At that moment, countless viewers in front of their televisions went utterly wild. Screams and pleas rose one after another across the United States.
Russia had already backed down and ordered the ship to return. This was clearly a misunderstanding that could be resolved!
No one wanted war. No one wanted the apocalypse to come!
Countless citizens frantically called the White House hotline and emergency government lines, doing everything they could to stop this deadly misunderstanding from erupting and prevent the flames of war from igniting.
Just as the world erupted and the situation once again teetered on the brink of spiraling out of control, the live broadcast abruptly switched, cutting precisely to the interior of a separate ship's cabin.
At the top of the screen, a name appeared in three striking characters, holding everyone's gaze fast-Weihai.
A second before the television feed cut to the Weihai's cabin, everyone in the world had already imagined countless worst-case scenarios.
Some guessed that the ship's communications equipment had completely failed, leaving the crew unable to respond or change course despite receiving their orders.
Some speculated that mechanical failures had left the ship completely out of control, able only to drift forward with the current.
More believed the soldiers aboard had staked everything on defying their superiors' orders, insisting on forcing their way across the exclusion line and openly challenging the United States' limits.
Everyone had braced themselves for war. But when the true scene inside the Weihai's cabin was laid bare before viewers around the globe, everyone froze completely, as though the entire world had suddenly been muted.
There were no soldiers stubbornly resisting and refusing to obey, no malfunctioning equipment, and certainly no supposed military conspiracy.
All that met their eyes were cold corpses strewn everywhere.
A deathly silence hung over