mchenry-crisis.org Chapter 113 Sea Monster Tide
Chapter 113 Sea Monster Tide
Song Chen could guess who released this spiritual energy; it couldn't be anyone else but his teacher, Zhou Wangyue.
Throughout the entire Great Xia Dynasty, only a Grandmaster could condense spiritual energy into such a fine membrane from a distance of 100 kilometers and cover a specific target with it.
And the only one willing to do this for him was Zhou Wangyue.
Song Chen took a deep breath, the sea breeze filling her lungs, salty and icy.
He exhaled, and white vapor dispersed in the darkness.
Just then, footsteps sounded behind them.
He turned around and saw that the person who came was Zhao Kunlun.
He held a telescope in his hand, looking at the sea, his face flickering in and out of focus in the dim light of the psionic particles.
Zhao Kunlun was a little nervous. As the deputy commander of the Yunbo Island base, he had fought at sea for half his life and faced countless beast tides, yet he was still nervous.
It wasn't cowardice, it was reverence—reverence for the sea, reverence for sea creatures, reverence for death.
Suddenly, the sea changed.
The sea, which was pitch black just a second ago, lit up the next second, not by light, but by light coming from within.
Thousands upon thousands of sea beasts simultaneously released their spiritual energy, and the fluctuations of their blood and qi converged to form a huge, flowing curtain of light on the sea surface.
The light screen changed color from dark blue to light blue to blue-white to white, as bright as the midday sun, so bright that it was blinding, and then the light screen shattered.
At the same time, sirens blared throughout the base, and tens of thousands of soldiers on standby began to take their posts.
The sea splits apart from the middle, like a pair of invisible giant hands tearing a hole in the ocean.
From the crack, a huge figure rose from below the sea surface.
It was taller than the tallest building on Yunbo Island, thicker than the thickest section of the breakwater, and larger than any strange beast Song Chen had ever seen.
Its body is like a mountain, with its gray-black skin covered with deep wrinkles, and within those wrinkles flows a dark red, magma-like light, which is its vital energy, so thick that it is visible to the naked eye.
Its head resembles a huge, flattened ball, with two eyes on top of its head like two searchlights, their yellow vertical pupils shining brightly in the darkness.
His mouth is located below his head. When he opens it, he reveals a dense array of inward-growing teeth, each one as big as Song Chen's.
Fourth-tier upper stage, Giant Whale Beast, one of the three royal families of alien beasts.
This giant whale was so large that its every breath created waves on the sea, and its every movement caused the entire island to tremble slightly.
As it rises from below the sea surface, seawater pours down its body, crashing onto the surface like a waterfall and creating waves tens of meters high.
The waves spread outwards, one after another, crashing against the breakwater, against the rocks, and onto Song Chen's face.
Song Chen didn't move; he looked at the giant whale calmly.
Then the whale opened its mouth, not to attack, but to summon.
It emitted a sound from deep within its throat, almost inaudible, yet a vibration that could be felt deep in one's bones.
The sound pierced through the air, through the seawater, through the island's rocky strata, spreading in all directions.
It is summoning its people, its followers.
The sea exploded, literally exploded.
Countless sea creatures leaped out from beneath the surface of the sea at the same time, like cannonballs being launched from the water.
Some of them looked like fish, some like snakes, some like turtles, some like shrimp, some like crabs, and some like monsters that Song Chen couldn't name, with distorted shapes, as if forcibly kneaded together by psychic energy.
Their sizes range from a few meters to tens of meters, and their scales, shells, and skin gleam with various colors under the reflection of the psionic light screen.
The eyes are yellow, green, red, or white; some are on the top of the head, some on the sides, and some on other parts of the body.
When it opened its mouth, it revealed rows of serrated teeth, some of which still had bits of meat from the previous meal clinging to them.
Their figures filled the sea, densely packed, covering everything, stretching from the foot of the breakwater to the horizon.
Tens of thousands of strange sea creatures crowded together, piled up on top of each other, and trampled on the bodies of their companions to move forward.
The seawater was pushed out of the water by their bodies, flooding the reefs, flooding the beach, and crashing against the bottom of the breakwater.
Countless hissing, roaring, howling, and shrieking sounds mingled together, making Song Chen's eardrums buzz and creating a chilling sound that seemed to come from the depths of hell.
Zhao Kunlun's voice came from beside his ear.
"Let me tell you a little secret: Yunbo Island base isn't just an outpost; there's a research institute here that specializes in studying sea monsters."
"The offspring of the Beast King are often captured and dissected, making great contributions to humanity's fight against the alien beasts."
Song Chen frowned upon hearing this, realizing there was more to this beast tide than met the eye.
The research institute on this island conducts experiments on their own kind every day.
Vivisection, psionic injection, gene editing, organ transplantation—everything imaginable and unimaginable is carried out here.
Many of the captured sea beasts were offspring of the Beast King, leaders of their herds, and rulers of this sea area.
Their pain and fear spread throughout the entire ocean through psionic fluctuations.
"Artillery crew, fire!"
Zhao Kunlun, standing beside him, had already entered command mode.
His voice exploded like a thunderclap, followed by the simultaneous roar of the psionic cannons on the breakwater, their blue-white flames blazing brightly in the darkness.
The psionic cannonballs streaked across the sea, leaving long trails as they landed in the area where the sea monsters were most concentrated.
Each shell that landed exploded into a blue-white sphere of light tens of meters in diameter. Everything within the sphere's range—sea creatures, seawater, and reefs—was vaporized by the high temperature and shockwave.
With one shot, dozens of sea monsters turned to ashes, but more sea monsters continued to advance, stepping over the corpses of their companions.
As the sea monsters approached, the machine gun team joined the battle.
The bullets from the psionic machine gun were like streaks of fire, carving bloody furrows through the horde of sea monsters.
The bullet pierced through the body of one sea monster and continued flying, penetrating the second, third, and fourth.
The scales of a Tier 1 sea beast are as fragile as paper in the face of psionic bullets. A Tier 2 sea beast can withstand a few bullets, but it cannot withstand continuous fire.
The scales of the third-tier sea beasts are thick, and bullets from the psionic machine gun can only leave shallow dents, but the dense barrage can still wipe them out.
The artillery barrage lasted for about twenty minutes.
In twenty minutes, tens of thousands of sea monster corpses floated on the sea surface, their dark blue, dark red, and dark green blood turning the seawater into a murky, luminous, and nauseating color.
But the sea monsters did not retreat. They continued forward, stepping over the corpses of their companions. The corpses piled up into mountains, which were then pushed down by the sea monsters behind them. After being pushed down, the mountains were piled up again, and then pushed down again.
Looking at the sky filled with artillery fire, Song Chen was surprised to find that the firepower of this small island was much stronger than that of the fortresses he had stayed in before.
It truly lives up to its name as a base situated on the sea.