Chapter 158 Shelter
Aso stood there in a daze, with the sound of motorcycles roaring in her ears. The hunter in front of her was riding a motorcycle, holding a long knife, speeding towards her, so fast that she could not react at all. The hunter's golden eyes were fixed on her, and the sharp long knife drew a cold arc in the air. The blade reflected the faint street light, as if it would cut her in half in the next second.
Time seemed to slow down. Aso felt that her legs were out of control and her feet were rooted to the ground, unable to move. Her heart was beating like a drum, cold sweat was dripping from her forehead, and the almost suffocating fear gripped her.
Just as the long knife was about to touch her, a few crisp gunshots pierced the night sky.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The hunter's head suddenly tilted back, and several bullets hit its forehead accurately. The powerful impact knocked it off the motorcycle. Its helmet shattered, and the bones in its head burst, emitting smelly black blood. Its whole body rolled to the ground due to inertia. The motorcycle also fell to the ground with a bang, and the wheels were still spinning, making a harsh friction sound.
Aso was stunned, his mind went blank, but he heard a man's roar in his ears.
"Nono! Drive faster! These guys are catching up with us!" The voice was hoarse but anxious, like someone who was used to giving orders.
Then, a crisp and impatient female voice sounded: "Shut up, it's too noisy! Open your eyes and take a good look at my driving skills!"
Before Aso Makoto could figure out what was happening, a black Hummer suddenly rushed out of his field of vision. Its headlights cut through the darkness like two sharp blades. The body of the Hummer looked very domineering under the rain. The engine of the Hummer let out a low and powerful roar, accompanied by a sharp sound of emergency brakes, and rushed straight towards another hunter on a motorcycle.
"Boom--" With a loud bang, the Hummer hit the hunter hard. The hunter and his motorcycle were knocked away in an instant. The huge body rolled several times in the air like a kite with a broken string, and fell heavily to the ground, and the bones made a teeth-grinding sound of breaking.
Aso Makoto was stunned by the scene in front of him. He saw that the Hummer did not stop, but instead did a tailspin at an extremely fast speed. Its wheels rolled over the gravel and blood on the ground and stopped precisely in front of Aso Makoto.
The car window rolled down, and a young woman wearing sunglasses stuck her head out. She had dazzling red hair and a bold and confident smile on her face. Although it was late at night, she still wore sunglasses and looked very charismatic.
"Hey, little girl, why are you still standing there? Get in the car!" The red-haired woman shouted at Aso Shin, with an indescribable sense of unrestrainedness and impatience in her voice. She spoke Chinese, which Aso Shin could not understand, but judging from her attitude, she seemed to be asking her to get in the car.
Aso Shin came to his senses and looked inside the car. A handsome blond man was sitting on the passenger seat of the Hummer. He was changing the magazine of the Desert Eagle in his hand with a serious expression. It was obvious that he had fired those bullets just now. There was also a very beautiful young woman sitting on the back seat, and she also had two pistols in her hands.
Aso Shin looked up at the shadows in the distance. Several hunters gradually appeared over there. They were approaching this side at a very fast speed. Their ferocious faces looked particularly terrifying in the dim light.
There was no time to hesitate! Masao rushed to the Hummer, opened the back door and jumped in. Almost at the same time, the engine of the Hummer roared again, and the wheels rolled up the water on the ground and turned around and left the place at lightning speed.
"Fasten your seat belt, little girl!" The red-haired woman stepped on the accelerator, and the speed of the car soared instantly. The figures of the hunters in the rearview mirror were quickly left behind, but they did not give up. In the rearview mirror, more hunters on motorcycles caught up, waving long swords and making sharp roars. The blades flashed cold light under the light.
After changing the magazine, the blond man leaned half of his body out of the car window and aimed at a hunter riding in the front. The muzzle of the gun shook slightly, and a bullet penetrated its head. The hunter and the car rolled over and fell more than ten meters away, but the hunters behind immediately filled the gap.
Aso Makoto tightly grasped the inner armrest of the Hummer, her chest heaving violently, as if she had not yet recovered from the near-death experience she had just experienced. The deafening engine noise in the car and the harsh sound of the tires rubbing against the ground made her nerves tense to the extreme.
"I'm running out of bullets." The blond man said coldly while aiming steadily at the rear. Smoke was coming out of the muzzle of his Desert Eagle as he shot another hunter off the motorcycle. The hunter's body instantly lost balance and rolled to the ground with the motorcycle, letting out a tragic roar.
"Senior, I have more here!" Xia Mi, who was sitting in the back row, immediately handed over the two small pistols in her hand.
Caesar took over and raised two pistols with both hands at the same time. His fingers pulled the trigger without hesitation. Bullets fired at the pursuing hunters like a rainstorm. Each shot hit the vital points accurately. Some pierced the head, some penetrated the chest. The hunters fell off the motorcycle one after another, but their number did not seem to decrease, but increased instead.
Masao stared at the scene outside with dull eyes, so nervous that she could hardly speak. Who were these people? Why did they save her? Why were these monsters chasing her so frantically? These questions kept echoing in her mind, but at the moment she had no time to think. She only knew that her hope of survival depended entirely on this car and these strangers.
Suddenly, Nono noticed several abandoned vehicles lying across the road ahead. She slammed the brakes, the wheels made a harsh friction sound, and the Hummer stopped just in front of the vehicle. She glanced in the rearview mirror and saw Shou's shadow approaching to a distance of less than 20 meters.
"It seems we have to give them a little surprise." Nono said coldly, pulled out a grenade from the storage box next to the driver's seat, pulled the fuse casually, and threw it fiercely to the rear.
"Boom!" The fire from the grenade explosion illuminated the entire street. The shock wave overturned several motorcycles. The figures of the hunters were blown to pieces in the fire, but more hunters rushed out of the smoke of the explosion without slowing down at all.
"My goodness, these things are endless." Nono gritted his teeth, stepped on the accelerator again, and the Hummer rushed out again.
However, an even more desperate scene appeared ahead. At the end of the street, a team of hunters wearing ancient armor were riding motorcycles towards them. Their battle flags fluttered in the wind, bringing an inexplicable sense of oppression, like an army crawling out from the depths of hell.
"Senior Brother! Senior Sister! What should we do now?" Xia Mi exclaimed as she looked at the scene in front of her.
"Shut up!" Nuonuo replied coldly, then turned the steering wheel sharply, and the Hummer scraped the edge of the street, bypassing the hunters. She quickly glanced at the situation on the roadside, a hint of thought flashed in her eyes, and then a sly smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
"Next, hold on tight!" Nuonuo whispered, then stepped on the accelerator, increased the speed to the limit, and rushed straight towards an overpass ahead.
"That's an overpass ahead. Are you sure?" Caesar sat back in the car. He looked at a part of the overpass that had risen in the distance and asked Nono.
The engine of the Hummer roared, and it ran like an enraged beast. The body of the car shook violently, and it almost made people think it would overturn at any time, but Nono's hands were steady on the steering wheel, and there was no panic in her eyes. Her red hair flew in the howling wind outside the window, and everyone in the car grabbed everything that could stabilize themselves, for fear of being thrown out.
"Don't worry, I've calculated it. The angle is just enough to jump over." Nuo Nuo responded coldly, pressing the accelerator to the bottom, and the speed of the car instantly soared to the limit.
"Here it comes!" Nuonuo shouted in a low voice, and suddenly turned the steering wheel. The Hummer aimed accurately at the starting point of the broken bridge. She clenched her teeth and held the steering wheel firmly with both hands.
The car speed had reached the limit. The wind whistled in through the broken windows, bringing with it a biting chill and the smell of blood and gunpowder.
"Jump!" Nuonuo shouted, and the Hummer leaped out from the edge of the broken bridge.
At that moment, time seemed to stand still. Aso really felt her body falling backwards suddenly, as if her entire soul was suspended in the air. She didn't dare to open her eyes. There was only the whistling sound of the wind in her ears, as if it was going to swallow her completely.
"Bang!" The wheels hit the other end of the viaduct hard, the car body shook violently, and everyone was thrown towards their seats by inertia.
Aso Makoto felt as if her internal organs were squeezed into a ball, but she didn't have time to feel the pain. Unexpectedly, they succeeded, they really jumped over!
"Haha! I told you, my driving skills are top-notch!" Nuonuo laughed proudly, but her hands were still firmly holding the steering wheel. She quickly adjusted the car body and continued to speed forward.
Aso really thought that these people were all crazy, completely crazy.
The figures of hunters on motorcycles rushed to the edge of the broken bridge one after another, as if they were unaware that there was no way forward. Their motorcycles were going too fast and they had no time to brake. They fell under the bridge like raindrops, making a series of teeth-grinding metal collision sounds and shrill roars.
They finally got rid of the hunters' pursuit. The Hummer continued to speed through the ruined streets, its wheels rolling over gravel and blood, making a heavy roar. Aso Makoto huddled in the back seat, her hands still tightly grasping the armrests of the seat, her knuckles turning white. Her heart was still beating violently, and her mind was blank from everything that had just happened.
"Where are we going now?" Aso Makoto finally mustered up the courage to ask, her voice trembling slightly with fear and nervousness. She had never seen such a scene before, from the wreckage on the streets to the explosion on the bridge just now, everything seemed like a scene from a nightmare.
"There is a shelter set up by the Self-Defense Forces ahead. We'll take you there now." Nono drove with one hand and fiddled with a mobile phone with the other. Soon the translation program in the phone translated her words to Aso Makoto.
They were supposed to go to Hongjing on the outskirts of Tokyo to support Ange and his men, but before they had even got halfway there, a large number of hunters emerged from the sewers and started killing people on the streets. The police did not have many heavy weapons, and soon the entire city fell into chaos, and they were chased by these hunters and fled in panic.
It was not until the Self-Defense Forces arrived that some shelters were set up. However, the Self-Defense Forces were also somewhat stretched when facing these monsters, and those weapons of mass destruction could not be used because they had to take into account the residents of the city.
But after all, even if the army cannot use weapons of mass destruction, its firepower is not comparable to that of the police.
After the city was somewhat stabilized, they wanted to continue to Hongjing to support Angers, but they met Aso Makoto again. As students trained by Kassel Academy, they could not just stand by and watch ordinary unarmed people die.
While driving the Hummer quickly, Nono used her cell phone to translate for Aso Makoto's answer. The mechanical voice of the translation seemed calm and efficient, but there was a slightly indifferent smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she was not affected by the chaos just now.
The atmosphere in the car was tense and depressing. Aso huddled in the back seat, still holding the armrest tightly with both hands and not daring to let go. From time to time, the car could hear the "crunching" sound of tires rolling over gravel on the ground, which made her heart tense every time. Through the broken car window, she could still see the smoke swirling in the sky and the flames of burning buildings in the distance. The neon lights that originally belonged to Tokyo were now engulfed by smoke and flames.
Caesar sat in the passenger seat with a stern expression. He had already changed the magazine and was holding the Desert Eagle in his hand. His eyes were always calm and sharp. From time to time, he would look through the rearview mirror to see if the pursuing hunter had been completely escaped.
He glanced at Masao Makoto in the back seat and said in a low voice: "Don't think too much. The shelter ahead is safe for now. Just follow us and you can survive."
Aso Shin glanced at Caesar's handsome face, nodded, and without saying anything more, he just shrank his body a little smaller.
The sound of artillery fire was heard in the distance, and bright lights and explosions could be vaguely seen ahead. Makeshift barbed wire and sandbags surrounded a large shopping mall. Several Self-Defense Force soldiers in camouflage uniforms kept firing within the cordon, and in the distance a large number of hunters were rushing towards the shelter.
"The shelter is about to collapse." Caesar stared at the scene in front of him with a cold gaze, and said in a low voice, "If those hunters break through the defense line, all the civilians in the shelter will die."
"We can't handle so many hunters," Nono said as he steadied the steering wheel of the Hummer and glanced at Caesar in the rearview mirror, "not to mention that we are almost out of bullets."
Xia Mi sat in the back seat, nervously looking at the surging herd of hunters in the distance: "Do we really have to help them defend it? But we don't have enough manpower and firepower. These hunters are like a tide, and we can't kill them all."
"So what should we do next?" Nono asked impatiently, her fingers gripping the steering wheel slightly harder. She glanced at the defense line that was about to collapse, "Those Self-Defense Force guys can't hold on for much longer. Breakpoints are starting to appear on the front line."
Caesar was silent for a moment, then whispered: "Find a place to park and support them immediately." It was as if he had already drawn a battle route map in his mind.
"Tsk, what a trouble." Nuo Nuo smacked his lips, but still quickly adjusted the direction. The Hummer turned sharply and drove towards the temporary defense line outside the mall.
The Hummer braked suddenly and stopped behind the defense line. The tires made a harsh friction sound on the ground. Caesar quickly pushed open the door and got out first with a Desert Eagle in his hand. He was followed by Nono and Xia Mi. Their movements were swift and skillful. Cassell's elite education was fully reflected in them.
(End of this chapter)
