The Spaceship

Wang Ji nodded. He would follow the host's lead. After all, they knew the area best.

The six-person team and the ten-person scouting squad made sixteen people in all. Wang Ji was protected in the very middle. Now he was the most important person there, and everyone revolved around him.

They explored slowly.

"Here... Huh! The water's about ten meters deep. There are five Chinese alligators below. Their sizes... Four are five or six meters long, and one is nine meters!"

"Mm. That's four Beast Soldiers and one Beast General. I estimate four Advanced Beast Soldiers and one Junior Beast General!" The scouting squad leader recorded it on the map.

They didn't kill the monsters; that was for the military district to handle later. Wang Ji and the others were only responsible for reconnaissance. They kept moving, using Spiritual Force to probe the waterways beside them.

In the blink of an eye, a day had passed.

The Chinese alligator monster population here was indeed formidable. Today alone, Wang Ji had detected eleven Beast General-level monsters! That proportion was clearly much higher than before!

"We'll keep going tomorrow! Let's head back to camp and rest!"

The next day, Wang Ji controlled his arm shield and slowly flew toward the water's surface.

Sixty meters deep!

Seventy meters deep!

The water was so deep! He'd never seen such deep water in Reed Marsh! Wang Ji felt that he was getting closer to the truth.

Eighty meters deep!

He'd finally reached the bottom! Strange! Why was there nothing here?

At the bottom of the water, eighty meters below the center of the surface, there was nothing unusual apart from the swimming monsters and clusters of aquatic plants!

"Was I wrong?"

Wang Ji drew closer and closer to the water's surface, then finally stood on it atop his arm shield.

"No! That's..."

Wang Ji couldn't help leaning down. Then he even slowly submerged himself beneath the surface.

"Don't! It's dangerous! The water's dangerous!" Zhang Lan cried out anxiously.

"Finally! I can finally see it clearly! Th-this is... what!?"

Far beneath the bottom of the water, eighty meters below the surface! Beneath the silt lay a structure made of technological metal! It looked like... It was a spaceship! A spacecraft!

With his Spiritual Force nearly at its limit, Wang Ji couldn't detect the end of the object. Within his range, he could make out more than twenty meters of its vaulted, curved ceiling. Judging by the curve, the spacecraft had to be at least forty or fifty meters in diameter and hundreds of meters long.

The ship had broken apart, leaving a damaged opening four or five meters across.

Wang Ji scanned through the opening with his Spiritual Force and found a hollow space filled with water!

Within the twenty-meter area he could detect, he found countless Beast General-level monsters, packed tightly together!

So many Beast General-level monsters were crowded together, one right next to another. What were they doing? Wang Ji felt his scalp go numb.

There was also a much larger monster. Wang Ji couldn't scan its entire body, but estimated it was at least thirty meters long. It radiated an aura like a primordial giant beast.

The monsters were all gathered around a damaged device. At its center lay a cracked, crystal-clear crystal, radiating countless colors, as though it held the entire universe within it.

What was this crystal? What level was the largest monster?

It definitely wasn't a Beast General. It had to be Lord-level. A Lord-level Monster!

The Lord-level Monster seemed to have noticed something. It suddenly shot toward the opening!

"Damn! It's spotted us!"

Wang Ji was shocked.

"Splash!"

He poured out his Spiritual Force, and his arm shield carried him rapidly upward, sending a huge spray of water into the air.

As he fled, Wang Ji somehow remembered to envelop the crystal in his Spiritual Force!

Whoosh! The crystal instantly flew out of the pit on the bottom, but it was too late. The Lord-level Monster was far too fast! Wang Ji controlled the crystal and sent it flying into a deep patch of silt.

"Run! Hurry! It's a Lord-level Monster! It's too fast!"

"Splash!"

In a single second, Wang Ji burst through the surface and scrambled toward the shore.

"Prepare to fight!" Zhang Lan, the leader of the squad guarding Wang Ji, shouted. "Send a message for reinforcements!"

"Boom!"

The Lord-level Chinese alligator crawled out through the damaged opening in the spaceship. With a powerful thrust of its webbed feet, it shot upward like a meteor chasing the moon, bursting through the surface from eighty meters below. It thrust again, accelerating even faster as it sprang toward the shore!

Danger! Extreme danger! They couldn't fight it head-on.

Wang Ji calmed his mind and unleashed his full Spiritual Force. Two Series 9 throwing knives shot toward the monster like lightning. He wasn't trying to wound it, only slow it down a little. Even a tiny bit more time would help.

"Roar!..." Inside the spaceship, the crystal surrounded by countless Beast Generals suddenly vanished. The Beast Generals roared and surged out after it, pouring from the wreckage.

"Run!" Wang Ji shouted.

The fifteen people on shore had already been roused when Wang Ji burst through the surface. Now they were sprinting away from the water.

"Bang!"

The Lord-level Monster landed by the shore. It watched the squad retreating at full speed, let out a tremendous roar, then sprang at them!

"This is bad! They can't hold it off!" Wang Ji was frantic, but there was nothing he could do. His two throwing knives darted around the Lord-level Chinese alligator, but couldn't pierce its hide! The Series 9 knives were sharp, but they still needed enough force behind them. Wang Ji could only muster a little over five thousand kilograms of force, nowhere near enough! He could only target vulnerable spots like its eyes and snout, hoping to make it hesitate for a moment.

The Lord-level Monster leaped more than a hundred meters in a single bound!

"Hold it back!"

Zhang Lan and the scouting squad leader turned to intercept it. If they didn't hold it back, no one would escape.

The military had already killed three Lord-level Chinese alligators. Who could have imagined there was still one left here?

"Bang!"

With a single leap, Zhang Lan and the scouting squad leader were sent flying like rag dolls!

"No! I have to do something!" Wang Ji steeled himself. His two throwing knives shot out like meteors! The eyes! The mouth! The snout! The knives were nimble, focusing their attacks on the Chinese alligator's weak points.

The Lord-level Chinese alligator twisted aside, dodging the knives. Then it slammed a paw into the ground. "Boom!"

Its enormous body lunged toward Wang Ji's squad again! Its massive form was large enough to engulf the entire six-person team.

"Dodge! Get out of the way!"

Wang Ji used his Spiritual Force to shift his body sideways, dodging at top speed.

The Chinese alligator whipped its tail around, turning its huge head toward him and lunging to bite him as though it had instantly shifted position!

It was blindingly fast! Faster than the speed of sound! There was no escaping!

Wang Ji's speed was only 140 meters per second!

Just as terror seized Wang Ji, a thunderous roar rang out in the distance. "Die, monster!"

The voice was still far away, but after a few flashes, the figure was already close!

A War God! A War God-level powerhouse had come to help!

"Bang!"

The seemingly tiny human collided head-on with the Chinese alligator, which was more than thirty meters long!