Blood Sea outer perimeter, a forward position attached to the Seventh Defense Zone.
Relying on bunkers and trenches, the soldiers desperately held back the encroaching Blood Sea and the endless onslaught of Calamities.
Even when their cannon barrels glowed red-hot, they did not dare slacken in the slightest.
Faced with these foes who feared no death and even ate people, the consequences would be unthinkable if they crossed the warning line!
No one wanted to engage these mad Calamities in close-quarters combat.
"[Stop War]!!!"
Amid the thunder of artillery fire, a roar suddenly tore through every other sound and exploded beside everyone's ears. Even the entire Blood Sea boiled for an instant.
"What was that?"
A young soldier lying at his firing position lifted his head and stared blankly at the comrade beside him.
"Little Li, your ears—they're bleeding!"
"What did you say?"
The soldier called Little Li seemed unable to hear a thing.
Following the direction of his comrade's finger, he touched his ear, only to smear his hand with sticky fluid.
"Bzzzz—"
A bout of ringing in his ears struck belatedly.
Little Li clutched his head in agony, gritting his teeth as he forced himself not to make a sound.
The same scene seemed to be playing out everywhere. Most of those affected were low-level Awakened with enhanced five senses, such as [Listening].
Yet compared to the soldiers, the Calamities reacted even more violently.
As if invisible hands had seized them by the throat, they all froze where they stood.
Then, one after another, they let out piercing explosive shrieks, turned, and fled, scrambling to burrow back into the Blood Sea.
"They're retreating... the Calamities are retreating!"
No one knew who shouted it first, but it swiftly became a surging wave of voices.
"They're retreating! They really are!"