Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

22:07.

The joint police convoy from the two cities finally arrived at the outskirts of the small town of Ojai. The blond police officer sitting in the back seat of the pickup was watching the outside through the window.

I saw that due to the power outage and chaos, the outskirts of the town were surprisingly quiet.

You know, this is America.

When the town is in chaos, the vast majority of residents will not watch curiously, but hide in the house with their guns ready to protect themselves and their families.

Even though the law and order in the United States has been improved in recent years, residents still will not venture out of the house.

After all, some people like to take advantage of the chaos and shout "give us human rights" to carry out a wave of "happy free shopping", do all kinds of work of beating, smashing, looting and burning, and then call "police" when they are caught Abuse of violence!".

The convoy travels along Highway 33, which runs through the entire town.

At this time, the police officers also found that at intervals on both sides of the road, they could see houses and shops that were burning or had already been burned.

When the heavy snow had not stopped, the fire could still be suppressed, but now that the heavy snow has stopped, the fire is getting bigger and bigger, and the apartment blocks and buildings in the row are even more contagious, and the fire spreads everywhere.

Now, in order to save their lives, the residents had to drag their families outside. Many people were wearing pajamas, and at most they put on a cotton or down jacket outside.

The local firefighters were struggling to cope, while a small number of local police officers maintained order on the scene and assisted the residents to transfer as much as possible, and went to the only high school in the town for temporary resettlement.

Observing this, the blond police officer didn't find too many weird points.

At least for now, it was only a large-scale fire or riot, but there was still too little information, so the blond police officer did not let down his vigilance.

The police officer driving the pickup truck and Joel in the co-pilot also looked solemn, especially Joel who had been a police officer for more than ten years.

Because in a small town of more than 8,000 people, the chance of such chaos happening is really too low.

Christmas is the day when everyone relaxes their vigilance the most. Coupled with the blizzard that can delay various flights, as well as power loss and network interruption, Ojai cannot obtain large-scale support from the outside world in a short period of time.

It shows that this is an organized and premeditated emergency.

Joel didn't believe that the group of people who only knew "free every day" could catch up with so many coincidences.

"Crack-, crack-."

Sudden! The police officers sitting in the car vaguely heard the intensive gunshots coming from the center of the town.

Immediately, the police officer driving the pickup picked up speed.

And Joel operated the radio installed on the pickup truck, adjusted to the channel of the local police, picked up the walkie-talkie and asked:

"I'm Sergeant Joel Miller of the Oxnard Police Department. Our colleagues from the Ventura Police Department have arrived in Ojai. Who is in charge here? Is there any area that lacks police force?"

"Hey... I'm Sergeant Marvins Nestor of the Ojai Police Department! Thank you for your support!!" Another middle-aged sergeant replied excitedly through the intercom.

"Crack-! Crack-!"

While Sergeant Marvins was replying, Joel and other police officers could still clearly hear more intense firefights coming from the other side.

paused.

Marvins continued: "Please rush to the shopping mall in the center of the town as soon as possible! We need... quickly! Drag Tom back quickly! Damn it!

A bunch of crazy guys have kidnapped the townspeople and taken over the mall, saying don't get in the way of their ritual! Those guys also have fully automatic firepower! Made! We need support! "

"Understood! We'll be right there!"

End the communication with the other party.

The atmosphere inside the pickup, and even the entire mixed team, was extremely dignified.

It is now certain that what they are about to face is not the crowd of "Freedom Everyday", but alternative thugs with prohibited arms.

As a result, the speed of the mixed fleet has increased a lot.

"Wow!" The snow shovel on the front of the pickup pushed the snow to clear the way, leading the convoy to the mall.

Shortly after.

A medium-sized shopping mall built on the east side of Highway 33 appeared in the field of vision of Joel and the police officers.

At the same time, not far from the south side of the shopping mall, there was a police car that was riddled with holes. There were a lot of bright red blood on the snow around the police car.

The bloodstains continued outward until they reached the "position" about 100 meters away from the main entrance on the south side.

The so-called position is actually a fan-shaped row of seven police cars. The police officers rely on the front of the car with an engine as a cover to confront the militants hiding inside the mall.

It is said to be a confrontation, but it is actually more like that once you try to go forward, you will be suppressed by the firepower of the militants, so you have to be in this position.

Among them, there was a police officer leaning against the police car, holding his abdomen tightly with his hands, but blood was still gushing out from between his fingers.

Bright red soaked the snow.

Seeing this situation, the mixed convoy drove out of Highway 33 and came to the crude position built by the local police.

In an instant, the size of the position more than doubled.

The police officers who came to support from the two cities quickly got out of the car and opened the trunks one after another, revealing the "carry" firepower weapons.

Joel, the blond police officer and other police officers from the Oxnard Police Department took out an assault rifle that looked like an MA5B from the trunk, and put on their exclusive "sports sunglasses".

As a seaport city with a population of nearly 200,000, Oxnard and its city government are definitely rich.

Therefore, the Oxnard Police Department is fully capable of introducing a batch of police-style MA5D rifles, as well as holographic glasses that can provide functions such as auxiliary vision, calibrated shooting, and information sharing.

With the support of their colleagues in the two cities, the local police officers who had been sluggish immediately regained their spirits.

Joel and the corporal from Venlato made contact with Sergeant Marvins, who was in charge of the local police.

The blond-haired policeman and the policeman driving the pickup were squatting halfway beside the policeman who suffered an abdominal injury and became unconscious.

"This injury...man! Hold on! Don't sleep! Don't sleep!"

The police officer driving the pickup spoke loudly, for fear that the other party would not be able to hold on and pass out.

"..." But the blond police officer didn't say anything, and took out a small white spray can from the tactical bag hanging on his right waist.

Immediately afterwards, the blond police officer tore off the wounded man's clothes and pressed the button on the wound on his abdomen.

"呲~" The white foamy tissue quickly covered the wound.

When the blond policeman took back the spray can, the foam had solidified and completed the hemostatic effect.

"Hey?! New here, where did you get the biological foam? This is something only special forces have!" The policeman driving the pickup asked in confusion.

The blond policeman ignored the questioning, but got up and showed his ID to Marvins, Joel and another corporal, and said in a deep voice:

"Department of Homeland Security, Covert Agent, Domestic Crisis Response, Leon S. Kennedy, I need the cooperation of everyone here."