Chapter 623: A sure thing
The faint mist that had begun drifting through the night at some point had dispersed.
It was just like a dream!
Even after the mysterious man had vanished completely and everything around them had settled down, Zhou Zhigang and Duobaili remained dazed, hardly able to believe it.
Urgent sirens sounded in the distance. Not much time had actually passed. The local police station had already mustered every officer available, over thirty people including auxiliary officers, and was heading over in a convoy of police vehicles.
Chief Li sat in a police armored vehicle in the middle of the convoy, checking the ammunition in his high-powered handgun over and over.
Judging from the several emergency calls and online reports they had received, this was definitely not a wild animal attack. Anything that could easily destroy buildings was very likely part of a high-risk mutation incident!
They had thirty-odd guns and no Evolver backing them up. Whether they could hold the line was anyone's guess!
Of course, they had immediately requested emergency assistance from their superiors. Reinforcements from the nearest city police department and military outpost would probably take only half an hour to reach them.
But half an hour!!! They weren't facing ordinary bandits or criminals. A lot could happen in half an hour!!
Even if we can't hold the line, we have to!!!
Click!
Chief Li slid the magazine back into his gun.
He glanced around the armored vehicle. There were eight officers inside, mostly seasoned local veterans who were considered good shots in the area. They were carrying police rifles.
They were called police rifles, but their firepower wasn't much different from military rifles. Only the finish and styling differed slightly; the ammunition and internal mechanisms were the same.
These guns were meant to