was not directly hit by the "Final Judgment", the aftermath of the "Final Judgment" still had a huge impact on this block. The temperature control system, power supply, water supply and gas supply facilities were largely paralyzed, and many areas became uninhabitable "wasteland". A large number of residents who had just moved into the East 9th District were forced to move away... It was also for this reason that Bianca was unable to find any supplies in the ruins during the four-day escape.
The cold, hunger and exhaustion came over her again. Her mind, which had just been briefly awakened by the secretion of adrenaline, began to become blurry again. In order to prevent herself from fainting, Bianca bit her lips hard.
Grinding her teeth left and right, the fishy-sweet blood flowed down the sides of her tongue into her throat. Bianca suddenly remembered a saying that was widely circulated among mercenaries and hunters: "If you are dying of thirst in the wilderness, drinking blood may temporarily relieve your pain, but it cannot solve any problems - when the human body is dehydrated, the high viscosity of blood will only make you more thirsty the more you drink."
The sharp pain in her lips and the taste of blood in her mouth revived Bianca's flagging spirit, but she knew very well that this was just a last gasp - even if these men in black hadn't found her, she would probably have difficulty surviving the night.
Perhaps, I should just pull the ring of the grenade...it would be better to blow myself up than fall into the hands of these men in black.
How would they torture themselves?
Like those people I met when I was at my lowest point?
No...it will only get worse...
Bianca felt the hairs on her back stand on end just by imagining those slimy tentacles piercing her skin and muscles and moving freely inside her body... This way of dying could no longer be described with words like "painful". If she really fell into that situation, perhaps she would regret not choosing to die quickly now?
The pull ring of the fragmentation grenade had been pulled out halfway, and the men in black were less than thirty meters away from Bianca's hiding place.
"I'm not willing to accept this..." Bianca's fingers trembled slightly, "I've endured so much hardship... why did it end up like this... I'm not willing to accept this..."
The reality is cruel, and reality will not change because of human will... No matter how unwilling she is, the current situation will not change.
The man in black was only fifteen meters away from Bianca's hiding place.
She felt that they should have discovered her, and the reason they didn't rush over immediately was perhaps because they were worried that there were traps she had set around them?
Or maybe, the other party has discovered that he is dying and is not in a hurry to kill him, but instead enjoys the feeling of teasing his prey?
This was Bianca's last chance. She resolutely pulled out the ring of the grenade. Now she just had to release the push-type fuse. In four seconds, the metal fragments shooting in all directions would end her pain. If she was lucky, she might be able to injure a few of the men in black who were rushing up... but they would only be injured.
"I'm sorry, I still didn't survive...you all died in vain." Bianca said softly, but at this moment, the ground suddenly shook violently!
What's going on? Bianca was startled, but fortunately she didn't let go of the fragmentation grenade in her hand. She turned her head to look at the men in black outside and found that they were also looking around nervously, and seemed to have no idea what was causing the vibration.
It seems that the vibration was not caused by these men in black... Well, I'm almost dead, why make such a big fuss for myself?
But if the vibration was not caused by the man in black, then what was causing the vibration?
Could it be that the army of Mukach Fortress launched an attack on the Ark in advance? No, that's not right... Bianca knew the army composition and equipment configuration of Mukach Fortress very well. The most powerful weapons in the entire fortress were those city defense cannons that could not be disassembled. Even if they made a movable base for the city defense cannons temporarily, it would take at least a month to dismantle the cannons, install them on the base, and then pull them to the vicinity of the Ark. Now, it has only been five days since Bianca and her friends left Mukach.
This level of vibration would only occur if the outside of the Ark was bombarded by battleship-class main guns... However, the only remaining human forces outside the Ark should not have any battleships!
Bianca raised her head with some effort and found that the dome of East District 9 was not shaking, only the ground was shaking.
The attack... did not come from the air, but from "underground"!
Not Mukah's army?
Underground...what's underground?
The six words "Ark's main reactor" suddenly jumped out of her mind, but she ruled out this answer the next second - if the Ark's main reactor exploded, the Ark would have been destroyed long ago. It is definitely impossible for it to be as simple as an "earthquake".
The main reactor was surrounded by the most stringent safety protection measures on the Ark. Generally, controllable faults, even accidents like explosions, would be blocked by these protection measures. If they could not be blocked, it would be a super accident that would blow up the entire Ark.
To put it in simple terms, "Minor accidents in the main reactor can be isolated, so the people on the Ark cannot feel it. Major accidents cannot be isolated, but the people on the Ark cannot feel it either. Because in that case, everyone will die in an instant, and there will be no time to feel scared."
As for the earthquake on Alpha, it would not be transmitted to the Ark. Given the size and mass of the Ark, if it had been parked on the surface of Alpha by direct contact, it would have sunk into the ground long ago. The Ark was actually in a suspended state, "floating at low altitude" on the ground of Alpha. Even if the Ark's stop was the epicenter of a magnitude 10 earthquake, the people on the Ark would not feel any tremors.
What's more, there are seismic-resistant suspension structures between each regional module. When the Ark drifts in the interstellar space, it is inevitable that it will collide with meteorites and the like. If there were no seismic-resistant measures, the internal structure of the Ark would have been destroyed in large and small impact incidents long ago... Since the Ark was built until now, in nearly a thousand years, an earthquake has never occurred on this interstellar colony ship.
Unless, the thrusters at the bottom of the regional module are activated, and the entire module is ejected - just like the previous East 9 District module.
However, if these men in black were given a few more seconds, they would be able to catch him. Team Gray Fox and Team Bianca had already been wiped out, so why should he launch the East 9th District?
Soon, Bianca's doubts were swept away - at the three o'clock direction, two hundred meters away, a loud thunder-like sound was heard, and countless flying concrete blocks, rubble and steel structure wreckage swept over, directly sweeping away the men in black standing on the open space.
These men in black didn't even have time to utter a groan before they were smashed into pieces by the earth and rocks that were like cannonballs... Fortunately, Bianca fell to the ground in time, and a piece of concrete the size of a basketball smashed the low wall of her hiding place and flew past her back, sprinkling fine dust and gravel all over her.
Bianca looked up in astonishment and looked in the direction of the loud noise. Through the smoke and dust, she saw a giant beast crawling out from the ground and slapping a man in black who was trying to attack it with its tentacles into the ground.
"What is this...?"
Bianca was stunned. In the wilderness, the largest creature she had ever seen was the thunder beast, but the giant beast in front of her was several times larger than the thunder beast.
"Did this monster... come in from outside, or... has it always been on the Ark?"
Bianca was so shocked that she even forgot to hide herself and crawled out from behind the broken low wall.
This behemoth looks like a giant gorilla, but it has two lizard-like heads and no hair on its body. Instead, it is covered with scales that have a beautiful luster.
Bianca suddenly felt a tingling sensation on her skin, and at the same time the multifunctional bracelet on her wrist began to vibrate. She glanced down and found that the radiation concentration in the surrounding environment was more than 700 times higher than before. After the appearance of this giant beast, this place instantly became a dangerous high-radiation area.
"Is this monster a radiation source?" Bianca analyzed quickly in her mind, "Obviously, it is not in the same group as those men in black... In fact, because of its appearance, I have a little breathing space when I am on the verge of despair... This may be an opportunity. If I seize this opportunity, I may be able to escape from here..."
Bianca forced herself to stand up. She took out the cyborg hidden in her backpack and put it on herself again. Then she turned on the energy converter that she had not dared to start for the past few days... The moment the cyborg reconnected to her body and resumed operation, she felt as if she was alive again.
Three high-concentration stimulants were injected into her body. Bianca picked up the grenade that was slightly warm from her squeeze, pulled out the safety pin that she had just inserted, and threw it out with her right arm that had been activated for less than five seconds!
The grenade fell into the midst of the stunned men in black and exploded with a loud bang. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Bianca turned around and ran in the opposite direction - her left leg was frozen, but her right leg was full of strength, and it took her directly to the top of the ruins, which was more than four meters high, and she quickly jumped out of the encirclement.
The men in black also spotted Bianca's escape, but just as they were about to chase her, a second giant beast emerged from underground. This beast was much smaller than the first gorilla with a lizard head, but it appeared right in the middle of the group of men in black.
