Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 64 Change your mind
In the room, Chen Jian was listening to Zeng Yi's story while recording the existing information on his PDA.

Most of the information is about the monster in the Huangzhou ruins, but there is also a small amount of information about Huangshi City.

[A level 4 monster, but the classification is based on 'not very aggressive', and it is actually possible to approach or reach the power of a level 3 monster]

[The whole body is covered with heavy armor. The Mechanicus once used a 10 kg large-caliber smoothbore cannon to bombard it, but failed to penetrate it]

[Acts quickly, but has a short active period]

[Does not seem to have high intelligence and is insensitive to humans]

[The territory covers the Huangzhou ruins and has a fixed nest]

[There are records of attacks on human settlements, but the most recent record was 10 years ago]

[There are a small number of civilians in Huangshi City who believe in the 'Mongol' monster, but not many]

After putting all the information together, Chen Jian frowned, and the doubts in his heart became more and more serious.

After thinking for a moment, he said:
"From the information we have now, this monster is indeed suitable for use as a barrier."

"But the problem is, I always feel like something is wrong."

"If it's a great barrier for us, it's a great barrier for the people of Yellowstone, too."

"But why, under the protection of this barrier, the population here continues to decrease?"

"Don't you realize that this Yellowstone City doesn't even have the population of 2000 that you mentioned?"

"I doubt even 1000 - where did you get your information from?"

After saying this, Zeng Yi also shook his head in confusion, and then explained:
"Like I said before, the Holy Blood Temple does not have a meeting hall here, so the information we get is basically from the Mechanicus."

"Just like when we entered just now, we will go to them to ask for some intelligence in the name of cooperative reconnaissance. They will cooperate most of the time, but the accuracy of the information may not be very high."

"Two years ago, I did see some detailed information about Yellowstone City. That was when the Holy Blood Temple tried to send a Blood Originator here."

"I can confirm that at that time, the population of Yellowstone City must have been around 2,000 people."

“But I don’t know why, after two years, this place has declined to this extent.”

"In fact, you're not the only one who noticed this. Xie Liu and I just asked the same question to the priest here, but he refused to answer and only said it was a natural death."

"Natural deaths will halve the population in two years??"

Chen Jian shook his head sarcastically and said:

"Yellowstone City still has secrets that the Mechanicus doesn't want to tell you."

"Okay, let's ignore this for now."

"I want to confirm one thing. Have the Mechanicus personnel here been notified of the emergency in Hanshui City?"

"No."

Zeng Yi said affirmatively:
"They only have one radio here, and it broke two weeks ago."

"Besides, there are two monsters on the road between them and Hanshui City, so the communication is not that close. So I think what they said should be true."

"That's no problem."

Chen Jian nodded slowly, and then gave the order:

"He Shuo, raise the drone and monitor the entire city."

"Focus on observing the movements of the Mechanicus Guardians. If there are any unusual movements, issue a warning in a timely manner."

"The others follow me."

"Let's go around the city and try to figure out why there are only so few people left in this city!"

"understand!"

"no problem."

At the command, everyone took action immediately.

He Shuo found a hidden corner and quickly launched the drone. After entering the intelligent cruise mode, he followed Chen Jian out of the inn.

A group of four people walked casually on the streets of Yellowstone City, but their eyes were scanning everywhere, searching for any information that could be discovered.

Chen Jian's expression became serious after just walking through half of the residential area.

He lowered his voice and said to the other three people beside him:

“Universal hunger.”

"It's very unusual that the majority of residents here show signs of malnutrition."

"From the human settlements we've visited before, although their lives are not easy, they have no problem with food sources."

"Huangshi City is located in the center of Dazhi Lake, with rich fishery resources and reclaimed land around it. Logically, it should not be a problem to feed 2,000 people."

"But now, there are less than a thousand people left here, and they are still starving." "Where did their food go?"

"I don't know either"

Xie Liu frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly said:

"But the Mechanicus personnel don't seem to have this problem. When we entered the church, their Skitarii were having breakfast. The food was very rich."

“That’s normal.”

Chen Jian shook his head and said:
"They are the rulers here after all. If they were all starving, this city would have been destroyed long ago."

After he finished speaking, Chen Jian continued to look at the alley between the buildings.

In the alley, a few ragged civilians huddled in a corner, clinging to each other for warmth.

It is already late autumn and the temperature has dropped below 20 degrees. Although it is not yet cold enough to freeze people to death, it will definitely cause problems if you don't have enough warm clothes.

Not only was food scarce, but supplies were also quite poor.

Are the residents of Yellowstone City living such a miserable life?
"The level of technology here is much lower than that of Hanshui. Not to mention electric lights, I didn't even see a stove."

"There were no hot weapons on the streets, and the guards were not holding single-shot rifles like the ones used by the Hanshui City guards. Instead, they were smoothbore flintlock rifles that were made by someone unknown."

"Is there anything that is holding back the growth of this town?"

"Perhaps the Mechanicus intentionally suppressed the technology here."

Zeng Yi exhaled slowly and was about to continue speaking, but at this moment, a gunshot was suddenly heard from the end of the street.

"boom!"

The anti-sniper radar responded immediately, and several people's eyes locked onto the direction of the gunshot at the same time.

There, several civilians armed with sticks, harpoons and crude knives rushed towards the guards on the roadside.

The strength of one guard was obviously not enough to withstand so many cold weapons, and he was chopped down to the ground in an instant.

But the other guards reacted quickly, forming a human wall and firing at the rioting civilians.

"boom!"

"Boom!"

"boom!"

There were continuous gunshots and white smoke rose from the street.

Under the sunlight, there should have been a beautiful Tyndall effect, but instead, blood was flowing all over the ground.

"The Skitarii are moving."

He Shuo spoke in a low voice, and Chen Jian looked at the image on the smart eyepiece and found that the well-equipped Crusaders had rushed out from the center of the city and were running quickly towards the street where the conflict occurred.

A few minutes later, the riot was quickly quelled under the "powerful" firepower suppression of the Crusaders.

Guards carried the bodies, while other residents numbly cleaned the blood-stained streets.

Chen Jian blinked and whispered to the others to retreat.

After returning to the inn, he said:
"Yellowstone is on the brink of collapse."

"It would be fine if it was just a sharp decline in population, but now there is a riot, which proves that the Mechanicus' rule here has been shaken."

"This is our chance."

"Originally, we were reluctant to attack large settlements. One important reason was that the rule of the Mechanicus and the Holy Blood Temple was too strong. Even if we managed to eliminate the enemy, it would be difficult to eliminate the deep-rooted ideological imprint."

“Yellowstone is different now.”

"The brand has been loosened, we can give them a hand!"

After Chen Jian finished speaking, Zeng Yi shook his head subconsciously, and then said:

"But we don't know what happened here. If we act rashly,

"It doesn't matter what happened. We can slowly find the truth."

Chen Jian interrupted Zeng Yi and said decisively:

"We need a barrier, but it's too difficult to migrate the monsters to the Han River Ruins."

"Change your thinking. It's easy to kill the defenders of Yellowstone City and clear out the members of the Mechanicus here!"

"We don't have to hold on to the 7025 fortifications. If we save the land but lose the people, we will lose both the land and the people."

"He Shuo, notify Lei Jie to bring enough equipment to Huangshi City for support."

"Take this place down, this will be our first base!"

(End of this chapter)