The ship had even tilted more than forty-five
degrees.
There was no doubt about it. At this distance, the tentacle's target had to be the destroyer she was on!
Gulp~ Starting tomorrow, I'm working myself to the bone!
Look!
A massive wave rose over a hundred meters high. The hundred-meter-long destroyer rocked like a tiny boat at sea,
nearly capsizing. Inside, everything
was thrown into chaos.
Juanjuan clung to the railing, barely managing to steady herself, and shouted into the radio, "Get us
out of here! Now!" But...
It was already too late.
The enormous tentacle, a hundred meters thick, had surged from the sea and was bearing down on them.
Juanjuan watched it grow larger and larger before her eyes until it filled her entire field of vision. She didn't want
to face it, but she had reached her most dangerous ordeal since Chang'an.
Boom!
"Am I... going to die here?"
She stared at the enormous tentacle. It only seemed to move slowly because it was so huge; its actual speed
far exceeded the destroyer's top speed. It blotted out the sky as it came crashing down!
"Mom..."
The word escaped Juanjuan almost by instinct. As she looked up at the tentacle, whose top she could barely see,
she remembered what had happened in Chang'an.
She had been arguing with Yuxuan then, but she had never intended to abandon Fang Yuxuan. She had thought her mother would wait until
Chang'an's troops had evacuated before leaving. But
Juanjuan had never imagined that it would be the last time she saw her mother.
All she knew was that her mother had poured her heart into the people of Chang'an. Juanjuan couldn't let them die there. Even the slightest chance
that it would lead to the insect race slaughtering humanity was too