Chapter 501: Chapter 374: Soldier Bug Enters the City
Although the surveillance could only capture video of fixed areas, as more and more Soldier Bugs invaded the suburbs of Kyoto, the battle scenes shown on the monitors became increasingly frequent.
However, as more and more soldiers appeared, the Soldier Bugs were never able to break through the suburban defense lines, being firmly pinned down in the suburbs of Kyoto by the soldiers.
Just when Dong Tianyu thought the intensity of this Bug Wave was just that, an alarm suddenly sounded again in the urban area of Kyoto City.
This unexpected alarm left everyone in the monitoring room feeling somewhat at a loss, with no one knowing why, while the monitor showed all Soldier Bugs being held outside Kyoto, and everyone thinking the situation was under control, the Officials still triggered the alarm.
Let me explain in advance that Kyoto is different from other cities in China. The three provinces and six ministries of the Imperial Court do not participate in the management of Kyoto City; the real direct managers of the survivors in Kyoto are actually the Kyoto Officials.
Just like the imperial capital during feudal times, the Imperial Court is the Imperial Court, and the imperial capital’s Officials are the city Officials. Although there is a clear subordinate relationship between the two, they do not usually have much interaction under normal circumstances.
With the second alarm sounding, the expressions on the faces of everyone in the monitoring room began to turn heavy.
Seeing the others’ expressions, Dong Tianyu naturally turned to Yara next to him and inquired about the reason.
After hearing Dong Tianyu’s question, Yara said with a grave expression, "When the catastrophe had just struck, cell phones suddenly became inoperative, preventing the timely notification of every survivor when danger arose.
After suffering from this once, the Officials started to promote the function of the alarm, using the number of alarm sounds to inform the survivors in the city of the situation in Kyoto at that moment.
A single alarm means that Kyoto has been attacked, but the Official soldiers have intercepted the danger outside the city, reassuring everyone else.
But two alarms mean that the enemy has broken through the defense line and entered the city, alerting the survivors inside to be cautious of attacks.
If the alarm rings three times consecutively or if it keeps sounding without a break, it means that Kyoto has fallen, and all survivors should quickly flee the city."
After hearing Yara’s explanation, Dong Tianyu finally understood why everyone else had such a drastic change of expression upon hearing the alarm.
Initially, the surveillance videos clearly showed the soldiers having the upper hand, but inexplicably, some Soldier Bugs had somehow broken through the layers of obstacles and entered the urban area of Kyoto City.
Dong Tianyu, who was in the control room, was unaware that the Flame Bugs that had crossed through the fissures into Blue Star not only had the ability to spew fire but also to burrow underground.
Although the soldiers had a great advantage in the surface battle, the Flame Bugs were like entering an uninhabited land underground. If it weren’t for the fact that the subway network completely occupied the underground of Kyoto, preventing the Officials from discovering that the Bug Race had avoided the soldiers’ attacks by tunneling underground and breached the defense line, directly infiltrating the city area.
But what brought success to the subway also led to its demise.
While the extensive underground traffic network meant that the Flame Bugs were quickly discovered by the Officials as soon as they connected to the subway tunnels,
it was also because of this that once the Flame Bugs had broken through the passages, the Soldier Bugs following them joyously scattered along the subway corridors.
No matter how important the subway tunnels had been during the extreme cold and heat disasters, a year-long gap period had turned them into a refuge for the homeless.
Although the Officials had sounded an alarm when the Soldier Bugs first approached the suburbs of Kyoto, the survivors living in the underground channels did not pay attention to the situation above ground.
Furthermore, even when the second alarm sounded, and the alarm also resonated through the underground broadcast system, these survivors still remained indifferent. In their eyes, even if monsters invaded the city, they would only pose a threat to the surface, hardly affecting those survivors who lived below.
Little did they know that this invasion of Kyoto by the Bug Race was actually an accidental, non-accidental event.
The Flame Bugs had not actually intended to dig very far, but some of them accidentally broke through the original subway tunnels while digging underground.
When the Flame Bugs breached the subway tunnels, the Soldier Bugs following them rushed through the passageways and began crazily pouring into the city area.
The extensive subway tunnels, originally designed for the convenience of the survivors living in Kyoto, now provided a shortcut for the invading Soldier Bugs.
As more and more Soldier Bugs flooded into the tunnels and encountered junctions, they would also split forces.
But no matter how many junctions the Soldier Bugs encountered, no matter how many squads were divided, even in situations as complex as ant nests, the unceasing influx of Soldier Bugs allowed them to spread like a virus through the underground world, quickly overtaking it.
Above ground, Kyoto was the most prosperous city in China, but beneath its luster, the underground was Kyoto’s place of filth and corruption.
The survivors living in the underground areas could mostly be categorized as elderly, sick, and disabled, so they stood no chance of escape when faced with the sudden attack. Many survivors were torn to death by the Soldier Bugs after just a brief encounter.
When the underground dwellers had been slaughtered by the Soldier Bugs, the bugs were no longer satisfied with just operating below ground but came to the surface through various exits and entrances.
