We Follow Lin Ming into Battle!

Sharper! More urgent! More... suffocatingly oppressive with destruction!

"Level-Three Alert! Level-Three Alert!!"

"All units! Maximum combat readiness!!"

"Large-scale Mutated Beast swarm approaching! Confirmed Level-Three Beast Tide! Repeat, Level-Three Beast Tide!"

"All combat personnel at the Seventh Entrance, take your positions immediately! Hold the line until reinforcements arrive!"

The voice over the broadcast carried unprecedented urgency, and a trace of... fear!

The entire underground space fell deathly silent for an instant, then erupted in an uproar!

"Level-Three Alert?!"

"A beast tide?! Are you kidding me?!"

"It's over... We're really finished this time..."

Despair, like an icy tide, instantly drowned everyone.

A Level-Three Beast Tide meant at least one Third Tier commander-class Mutated Beast leading the charge, with Tier Two Mutated Beasts in packs and First Realm ones numbering in the hundreds!

For the standing garrison at the Seventh Entrance, along with cannon-fodder Death Squads like them, it was practically a devastating blow!

Su Yunwan, who had just reached the middle of the passage and was preparing to board an armored vehicle, abruptly stopped. Her pretty face instantly turned ice-cold.

"A Level-Three Beast Tide?" She spun around and looked outside, her sharp gaze seeming to pierce the thick barricade. "Why now..."

Without the slightest hesitation, she immediately gave an order into the military communicator on her wrist:

"Cancel the return trip! Inform my guard squad to bring all equipment and assemble at the Seventh Entrance barricade immediately! Prepare for battle!"

"Major! It's too dangerous there! Your safety..."

"Execute the order!" Su Yunwan cut him off sharply, her voice decisive as steel. "I am a major in the Guard Army. With a beast tide upon us, there is no safe zone!"

After ending the call, she took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in her heart. Her gaze became sharp as a blade once more.

She reached to her waist. A flash of silver light flickered, and a long spear nearly two meters in length, silver-white from end to end, with a point gleaming coldly like a star, appeared in her hand! Faint chill circulated along its shaft; it was clearly no ordinary weapon.

Her body moved, becoming a green phantom as she rushed toward the emergency passage leading to the upper levels of the barricade.

As a Tier Two Sixth Layer martial artist with the A-rank talent Spearheart Clarity, she had both the responsibility and the ability to contribute her strength at such a critical moment.

When she charged up onto the barricade at top speed, the sight before her made her pupils contract slightly.

Beyond the barricade, farther out in what had once been the buffer zone, dust and smoke billowed, blotting out the sky!

Countless shadows of varying shapes and sizes were stampeding wildly from the depths of the Wilderness! Howls, roars, and thunderous running converged into a tide of death, battering at everyone's psychological defenses.

The beast tide's vanguard had already clashed with the outermost reconnaissance posts and automated firepoints. Explosions flared, and severed Mutated Beast limbs flashed through the smoke from time to time.

On the barricade, though the Guard Army soldiers had gone pale, they still raced desperately toward their assigned posts under the officers' furious shouts. They manned machine guns, cannons, and energy weapons, even though they knew that against a beast tide of this scale, such firepower was little more than a drop in the ocean.

Yet at the sortie gate below the barricade, the Death Squad members of Blade Camp were in complete chaos.

Many trembled uncontrollably or collapsed to the ground, unable even to hold their weapons steady. Faced with death on such a scale, the instinct to survive overwhelmed everything else.

The order urging them to sortie had already been issued, but few responded. Some had even begun crying and shrinking backward.

Watching this, Su Yunwan's heroic brows knitted tightly, and deep disappointment and disgust flashed through her eyes.

Greedy for life and afraid of death!

A martial artist should press forward without hesitation! To die on the battlefield, wrapped in a horsehide shroud, was still an honor! How could they cower before the battle even began and make such an ugly spectacle of themselves?!

These scraps truly deserved to be cannon fodder!

She tightened her grip on the silver spear, already resolved that even if she were alone, she would hold this stretch of barricade until reinforcements arrived!

As for those useless things below, it would be better if they died, so they would not tarnish the name of martial artists!

Just as contempt and resolve tangled in her heart, and she prepared to leap from the barricade first, charging into the beast tide to buy those desperately precious seconds for the rear's deployment—

Amid the chaotic crowd of Death Squad members below, a figure suddenly parted the crowd and slowly walked out.

He was still wearing that tattered, bloodstained training uniform. Bandages wrapped his body, and he held a similarly bloodstained, dark spear in his hand.

It was Lin Ming!

There was no expression on his face. No fear, no excitement, not even the tragic grandeur of one prepared to die heroically. There was only a bottomless calm.

He walked to the very front of the sortie gate, raised his head, and looked once at the rolling death-cloud of dust in the distance. Then he looked at the garrison troops atop the barricade, standing ready for battle but unable to conceal their tension. Finally, his gaze seemed to sweep vaguely over somewhere above the barricade.

There stood Su Yunwan, gripping her silver spear tightly, her face frosty.

Then, under Su Yunwan's astonished gaze and the stunned stares of countless Death Squad members—

Lin Ming, the young Death Squad member she had just deemed "unable to appreciate kindness" and "stubbornly seeking death," the "cannon fodder among cannon fodder" in her eyes, showed no hesitation and gave no shout.

He merely drew a soft breath, then leveled that bloodstained spear toward the surging, terrifying beast tide that could swallow everything.

And stepped forward.

He began to charge.

One step, two steps... His pace grew faster and faster, from a walk to a run, from a run to a wild sprint!

That thin, bloodstained figure was like a moth flying into flames, yet also like a lone arrow shooting toward towering waves!

Dead silence.

Then, an uproar and roar like mountains collapsing and seas raging erupted from the Death Squad crowd behind Lin Ming!

"Madman Lin! It's Madman Lin!!"

"Damn it! Even a madman's gone up! What the hell am I afraid of?!"

"Follow Madman Lin! Kill!!!"

"Charge! Kill one and break even, kill two and make a profit!!!"

Old Wang leaned on his alloy pipe, his lone eye bloodshot as he roared hoarsely!

Old Black, Mute, Bitter Melon, and those Death Squad members who had been infected by Lin Ming's madness over the past three days—or whose lives he had saved—were like powder kegs set aflame. Howling, waving their battered weapons, eyes red, they followed that bloodstained figure charging ahead without turning back and launched a desperate countercharge!

The decline, the fear, the despair—all of it was forcefully turned around by this one man, this one charge! Like a red-hot knife stabbing through a sheet of suffocating ice!

Above the barricade, Su Yunwan stood frozen, holding her silver spear in one hand.

She stared blankly below at that lonely yet resolute back, leading the charge into the tide of death, then at those Death Squad members who seemed to have been injected with a stimulant, howling as they followed him into battle.

The disappointment, contempt, and disgust in her cold, beautiful eyes vanished in an instant like thin mist scattered by a gale.

In their place came incomparable astonishment, shock, and a trace of something even she herself had not noticed...

A flutter in her heart.

This...

What was going on?

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