He scrambled forward, heedless of the blood on the ground, and stroked the enormous teeth with trembling hands, tears streaming down his aged face.
"Impossible... carbon-14 dating confirmed they went extinct two million years ago! The activity in this flesh... it was alive just a few hours ago!"
The heavily armed special forces soldiers swallowed hard, their palms slick with sweat around their weapons.
Before a creature so immense that even its corpse radiated terrifying pressure, the weapons in their hands seemed pathetically small.
"The cut is smooth. No signs of scorching."
Another expert shone a laser pointer over the giant shark's severed cross section, his pupils contracting behind his glasses.
"What kind of weapon could slice bones and muscles of this caliber in two?"
Chen Lin ignored the experts' horror and turned his gaze to Ye Wenjun.
Ye Wenjun's lips felt dry.
"This is... what sank those cruise ships weighing tens of thousands of tons?"
"No."
Chen Lin's words were cold and hard, shattering his hopes outright.
"This is just a small fry. It hasn't even developed intelligence."
"The one truly responsible could smash this shark with a single slap. It spoke in human language, saying humanity's iron shells discharged filth and disturbed their slumber. Eating a few ships was just collecting a little interest."
A chill shot from Ye Wenjun's tailbone straight to the back of his head.
Eating hundred-thousand-ton cruise ships was just collecting a little interest.
What would happen when they actually went to war?
Wouldn't the dozen or so prosperous coastal provinces, with their hundreds of millions of people, all be within reach of the enemy's dinner table?
"Load it onto a plane and take it back to Capital City."
Chen Lin turned, his figure disappearing into the darkness.
"Your senior leadership still has time