In the darkness of night, a blazing flare suddenly shot into the sky, releasing wave after wave of tidal light. Then came a second, a third...
Immediately afterward, cruel sunlight-like beams drew closer alongside the roaring sound. Helicopters looked down from above, piercing the white mist and illuminating face after face frozen in terror.
Around that battered Six-Hand Empire destroyer, one enormous shadow after another burst through the white mist without warning, surrounding it from front and rear.
The piercing alarm sound rang across the entire sea.
When the Blazing Light dispersed the white mist and lit up once more, warships had already appeared all around them—practically close at hand!
Divine soldiers descending from heaven!
"...Seven... Seven Cities?"
The captain looked up blankly, unable to believe it. Then he erupted in ecstasy, waving his arms as he shouted, "It's the Seven Cities Allied Defense fleet! Fuck, it's the Seven Cities!
Doctor Yu, we're saved! We're saved!"
He laughed wildly, pulling at Yu Shu and cheering, but Yu Shu seemed like an empty shell, staring blankly at everything before him, unable to react.
The expression of the officer screaming on the ground changed. He shouted something anxiously at his subordinates, and the captain's expression changed as well.
"Get rid of those people, quickly! Don't leave anyone alive!"
The officer shouted in the local language, "Otherwise, you and your children will all die!"
The soldiers snapped out of their confusion, raised their guns at the medical team, and hurried to silence them permanently.
But at that instant, a cold snort sounded.
It came from the flagship at the very front. The low snort echoed like thunder without end. Everywhere it passed, everyone's vision went dark, their limbs went limp, and they could not move.
The sounds of bodies hitting the deck were