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"Nearly half of the citizens of Ichihara City gather here. After it falls, it is almost certain that infected bodies capable of fighting against knights of level one or above will be born here. In the absence of any way to confirm whether the knights will be infected, I agree with Aqing's point of view. At the very least, knights must not be sent here."

"Otherwise, if the knight is also infected with the mutation, then this incident will not only affect Ichihara City, but the entire Chiba Prefecture and even Tokyo will be in trouble!"

"Of course, the department will mobilize the knights as quickly as possible, and the laboratory will surely produce results soon, but before that, I hope that everyone can use all their strength to completely confine this infection to Ichihara - no, it's not a hope, but a request."

"I ask you to do this!"

215. Thirty-six Hours

It was 36 hours after the hospital infection outbreak in Ichihara City.

When the first batch of relief supplies urgently dispatched from surrounding cities finally arrived at the outskirts of Ichihara City and were about to enter Ichihara City to launch rescue operations, an order that made everyone extremely confused was issued from the command center.

"Suspend all rescue operations into Ichihara City. All relief supplies will be temporarily placed at surrounding checkpoints, awaiting follow-up orders" - along with this order, there appeared checkpoints that appeared at unknown time and were set up on all roads in and out of Ichihara City.

These checkpoints are equipped with a large number of anti-collision facilities such as roadblocks and sandbags, and are guarded by fully armed police officers. All vehicles and pedestrians entering and leaving Ichihara City are intercepted. Except for vehicles with permission, all other vehicles and personnel are not allowed to enter or leave.

What is even more shocking is that at each of these road checkpoints, there is a strange-looking van, and on the cabins of these vans... there are biochemical markings!

So, what exactly happened in Ichihara City?

It's not just people in real life who have noticed something is wrong. People on the Internet have also slowly begun to realize that Ichihara City seems to have... lost contact?

You know, as an industrial city, Ichihara City actually has frequent exchanges with the outside world, ranging from business exchanges and trade exchanges to small-scale exchanges between the people, and even just making appointments to play games together among netizens...

In the Internet age, a modern city and the entire world are closely "growing" together. It is not a simple inlay that can be taken away as a whole piece, but it spreads out countless roots, entangled and growing with the world from all angles.

If the city is directly "pulled out", the countless root-like connections will be cut off instantly. Trade partners will find that their trading partners are suspected to have run away, and ordinary people will find that their relatives and friends have suddenly lost contact. More importantly, with the daily throughput of a city that cannot circulate independently being stopped instantly, countless industrial chains that rely on each other for survival will be directly broken, including agriculture, transportation, cold storage, garbage...

The impact this brought was not as simple as "lost contact", so as the time of Ichihara City's loss of contact became longer and longer, naturally more and more people noticed that something was wrong.

However, so far, because the loss of contact has only been less than 48 hours, no one has noticed anything unusual on a large scale yet...

However, there is not much time left for Hattori Koichi and his friends.

......

In fact, apart from the Chiba Prefectural Police Station which received the call for help directly, most of the police stations around Ichihara do not know what happened in Ichihara City. Japan is divided into prefectures, and "city" is the lower-level administrative division of the prefecture. Therefore, after the disaster, the first reaction of the Ichihara Police Station was to report the situation to the Chiba Police Station and request the Chiba Police Station to dispatch surrounding police forces to support them.

As for the surrounding administrative units of the same level, there was naturally no need to inform them, and they could not carry out large-scale personnel transfers without the permission of their superiors.

After receiving the request for help, the first reaction of the Chiba Police Station was to verify the specific situation with the Ichihara Police Station to determine the extent of the force to be sent for support. At the same time, they also began to prepare to mobilize rescue forces. As a result...

Before they could figure out the exact situation, the evacuation zone was destroyed and the entire Ichihara Police Station was wiped out, without a single person escaping...

After discovering that the Ichihara Police Station had lost contact, the Chiba Police Station felt that something was wrong and continued to mobilize police forces from surrounding cities to provide support, while also quickly sending a request for help to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Then, Hattori Yukichi and Lord Chosokabe, who were on duty during the New Year, rushed to Ichihara City in a hurry.

But let’s be honest…

The Ichihara City Police Station fell too quickly.

The Chiba Police Station only received a report and learned that an infection had occurred. It also roughly learned the manifestations of the infection and the location of the outbreak. But before it could get more information, such as the scale of the infection and the current situation in the city, the Ichihara Police Station disappeared.

Obviously, the Ichihara Police Department hastily made the decision to evacuate all residents to safe neighborhoods before figuring out what the infection was. If it was a normal disaster, this move would actually be quite reasonable, but the problem is...

The overcrowded population made it impossible to cope with the sudden outbreak of infection. The evacuation zone, which was originally a safe zone, instantly became a hell. The Ichihara Police Station did not even have a chance to evacuate and was directly submerged in the tide of infected corpses...

With only the intelligence sent by Ichihara City Police Station before its fall, Hattori Yukichi and his colleagues were also unable to fully grasp the full picture of the situation. Furthermore, since the city of Ichihara was now full of mutated infected bodies, the police, who lacked fire support and most of whom were only equipped with pistols with little lethality, did not have the ability to conduct in-depth exploration. So Hattori Yukichi could only make a decision that seemed somewhat cruel - suspend all in-depth rescue plans, block all roads around Ichihara, wait for the laboratory results, and at the same time call back the knights on vacation for exploration.

Of course, although this order was given by Hattori Yukichi, only the senior officials in the temporary command center actually knew about it. When the order was passed on, everyone was told that this was an order given by Chosokabe, the chief of the Operations Section and the nominal third-in-command of the Super Power Department, but the actual second-in-command.

after all......

Stopping the rescue operation would mean giving up on the survivors still alive in Ichihara - even if only temporarily.

Therefore, this order must never be issued in the name of Hattori Yukichi. As a future big man, Hattori Yukichi's hands cannot be stained with any dirt.

......

But in fact, after such a long investigation, combined with the information learned from some rescued citizens and the information brought back by drone reconnaissance, Hattori Yukichi and his team have actually roughly sorted out the general process of this infection outbreak.

To put it simply, if we take the moment when the Ichihara Police Station received the alarm, dispatched police forces to the suburbs and discovered the laboratory where a large number of mutated infected bodies were trapped as the starting point, then this disaster can be roughly divided into "four eight-hour periods."

The first "Ba Lin Xiao Ba Shi" was discovered by the Ichihara Police Station in the laboratory, and recorded in the file. After the case was entered into the computer, it was remotely called out by the Chiba Police Station. Perhaps because it is an industrial city, the Ichihara Police Station is quite up-to-date and will enter the case into the computer in a timely manner. You know, many police stations in other places don't have this habit. At best, they will accumulate a bunch of cases and then enter them together...

There seems to be no infection during this period. At least if we only look at the data, there is nothing abnormal at present. The Ichihara Police Station did not approach the laboratory rashly, nor did it find any leak in the laboratory. It only mobilized a large number of police forces to the laboratory to seal off the area. Ichihara City did not receive any reports of riots. It seems that everything is normal.

The second "eight hours" started from the time the Ichihara Police Station received the first call. According to the remote call records of the Ichihara Police Station, the first problem occurred at the Ichihara Municipal Public Hospital. The caller reported that a fight had occurred in the hospital and the situation was serious with many people injured. The Ichihara Police Station then sent three police officers to check it out.

But before the police arrived, a large number of calls started coming in, all of which reported that a serious riot had occurred in the Ichihara Public Hospital, terrorists had indiscriminately attacked everyone, and a large number of people were injured. So at this time, the Ichihara Police Station requested that the large number of police officers who were blocking the laboratory return to the city, and at the same time all the remaining police officers in the police station were dispatched to the hospital.

Then, with all police forces dispatched, the police station received a report of a gang fight in the old city's commercial street. However, the city's original police station's attention was currently focused on the words "hospital terrorist attack", and there was a real shortage of police force, so the old city only notified nearby traffic police to go and disperse the gang.

Since then, the police station has been receiving calls for help, with more and more reports of attacks and fights coming in. Until the police officers who rushed to the hospital sent back a report that the attacker was an irrational monster, realizing that the situation was beginning to get out of control, the Ichihara Police Station immediately sent a request for help to its superior police station, the Chiba Prefecture Police Station, and at the same time began to take action itself.

What followed was the third "eight hours" - after the large number of police forces that had sealed off the laboratory rushed back, the Ichihara Police Station launched an evacuation operation with amazing mobility. Police officers were allowed to use firearms to resist the infected. At the same time, a large number of people began to be evacuated to the "safe zone". It took less than four hours to establish the safe zone defense line. The police relied on the safe zone defense line to defend and kept the infected out.

It has to be said that so far, the performance of the Ichihara Police Station is definitely outstanding or even top-notch among all the police stations in Japan. It has a keen sense of smell, quick actions, and smooth command. It can complete a series of response measures in a very short time without any delay or excuses. If it were another police station, let alone completing this series of responses within eight hours, probably a considerable number of people would not know what happened until the whole army was wiped out...

But unfortunately, the excellence of the Ichihara Police Station did not bring about a miracle.

Due to the lack of knowledge about the infection, although the Ichihara Police Station set up an inspection and isolated all people with trauma on their bodies,...

The infection is not only spread through biting and scratching, anyone can be infected as long as they come into contact with the body fluids of the distorted infected body!

So the infection broke out from within...

And finally, it was the fourth eight hours - commanders from the Chiba Police Station and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrived and set up a temporary command center. At the same time, after preliminary investigations and discussions, they issued an order to stop rescue and impose a complete blockade in the name of Lord Chosokabe.

Of course, this order was accompanied by a communication to the Cabinet, and...

Isolation of all means of communication in Ichihara City - Currently, all network and mobile phone signals in Ichihara City have been cut off, and only satellite phones can be used.

Of course, this move is not to prevent someone from releasing the situation in Ichihara City to the outside world. In fact, rumors that something had happened in Ichihara City had already begun to appear on the Internet. The signal was interrupted in order to prevent the news of the cessation of rescue from being spread.

Now, on the 36th hour, with all rescue efforts having been stopped, all anyone can do is wait.

The command center was waiting for the emergency-recruited knights to arrive, while the survivors trapped in Ichihara City were waiting for the follow-up rescue to begin - and praying that they could wait until that time.

After all, the situation in Ichihara City...

It's getting worse.

......

......

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Hiding on the second floor, listening to the crashing sounds of rummaging through drawers on the first floor, Takahashi curled up in Suda's arms, closed his eyes tightly, grasped Suda's sleeves tightly with his fists, and prayed desperately in his heart that the monster downstairs would not come to the second floor.

Suda also looked nervous. He listened to the noise downstairs and glanced at the window from time to time.

The front door of Takahashi's house was broken down and the infected body rushed into the first floor.

216. Belt of Despair

Not long ago, Takahashi and Suda thought that they could probably survive for three to five days with the snacks stored at home, and maybe they could wait for rescue, but what they never expected was...

Those infected people who were originally wandering around the streets started to break into the doors for some unknown reason!

Although these infected bodies were generally not very strong, they still managed to knock the door open despite the pain. Then these infected people began to enter and exit the house. What frightened Takahashi and Suda even more was that not far away across the street, there was also a house with its door knocked open, and then...

A chilling scream of despair came from inside!

This undoubtedly made the two people who had originally held out hope suddenly despair, but fortunately, although the infected bodies knew how to bang on the door for some reason, they still could not go upstairs. The infected bodies that broke into the house wandered to the stairs several times, but it seemed as if their limbs were uncoordinated and they could not go up to the second floor.

Takahashi and Suda brought more heavy objects to block the stairs, so for the time being, it should be safe.

But......

"Or, let's crawl to my house. The door of my house is a steel anti-theft door, and those monsters can't break in. As long as we crawl over and remove the board, we can stay safe for a long time!"

Holding Takahashi tightly in his arms, listening to the heavy footsteps and occasional collisions downstairs, Suda took a deep breath, then whispered in Takahashi's ear to persuade him.

But after hearing Suda's words, Takahashi shook his head vigorously, and a trace of despair flashed in his eyes.

"No, I'm afraid of heights, I can't climb up... I will definitely fall down, break my legs, and then be eaten alive by those monsters... Wuuuu, Xiaohui, I'm so scared..."

Suda Teru - Suda's full name, and the full name of the girlfriend in his arms is Takahashi Yori.

But it doesn't matter. If you fail to escape and are eaten by the infected, then no matter what name you call it, it will be meaningless. At most, it will be written down as two numbers when counting casualties.

But Suda doesn't want to become a meaningless statistic, so...

"It's possible. The windows of the two houses are less than two meters apart. I'll crawl over first, then tie a rope around your waist, and then you can climb. Even if you accidentally fall, I can definitely pull you up! Trust me, Xiaoyi..."

Looking at the panicked look of his girlfriend in his arms, Suda Teru reached out and pressed his girlfriend's shoulders, turned her to face him, and then put his forehead against hers. Suda Teru's eyes were extremely sincere.

"I will definitely not let anything happen to you!"

"..."

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In the face of Suda Teru's performance, Takahashi Yi was still shaking her head desperately, but just as Takahashi Yi was shaking her head, there was a clear sound of footsteps on the stairs suddenly.

It sounds like...

The infected body is going upstairs?

"It's too late, hurry up and go, trust me!"

There is no doubt that the footsteps instantly made the two people who were hiding upstairs like quails even more frightened. So, with gritted teeth, Suda Teru did not care about his girlfriend's objection, and directly reached out to hug his girlfriend aside, then pushed open the window and began to poke a two-meter-long wooden board into the second-floor window of his house.

Because he was visiting his girlfriend's house during the holidays, the windows on the second floor of Suda Teru's house were naturally closed. In order to put the wooden board over, he had to poke it hard to break the glass. The crashing sound naturally startled the infected bodies that were originally wandering on the street, and they all looked over here. Soon a large number of infected bodies gathered under the wooden board, looking up as if waiting for the girl to fall.

So Gao Qiaoyi naturally didn't dare to climb anymore, but she could only wait to feed the infected body timidly, so...

Suda Teru simply tied the rope tightly around Takahashi Yi's slender waist, then he held the other end and began to try to climb over tremblingly.

As long as I can get over there, it will be easy to pull Gao Qiaoyi over. Even if she falls, I can still pull her up with her light weight...

Fortunately, the climb went smoothly, and Suda Teru quickly and safely reached the second floor of his house. Afterwards, without checking the situation, Suda Teru began to encourage Takahashi Yi to climb over bravely, but...

What the two never expected was that just when Gao Qiaoyi mustered up the courage to try to climb onto the wooden board, suddenly, the debris blocking the stairs was hit unexpectedly, and some small objects on the top were knocked down and rolled all over the floor.

As a result, the little courage that Gao Qiaoyi had finally mustered up disappeared in an instant. Her legs went limp and she fell to the ground, her face pale.

I felt like I was about to die and be eaten alive by those monsters...

I don't know if it hurts, but it should be very painful. I will definitely cry. I hope Suda won't do anything stupid and won't run over to try to rescue me...

Oh, right, rescue - Takahashi Yi is very sure that if something happens to her, Suda will definitely take the risk to try to rescue her, but wouldn't she be a burden to Suda in that case?

So, I have to pull out that board to prevent Suda from getting through!

With this plan in mind, Takahashi Yi miraculously recovered some strength and tried to stand up with her hands. But just as she stood up and looked towards the window, she found that Suda Teru had climbed back onto the wooden board and was climbing back!

"Don't...go back now!"

Takahashi drove Suda away angrily, and even forgot his fear for a moment. However, facing Takahashi's expulsion, Suda did not respond. Instead, he lay on the board and threw a few bags towards the window.

"Get out of the way, Xiaoyi. These things are weapons! I don't know what I bought, but after a quick look, I can see that they are all made of metal. They should be able to fight those monsters!"

The companions fell down with Suga's voice, and several bags were thrown into the house by the clothes. They fell to the ground, and the things in the bags also fell out of the bags. Takahashi, who was originally planning to continue to drive Suga back and signal him to climb back quickly, accidentally glanced at these "weapons" scattered on the ground, and then...

I saw something that looked quite strange in shape, but was quite similar to the belt worn by knights on TV shows on the Internet.

"...Knight's belt?"

Subconsciously stunned, Takahashi quickly drove away the strange thoughts in his heart. This was probably just a high-end imitation toy. After all, knights are very popular now. It is normal to have toys based on knights or belts, but...

"Phew, that was really dangerous, but luckily I got through it safely...Huh? What is this? A belt?"

After crawling over, Suda was obviously relieved. Then he pretended to be relaxed and showed it to Takahashi. At the same time, Suda was privately thinking about what would be a better weapon. Then, with a glance, Suda also found the belt.

217. Deus Ex Machina

When Su Su first sent out express deliveries, it did so randomly - to be more specific, it found a crawler software and then collected address information on social networking sites. After collecting the information, it did a preliminary screening to eliminate those addresses that were obviously certain public places or offices of certain institutions, and finally randomly selected some for delivery.

Among them are some fools who carelessly expose their real addresses on the Internet, some unlucky people whose information has been leaked without their knowledge, and even many virtual addresses that are difficult to distinguish between true and false. But Su Su doesn't care about these - even for those fake addresses, the courier will choose an address with a similar description to deliver the mail if the mail cannot be returned.

Of course, it is also possible that it will be left gathering dust in a warehouse?

But no matter what, there will always be a chance to be used. Su Su will not be anxious, but quietly wait for the opportunity, just like...

Now like this.

Suda Teru actually forgot where he bought these things from - due to his wealthy family, Suda Teru was always a little careless when buying things, and he bought many things on a whim, so that after receiving the goods, he often had to think carefully about when he bought them, but this knight's belt......

Suda Teru was very sure that he had never bought this thing.

After all, I am also a loyal fan of knights. I have imagined wearing a knight's belt more than once, punishing evil and promoting good like those knights active in Tokyo, and even standing up in the face of disasters to bring hope to those who are in despair in distress...