The terrifying pressure that crushed their souls showed no sign of fading.
The entire Command Center seemed to have been drained of oxygen, with limp bodies sprawled all over the floor.
Some twitched unconsciously on the ground, some clutched their chests and retched desperately, and more huddled trembling in corners as though they had seen a ghost.
A man with a general's stars on his shoulders gripped the edge of a desk.
It took him three tries to barely push himself upright on trembling legs. Gritting his teeth, he cursed under his breath:
"Shibal... what the hell is going on?!"
Park Chang-da was still on his knees.
The searing pain of his kneecaps striking the floor tiles had instead restored a shred of his reason.
He desperately grabbed the armrests of his leather chair and hauled himself up.
His vision kept darkening, and acid rose in his stomach, but he forced it back down.
He gasped for breath and looked around.
Fewer than a third could stand upright on their own.
"Wh-what the hell is this?" a staff officer muttered, his face deathly pale.
"A new sonic weapon?"
"No," the general rejected the suggestion.
"I've experienced sonic weapons. They're nothing like this!"
"Could it be Great Xia's secret weapon?" someone else asked, his voice cracking with tears. "Are they attacking us?"
Before he finished speaking.
"This is bad!!!"
A technician hunched over a computer suddenly screamed.
The images on the screen made him forget even his fear.
"Seismic sources... there are seismic signals all around us!" His finger shook violently as he pointed at the screen.
"We're surrounded!"
Park Chang-da whipped his head around.
On the large live-monitoring screen, densely packed, blood-red dots kept flashing at the very center of the Eolseu Underground City structural map.
Like a web of