My physics masters couldn't possibly be grand mages.

"boom!"

The ground trembled. Dust fell from the ceiling.

Fang Tang subconsciously shrank her neck, looking at the Napoleon cake covered in dust with some annoyance.

Char silently extinguished the lantern.

The room was plunged into complete darkness.

Cindy stood by the window, raised her hand, and gently pulled back a corner of the curtain.

The dim moonlight shone in through this corner.

Then, she witnessed a scene she would never forget.

Black waves.

Countless black, smoky, tar-like substances surged through the streets.

They have no fixed shape, resembling countless earthworms tangled together.

They jostled and pushed each other, crowding the entire street, each squeeze accompanied by a tooth-grinding, sticky sensation.

Cindy's pupils contracted slightly. Her gaze passed over the black wave and landed on the rear of the group.

It was a...moving "forest".

They emerged from the depths of the fog.

The skin was dark gray, like a corpse that had been soaking for a long time.

Some were bald, their scalps covered with crisscrossing scars. Others had large tumors on their necks, hanging down to their shoulders and swaying gently with their steps. Their eye sockets were empty, like two bottomless wells.

They moved very slowly. With each step they took, the ground trembled slightly.

Soon, the giants arrived in front of them, almost as tall as the room they were in.

Char stepped forward and grabbed a corner of the curtain, trying to completely block out that little bit of light.

However, Cindy wouldn't cooperate, and no matter how hard Char tried, he couldn't pull her over.

He didn't dare to make a sound, but just glared at Cindy.

They seemed to have noticed what was happening on their side.

One of the giants slowly turned his head to look in their direction.

Char's breath caught in his throat for a moment.

His senses were sending him the highest level of warning, and his hair stood on end.

Those empty eye sockets were like abysses, seemingly capable of swallowing everything.

Char's all-knowing eye began to operate, and a bunch of gibberish and question marks appeared in front of him.

Clearly, this thing is completely outside the scope of this database's knowledge.

However, a piece of information was eventually displayed on the side, which seemed to be the rank.

But Char had no time to look, because sounds were pouring in from all directions, like countless people whispering in his ear. He couldn't make out any words, the dense cacophony of sounds sending chills down his spine.

Fang Tang abruptly covered her ears and crouched down. Her shoulders were trembling violently, and she let out suppressed sobs.

Su Ming gritted his teeth, the veins on his forehead bulging, his fingers digging into the edge of the table until his knuckles turned white.

The others weren't much better off either.

Cindy frowned, but she seemed unaffected, calmly meeting the gaze of the giant before her.

Then.....

"boom!"

The sound of shattering glass exploded in the night sky, and countless fragments flew into the black waves below.

Cindy's figure darted out of the window, leaving a dark red trail in the moonlight.

He shot towards the giant like a cannonball.

The giant's empty eye sockets "looked" at her.

Its mouth opened, and it seemed that some specks of light were gathering inside.

But in the next moment...

Cindy's feet were firmly imprinted on the giant's chest.

"Bang!!"

The sound was like a heavy hammer striking a giant drum, and the surging shockwave spread outwards.

The giant's body leaned backward.

It was so big that the process of it collapsing was like a building overturning.

Time seemed to stretch out.

Using the reaction force, Cindy flipped in the air, and blood wings suddenly unfolded behind her, raising a foul wind and holding her steadily in mid-air.

The giant slowly fell backward.

"boom!!"

The earth trembled, cracks in the ceiling spread like lightning, and dust fell in a flurry.

Fang Tang was knocked to the ground, his hands bracing against the rubble, blood seeping from his palms.

Then, the black waves surged.

Countless tentacles sprang up from the waves at the same instant, like thousands of snakes raising their heads simultaneously.

They have no sensory organs, yet they are remarkably aligned in direction.

All points to Cindy.

Pointing to the window she smashed.

Pointing to this building.

Then, they moved.

The tide changed course and surged in this direction.

The giant who had been kicked down by Cindy was slowly propping himself up.

It opened its mouth.

"Ugh!!!"

It was a melodious cry, like the roar of a whale, that spread outwards.

In the distance, the moving "forest" came to a stop.

One by one, giants revealed their complete outlines from the fog.

They turned their heads at the same time.

They looked this way with their empty eye sockets.

"Waaaaah!!"

"Waaaaah!!"

The sounds, rising and falling, seemed to echo from all directions.

Melodious and ethereal, it seemed to be a chant coming from the deepest part of the sea.

But it didn't sound like any whale could make. There was no sorrow, no anger, no emotion that humans could understand.

The sound wasn't loud, yet it caused the entire city to tremble slightly. It penetrated walls, flesh, and bones, directly vibrating the internal organs of everyone.

Char could feel his teeth chattering and his bones resonating throughout his body.

The others reacted similarly; Zhao Lina began to bleed from her nose, and dizziness enveloped their bodies.

"This..." Xia's jaw muscles twitched slightly. He gritted his teeth and forced out the words, "...Madman!"

"Boom!"

A loud bang came from inside the U-shaped building, as if something had rushed in. The sound echoed through the high-rise, accompanied by a sticky, squeezing sound.

Char's expression changed, and he roared at the people around him.

"run!"

Su Ming was the first to react. He ran to Lao Zhou's side, picked him up, and kicked open the door.

They ran out, and what they saw made their pupils shrink suddenly.

The lobby on the first floor was completely covered in these things.

The pitch-black, worm-like thing convulsed wildly, like countless chopped-up earthworms still writhing madly, intertwined into a huge organ.

A strong, pungent stench quickly spread, a mixture of the smells of corpses, putrefaction, and sewers, making one want to vomit.

Then, those things began to spread up the stairs, one floor at a time, making a huge rumbling sound as they pressed against each other and moved.

"Run uphill!" Xia shouted.

They snapped out of their daze, turned around, and stumbled up the stairs along the emergency exit.

By 2072, the low-altitude economy was quite mature, with air corridors connecting almost all the buildings.

Before the apocalypse, some people might not be able to go to Earth even once in decades.

So they immediately ran towards the air passage.

But they were clearly moving slower than the monsters, and the rumbling sound approached at an astonishing speed...