#654 - Chapter 654 Thermobaric Bomb Arrives
The time came to a little after five o'clock.
High in the sky, the Green Source team members could vaguely see the horizon gradually brightening.
Dawn was approaching.
Qin Jin looked at the dark ground below; only because he possessed a certain degree of night vision could he see anything at all. Otherwise, he would have needed to use night-vision goggles like the other team members to see even a little.
This was it.
The New Hope base's main stronghold.
"Is everyone's weaponry ready? Begin deployment once you've located your positions!"
He spoke into the team channel, unhesitatingly delivering judgment upon this hostile force!
He had already learned the approximate location of the Mountain Stronghold's conference hall from the officers of the punitive expedition.
The Green Source team members were now making final confirmations of the exact locations.
According to those officers, the remaining New Hope base bigwigs who stayed at headquarters generally resided in the core areas within several of the mountain's cavities.
There was also a hall where they frequently held meetings to discuss matters.
And finally, there were the Defense 1 and Defense 2 deep underground shelters where they would flee in case of insurmountable danger.
"President Qin! Locations are roughly confirmed! Ready to deploy bombs at any time!"
Soon, the Green Source team members, equipped with various professional measuring tools, completed the confirmation of the bombing targets below.
At this time, the sky was becoming increasingly bright.
The dawn's light was appearing, dispelling the darkness and zombies from the Blue Star's lands, and bringing light back to the land of China.
Qin Jin withdrew his gaze from the sunlight on the horizon and gave a faint order:
"Drop the bombs!!"
Clang!
The helicopters and airships high in the sky faithfully executed the Green Source leader's command!
One after another, different sizes of earth-penetrating bombs fell towards the still-dark ground below!!
Inside the Mountain Stronghold.
This was the time when ordinary humans slept most comfortably.
Except for some personnel who needed to be on night duty or had special tasks requiring them to stay awake, the majority of the survivors were asleep.
Around the mountainside of the Mountain Stronghold were many watch posts, where New Hope personnel were on night duty, staring into the darkness outside.
For New Hope, with such a base, the pressure of defending against zombies at night was greatly reduced.
Because their personnel were mostly inside the mountain's cavities, the scent of human bodies did not leak out too much, so the number of zombies attracted was not very high.
On a typical night, there would only be a few hundred or nearly a thousand.
Keep in mind that the Mountain Stronghold had a permanent population of more than two thousand people!
If another force dared to gather so many people together in one place, it would be normal to attract thousands or tens of thousands of zombies at night.
"It's almost dawn, I'm going to find a chick to play with after work!"
At a watch post on the mountainside, two men were struggling to keep their eyes open. One of them yawned and revealed a lewd expression to his companion.
"You kid! You want to use your salary to attract those survivors again, huh? Aren't you afraid of going broke and dying on top of them!? Hahaha!"
The other companion was obviously very familiar with him. After chatting about topics that all men understood, the atmosphere instantly became lively.
"Afraid of what! Live one day at a time! I can't be bothered to care so much! If I don't use up these bullets, am I supposed to take them to the underground later?"
The man who spoke first didn't care at all.
That's right, the world was like this, and no one dared to say that they could die of old age.
Even though they were New Hope people, they couldn't say for sure that they would live longer than the survivors outside.
So many people would release all their inner desires, doing whatever was most comfortable and enjoyable.
The two men weren't sleepy for a while as they talked about this topic. They were still commenting on which of the outside survivors were easier to get with and save food, and which were more enthusiastic and required spending more food.
Everyone believed that in this apocalypse, as long as you had food and guns in your hands, you could do whatever you wanted.
That was indeed the case.
"Whoo————!"
A strange sound came.
The two men exchanged puzzled glances, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes.
They recognized it as a whistling sound from a high-altitude fall!
The two men quickly looked up at the sky. By this time, the sky was already slightly brighter, and several small black dots that could not be distinguished with the naked eye suddenly appeared in the air and fell rapidly downward!
"Holy crap——!!! What is that!!!????"
The blood of the two New Hope personnel on night duty seemed to congeal. A sense of panic, as if their souls were being grasped, overflowed from their hearts, and they groaned weakly!
They had a premonition that the sound of these falling objects was very similar to the bombs they had heard on TV before!
Bombs!!
Someone was going to bomb the New Hope base!!?
No sooner said than done.
Just as these two men saw and heard it, and many other people on night duty in other places on the surface of the mountain were also uncertain and suspicious, those suspicious objects had already fallen!!
One of them happened to fall beside the two men who had been chatting!
Pfft——!
A muffled sound appeared.
Huh!??
The two men, who had almost been scared out of their wits the moment before, thinking they were about to be blown to pieces, found that the situation seemed a little different from what they had imagined??
No explosion??
What was going on??
A dud?
Or were they thinking too much and scaring themselves, and those falling objects weren't bombs??
Their lives... seemed to be saved??
Many of the people on night duty on the surface of the mountain had lingering fears, thinking they had just seen things or were mistaken.
But the next moment, reality told them that there was no accident.
Boom boom boom boom——————!!!!
They felt the ground beneath their feet suddenly shake, and terrifying sounds appeared from the excavated caves!
They were indeed bombs!
But they exploded inside the mountain!!
A series of terrifying muffled sounds echoed inside the entire Mountain Stronghold, and countless people who were still asleep went directly to another world!
These were earth-penetrating bombs!
A special kind of bomb that carried an earth-penetrating warhead, which could break through dozens of meters of soil and penetrate deep underground before exploding!!
These were good things that Li's team had retrieved after searching many of the armories provided by Qin Jin after the drought ended!!
A series of earth-shattering explosions erupted within this Mountain Stronghold established by New Hope!
This was just the beginning!
After the first round of earth-penetrating bombs appeared, Green Source's new round of attacks arrived again!
One after another, strange objects larger than the previous bombs appeared!
These bombs were like little fat men, almost the size of a small car each, and their sheer size was chilling!
They continued to fall along the previous bombing route into the large holes that had been blasted out below!
Boom————!!!
This time, the explosion penetrated deep underground, directly erupting into a huge burst of fire inside the mountain!!
Those New Hope personnel who remained on the mountainside on night duty only saw a burst of intense light, and then they lost consciousness.
They were directly pulverized!
This was a thermobaric bomb created by Green Source Base based on various materials and combined with multiple technicians!
(End of this chapter)
