The crumbling remains of skyscrapers that had stood for centuries rapidly collapsed the moment the spreading silver tide touched them. Like ice and snow scorched by flames, they melted away silently, becoming part of the new silver tide that surged outward.
Centered on Red Fortress Base, the silver tide spread rapidly in every direction, like an avalanche or a tsunami.
Though this wondrous sight on the seafloor unfolded in pitch-black darkness, the silver tide carried a faint glow, illuminating the underwater city ruins that had remained unchanged for centuries.
Rusting abandoned cars, shops buried beneath sand and dust, skeletons sleeping in corners, plastic that had not degraded for hundreds of years, museums, office buildings, pedestrian streets, and more—all of it, the entire city, turned into a silver tide and surged outward.
Surging, surging, as though this long-ruined city had come back to life, transforming into a frenzied beast waiting to take revenge on its enemies.
Inside Red Fortress Base, Jingwei sensed the Nanomachine Swarm's new changes and said happily, "Not bad, Little Feng. Doesn't this make us invincible? There aren't many people left on Earth anyway. Why not turn the whole planet into a Nanomachine Swarm? Fully nanomachine-ize it. What the hell are those World Beasts? They're all weaklings."
Shen Feng smiled faintly and shook his head. "No. The new nanomachines have a weakness too..."
"What weakness?" Jingwei asked curiously.
Shen Feng gave a wry smile. "Their weakness is that they have no weakness... After absorbing Beast Gold and undergoing a complete transformation, these things have become a little too powerful. They can't self-degrade at all. Even after breaking down, they remain in their original nanomachine form..."
After a pause, Shen Feng continued, "Because they now contain elements of Beast Gold and have undergone a fundamental change, even recycling them