88: The trial at Mach 7! Withstanding a 100-meter tsunami, shattering the deep-sea Leviathan with a single shot!

The Yangtze River Estuary.

This is the boundary between land and ocean, the watershed between turbidity and depth.

The black iron ghost is like a black wedge, splitting the thick grey rain curtain on the wide river surface.

Carrying the smell of gunpowder and rust, it broke into this unknown territory.

As the voyage deepened, the color of the surrounding water underwent a heart-palpitating change.

The original river water, mixed with silt and appearing a murky yellow-green, seemed to be eroded by some invisible black dye.

It quickly transformed into a deep, oppressive ink-black that reflected almost no light.

The surges became more violent.

No longer the fine ripples of a river, but like a landslide, frequently raising walls of water dozens of meters high, smashing heavily onto the sea surface.

Emitting a deafening roar. That was the ocean's breath, heavy and lethal.

This is a forbidden zone for freshwater life, a back garden for deep-sea behemoths.

“Beep—!!”

Inside the command pod, the originally monotonous and stable sonar echoes suddenly turned into a series of urgent, piercing red alerts.

At the very front of the holographic sea chart.

The huge red light spot that had been silent exploded without warning, instantly occupying half the screen.

“It moved!”

Old Chen gripped the handrail tightly, his eyeballs bloodshot from extreme tension:

“Epicenter depth rising! It's surfacing! Good God... is this a damn mountain?!”

“Splash—Boom!!!”

As if to confirm Old Chen's exclamation.

Two kilometers straight ahead, the sea surface suddenly began to boil like boiling water.

A suffocatingly massive shadow, accompanied by the falling of tens of thousands of tons of seawater, slowly rose from the abyss.

It was a Deep-sea Giant Chela comparable in size to an island.

Its shell was not natural chitin.

Instead, it was covered with a thick layer of 'armor' condensed from countless shipwrecks, rusted containers, and seabed rocks.

Rusty anchor chains hung from its limbs like seaweed, making a dull metallic clashing sound with its movements.

It was like a living, moving shipwreck graveyard, emitting a nauseating smell of decay.

This 'gatekeeper' entrenched at the estuary lay across the throat of the junction between the river and the sea.

Its broad body directly blocked the only path for the black iron to the deep sea.

“Roar—!!!”

The behemoth raised its head and let out a roar that could pierce metal and stone.

Two giant pincers like cranes slammed into the sea, stirring up a terrifying tsunami a hundred meters high, rushing toward the black iron.

Before this force of nature, the forty-five-meter-long black iron was as small as a leaf.

“Wave height thirty meters! Impacting!”

Su Qingyu's voice was tense, her hand already on the medical restraint strap.

Facing this wall of water that connected heaven and earth, any conventional evasive maneuvers were futile.

However, Jiang Ran did not order a slowdown, nor did he turn the rudder.

He stood at the very front of the bridge, his hands steadily gripping the helm, his deep blue eyes reflecting the approaching towering waves and that hideous behemoth.

No fear, only a near-insane coldness.

“Is this the ocean's greeting?”

Jiang Ran's mouth curled up slightly, and his fingers suddenly pushed the power lever to the 'overload' red zone at the very top.

“Then let's crash through.”

“Hum—Boom!!!”

Deep in the bottom deck, the nuclear reactor reinforced with Rhenium-nickel alloy erupted with a roar.

The Water-jet Thruster at the stern of the black iron sprayed a dazzling blue torrent.

The entire warship not only didn't slow down.

Instead, it was like a sharp arrow leaving a bow, sprinting at full speed against the giant wave capable of crushing steel!

It didn't look like a ship.

More like a crazed black rhino, head down, stabbing that long horn named 'Courage' fiercely into the heart of the ocean.

“Hold on tight!”

“We're going to clear a path!”

“Boom—!!!”

The black water wall dozens of meters high, carrying the kinetic energy to crush everything, slammed heavily onto the bow of the black iron.

However, the tragic scene of ship destruction and death that was expected did not happen.

At that critical moment, the Klein Field covering the entire ship instantly overloaded, bursting with a halo of dazzling azure light.

This repulsive force field driven by nuclear energy was like an invisible sharp knife, forcibly slicing that continuous wall of water open from the middle.

The huge waves were pushed aside, and the black iron was like a black bullet going upstream.

It pierced through the tsunami unscathed and rushed directly in front of that deep-sea behemoth.

The distance instantly closed to less than five hundred meters.

At this distance, the monster named Leviathan appeared even more hideous and terrifying.

The shipwreck wreckage hanging on its body flickered with eerie green ghost fire under the lightning.

Those huge compound eyes stared fixedly at this reckless little bug, raising giant pincers capable of snapping an aircraft carrier's keel.

“Seeking death.”

Jiang Ran stood before the command seat, the blue light in his eyes even more dazzling than the thunder outside the ship.

He didn't give this overlord of the old era any chance to swing its giant pincers.

“Click—Hum!!!”

Accompanied by a burst of mechanical engagement sounds.

The thick Biological Armor plates at the bow of the black iron slid open rapidly to both sides like a blooming steel flower.

Amidst the rising white steam.

That Twin Electromagnetic Railgun, representing the black iron's highest military power, looked up and glared at the sky with the cold killing intent of industrial civilization.

The Superconducting coils were instantly charged.

Violent currents jumped crazily between the rails, ionizing the surrounding air into a cluster of dazzling Plasma clouds.

At that moment, a blue sun seemed to rise over the black sea.

Jiang Ran's finger hovered over the red fire button, looking at the ugly head on the screen that occupied the entire field of vision.

His lips parted slightly, coldly spitting out two words:

“Get lost.”

The fingertip fell.

“Sizzle—Boom!!!”

The world went silent. A spear of pure, extreme blue-white light instantly pierced the pitch-black rain curtain.

7 Mach.

At this speed, the air itself becomes an obstacle harder than steel.

The Tungsten alloy projectile compressed and ignited the air in front of it the moment it left the barrel, carrying rings of visible shockwaves.

Turning into a divine punishment of destruction, it slammed heavily into the 'shipwreck armor' that the Leviathan was so proud of.

Nothing could stop this force.

Those incredibly hard containers and ship plates that had been soaked in the sea for decades were as fragile as a thin eggshell before this kinetic projectile.

“Bang—!!!”

A dull, extreme explosion erupted on the sea surface.

There were no soaring flames, only a pure release of kinetic energy.

The Leviathan's mountain-like body suddenly stiffened, and then, the several-meter-thick composite shell on its chest, along with the flesh and tissue behind it, instantly disintegrated and shattered.

Fragments of shell and dark green flesh sprayed in all directions like a rainstorm.

The massive impact force.

Actually flipped this deep-sea behemoth weighing tens of thousands of tons right over from the sea surface!