Tang Fan brought Bibi Dong to a large screen. As it happened, the screen was showing footage of an aircraft carrier fleet sailing across the open ocean.
On the screen, Bibi Dong saw an aircraft carrier surrounded by several other sizable ships escorting it.
The entire fleet looked magnificent as it sailed across the sea.
"What do you think? Our country's carrier fleet looks impressive, doesn't it?"
"What are those ships?"
"Let me give you a proper introduction. Those two are ten-thousand-ton destroyers, with both air and missile defense capabilities and long-range anti-ship capabilities.
"Those two slightly smaller ones are destroyers too. They're mainly used for air defense, which means dealing with incoming airborne targets.
"The two over here are frigates, mainly used for anti-submarine warfare, which means dealing with submarines underwater.
"And beneath the water, where you can't see them, there are actually two submarines following along."
"Then what about that one?"
"That's a replenishment ship. It supplies all kinds of provisions needed by the crews and machinery aboard the ships. You could call it the healer mommy of the whole carrier fleet."
"Healer mommy?!"
"It's like a healing-type Soul Master on the Douluo Continent."
"Why use... that term? Isn't it a little indecent?"
"I'm used to it. The term originally came from games. A lot of healing characters in early games were women, so that's how the term came about.
"Most people know what it means, and no one thinks it's indecent."
Bibi Dong didn't dwell on the term. Instead, she asked, "How exactly do these ships fight? By ramming?"
Bibi Dong had heard stories about pirates before. Pirates at sea would ram their ships together, then jump across and fight.
"Ramming? Hahaha..."
Tang Fan couldn't help laughing. There were other people around, including a parent with a child behind them, and even the child gave Bibi Dong a strange look.
Bibi Dong realized how awkward it was and lowered her head, then stepped on Tang Fan's shoe, though she didn't put much force into it.
"All right, I won't tease you anymore. Look, what's parked on that carrier?"
"Fighter jets!"
"That's right. An aircraft carrier is essentially an airport at sea. The fighter jets aboard are what actually do the fighting."
Just then, the screen showed fighter jets taking off from the deck.
After taking off from the carrier's deck, the fighter jets rapidly accelerated and broke through the sound barrier. The impact of that moment was tremendously powerful.
On the Douluo Continent, Bai He, patriarch of the Speed Clan, slumped into his chair the moment he saw the fighter jets break the sound barrier.
As a Soul Master who specialized in speed, he knew very well how difficult it was to get faster. The faster one flew, the greater the resistance.
The reason a Sharp-Tailed Swift Soul Master's Martial Soul Avatar took on a smaller form was to reduce resistance and increase flight speed.
But no matter what they did, they couldn't break the speed of sound. Their bodies simply weren't strong enough, and forcing a breakthrough would only let the resistance tear their bodies apart.
That was why Bai He was so shaken when he saw the fighter jets break through the sound barrier.
Although Tang Fan had previously shown footage of old-fashioned fighter planes dogfighting, it had been nowhere near as shocking as this moment.
Qian Xunji was just as shaken. Most flying-type Soul Masters had tested their own top speeds, and they all understood that the faster they went, the greater the resistance.
They had always believed there was a limit to flight speed, one no flying Soul Master could exceed.
Now the sky screen was telling them that the limit could be broken; they simply weren't strong enough. If their bodies were stronger than steel, they could try breaking through the sound barrier.
And that was only the beginning. After the fighter jets flew out, they reached their designated area, locked onto their targets with radar, and launched missiles.
The missiles flew even faster than the planes and exploded with a thunderous boom upon hitting their targets.
On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi watched the exploding missiles and the targets being torn apart, swallowing instinctively.
Bo Saixi was confident she could withstand the force of a missile explosion.
But the missiles were simply too fast. From the moment she noticed one to the moment it exploded would probably be no more than an instant. At most, she would have time to hastily construct a defensive barrier.
Whether a defensive barrier of that level could withstand a missile explosion was another matter.
Xiao Bai found it even more frightening. A single missile was enough to tear a Ten Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast like her apart.
"I'm in the water. That thing shouldn't be able to burrow underwater, right?"
Xiao Bai seemed to have already forgotten that Tang Fan had mentioned torpedoes before. Torpedoes were nowhere near as fast as missiles, of course, but she swam even slower.
"These things are terrifying!"
Bibi Dong said, also a little frightened.
"There's no need to be afraid. We've barely even started. Look, there's more coming."
The large screen cut back to a ten-thousand-ton destroyer. Bibi Dong asked, "There aren't any fighter jets on that ship. Are the guns on it going to fire?"
After looking around for so long, Bibi Dong could at least recognize the naval guns on either side of the deck.
"No, those guns are the last line of defense. Pay attention to those little squares on the deck."
Bibi Dong noticed them, and then she saw the little squares open. Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A barrage of missiles shot out, flying no slower than the missiles the fighter jets had just launched.
"So many missiles. Could the Great Enshrined withstand them?"
Bibi Dong couldn't help asking.
"I'm afraid that would be difficult. Given how fast the missiles are, he'd be doing well just to react by the time they reached him.
"And... guess how far these missiles can fly?"
"How far? Two thousand li!"
As far as Bibi Dong was concerned, that distance was already utterly incredible. It was only a little over a thousand li from Spirit City to Heaven Dou City.
"Haha, you're still being too conservative. Fifteen hundred kilometers, or three thousand li.
"On the Douluo Continent, that's roughly enough to strike Star Luo City from Heaven Dou City."
Tang Fan's words shocked both the Star Luo Emperor and Xue Ye.
The distance really was a little too incredible.
With those missiles, an enemy's capital could be destroyed without lifting a finger. What the hell was the enemy supposed to fight with? They might as well surrender.
Bo Saixi was speechless too. The missiles could easily be placed on land and fired at Sea God Island. To protect Sea God Island, he could only be worn down to death by them.
As for whether the Sea God's Light could withstand those missiles, Bo Saixi wasn't sure either.
Tang Fan then said to Bibi Dong, "Imagine what it would look like if the more than two hundred missiles aboard that ten-thousand-ton destroyer were all launched at once."
"That would be enough to flatten a city, wouldn't it?"
"Huh? It couldn't do that. Cities nowadays are huge, but flattening a city on the Douluo Continent would be no problem at all.
"Even if it wasn't enough, it could just fire another salvo. With a replenishment ship around, a ten-thousand-ton destroyer can reload pretty quickly."