Darkness is Coming

   "Paul, the situation is not right."

   Lieutenant Dave leaned against the wall and whispered to the staff sergeant next to him. The three privates lined up behind them, scanning the place nervously.

   "Yes, it's too quiet."

Staff Sergeant    nodded in approval. They were only one step away from the Emerosa Police Station, but they had to stop because the street was full of weirdness.

   is too quiet, the meaning behind this quietness is terrifying!

Los Angeles is now a battlefield full of fleeing civilians and bloodthirsty monsters. From Lincoln Street to the present, the Bravo team can always hear screams and exchanges of fire from far or near. silence.

According to the intelligence, there should be hundreds of civilians trapped in the Emerosa police station now. It is hard to imagine that hundreds of people squeezed into a small police station will not make a noise, even if they close the doors and windows for fear of monsters, It shouldn't be so quiet around the street, as if it has become a forbidden area for monsters, and no monster dares to set foot in it.

   "Paul, you know what I'm thinking?" Lieutenant Dave asked in a low voice.

   Staff sergeant replied: "Yes, Lieutenant, these monsters are like wild animals. They know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. In the wild, animals will divide their fields, and small animals will easily dare not set foot on the territory of beasts."

   Staff sergeant is not a wildlife expert, so his description of the specific situation is slightly wrong, but he expressed the correct meaning, Lieutenant Dave nodded: "We are now likely to have entered the territory of the beast."

"This is bad news. The soldiers of the Bravo team are all good guys, but we only carry light weapons, not big opponents. Call for support, lieutenant." He is a warrior who faces his own inadequacies, and he is a calm warrior, so he will become the staff sergeant of the Bravo team.

   Lieutenant Dave nodded again and reached for the walkie-talkie on his shoulder, but the walkie-talkie did not respond.

After    trial and error, Lieutenant Dave and Staff Sergeant had to face a horrific reality: All electronic equipment they were carrying had failed. Without electronic equipment, the combat level of the Bravo squad has been beaten from the elite of the 21st century to the army infantry squad at the end of the Vietnam War. It is adapted to fighting alone after the division of the big battlefield.

"Lieutenant, I think we should retreat." The staff sergeant sighed helplessly, "If our assumption is true, and the Emerosa Police Station is likely to be hiding a terrifying monster, then the civilians in the Emerosa Police Station should not have survived. Even if there are, they should have escaped from the police station. Our mission has failed, and we should withdraw immediately, join with Essen and Joey, and wait for the next order."

   Staff Sergeant's analysis is correct, but Lieutenant Dave flatly shook his head and refused: "No, Paul, we have to go in and see."

   "Lieutenant? You know I'm right." The Staff Sergeant wanted to remind Lieutenant Dave that when the two disagreed, he was always the one who turned out to be right in the end.

"Yes, trust me, and I think you're right, too." Lieutenant Dave gestured to the three privates and said to the staff sergeant, "but there are some things that can't be decided by right and wrong! You're saying a lot. Possibly, right? As long as there is even a slight chance that there are still civilians surviving in the Emerosa Police Department, no matter how small the odds are, we must go to the police station. Listen, Paul, swore yourself to the Commonwealth Army, I've never heard of mission failure, it's a term used by the gentlemen sitting in the office looking at data! In my Bravo squad's dictionary, there is no mission failure phrase, and now my question is, you Would you like to come with us?"

Staff Sergeant    answered the lieutenant's question with action. He took the lead out of the corner and rushed to the police station with two privates in an offensive formation. Lieutenant Dave and another fireman were on both sides to prepare for fire cover.

  The imaginary monster did not appear. The Bravo team marched smoothly to the door of the police station. A brown-haired man pushed open the door of the police station from inside, and gave Lieutenant Dave and the staff sergeant a stiff smile: "Hello."

This unexpected encounter made Lieutenant Dave and Staff Sergeant Paul froze at the door, but the guns of Bravo's team did not drop, and no one knew whether the monster could transform into a human appearance. Excellent soldiers should keep it in any scene. alert.

   "Hello." Lieutenant Dave showed a kind smile, and looked into the door. Inside, there were many figures crowded, and he looked out the door with curious eyes.

   "You guys, haven't you encountered a monster?" Lieutenant Dave was surprised. As far as he knew, these monsters appearing in Los Angeles all have sensory organs, and places where large groups of people gather often attract the attention of monsters.

   "We encountered quite a few monsters." The brown-haired man replied with a smile, and Lieutenant Dave noticed that when he mentioned the monsters, there was not much fear on his face, as if he was just talking about a few animals that got out of the zoo.

"Can you tell me how you can avoid the perception of those monsters?" the staff sergeant asked impatiently. The man in front of him said that they had encountered a lot of monsters, but now the civilians in the police station are safe and sound, which shows that they are trying to solve the problem. The monster, or avoided the perception of the monster, but now the doors and windows of the police station are all intact, and there is no trace of the battle at all, so the latter is more likely.

This is a major discovery of great strategic value. If you can find an effective way to avoid it, find a way to bring it back to the rear command center, let the intelligence center inform other soldiers about the way to avoid monsters, and then use various broadcasting methods to let more civilians get Knowing the means of escape can save thousands of lives.

  Thinking of this, the staff sergeant felt very fortunate, fortunate that this time Lieutenant Dave insisted on his own opinion and wanted to go to the police station to find out.

   "Avoid them? I think you misunderstood, we didn't avoid them." The brown-haired man raised his hand sideways and made an inviting gesture, "They are lying inside now, you can come in and take a look."

   Lying inside? What does it mean? The staff sergeant tensed, his index finger on the trigger.

   "Don't shoot! Put your guns down!" Lieutenant Dave put his hand on the staff sergeant's rifle and slowly pressed the muzzle to the ground, his tone unquestionable.

  The Bravo team slowly walked into the police station, and the crowd congested in the police station hall automatically separated to both sides to make way for a passage.

   There was no crowd blocking his line of sight. Lieutenant Dave clearly saw that a slim figure was standing in the center of the hall, looking at the stumps below him with interest, the stumps of monsters.