Ignition, launch, targeting—all in one smooth sequence. More than a dozen missiles surged forward beneath the sea and locked onto the giant dragon ahead.
Fang Yuxuan kept swimming. The torpedoes behind her couldn't keep up, which eased her mind considerably. Exhaustion was setting in too, so she let herself relax
and slowed down a little. But just then, she glanced back at the torpedoes...
Some had already fallen behind. Launched from too far away, they gradually lost power
and sank toward the seabed. But then more than a dozen points of fire appeared behind them. The instant Fang Yuxuan saw them, she accelerated without thinking.
Her enormous dragon tail lashed back and forth. Missiles, however, were several times faster than torpedoes, and the flames behind her soon closed in.
She could sense the speed of those missiles through electromagnetic echoes. At this rate, there was no way she could shake them.
She had already left the coast far behind. Reaching shore now would be difficult even if she tried.
She couldn't fly, and she couldn't afford to be blown up. With no better plan, Fang Yuxuan plunged into the deep sea.
She fled; the missiles pursued. She had no attention to spare for anything behind her. Whether that damned tree lived or died was none of her concern.
What mattered now was shaking the dozen or so missiles on her tail.
Even swimming with everything she had, she could barely match their speed. If this chase kept up,
when would it ever end?!
Gritting her teeth, she swam on like mad. She didn't even have time to surface for a breath. She had to keep moving at full speed.
The weakness in her body and every instinct she had told her she couldn't take another hit.
But she didn't dare