"What hole-digging cat? Old Zhao, pull yourself together!"
The captain beside him shouted.
The two had been old comrades-in-arms to begin with. Although Zhao Weiguo was now the commander, the captain could not worry about such formalities in his urgency.
Zhao Weiguo narrowed his eyes at the Eagle Country fleet in the distance, already locked in a chaotic battle and steadily sinking, then said quickly:
"I keep a few cats at home. Whenever they see a hole, they like sticking their paws inside and scratching around. They do it purely for fun... It's easy to tease them too. As long as you give them a sufficiently strong external stimulus, like touching their paws or tossing a ball beside them, they'll desperately try to touch those things and ignore everything else... It's a trait these creatures have when exploring an unfamiliar environment..."
"Old Zhao, you mean..." The captain instantly understood what Zhao Weiguo meant.
The more they attacked the tentacle, the more likely they were to provoke a violent reaction. What they should do now was deploy bait to draw the tentacle's attention, then find an opportunity to kill it with a single blow!
Zhao Weiguo said expressionlessly:
"Fire toward the north side of the Eagle Country fleet. Help them draw that tentacle away. If the Eagle Country fleet is truly wiped out, then Russia and us will be next! Bring out our secret weapon!"
The captain's face showed both pain and excitement as he said:
"We're bringing that big thing out in front of the whole world? It'll feel great and leave them dumbstruck, but it means exposing one of our trump cards. Is that really okay?"
Zhao Weiguo gave a dark chuckle.
"Even an ugly man has to meet his wife sooner or later. So what if we expose