bookbashuk Chapter 49: Cunning
Chapter 49: Cunning
Everything inside the core control center was instantly covered in pure white.
In the Jiangnan base city, thousands of miles away, many people who had just recovered from the alarm walked onto the streets in confusion. At that moment, everyone stopped in their tracks, looked up sharply, and gazed at the southeastern sky.
A new sun rises at the horizon where the sea meets the sky!
It was more dazzling than the real sun, its rays piercing through the clouds and illuminating the entire sky and every corner of the city on the ground.
After the light faded, a violent tremor came from underground, the glass curtain walls of tall buildings hummed, and the alarms of countless vehicles on the street were triggered at the same time, their sharp sirens echoing throughout the city.
People clung to the walls and railings in terror, their faces filled with the fear of the impending apocalypse.
On the front lines, just 150 kilometers from the explosion site, soldiers and members of parliament who had just retreated to a safe area turned back almost simultaneously.
They witnessed a scene they would never forget.
A massive mushroom cloud, a mixture of flames and seawater, was rising and expanding arrogantly. The seawater below was pushed aside, forming ring-shaped waves, while it tore through the thick clouds, reaching straight to the horizon.
The shockwave transformed into a visible white blast of air, carrying the power to crush steel, sweeping in all directions.
Even hundreds of kilometers away, the strong winds made it hard to stand, and your face felt like it was being cut by a knife.
"Oh My God……"
A young soldier muttered to himself, then slumped to the ground, unaware that his gun had fallen from his hand.
Jia Yi hovered in mid-air, using his energy to protect the warriors behind him. He felt the destructive energy, but felt no joy in his heart.
This is the first time that China has used its most powerful weapons on its own territorial waters.
……
The core control center of the Dome of Light.
The blinding white light lasted for more than ten seconds before slowly fading away.
"Quickly! Restore signal! Switch to backup satellite, I need to see data from the explosion's epicenter!"
With red eyes, Wang Yi, the chief technical officer, roared at his subordinates. The entire team frantically operated the control panel, and everyone's forehead was covered in sweat.
Luo Feng clenched his fists, his entire focus concentrated on the main screen that was gradually recovering its display.
Did you make it?
His heart was pounding.
Finally, the signal was restored.
That was an overhead view transmitted from a military satellite tens of thousands of meters above the ground. The moment the image became clear, a collective gasp filled the control center.
The sea area where the Thunder Dragon Emperor was originally located now has a huge circular crater with a diameter of more than ten kilometers.
The edge of the giant crater is a cliff-like fault line formed by the seawater. The surrounding seawater is roaring and rushing madly into this cavity, forming a terrifying whirlpool.
The tens of millions of low-level monsters in the explosion's core area, along with the seawater they were in, were instantly vaporized by the high temperature, leaving no trace behind.
The previously despairing, blood-red beast tide has now been abruptly wiped away, leaving a shocking fault line.
After a brief silence.
A low cheer spread through the control center, and several young technicians even hugged each other excitedly, crying tears of joy.
"We did it! We did it!"
"Great! It's dead! That monster must have been blown to smithereens!"
"Did it work?"
Wang Yi asked in a trembling voice, looking at Luo Feng with anticipation in his eyes.
Luo Feng's heart was in his throat.
He didn't see the Thunder Dragon Emperor's corpse; there was no life energy reaction on the screen, but similarly, he didn't see any corpse either.
Perhaps... it really was disintegrated at the epicenter of that cataclysmic nuclear explosion?
Just as the atmosphere in the control center eased slightly, Wang Yi, his hands trembling, prepared to connect to the wartime committee's communications to report this good news.
On the main screen, in the center of the deep pit that was being rapidly filled by seawater, at the core of the whirlpool, the water surface suddenly surged violently without warning.
Glug-glug-glug
It looked like some enormous creature was about to burst out of the water.
All the cheers abruptly ceased.
An ominous premonition enveloped everyone present.
Luo Feng's pupils suddenly contracted.
"Splash—!"
A ferocious dragon head covered in dark purple scales suddenly burst out from the churning water.
It opened its enormous maw, big enough to swallow a warship, and let out a roar that shook the heavens and the earth.
"roar--!"
There was no pain or weakness in that roar, only the overwhelming rage of someone provoked by ants.
It is none other than the Thunder Dragon Emperor!
It looked rather disheveled at that moment.
Large areas of its once-sturdy, dark purple scales had charred and peeled off, revealing dark red flesh. Several sections of its spear-like horn had also broken off.
Yet the life force it exudes remains immense.
This injury is nothing compared to its enormous vitality.
It is still alive.
A megaton-yield hydrogen bomb failed to kill it.
Inside the control center, a technician stared blankly at the pair of furious vertical pupils burning with purple lightning on the screen, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground.
A chilling, bone-chilling despair instantly overwhelmed everyone in the monitoring center.
"What a cunning beast!"
Babata screamed in Luo Feng's sea of consciousness.
It immediately pulled up the slow-motion monitoring of 0.1 seconds before the hydrogen bomb exploded, and a stream of data flooded into Luo Feng's mind.
on the screen.
At the very moment that the Thunder Dragon Emperor raised its head and unleashed a net of lightning in an attempt to intercept the hydrogen bomb.
Its massive body, with astonishing speed, plunged straight down into the seabed, thousands of meters deep, like a torpedo.
Not only that!
A powerful mental pressure from a royal-level monster erupted, forcibly commanding all sea monsters within the blast radius to surge from the deep sea to the surface at any cost.
Above its head, a living shield thousands of meters thick was forcibly built up from the flesh and blood of tens of millions of its kind.
Babata's furious, cracking voice echoed in Luo Feng's mind.
"Luo Feng! Did you understand? Its lightning attack was a feint! It was meant to draw our attention! Its real purpose is to dive into the deep sea and use those cannon fodder as shields!"
"The energy and high temperature of the nuclear explosion were absorbed by the surface seawater and those tens of millions of cannon fodder monsters! By the time the shockwave and heat reached the depths of the ocean, tens of thousands of meters deep, their power was reduced by more than 90%!"
"It only suffered minor superficial injuries! With its royal-level cell activity, this injury will be fully recovered in just a few minutes!"
Babata hadn't finished speaking.
On the main screen, the Thunder Dragon Emperor, having vented his rage, once again sank into the sea with his enormous body.
On the map, the purple dot representing it did not stop; instead, it rushed straight toward the already dangerous southeastern theater defense line at an even faster speed.
In the corner of the screen, the estimated arrival countdown, which had disappeared, reappeared in blood red—04:58!