134: Bullets ricochet! Bone blade decapitates! Fleet annihilated in 9 minutes and 42 seconds!

"Boom——!!!"

With a dull impact sound, the originally smooth and streamlined submarine hull of the "Judgment" suddenly caved in a large section.

Jiang Ran was like a steel nail shot into a wall, firmly embedded at the connection point below the submarine's conning tower.

This was a structural blind spot of the submarine, also a dead zone for sonar and periscopes.

"Damn it! Where is he?! Where is he?!"

Inside the submarine, the violent shaking sent the crew members stumbling and falling.

The Captain's roar faintly penetrated the thick steel plates, sounding like a mouse trapped in a tin can, screaming.

The submarine began to roll and dive violently, attempting to shake off the foreign object attached to its hull through high-G maneuvers.

But Jiang Ran's fingers were like hydraulic pliers, deeply gripping into the outer anechoic tiles and skin, not budging an inch.

"Stop shaking, I'll send you on your way now."

Hanging onto the hull with one hand, Jiang Ran slowly drew the combat knife from his waist, gleaming with a cold light.

This was no ordinary alloy blade.

Its entire body was a translucent milky white, with faint natural spiral patterns on the blade surface.

This was made from the hardest fang of that Radiation Sea Lizard, meticulously processed and polished by the black iron—[Sea Lizard's Fang].

It retained the monstrous hardness and toughness of the creature's bones and was equipped with a high-frequency particle oscillation generator.

"Hum——"

As the switch was pressed, the pale bone blade instantly blurred, emitting a high-frequency hum that even deep-sea water couldn't block.

Jiang Ran looked at the thick black steel plate beneath his feet.

This was HY-80 High-Yield Strength Pressure-Resistant Steel, a top-tier material from the old era used by humans to withstand the pressure of a thousand meters of deep-sea water.

Even ordinary torpedoes might not penetrate it.

But in the face of biological materials... "Pfft."

A soft sound. No sparks, no resistance.

Jiang Ran's bone blade pierced down lightly.

The incredibly hard pressure-resistant steel plate now felt like a layer of soaked cardboard.

Or like freshly cooked tofu, pierced through effortlessly by the bone blade until the hilt was buried.

"Indeed, biological evolution is the ultimate answer."

A slight smile curled at Jiang Ran's lips as he suddenly exerted force with his wrist, dragging the hilt across the steel plate with a fierce slash.

"Sizzle—!!!"

A piercing metal tearing sound exploded in the deep sea.

That bone blade was like a red-hot knife cutting through butter.

On the thick submarine hull, it carved out a half-circle with a diameter of one meter.

"Crack!" The last connecting point snapped.

At this moment, the terrifying pressure difference in the deep sea became Jiang Ran's strongest assist.

The seawater outside at eighty atmospheres of pressure frantically tried to rush into the submarine cabin with only one atmosphere of pressure inside.

"Boom!!!"

The circular steel plate that had been cut out flew inward like a cannonball fired from a heavy gun.

Along with that violent high-pressure water column, it directly shattered the pipelines and barriers inside the submarine.

"Ahhhhh—!!"

The piercing screams were instantly drowned out by the roar of the rushing seawater.

"Since the door is open, I'll be intruding."

Jiang Ran sheathed his blade and let his body follow the violent water flow.

Like a black ghost shark, he elegantly and lethally slid into the body of this steel giant about to become a coffin... "He's there! Fire! For the Ark!!"

In the emergency passage inside the submarine, red alarm lights dyed the misty water vapor a bloody color.

Over a dozen fully armed Ark Guards had already set up a temporary defensive line here.

Although the rushing seawater had already risen past their knees, these fanatical believers still tightly gripped the triggers of their assault rifles.

"Ratatatatat—!!!"

The narrow metal corridor instantly became a death corridor of bullet rain.

Dense specially-made armor-piercing bullets, with a sharp whistle tearing through the air, wove an impenetrable web of firepower.

Completely covering the black figure that had just emerged from the breach.

Faced with concentrated fire at this distance, even wearing the thickest powered armor would be instantly riddled with holes.

However.

That black figure did not dodge.

He didn't even bother with tactical evasion maneuvers.

Jiang Ran walked straight toward the gun muzzles, step by step.

"Ding! Ding! Clang! Clang!"

The expected scene of blood and flesh flying did not occur.

Only a series of crisp, pleasant metal impact sounds, like heavy rain hitting a tin roof.

Those Tungsten Carbide Bullets capable of piercing light armor.

When they hit Jiang Ran's seemingly thin black combat suit, it was like they had struck an invisible force field wall.

No, not a force field.

One guard discovered in horror that the bullets had indeed hit.

But the moment they made contact with that person's body.

They were like mud hitting a steel plate, instantly deforming and twisting severely, then... being deflected.

Beneath the black fabric wrapping his body, faintly flowing dark golden patterns resembled indestructible dragon scales.

"What... what kind of monster is this?!"

The Guard Captain's pupils contracted violently.

He watched helplessly as a deformed bullet that had been deflected grazed his cheek and embedded itself in the bulkhead behind him.

"Is this what you call 'divine punishment'?" Jiang Ran's voice pierced through the roar of gunfire, steady to the point of despair.

He glanced down at the spot on his chest where the bullet had struck.

There wasn't even a white mark left, only a slight sensation akin to a mosquito bite.

"Too weak."

The next second, those golden vertical pupils suddenly locked onto the crowd.

"Swish——" The black figure vanished from its spot.

The Guard Captain only saw a blur before his eyes, and then his rifle suddenly felt lighter.

He looked down to see that the well-made alloy assault rifle had been neatly sliced in half right down the middle of the barrel.

The cut was smooth as a mirror, still emitting the scorching heat from being instantly melted by high temperature.

"Since you don't want to live, then..."

A pale blade light exploded in the narrow corridor, accompanied by that high-frequency hum like a swarm of bees buzzing.

"Go meet your god."

Jiang Ran swung his bone blade.

No fancy moves, just the simplest horizontal slash.

But with that indestructible sharpness and Jiang Ran's terrifying monstrous strength, this slash became a nightmare for these people.

Whether it was bulletproof vests, firearms, or the steel pipes and cables behind them, before this slash, all were equal.

"Squelch——"

The previously chaotic gunfire abruptly ceased.

The corridor instantly fell silent, leaving only the sizzling of severed high-voltage cables and the thuds of bodies falling into the accumulated water.

Jiang Ran shook his bone blade.

Not even a drop of blood stained it.

The high-frequency vibrating blade automatically deflected and shattered all filth instantly.

He stepped over the mess on the ground, not even glancing at the severed limbs and broken bodies, heading straight toward the core cabin deep inside the submarine.

"First one, cleared."

..."Rumble..."

Accompanied by a heart-wrenching sound of steel twisting, the massive "Judgment" finally completely lost its last bit of buoyancy.

The core cabin was destroyed, the ballast tanks ruptured.

This thousands-of-tons steel giant, as if its spine had been pulled out, sank heavily bow-first.

Dragging the massive wound at its stern still spewing bubbles, it plummeted toward the bottomless abyss.

Just as it was about to completely vanish into the darkness.

A black figure suddenly burst through the hatch cover on top of the conning tower.

Like a reverse-fired depth charge, he shot out from the continuously sinking wreckage.

Jiang Ran landed steadily on the capsizing ship's spine.

Without the slightest pause, he slightly bent his legs.

The genetically recombined muscle fibers tightened to the extreme in an instant, even denting the thick steel plate beneath his feet.

"Next." He silently thought to himself.

"Bang!!!" A white surge exploded in the deep sea.

Using this terrifying recoil force, Jiang Ran transformed into a released arrow.

Stepping on the corpses of his companions, he shot toward the "Redemption" hundreds of meters away, which was frantically reversing to escape... "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

In the Command cabin of the "Redemption," the Captain's face was twisted with extreme fear.

He had personally watched the signal representing the sister ship "Judgment" completely vanish from the radar screen within just three minutes.

And that terrifying red dot was heading straight toward him at an even faster speed than before.

"That's a demon... that's a demon of the deep sea!"

"Torpedoes! Fire all tubes!!"

The Captain screamed hysterically: "Forget about locking on!

Blow up the entire sea area in front of it!

Don't let it get near the hull!!"

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Accompanied by the sound of high-pressure gas ejection.

Four heavy torpedoes, trailing long wakes, roared out of the torpedo tubes, weaving a deadly interception net in the deep sea.

Facing this oncoming destructive firepower.

Jiang Ran, advancing at high speed, showed not the slightest ripple in his golden vertical pupils.

Under the dual enhancement of "Thermal Vision" and "Dynamic Capture."

These torpedoes, which seemed lightning-fast to ordinary people, appeared as slow as old men's leisurely strolls in a park in his vision.

"Too straightforward."

Just as the first torpedo was about to hit him.

Jiang Ran twisted his waist sharply, his body performing an incredible spiral roll in the water.

"Swoosh——"

That warhead carrying hundreds of kilograms of high explosives brushed past the tip of his nose.

Followed by the second, then the third.

Jiang Ran was like a ghost dancing in the deep sea.

In an extremely bizarre and elegant posture, he casually passed through the dense torpedo net.

The closest time, the guidance head of a torpedo even grazed his shoulder, emitting a piercing friction sound.

But just as predicted earlier.

No explosion.

Because the distance was too close, the torpedo's safety fuse simply didn't have time to unlock.

"Is this your last struggle?"

Jiang Ran passed through the torpedo formation.

Looking at the submarine ahead, now within close range and desperately turning hard left to evade, a cruel smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Too late."

"Thud!!!"

A dull, heavy sound.

The "Redemption" shook violently.

All crew members looked up in terror at the metal ceiling above them.

They could clearly feel that something... had landed on top of them.

Then.

"Tap, tap, tap."

A rhythmic knocking sound clearly penetrated the thick pressure hull into everyone's ears.

The sound was light, polite.

Like Death standing outside the door in the dead of night, gently knocking.

"Open up, checking the water meter."

"Sizzle——"

The sound of the bone blade cutting through the hatch was short and sharp.

Followed by the horrifying sound of air rushing in, and the screams instantly choked off by the deep-sea high pressure.

The sound didn't last long.

For a submarine that had lost its mobility, with Death riding on its face.

The process from hull breach to complete death was astonishingly fast.

Soon, this turbulent sea area returned to dead silence... Ten minutes later.

The black iron's powerful searchlights pierced the darkness of the deep sea, projecting beams onto this battlefield that had just witnessed a one-sided massacre.

The scene before them left Old Chen and Su Qingyu, standing on the bridge, speechless for a long time.

On the cold seabed, two massive steel carcasses lay quietly in the silt.

The "Judgment" was broken into two sections, still spewing bubbles and oil from the fracture;

The "Redemption," though mostly intact.

Had its conning tower completely torn open, like a can violently pried open by a mischievous child.

Countless fragments, documents, and bodies already deformed by deep-sea high pressure floated in the surrounding seawater.

This was a devastating blow.

And at the center of this chaotic hell, a tiny black figure hovered above the wreckage of the two giant ships.

Jiang Ran's bone blade was already sheathed.

His nano combat suit remained as smooth and new as ever.

Apart from some oil stains from the seawater, there wasn't even a scratch.

Those terrifying golden vertical pupils that had lit up during the battle had now shed their ferocity, returning to deep black.

"zero, report the time."

Jiang Ran's voice clearly transmitted back to the black iron's Command cabin via the communication channel.

Steady, calm, not even a hint of panting could be heard.

"Timer stopped."

"From your entry into the water to the end of combat, total time: 9 minutes and 42 seconds."

"Tsk."

Jiang Ran seemed somewhat dissatisfied as he frowned: "Slower than expected.

When cutting the second one just now, the feel was a bit off. Need to polish the bone blade's frequency a bit more next time."

"..."

There was a suffocating silence on the other end of the communicator.

Old Chen's mouth hung open as he looked at the man on the screen, like a demon god, feeling his throat go dry.

Less than ten minutes. One man, one blade.

Annihilated an entire fully armed modern submarine fleet.

What kind of person was this?

This was clearly a deep-sea meat grinder wearing human skin!

"Stop daydreaming."

Jiang Ran turned and swam toward the black iron, his tone returning to its usual laziness and commanding tone:

"Warm-up over, physical functions confirmed normal."

He pointed at the two massive piles of scrap iron beneath his feet: "Notify the Engineering Robots to deploy.

Although these two ships are blown up, the Nuclear Fuel Rods in the reactors should still be intact."

"That's prime feed, don't waste it."

"Also, salvage those torpedoes that aren't broken yet, good for replenishing our stock."

With that, Jiang Ran's figure transformed into a black streak of light, shooting toward the slowly opening decompression hatch of the black iron.