Chapter 109 Lu Sheng: Want to play tactics? Let me show you who the real butcher is!
Chapter 109 Lu Sheng: Want to play tactics? Let me show you who the real butcher is!
The Blaze cut into a dead, desolate body of water.
The map is marked with a deep red warning – the heart of a giant sea monster's lair, the deepest part of the old Hongze Lake.
Logically speaking, this place should be a battlefield, a meat grinder.
But at this moment, the sea surface was as flat as a polished obsidian, and not even a single mutated fry, let alone a level 6 sea beast, emerged.
The Lingyuan detection radar screen was completely white, with only the lone scan line spinning idly, emitting a monotonous "beep...beep..." sound.
This eerie silence was even more unsettling than the fierce battle that had just taken place.
"This is weird."
Zhou Hai pressed his entire face against the bulletproof glass, squeezing his cheeks out of shape. "Did these bastards know Lu was here, so they all bought tickets to go back to their hometowns for the New Year?"
Zhao's palms were sweaty as he gripped the rudder, his knuckles clenched so tightly they turned white: "Something's not right, it's too quiet."
Lu Sheng returned to the control room, sat in the command chair, and didn't respond.
His eyes were closed, and his nostrils twitched slightly.
The fishy stench in the air hadn't dissipated; in fact, it had become even stronger, even somewhat pungent.
It was a smell that was a mixture of rotting seaweed, aged silt, and... the smell left behind by countless sea creatures that had gathered together.
He suddenly opened his eyes.
A golden glint flashed deep within his pupils, and his gaze instantly pierced through the dark seawater.
At a depth of 100 meters, the water was extremely murky.
The silt was churned up, with huge crawling marks everywhere, and even fresh excrement suspended in the water.
There were indeed a huge number of sea creatures roaming here just now.
But they left.
Not only did they leave, but they left in a very disciplined and methodical way.
"They haven't gone far."
Lu Sheng stood up, strode to the nautical chart, and drew a heavy line behind the route with his fingertip. "They just avoided the brunt of the attack."
"Avoid the confrontation?" Su Li frowned, the Shura Blade in her hand trembling slightly. "Do sea beasts even have this kind of brain?"
"Don't mistake them for mindless, charging corpses." Lu Sheng's voice was icy cold. "Once they reach level 4 or higher, they develop territorial instincts and hunting instincts. Faced with the Blazing Flame and the Zhenyuan, two tough nuts to crack, these beasts chose..."
Before he could finish speaking...
"Zzzzzzz—!!!"
A sudden, ear-piercing crackling sound from the communication channel shattered the tranquility inside the cabin.
Immediately following was a heart-wrenching, desperate wail that erupted from the public channel.
"Help!!!"
"Behind them! They're behind us!"
"The hull is leaking! So many...so many sea monsters! Ah—!"
Screams rose and fell, accompanied by the cracking of wooden planks breaking and chaotic explosions.
Lu Sheng turned around abruptly, his gaze fixed on the stern of the ship.
At the edge of the horizon, several kilometers away on the sea, flames soared into the sky, turning half the sky red.
That was the rearguard echelon, mainly composed of civilian ships, following at the very back of the fleet.
At this moment, the area was like a hornet's nest that had been stirred up.
The once neatly arranged fleet was now in complete chaos, with countless small boats sinking as they rocked violently. The sea was covered with a dense mass of struggling heads, a dark, swarming expanse like a handful of sesame seeds.
"They went around to the back."
Su Li held the knife, her voice icy and chilling.
As a possessor of the Asura sequence, she is most acutely aware of malice.
Beneath that sea ablaze with flames, she sensed an immense, suffocating greed.
That was the murderous intent of hundreds or thousands of predators gathered together.
"Did the King of Qin circle the pillar?"
Lu Sheng watched this scene, his eyes darkening slightly.
These beasts actually know how to avoid the strong and attack the weak.
They skipped the toughest ships at the front, the Flame and the Zhenyuan, and went specifically to attack the rear of those poorly protected civilian ships, which were full of the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled.
Like a pack of wolves on the grassland, they specifically target the slowest sheep in the flock.
"Buzz—Major Lu! A massive sea monster attack has occurred at our rear! The numbers... the numbers are impossible to count!"
Engineer Liu stared at the radar screen, which suddenly flashed a bright red patch at the edge, his voice hoarse. "They're driving the refugee convoy this way! These beasts are herding their prey!"
Panic erupted instantly on the sea.
Humanity is stripped bare at this moment, leaving only the instinct for survival and the ugliest selfishness.
In their desperate attempt to survive, the survivors' ships at the rear abandoned their formation and charged forward at full speed, desperate to get as far away from the gaping maw behind them as possible.
"Get out of my way! I'm not going anywhere! I need to live!"
A slightly larger modified yacht suddenly increased its power, raised its bow high, and rammed into a small fishing boat blocking its way, capsizing it.
The propellers shredded the limbs of those who had fallen into the water, but the yacht did not slow down at all. Instead, it ran over the corpses and flesh of its own kind like a mad dog, heading straight for the location of the Blazing Flame and the Zhenyuan.
Thousands of civilian ships, like a flood bursting its banks, surged forth with despair and madness, creating a shockwave more terrifying than any sea monster.
"What was Chen Yan's reaction?" Lu Sheng asked.
Chen Yan's furious roar came through the communicator, with the background noise of intense gunfire.
He ordered the destroyers behind him to open fire to intercept the sea monster, while trying to maintain order using loudspeakers.
Useless.
Once panic takes hold, it's like an avalanche—it's impossible to contain.
Whoever stops will die.
Several out-of-control fishing boats even crashed into the side of the Zhenyuan, making a dull "thump" sound and shaking the giant ship.
"Major Lu! They're charging!"
As the chaotic fleet drew ever closer, the menacing faces of the crew becoming increasingly visible, Engineer Liu roared in desperation, "If these out-of-control ships collide with us, the Blaze's propellers will be jammed by debris! We'll be forced to stop!"
Once forced to a halt and trapped in this chaotic quagmire, even the mighty Blaze would be overwhelmed by the endless sea of people and the horde of beasts that followed.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Hai couldn't help but curse, "These bastards, I've never seen them run this fast before! They're nimbler than rabbits when they're escaping for their lives! Aren't they just dragging us down with them?"
Lu Sheng looked at the humans killing each other to survive, his eyes showing no emotion.
He doesn't care how many people die.
Survival of the fittest—this was a rule he had set long ago.
but.
These idiots are blocking his way!
"Since they want to die, then grant their wish."
Lu Sheng's voice wasn't loud, but it brought the temperature in the control room down to freezing.
He walked to the control panel, pushed aside the sweating engineer Liu, and hovered his finger above the red weapon firing button.
"Lu Sheng, you..." Zhao Ze was startled, wanting to say something, but swallowed it back.
"Zhou Hai".
Lu Sheng's voice suddenly rang out, so calm it was chilling, yet it also carried an uncontrollable rage.
"exist!"
"Turn around."
Lu Sheng turned around and strode towards the cabin door, his white coat fluttering in the wind.
"Turn the boat sideways."
"Since they want to play tactics, and try to herd people like pigs..."
A golden light flashed in Lu Sheng's hand, and the Dragon Devouring Spear appeared out of thin air, its tip pointing at the boiling sea of blood.
"Then I'll show them who the butcher of this sea is!"
P.S.: Today's update (April 5th)!
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