Outside the town—
Inside the military camp, Colonel Yuri walked up to the perimeter line.
As a veteran who had taken part in many overseas wars, Colonel Yuri was rich in experience and had seen a lot.
He had fought urban warfare, fought guerrilla battles, and faced many brutal enemies.
But now, looking at the dark mass of more than two thousand town residents, regardless of age or gender, all charging outward like madmen, that overwhelming pressure made it hard for the colonel to even breathe.
He picked up the microphone and began broadcasting, ["I am Colonel Yuri of the Security Department. Residents of Sylvester Town, I ask you to stop."]
["The military will help you."]
["Please stop!"]
However, the residents running wildly showed no intention of stopping at all.
Their eyes glowed red. Having lost all their hair and eyebrows, they charged forward with savage aggression.
Colonel Yuri could only say, "Fire tear gas."
Immediately, the soldiers at the front threw one tear gas canister after another into the town, and smoke quickly rose inside it.
Colonel Yuri hoped this would disperse the crowd, but he soon realized the residents completely ignored the tear gas, charging out of the smoke one after another.
Howling, roaring, like crazed beasts.
Colonel Yuri shouted, "Fire, non-lethal mode!"
At once, a row of soldiers disengaged their rifle safeties, lowered their muzzles, and fired at the residents' legs.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Gunshots rang out continuously. The mutated residents at the front were hit in the legs, and combined with the impact, fell to the ground in large waves.
But the residents behind had no intention of stopping at all. They trampled over their companions' bodies and charged forward without any hesitation.
Gunfire merged into a single roar. In less than five hundred meters, large numbers of town residents fell to the ground.
It looked like the situation might be under control, and Colonel Yuri could not help but let out a breath.
But at that moment, he saw that those residents who had been knocked down and trampled were actually standing back up.
The muscles in their legs writhed, squeezing the bullets out of their wounds. The bullets fell to the ground, and the wounds closed immediately.
In the blink of an eye, those residents were howling and sprinting again, as if nothing had happened.
"How can this be?", Colonel Yuri looked completely lost.
Behind the perimeter line, the soldiers' faces were pale. Finally, someone's fear overwhelmed their reason. Ignoring orders, they raised their rifles and fired at the residents' chests.
A blood spurt burst from a mutated resident's chest, but he only staggered slightly, then continued charging.
Colonel Yuri's eyes went wide. He had not expected that shooting the chest would be less effective than shooting the legs.
'What kind of monsters are these?'
"We are going."
Seeing that the military could not stop these mutated residents at all, Ice Princess formed an icy path under her feet and immediately slid toward the perimeter line.
Her short skirt fluttered, revealing peachy curves. Ice Princess suddenly raised both hands and pushed forward.
A blast of icy wind roared out.
The residents charging at the very front were rapidly covered in frost, starting from their toes.
The frost spread up to their thighs. With both legs frozen, their movement was immediately halted.
One by one, they were either frozen in place or knocked down by those behind them.
But very quickly, those residents whose legs were frozen began smashing their own icy limbs frantically, shattering the frost together with their legs.
After losing their legs, the residents turned their bodies and stubbornly crawled along the ground toward the perimeter line. Their speed was not much slower at all.
Seeing this, Ice Princess felt her scalp go numb. She then raised both hands again, and the moisture in the air rapidly froze.
A wall of ice quickly formed in front of them. The ice wall rose rapidly, blocking the residents' path.
Ice Princess made the white wall keep rising until it reached a height of ten meters before stopping.
The mutated residents seemed unaware that an ice wall was blocking their way. Without slowing down, they charged straight at it, then smashed into the ice wall one after another.
Heads split open, flesh torn, bones broken.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Listening to the continuous impacts coming from behind the ice wall, not just the soldiers, even superhumans like Starlight felt fear flash through their eyes.
They had never seen behavior this insane.
However, soon the town residents stopped this near-suicidal behavior.
They halted, but piled together, forming a small hill.
Dark figures surged forward one after another, making this "small hill" rise rapidly. Before long, town residents could already be seen at the top of the ice wall.
"Oh God!"
Ice Princess let out a groan. She could no longer make the ice wall any higher. If this still could not stop the residents, she had no solution left.
Colonel Yuri took a deep breath and drew a cross over his chest, "Lord, please forgive me."
Then he roared, "Fire. Lethal mode!"
He finally decided to stop trying to block them and start killing.
Otherwise, if more than two thousand dark demons spread across the land, the consequences were something the colonel dared not imagine.
At this moment, Colonel Yuri felt grateful that Homelander and the Seven had arrived. The situation had already exceeded all prior expectations. Without superhuman assistance, the military alone simply could not stop them.
Thinking this, the colonel looked at Starlight and the others, "Everyone, please assist the military!"
Starlight and the others nodded one after another.
Element Woman looked toward the nearby stream. The next second, her eyes turned silver-white.
The water in the stream suddenly shook, the flow changed course, and it roared toward the town.
In just a short moment, the water rushed into the town, crashing between buildings and surging toward the mutated residents, continuously sweeping them into the current and making it hard for them to move.
Seeing this, Electro Man released intense electric currents from his body. He flickered, and when he reappeared, he was atop a utility pole inside the town.
He shouted, pressed his hands downward, and released streaks of blue electricity from his fingers.
The powerful current fell into the water, instantly electrifying large areas. The residents in those waters trembled violently all over.
Ice Princess pressed her hands forward again. A bitter cold wind blew, and the water in the town rapidly froze, trapping many mutated residents in the ice.
But even with superhumans joining the fight, there were simply too many residents in Sylvester Town.
Most of them broke through the superhumans' blockade. They crossed the ice wall and surged toward the military like a dark flood.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Under Colonel Yuri's orders, the soldiers behind the perimeter line raised their rifles and opened fire. Amid the rain of bullets, row after row of residents fell, yet row after row charged forward again.
The dark flood surged and rolled, rapidly closing in on the perimeter line. Just as the leading edge of the dark tide was about to crash into it—
"Close your eyes!"
A voice rang out.
The soldiers suddenly felt a bright light behind them. Then a blinding radiance bloomed ahead, swallowing everything.
The soldiers shut their eyes at once, only hearing scream after scream ring in their ears.
Colonel Yuri hurriedly put on his sunglasses. When the light faded, he removed them and looked ahead.
Large numbers of mutated residents seemed to have been struck by some powerful force, sent flying in large waves and strewn across the ground.
At this moment, the colonel shifted his gaze and fixed it on a blonde girl.
Starlight!
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