True Apocalypse Game

The flames from the destroyer’s ammunition detonating were clearly visible even from a hundred kilometers away.

Just then, another fireball erupted from the distant Eagle Country Fleet—this time, it was a supply ship.

Clearly, the entire Eagle Country Fleet was under constant attack.

The Hua Country fleet, which had been withdrawing at low power, immediately cranked up its engines. They no longer cared about noise and began a full-speed retreat, now that the Eagle Country Fleet was drawing the most attention.

"What’s the status of the unmanned Submersibles? Can they get a reading on the undersea Wormhole!?" Zhao Weiguo asked urgently.

Right now, they knew nothing about the situation at the undersea Wormhole—whether a new giant beast had appeared, and if so, what kind it was.

This information was the basis for determining their next course of action.

A dark green image instantly appeared on the screen before him—the scene from the seabed.

"The unmanned Submersible cluster is advancing on the undersea Wormhole. The lead Submersible is less than a hundred meters away, but visibility is zero! Repeat, visibility is zero!"

The voice of the detection team came over the comms channel. These soldiers were operating the unmanned Submersibles, guiding their descent into the depths.

The seabed was still in chaos. Green blood flowing from the dead Exotic Giant Beast had stained the entire Wormhole Sea Region a deep green.

The closer they got to the undersea Wormhole, the deeper the green of the seawater became.

And it wasn’t just the blood; the recent violent struggle had churned up vast amounts of seabed sediment, making the water even murkier.

’Still can’t see a thing...’

"Radio communications with the Eagle Country Fleet are down due to electromagnetic interference! We can’t establish contact! A large source of electromagnetic interference has been detected on the seabed!"

New information came through, and this time, even the communications officer’s voice was trembling.

Just moments ago, two more massive fireballs had erupted in the direction of the Eagle Country Fleet. They had clearly lost two more warships.

Zhao Weiguo’s brow furrowed. The biggest problem now was that they had no idea what the Eagle Country Fleet was facing.

Just then, the image on the screen changed. The murky green water suddenly cleared, as if the unmanned Submersible had entered a pocket of clean water.

A massive, glowing Wormhole appeared on the screen. The Submersible had reached its threshold.

The Wormhole itself showed no new changes. The phantom image was a thousand meters in diameter, while the physical aperture was two hundred meters. It wasn’t expanding further.

But from within the physical Wormhole, a colossal tentacle over a hundred meters in diameter was extending straight up toward the sea’s surface where the Eagle Country Fleet was located, like a mythical chain leading to Hell!

Through the thousand-meter phantom image of the Wormhole, they could see into the space on the other side. An impossibly large beast was draped over the phantom image, its football-field-sized eyes, like two placid brown lakes, staring right back at them.

Even through the image relayed by the unmanned probe, Zhao Weiguo could feel the profound malice radiating from those eyes.

And something else, something terrifying—intelligence.

This Exotic Giant Beast radiated a sense of intelligence!

Its gaze held not just the greed of a beast, but the cruelty and curiosity of a sapient being!

Just then, the massive tentacle suddenly discharged an arc of electricity. The feed from the advancing unmanned Submersible abruptly went black, clearly destroyed by the blast.

Zhao Weiguo felt the hair on his entire body stand on end. He was a man of iron will, yet a creeping sense of despair and insignificance now rose from the depths of his heart.

He had originally thought a new Exotic Giant Beast had appeared. Only now did he realize that it was merely a single tentacle.

Compared to this new appendage, the tentacles of the previous Exotic Giant Beast were like fine hairs.

The tentacle could stretch from the undersea Wormhole for tens of thousands of meters to strike the Eagle Country Fleet dozens of nautical miles away, inflicting heavy damage.

How immense must its main body be!?

The form of the Exotic Giant Beast they had just killed already defied human imagination. This new one shattered humanity’s fundamental understanding of what a living organism could be.

But what was even more terrifying was its palpable intelligence.

If a creature like this possessed intelligence, human civilization was facing an absolute cataclysm.

Zhao Weiguo’s voice grew hoarse as he rapidly gave the order:

"Full speed, get us out of here! Full speed! Retreat to a hundred nautical miles out! Send that last bit of footage to the other fleets! Send it to everyone! Evacuate!"

He screamed the last word, his voice cracking.

All the traps humanity had laid were spent. Even if they launched a nuclear missile now, it would take too long to reach its target. Besides, they were facing just a single tentacle!

There was no chance of victory. This patch of ocean had become a Hell for fleets. They had to escape, and fast.

Some warships in the United Fleet received the information from the Hua Country fleet and also began a frantic withdrawal from the area.

Of course, many other fleets had already sensed something was wrong and had begun their own rapid retreat without needing a warning from the Hua Country fleet.

The French Fleet, in particular, had gone from retreating to returning and back to retreating without ever throttling down their engines. They simply pulled a U-turn and sped off again.

Watching the fires that continued to blossom within the distant Eagle Country Fleet, Zhao Weiguo muttered to himself:

"Clark... you’ll have to fend for yourselves now. I hope you can save your Electromagnetic Railguns..."

He had barely finished speaking when a blinding white light flared up from the distant Eagle Country Fleet. It instantly slashed through the night, shooting diagonally toward the northwestern sky, piercing the flowing clouds before vanishing over the horizon.

It was immediately followed by another, this one plunging toward the sea like a sword of white light.

Then came a barrage of blasts from the Electromagnetic Railguns, lighting up one after another, tearing through the darkness to bombard the sea and sky.

The light from some of the projectiles fired by the Electromagnetic Railguns winked out instantly, indicating a direct hit on some target. Most, however, continued on toward the distant horizon or the depths of the sea, having clearly missed.

Zhao Weiguo gritted his teeth and said:

"Shandong, prepare the Electromagnetic Railgun for long-range targeting! Launch the carrier’s drone swarm! Go help our allies from Eagle Country!"

At the same time, from the midst of other fleeing fleets, drones and fighter jets took to the sky, heading toward the Eagle Country Fleet.

Faced with this terrifying and utterly malevolent Exotic Giant Beast, they cast aside their mutual prejudices.

After all, a monster bent on wiping out humanity wouldn’t care about nationalities.

As the squadrons soared into the air to aid the Eagle Country Fleet, the Electromagnetic Railgun on the Shandong-class aircraft carrier began optical targeting, ready to fire on the Exotic Giant Beast’s tentacle the moment it revealed itself.

Just then, another fireball erupted into the sky. This explosion was far larger than the previous ones, large enough to silhouette the exploding warship and cast shadows of the surrounding fleet.

It was the George H.W. Bush-class aircraft carrier.

Before everyone’s horrified eyes, the massive aircraft carrier—weighing nearly one hundred thousand tons, over three hundred meters long, and almost a hundred meters wide—was lifted bodily into the air. It was ensnared by a colossal tentacle twice as thick as the ship itself, which crushed it in an instant. The carrier detonated in a massive fireball, illuminating the sea for dozens of nautical miles.

The raised tentacle was like a monstrous arm, and the exploding George W. Bush was its lighthouse!

That shocking scene was instantly seared into the minds of all who witnessed it, an impression that would remain for the rest of their lives.

At the same instant, the Shandong’s Electromagnetic Railgun, having used the brilliant flash to aim, fired. The metal slug transformed into a streak of white light and slammed into the colossal tentacle.

The streak of white light veered off violently. Humanity’s ultimate weapon, its final gambit, the unbelievably powerful Electromagnetic Railgun, had shattered a piece of the creature’s hide only to be deflected by the layers beneath!

Like a stone skipping on water, the glowing projectile ricocheted away and vanished into the distant night sky.

Then, the colossal tentacle flexed its might. The nearly one-hundred-thousand-ton George W. Bush was snapped in two at its midpoint, falling from the sky in a mass of raging flames and plunging into the sea.