usatvline Chapter 159 Massacre
Chapter 159 Massacre
At the moment when the man's body was blown to pieces, Howard clearly felt Adele, who was curled up in his arms, tremble. Howard stretched out one hand and hugged her. He originally wanted to move her deeper, but his hand just pressed on Adele and then he let it go.
What was the point of him doing this? Even if he could stand between her and the cruel truth this time, in this cruel universe, every child would eventually learn to get used to the sudden loss of life. Even if he could stop her this time, she would have to go through this kind of thing countless times in the future.
In the end, Howard just patted Adele on the back to comfort her and did nothing else.
The soldier stopped after stepping on the severed hand. He raised his leg to check what was under his feet, and when he looked up again, his eyes were inexplicably looking towards where Howard was hiding.
And the soldier's gaze was not just a cursory glance, but was clearly locked in Howard's direction with doubt.
Then the soldier reached for the strap of his gun, broke away from the troops, and walked towards Howard step by step.
Howard's heart suddenly hung in his throat again. He looked back and saw that it was a dead end with no escape route.
So he could only silently shrink back to a deeper place with Adele, while silently repeating in his heart: No, don't come over, don't come over.
He did it not for himself, but for the soldier.
If the soldiers eventually discovered Howard and confronted him, it would not be Howard who was in danger, but the soldiers.
Finally, the soldier stopped less than ten meters away from Howard. Howard and Adele held their breath involuntarily, and the soldier bent down in front of them and picked up something on the ground.
A silver ring.
Just now, when the soldier bent down to observe the severed hand, he found that there were obvious traces of a ring worn for a long time on the ring finger of the severed hand, so he deliberately looked for the ring.
Finally, the soldier wiped the silver ring casually and put it in his pocket, then quickly returned to the team and the troops quickly set off. It seemed that they had not intended to come to this puddle of stinky water, but the shouting of the healed person attracted the attack.
The engine roared in the park, but Adele huddled in Howard's arms, sobbing softly, and kept saying, "Messiah, I killed him, I killed him... If I hadn't said anything, he wouldn't have died..."
Adele was not stupid. How could she not see that the man had been persuaded by Howard, but because of her words, his attitude towards Howard changed from suspicion to complete denial.
"Don't blame yourself too much. I didn't convince him back then, and with his personality, he probably wouldn't have believed what I said in the end." Howard patted Adele's head and said, "Besides, we saved him first, allowing him to experience the miracle of transforming from a plague zombie back into a human. In the end, he died as a human. If he could know this in the afterlife, he would definitely thank us."
Seeing that Adele was still sad, Howard could only continue to say, "Adele, be strong. Crying is useless and will only waste your time. If the world is peaceful now, you can cry as long as you want and no one will say anything to you. But now, please be strong..."
After thinking about it, Howard finally said the last words: "I need you."
The reason why Howard hesitated when he said this was because he was lying. He didn't really need Adele anymore. He knew all three ways to Ivan's laboratory, and the experiment on the plague zombies had been successful. Even without Adele, Howard could go back by himself.
However, Howard's last words still touched the child. She took a deep breath and said, "Messiah, please don't worry. I...I won't let you down."
Two hours later, Adele returned to Ivan's laboratory with Howard, the news of a complete cure for the plague, and hope for all life in the shelter.
They sneaked out through the drainpipe of Ivan's operating room, which was located behind the cold storage. The cold storage originally stored many materials that had been dissected or were waiting to be dissected. However, after this place was chosen as a shelter, the cold storage no longer had electricity supply, and the frozen materials melted and were disposed of in a tacit manner.
However, the floor of the cold storage was still covered with blood, which had coagulated and deteriorated, and smelled terrible. Therefore, the door of the cold storage was always closed, and no one would come here except those who wanted to leave through the sewer.
Howard and Adele climbed out of the manhole. They covered their noses and walked to the door of the cold storage. They were about to open the door, but Howard held Adele's hand.
Because he heard an abnormal noise coming from the other side of the heavy double alloy door.
Howard suddenly had a bad premonition. He slowly turned the lock of the cold storage door and pushed it open a little. But what he saw made his blood freeze.
He saw a sea of blood and corpses. The dead were piled on the ground casually, almost covering the entire ground. The remaining living people were divided into two factions. One faction was the victims of the disaster in the shelter. They were weak and powerless. When faced with the killing, they could only scream and run away, but were soon pierced through the body by the lasers. The other faction was the killers. Those heavily armed Astra Militarum soldiers wearing helmets had found and rushed into Ivan's laboratory at some point, slaughtering these unarmed refugees.
Because the refugees were too dense, even if the Astra Militarum soldiers fired with their eyes closed, they could still hit them. The laser guns in their hands could penetrate the bodies of several humans at a time. The last person hit by the laser was the most unfortunate, because he could not be killed on the spot and could only wail on the ground and wait for death. If some Astra Militarum soldiers were more merciful, they would shoot him again to understand his pain, but lucky people were not the majority.
The moment Howard saw the massacre, the batteries of all the Astra Militarum's laser guns exploded collectively, but they seemed to have been prepared for this. They quickly put away their laser guns, then took out their military daggers and various melee weapons, and started a new round of killing.
"Stop!" At this time, Reverend Francis rushed to the front of the crowd of people being killed. He was wearing a solemn priest's robe and a gorgeous priest's hat. He held a scripture in his hand and stood with his arms outstretched between the refugees and the Astra Militarum. He glared at the group of executioners and demanded: "Imperial soldiers, the people in this refuge are all upright and pious. They are the people of the God-Emperor. Why are you using the sword on them?!"
"Alien! Die!"
But no one answered his question. The sharp weapon in the hands of the Star Army pierced the pious chicken thief, and the priest finally fell powerlessly in a pool of blood. The scripture in his hand fell, and the yellowed paper was covered with the red of blood.