90. Be a man

The crowd remained dazed until her head was smashed by the handle of a gun. The cloudy eyes that were not blinding fell wide.

I don't know who took the lead, and I began to flee towards Entrance 3 behind me.

The rest of the people woke up like a dream, crowded and turned to flee. Among them, more than a dozen figures did not retreat but advanced, rushing towards this group of soldiers.

The soldiers opened fire.

The confusion was exacerbated by the sound of gunfire, and the cries mingled with the sound of gunshots. Someone falls, and before they can get up, they are trampled by someone who comes after them. The struggle gradually weakened until he was motionless.

More than a dozen people stalled for the crowd. The crowd stumbled towards the high platform. The face of the soldier guarding there changed, and he dodged to the side.

Like a flock of sheep being chased by wolves, they come to the edge of the high platform until they find that there is no way out.

The narrow lifting planks can only allow a few people to stand on them at a time. They crowded and shoved each other, and were blocked by the approaching soldiers on the edge of the cliff.

The city guard wiped the blood from his hands with a handkerchief, and pressed in with the soldiers.

The soldiers eventually stopped at a distance of 20 meters from the crowd.

"Ready!"

A few bits of red handkerchief slowly floated down in front of him, and then he was trampled on by the city guard, and he raised his hand high.

The white searchlights shone on the dodging crowd, and the soldiers raised their guns and pointed them at the residents of Hale in front of them.

At this moment, a commotion suddenly appeared behind the crowd and quickly spread.

The soldiers' heads were removed from the sights, and their rifles were gradually lowered. I was stunned to see these desperate poor people jumping off the platform like lemmings, screaming across the long notes.

"My God......"

"Fire!" The city guard officer drank coldly.

"I ...... I can't. A soldier said through gritted teeth.

They may have taken bribes, bullied the poor, stolen, and even killed people. At the commander's order, they can even go and kill innocent people.

But that doesn't mean you can do anything about this scene.

Every soldier is thinking. Are these poor people crazy? Is it worth it for an ethereal invitation?

"I don't want to say it a second time."

The cold voice of the city guard officer came into his mind clearly even in the chaos.

The soldiers could not fight to become off. The heart said rest in peace, but pulled the trigger.

The crisp and continuous sound of gunfire echoed through the cave, and the crowd in front of it fell in rows. This intensified their pushing, and the crowd crowded down from the platform, pouring down like water.

Under the high platform is a mountain of screaming crowds. Some lucky ones slipped from the top and didn't get crushed. Staggered up and rushed to the cave.

Ivan was in the middle of it, dizzy, using his hands and feet together, crawling on the blood-stained ground, trying to get out of here.

"Take my daughter away! Please! ”

Ivan, who didn't dare to look back at the tragic scene, suddenly heard a heart-rending cry.

He hesitated, but turned to look.

At the foot of the "mountain", half of a woman's body fell into a mountain of squirming and struggling people, and she lifted a little girl.

Ivan rushed over to pull her out, when suddenly a scream came from far and near, and then slammed into the woman's head.

The woman's figure disappeared, her exposed hands drooped weakly, and the figure also lost its intuition because of the lower half of her body, and let out a miserable howl.

Ivan pursed his lips, picked up the little girl and fled to the cave.

Bullets whizzed around. From time to time, someone screamed and fell, and in a blink of an eye, he fell behind him.

He fell, the bullet grazing against his scalp, and the palm of his hand was worn into skin by the rough sandy ground, and it hurt fiercely.

The little girl stood silently, waiting for herself to get up.

Her eyes were full of tears, and she didn't seem as strong as she thought.

Ivan picked her up again and fled into a cave more than a dozen meters away.

On the high platform, the captain hiding in the corner led the soldiers to join the battle quietly. The city guard glanced at him coldly and did not speak.

At this time, a soldier took off the grenade on his waist and tried to throw it underneath, but was taken by the captain and kicked over.

"You got in your head? With a grenade in a cave!? ”

The soldiers were hesitant and did not dare to get up.

At this time, the city guard officer turned around and left the high platform: "Collect the team and retreat." ”

The captain winced and asked, "Sir, aren't we going to pursue?" ”

"No, they won't survive." The head of the city guard did not reply. "Or will it be up to you?"

The captain, of course, will not leave.

"But...... What about the untouchables below......"

The screams and cries of men, women and children mingled with each other, making their scalps tingle.

"Let them call. If you think it's noisy, block your ears. If you don't have the strength, you will naturally stop. The city guard officer said coldly. He paused as he walked past the kneeling, dejected informer.

"Tomorrow I will go to the Chengwei Mansion to get the civilian card." The city guard officer said, stepping away.

……

The survivors walked slowly through the long and narrow caves.

Some of the injured covered their wounds and walked more and more slowly.

Ivan slowed down and walked beside these people.

The screams in the cave still seemed to echo in my ears. He was pretty sure it was his hallucination.

In order not to let himself think too much, Ivan found some topics, and he asked the little girl in his arms who did not cry or make trouble: "Is that your mother?" ”

The little girl nodded.

"She's great."

The little girl nodded.

"Are you dumb?"

The little girl shook her head.

Ivan understood and stopped asking her these questions.

Plop –

Someone fell not far from the front. The man twisted one leg backwards, somehow holding on to it.

Ivan slowed down and tried to help, but eventually found himself powerless.

He didn't want to see that anymore. Hurry up and get out of the cave.

It's cold outside, and the temperature is dropping to a point where you can feel it directly.

There are also many people standing at the entrance of the cave, hiding in places where the wind can't blow, quietly waiting for something.

Ten minutes later, a voice in the cold wind asked.

"Is that all?"

"That's all."

An old man lit a torch, he was the one who had just been questioned.

The old man looked around, the torches were reflected in everyone's faces, his back was even more rickety, and he said, "...... The direction I remembered, everyone pulled each other and never fell behind. ”

Ivan grabbed the corner of the clothes of the unknown person in front of him and walked silently in the middle of the group. He didn't know how many people were left, maybe half, maybe less.

Stumbled all night. From time to time, some people fall behind due to physical exhaustion and injuries, and they can't hold on.

The little girl in his arms was trembling, but there was nothing he could do.

They were lucky not to encounter any mutated creatures along the way. Until early in the morning, they ran into a squad that had gone out. The squad at Camp Dawn.

They were saved.

Dozens of minutes later, Ivan was leaning against the corner with a hot soup in his hand and a blanket.

Tears and sand mixed on the cheeks, muddy and dirty.

Joyce forgot when she was in tears.

Is that the team's hard work?

Are they brave the cold to go out looking for someone left behind?

Was the hot soup and thick blanket handed to that moment?

Is it the eyes of the residents who are concerned?

Did someone pick up a little noise and return it to themselves?

Or both?

He didn't know.

He suddenly remembered that he was born as a human being.