Published: February 8, 2025
"Hello everyone, I'm moving house these days, so my schedule will be a bit unstable. It will be better in a few days. If the updates are fewer or later, I will catch up in a few days."
Mutated life forms also possess intelligence and instincts.
Perhaps the strict hierarchy and pressure among these creatures make them overlook their instincts and obey commands, but it cannot be denied that at certain moments, they still experience instinctive emotions.
For example, fear.
Mo Ye's attack was too overwhelming, combined with the coordination of Liang Chuyin, Park Soo-young, and others controlling the Thunderstorm Tower, creating a near vacuum area in front of the city gate where the sea beast tide gathered in a very short time. Thousands of lives were instantly stripped away, and those deformed corpses still had the last flickers of neuronal signals, but that was already their final lament in this world.
The entire sea beast tide paused for a moment, and anyone witnessing this scene felt an extremely strange sensation, as if a colossal wave had rushed toward them and suddenly stopped at that instant.
However, when the tide surged again, it seemed to have lost its earlier momentum.
This series of attacks caused a 'disruption' in the sea beast tide. Just like the nighttime incident, although some sea beasts surged onto the city walls, there was no subsequent force appearing, and they were easily slaughtered by the Ying City Coalition.
The sea beasts behind were halted by a strange sound.
Thus, this section of the city wall became the first place where the sea beast tide ceased its assault, and it had barely been half an hour since the attack began.
Although the area of Ying City had quieted down due to a powerful attack, other parts of the sea beast tide continued their advance, relentlessly attacking, as if victory was just a heartbeat away.
On a segment of the city wall to the west, seven mid-sized battle teams formed a joint defensive force, including several factions that usually bore significant grudges against each other.
Yet now, facing a common enemy, no one engaged in treachery, and no one took a step back. The courage forged by a year of survival in the apocalypse drove the evolvers to fight to the death.
This was a peculiar phenomenon; typically, these people might turn against each other over trivial interests. A minor quarrel in a bar could lead to deadly scheming. The survival pressure of the apocalypse had turned most people into devil-like entities.
Yet at this moment, those who should have been self-serving and wary of harm were fighting resolutely, disregarding life and death.
This contradiction of humanity was also its brilliance.
Everyone understood one principle: if one retreated, others would follow, and death would befall all. If one fought hard, others would too, and perhaps a chance for survival could be forged.
Many did not believe in the comrades fighting on the wall but trusted their own hearts and instincts even more.
"Zizi!"
Some unexpected explosions occurred, startling the defenders. Several noticeably larger groups of sea beasts on the wall were instantaneously shredded by these blasts, allowing the defenders to swiftly reclaim these strongholds and reestablish their dominance on the wall.
Many instinctively looked over and saw a team of over a hundred human evolvers clad in coordinated white gear just retracting their throwing hands, pulling out some black objects from their bags and tossing them into the sea beast tide below.
Those mildly piercing explosions occurred again, with many areas in the sea beast group cleared out. From the city wall, the tide appeared patchy and sparse.
The defenders were momentarily stunned, unsure of where these individuals came from or how they possessed such powerful weapons, but some perceptive ones recognized them as reinforcements from Ying City, and the core seemed to belong to an organization called Cloud Summit Villa.
After throwing out two rounds of magic crystal grenades, this group ceased using that weapon and instead drew out strangely shaped firearms from their backs to unleash a barrage on the sea beast tide below. Their firepower was even stronger than that of the several thousand defenders, clearing out an entire area of sea beasts.