Chapter 471: Abomination
Sweat had already soaked the soldiers' temples, and each had disengaged his weapon's safety, ready to fire the instant anything unusual happened.
U.S. soldiers had always carried equipment envied by militaries around the world. F Company's parent unit was also a frontline elite force, so these stragglers were exceptionally well equipped.
Ballistic goggles were standard issue, and every soldier had a pair. The second lieutenant and one other soldier even carried individual thermal imagers.
This clearly was no time to conserve batteries. Every device that could help keep them alive had been switched on.
The dust grew darker, taking on a faint, dark-red hue that gave all the soldiers a bad feeling.
Boom... "..." Bang...
Through the thermal imagers, several distinct heat signatures flickered and twisted in the distance, followed by crashes and the sounds of collapsing buildings.
To the second lieutenant and the other soldier, those heat signatures seemed to be careening blindly about.
"Roar~~~~~~oh~~~roar~~~"
A sound somewhat like the call of a wild deer in a forest, yet countless times more eerie, rang out. The soldiers felt their eardrums swell, their chests tighten, and nausea rise.
As that sound rang out, the heat signatures in the thermal images moved even more erratically, crashing about in apparent panic.
Nine strange creatures, each the size of a hippopotamus, with similarly plump bodies covered in thick manes, were running about in panic.
Earth had originally possessed a peculiar "siphoning effect." From time to time, a spatial reaction would occur, accidentally drawing in living beings from other worlds.
Doudou and Mumu had arrived that way, as had the many dangerous Demons killed by national security agencies and the Dawn Association. Yet only some of them made it into Earth. Many others were deflected outside the World Barrier, into