"Them" - this was now the official designation for these living dead.
This was heard from the radio.
The authorities were still trying to comfort people, telling citizens not to panic, that the situation was currently stabilizing, to hide temporarily and wait for rescue personnel.
"They can actually say such nonsense..."
Saya Takagi really wanted to drag the person broadcasting such content from the radio and throw them into the vicinity to see what kind of nonsense they were spouting.
The so-called instruction for citizens to stay put, not run around, and wait for rescue was probably impossible.
It was purely using lies to try to slow down the increase of the dead as much as possible.
Moreover, with citizens scrambling to flee, it probably wasn't favorable for certain people's escape.
Those were people with power and influence - if citizens saw rescue operations for these people, they would definitely swarm to follow.
After Saya Takagi's complaints reached this point, she noticed several people looking at her strangely.
After a pause, she immediately understood - because she was also from the upper class.
So she wanted to angrily explain that her family wouldn't act so specially, that her parents were definitely trying to save people right now and wouldn't use large amounts of resources for their daughter.
But when the words reached her lips, she gave up. Under preconceived impressions, even if she explained, they wouldn't believe it in their hearts, though they'd probably hypocritically agree.
Hmm?
She saw it - the police station.
She also glanced at Rei Miyamoto, since her father worked at a police station, though not this branch.
This branch was also not far from the river, so they came ashore to take a look.
Besides, coming to the police station might allow them to replenish some firearms and ammunition.
Currently, quite a bit of the ammunition brought from Teacher Shizuka's friend's house had been consumed.
That guy also wasn't always helping with cleanup - this was to make everyone learn to handle things themselves and start adapting to the apocalypse.
If they remained timid, they would quickly be eliminated in this collapsed world.
Incidentally, that panacea did indeed have preventive effects against infection from the corpse virus. Because someone had accidentally been bitten while attacking the dead, yet nothing had happened to them so far.
However, necessary vigilance was still needed - perhaps the virus onset was just delayed.
Additionally, they used another dose for experimentation, forcibly administering it to someone who had already become a corpse. The result was that the person couldn't be saved back to life, but it did turn them back into a somewhat normal corpse - a truly motionless corpse.
Afterward, he took this corpse's blood to feed to the dead, to see if any medicinal effects remained and if it could reverse-infect the dead. The result was useless.
"It looks like it's been completely looted."
Saeko Busujima gave this assessment. The chaos here wasn't purely caused by the dead, but also deliberate destruction.
Probably thugs had come to loot the place.
In this collapsed world, human ethics and morality had also collapsed. So on their way here, they had encountered two groups of thugs.
The first group - he had unhesitatingly killed them all.
The second group - he didn't act, instead having everyone else take action. Saeko Busujima had also finally killed living people for the first time.
And even now, she surprisingly didn't have that kind of panicked fear after killing. Indeed, her nature was that of a bloodthirsty woman.
In the second group, there were five people total. Three were killed by her, the other two - one was killed by Alice's father, one by Hirano.
Both men still hadn't recovered from the shadow of killing people.
Looking at the livestream, that progress bar had grown noticeably again, now at about thirty percent progress.
"BOOM—"
A sudden tremendous explosion shattered all the police station's windows, making many people scream.
Saeko Busujima immediately rushed outside, looking up at a fireball in the sky.
Her pupils dilated as she saw another missile coming, launched from an attack helicopter.
However, it exploded when it had closed half the distance to here.
Saeko Busujima also immediately spotted that man who didn't mind her strong violent tendencies and had self-destructed his subtle fetish, giving her a sense of security.
The missile had been shot down by him, and he was already approaching that helicopter with inhuman movements.
"Ohhh, this time he's become Spider-Man!!!"
Kohta Hirano again watched that figure with fanatical eyes.
Being a military enthusiast, he had once received a month of firearms training at the North American private military company Blackwater. So he knew more about firearms understanding and usage than normal people.
Also being a military enthusiast, Kohta Hirano liked watching those action movies with guns and explosions, special forces operations, Terminator stuff.
He had also watched Spider-Man type movies. So he very much longed to become a superhero character and was obsessed with such figures.
And such a character had appeared before his eyes.
The other party's movements were like Spider-Man, scaling walls and leaping between buildings through grappling hooks shot from that mechanical gauntlet.
This rather exaggerated scene had frightened the attack helicopter that was mysteriously attacking here into going full firepower against him.
The cannon above was also frantically pouring out a metal storm, smashing the reinforced concrete walls of buildings to pieces, but unable to catch up with his movements.
Then the AH-64 attack helicopter launched two more Hellfire missiles at him.
"Look, did you see that? This is a scene that only appears in movies!"
Kohta Hirano was howling!
"Takagi, you all saw it too!"
Normally, if this fat otaku howled like this, Saya Takagi would have kicked him long ago.
But this future super soldier's performance also left Saya Takagi mesmerized.
Not just her - everyone was dumbfounded. Two more missiles exploded before getting close, and the other party completely panicked. Because he was getting closer and closer, they launched all the remaining missiles.
So huge fireballs bloomed in the air.
Finally, because the distance was too close, or due to visual angle issues, it seemed like both sides were engulfed in flames, making everyone tense for a moment.
However, after the attack helicopter escaped from the range obscured by flames and black smoke, seeing the helicopter's figure, everyone's suspended hearts could relax.
Because he was on the helicopter's empty missile rack mount.
Correction - he had climbed onto the stub wing.
Saeko Busujima herself, although having seen even more exaggerated scenes through the livestream, was still similarly mesmerized witnessing it firsthand.
The difference in strength was still too great.
"Checkmate."
Kohta Hirano also happily snapped his fingers.
Actually, it wouldn't have been difficult for him to shoot down the AH-64 attack helicopter. With that ridiculous marksmanship and special bullets, he could have brought it down long ago.
Obviously, he wanted to capture someone for interrogation!
To know specifically who the enemy was targeting, where the enemy's base was, then charge up and kill them all at once.
Of course, if this attack helicopter had initially flown higher, it might not have been easy to capture.
Unfortunately, it seemed that to avoid being detected from far away, they had used building cover and low-altitude detours to approach and launch the attack.
Hmm? The helicopter suddenly lost control and crashed toward a tall building.
Kohta Hirano wasn't worried about this, because that guy was the protagonist - how could he possibly die?
Sure enough, a figure emerged from the flames and black smoke, and he was even holding someone.
So today's battle record: one AH-64 attack helicopter shot down, one person captured.
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