265: Chapter 265 The Piercing Air Raid Siren, the Abyss Riot

"Thump, thump, thump."

Su Chen's combat boots crunched against the hard ice and snow, creating a crisp sound. He had just stepped out of the Shura Camp's plaza and was preparing to head in the direction of the main base.

However, the moment he took his tenth step.

The sky over the Far North changed without any warning.

There was no transition of twilight, no afterglow of the setting sun.

The sky turned black in an instant!

It was as if someone had grabbed a massive black curtain and pulled it over, suffocating the entire firmament! Thick black clouds pressed down overhead, blocking out even the slightest glimmer of starlight.

"Brother Chen…" Jiang Feng followed behind, suddenly shivering. His teeth began to chatter uncontrollably, making a "clacking" sound.

"This sky… why is it so eerily dark?"

Lin Qinghan said nothing, but her knuckles turned white as she gripped the hilt of her sword.

Having lost the sunlight, the temperature at Jueming Ridge experienced a terrifying, cliff-like plunge!

Minus seventy degrees. Minus eighty degrees. Minus ninety degrees!

In just a few minutes, the temperature plummeted past the minus one-hundred-degree mark!

The gale transformed into tangible blades, raging wildly through the dilapidated camp of the Shura Camp.

"Clang!" A military iron water bottle, casually tossed into the snow, was blown by the wind and shattered into countless pieces as if it were made of glass!

The extreme cold had reached a point where even metal could be frozen until it became brittle!

From deep within the camp, inside the dilapidated tents made from the furs of exotic beasts, came bursts of suppressed groans.

"Huddle closer! Everyone, huddle the hell closer!" Inside a tattered tent, over a dozen veterans were bare-chested, clutching each other tightly. They desperately channeled the faint Qi in their bodies, attempting to use their body heat to combat this deadly extreme cold.

"Deputy Camp Commander!" In the corner, a veteran's voice carried a hint of sobbing. "Old Li's fingers have turned completely black! If he freezes any longer, his hands will be ruined!"

Gu Lie leaned against the tent door, clutching his broken horse-slaying saber. He glanced at Old Li's blackened, necrotic hands, and the corner of his eye twitched violently.

"Without fire crystals, we can't hold out!" Another veteran soldier gritted his teeth, his face full of despair. "Those sons of bitches, the warlords, withheld our cold-weather supplies. They want us to freeze to death here tonight!"

"Don't sleep! Old Li! Open your eyes!" Gu Lie slapped Old Li across the face and roared, "Get your Qi up for me! Even if you die, you die on the front lines, not like a coward frozen in a tent!"

Despair. A despair that seeped into the marrow of one's bones spread through every tent in the Shura Camp.

No spirit energy ammunition. No fire crystals. No healing medicine.

They were like a group of abandoned children stripped of their clothes and thrown into an ice cellar, forced to rely on their mortal bodies to resist the dual malice of nature and the abyss.

Just then, in this desperate, freezing, dark night.

"Hum—"

A trace of eerie red light suddenly flickered across the dark, frozen plains of the Far North.

Immediately after.

"Woooo—!!!"

An air raid siren, shrill and high-pitched to the extreme! Like a malevolent ghost with its throat being choked, it let out a heart-rending scream in the night sky!

Instantly tearing through this deathly silent frozen plain!

"Woooo—!!!" "Woooo—!!!"

This was not just one siren sounding. On the first Star Gate defense line of the Far North, those hundreds and thousands of huge air raid sirens…

At the same time! Were sounding frantically!

Blinding red warning lights, like an ocean of blood, flashed wildly along the hundreds of kilometers of the Steel Great Wall! Casting the entire night in the Far North in a scarlet glow!

"It's a Level 1 Beast Tide alert!"

Gu Lie stood up abruptly from the snowy ground of the tent. His only remaining eye was instantly filled with shock and bloodshot veins.

"The Dark Moon Night riot… it's early!"

Gu Lie threw open the fur curtain of the tent and rushed out into the minus one-hundred-degree gale. He raised his broken horse-slaying saber and let out a desperate, hoarse roar at the entire camp!

"All members of the Shura Camp!"

"Get out here! Man the front lines!!!"

This roar pierced through the wind and snow.

"Clatter!"

All the tents were thrown open simultaneously.

Hundreds of veterans, purple from the cold and with blackened hands and feet. Not a single person hesitated.

They gritted their teeth, enduring the pain of their bones that felt like they were about to freeze and shatter. They grabbed the tattered swords and blades in their hands, and the empty guns that had absolutely no bullets.

Staggering! Crawling! They rushed out of the tents!

"Kill!"

"Fight these beasts to the death!"

They were used to being treated as cannon fodder. They knew there were no supplies today and that death was certain.

But at this moment, not a single person retreated.

Hundreds of veteran soldiers, facing the piercing sound of the alarm, charged frantically toward the edge of the Jueming Ridge defense line!

Su Chen stopped his trek toward the main base.

He turned around, watching this group of broken soldiers rushing toward the edge of the cliff.

A cold glint flashed in his pitch-black eyes.

"Let's go." Su Chen didn't waste any words. With his hands in his trench coat pockets, he changed direction and strode toward the edge of the defense line.

Jiang Feng and Lin Qinghan followed closely behind.

The three of them quickly arrived at the highest point of Jueming Ridge.

This was a natural cliff defense line. Standing at the edge of the cliff, one could look down from a commanding height at the vast, boundless frozen plains below.

At this moment, Gu Lie and hundreds of veterans were already lying in the trenches at the edge of the cliff.

"Battalion Commander!" Gu Lie shouted hurriedly when he saw Su Chen approach. "This is Jueming Ridge! The first wave of the impact is coming straight for us!"

Su Chen walked to the very edge of the cliff.

The gale blew through his black hair.

He lowered his head and looked down into the endless darkness below the cliff.

At this sight, even Jiang Feng and Lin Qinghan, who were standing behind him, instantly stopped breathing!

The frozen plains below had originally been in absolute darkness where one couldn't see their own hand.

But now.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

In the darkness, a pair of red lights suddenly lit up!

Immediately after, ten pairs! One hundred pairs! One thousand pairs!

Densely packed! Thousands upon thousands of red eyes, radiating extreme bloodlust, madness, and violence! In the darkness below the cliff, they lit up in massive swathes!

"What… what is that down there?" Jiang Feng's voice shook as if it were being dragged through a broken bellows.

His two-meter-two stalwart body was trembling violently at this moment.

"They are eyes." Lin Qinghan gripped her sword hilt, her nails digging deep into her palms. "They are all the eyes of exotic beasts."

Too many! There were simply too many!

This wasn't just a few hundred or a few thousand exotic beasts! This was a terrifying beast tide numbering in the tens of thousands! Perhaps even hundreds of thousands!

They were packed densely together, pushing and trampling over one another.

Their scarlet gazes were locked tightly onto the Shura Camp's position above the cliff! It was as if they were looking at a delicious cake!

"Roar—!!!"

Without any warning, a terrifying, earth-shattering beast roar erupted from the red ocean below!

This wasn't one exotic beast calling out. This was the roar of tens of thousands of exotic beasts, all at the same time!

"Boom!"

The sound of this beast roar was simply too loud. It was so loud that it converged into a tangible sonic wave!

The sonic wave slammed against the cliff of Jueming Ridge like a tsunami. "Crack! Clatter!"

The hard ice and gravel at the edge of the cliff were shattered by this sonic wave, tumbling down below with a rustling sound!

"My ears!" Several veterans covered their ears in pain, a trickle of blood flowing down through their fingers.

"Unprecedented…" Gu Lie gripped his broken saber tightly, his only eye filled with despair.

"I've guarded this place for ten years, and I've never seen a night raid of this scale!" Gu Lie turned his head to look at Su Chen, his voice hoarse.

"Battalion Commander, they've gone mad! The abyss magnetic field of the Dark Moon Night has completely turned them into mindless maniacs!"

No probing. No vanguard troops.

This overwhelming red ocean launched the most insane, most deadly charge directly toward the cliff of Jueming Ridge!

"Rumble!"

The earth trembled. The sound of tens of thousands of exotic beasts running was like dense war drums, pounding fiercely against everyone's hearts.

"They're coming up!" Jiang Feng roared and suddenly raised the giant mountain-splitting axe in his hands.

Facing this terrifying beast tide capable of instantly trampling a city flat.

Facing this desperate front line with not a single bullet and not a single fire crystal.

The veterans of the Shura Camp did not have a single person retreat.

They gripped the tattered swords and blades in their hands tightly. Their eyes were bloodshot, staring fixedly at the scarlet eyes getting closer and closer below.

"Brothers!" Gu Lie raised his broken saber and let out the final roar of his life.

The unprecedented night raid. Had erupted!