"Clang!"
Ryan kicked open the apartment door, quickly walked into the passage of the apartment building, and used the holographic mirror in his left eye to confirm that there were no suspicious targets in his field of vision.
"Ho-! Ho-!"
The roars of zombies running could be heard below the stairs.
Ryan had no choice but to quicken his pace and arrived at the door of the apartment where the girl's scream had just been heard.
"Bang!" He kicked the door open again.
In the living room of the apartment, I saw a man with ulcerated skin biting a woman underneath him.
Next to the two people who seemed to be a couple, there was a girl about ten years old, looking at the scene in front of her with a look of despair.
Even though he didn't understand the language and didn't understand the previous situation, Ryan instantly guessed the changes that the family had encountered.
It seems that the father was an asymptomatic patient, but he suddenly became ill while the family was hiding at home, and he even threw the mother down and bit her.
The daughter, who had always kept quiet, seemed to not want to keep quiet anymore after seeing her parents become ill and die one after another, and started yelling to vent her anger, waiting for death to come.
The girl obviously didn't expect that her desperate act would lead to the door being broken open not by a bloody zombie, but by a heavily armed soldier.
As for Ryan, he held the M41A tightly with his right hand, waved his left hand towards the girl, and said in English: "Come here! Hurry!"
"..."
Although the girl did not understand English, it was not difficult to guess the meaning of Ryan, and she quickly trotted up behind Ryan.
After all, everyone has the desire to survive, and the screams of self-destruction before were just because they lost their parents at the same time and were unable to accept the reality.
But the appearance of Ryan made the girl quiet again.
"Uh---! Howl..."
Within a few seconds, the mother who was being bitten suddenly opened her eyes, opened her mouth and made a zombie-like sound.
Already turned into a zombie.
"Pah! Pah!"
"Puff! Puff!"
Ryan did not hesitate and shot each of the miserable couple in the head. Caseless Explosive Rounds converted them on behalf of the priest.
Immediately afterwards, Ryan held the girl behind her with his left hand, raised his right hand holding the M41A flat and pointed it at the window.
"Crack!"
While one shot shattered the glass, Ryan hugged M41A and the girl tightly and took a running start, jumping directly out of the fourth-floor apartment.
At this moment, the zombies, alerted by the screams and gunshots, rushed from the stairs to the fourth floor in an instant and poured into the apartment the two had just left.
When the zombies saw the two people jumping out of the window, they rushed out without thinking.
Just...
"Tap! Tap!"
Ryan, assisted by Mechanical Skeleton, did a few rolls after landing on his feet, and successfully reached the street outside the apartment building.
"Puff! Puff!"
But the zombies, who were completely made of flesh, fell from a height of four stories and suffered broken bones or broken necks.
Ryan stood up staggeringly and quickly looked around.
When I saw the zombies near the street, I was disturbed by a series of loud noises, and they all rushed towards the direction where Ryan and the girl were.
"Made!" Ryan growled, put the girl on the ground, relaxed his hands, and hugged her tightly with his left hand again.
And he said as if he was taking everything lightly, "Forget it, I saved you before dying anyway, so I will die with no regrets. Now I can run as far as I can!"
"..." The girl couldn't understand what Ryan was saying. She had already hugged Ryan tightly with a look of fear because of the zombies coming from all directions.
After the UNSC Army soldier hugged the rescued girl tightly, he faced south, raised his right M41A and started running wildly.
"Pah! Pah, pah, pah!"
Ryan didn't bother to save ammunition and directly fired at the zombies blocking them.
"Puff! Puff!"
The lethality of Caseless Explosive Rounds is still considerable, and it can directly tear apart a large number of zombies.
But...
"Crack---click!" Even the M41A magazine with 99 bullets full of ammunition could not last more than a few seconds before emptying.
Seeing that the ammunition of the main weapon was empty, Ryan immediately threw the M41A in his right hand at a zombie, hugged the rescued girl with both hands and ran with all his strength.
Give it your all!
Now Ryan can only run towards the south, away from Hillah City, pinning its hopes on using the speed of Mechanical Skeleton to throw away the zombies.
"Tap! Tap... tap..."
The battery that can sustain Mechanical Skeleton is about to run out, the running speed begins to slow down, and the distance between the zombies is gradually closed.
It's finished.
If he said he didn't regret it, the girl was completely blind, but Ryan was worthy of his conscience and at least allowed the girl to live for a few more minutes.
"I'm sorry, it seems that both of us are going to die here."
Ryan said to the girl with a helpless expression.
The girl also guessed that Ryan had nothing to do, and she couldn't help crying, waiting to be 'swallowed' by these zombies next.
"Soldier, hold on."
Suddenly, an emotionless voice reminded Ryan.
"Ta! Ta-ta-ta-ta!" followed by intensive Gauss Rifle sounds.
The Spike Rounds, which uses various models such as blasting, delayed blasting, and burning, can kill nearly half of a group of hundreds of zombies in just a few seconds.
Before Ryan and the girl could react, a group of 'giants' appeared in their field of vision.
This team of 'giants' are exactly the Spartan-II warriors who followed the instructions of Andre and tried to physically reduce the number of infected people before the arrival of 049 and Elizabeth Green.
It may be that Ryan's luck has not run out, and Limit Team among the second-phase warriors is responsible for this area.
I saw five Sparta of Limit Team, AT Energy Shield on PIA Armor opened wide, and rushed in the opposite direction towards the zombie group.
Immediately, the originally lawless zombies were slaughtered by Limit Team.
For ordinary people, these agile zombies are quite troublesome, but for Sparta, they are just a group of 'targets' that pose no threat and move at a slightly faster speed.
After Limit Team finished dealing with the zombies that followed Ryan, the team leader came to Ryan and said softly from a bird's eye view:
"Soldiers, since you carry the virus in your body, please cooperate with our technical staff's disinfection and isolation measures."
Ryan, who had not yet recovered from the shock, nodded repeatedly after hearing the words of the 'giant' in front of him:
"Yes... please don't worry, sir."
"Very good." The captain of Limit Team also nodded lightly and used the communication to report to Tina:
"This is the captain of Limit Team, Robert B-042. We found two survivors and asked for technical support."
"Received." The communication quickly returned Tina's reply, "A group of technical personnel have rushed to your area."
Robert nodded slightly and said, "Thank you."
"Huh..." As for Ryan, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief when Robert and Tina reported.
Although it is not known which military branch these giants belong to, the Red and White Umbrella logo on the armor means that these giants are soldiers of Umbrella.
"It seems that rescuing you is actually my own rescue." Ryan looked at the girl and sighed with a chuckle.
Ryan is just one of the many surviving UNSC Army members, and plots similar to his and the girl's are happening in the blockade all the time.
But not as lucky as Ryan.