The instant Cao Xianming barked his stern command, the Survival Convoy hesitated no longer.
On the docks, countless survivors were still stumbling toward the harbor, their cries, pleas, and desperate screams tearing at the heart.
Yet not a single person on the warship's deck looked back.
"Get moving! Full speed ahead!"
The engines roared thunderously. Like a Fierce Beast breaking free of its bonds, the warship cut through the sea and the clamor of the crowd, racing out of the harbor at top speed.
"Don't go! Don't leave us behind!"
"Help! Save me!"
The fierce wind shredded the cries for help from the shore, reducing them to the cheapest background noise in the apocalypse.
Their ship was not the only one.
At almost the same moment, every warship in the harbor that could still move pulled away from shore, oars churning and engines roaring, utterly ignoring the figures rushing frantically toward them on the verge of collapse.
Against cold steel and towering waves, the piercing cries and pleas were too fragile to withstand a single blow.
Everyone was fleeing.
Fleeing this Sky Base that was about to collapse.
And the instant the warship cleared the harbor-
Boom-!!
In the distance, at the heart of the Sky Base.
The enormous building bound tightly by countless thick iron chains suddenly erupted with dazzling golden light that threatened to blind them!
The brilliant light swept in every direction, and every Eerie it touched.
Instantly melted like snow beneath a blazing sun.
Like ghosts struck by the midday sun, they let out utterly piercing shrieks, dissolving inch by inch into drifting ash.
For a time, ghostly wails and howls filled heaven and earth.
No one had expected the seemingly impregnable, utterly safe Sky Base to reveal its hideous true face at this moment.
Twisted,