6kv Chapter 191: Push Part 2
Chapter 191: Push Part 2
Adrian’s team pushed out of the destroyed lobby in a tight moving formation.
Two operators took point.
Ryan stayed near Adrian’s right side.
The MK48 gunner moved in the center, sweeping the ruined street with controlled bursts while the rear security team fired backward toward the Hunter still trying to force its way through the shattered building entrance.
The street outside was worse than it looked from above.
Ash covered everything.
Abandoned cars sat fused to the cracked asphalt from heat and blast damage. Some vehicles were overturned. Others had skeletons still trapped inside, burned into the seats from the nuclear flash.
The air tasted metallic through the respirators.
Every step kicked up gray dust.
The Geiger counters clicked faster now.
Not lethal yet.
But enough to remind everyone that Beijing itself was still poisoned.
"Six hundred meters east!" one operator shouted through comms.
Adrian raised his rifle and fired three controlled shots into an infected sprinting toward him from behind a burned bus.
The creature’s head snapped back before it collapsed onto the ash-covered road.
"Move east," Adrian ordered. "Do not stop."
The team advanced immediately.
Smoke grenades continued covering their movement, but the infected did not care about visibility.
They rushed through the white smoke blindly, screaming, crawling, and slamming into each other while trying to reach the team.
"Contacts left!"
Ryan turned and opened fire.
THUP THUP THUP.
Three infected dropped near a collapsed storefront.
Another came crawling across the side of an overturned delivery truck, its fingers digging into melted metal like claws.
Ryan fired twice.
The creature fell off the vehicle and hit the street hard.
"Reloading!"
"Cover!"
An operator stepped past him and fired into the next wave.
The MK48 gunner braced the light machine gun against the hood of a burned sedan.
"Set!"
Then he unleashed a longer burst.
THUPTHUPTHUPTHUPTHUP.
The 7.62 rounds tore through the infected rushing from the intersection. Bodies folded, spun, and fell beneath the sustained fire. Several were cut apart at the legs and still tried crawling forward across the street.
"Keep moving!" Adrian shouted.
The gunner lifted the weapon and ran again.
Behind them, the Hunter finally smashed through the building entrance.
CRASH.
The creature burst into the street covered in dust, flame, and black blood. Its body was ruined from the earlier blasts, but it still moved with terrifying speed.
It spotted the team immediately.
Then charged.
"Hunter rear!" one operator shouted.
Ryan turned and swore.
"That thing really has commitment issues."
Adrian glanced back once.
"Delay it."
"Gladly."
Ryan pulled a flashbang from his vest and threw it behind them.
"FLASH!"
The device bounced across the street and detonated near the Hunter’s face.
BANG.
A blinding burst of light filled the smoke.
The Hunter recoiled slightly, roaring in anger, but it did not stop.
The rear operator fired an M320 grenade immediately after.
THUMP.
The round struck the pavement near the Hunter’s feet.
BOOM.
The explosion blew apart the cracked road beneath it, throwing chunks of asphalt and concrete into the creature’s legs.
This time, the Hunter staggered.
Its damaged knee buckled.
"That slowed it!" the operator shouted.
"Not enough!" Ryan fired another burst into the creature’s head. "Keep going!"
The team crossed the intersection quickly.
The city opened around them into a wider avenue lined with ruined apartment towers and office buildings. Some structures leaned dangerously across the road, creating dark canyons between collapsed concrete and twisted steel.
The underground access tunnel was somewhere ahead.
But so were more infected.
A large pack emerged from a subway stairwell on the right.
Dozens.
Maybe more.
Their bodies were thin, burned, and warped by radiation. Some had skin stretched tight over exposed bone. Others had tumors glowing faintly under pale flesh, pulsing like infected organs.
One of them screamed.
The rest charged.
"Right side mass!" an operator called.
Adrian reacted instantly.
"Machine gun, suppress right. Rifles forward. Ryan, with me."
The MK48 opened up again.
THUPTHUPTHUPTHUP.
The front rank of infected collapsed into the subway entrance, but more climbed over them immediately.
Ryan moved beside Adrian and fired at the closest targets.
One infected lunged from behind a concrete barrier.
Adrian struck it in the face with his rifle stock before firing directly into its skull.
Blood sprayed across his visor.
He ignored it.
"Radiation reading rising!" another operator warned.
"How bad?" Ryan asked.
"Still within mission limit, but we can’t stay exposed long."
Adrian looked ahead through the smoke and dust.
The access point appeared on his HUD overlay.
Four hundred meters.
Then three hundred eighty.
They were close.
But the horde was tightening around them.
"Contacts front!"
More infected poured from between abandoned vehicles ahead.
The team’s movement slowed for the first time.
That was dangerous.
Very dangerous.
Adrian immediately saw the problem.
They were being funneled.
The street narrowed ahead because part of an elevated highway had collapsed across the avenue. The debris created a choke point filled with wreckage, broken concrete, and twisted rebar.
The access tunnel was beyond it.
But the infected were already converging there.
Ryan noticed it too.
"They’re blocking the route."
"Then we clear it."
Adrian pulled a grenade from his vest.
"Frag out!"
Three operators threw grenades at almost the same time.
The explosives landed among the infected mass near the collapsed highway.
BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.
The blasts ripped through the horde, throwing bodies and limbs across the street. The shockwave blew ash outward in rolling clouds while broken glass rained from nearby buildings.
"Go!"
The team sprinted through the opening.
Boots slammed against cracked asphalt.
The operators climbed over wrecked cars and broken concrete while firing into the infected still moving inside the smoke.
One operator slipped briefly on blood-covered ash, but another grabbed his vest and pulled him forward.
"Move, move!"
Behind them, the Hunter roared again.
It had recovered.
Ryan looked back just in time to see it charging down the avenue, pushing infected aside like they were nothing.
"Oh come on!"
Adrian turned toward the team.
"Claymore!"
One operator immediately pulled a directional mine from his pack.
He dropped it near the base of a ruined concrete divider and aimed it toward the avenue behind them.
"Claymore set!"
"Blow it when close!"
The team kept running.
The Hunter closed fast.
Fifty meters.
Forty.
Thirty.
"Now!"
CLICK.
The Claymore detonated.
A wall of steel balls blasted across the avenue.
The front wave of infected vanished instantly, shredded by the directional blast. The Hunter took most of the impact across its upper body. Its already damaged flesh tore open further as hundreds of fragments punched through its chest, neck, and face.
The creature stumbled violently.
Then crashed into an abandoned bus hard enough to dent the entire side inward.
Ryan stared for half a second.
"Finally?"
The Hunter twitched.
Adrian grabbed Ryan’s shoulder.
"Don’t wait to find out."
They pushed forward again.
The access tunnel was now less than one hundred fifty meters away.
The entrance sat beneath a collapsed government building ahead, half-buried under concrete debris and twisted steel beams. A large reinforced blast door was visible through the rubble, partially exposed behind fallen stone and dust.
That had to be it.
"Entrance visual!" one operator called.
Adrian’s eyes focused immediately.
"Stack on the door. Rear security hold the street."
The team reached the collapsed building moments later.
Two operators moved to the entrance while others formed a defensive perimeter facing the street.
The infected were still coming.
Not as many as before, but enough to overwhelm them if they stayed too long.
Ryan dropped to one knee beside a burned concrete pillar and fired toward the approaching horde.
THUP THUP THUP.
"Adrian, hurry it up!"
"Breacher."
One operator moved toward the blast door with a compact cutting tool.
He scanned the frame quickly.
"Door’s reinforced. Power dead. Mechanical lock engaged."
"Can you open it?"
"Yes, but I need time."
Ryan looked back while firing again.
"Time is currently trying to eat us!"
Another operator deployed a small drone inside the broken gap near the doorframe.
The drone’s camera feed appeared on Adrian’s wrist display.
Dark corridor beyond.
Collapsed ceiling sections.
No immediate movement.
Good.
For now.
The breacher attached a thermal cutting strip across the lock housing.
"Cutting."
The device activated with a sharp hiss.
Bright orange sparks erupted from the reinforced metal.
The sound immediately drew more infected.
Their screams grew louder from the street.
One operator shouted from the rear.
"Contacts closing from north and south!"
Adrian raised his rifle and joined the defensive line.
"Hold them."
The next minute became pure violence.
The special forces team formed a half-circle around the entrance while the breacher worked behind them. Suppressed fire became almost continuous now.
Infected rushed through the ash-filled street in waves.
The MK48 gunner fired controlled bursts until the barrel began glowing faintly.
"Barrel heating!"
"Short bursts only!"
Ryan fired into the closest targets while backing toward the door.
One infected leapt over a burned taxi and landed near him.
Ryan shot it twice in the chest, then once in the head.
Another grabbed an operator’s leg.
The man slammed his boot into its face before firing straight down.
Blood splashed across the rubble.
The cutting tool finally stopped.
The breacher grabbed the lock housing and ripped it free.
"Door unlocked!"
Adrian turned immediately.
"Open it!"
Two operators grabbed the heavy door and pulled.
At first, it barely moved.
Then with a deep metallic groan, the reinforced door shifted open.
Cold stale air rushed out from the dark tunnel beyond.
It smelled like dust, and there is a tinge of mold in the air too.
And something rotten deeper underground.
Ryan looked inside.
"Yeah. That’s not creepy at all."
Then the Hunter roared again from the avenue.
Everyone turned.
The creature was standing.
Its body was shredded beyond recognition now, but it still stared at them with those black eyes.
Adrian raised his rifle slowly.
"Inside. Now."
The team moved through the doorway one by one.
Ryan entered last after Adrian.
Before stepping fully inside, Adrian tossed one final grenade toward the street.
"Frag out."
The grenade bounced near the rubble outside.
Then Adrian pulled the heavy door shut behind them.
BOOM.
The explosion shook the entrance tunnel.
Dust fell from the ceiling.
For several seconds, nobody moved.
Only their breathing echoed through their respirators.
Then Ryan slowly turned his flashlight down the dark underground corridor ahead.
At the far end stood another sealed door.
Marked with faded Chinese characters and biohazard symbols.
The entrance to Doctor Lin’s sector.
Adrian stared at it silently.
They had reached the door.