However, the center of this lightning strike was undoubtedly Luo Bing!
The King of Monsters' resilient body was like the immovable rock of a Wisdom King, steady as a mountain!
Even with the lightning striking his body, he was not the least bit nervous. He even looked at the Thunder Beast with a hint of mockery in his eyes, as if saying:
Not enough juice, little brother.
The slightly smaller Thunder Beast nearby had already reacted to this thunderous assault!
After the first Thunder Beast launched its electric strike, it also let out a roar, and another lightning strike descended!
The signature ultimate technique of the dual Thunder Beasts descended upon this sea area. At this moment, countless electric arcs even formed an electric net that spread across all directions of the sea!
The current intensified to a deep indigo-purple, making the entire sea appear as if it were shrouded in a deep purple electric web.
At this moment, it was as if a Heavenly Tribulation had descended upon the world!
And the Beast King was the True Immortal undergoing the tribulation!
"Stop! Hurry!"
Although he was still dozens of miles away from the Beast King, Old Cao sensed something was wrong and quickly issued an order!
He squinted his eyes, watching the scene of lightning and thunder in the distant sea. He felt as though he had witnessed more grand spectacles today than in his entire life.
Quantitative change leads to qualitative change.
One Thunder Beast was not enough to whip up such a massive electric net on the sea surface.
But when two Thunder Beasts gathered so closely, and when they poured out all the electricity they had stored with their full strength, the quantitative change crossed the critical threshold and had already undergone a qualitative change!
And right amidst the flashing arcs of the sea of lightning, the massive figure of the King of Monsters was illuminated even more clearly by the lightning flashes!
Although they were separated by dozens of miles, the towering, heaven-defying image of the Beast King was already deeply imprinted in Old Cao's mind!
On the other side, Sakamoto had already knelt down in excitement, his face filled with a fanatical expression as he looked into the distance.
In this curtain of boundless lightning and a sea of thunder that felt like a divine manifestation, that Beast King standing proudly and independently was, in the eyes of an ordinary person, a god!
"He truly is a God of War!"
Old Cao muttered to himself.
He slightly regained his senses and looked around, only to see that on the horizon in all directions, apart from the electric arcs leaping everywhere, there were all kinds of fish constantly floating to the surface, exposing their bellies.
There was no need to think about the ten-mile radius; the seawater had been boiled, and countless fish had already been stewed into a pot of soup.
Even fish far away were not spared, all of them electrocuted and sent to the great beyond.
Watching the fish continuously float to the surface, bellies up, a lingering sense of fear rose in Old Cao's heart.
Fortunately, his speedboat lacked the horsepower to keep up with the Beast King and was still thirty miles away!
And fortunately, this speedboat was mostly made of composite materials, with very little conductive material!
Otherwise, their fate would have been to serve as primate seasoning to enhance the flavor of this pot of fish soup!
025. The Beast King Lives Up to Its Name!
Old Cao hadn't even had time to be surprised for long before Old Luo's inquiry came through the comms:
"Captain Cao, how are you holding up?"
"Still kicking."
Old Luo on the other end clearly breathed a sigh of relief.
Being able to speak meant he was still alive.
In a scene like this monster battle, it was either unscathed or dead with no body left to bury.
"Captain Cao, what's the situation on your end? The satellite images coming back are just a bunch of optical magnetic ripple patterns. It looks like there's some kind of light interference; we won't be able to fix it for a while. How are things over there? Are your eyes okay?"
Old Cao turned his head to look at the distant battlefield. He saw the Beast King standing amidst thousands of thunderbolts, wildly waving its short arms and forcefully tearing at the Thunder Beast's head!
It looked like it had the intention of ripping off the opponent's skull to use as a wine cup.
"Bright light? I don't feel a thing. Right now, it just feels incredibly exciting—more intense than the best sci-fi blockbusters I watched back in the day!"
Old Cao used his somewhat limited vocabulary to describe the situation to General Luo:
"General Luo, from where I'm standing, it looks like the sky and the sea are filled with lightning and thunder. But we're still far enough away that it hasn't reached us!"
"Those two monsters should be Thunder Beasts, right? The Beast King is pinning one down and beating it. It's being beaten so miserably—I've never seen a monster get pummeled like this before!"
Old Cao said, then added a final remark to himself:
"If there's time later, we should really bring over a large fishing boat. The electrocuted fish have already covered the entire surface of the sea!"
"There are enough fish in these waters to feed your base for a month or more!"
Old Luo on the other end was clearly still stunned:
"Two Thunder Beasts?"
As it burst out of the water, the Thunder Beast's electric discharge had already been activated. At the same time, the Mecha Base lost its remote tracking of the area.
In the end, they were reduced to relying on Captain Cao's visual commentary.
Upon learning the information about the monster, Old Luo quickly understood the reason behind the situation.
Various nations had conducted some research on the Thunder Beast.
After all, this monster possessed a special ability: its electrical discharge attacks specifically countered modern photographic technology, yet had no effect on the human eye.
This ability was bizarre, as if it were specifically designed to target the technological side of things.
"It's beating both Thunder Beasts into submission? Truly worthy of being a Beast King!"
"Captain Cao, you must ensure your own safety. A follow-up fleet will be there to pick you up immediately!"
"I hope it isn't made of iron!"
"Don't worry, everything has been fitted with non-conductive materials!"
Inside the base, after the monster attack occurred, Old Luo had stopped the alarm bells that should have been rung immediately.
He knew he was taking a gamble.
But the facts unfolding before him gave him the courage to make this decision.
And besides...
Although Wulei and Blue Blood Blade had not experienced actual combat, they had, after all, been deployed once.
Deploying them consecutively carried significant risks.
"This Beast King is indeed not attacking Captain Cao and the other civilians!"
"It circled the place where the Snake King died, then headed all the way east until it reached the Pacific Ocean and dragged out the Thunder Beast! That must be the real culprit who dragged away the Snake King's corpse!"
"Is the Beast King... seeking revenge? Or is its sole purpose simply to slaughter monsters?"
Clue after clue connected in Old Luo's mind, forming a clearer picture of the events.
He vaguely deduced a roadmap and increasingly realized that the Beast King's attitude toward humans was different from that of other monsters.
At the very least, this Beast King seemed to hold a neutral stance toward humanity.
As for other monsters, it was more like hostility!
"Even under the hypothesis of a Titan Beast modeled after Yamata no Orochi, Yamata no Orochi only maintained a neutral stance toward both humans and monsters, and for the vast majority of the time, it just stayed curled up in Mount Fuji, sleeping!"
Old Luo looked at the top-secret document on the table, already able to imagine how excited Dr. Chen would be—the woman who had shaved her head bald just to make washing up more convenient.
"Chen Yuxin, you lunatic... once you get here, you are not allowed to mess around!"
Thunder Beast battlefield.
Under the gaze of countless dead fish and a few people like Captain Cao, the final chapter of the Thunder Beast ended with its shrieking wail!
The Beast King rampaged across the sea, gripping the Thunder Beast's head with both hands as if it were his own toy, showing no mercy whatsoever.
Even with thousands of lightning bolts striking his body, he did not change his expression, and he even had the spare time to mock it in his heart:
Little brother, your attack has quite the momentum, but the power is truly lackluster.
Aside from a slight tingling numbness in his arms, Luo Bing felt nothing else.
Was this all the Thunder Beast had?
If that was it, then Luo Bing was already prepared to turn his opponent into his own little stars of Evolution Points!
The strength in his short arms continued to increase. Luo Bing could already hear the crisp snapping sounds coming from the Thunder Beast's body; he didn't know which part had broken, or perhaps it was all of them.
The Beast King did not care; the Beast King only wanted to twist off its head and kick it like a ball.
Luo Bing was unleashing his brute force, showing no signs of weakening at all.
However, the two Thunder Beasts on the opposite side had already begun to wilt.
The electrical power they had accumulated had been completely exhausted by this point.
Yet, their most prideful power had been utterly useless against this monster!
This...
The smaller Thunder Beast's discharge power began to wane sharply.
Following that, it turned its head and fled toward the distance.
These two Thunder Beasts were brothers from the same litter, and it was only because of the familiarity built up since childhood that they could huddle together like pack animals.
But when it came to a life-or-death crisis, their innate coldness and selfishness were magnified to the extreme.
Bloodthirsty, violent, manic, selfish, greedy, and destructive—all of the above belonged to the nature of monsters!
The smaller Thunder Beast No. 2 had not been caught by Luo Bing and escaped with ease.
But the larger Thunder Beast No. 1 would not have such luck.
Without the assistance of the second Thunder Beast, the power of the electrical discharge had weakened once again.
The force exerted by the Beast King's death grip, however, had become increasingly terrifying!
Amidst helpless wails and hisses, a crisp snap echoed out as the Beast King completely crushed the head of this Thunder Beast.
"Trying to run?"
Tossing the corpse of the first Thunder Beast aside, Luo Bing set his sights on the second Thunder Beast, which was fleeing with great enthusiasm.
He did not give chase. Instead, he opened his massive maw and gave his tail a light flick.
Hum—
Hum—
Meanwhile, once the discharge phase of the Thunder Beasts concluded, the various video feeds within the base regained their signals, restoring the visuals.
Then, everyone saw the Beast King standing proudly upon the ocean, unleashing a Charged Breath!
The Charged Breath swept across the surface of the sea, evaporating countless tons of water, before finally hitting the fleeing second Thunder Beast in the distance after a slight adjustment in aim!
With a thunderous boom, it was as if an internal power-generating organ had been detonated or some other chemical reaction had occurred.
Amidst the earth-shattering explosion, the second Thunder Beast was reduced to countless fragments, leaving not even a corpse behind!
Only then did the Beast King cease the continuous torrent of his Charged Breath.
At the Beast King's feet lay the other Thunder Beast, its head misshapen and irregular; it was clearly dead as well.
Inside the base's Command Hall, a long, deathly silence ensued.
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