Chapter 563: Hidden Soldiers
Boom...
The violent blast unleashed tremendous energy in the form of light, heat, and shock waves.
Every building within fifty meters, including the city wall, shattered in an instant. Every structure within several hundred meters collapsed, and some burning, dead trees corroded by Hell's energy toppled or were uprooted.
The terrifying chemical energy of polynitrogen anion salt erupted. Even the powerful figures watching behind the scenes on Earth narrowed their eyes. Its reputation as a clean weapon of mass destruction that might replace nuclear weapons in the new era was no idle boast.
Fire, dust, shattered walls, and scraps of lesser demons hurled through the air... all rolled outward, swallowing everything farther around them.
Countless lesser demons nearby were killed or injured. Even the Thunder Beasts, already wishing they had several times as many legs, were soon overtaken by this "tide" and sent tumbling forward.
Perhaps ten-odd seconds passed. Perhaps half a minute.
"Crack... crack... clatter..."
Debris slid off a spot buried beneath broken bricks and tiles, and Claw Number 16 cautiously crawled out.
Immediately afterward, Claw Number 8 crawled out as well. Similar sounds came from nearby.
The twenty-nine remaining Thunder Beasts emerged from their life-saving shelters, still shaken. Every last one of their hearts pounded relentlessly.
Watching a video was one thing. Experiencing it firsthand was another-or rather, it was far more extreme and terrifying.
We all... have something like that inside us?
The question flashed through all their minds before they tried their best not to think about it, because they knew the thing inside their bodies was "alive."
Although the scientists had never explicitly said so, a few subtle hints, dropped deliberately or otherwise by the psychologists, had led most of the Thunder Beasts to believe that the terrifying scorpions inside them