Глава 6

Chop chop! How have you not learned to move with haste even after witnessing me?

Oh, but of course. You did not witness me. I did nothing. Is that clear?

Crystal!

But if a single hair on the head of a single commoner comes to harm, you are all terminated. Even I must resign. We are all unemployed.

Y- yes, of course... We'll fight with all our strength.

Very good. Now why are you just standing there? Move!

By the way...? Do you know those Black Cloaks?

Black Cloak? What's that?

Get your eyes checked! Those people on the rooftops, wearing the billowing black cloaks.

Apologies, Madam. What are you talking about?

Defenders, fan out!

Recon team, fall back! Hold firing position!

Are these Infected mutants messing with the radio waves? Our scouts could be in trouble.

We can't hold them...! There's so many! Didn't you cut through a whole wave of these things back there? Why haven't you done that already?!

This is different!

Hah. Leave it to this puk gaai Lung to be so useless right when we need her most!

Then why don't you show us what you can do!

Drone!

Huh.

SUPERINTENDENT CH'EN SAYS: RECON TEAM! FALL BACK! HOLD FIRING POSITION!

How was that?

Huh?

I said how was that?! Fire team, loose explosive bolts!

What did you say?!

Am I deaf now thanks to you?!

Go. Use your talents to get the word out to the communications team at Originium Transciever Beta. Have them tell everyone: the herd is tough, hold your positions, minimize casualties, don't conserve firepower.

You really are a *Lungmen profanity*!

I can read your lips!

(Mouthing the word 'diu').

Sir!

I can't hear you!

SIR!

(Din of roaring).

Speak up!

SIR!!!

Use the bunker-busters! Hurry!

It's quiet.

Sir.

Okay. I can hear you.

Go ahead. Speak.

We have... guests.

Already? They took the chance to infiltrate our unit, huh.

I guess it's to be expected. They were never going to give us free rein.

Anyway, it doesn't change our plans. Let them see how strong Lungmen is.

One more thing. I... I'm not sure how accurate the reports are.

Out with it.

Some units have reported sightings of individuals wearing black raincoats.

Reunion?

Thankfully no. We've seen evidence of them clashing with Reunion. And...

And what?

And... the Reunion they clashed with all seem to have died in, how can I describe it...?

Sounds like an urban legend. You've got shadowy figures running around Lungmen in black raincoats on a bright, sunny day? Somebody needs help...

Black raincoats?

What is... that?

Sector 12 cleansed. Purged of Infected.

Teams 3 and 4 operating.

Moving to next sector.

Guh... Ugh...

(Strange crying).

W- why! Why are you hurting your people? Snap out of it!

N- no! Run! Hurry!

Get out of here! Don't let them get you! Run!

Additional target acquired.

Infected fugitive group on the border of Sectors 13 and 6. 44 individuals.

Completion estimate: within five minutes.

Operation commencing.

Agh! H- help!

We surrender! We——

Um... N- no...

第四关（后）

Everything's gone to hell out there.

Word is Mephisto's used his Arts to whip up some monsters that even attack us. They'll eat Infected same as anyone.

Hah. It's over. We lost.

Somebody found one of Mephisto's teams in some basement room in the slums.

They said the corpses were covered in plants, still growing, to the point they were unrecognizable. Any ideas?

I'm not sure.

It's so weird. Why is everything so weird?

We took down Chernobog, but we haven't been able to break Lungmen. It must be because Talulah hasn't shown.

We made the right choice by not going with Crownslayer's crew. No one's been able to find them on the comms.

We're the only ones left here. Sigh.

What about you, Lungmen's infected?

Sigh. You know, Lungmenite, you might end up better off than us just for not joining Reunion.

We won't be better off for not joining.

Was it Talulah's speech that inspired you to join?

No. Fancy talking doesn't do much for me.

To ask me something like that... I guess you don't care much for Infected identity politics.

Oh. Sounds like you don't really believe in that stuff.

So why do you stay with Reunion?

Because I have nowhere else to go. But if we never came here, would you still be able to live normal lives?

The Infected purge was always coming. Reunion just sped up the timeline.

You're pretty clear on that.

And you're right. My hometown was a little place, far from any of the big cities. They weren't too bad to the Infected either.

The noble family who ran the show had an Infected daughter. They let us live pretty normal lives in the ghetto. Mine work wasn't too hard.

And the uninfected treated us okay. At least they'd trade with us a bit, sometimes even squat by the wall and share a drink.

Then, a few years later, the duke lost a battle or something and got taken away. They sent us a new mayor.

'The Great Rebellion'?

Nobles were getting stripped of their titles left and right.

Maybe. I never understood politics. We'd only get whispers every once in a while.

Supposedly there are Infected Messengers out there somewhere, but Ursus never had them. We didn't know anything.

At first, everyone lived pretty much like they did before. But there was a sense of something heavier in the air. And every day the food stores ran a little lower.