South Sea.
Dark clouds blanketed the sky, thunder roared, and torrential rain poured down. Looking out, one could see nothing but a billowing curtain of rain; visibility beyond a hundred meters was non-existent.
BOOM!
Lightning cracked. Under the flashes of light, several warships and an aircraft carrier could be seen moving slowly across the undulating surface of the sea.
A group of people stood on the carrier's deck. Although the entire ship rocked up and down with the waves, this group remained as steady as rocks, not one of them losing their balance.
Leading them were four individuals: Li Yu, Li Jianbin, Wang Mingde, and Song Mei, the final Strategic-Class esper from the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters.
Four Strategic-Class individuals gathered together constituted a nation-ending force, enough to make the rest of the world's major powers tremble, and perhaps even capable of putting up a fight against the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Yet, at this moment, their expressions were heavy, their gazes fixed on the churning seawater below.
Before long, a soldier rushed out from the bridge, braving the downpour, and shouted, "Report! All deep-sea probes have lost contact."
The hearts of the four sank.
Although the undersea base had been abandoned, a few soldiers were still stationed there to keep a day-and-night watch on the Gate within the Seabed Rift, ready to notify the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters the moment an accident occurred.
Today, the Gate on the seabed suddenly experienced a surge in infiltration, and the Evil God Consciousness Fragment power leaking out far exceeded anything seen before.
The soldiers had no choice but to abandon the undersea base and evacuate immediately.
Once the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters received the news, they immediately dispatched a detachment to investigate.
Because headquarters had prepared for the worst, the three