Chapter 49 scene (asking for recommendation votes)
When approaching the entrance of the cave, Jiang Baimian stopped and turned back to Long Yuehong, who was wearing an exoskeleton device, and said:
"You are on guard here."
She thought for a moment and added:
"Look outside the grove more, if the jeep is lost, Bai Chen and I have nothing to do with it, you will have 'enjoyment'. Many things, if done step by step, humans can accept and adapt, but if it is pulled to the difficulty of hell at once, most creatures will collapse directly."
"Yes, team leader!" Regarding the fact that he could not enter Black Rat Town, Long Yuehong was not only not disappointed, but relieved.
From these Black Rat Town residents who died outside, he seemed to have been able to foresee the tragic situation inside the cave, suspecting that this would have a strong impact on his spirit, leaving a psychological shadow that needed treatment.
After instructing Long Yuehong, Jiang Baimian turned around, bent down, and walked into the hole that was almost one meter four high.
Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen each held weapons, one left and one right, but one had a hard back and knees, and it was a bit difficult to walk, and the other was relatively good.
They did not observe outside and confirm the general situation before entering, as mentioned in the training manual, but fully trusted the team leader's ability to sense weak electrical signals.
In this regard, Jiang Baimian has shown enough credibility.
There was still light shining at the entrance of the cave, making it barely possible to see the surroundings clearly, but the deeper inside, the darker it became, until the five fingers were out of sight.
At this time, Jiang Baimian had already taken out a flashlight with a silver-white shell and obvious graininess, and pushed the switch up.
The yellowish pillar of light burst out, illuminating an area ahead, and with the natural light near the entrance, Shang Jianyao had a preliminary glimpse of what the scene in front of him looked like:
This cave is quite wide, and the deeper part is still shrouded in darkness, with no end in sight.
There were originally naturally formed stone pillars here, but at this time they were all broken, and a large amount of stones, moss, and dust fell from the top of the cave and covered the surface.
The ground is based on the center illuminated by Jiang Baimian's flashlight, and it is circular and radiates traces of flames outward.
In the inner pit closest to the origin, there were no bones that could be called intact, only countless charred and reddish minced meat and blood mixed with stones and soil.
In the middle circle outside the pit, one after another small corpses lay down, their bodies charred and black, with many broken spots, and their deaths were extremely miserable.
As Jiang Baimian's flashlight moved, Shang Jianyao saw what was going on in the edge area outside the central circle and near the cave rock wall:
There was also a corpse of a resident of Black Rat Town lying on the ground in various states, but the body was basically intact, with only some burn marks, and some thick black hair remained.
Some of them had no visible trauma, some had horrific bullet wounds on their backs and chests, and many had no clothing.
In the cave as far as Shang Jianyao's eyes could see, except for the broken porcelain bowls, pottery bowls, and clay bowls, nothing was left.
There is no need for anyone to explain such a scene, Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen both instantly understood a fact:
Black Rat Town was slaughtered.
Jiang Baimian looked around silently, sighed and said:
"It may be a thermobaric bomb fired by a shoulder-mounted individual combat weapon......
"Those who did not die on the spot were all replaced.
"Very professional."
Thermobaric bombs are a combination of high-explosive bombs and fuel-air bombs, mainly used to kill enemies in confined spaces such as caves and underground bunkers.
After the thermobaric bomb explodes, it will deplete the surrounding oxygen, releasing a large amount of energy and creating a high-speed expanding fireball. The fireball will be accompanied by a high-pressure shockwave that will sweep through a limited environment, killing enemies and destroying equipment to the greatest extent.
For a place like Black Rat Town, where the entrance is only one meter and four meters high, it is obviously unwise to rush in and fight the residents who are adapted to this environment.
"Not many teams have this kind of bomb, and some big forces don't." Bai Chen tried to calm himself down and replied simply.
Although she was an experienced former wilderness wanderer who was used to fighting and killing, this was the first time she had witnessed this kind of direct slaughter of a town and a settlement.
The corpses and minced meat on the ground, even if they all belonged to the second person, were full of indescribable shock and horror.
In any case, the residents of Black Rat Town are almost indistinguishable from normal humans except for their height, nails, and body hair.
——Bai Chen had actually seen the massacre settlements, but they were all long after the tragedy, except for the small number of bones left and the dilapidated houses that were uninhabited, the other traces of them had long since disappeared.
Jiang Baimian nodded:
"Take out the flashlight and look for clues separately.
"Maybe, maybe there are still a few survivors?"
Shang Jianyao immediately took off the flashlight and the standard "Ice Moss" pistol from his belt, illuminated it with one hand, and walked to the edge with the gun in the other.
He did not believe there would be survivors at the center of the explosion and the surrounding area.
After examining the corpses one by one, Shang Jianyao saw a woman curled up with her back to her.
She still had clothes left, her hands and feet were tucked together, as if she was holding something tightly and pressing it under her.
The corpse had a vaguely black hairy back and a wound with solidified dark red blood, and it looked like it had been mended by someone.
Shang Jianyao, who was already bent over, squatted down and used a flashlight as a stick to turn over the corpse of the townspeople of Black Rat Town.
As the pillar of light swayed, Shang Jianyao saw a little girl.
She was wearing a very old but in some parts quite clean white dress, and was hugged tightly by the adult woman between her chest and abdomen, and at first glance, she was not hurt at all.
Shang Jianyao put the flashlight on the ground and tried to check the little girl's condition, but he couldn't break the adult woman's hand.
After giving up this instinctive attempt, Shang Jianyao saw the little girl's face with purple cyanosis, and there were traces of dark red blood flowing out of the place where it was close to the adult woman's chest and abdomen.
He immediately measured the other person's snort with his finger and felt the temperature.
A few seconds passed, and he slowly withdrew his palm.
Because the two corpses that were hugged tightly together turned over, Shang Jianyao quickly took advantage of the light of his assistant's flashlight to find that where they had fallen, there was a depression extending deep at the junction of the cave wall and the ground, and there were obvious fingernail digging marks on it.
Witnessing this depression, Shang Jianyao seemed to see the picture at that time:
During the enemy attack, a female townsman of Black Rat Town is anxiously using her digging talent to create a refuge space for her child.
Unfortunately, this was not faster than the bomb.
Shang Jianyao stretched out his hand and touched the depression, and found that there was a naturally formed small hole there, and there seemed to be something cold in the hollow that I didn't know what it was.
He took out the thing and by the light of the flashlight, he found that it was a rectangular black object a little higher than his middle finger.
There is a miniature LCD display on the top of the item, with a few buttons in the middle and a grid-covered speaker below.
Shang Jianyao studied electronics in college, so it was not difficult to distinguish what this tattered thing was full of staleness.
This is an old-world voice recorder, a voice recorder that has been repaired and modified by the townspeople of Black Rat Town.
Perhaps it fell into the hollow in advance, or it was quite far from the center of the explosion, and there was a human body, so there was no trace of damage to the electronic equipment.
Shang Jianyao squatted on one knee, studied it slightly, and pressed a button:
Amidst the banging gunshots and all kinds of chaotic movements, a childish voice asked fearfully and puzzledly:
"Mom, Mom, why did they kill us?"
A slightly hoarse and trembling voice replied:
"Because, we are second-class."
The immature voice asked:
"What is a second person?"
The slightly hoarse voice was silent for a few seconds before answering:
"That's right, it's the sick person."
The immature voice became more and more puzzled:
"But, Mom, are they going to kill us just because we are sick?
"I, I can repair electronic equipment, I am very useful......"
The sound of a gunshot suddenly became closer, as if it had reached the entrance of the cave, followed by the sound of something falling, and the recording came to an abrupt end.
Shang Jianyao listened silently, and turned his gaze back to the two corpses:
Whether it was the adult woman or the little girl, there was no coarse black hair on her face, and there were obvious traces of shaving, making her look clean.
This is the same as many female employees of "Pangu Bio".
This recording is quite loud, and Jiang Baimian, who is walking deeper, and Bai Chen on the other side can hear it quite clearly.
They also became extremely silent, no one spoke or moved for a long time.
After a while, Jiang Baimian exhaled slowly:
"Keep searching for clues."
Shang Jianyao solemnly put the voice recorder into his pocket, then took the flashlight and bent down to stand up again.
As the pillar of light moved, he saw some writing on the rock wall of the cave.
These scripts belong to the gray language, which have obviously existed for many years, and many places have long been blurred, and are obviously not left behind by the townspeople of Black Rat Town when they were attacked.
Shang Jianyao leaned over the flashlight, carefully discerned it for about ten seconds, and finally recognized a few of the words:
「…… Come here and ......"
「…… Gold and ...... Joys will never be separated......"
At this time, Jiang Baimian seemed to see something similar, shook the flashlight, and said with some emotion:
"Before the destruction of the old world, it seems to be still an attraction? So short, who wants to come?"
After saying that, she stared at the rock wall for a long time.
After a while, she finally looked away and searched for possible clues.
After more than ten minutes, the three of them met again in a place with natural light at the entrance of the cave.
Jiang Baimian said with regret:
"The people of Black Rat Town had dug out two prepared escape routes before, but unfortunately, thermobaric bombs or other similar bombs came too quickly."
"And the attacker left no clues." Bai Chen responded.
Jiang Baimian shook his head:
"It's not that I didn't stay, but after resolving the battle, I deliberately spent time dealing with it."
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