The Calamity Returns

On the Truth, all technicians fell silent at that moment. Even Yuan Zhen hadn't guessed this outcome.

The system had completed the digital model, and the true appearance of this "Level 5 monster" was now presented before everyone.

"Dr. Yuan, what exactly is this..."

Suction cups?

Fissures?

An hourglass?

Looking at the constantly rotating 3D model in the holographic projection, Yuan Zhen voiced the answer she had imagined in her heart.

"A wormhole, a one-way wormhole." Yuan Zhen's gaze turned exceptionally cold. "Twenty minutes ago, its opening was only a third of its current size."

On the coast, Xingtian, wielding a giant axe, watched the dramatic changes unfolding in the offshore area with horror.

The colossal dark shadow had finally emerged from the water!

An irresistible gravitational force spun counter-clockwise, carving out a territory for itself on the sea!

It was a sight Yu Xiao had never imagined.

A ring with a diameter of several thousand meters suddenly appeared on the sea surface, like a reverse-thrusting vortex, repelling all the surrounding seawater!

Countless mesmerizing starlight flew out from the vortex, like a cascading, brilliant galaxy, pouring stars into the sky!

And around the periphery of the ring, a layer of light green mist rotated with it!

Yu Xiao couldn't be mistaken; that was the blood of the monsters he had personally killed!

Why did the danger come from the seabed, not the sky?

In that instant, all of Yu Xiao's questions were answered.

Monsters emerged from such wormholes!

Perhaps in the depths of the Boundless Sea, beneath Leviathan's majestic form, there was another wormhole identical to the one Xingtian was facing!

And that wormhole would only be larger than this one!

But beneath Yu Xiao's astonishment lay a hint of despair.

How was he supposed to close this wormhole?

However, before Yu Xiao could come up with an answer, the energy radar interrupted him.

[Warning, detected unknown energy fluctuations, energy level: Unknown]

A tentacle, three hundred meters long, emerged from the wormhole, reaching towards the sky!

For a moment, Xingtian's audio receiver was filled with countless overlapping sounds!

Screams, howls, roars, bellows... They all sounded at the same time, yet expressed different emotions!

These distorted and mad cries, without exception, came from monsters!

Yu Xiao suppressed the extreme discomfort in his heart and locked Xingtian's auxiliary visual module on the swinging tentacle!

He saw it clearly.

On that tentacle, thick enough to crush Xingtian instantly, Yu Xiao saw countless distorted faces!

They were carved into its brown skin like sculptures, with only countless fissures wailing like ghosts!

But this was just the beginning.

A second, a third...

More and more tentacles emerged from the massive opening, swinging and flailing wildly in the air!

The entire scene resembled a cluster of giant, flesh-colored seaweed greedily trying to grasp something!

And before these wildly dancing tentacles, Xingtian was as minuscule as a toy soldier!

Just then, the first tentacle that emerged slammed straight down towards Xingtian's location!

BOOM!

Seawater parted like a waterfall on both sides of the tentacle, and a hundred-meter-high tidal wave swept the entire coast like a tsunami!

"Xingtian!" Lava's cry was drowned out by the roar of the waves and the sea wind.

But the remaining eleven mechs rushed towards Xingtian's location without hesitation!

In the night sky, the Truth had sounded the highest level of alarm, the entire ship enveloped in red lights.

Yuan Zhen looked down at the coast below.

That tentacle had carved a twenty-meter-wide gully!

This level of power was something even pure adamantium couldn't withstand!

Fear and despair enveloped everyone on the Truth. Such a situation, which even the energy radar couldn't identify, had only occurred once since the war began.

That was the day Leviathan appeared in the Boundless Sea.

"Dr. Yuan! Xingtian hasn't fallen yet!"

Yuan Zhen immediately shifted his gaze back to the energy radar.

The light spot representing Xing Tian was still flashing!

When Lava's mech jumped into the ravine filled with seawater, they discovered that Xing Tian was still operational!

At this very moment, Xing Tian was kneeling on the ground, using its hand to support the giant axe already embedded in the ravine.

To avoid being smashed into scrap metal by the tentacles, Yu Xiao directly spent 18,000 Evolution Points to upgrade the [Harden] skill by two levels!

But even with [Harden] protecting the mecha, the crushing force had almost driven Xing Tian into the ground, making it impossible to pull out.

Xing Tian slowly and laboriously stood up, supporting itself with the battle axe.

If it were to use [Harden] to cover its entire body like before to withstand the tentacles' blows, the cooldown for each [Harden] activation would be extended to twenty seconds.

"Twenty seconds... that's enough time for me to get smashed to death several times," Yu Xiao looked at the dozen tentacles flailing in the sky.

But just then, Lava received instructions from Yuan Zhen through his headset.

"The system has completed its calculations. These tentacles' physical resistance isn't as high as we imagined, but due to their enormous size, the damage they can inflict and their attack range are terrifying."

"So, the weapons on the mecha can actually damage these tentacles?" Lava realized with a sudden understanding.

"That's correct."

"But how do we close that wormhole?" Lava knew that if the root cause wasn't dealt with, no one could guarantee that more monsters wouldn't emerge from it.

"The wormhole's structure is unstable. As long as it's directly bombarded with energy weapons of sufficient magnitude, the wormhole will collapse."

"Energy weapons..." Lava thought of the scene when humanity first used nuclear bombs against monsters.

And that was just a Level 3 monster.

He could barely imagine the destruction that would be caused if the catalytic effect released by these tentacles were to result in such devastation when destroying this wormhole!

At that point, no one present would be spared.

"I know what you're thinking, but I can tell you another possibility." Yuan Zhen's tone sounded less like speculation and more like a statement of fact, "When the wormhole collapses, its unidirectional nature will be reversed, and the destruction caused by the energy reaction will be absorbed by the wormhole with its altered transmission direction."

"What's the probability of that happening?"

"It's all theoretical, but according to the system's projections, the probability of this happening is almost one hundred percent, unless humanity's direction of progress in spatial theory is fundamentally wrong." Yuan Zhen changed the subject, "But we can't predict the speed of the wormhole's collapse. If it disappears in an instant, then the ongoing energy reaction won't be absorbed much."

"So it's still uncertain whether we can survive," Lava gave a wry smile, but this was in line with his expectations.

Where were there so many smooth sailing events in the world?

"If you don't survive, I won't be far behind you in dying."