True Apocalypse Game

Despite being scraped and crushed by the massive tentacles, a considerable number of the densely packed cameras and unmanned Submersibles on the seabed survived. The scene below was still visible through the remaining surveillance equipment.

The metal pillars shot upward like flagpoles, pulling taut nanofiber threads completely invisible to the naked eye. Before everyone’s eyes, they sliced through the limbs of the Exotic Giant Beast.

In the blink of an eye, the nanofiber threads had passed through dozens of tentacles, but on the surveillance feeds, the beast’s tentacles seemed completely unchanged.

It was as if nothing had happened at all.

’Did it fail?’

In the command room of the Shandong, Zhao Weiguo frowned.

Although the people of Eagle Country had insisted on taking the lead, the Electromagnetic Railgun on the Shandong was fully charged and ready to fire.

Meanwhile, its carrier aircraft had also launched and were prepared for battle.

’Maybe the Exotic Giant Beast’s body is just too tough, or perhaps it has some sort of unique magnetic field, and the nanofiber threads couldn’t penetrate its body at all...’

This thought flashed through the minds of most people present.

Just then, on the underwater image on the screen, green blood suddenly began to spread across the beast’s brightly illuminated tentacles.

In the next instant, more green blood billowed into the seawater, followed by massive chunks of flesh sloughing off the tentacles. Several were even severed into sections.

The nanofiber web had worked!

WHUMMM— A deep drone rose from the seabed, followed by the injured tentacles flailing wildly. They churned up silt mixed with green blood, immediately plunging the view into murky chaos where nothing could be seen.

A frantic undercurrent surged from the seabed toward the surface, kicking up monstrous waves like a small tsunami. Yet, the humans on the warships all broke into excited smiles.

’It worked!’

’The Exotic Giant Beast is injured!’

’It’s not invincible!’

Aboard the Ford-class aircraft carrier, Clark showed no hint of a jubilant smile. Instead, he remained perfectly calm and continued to issue orders.

"Continue sonar net detection. Prepare the nuclear sea-mine defense grid. Launch ship-to-ship missiles. Ready the drone swarms. Ready the carrier air wings. The big one’s about to come out."

The words had barely left his mouth when vertically launched missiles began streaking into the sky from the warships.

Being so fine, the nanofiber web had very little tensile strength. It could withstand this single cutting action at most before snapping completely, unable to inflict any more serious damage on the Exotic Giant Beast.

Moreover, this material was the product of cutting-edge material science labs. Only a few major powers possessed it, and in very small quantities, making it incredibly difficult to acquire. The nanofiber threads used on the seabed represented practically the entire global reserve; producing more in a short time was simply impossible.

Clark had barely finished speaking when another muffled tremor emanated from the seabed. The sonar detection network picked it up: the Space Wormhole on the ocean floor had expanded again. The Exotic Giant Beast was waving its injured tentacles, gripping the seafloor tightly as it began to pull itself out of the Space Wormhole!

On the sonar charts, the Exotic Giant Beast looked almost identical to an octopus from Earth. It was contracting its body, struggling to squeeze through the Wormhole’s aperture.

Except, in addition to its tentacles, the creature seemed to have a carapace-like growth on its head. And alongside its countless tentacles were massive limbs that resembled crab legs.

If they were to follow the pout-lipped advice of the Eagle Country President—who claimed that nobody knew monsters better than he did—humanity should have hit it with a nuke when it was halfway through the Wormhole.

However, after meticulous calculations by the world’s top spatial physicists, it was determined that a nuclear explosion near the Wormhole’s edge would likely destabilize its energy balance and possibly cause it to expand even further. Therefore, the suggestion was not adopted.

The human navies held their breath, waiting for the beast to emerge so they could deliver the fatal blow.

Soon, they had confirmation: the massive Exotic Giant Beast had now passed completely through the Space Wormhole!

This confirmation didn’t come from the surveillance monitors, which had been completely fried by the sudden, intense electromagnetic field, but from the surging waves in the center of the Wormhole Sea Region.

The waves surged hundreds of meters high. Clearly, something had emerged from the seabed, thrusting upward and forcing the water above it into a massive dome.

The super-wave rippled outward in all directions, forming another small tsunami.

The human fleet, positioned in a circular cordon dozens of kilometers away, was on high alert. The tension in the hearts of the sailors tightened.

’They hadn’t even engaged the enemy directly, yet the tsunami created by the beast’s passage through the Wormhole was already sending the fleet scrambling. How were they supposed to fight what was coming next?’

Many of them felt like ancient fishermen, setting out in small sampans to battle a great whale, knowing they could be swallowed whole at any moment.

For a modern, well-equipped navy, such a feeling was utterly unprecedented.

However, the fleet commanders, including Zhao Weiguo and Clark, appeared perfectly calm, showing not the slightest hint of tension.

The battle plan had long since been coordinated among the various national fleets, and everyone was perfectly clear on the next steps.