All of Shenghai City was in an uproar over the "sun" that had suddenly risen from the sea.
Mayor Ming Jue, military governor Wan Wulong, the directors of the Municipal Council in the concession, Yata Rokutaro, and everyone else were bewildered and anxious.
Ming Jue dispatched several civilian vessels to investigate where the "sun" had risen. Most belonged to companies under Yu Faqing, chairman of the Shenghai Chamber of Commerce. Yu Faqing was already a shipping magnate whose business reached every corner of Dayi. He owned more than a hundred small boats and several thousand large ships. Shenghai, Dayi's most prosperous city, had always been his "home base," so he naturally had plenty of vessels ready to deploy.
But before the ships could leave the Huanggu River, a nationwide telegram issued by Mystic Umbrella Technology stunned countless people. It read: "To all newspapers, organizations, and armed forces—and to our compatriots across the nation:
According to reports just received from our reconnaissance and operations teams, dozens of warships, more than a hundred aircraft, and over forty thousand personnel of the Eastern Isles' Third Fleet approached Shenghai before noon today, intending to land, seize our territory, and trample it underfoot.
To protect our borders and people, and to bring the fighting to an end, our company had no choice but to deploy one new type of bomb, intercepting the enemy approximately thirteen nautical miles east of Shenghai.
With a single strike, the enemy's principal warships were annihilated. Almost none of their forty thousand personnel survived. Flames leapt from the sea, pillars of smoke propped up the sky, and the sight was visible from a hundred miles away.
This was neither divine punishment nor natural disaster. It was the work of the 'Terminator' nuclear bomb developed through our company's utmost efforts. Its power