This body structure was clearly made for land.
Thus, the idea that Titan Beasts were better at land combat than naval combat had become deeply ingrained in people's minds.
Only Dr. Chen did not seem particularly worried at this moment.
Because judging from the many battle records and behavioral patterns Beast King had displayed,
Beast King might excel at ground combat, but his naval combat ability was not weak in the slightest.
It was just unclear what this Beast King was truly best at.
"But no matter what, Shangang definitely isn't suited for naval combat. Going into the water to duel Beast King means using his weakness against the other's strength!"
One word described the latter's actions:
Suicidal!
"They're coming out! They're about to come out!"
Watching the turbulent sea and wave after wave of surging water, watching the two mountain-like figures beneath the ocean begin to emerge, everyone cried out as they watched tensely.
They all wanted to know who had claimed the final victory.
"Beast King will definitely win!"
Dr. Chen held firmly to her faith as she spoke with absolute certainty.
Beast King had to win!
Out upon the ocean, the giant beasts had already churned up towering waves, countless tons of seawater hanging from their bodies and pouring down like a string of rain-filled bubbles.
As the endless seawater gradually fell away, a burly figure stood upon the sea, looking down upon All Living Beings!
It was Beast King. It was Godzilla. It was the King of Titan Beasts. He had won once again!
One of his small, stubby arms held Shangang's corpse. No atomic breath, no charging—he had defeated Shangang head-on atop the ocean through nothing but pure physical strength. The victory was beyond dispute!
Shangang's body still twitched unnaturally from time to time, showing just how tenacious the King of Monsters' vitality was.
But he would not last much longer.
From the outside, the surface of his corpse was relatively intact, but his arms had been mutilated. Apart from his two hind legs, everything else had been ripped and torn off.
And in his abdomen...
His abdomen had been gouged open by a gigantic wound. The countless organs that should have been inside had been torn to pieces, while even more had been ripped directly out of his body.
In the end, all that remained was a dark, hollow cavity like an empty shell, seeming as though it could swallow countless people whole.
Beast King tossed Shangang's still-twitching corpse onto the sea, stomped one foot onto it, stretched out his neck, and roared toward the sky.
Beast King's bearing was peerless, reaching the pinnacle!
After killing another King of Monsters, Godzilla did not dive into the ocean and leave.
Instead, he dragged Shangang's corpse with one hand and walked onto land step by step.
With a smack, he slammed Shangang's hollow corpse onto the ground, looking thoroughly disgusted.
Although this Shangang no longer had his Poison Sac, making the surface of his body much smoother and no longer the nightmare of people with trypophobia,
he was still ugly, all things considered.
He looked a little better than the other hideously ugly Venom Steel Mountain, but that did not change the fact that he was still an ugly bastard.
Still, even after much of its internal organs had been hollowed out, a King of Monsters' corpse was immensely heavy. Even with the sand cushioning the impact, it still shook the ground when it hit the beach.
"Roar."
Godzilla gave a low roar without any further indication.
But Scylla displayed her intelligence at this moment.
After Beast King called out, she immediately ran over on all six legs.
Now that Beast King had seen her true form, she naturally did not dare retract her spider legs to disguise herself again.
That would be treating Beast King like an idiot.
She lay down lightly on the ground, lowering her head in an extremely obedient manner.
After seeing Godzilla's glorious battle record, Scylla did not think she could threaten Beast King's position in the slightest.
So by the theory of relativity...
Beast King probably would not care too much about her, right?
A black, stubby hand smacked Scylla on the head, serving as a warning to this Titan Beast.
Strength did not matter. Godzilla was not such a petty overlord.
But when a subordinate deliberately concealed something from the boss, that was irritating enough to warrant a warning.
There would be no next time. No next time.
Or if she dared try it again next time, she could experience what true kingly might meant.
"Roar."
Beast King Godzilla roared again, his roar carrying a few instructions.
There was naturally a reason he had summoned her.
And Scylla's intelligence did not disappoint him.
Scylla swiftly withdrew from her combat stance, extending her octopus-like tentacles and beginning to store water within her body.
When facing Shangang earlier, in order to keep her body light and maintain her strongest combat capability, she had instantly expelled the excess water inside her body, keeping her agility at a very high threshold.
Now that Beast King was beside her, she felt warm and secure inside.
She was not afraid of anyone anymore.
Then, she sprayed out that specially treated seawater again, washing it over Shangang's corpse.
Though there was no venom, the poisonous blood circulating through his body was still a major source of pollution and needed to be dealt with as soon as possible.
Watching Scylla work hard and gradually clean Shangang's corpse, Beast King silently turned around and stepped back into the sea.
He came upon hearing of a King of Monsters, and left after slaughtering a King of Monsters.
He departed cleanly and decisively without the slightest hesitation, leaving behind only Scylla working hard on the beach and two intact mechas staring wide-eyed at each other.
"Oh no, hurry and see how Luo Bing is doing!"
"Although Luo Bing and Junko kept saying they were fine over the comms just now, both of them are trapped inside the damaged Crimson Thunder Blade. There could still be an accident!"
Brother Li, Ace's pilot, was the first to react.
Although Scylla's cleaning work and her efforts to cleanse Shangang's corpse were quite captivating, making everyone unable to resist watching this Titan Beast,
Brother Li was still the first to realize what mattered most right now!
The three of them had come together, yet Crimson Thunder Blade had crashed and been damaged while they had completely overlooked it. That was bad—very bad.
Ace and Crimson Typhoon quickly headed toward the place where Crimson Thunder Blade had crashed. Halfway there, they received a transmission from Crimson Thunder Blade.
Junko spoke first:
"Senior Li, Seniors Zhou, Luo is fine. His old problem just flared up a little, and he has a slight headache. He's already much better now."
After Crimson Thunder Blade crashed, Luo Bing had clutched his head and continued pretending to be ill.
Junko was initially startled, thinking the aftereffects of piloting a mecha alone had acted up.
But Luo Bing later told her that he had suffered from these headaches even before becoming a pilot, and normally he could suppress them.
Perhaps too much had happened these past few days, leaving him overly exhausted and causing this condition to flare up.
"Brother Li, Brother Zhou, I'm fine. I'll be okay after resting for a while."
Hearing Luo Bing's voice through the comm channel and sensing that he sounded no different from usual, not as if he were forcing himself to endure it, they finally relaxed.
Once the two mechas worked together to carefully extract the cockpit from Crimson Thunder Blade's damaged body, the rescue was finally complete.
When the cockpit hatch opened, Luo Bing was resting his head on Koizumi Junko's lap. He did not look like he was in any pain at all. In fact, he seemed to be enjoying himself.
Seeing this, Brother Li, as someone with experience, could not help laughing and scolding him.
"What a waste of worry. You look pretty comfortable to me. Where do you look like you have a headache?"
The Zhou Brothers, pilots of Crimson Typhoon, also laughed despite themselves.
They said that after surviving such a disaster, all they could say was that he had a big heart.
After the group laughed for a while, Commander Lan's voice finally came through.
"I'm relieved that all of you are safe."
"This operation to exterminate Shangang can be concluded ahead of schedule—an overwhelming success!"
The Zhou Brothers had special feelings toward Pipi Shrimp, so they asked at this moment,
"Commander Lan, how is Pipi Shrimp? Nothing too serious, right?"
Commander Lan's voice remained as steady as ever.
"It's in fairly good condition. Only one boiler exploded, and the outer armor needs repairs. A major overhaul at the yard will take care of it."
The Zhou Brothers visibly breathed a sigh of relief.
The transmission from Commander Lan's side sounded again, as though she wanted to say something else.
But this time, what the pilots heard was not Commander Lan's voice, but the somewhat hoarse voice of an old man.
The old man spoke loudly, his voice carrying an intense, almost crazed demand.
"Shangang's corpse!"
"I want Shangang's corpse! We can bring it back, right? We definitely can, right?"
"I want Shangang's corpse! We have to have it! We absolutely must bring that Shangang's corpse back! No matter how great the cost, it doesn't matter, because it's worth it! This corpse is worth it!"
The old man's words were somewhat disjointed, and he sounded extremely anxious, but his meaning was very clear.
He meant nothing else. He simply wanted Shangang's corpse. In the old man's eyes, any price was worth paying for it.
What should have been Commander Lan's command channel had suddenly been invaded by this voice.
Especially since the first thing this voice said was "at any cost" and "must obtain it."
In the history of humanity's struggle against monsters, those were never words that could be carried out completely.
Unless it was a war that threatened the destruction of a nation, in which case they could indeed reach the point of "accomplishing a strategic objective at all costs."
But the current situation was favorable...
And this was not an order issued by Commander Lan, but an unfamiliar voice.
The Zhou Brothers, pilots of Crimson Typhoon, spoke with some confusion.
"May I ask who this old gentleman is?"
"We are speaking with Commander Lan. Interrupting like this is a violation of protocol."
Abruptly interrupting a top-secret conversation between a commander and mecha pilots was something that would get someone arrested on the spot and thrown into prison to await judgment in any region.
It was only because Shangang had already been dealt with that everyone had the leisure to chat, without much sense of urgency.
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