251: Chapter 251 Holy Sound? Lin Yuan Makes It Shut Up

After the old highway entrance was cleared, the convoy advanced to the Linjiang Bridge in Wu City.

Half of the bridge deck was broken.

White cloth strips of the Wancheng Alliance hung on the abandoned streetlights.

[Stop the civil war.]

Captain Han Xue led a thousand regular soldiers to clear the roadblocks.

Lin Motong's Zombie Horde re-formed their ranks, with low-level zombies spreading out along both sides of the bridgehead like a black tidal line.

Not long after.

The broadcast from the other side of the bridge changed.

It was no longer hoarse slogans.

A low, solemn hymn rang out simultaneously from the abandoned streetlights, emergency loudspeakers, and vehicle shortwave radios.

"Repent."

"Humanity should not slaughter one another."

"Hand over the Ark and redeem your sins."

Captain Han Xue frowned.

"Maintain formation."

As soon as she finished speaking, two newly recruited soldiers in the front row rubbed their temples at the same time.

"Captain Han, I have tinnitus."

"This sound isn't right."

The Zombie Horde's formation also slowed down by a beat.

A low-level zombie suddenly lunged at its neighbor, its teeth sinking into rotting flesh.

Lin Motong stood by the command vehicle, clutching her teddy bear, a black and red light flickering in her eyes.

"Daddy."

Her voice was very low.

"They heard something dirty."

Lin Yuan looked up.

"It's not the broadcast."

The hymn continued to press down.

The male voice became even deeper.

"You have killed your own kind."

"You have betrayed humanity."

"You are all sinners."

A soldier suddenly knelt in the snow.

His eyes were fixed on the front, his lips trembling.

"Mom... I didn't mean to leave you behind..."

His gun barrel began to sway wildly.

Another soldier covered his ears and turned to run.

"The zombies are coming! They're all coming!"

Captain Han Xue kicked the first kneeling soldier over and drew her gun, pressing it against the second person's helmet.

"Whole team, kneeling position, suppress your weapons!"

"Unload each other's magazines!"

"If anyone's gun barrel leaves the ground, the military police will break your hands directly!"

The team was firmly suppressed by her.

But the advance had stopped.

The next second, the second defense line of Wan City opened fire.

Mortar shells landed on the outskirts of the Zombie Horde.

Boom!

Several zombies were blown to pieces.

The low-level Zombie Horde was disrupted by the Holy Sound, and the edges began to bite each other.

Captain Han Xue's forehead was covered in sweat, yet she still used hand signals to direct the soldiers to check each other's firearms.

Wang Ya stood on top of the armored vehicle, light golden water ripples rotating at the edges of her gray-white irises.

She raised her hand.

The water vapor from the distant river was drawn into white lines, crossing the bridge deck and slamming into the mortar positions.

In the dead of winter, the water mist froze into a shell of ice.

Three mortars were silenced on the spot.

B2 Energy Level.

Tang Qiqi bit her straw, staring at the relatively stable mental fluctuation curve of shadow protector no. 2.

"This is a combo of artillery and verbal bombardment."

Liu Qing synchronized the analysis.

"There are at least three sub-signal sources in Wu City."

"The main signal comes from the Catholic church ahead."

"The degree of influence is related to unit density. The more concentrated the low-level units are, the more severe the chaos."

Lin Yuan did not wait.

"Silence the entire army."

The order was given.

All vehicle communications switched to text commands.

Non-essential channels were closed.

Captain Han Xue's team lay prone on the ground.

The military police pressed several collapsing soldiers into the snow to cool them down.

Liu Qing activated strong electromagnetic interference.

The piercing hymn was suppressed into intermittent static.

Lin Motong hugged her teddy bear tightly, the black and red light in her eyes spreading.

"Disperse."

The Jiang City Zombie Horde immediately diverted.

The originally dense black line was split into dozens of strands, spreading out over a three-kilometer range.

The mutual biting stopped spreading.

The prayer sound in the Wancheng broadcast glitched for a moment.

The frontline soldiers lay in the snow, watching the chaos being suppressed little by little.

Lin Yuan looked at the map.

"Qin Yumo, the first signal tower."

"Grandmaster Ling Suzhen, the second one."

Qin Yumo drew her twin blades.

"Yes."

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen tightened her bandages.

She didn't speak.

There was still the third one left.

The Catholic church.

That was also the outer relay for the main signal.

Tang Qiqi suddenly patched in.

"Great Demon King, shadow protector no. 2 can go."

Tang Qiqi spoke very quickly.

"I've been observing the data just now."

"The Holy Sound has extremely low impact on purely mechanical units."

"shadow protector no. 2 has an onboard soundproofing layer, and the pilot is Iron Arm King; he doesn't like to use his brain much anyway."

Iron Arm King looked up from the maintenance vehicle.

"Princess Qiqi, are you complimenting me?"

Tang Qiqi: "Yes, complimenting your brain's resistance to contamination."

Shadow stood to the side, silent for two seconds.

Iron Arm King was wearing shadow protector no. 2.

He looked at Shadow.

"Brother Shadow, do I look like I can sit at the table this time?"

Shadow only said: "Don't die where I can't see you."

Iron Arm King grinned.

"Then I'll run slower."

Lin Yuan approved.

Lu Yan raised his hand, reshaping the earth.

Earth walls rose along the bridgehead, blocking the Wancheng line of fire.

Sister Long led the female prisoner camp to charge out from the flank, blocking bullets from another direction.

"Get out of my way!"

The three of them circled out during the chaos.

The first sub-tower.

Qin Yumo stepped over the outer wall of an abandoned building.

Two B-rank Espers had just appeared, and she had already charged into the crowd.

Her blade flashed repeatedly.

Pain maxed out her Wild Resonance.

Before the last person could detonate the explosives, she pinned him to the broadcast box with a blade.

Boom!

The sub-tower lost power.

The second tower.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen sneaked along the wall.

In the wind and snow, she was like a broken blade.

Several guards were still listening to the hymn and praying.

The next second, she smashed through the broadcast machine box with a knee strike.

A short blade slashed across their throats.

She picked up half an antenna pole from the ground and stuck it next to the corpse.

The third signal source.

The Catholic church.

Along the way, Tang Qiqi recorded the data for shadow protector no. 2.

[Mental stress 96.8%]

[Armor stress 97.5%]

"Iron Arm King, don't rush. Just like the data collected before, mental interference has no effect on the machine."

"How does your body feel?"

Iron Arm King licked his lips inside the mecha.

"Princess Qiqi, I am, at the very least, a B-rank physical-type Esper."

"Remember to sync this cool video of me for Brother Shadow to see."

Just as Iron Arm King smashed open the side door, the ground suddenly split open.

Metal spikes popped out from under the snow, piercing the shoulder of shadow protector no. 2.

Alarms flooded the screen.

[Shoulder armor damage 17%.]

[crystal core slot stress increased by 28%.]

A thin, tall man walked out on the second floor of the church.

A-rank Metal-type Ability.

He looked at shadow protector no. 2 and laughed.

"Sending toys to die?"

Tang Qiqi shouted over the communication.

"Iron Arm King, retreat!"

"The machine can't withstand an A-rank!"

Iron Arm King raised his shield.

The second row of metal spikes stabbed into the shield arm.

He groaned.

"I can still hold on."

The thin, tall man raised his hand.

All the steel bars in the church dome bent simultaneously, pressing down like an iron cage.

shadow protector no. 2 was forced to one knee.

White steam sprayed from the mecha's joints.

Iron Arm King felt a sweetness in his throat, and blood flowed down his chin into his collar.

In front of Tang Qiqi, three red lines maxed out simultaneously.

[Warning! Leg hydraulics overloaded.]

[Warning! Shield arm structure deformed.]

[Warning! crystal core slot approaching critical limit.]

Tang Qiqi's eyes turned red.

"If you hold on any longer, the leg hydraulics will explode!"

Iron Arm King stared at the signal tower base in the center of the church.

There, the Holy Sound was still playing.

His voice was muffled.

"Brother Shadow said, don't die where he can't see you."

"I'm not dead."

"I'm just blocking for a bit."

He forcibly activated the overload.

All the energy in the crystal core slot was pressed into the shield arm.

One side of shadow protector no. 2 lit up with a red glow.

The thin, tall man's expression changed.

"Madman!"

Iron Arm King didn't dodge.

He pushed against the metal spikes and charged to the second floor.

His shield arm grabbed the thin, tall man, and also grabbed the signal tower base.

"Princess Qiqi."

"Remember to record the data."

Boom!

The explosion blew away the snow mist in the church.

The third signal source was extinguished.

The frontline broadcast was left with only electrical static.

Captain Han Xue stood up.

"Whole team, stand up."

"Reload."

The soldiers re-formed their ranks.

The black and red light in Lin Motong's eyes receded.

The low-level Zombie Horde regained obedience and pressed toward the second defense line of Wan City.

Without the Holy Sound, the Wan City defenders began to run around in chaos.

The Zombie Horde tore open a gap.

Lu Yan rushed into the church ruins and dragged out the half-destroyed shadow protector no. 2.

Iron Arm King was covered in blood, and one of the cat ears on his helmet was broken.

The first thing he said when he opened his eyes was:

"Brother Shadow, did I block the screen?"

Shadow crouched down, was silent for two seconds, and dragged him into cover.

"No."

Iron Arm King breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good."

B2 Energy Level.

Tang Qiqi buried her face in her arms for three seconds.

When she looked up again, she saved all the battle damage data of shadow protector no. 2.

"The second generation."

She sniffed.

"I'll make you full cat ears."

Control room.

Su Xiaonuan wrote the battle report.

[shadow protector no. 2 combat data collection complete.]

[Pilot severely injured, survived.]

[Three Holy Sound sub-signal sources removed.]

[Confirmed: There is suspected mental interference in Wan City, needs to be marked as a priority.]

Lin Yuan looked at the extinguished lights of the Wu City defense line.

"Regroup in place."

"Treat the wounded."

"Take stock of losses."

"Tomorrow morning, enter Wan City!"