The armed helicopter was still flying, and the commander's orders were being relayed.
But suddenly, the sound cut off...
Turning his head, right in the center of the city, a dazzling light suddenly exploded, followed by a deafening roar.
But the sound only lasted for a moment, and then there was silent emptiness.
Firelight accompanied a huge black mushroom cloud soaring into the sky, and the shock wave spread outward from the center of the explosion, instantly collapsing countless buildings.
The armed helicopters that were evacuating in the sky were hit by the shock wave and crashed one after another.
The screen instantly turned blood red, as if it had been hit by enemy bullets. The teammate next to him desperately grabbed the helicopter door. Zack subconsciously wanted to pull him, but the next moment the other person was thrown out.
Then the armed helicopter crashed directly, and the screen went dark.
A Satellite map appeared, and the camera switched to a city.
A burst of brilliant light erupted in the city, leaving behind a huge crater.
Then the screen twisted slightly, and countless names began to scroll.
These were the names of the 30,000 soldiers who died in the explosion during this operation.
When it scrolled to a green name, the camera showed a close-up: Paul Jackson.
The picture gradually faded into darkness.
At this moment, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared on the screen. A bloody hand stretched out from the ruins, and then struggled to crawl out.
Before his eyes was a hellish scene.
In the distant sky, the mushroom cloud had not yet dissipated, and even the light produced by the explosion had not faded.
The whole sky seemed to have a gap blown out of it, a blood-red sky with dust and sand everywhere.
Next to him were some soldiers who had survived like him, looking at the distant mushroom cloud with despair in their broken bodies.
Struggling to stand up and taking two steps, Zack looked at the distant mushroom cloud, but soon the Paul Jackson in the game fell to the ground again.
And in that instant, a second wave of dazzling light bloomed.
With the blooming of this light, the screen completely went dark.
Nuclear weapons, everyone is familiar with them.
But how powerful they really are, most people have only seen in movies and documentaries.
But now, at least in the game, Zack felt that terrifying power.
Along with the explosion, 30,000 soldiers all died there.
The post-nuclear wasteland-like world, and the fragile lives, were even more shocking.
Modern Warfare is also a brutal war.
......
After 30,000 Marines died in the nuclear attack.
The following storyline returned to the SAS. ALs-Assad, who the Marines had not found, was successfully found and captured by the SAS and the Russian army.
Zack had seen this part of the plot in the promotional CG before. Zakhaev, who made many players confused in the previous promotional trailer, now had his identity revealed.
Price, lost in memories, told all the team members what kind of person this Zakhaev was.
It was fifteen years ago. At that time, Price, like Soap who had just joined the SAS, was still a rookie. He followed his captain, Captain MacMillan, to infiltrate the city of Chernobyl for an assassination mission.
'All Ghillied Up!' The title of the level appeared. In the previous life, the original level name was Completely Camouflaged.
However, Lucas chose a name that most players in his previous life were more familiar with.
If the previous nuclear explosion showed unparalleled visual impact.
Then this level showed unparalleled immersion.
Chernobyl, a once prosperous city, had become a ghost town due to the reactor explosion.
But there were still some armed men who were collecting reactor materials for sale.
And now what Price and MacMillan had to do was find their leader, Zakhaev, and assassinate him.
MacMillan and Price, wearing ghillie suits, crawled on the ground, advancing little by little towards the inside.
The professionalism, calmness, and silence of the snipers were all fully displayed.
Completely different from the previous intense scenes, although it was an infiltration level, it made Zack's whole body extremely tense.
Especially when arriving at the cemetery behind the church, a helicopter flew over from the distant sky.
Furthermore, there were a large number of heavily armed enemies ahead, as well as armored vehicles and tanks.
It made Zack clench his toes.
Crawling little by little through the dense grass, the enemies were close at hand.
Occasionally, one or two tanks would drive past.
It really made Zack not even dare to breathe loudly.
Moreover, the cooperation with Captain MacMillan was absolutely amazing.
The kills and cover were done seamlessly.
Especially the final escape, facing a vast number of enemies, MacMillan and Price were extremely brave.
Apart from a few dogs giving Zack a hard time in the middle, everything went so smoothly, until the most disappointing thing happened.
That was when faced with the enemy's armed helicopter attack, Captain MacMillan was very courageous, and insisted on acting cool in the middle of the road by sharpshooting the helicopter pilot, and finally had his leg broken.
"You looked cool when you were showing off, but you looked a bit embarrassed when your leg was broken." Controlling Price to carry the leg-broken MacMillan on his back, Zack was also speechless.
The original two-person collaboration instantly became a 1.5-person collaboration.
Although he could still provide support, MacMillan, who couldn't move, could only be considered 0.5 people at most.
And because of this seemingly mature old captain, who insisted on acting cool in the middle of the road and had his leg broken, Zack felt that the difficulty of the next game increased straight away.
Especially in a Ferris wheel scene, even on normal difficulty, Zack felt a burst of pressure, and couldn't even imagine what the veteran difficulty would be like.
So he decisively switched the difficulty to recruit here.
No shame, after all, which veteran didn't come from recruit?
......
After persevering for a while, someone in the team asked Soap to operate the Gatling machine gun on the crashed Black Hawk helicopter.
After shooting down the five helicopters in the sky, they entered the house, set off the explosion, and evacuated.
Returning to the hilltop farm, they used 'Javelin' missiles to destroy the enemy's tanks, and finally reached the evacuation point and the whole army evacuated.
But in this battle, another teammate sacrificed: Mac.
After that, the SAS members had realized that the mastermind behind this attack was Zakhaev.
But just as they were about to catch him, they didn't expect this madman to directly raise his gun and commit suicide.
Zakhaev, who had experienced the pain of losing his son, directly announced that he would take revenge, and directly launched two intercontinental cruise missiles with nuclear warheads.
These two missiles were aimed at the coastal cities of the United States, and could potentially attack more than a dozen locations.
But the defense system was useless, and the lives of over 40 million ordinary people were threatened.
The joint forces of Russia, the United States, and Britain must enter the base and activate the self-destruct device, otherwise tens of millions of ordinary people will face destruction.
After a fierce battle, the commando team finally attacked the underground base from the north side's ventilation shaft.
Extremely tense and exciting. From this level onwards, the entire rhythm of the game was like a roller coaster reaching its peak and then diving down, full of gunpowder.
Especially with the limitation of the time countdown, it further enhanced the sense of immersion and pressure.
After successfully destroying Zakhaev's conspiracy, the next step was to escape.
If the previous 'All Ghillied Up' could be said to be an extremely excellent stealth assassination level.
Then this last escape level was one of the most tense and exciting levels that Zack felt.
Facing the pursuit of Zakhaev's armed forces, Soap and Price, together with the SAS team members, rapidly escaped on the highway.
The roaring engine sound, and the firecracker-like gunfire, the car sped on the highway, Zack used the car's cover to frantically strafe the armed helicopter and the enemies on the armored vehicles.
Exciting and thrilling was not enough to describe it.
After about five minutes of continuous pursuit, the pursuers behind seemed to have been repelled. Zack had just breathed a sigh of relief.
But just as the armored jeep passed over the highway bridge, suddenly an mi-24 armed helicopter appeared in the sky.
Two missiles directly hit the bridge, and the huge explosion directly collapsed the bridge, blocking Soap and their way ahead.
At the same time, Zakhaev's troops behind them also chased up again.
So Soap and others had to jump out of the car and fight back on the spot.
"Where the hell are our allies? Where are the American troops? Where are the Russian troops?"
"I'm almost out of bullets!"
Zack looked at the few bullets he had left, and his whole body was flustered.
And at this moment, a tanker truck on the highway instantly exploded.
The powerful shock wave produced by the explosion directly overturned Soap.
Zack's vision instantly became blurred, and the gunshots became like mosquitoes.
"Soap! Hang in there!" A teammate's voice came from his ear.
Zack recognized him.
Standing in front of him was Griggs.
After Sergeant Paul Jackson and others died in the nuclear explosion, he followed the SAS team to carry out the mission to capture Zakhaev.
At this time, this big man, amidst the rain of bullets, was dragging Soap, who was in a semi-conscious state, towards the back of the cover with one hand, and constantly firing at the enemy with a pistol in the other hand.
Griggs placed Soap behind the cover, picked up the heavy machine gun on the ground, and frantically suppressed the enemy by placing it on top of the wrecked car.
But the next moment, a fatal bullet pierced through his neck, and blood spurted out from the wound. The corpse heavily fell beside Soap.
"Damn it!" Looking at Griggs on the ground, Zack cursed and frantically pressed the game buttons, wanting to stand up.
Looking around, Price, who had always been extremely brave in the team, was lying on the ground covered in blood, also struggling to stand up.
Zakhaev and his men were walking towards Soap and Price step by step.
On the way, Gaz struggled to stand up, but was shot in the head by Zakhaev.
"Damn it! Gaz!"
Zack looked at the fallen Gaz, his eyes turning sour, and a tough guy shed tears.
In carrying out the mission, the ones who left the deepest impression on Zack, besides Price, were Gaz.
And at this moment, a missile hit Zakhaev's helicopter.
Kamarov's reinforcements had finally arrived.
Zakhaev, who was originally prepared to have a good chat with his old friend Price, was now attracted by the reinforcements, commanding his men to fight back.
And at this time, the camera switched to Price's side.
Without any words, Price used all his strength to push the M1911 on the ground towards Soap.
Picking up the pushed over M1911, bullet time activated.
Zack did not hesitate at all, shooting all the bullets towards Zakhaev.
Blood spurted out from Zakhaev's head.
At the same time, Zakhaev's men were instantly killed by the reinforcements in the sky.
Kamarov, who came down from the plane, directed the medics to give Soap and Price aid.
Along with the voice of the news reporter, the game seemed to have come to an end.
But Zack did not feel any excitement at all.
SAS, only two people were left.
Besides Soap and Captain Price, everyone else was dead.
Griggs, who was not a member of the SAS, but died protecting Soap.
Gaz, who was the first to receive Soap.
In the end, only two were left.
But what Zack didn't expect was that it wasn't over yet.
(End of this chapter)
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