Chapter 1335: Chapter 515: Eye of the Sky
The waves of the Pacific Ocean beat against the abandoned piers of the Golden Gate Bridge, the rusty steel cables moaning in the salty wind, with the once-busy Highway 101 coastal section now reduced to overturned container trucks half submerged in the dark green water.
Zombie skeletons hang on twisted railings, swaying in the wind, under the crimson sky, suddenly, an air of suffocating silence descends!
Along the coastline, without warning, the sea retreats, revealing a seabed littered with bones, the water recedes quietly, as if a drain had appeared beneath the ocean.
Several kilometers from the coast, the seawater within the dense fog suddenly collapses inward, gradually forming a whirlpool abyss thousands of meters in diameter, with countless decaying Abnormal Body remains floating on the edges, the dark energy from the remains long devoured, leading to a super-low pressure zone above causing a massive storm cloud formation, within which thunder roars and rolls.
"Gurgle—"
A muffled sound like an ancient whale’s call echoes from the abyssal depths, shaking the heavens and earth, then suddenly, the seabed arches, millions of tons of seawater thrust a thousand meters high! A gray-blue tentacle thicker than a Ferris wheel bursts through the waves, its surface covered with large keratin scales, followed by an island-like hump piercing the ocean’s surface, slowly rising from the Pacific Ocean!
kilometers north of San Francisco in Seattle, the once-bustling North American city now lies in crimson silence and ruins, dense hordes of zombies stand like stakes in the streets’ wreckage, motionless due to a lack of invaders, as if petrified.
At that moment, the ground suddenly begins to emit a thin dust, the broken tip of the Space Needle Tower dangling 300 meters above ground starts to tremble, causing all zombies in the city to start moving with creaks, howling incessantly, seemingly out of fear or agitation, even the large Abnormal Bodies hiding deep within the city or underground emerge, roaring and howling, with various monstrous limbs swaying continuously in the crimson mist!
Zombie hordes scatter, but they soon discover the tremor isn’t from the ground but the sky!
Boom!
Dark clouds cover the entire city, building remnants, cars, dead trees, along with the howling zombies and Abnormal Bodies, all appear to be seized by an invisible giant hand, defying gravity as they rise towards the crimson sky! A rotting Zombie Dog crashes into a gas station sign mid-air, exploding into a blood mist, yet the Blood Pearl eerily floats upwards.
The clouds tear open, a giant gray-black corpse’s belly occupying the entire sky, its dry, wrinkled skin forming kilometer-long ravines, with half an aircraft wedged in one crease; as hollow eye sockets turn towards the ground, three blocks of concrete foundations rise, revealing panicked survivors in the subway tunnel, their screams cut off as both man and tunnel debris are sucked skyward.
Bang!
Central North America Kansas, a rumbling thunder echoes deeply from the earth, a bottomless chasm cracks open in the scorched wheat fields, vehicles wedged on roads topple into the abyss like toys, while sulfury hot air gusts from the fissure, tens of thousands of drill-tipped flesh-colored tendrils emerge, rock fragments stuck on tendril surfaces rain down like a storm.
Beneath the crust, some enormous creature seems to be moving, causing sedimentary rock slabs underground to rise like brittle cookies, with heat waves soaring.
Colorado Rift front line, 09:45
Deathly silence, oppressive deathly silence.
On the east side of the Red Stone Rift Valley, more than a hundred TFV600 twin-barreled heavy tanks of the 4th Heavy Armor Battalion of the 22 Iron Guard Brigade lie in wait, frosty infrared radar turrets rotating silently atop, cold gun muzzles uniformly pointing towards the depths of the crimson wasteland, UAVs patrol in turns, yet return without any alarms, warriors in Power Armor hold scanners, repeatedly sweeping the scorched soil, only the wind sweeps ashes over burned Monster remains.
"UAVs reported no heat source anomalies."
"The sonar array is silent."
"Damn it... Where are the things that usually emerge by daybreak? Why are they silent today?"
The Guardian Mecha operator whispers in the communication channel, tense and perplexed.
"Could it be because we took out that S-class Black Disc yesterday and solved the big problem entirely?"
"Possibly..."
About 3 kilometers east of the Silver Star, on a plain where the Iron Guard Brigade and major convoy elite teams have established a massive defensive line, a temporary Steel Refining Factory covering more than 2000 square meters has been erected through the efforts of UAVs, construction machinery, and over thirty thousand engineers and builders, though not yet complete, the internal track base has already been built first, and massive amounts of metal materials, scrap cars, tanks, and even train carriages are continuously transported into the factory, the sound of metal grinding audibly carries several kilometers in the silence.
"Efficiency has indeed greatly improved."
Jian Xuwei, clad in Power Armor, looks at the engineer’s aggregated data in the Holographic Vision, quickly synchronizing it out, while Chen Sixuan commands from the Sky Dome Train, the communication screen shows messages from General Li Sheng of the 13 Iron Guard Brigade and General Zeng Weiguo of the 22 Iron Guard Brigade, reporting that none of the major front lines have encountered enemy warnings.
"Regarding the speculation of ’world-scale’ threats, it’s temporarily limited to internal discussion." General Li Sheng adjusts his glasses, "From various convoy feedback, morale seems to lean towards believing we eliminated the S-Class threat."
