Human Genius? Sorry, I’m a Deviant-Chapter 206: What is that!?

The soldiers' casualties were also devastating.
A veteran had just stabbed a small monster through the head with his bayonet, but before he could pull it out, he was struck directly in the face by acid dropping from above.
He screamed as he fell to the ground, writhing in agony, and soon stopped moving.
At another firing position, the roar of the heavy machine gun abruptly ceased.
The machine gunner and his assistant, along with their weapon, were smashed into pulp by a huge chunk of corpse thrown by a Loathesome Butcher.
A medic cried out while trying to drag a wounded soldier whose intestines were spilling out away from the front line, but a large piece of rubble took both their lives simultaneously.
Death was happening every single moment.
Vibrant lives that were just fighting side by side and encouraging each other moments ago turned into cold, broken corpses in the blink of an eye.
The ground on the city wall was already covered with sticky blood and shattered internal organs.
Stepping on it felt disgustingly slippery.
Su Zhan's squad had long been wounded all over, with their spiritual energy rapidly depleting.
Liu Ziming, while covering for Xu Hao, had his left arm slashed open by a Bone Corrosion Hunter's claw tip, the wound so deep the bone was visible.
Although he promptly used spiritual energy to seal the blood vessels, his entire arm could barely be lifted, and the power of his lightning releases was greatly reduced.
He could only grit his teeth and use his right hand to barely condense small-scale lightning strikes.
Xu Hao's face was as pale as paper, his mental power and physical stamina both nearing complete exhaustion.
Frequent short-distance teleportation and highly tense assassination attempts made his temples throb violently, and now every movement came with severe headaches.
He had just mustered his last bit of strength.
To push Xie Xi away from a lurking Spider Beast's spit.
But he was grazed by the edge of the sticky web himself.
His movements became even more sluggish.
Feng Jue's breathing was heavy, the web of skin between his thumb and index finger on his sword-holding hand had already split open, blood staining the hilt red.
He alone was blocking a small gap on the left side, with four or five monster corpses already fallen at his feet, his body covered in wounds.
Xie Xi was in the same condition.
Su Zhan bore the greatest pressure.
He not only had to deal with enemies head-on, but his Time Abyss Pupil also had to activate the future prediction ability, constantly anticipating dangers for the entire squad, frequently deploying deceleration fields for crowd control and rescue.
The future prediction ability consumed enormous amounts of spiritual energy and mental power.
Coupled with uninterrupted use of deceleration.
His spiritual energy poured out like floodwaters from an opened sluice gate, and his spirit gradually withered due to mental power consumption.
"We can't go on like this!"
Su Zhan parried a hunter's pounce, his voice hoarse as he roared: "Contract! Move toward that damaged giant crossbow on the right! Use the terrain!"
He spotted a half-collapsed giant crossbow ruin about ten meters to the right rear.
That place had cover on three sides, only needing to defend one direction, which could greatly reduce pressure.
"Move!"
Feng Jue was concise, taking the lead in moving toward it.
"Haozi! Keep up!"
Liu Ziming pulled Xu Hao with his still-functional right hand.
Xie Xi swung her giant scythe, covering the rear.
The five fought while retreating, arduously moving toward that small refuge.
Every step, they trod on blood and corpses.
Every step, they saw people constantly falling around them.
The cruelty of war was displayed nakedly before them in an unprecedented way.
After retreating to the half-collapsed giant crossbow platform ruins.
The situation didn't fundamentally improve, they had only temporarily avoided the danger of being attacked from both front and rear.
What they still needed to face was the endless wave of monsters surging from the front.
The battle turned into an even more tedious, willpower and stamina-draining war of attrition.
Fatigue assaulted everyone's body and spirit.
Liu Ziming leaned his right back against the cold broken wall, gasping for breath heavily, almost lacking the energy to curse: "Damn it... endless... these ghostly things... just how many are there..."
Xu Hao had almost reached his limit, curled up behind cover, taking advantage of extremely brief intervals to stuff high-energy sugar blocks into his mouth, his hands shaking so badly he could barely get them in.
Feng Jue had become a silent blood-soaked man, blood saturating half his clothes.
Xie Xi's Destruction Scythe could no longer maintain prolonged manifestation, each summoning could only last a mere ten-plus seconds, unleashing a few strong attacks before having to dissipate it to conserve spiritual energy.
She bit her lower lip tightly until it bled, relying on pain to stimulate herself to stay conscious.
Su Zhan grunted, his shoulder armor brutally grazed by a Bone Corrosion Hunter's tail stinger.
"Brother Su!" Xu Hao screamed.
"Worry about yourself!"
Su Zhan roared back, slashing open that hunter's head with a backhanded knife strike, splattering foul blood all over his face.
Casualties kept increasing.
They witnessed with their own eyes a squad consisting of three veterans and two students not far away.
After repelling another wave of assault.
Before they could even catch their breath...
Two of them were ensnared by tentacles from a giant leech-like monster that suddenly launched itself up from below the wall.
Instantly dragged down from the wall.
In another direction, an elemental Awakened individual seemed to suffer backlash from spiritual energy exhaustion, vomiting a mouthful of blood before collapsing to the ground, immediately torn apart by swarming monsters.
An atmosphere of despair quietly spread.
This place continuously devoured lives.
The five of them leaned against broken walls and debris, each able to hear the others' heavy, labored panting, able to smell the strong scent of blood and sweat on each other.
Both spiritual energy and physical stamina were approaching that dangerous red line.
Liu Ziming slumped sitting against the wall corner: "Damn it... where are the reinforcements?! Are they all dead?! Why hasn't anyone come to support us here?! If they don't come soon... I'm really gonna bite it here..."
Xu Hao murmured: "Could it be... other places have greater pressure... they've... abandoned us..."
"Shut up!"
Xie Xi sharply cut him off, her voice terribly weak, "Even if we can't hold... we must hold..."
Feng Jue used his sword to support his body, breathing violently, saying nothing.
Su Zhan leaned against the cold wall, his brain buzzing from overusing his abilities, almost unable to hear his teammates' complaints through the tinnitus.
He also wanted to know where the reinforcements were.
But he understood even more clearly that at this moment, aside from persevering, there was no way out.
The future prediction ability couldn't be used anymore either.
The reason was spiritual energy and mental power consumption were too great.
Right at this moment!
From the sky, came an extremely sharp sound of something tearing through the air!
A silver-gray streamlined fighter jet, at an unimaginable speed, made an ultra-low altitude penetration from behind the fortress, almost skimming over the top of the city wall.
The sonic boom it brought made everyone's eardrums feel like they were bursting!
"What is that!?"
Liu Ziming instinctively looked up.
Everyone's gaze was involuntarily drawn to that fighter jet.
They saw the bomb bay on the fighter's belly open, and a peculiarly shaped missile with a prominent nuclear symbol painted on its body was ejected!
The missile's tail ignited, and it plunged headfirst into the distant, churning, seemingly eternally existing... depths of the mist!
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
The next second...
An indescribable, ultimate intense light suddenly erupted from deep within the mist!
As if the sun was right before their eyes!
Even across an extremely far distance, even though most of the light was swallowed and weakened by the thick fog.
The brightness of that instantaneous burst still temporarily blinded everyone on the city wall!