True Apocalypse Game

Only after drilling into the massive tentacle did Shen Feng realize this thing was completely different from an octopus.

The flesh inside wasn’t just biological cellular tissue. It was also filled with a large amount of silicon-based material, along with filament-like ducts resembling a metallic network that ran through all the tissues.

Moreover, there were also distinct traces of residual electromagnetic radiation.

Shen Feng pondered for a moment, then directly controlled his Gray Tide avatar to break down into globules of Liquid Metal. It fused into the entire tentacle and began to analyze its various data, transmitting the relevant information back to the cloud via the network.

Back in the small courtyard in the suburbs of Tai City, Shen Feng and Jingwei stood dazedly in the living room, as if they had fallen asleep.

They had both projected their consciousnesses into the network and were rapidly analyzing the various pieces of information obtained from the giant beast’s tentacle.

This included its material composition, biological type, body-shape simulation, strength tests, and so on.

The Gray Tide avatar sent to the tentacle’s location had been specially modified. Its own strength was extremely low, but it was equipped with various analysis abilities. At this moment, a massive amount of data had entered the cloud, appearing before Shen Feng and Jingwei.

A waterfall of data streams poured through Shen Feng’s consciousness, giving him a completely new understanding of this Exotic Giant Beast.

It was a hybrid of carbon-based and silicon-based life, with some non-Earth metallic elements forming its basic structure. This made its body extremely tough, enough to withstand conventional thermal weapons.

If this thing had been discovered at any other time, and if the new elements from another Star Realm within its body had been found, it would have basically guaranteed a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

But discovering such a substance inside a colossal beast radiating naked malice would only cause humanity to panic.

At the same time, its shell was structured to absorb light and cosmic rays for energy.

Although it possessed blood, it didn’t require oxygen. The blood acted more like a lubricant for its limbs.

This thing could survive on cosmic radiation alone.

As for food...

According to Shen Feng’s analysis, some substances in its body were very similar to those found on meteorites. It seemed to feed by devouring and digesting cosmic dust.

Alternatively, it could also consume the ice crystals that had existed for millions of years in meteorites and comets, or even the various gases within cosmic dust clouds.

Because of its unique composition, the living creature itself emitted electromagnetic radiation, which was somewhat troublesome for the Gray Tide.

Of course, examining a single tentacle posed no problem.

Although this creature lived in a zero-gravity environment in outer space, its structure was incredibly sturdy, as if it were built to withstand a high-gravity environment.

There were two possibilities. One was that its native space environment experienced high-gravity conditions. The other was that it had once lived in a high-gravity environment and had entered space for some reason.

Soon, based on the tentacle and its cell tissues, Shen Feng and Jingwei worked together to create a complete simulation of the giant beast.

It was a monster with numerous limbs and tentacles, somewhat resembling a colossal, shelled octopus.

With tens of thousands of tentacles and limbs, it looked like a cross between an octopus and a cockroach.

At its longest, this thing was nearly five thousand meters long. It looked like a veritable mountain—a true behemoth.

A few thousand meters might just sound like a number, but if a behemoth like this were to appear on land, it would be a titan that would make humans feel infinitely small.

For perspective, Mount Tai and Huang Mountain are only a little over a thousand meters high, and even Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, is just over eight thousand meters.

If this unknown beast were to truly appear on Earth, it would be an island in the sea and a mountain on land.

No wonder it had managed to throw an Eagle Country carrier fleet into chaos and wipe it out with just a single main tentacle. They weren’t even in the same league.

Fortunately, however, by analyzing the tentacle, Shen Feng and Jingwei also obtained its DNA information. This allowed them to roughly deduce its overall form and locate its central nervous system.

In other words, the equivalent of its brain.

As long as they could destroy its central nervous system, they could essentially kill the beast for good.

This was a piece of critically important information.

The power of humanity’s current bunker-buster missiles, capable of penetrating dozens of meters of concrete, should be equally effective against this beast that was thousands of meters long.

If that failed, there were always nukes.

After all, while the beast’s outer shell was extremely hard, it was only comparable to alloy armor. It wasn’t completely indestructible.

And if all else failed, there were Electromagnetic Railguns and nuclear weapons.

From this perspective, the beast was not entirely unbeatable.

In fact, with the right methods, defeating it wouldn’t be too difficult given humanity’s current level of technology.

By the time Shen Feng and Jingwei had finished their complete analysis of the tentacle and reached this conclusion, a full day had passed.

Shen Feng let out a long sigh of relief, feeling much more relaxed for the time being.

In a way, he much preferred this kind of head-on battle rather than dealing with things like viruses.

After all, those things were intangible and untouchable, far less satisfying than a direct, hard-hitting confrontation like this.

While Shen Feng and Jingwei were conducting their research, biolabs around the world were also intensely studying the tissue fragments of the Exotic Giant Beast they had obtained.

However, their efforts were mostly just repeating what Shen Feng and Jingwei had already done, so it wasn’t particularly meaningful.

’I might miss something in this kind of basic research,’ Shen Feng thought. ’There’s strength in numbers; maybe they’ll find something new.’

Meanwhile, at the Purification Society Arctic Base on the Arctic Ice Sheet, members of the three special forces units—Flood Dragon, Sea Lion, and Signal Flag—had fully repaired the communication equipment and connected it to the network.

In the basement, several soldiers from the Signal Flag Special Forces stood guard. Before them, packed inside a medical crate, was Pulang, the head of the Purification Society Arctic Branch, who had already lost all four of his limbs.

Beside him was another box, which contained blood-red ice crystals that had been smashed with a hammer.

They were the shattered pieces of Pulang’s limbs.

Over the past few days, he had been forced to watch as his own limbs were frozen solid, piece by piece, and then shattered.

And these Russians from the Signal Flag Special Forces in front of him had even given him morphine for the pain. They constantly gave him blood transfusions and quickly performed amputation surgery to prevent the necrotic tissue from affecting the rest of his body.

As a result, Pulang had been wide awake, forced to watch them do all of this.

That Signal Flag Captain called No. 3 was an absolute Devil. From start to finish, he had looked at Pulang as if he were a cockroach, not even treating him as a human being!

"I... I’ve already told you everything I know... Kill me... Kill me... Or just give me a shot... Please... just one more dose of morphine..." Pulang, now resembling the ’human swine’ of gruesome legend, pleaded from inside the medical crate. "My limbs are all gone, what more do you want..."

No. 3 smiled faintly and said:

"Rest assured, Mr. Pulang. During the Chechnya war, I personally watched my comrades get burned to ash and ground into paste by tanks, all at the hands of scum like you. So, I won’t have a shred of pity for a piece of trash like yourself, you can be sure of that... Your four limbs may be gone, but you still have a fifth one. And that one’s even more precious, isn’t it? Tsk tsk, I can’t wait to freeze it into a popsicle and shatter it bit by bit with a nail clipper..."

Hearing this, Pulang finally broke down completely, wailing:

"I’ll talk, I’ll talk... This is all I know! #&38457, &%AD2378JG, *#KGVN88712CHG... I don’t know what it means! The person who knew what this code meant was blown up by you people... This is all I know... Kill me... Just kill me... WAAAAHHH..."