Looking at the man struggling on the ground, Yago pulled Annie slightly behind him and cautiously stepped forward himself.
As he got closer, Yago noticed the extreme fear in the man's eyes. His face was bruised and swollen, and the hands bound and exposed were covered in wounds.
Rip—he tore off the tape sealing the man's mouth. Before Yago could ask anything, the man opened his mouth—half his teeth already gone—and screamed in terror,
"I've been wronged! I'm not a member of the Eldian Restorationists! I was just misled by Jack and Serena, I never took part in the assassination of Commander Landon! I'm loyal to Marley! I beg you, I don't want to turn into a Titan!! Wuu—"
"Please, I still have a child, he's only two years old, I don't want to turn into a Titan..." The man wept bitterly, pleading nonstop.
But hearing this, Yago froze in shock.
"Eldian Restorationists? Marley? You—you're from Marley?!"
Snapping back to his senses, Yago yanked up the man. Sure enough, on the man's left arm was a bloodstained brown armband, the white multi-pointed star emblem on it glaringly obvious.
Yago's eyes widened. He turned his head in shock and exchanged a glance with the equally stunned Annie. At the same time, they both looked toward the same direction—the direction of the main force of the Survey Corps, where the command center and the place holding Zeke were located.
At the same time, Survey Corps soldiers scattered throughout the Shiganshina District gradually discovered many people bound inside the originally ruined houses—men and women alike. Seeing those faces full of terror, and hearing them talk about some strange Eldian Restorationists and Marley humans, the soldiers were all dumbfounded.
"Captain? What should we do? Why are there humans here? And what is Marley?" Petra asked, looking at the woman kneeling and crying in front of her. This woman had just been discovered in an abandoned house.
Even Levi, battle-hardened as he was, didn't know how to decide for the moment.
"This... take her with us and report to Erwin," Levi said, forced to make a temporary decision.
Suddenly, "No, I don't want to turn into a Titan..." the woman's low murmur reached Levi's ears.
Levi's pupils shrank sharply. Clang! He drew his blades and shouted at Petra, who was about to approach the woman,
"Petra! Fall back!"
...
"What? You found many humans? Inside houses?" Erwin frowned as he listened to the successive reports from his subordinates, feeling it was unbelievable.
"Commander, the squad has brought the humans they found."
Erwin looked up. More than a dozen crying men and women were escorted by soldiers to stand before him. Looking at the identical armbands on their arms, Erwin suddenly felt a strange sense of familiarity.
Inside the iron cage, Zeke still had his head lowered, saying nothing, and his wounds were still emitting faint steam.
Outside the cage—
"Squad Leader Scott, thanks so much. Otherwise I would've died in a Titan's mouth," Floch said with lingering fear.
Scott waved his hand. "As your Squad Leader, it's only right. Floch, you've just transferred from the Garrison to the Survey Corps. What you need to do now is slowly adapt. Do your best."
Floch was deeply grateful to Scott, the Squad Leader who took such good care of him. The comrades who had transferred with him from the Garrison had even laughed at him earlier.
Scott smiled and patted Floch on the shoulder.
"Oh right, I heard that some other squads up ahead seem to have found humans in the ruins."
Floch raised his head in surprise. "What? Really? Something like that happened?"
At that moment, Zeke in the cage suddenly lifted his head and said in a low voice, "Found them?"
...
"Faster! We have to be faster!" Yago frantically accelerated toward the command center. If his guess was right, what would happen next would plunge the soldiers of the Shiganshina District into hell.
Looking at the familiar armband, Erwin suddenly remembered where he had seen it before. That day, during a secret meeting when Yago introduced the situation outside the island to the upper leadership of Paradis Island, he had drawn this symbol. It was the armband that Eldians living in Marley were required to wear.
"All units, listen up! Spread out immediately! Do not approach these humans!" Erwin roared at the soldiers.
At this moment, Yago and Annie had also rushed to a spot not far from the command center.
But a terrifying, soul-shaking roar burst out from the command center and spread across the entire Shiganshina District.
"Oh no!!" Yago's eyes split wide. It was too late.
In an instant, countless golden-yellow pillars of light flared up across the originally calm Trost District.
The roar of the Beast Titan could, through its howl, control Eldians injected with special spinal fluid, turning them into Pure Titans that could be manipulated by the Beast Titan.
Immediately, countless horrifying roars echoed from every corner of the Shiganshina District.
"Zeke! You deserve to die!" Killing intent filled Yago's dark eyes.
Shiganshina descended into chaos. Many Survey Corps soldiers, before they could even understand what was happening, were devoured by Titans transformed from the very humans they had just rescued from the ruins.
Levi's hair was blown wildly by the surging pressure released during the Titans' transformations.
Members of Levi Squad and the new recruits stared in disbelief as the rescued woman let out a painful roar and then transformed into a ten-meter-tall Titan.
Levi was the first to react. Within just three seconds, a chunk of nape flesh had already been severed. But Levi did not relax in the slightest, because looking around, there were nearly a hundred golden pillars of light throughout the entire Shiganshina District.
The moment Erwin gave the order, dozens of Titans charged in all directions toward the Survey Corps soldiers amid terrifying roars.
At this time, Hange, who was on the wall counting Thunder Spears, was also startled by the sudden disturbance. She quickly lay down at the edge of the wall, pushed her glasses, and asked Moblit beside her,
"Moblit, what's going on?"
Moblit was just as bewildered. "I don't know, Squad Leader."
But Kira, sharp-eyed beside them, was the first to notice something wrong. Pointing below the wall, she shouted,
"Titans! It's Titans!"
Survey Corps—danger!
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