"Get everyone behind us out of here, now!!"
"All Third Order Awakeners, move up first!!"
The metallic scream mingled with furious roars.
The once calm, azure sea reflected a chilly gleam beneath the storm.
Upon closer inspection, it was a densely packed school of silver fish, numbering in the millions, even tens of millions.
The seawater boiled.
At the center of the school, the hundred-meter-long Weihai aircraft carrier was slowly sinking, as if it had fallen into strong acid and turned into cheese.
Above the coastline, more than forty Third Order Awakeners who had gathered there stared at the scene before them, their faces deathly pale.
The aircraft carrier had sunk.
They had originally planned to use the carrier's close-in defense guns and Tactical Missiles as a Firepower Platform to coordinate with them.
Yet this aircraft carrier, restarted only after consuming enormous amounts of manpower and resources, had sunk into the sea just after leaving the harbor.
Although they knew very well that a carrier leaving port in such a hurry was unlikely to accomplish much,
watching the steel behemoth being devoured alive by these monsters was still an overwhelming impact.
A single Mutant fish might not be frightening.
But when their numbers reached the millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, no one knew how they could possibly stop these monsters.
Still, even if they could not stop them, they had to try. They would hold out for as long as they could.
Behind them, large numbers of Survivors were evacuating.
Behind them was the city they had painstakingly built, a sea-transport Industrial Park converted into a settlement.
The Spiritual Energy Tower, which had once glowed with blue light, had long since gone dark.
In its place, a red alarm blared with a piercing shriek.
It was