151: Void Zerg rushing into the city

The overwhelming, screeching tide of bugs, like billions of rusty saws cutting through the soul, instantly yanked Qin Zhenyue from the boundless abyss of grief!

His bloodshot eyes suddenly focused, his pupils reflecting a terrifying sight that blotted out the sky.

It was no longer a blurry black torrent, but countless distinct and grotesque forms of death!

Scythe-Legged Bugs, like leaping black lightning, swept across the low sky in swarms, their giant scythes, gleaming with a cold, eerie light, easily slicing through shattered GG signs and exposed rebar.

Bone-Eating Beetles, like moving battering rams, their heavy carapaces crushing over ruins, their mouthparts opening and closing to spew dark green strong acid, corroding melted metal and concrete with a sizzling sound, emitting pungent smoke.

Even more heart-pounding were the Phase Shifters; their slender bodies left shimmering afterimages in the air, appearing and disappearing like ghosts. Each appearance was accompanied by the sudden, surprised scream of a Professional or soldier, as sharp limbs or mouthparts instantly pierced vital points!

"Alarm! Highest level alarm! Void Swarm invasion! Repeat, Void Swarm invasion! Shield failure! They... they appeared directly inside the city!"

From the remaining communication channels came the hoarse and desperate roar of the City Defense Force commander.

Weiyang City's proud city energy shield, capable of withstanding a Gold-level beast's furious assault, was now a colossal joke.

The moment the vanguard of the bug tide arrived, there were no ripples of energy impact on the shield's light curtain; instead, countless spatial wormholes, with edges flickering with unstable purple-black light, appeared out of thin air!

These wormholes varied in size; the small ones were just big enough for a Scythe-Legged Bug to squeeze through, while the large ones could accommodate tank-like Bone-Eating Beetles or even more massive shadows!

They appeared, expanded, stabilized, and then vanished on the shield's surface, dense like plague pustules.

And just as the wormholes disappeared, the surging bug vanguard, like ink dropped into clear water, instantly infiltrated and spread into every block and every alley of the city!

"Th-this... how is this possible?!"

On the city wall, a Bronze-level archer holding a heavy crossbow stared dumbfounded at the chaotic streets below... There, seconds ago, it had been empty, but now it was crawling with screeching Bone-Eating Beetles, which were using strong acid to corrode the sturdy alloy gates!

"Spatial wormholes! They can perform direct spatial jumps!"

Another experienced mage's face was pale, his voice trembling.

"The shield... the shield can't defend against spatial penetration!"

The brief silence was completely shattered, replaced by a sudden eruption of even more chaotic and desperate roars and explosions!

"Bugs are in the city! Stop them!"

"East Sector Three needs support! Ah—!"

The scream abruptly ceased.

"Fire! Fire at will! Don't let them get close to the civilian areas!"

The Professional Association's legion soldiers and the City Defense Force, these well-trained warriors, after the initial shock, immediately erupted with astonishing courage and discipline.

They no longer stubbornly held the crumbling city walls, but instead, like a bursting flood, roared down from the city top, from behind cover, and from various defensive nodes, rushing fearlessly towards the bug swarm that had already infiltrated the city's very fabric.

Instantly, the entire Weiyang City transformed into an enormous meat grinder battlefield!

The roar of cannons, the explosion of energy skills, the clash of metal and carapace, the screeching of bugs, the roars and screams of humans... countless sounds mixed together, playing a symphony of destruction.

Every street, every alley, every corner was erupting in a fierce melee.

Countless buildings were destroyed, and innumerable civilians died in the mouths of the Void Swarm; many didn't even have time to scream before being crushed into pulp by the suddenly compressed void!

The entire Weiyang City was now plunged into endless chaos; many civilians even picked up weapons, even though they couldn't even deal with the lowest-level, smallest Bone-Eating Beetles.

But resisting and not resisting both meant death!

In the last moments of life, no one wanted to die ignominiously in the mouth of a bug.

A Black Iron Level warrior holding a giant shield roared as he withstood the charge of an Bone-Eating Beetle, his shield sizzling under the strong acid's corrosion.

Another agile Bronze-level assassin weaved through the ruins, attempting to snipe the elusive Phase Shifters, but was instantly killed by their even more bizarre flashes.

A fire mage unleashed flames, making an Bone-Eating Beetle shriek, but was quickly overwhelmed by more Bone-Eating Beetles... "Chairman! Chairman Qin!"

A Gold-level officer, covered in blood and with one arm severed, staggered to the foot of the watchtower, shouting up at its top.

"The defense line... the defense line is about to collapse! High-level bugs! Gold-level bugs have appeared!"

No sooner had he spoken than the battlefield situation escalated sharply!

Boom!

Boom!

The ground trembled violently, as if ancient giants were striding.

Several behemoths, comparable in size to two-story buildings, emerged from the depths of the bug tide.

They were the Void Giant Shield Bugs!

Ripple-like spatial distortions flowed over their heavy, dark golden carapaces; any energy attack unleashed upon them—fireballs, ice cones, laser beams—was strangely deflected, absorbed, or even reflected the moment it touched their carapaces!

They advanced slowly but unstoppably like moving mountains, providing perfect cover for the surging tide of lower-level bugs behind them; human strongholds in their path were easily crushed.

Immediately after, an ear-piercing shriek tore through the sky!

Several ghastly white beams, containing destructive spatial tearing power, shot out from behind like the scythes of death!

Xeno-Rift Ray Bugs!

The rear half of their scorpion-like bodies were raised high, and the energy muzzles at their tails concentrated light; each shot precisely pierced human defensive positions or energy shield nodes!

A flash of white light, and a protective shield supported by several Silver-level mages shattered like glass, tearing apart and annihilating the warriors within!

Even more terrifying was the sky!

Energy-Corroding Locusts!

They descended like enlarged swarms of locusts bearing death runes, emitting a scalp-tingling hum, dive-bombing in an overwhelming flood.

The eerie blue energy orbs they spat out were not pure energy explosions, but carried strong spatial corrosive properties!

When an orb hit a target, it not only caused physical damage but also made the hit Professional feel their internal energy rapidly drain and be devoured, like a floodgate opening!

A Gold-level warrior was hit by several orbs consecutively; his protective battle qi visibly dimmed and disappeared, and he was then instantly dismembered by several Phase Shifters!

Despair, like a cold viper, coiled around the heart of every fighter.

"Old Liu... Old Wang... the children..."

On the watchtower, Qin Zhenyue's gaze swept over the huge glazed pit that buried his fallen comrades, then looked down at the city being wantonly slaughtered by the bug race, watching the blood-soaked warriors fall one after another, listening to the heart-wrenching screams... An indescribable flame instantly burned away all the sorrow and emptiness in his heart, replaced by an almost insane, all-or-nothing fury!

"Beasts!!!"

A thunderous roar, like a nine-heavenly thunderclap, made the entire watchtower hum!

Qin Zhenyue's tattered chairman's uniform flapped in the wind, though there was none!

A violent, ferocious, bloodthirsty, and destructive aura of terror, like a dormant volcano erupting, surged outwards from him, sweeping in all directions!

The aura of a pseudo-transcendent, no longer held back, surged forth!

He was no longer that grief-stricken old man, but had transformed into an Asura War God who had walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

"Kill—!"

Qin Zhenyue's figure left a clear afterimage in place, his true form having become a dazzling stream of light tearing through the air, carrying an unyielding determination and monstrous killing intent, as he fiercely charged into the meat-grinder-like battlefield below!