"Fellow citizens."
"A week ago, the world changed."
"Spiritual energy underwent a full resurgence."
"Animals across the globe experienced a frenzied mutation and evolution."
On the giant screen.
The official host's expression was grim and stern.
He offered no pleasantries, nor any pointless words of reassurance.
His deep baritone was like a heavy hammer striking every Dragon Country citizen's heart.
Countless people held their breath.
In internet cafés, fingers tapping keyboards froze completely.
At vegetable markets, middle-aged women holding plastic bags gaped in shock.
Even the students in university dorms fell utterly silent.
The image on the screen shifted.
It was top-secret footage captured by a military drone.
A wild wolf as large as a full-grown buffalo was sprinting through a primeval forest.
"This is a First-Tier Ferocious Beast."
"Their neural reaction speed exceeds the limits of humanity by more than ten times."
"In complex terrain, First-Tier Ferocious Beasts can easily evade conventional gunfire."
The host's voice rang out at the right moment, cold and objective.
In the footage.
A fully armed reconnaissance squad was firing.
A dense barrage of bullets poured down.
Yet the wolf darted between the tree trunks 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 and hide, utterly incapable of reaching its organs.
"Ordinary light weapons cannot inflict fatal injuries on them."
"Unless heavy machine guns are used for sustained fire, or artillery is deployed to carpet-bomb the area."
The pupils of people across the country contracted sharply.
A wolf as big as a buffalo?
And rifle bullets could not stop it?
Panic began spreading through countless cities.
But this was only the beginning.
The footage switched again.
This time, it showed a gigantic black bear walking upright.
The bear stood more than six meters tall, like a small mountain of moving flesh.
Ahead of the giant bear was a heavy armored vehicle abandoned outside the defensive perimeter.
The black bear let out a silent roar.
Its enormous paw slammed down.
"Boom!"
Amid the shrill sound of tearing metal.
The armored vehicle, which could withstand anti-tank mines, was actually crushed inward by that blow.
Then.
The black bear gripped the crack with both hands and tore violently.
The thick bulletproof steel plating was ripped in half as easily as fragile cardboard.
Netizens across the country were completely stunned.
A chill shot from the soles of their feet straight to their heads.
"This is a Second-Tier Ferocious Beast."
"Its physical strength surpasses modern composite armor."
"They can withstand small-caliber artillery head-on and casually destroy a main battle tank."
"If monsters of this level charge into a city..."
"The result needs no explanation."
The host's tone remained steady, yet his words made the audience feel as if they had fallen into an icy abyss.
Dead silence.
Dragon Country's 1.4 billion people fell into an unprecedented silence.
At the same time.
This unencrypted livestream signal had long since been intercepted by hackers and intelligence agencies around the world.
The foreign internet exploded.
On social platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, related videos instantly flooded every feed.
"OMG! Are the Dragon Country people making a movie?"
"What the hell is that bear? King Kong?!"
"WTF! Those are definitely special effects. I refuse to believe it!"
Foreign civilians frantically hammered 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 with Dragon Country.
Foreign nations had more deep mountains and forests, and vastly larger wilderness areas.
Their level of danger exceeded Dragon Country's by tenfold, even a hundredfold!
However.
The host's next words completely shattered their illusions.
"According to observations from our intelligence network."
"The mutated Ferocious Beasts around the world are undergoing an organized assembly."
On the giant screen.
A high-resolution global satellite map appeared.
Countless dense crimson points on the map were converging at an astonishing speed.
"Today."
"In only a few hours."
"More than one hundred massive Beast Tides will erupt simultaneously across the globe."
The host's gaze pierced through the camera, staring directly into 1.4 billion pairs of eyes.
"And Dragon Country."
"Will face the direct impact of seven Beast Tides!"
Seven glaring blood-red circles suddenly lit up across Dragon Country's map.
Beside every red circle, despairing figures flashed.
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-Tier Ferocious Beasts."
"Three Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts. The leader is a Mid-Second-Tier Stage Ferocious Beast."
In the cities near Changbai Mountain, countless citizens turned pale.
Twenty thousand monsters immune to bullets?
Once the defense line collapsed, the entire city would become a slaughterhouse of blood and flesh within half an hour.
"Defense Line Two: the Lingnan Mountains."
"Beast Tide scale: thirty thousand First-Tier Ferocious Beasts."
"Four Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts. The leader is a Mid-Second-Tier Stage Ferocious Beast."
Netizens in the Liangguang region 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-Tier Ferocious Beasts."
"Five Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts. The leader is a Late Second-Tier Stage Ferocious Beast."
The figures were rising exponentially.
A shadow of despair hung heavily over everyone's heads.
"Defense Line Four: the Taihang Mountains in the Central Plains."
"Sixty thousand First-Tier Ferocious Beasts, seven Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts, with a Late Second-Tier Stage leader."
"Defense Line Five: the southeastern Wuyi Mountains."
"Fifty thousand First-Tier Ferocious Beasts, six Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts, with a Late Second-Tier Stage leader."
"Defense Line Six: the Shennongjia Primeval Restricted Zone."
"Eighty thousand First-Tier Ferocious Beasts, nine Second-Tier Ferocious Beasts, with a Late Second-Tier Stage leader."
After that string of numbers was announced.
The scrolling comments online vanished completely.
Everyone was gasping for breath.
Eighty thousand First-Tier Ferocious Beasts, and nine Second-Tier monsters capable of tearing tanks apart with their bare hands.
This had already far exceeded the scope of conventional warfare.
Even if the nation's heavy armored forces were gathered, holding every line would demand a price of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
But.
The report was not over.
The host took a deep breath, and an almost imperceptible rasp entered his voice.
"Lastly."
"Defense Line Seven: Shu Capital in the southwest."
On the giant screen.
The crimson zone surrounding Shu Capital was so enormous that it made everyone's scalp go numb.
"Beast Tide scale: one hundred and fifty thousand First-Tier 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 heavy beyond measure.
Those figures were like a heavy artillery blast, directly shattering everyone's psychological defenses.
One hundred and fifty thousand!
What did that even mean?
Spread out, they could fill dozens of football fields so completely that there would not be room to stand.
Shu Capital.
Inside the military family compound.
Zhang Hui clamped a hand tightly over her mouth as tears spilled from her eyes.
She desperately held back her sobs, her shoulders trembling violently.
Lin Jianguo sat on the sofa.
This man, who had always been strong, clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white, his nails digging deep into his palms.
Blood seeped out, but he did not notice at all.
"Brother..."
Lin Xiaoxiao stared blankly at the television screen, her little face pale as paper.
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 livestream 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! There are sixty thousand in Taihang and eighty thousand in Shennongjia. Where can we run? Everywhere is a dead end!"
"Heaven has abandoned Dragon Country! Heaven has abandoned humanity!"
Amid the wailing and panic.
The atmosphere on foreign social media was completely 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 has seven? Then where are the remaining ninety-odd?"
Foreign online forums instantly exploded.
"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.
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