The citizens of the 17th arrondissement later discovered the arrival of the war.

Or, more accurately, when they heard the sound of gunfire and explosions, the mechanized force from nowhere had already appeared in front of them like a ghost.

For a while, the screams came and went.

The overwhelming mechanized forces left them with no choice but to hide in nearby bunkers.

Even those gangsters who are usually arrogant and domineering have only the only ending in front of the real war machine.

On the top floor of the tallest building in downtown 17th arrondissement, Longinus is alone in a wheelchair looking down on the city.

In the past few months, the border city has become a place where the councils have changed their minds, and after the Foster family withdrew, no company or family even dared to get their hands on it, and although it was still nominally part of the Coalition Government, it was in fact long beyond the Coalition Government's tolerance.

More than the shadow of escaping from the "prison", he cares more about the city itself.

Here, an unprecedented wave is brewing.

Even more dangerous in itself than the presence of the Shadow and the Resistance, it is eating away at the coalition government in a more subtle way.

The Council does not seem to be fully aware of the dangers of this wave, and there are many different voices in the policy for the 17th District, which has delayed the deployment of the city.

Therefore, before the real harm is done, someone must act.

And he was the right person.

For a man whose lamp is running out and about to enter a coffin, this notoriety could not be more fitting for him to bear.

In every war, there will be sacrifices, and there will be people who are destined to bear infamy.

He must wipe out the enemies that lurk in the depths of the city, and he believes that it won't be long before the Void reveals its true colors.

At that time, the whole world will know the true face of these enemies who came out of nowhere.

Even if the local war ends in defeat, the coalition government will gather enough intelligence that will lay a solid foundation for future victories, and this is the last contribution he can make to the country as a veteran.

Before you know it, the fog obscures the sky.

As the rumor suggests, the fog obscured the sky and blocked the sunlight at the other end.

It is pervasive and permeates every corner of the city.

Longinus was focused, he had been so focused for years, or never before, that even he would be curious about these monsters that did not exist in the world, enemies that had never existed before, and he did not know how the Void would respond to the war machine he had created, and in what way it would attack him.

Is it a wall that suddenly withered, as the intelligence says?

Or is it corroding all gases?

How will those twisted monsters come into this world?

Shrouded in fog, Longinus waited for a long time, and from the moment he boarded the plane to Seventeenth District, he was ready to die as a soldier.

And at the end of this wait, a familiar voice pierced through the fog:

"Please don't panic, stay calm and stay where you are, we will start the evacuation immediately."

The calm tone gave courage to the citizens.

This is an evacuation notice issued using the equipment of the second-level alert order, and it is also the authority of the head of the law enforcement department, and this familiar voice makes the citizens realize that Lu Xiang did not board the plane to evacuate the seventeenth district and abandon the city and them as rumored.

But......

How should the evacuation proceed?

After a short period of euphoria, the citizens were at a loss.

Even through the fog, they could still see the ubiquitous war machine, not to mention how to evacuate so many citizens with the manpower of the law enforcement department?

Longinus naturally heard Lu Xiang's voice, and there was a strange brilliance in his eyes.

The council has provided Lu Xiang with extremely generous conditions, as long as she takes the flight to the first district, her life will go further, and her talents will be displayed on a broader stage, this is a great time to realize her life ideals, why should she refuse?

Longinus's question was quickly answered.

He felt a tremor from the ground.

Something seems to be coming out of beneath the surface.

The citizens of the 17th District were the first to see the creatures in their true colors—flesh and blood tree nodules burrowed out of the ground, and the moment they emerged from the surface, tentacles with teeth and claws reached out to them.

No one had ever seen such monsters, and those Void-related websites had never mentioned their existence.

For most people, they never even imagined that there would be such a creature in this world.

Before the citizens could react, tentacles that had grown from the tree bound their hands and feet, and the irresistible force dragged them into the giant jaw of the tree.

The scene in front of them was like some kind of ancient and bloody sacrificial ritual, and they watched as the people around them were dragged into the bloody maws by tentacles.

Screams echoed in the crowd, and they tried to flee, but the stumps that kept breaking through the ground had taken over the city, and the flesh buds were crawling all over the buildings, and even those hiding in the buildings were dragged out by the tentacles without exception and thrown into the nodules like food.

In an instant, the screams from the crowd were transferred outside the city.

Most of the citizens were still screaming and fleeing, only to find themselves stepping on soft sand the next moment.

Those who have lived in the 17th arrondissement for a long time immediately recognized the place they were in - this was a sandy area outside the 17th arrondissement, and after walking some distance, they could reach the first post station in the "outside world".

More and more people were "spit out" by the nodules, and they looked at the nodules from a distance like a transit station, and invariably had a strange idea.

This is the rescue method mentioned by Director Lu?

After "spitting" out of them, the nodules seemed to lose interest in them completely, and the tentacles of the teeth and claws retracted.

After a while, the citizens came to a conclusion.

The nodule seemed to be just a staging post in a terrifying creature.

Transfer.

Longinus, far away in the downtown area, came to the same conclusion, and the efficiency of this transit station was far beyond his realization—in a matter of minutes, these seemingly autonomous "transit stations" emptied the entire city!

His instincts told him that he was getting closer and closer to the true face of the Void.

Thinking of this, he did not hesitate to give the order to annihilate the mechanized troops.

And almost at the same time, the void creatures that had emptied the entire city seemed to have received the same order.

Longinus heard a hiss coming from outside the window.

It seemed that some creature flew in front of him.

Just as he wondered, more and more creatures of the same kind converged, and these fierce creatures that resembled bats pounced on the mechanized troops in the clouds.

There are so many of these creatures that when they come together, a black cloud is formed.

They pounced on the mechanized troops in the clouds, spitting acid into a torrential rain.

An incredible thought came to Longinus.

The city has a sense of autonomy and "comes alive" in this moment.