Ferocious Beasts! The Beast Tides Revealed!

"Compatriots."

"A week ago, the world changed."

"Spiritual energy underwent a full resurgence."

"Animals across the globe experienced a frenzied mutation and evolution."

On the massive screen.

The official host's face was cold and stern.

He offered no pleasantries, nor any meaningless words of comfort.

His deep baritone was like a heavy hammer striking the heart of every person in Dragon Country.

Countless people held their breath.

In internet cafés, fingers tapping on keyboards froze completely.

At vegetable markets, middle-aged women carrying plastic bags stood with their mouths agape.

Even the students in university dormitories fell utterly silent.

The image on the screen shifted.

It was top-secret footage captured by a military drone.

A wild wolf the size of a full-grown water buffalo raced through the primeval forest.

"This is a First Order Ferocious Beast."

"Their neural reaction speed exceeds the limits of human beings by more than tenfold."

"In complex terrain, First Order Ferocious Beasts can easily evade conventional gunfire."

The host's voice rang out at the right moment, cold and objective.

On the screen.

A squad of fully armed scouts was opening fire.

A dense barrage of bullets poured down.

Yet the wolf darted between the trees like a phantom.

Even when a few rifle rounds occasionally struck it, they only sent small sprays of blood flying.

The bullets lodged in its tough flesh, unable to damage its internal organs at all.

"Ordinary light weapons cannot inflict fatal injuries on them."

"Unless heavy machine guns are used for sustained fire, or artillery is deployed to level the area."

The pupils of people across the nation contracted sharply.

A wolf as big as a water buffalo?

And rifle bullets could not stop it?

Panic began spreading through countless cities.

But this was only the beginning.

The footage shifted again.

This time, it showed a gigantic black bear walking upright.

The bear stood over six meters tall, like a moving hill of flesh.

Before the giant bear was a heavy armored vehicle abandoned outside the defense zone.

The black bear let out a silent roar.

Its massive paw slammed down.

"Boom!"

Amid the piercing screech of tearing metal.

The armored vehicle, capable of withstanding anti-tank mines, was smashed inward.

Then.

The black bear grabbed the tear with both hands and ripped hard.

The thick bulletproof steel plating was effortlessly torn in half like fragile cardboard.

Netizens across the country were completely dumbfounded.

A chill shot from the soles of their feet straight to their heads.

"This is a Second-Tier Ferocious Beast."

"Its physical strength far surpasses modern composite armor."

"They can withstand small-caliber artillery shells head-on and destroy a main battle tank with a casual strike."

"If monsters of this level were to charge into a city..."

"The outcome speaks for itself."

The host's tone remained steady, yet it made the listeners feel as if they had fallen into an icy abyss.

Silence.

Dragon Country's 1.4 billion people fell into an unprecedented silence.

At the same time.

This unencrypted live broadcast signal had long been intercepted by hackers and intelligence agencies around the world.

The foreign internet exploded.

On social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, related videos instantly flooded every feed.

"OMG! Are the people of Dragon Country showing a movie?"

"What the hell is that bear? King Kong?"

"WTF! This is definitely CGI. I refuse to believe it!"

Foreign civilians hammered away at their keyboards, trying to hide the fear in their hearts with mockery.

They did not understand the truth.

Or rather, their governments had kept them in the dark.

Compared to Dragon Country.

Other nations had more deep forests and larger expanses of wilderness.

Their level of danger was ten, even a hundred times greater than Dragon Country's!

However.

The host's next words completely shattered their illusions.

"According to intelligence gathered by our national network."

"The mutated Ferocious Beasts worldwide are undergoing an organized assembly."

On the massive screen.

A high-resolution global satellite map appeared.

Dense scarlet dots on the map were converging at a horrifying speed.

"Today."

"In just a few hours."

"More than a hundred massive Beast Tides will erupt across the world simultaneously."

The host's gaze pierced through the camera, staring directly into 1.4 billion pairs of eyes.

"And Dragon Country."

"We will face the direct impact of seven Beast Tides!"

Seven glaring blood-red circles suddenly lit up across Dragon Country's map.

Beside each red circle flashed data so despairing it made one's heart sink.

The host began reporting them one by one in an emotionless voice.

"Defense Line One: the Changbai Mountains in the northeast."

"Beast Tide scale: twenty thousand First Order Ferocious Beasts."

"Three Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts, led by a Mid-Second-Tier Stage Ferocious Beast."

In the cities near Changbai Mountains, countless citizens went pale.

Twenty thousand monsters that were not afraid of bullets?

Once the defense line collapsed, the entire city would become a slaughterhouse of flesh and blood within half an hour.

"Defense Line Two: the Lingnan Mountains."

"Beast Tide scale: thirty thousand First Order Ferocious Beasts."

"Four Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts, led by a Mid-Second-Tier Stage Ferocious Beast."

Netizens in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions dropped their teacups, shattering them on the floor.

Thirty thousand!

How were they supposed to fight that?

By filling the gap with human lives?

"Defense Line Three: the western Kunlun Mountains."

"Beast Tide scale: fifty thousand First Order Ferocious Beasts."

"Five Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts, led by a Late Second-Tier Stage Ferocious Beast."

The numbers were rising exponentially.

A cloud of despair hung heavily over everyone's heads.

"Defense Line Four: the Taihang Mountains in the Central Plains."

"Sixty thousand First Order Ferocious Beasts, seven Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts, led by a Late Second-Tier Stage Ferocious Beast."

"Defense Line Five: the Wuyi Mountains in the southeast."

"Fifty thousand First Order Ferocious Beasts, six Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts, led by a Late Second-Tier Stage Ferocious Beast."

"Defense Line Six: the Shennongjia Primeval Restricted Zone."

"Eighty thousand First Order Ferocious Beasts, nine Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts, led by a Late Second-Tier Stage Ferocious Beast."

After that string of figures was announced.

The scrolling comments online vanished completely.

Everyone was gasping for breath.

Eighty thousand First Order Ferocious Beasts, and nine Second-Tier monsters capable of tearing tanks apart with their bare hands.

This had gone far beyond the scope of conventional warfare.

Even if the nation's heavy army groups were assembled, holding every line would require a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Yet.

The report was not over.

The host drew a deep breath, and an almost imperceptible hoarseness entered his voice.

"Finally."

"Defense Line Seven: Shu Capital in the southwest."

On the massive screen.

The scarlet zone surrounding Shu Capital was so vast that it made people's scalps tingle.

"Beast Tide scale: one hundred and fifty thousand First Order Ferocious Beasts!"

"Fifteen Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts." Boom!

"The leader..."

"A Peak Second-Order Stage Ferocious Beast: the Ironclad Mad Ape."

The host paused, his tone grave to the extreme.

Those figures were like a heavy cannon blast, shattering everyone's psychological defenses.

One hundred and fifty thousand!

What kind of number was that?

If spread out, they could fill dozens of football fields without leaving even a place to stand.

Shu Capital.

Inside the military families' residential compound.

Zhang Hui covered her mouth tightly, tears pouring from her eyes.

She desperately kept herself from sobbing aloud, her shoulders shaking violently.

Lin Jianguo sat on the sofa.

This man, who had always been strong, clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white, his nails digging deeply into his palms.

Blood seeped out, yet he did not notice at all.

"Brother..."

Lin Xiaoxiao stared blankly at the television screen, her little face deathly pale.

She finally understood why her brother had been specially recruited into the military.

He must have gone to the front lines.

To that battlefield where he could be reduced to nothing but bones at any moment.

The entire internet exploded.

Despairing comments flooded over every live broadcast image like an avalanche.

"One hundred and fifty thousand monsters! Shu Capital is finished!"

"Run! Get in your cars and head east!"

"Run my ass! Sixty thousand at Taihang Mountains, eighty thousand at Shennongjia—where can we run? Every direction is a dead end!"

"Heaven has forsaken Dragon Country! Heaven has forsaken humanity!"

Amid the wailing and panic.

The atmosphere on foreign networks was entirely different.

After the brief shock.

Countless foreign netizens finally caught on.

"Wait!"

"The Dragon Country streamer just said there were over a hundred Beast Tides worldwide?"

"Dragon Country only had seven? Then where were the remaining ninety-plus?"

Foreign internet forums instantly erupted.

"Where is our government? Why wasn't there any warning at all?!"

"Yellowstone National Park is right behind my house! There are bears there!"

"Damn it, I was out in the suburbs the day before yesterday and saw a wild boar bigger than a cow!"

Panic was contagious.

Compared to Dragon Country's openness and transparency,

this fear of the unknown drove foreign citizens into even deeper hysteria.