Classic of Mountains and Seas Exotic Beasts

Su Qi's mouth twitched as he thought, Aren't you embarrassed? I'm embarrassed enough to carve out a World Tree with my toes!

Just as he was feeling awkward, the footage continued.

In the footage, Natalie and the others used High Technology to forcibly subdue one tribe after another, leaving the netizens sighing in amazement.

Then, after a resistance fighter appeared, a shocking scene unfolded before their eyes.

Above the resister's city-state, an unknown object rapidly descended.

The netizens stared at the strange thing in bewilderment.

Then, the very next second, they witnessed its power.

Boom!

Blazing red light surged skyward alongside a mushroom cloud!

The terrifying explosion destroyed everything in its path. Buildings shattered in the blink of an eye, while people were instantly swallowed by flames.

In just a short time, a city-state dozens of kilometers wide was completely reduced to ruins!

The netizens were stunned.

"Was that a Nuclear Weapon?"

They stared at the horrifying scene in disbelief, chills running down their spines.

Then, amid a flood of shocked comments, one discordant voice appeared.

"Isn't this too exaggerated? A Nuclear Bomb even showed up?" Old Wang Next Door complained. "Anyone who didn't know better would think this was a modern-day war!"

His meaning was obvious: he thought the movie was rather fake and over-the-top.

Yet the moment he finished speaking, someone immediately refuted him.

Brave Niu Niu said disdainfully, "What do you know? So what if Nuclear Bombs existed in prehistoric times? Besides, this isn't exaggerated at all—it actually feels rather realistic!"

"How is it realistic?" Old Wang Next Door scoffed. "Could Nuclear Bombs really have existed in prehistoric times?"

"I didn't expect you to have such self-awareness. You actually got it right!"

What?

Not only was Old Wang Next Door taken aback, but many netizens also looked confused.

Brave Niu Niu explained, "This scene reminded me of something. Similar descriptions of Nuclear Bomb-like weapons are actually recorded in the Bible, ancient Indian epics, and other texts!"

"In the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, it was recorded like this..."

"The brave Atvatika, seated firmly within a vimana as it descended into the water, launched Agneya, a weapon similar to a missile. It created and shot out dense arrows of blazing light above the enemy, surrounding them like a torrential downpour, with infinite destructive power!"

"In an instant, a thick shadow rapidly formed above the Pandavas. The sky darkened, and every compass failed in the darkness. Then fierce winds began to howl, whipping up dust and sand. Birds shrieked madly, as though heaven and earth were collapsing."

"The sun seemed to sway in the sky. This weapon emitted terrifying heat, causing the earth and mountains to tremble."

"Across vast regions, animals were burned to death and deformed, river water boiled, and fish and shrimp were all scalded to death. When the rocket erupted, it sounded like thunder, burning enemy soldiers into charred tree trunks."

Brave Niu Niu continued, "There's another record as well!"

"One day, a projectile was cast down upon the world, seemingly filled with the power of the universe—a plume of scorching smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns."

"It was an unknown weapon, like an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death. It turned some people to ashes; the corpses were burned, their hair and nails fell out, pottery cracked for no apparent reason, and even birds turned white."

"A few hours later, all food was contaminated. The soldiers leaped into the river to wash themselves and their equipment."

Brave Niu Niu explained slowly.

"People back then didn't understand what kind of weapon it was, so they could only describe it from memory. Although some descriptions are unclear due to translation, don't you find it familiar if you look closely?"

"Doesn't this sound like a Nuclear Bomb? And doesn't the contamination of food sound like radiation?"

Following Brave Niu Niu's analysis, countless netizens were dumbfounded.

"Holy shit?"

"Were the events in those ancient texts real? It feels like my worldview is cracking apart!"

"Same!"

"So what this movie is showing really happened?"

They were utterly shocked.

Old Wang Next Door's face reddened slightly as he viciously typed, "Hmph, you're quite the smooth talker! Without solid evidence, no matter what you say, I won't believe it!"

The moment he posted that, Goody-Goody Rabbit and Brave Niu Niu immediately mocked him.

Su Qi, who had been lurking in the chat, didn't know whether to call it a coincidence or something else.

"It's normal for Aliens to possess terrifying large-scale weapons, but the records in those ancient texts..."

"Were they merely ancient people's fantasies? Or perhaps..."

He thought of a crucial point.

"Even without my influence, would those Aliens still have appeared? Or could it be that Aliens had truly descended upon Earth in ancient times?"

"Since they would still descend anyway, it was entirely possible that some of their deeds had been recorded."

For a moment, Su Qi felt wary.

Even if it had only happened in ancient times... what if aliens appeared in the modern era too...

He took a deep breath, his desire to grow stronger intensifying once more.

"I have to increase my strength as soon as possible. Otherwise, if something happens..."

As the mushroom cloud subsided, a notification sounded in the ears of countless netizens.

Under this terrifying show of force and warning, humanity fell silent and no longer dared to resist.

Just like that, hundreds of thousands of humans were reduced to slaves, mining gold for Natalie and the others.

But Natalie and her group were not satisfied. In order to discover why human genes granted longevity, they began conducting experiment after experiment.

Before the astonished eyes of countless people, a spacious, exquisitely crafted laboratory—entirely silver and brimming with a High Technology feel—appeared before them in the blink of an eye.

Inside transparent glass chambers, strange animals floated in blue nutrient fluid.

Some had several tails, some had wings, some had several heads—there were all kinds of them. There were even many Human-headed and Human-faced Beast-bodied monsters!

"Th-this..."

The netizens' eyes were filled with shock.

These animals...

"Hm?"

At the Prehistoric Ruins site, Professor Chen stared at those malformed animals, his eyes widening slightly as he recalled something.

"Could they be..."

He was not the only one who was suspicious. Soon, netizens also noticed something unusual about the animals' appearances.

"Oh my god, everyone, look at the one on the left! Doesn't it look a lot like a monster described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"

At that person's reminder, even more people immediately thought of that absurd ancient text, which described a great number of bizarre creatures.

"Holy shit, holy shit, it really does! Doesn't that one look like Zheng?"

As one netizen after another pointed them out and spoke up, a shocking thought arose in their minds.

Could the things recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas have all been real?

Did those animals truly exist as well?

And were they so strange because they had been created through experiments?

That overwhelming sense of history repeating itself washed over them once again, leaving countless people with shocked expressions.