But inside the Command Center, no one could laugh.
The technician stared at the radiation readings blaring alarms on the screen, cold sweat pouring off him.
"Sir, the nuclear explosion stopped the monster, but a third of the Underground City's residential area has become a highly radioactive dead zone..."
"No one will be able to live in that area for centuries!"
Jieshibang grabbed the technician by the collar, spraying spittle all over his face.
"The future? Look at that damned thing outside! Do we even have a future?!"
"We might not even survive tonight!"
Before he finished speaking, the entire Shengdun Underground City suddenly shook violently, as though struck by a magnitude-ten earthquake.
"BOOM-!!!"
With an earth-shattering crash, vast sections of the Underground City's overhead load-bearing structure, made of reinforced concrete dozens of meters thick, collapsed like fragile crackers.
Amid billowing dust, a terrifying Demon God over a hundred meters in size slowly squeezed into Shengdun's interior.
The Eighth-Order Demon God, Cho'Gath, had finally entered the city through the tunnels bored by several Burrowing Earth Dragons!
His head, like a gaping maw of the Abyss, punched straight through the dome. A casual step could crush an entire building to rubble.
Soldiers throughout the city craned their heads, their eyes nearly popping out, oblivious even as the guns in their hands fell to the ground.
They finally understood what had been producing the invisible oppressive force weighing on them all this time!
This world-destroying monster, which existed only in myths, now stood before them in the flesh.
Inside the Command Center, Jieshibang's legs buckled, and he nearly collapsed to the floor.
Then the fear in his eyes slowly turned into utter madness.
"Blow it up! Kill it with nuclear bombs!!"
Upon receiving the order, the frontline soldiers struggled against the pressure