"We are the roar of silence—!!" Duoduo followed closely behind, spreading her arms like a little bird spreading its wings.

The sound waves converged into a pillar, soaring straight into the sky.

The second Silent Bee's suppressor suddenly emitted a sharp alarm and then exploded, causing the entire aircraft to plummet like a kite with a broken string.

The third aircraft attempted to escape, but its flight path was locked by the sound waves. It was as if it had crashed into an invisible wall, and it was forced to a standstill in the air. Its fuselage twisted and deformed, and it finally disintegrated with a bang!

"We took them down!" Xiao Yin jumped up, her eyes filled with disbelief. "We...we really defeated them with our singing!"

Chapter 1372 The Most Primitive Weapon

Su Ting, panting, laughed freely: "I've said it before—sound is the most primitive weapon in this world."

Xiaoman stared blankly at her hands, as if she couldn't believe that the power came from her.

"I...I did it?" she murmured.

"You did more than that!" Duoduo rushed over and hugged her. "You're the best lead singer! Even better than the teachers at school!"

Su Ting walked towards her and squatted down: "Xiaoman, do you still remember the song the school choir sang during their last rehearsal?"

Xiaoman nodded, her voice softening: "It was 'The Voice of Spring'... That afternoon, the alarm went off, and the Qingyin Guard rushed in and dragged us away one by one. They said... the song would awaken 'things that shouldn't be awakened'."

“That’s what they’re afraid of.” Su Ting pointed to the ever-expanding sound wave circle on the terminal. “Every song you sing awakens dormant signals. 87.6MHz is not an ordinary frequency—it’s a key, a coordinate, and the unspoken ‘I’m still here’ in the hearts of all those who have been silenced.”

Xiao Yin suddenly whispered, "Wait... there's a response!"

She turned the terminal toward them.

On the screen, a faint but clear signal is responding—from the West End.

Next up is the South District, one more.

Another one in the North District.

Three red dots flashed simultaneously.

“It’s not ruins…it’s people.” Xiao Yin’s voice trembled. “Someone is responding to us on the radio! They’re listening! They’re responding to ’87.6’!”

Su Ting gazed at the silent towers in the distance and said softly, "So... it's not us looking for them. It's them, waiting for us to speak."

Duoduo suddenly looked up, her little face full of seriousness: "Brother, what are we going to sing next?"

Su Ting stood up, drew his Vibration Blade, the blade gleaming coldly in the moonlight.

“Sing a song—” he said with a smile, “a song that can wake up the whole city, but keep Qingyinwei awake.”

Xiaoman took a deep breath and clenched her little hands into fists: "Then... I'll choose."

She looked at Su Ting: "Is it 'Behind the Iron Bars'?"

Su Ting was taken aback, then burst into laughter: "That's right. It's that one—the first song of resistance that was completely banned back then."

Xiao Yin quickly adjusted the frequency: "I'll connect to the backbone network and push the signal to the maximum."

"Alright." Su Ting raised the vibrating blade and pointed it at the night sky. "Then—let's begin."

Xiaoman cleared her throat, her first words soft yet sharp as a drawn blade:

Behind the iron gate, someone is still awake...

Duoduo continued: "Beneath the chains, the heartbeat never stopped..."

Su Ting closed his eyes and slowly added in a deep voice:

"And we—will shatter the silent night and return."

The terminal screen suddenly burst into bright light, and the signal surged across the city like a tidal wave.

Thirty kilometers away, in an old broadcasting center buried deep underground, an indicator light that had been dormant for ten years suddenly—

Bright.

A hoarse yet resolute male voice came from the abandoned microphone:

“I am Echo 1… Signal received. We… have never been silent.”

Behind the iron gate, someone is still awake...

"Beneath the chains, the heartbeat continues..."

"And we—will shatter the silent night and return."

The three sounds rang out in unison, like a knife cleaving through the deep night. The sound waves crashed against the remaining base of the Silent Tower, and the once indestructible alloy structure emitted a low groan, as if an ancient bell had been struck for the first time.

The signal strength on the terminal screen surged dramatically, and red dots lit up like wildfire, spreading from the west, south, and north districts, all the way to the slums on the edge of the east district. One after another, faint but resolute responses lit up. No longer isolated islands, but a continuous network of fire.

Chapter 1373 I'm at the Old Ironworks

"Signal spread rate has reached 83%!" Xiao Yin's fingertips flew across the screen, her voice trembling with excitement. "The main audio network is fully connected! We... we really connected the entire ruined city!"

Su Ting didn't turn around. He looked up at the sky, where the blood-red alarm light was still flashing in the distance, but the light had begun to tremble.

“Can you hear that?” he whispered. “The whole city is singing along with us.”

Suddenly, a brand new frequency cut in at 87.6MHz, accompanied by noise, yet exceptionally clear—

"This is 'Nightingale B-9,' I heard it... I fucking heard it!" A woman's hoarse voice boomed over the loudspeaker. "Ten years ago they cut my vocal cords, saying I had 'overdrive transmission,' but now... I'm singing with my lungs! I'm singing with my bones! Can you hear me?!"

Immediately afterward, another boy's voice broke in, tinged with laughter and tears: "This is 'Grey Kids,' I'm at the old ironworks! There are thirty of us, all holding megaphones! We sing! We shout! We won't shut up!"

One voice after another flooded the channel, like a river sealed for ten years finally bursting its dam. Crying, laughing, roaring, singing... They had no training, no rhythm, but there was something incredibly unified about them—it was the "I am here" that they dared to say after being suppressed for too long.

Duoduo's eyes reddened as she listened, and she threw herself into Xiaoman's arms, crying, "Sister! They're all here! They're all listening to us!"

Xiaoman hugged her tightly, tears streaming down her face: "I...I'm not the only one...I'm not a monster..."

“Of course not,” Su Ting said softly, raising his hand to wipe away her tears. “You are the spark. Now, the fire has been lit.”

Xiao Yin suddenly looked up sharply: "Wait—there's a new signal! A high-intensity directional wave, coming from the direction of the old city's main control tower! It's not suppression, it's not interference... it's... it's a broadcast protocol response?!"

Everyone was startled.

On the screen, a string of encrypted code is being automatically parsed, eventually transforming into a line of text:

[Frequency locked: 87.6MHz]

[Identity Authentication: Agora Key - Level 1 Access]

[Command Request: Take over citywide broadcast control? Y/N]

"What?!" Xiao Yin's eyes widened. "Level 1 clearance? Only... only the highest commander of the Qingyin Guard has this kind of clearance..."

“No.” Su Ting stared at the line of text, a slow smile spreading across his lips. “Only ‘Awakeners’ can trigger it. Before that purge, the first group of rebels planted a backdoor in the system’s core—as long as someone awakens the sound network with the correct frequency and the correct harmonic structure, they can take over the broadcasting center of the control tower.”

“You mean…” Xiaoyin’s breathing quickened, “we can… control the entire silence system?”

“It’s not us.” Su Ting looked at Xiaoman and Duoduo. “It’s them. It’s this song, it’s this harmony. It’s the 87.6MHz ‘heartbeat’.”

He turned around, knelt on one knee, and looked Xiaoman in the eye: "Xiaoman, do you want... the whole city to hear you sing?"

Xiaoman was stunned, her lips trembling slightly.

"Can I...can I?"

“You’ve done it.” Su Ting chuckled. “Now, there’s only one last step—pressing ‘Yes’.”

Xiao Yin took a deep breath, her finger hovering over the confirmation button: "Once confirmed, we'll take over the main control tower's broadcast system, and the suppression fields of all the Silence Towers will be temporarily shut down... But at the same time, the elite of the Qingyin Guard will be deployed in full force. We have no way out."

Chapter 1374 What are we waiting for?

"An escape route?" Su Ting stood up, the vibrating blade twirling lightly in his hand, emitting a low hum. "From the moment we stepped onto these ruins, we never considered retreating."

Duoduo suddenly raised her little hand: "I'm voting! I want my mom to hear me sing! She must be somewhere waiting for me!"

Xiaoman looked at her, then at Su Ting, and finally nodded slowly: "I... I also want the teacher to hear. I want to tell her... I haven't forgotten 'The Voice of Spring'."

Xiao Yin smiled, tears welling in her eyes: "Then what are we waiting for?"

Her fingertips touched the ground.

"Ding--"

A crisp system notification sounded.

At the same instant, all the silent towers in the city went out.

Immediately afterwards, the giant loudspeaker at the top of the main control tower, symbolizing absolute order, slowly turned towards the ruins.

The next second, an 87.6MHz signal surged into the entire network like a torrent, and Xiaoman's voice, transmitted through thousands of loudspeakers, resounded throughout the old city:

Behind the iron gate, someone is still awake...

"Beneath the chains, the heartbeat continues..."

"And we—will shatter the silent night and return."

As the song reached them, a homeless man on a street corner sat up from his tattered blanket, his fingers trembling as he reached for his long-damaged hearing aid; in an underground shelter, an elderly man with white hair suddenly opened his eyes and rushed to a radio that had been gathering dust for years in the corner; and in the patrol car of the Qingyin Guard, a young soldier suddenly took off his helmet and murmured, "This melody... is a lullaby my mother used to sing to me..."

The old city has awakened.

At this moment, in the "Silent Central Hub" 300 meters underground, the main control hall was deathly silent.

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