Chapter 567: The Fall Of Liuhe Base City
The tide of star beasts surged into the city like a flood. Towering flames engulfed the iconic landmarks of Liuhe Base City, painting the skyline in hues of destruction.
Everywhere, cries for help, wails of despair, and screams of fear filled the air, creating a cacophony of misery. The arrival of the apocalypse was always unexpected.
Liuhe Base City had held on for over nine months, only falling due to depleted supplies and the betrayal of traitors within the city. As brutal retaliation against the city's staunch defense, the rebels unleashed a merciless massacre within its walls. The rampaging star beasts brought death in their wake, while the rebels’ cruelty delivered complete annihilation.
In the chaos, a temporary breakout team composed of several hundred high school students escorted a group of civilians. They were desperately trying to break through and flee toward the outskirts of the city.
Amid the fleeing crowd, an elderly man with snow-white hair quietly slipped away from the group. He leaned against a wall on the side of the street, his breath coming in shallow, labored gasps. At his age, with unsteady hands, weak legs, and no combat skills to speak of, remaining with the fleeing team would only burden those brave and admirable young souls.
The old man gazed at the chaotic city streets. Memories from his short, ordinary life flashed before his eyes like a carousel of fleeting images. In his younger years, he had lost all his children to the beast tides. He and his wife had relied on each other for sixty-one years, scraping by with his job at a power armor parts manufacturing plant to survive.
This was the era of the star beasts, and for most ordinary people, such was their fate.
Three hours earlier, the city walls of Liuhe Base City had been breached. Star beasts poured in like a flood breaking through a dam under the command of the rebel forces. His wife, the companion who had shared his life through thick and thin, had been torn apart and killed before his very eyes by a pack of Saber-Toothed Hyenas.
Though his heart burned with rage and grief, he had been powerless. A group of students from Red Flag High School had risked their lives to save him from the pack of Saber-Toothed Hyenas, dragging him to safety and placing him in a fleeing convoy.