269: Chapter 269 Little Bear unleashes his ultimate attack, and Sea King retreats 500 meters.

The water level beneath Wang Ya's feet continued to drop.

She did not answer the provocation from across the way.

However, the King of the Deep Sea withdrew his trident and retreated into the tide a hundred meters away.

The tail of the trident struck down.

Thud!

Dozens of gullies cracked open across the exposed seabed.

The mud bulged upward, and the sound of shells colliding emanated from beneath the layer of silt.

Dense tentacles tore through shipwrecks as thousands of mutated sea beasts crawled onto the land.

Crabs, sea snakes, and fishmen.

More creatures, trailing slime, squeezed their way out from the depths of the seabed.

The King of the Deep Sea stood behind the crest of the waves.

"You can hold back the sea."

"Then let's see how many things from the sea you can hold back."

The grayish-white water patterns on Wang Ya's chest spread toward her shoulders.

She did not turn back.

"General Zhao."

"Have everyone retreat behind me."

Zhao Dingshan grabbed his communicator.

"Full-line retreat!"

"Move heavy artillery back two hundred meters, and have the reserve team seal the flood discharge channel!"

The Military Medic hugged the little bear tightly and retreated with the wounded.

One of the little bear's ears was crooked.

That was what Lin Motong had just sewn yesterday.

The first wave of sea beasts rushed onto the embankment.

Wang Ya pressed her hands downward.

The floodwaters diverted into the channels on both sides rose up, transforming into two walls of water that crashed head-on into the beast horde.

Over a hundred mutated sea beasts were slammed into the mud.

The sound of breaking bones merged into a continuous chorus.

The grayish-white water patterns spread along the seabed, plowing a clearing through the beast horde.

Behind Wang Ya, the road leading to the second line of defense remained completely dry.

A sound of twisting metal came from the other side of the port.

A tentacle covered in iron-plated suckers wrapped around a crane.

The base of the crane was ripped from the ground.

A massive black octopus squeezed half of its body out from the underground pipe network, its eight tentacles crawling over the warehouse roof.

An S-rank sea beast.

A large wave of mud also surged on the left side of the seabed.

An armored giant crab pushed forward, braving the coastal defense artillery fire.

Artillery shells landed on its shell, knocking off only a few fragments of black armor.

Another S-rank.

Zhao Dingshan stared at the radar.

The red dots were still increasing.

"Artillery coordinates, Port Area Three!"

A round of rockets fell.

The giant octopus retracted two tentacles, but the remaining tentacles burrowed underground.

Zhao Dingshan immediately changed the order.

"Coordinates Seven!"

Just as the artillery fire shifted, the armored giant crab crashed into the flood embankment.

The concrete wall cracked.

Ordinary sea beasts crawled along the two abandoned channels toward the flanks.

Zhao Dingshan changed the coordinates three times in a row.

Each time, the King of the Deep Sea would supplement it with a surge of seawater, sending the beast horde toward a new gap.

It was no longer competing with Wang Ya for control of the water.

It was forcing her to guard every path simultaneously.

Boom!

A tentacle burst through the ground behind the position, scooping up an ammunition truck.

The vehicle was flung into mid-air, the crate lids burst open, and artillery shells rolled everywhere.

Soldiers dove to both sides.

The armored giant crab crashed into the half-destroyed embankment.

Sandbags were sent flying by the giant pincers.

The muzzles in the front row swayed with the ground; someone missed their footing and knocked over the supply crates in the back.

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Zheng vaulted over the bunker with a rocket launcher on his shoulder.

"Reserve team, follow me to plug the gap!"

A tentacle swept in from the side.

Two soldiers were knocked over.

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Zheng landed on one knee and fired the rocket launcher from his shoulder.

The backblast swept across the sandbags.

The rocket burrowed into a sucker and pierced through the entire tentacle.

The severed limb slammed down outside the position.

Black blood flowed into the stagnant water.

"Reload!"

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Zheng threw away the empty tube.

"Whoever retreats today, when we get back, you're scrubbing toilets for three months for me!"

A nearby soldier loaded the ammunition.

"Lieutenant Colonel, if I can make it back alive, I'll scrub for half a year!"

"You're quite good at adding drama for yourself."

The second rocket flew out.

Wang Ya crushed the A-rank crystal core in her hand, and the grayish-white water patterns on her chest became so bright they were blinding.

She raised her arms.

The floodwaters on both sides broke away from the channels and rolled back into the port area.

The water current lifted her into mid-air.

The giant octopus's eight tentacles closed in.

The armored giant crab raised its pincers.

Wang Ya curled her five fingers downward.

Dozens of high-pressure water spears rose from the sea surface, piercing the tentacles descending toward her.

Before the severed limbs could hit the ground, the water spears had already swept past the giant crab's shell.

Several shallow grooves were cut into the black armor.

The giant crab was still moving forward.

Wang Ya's arms began to tremble.

Her breath caught in her throat.

The King of the Deep Sea held his trident, standing in the distance, without making a move.

It was waiting.

Wang Ya stared at the slime spewing from the giant octopus's head.

The grayish-white patterns burrowed into the wound along with the slime.

When the armored giant crab lifted its legs, water vapor also seeped from its joints.

Wang Ya clasped her hands together.

The grayish-white water patterns lit up from within the two giant beasts.

The tentacles the giant octopus had swung down doubled back in mid-air, entangling the giant crab's pincers.

The giant crab's body tilted, and its six articulated legs dug into the mud layer.

"Rise."

Wang Ya spat out the word.

A column of water erupted from beneath the seabed.

The armored giant crab was flipped over, its ventral shell facing the sky.

The giant octopus was dragged down by it, its head slamming into the shipwrecks.

Wang Ya tore her hands apart to both sides.

A water blade swept across the port area.

The octopus's head split open.

Another high-pressure water stream drilled into the gaps in the giant crab's shell, piercing through its ventral armor and pinning it to the seabed.

The two S-rank giant beasts struggled a few times, collapsing the surrounding shipping containers.

They never got up again.

The advance of the sea beast horde paused for a beat.

Inside the coastal defense position, machine guns were set up again.

The artillerymen locked onto the gaps in the water flow left by Wang Ya and began segmented bombardment.

Zhao Dingshan pressed his hand to the communicator by his ear.

"Don't let her guard it alone."

"Advance the entire line fifty meters!"

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Zheng led his men across the broken embankment.

The line of fire was pushed back to the middle of the port.

Wang Ya landed between the corpses of the two giant beasts.

Her shoulders heaved, and her right hand was still guiding the seawater on both sides.

At that very moment.

The King of the Deep Sea moved.

It stepped through the giant beasts' corpses, treading on the receding tide.

The trident bypassed the frontal water curtain, and the tip of the weapon thrust forward.

A compressed column of water shot out from behind Wang Ya.

Wang Ya turned her body to the side.

The water column still slammed into her ribs.

The grayish-white patterns extinguished in patches.

She flew off the sea beasts' corpses and crashed into the broken embankment.

Blood dripped from her lips, dissolving into the stagnant water at her feet.

The floodwaters on both sides lost their guidance and surged toward the center line.

The sea beasts trampled over the giant beasts' corpses, charging toward the position.

The King of the Deep Sea raised his trident.

The tip of the trident was aimed at Wang Ya beneath the embankment.

In the rear medical area.

The little bear in the Military Medic's arms shuddered.

The crooked ear stood up on its own.

Black and red light seeped out from between the stitches.

The Military Medic's arms froze in front of their chest.

The next second, a psychic tide bore down over the port.

The charging sea beasts collapsed into the muddy water in droves.

The fishmen buried their faces in the sewage.

The sea snakes coiled into a ball.

The King of the Deep Sea's hand gripping the trident cracked with the sound of grinding bone.

It stared at that little bear.

The sea surface collapsed inward by over a dozen meters.

The black and red light surged out again.

The King of the Deep Sea took a step back.

A second step.

A third step.

The seawater supported it as it retreated continuously, the trident slicing through the surface of the waves until it stopped five hundred meters away.

Far away in the study of Cloud Top Palace, Lin Motong looked up.

The pencil in her hand snapped in two.

"Mom."

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Zheng seized this opening.

"Reserve team, go get her!"

Dozens of soldiers rushed past the prostrate sea beasts, using explosives to blast through the beast horde and tearing open a path with close-range firepower.

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Zheng jumped down the embankment and dragged Wang Ya out from the rubble.

Wang Ya raised her hand.

Only a thin film of water rose from the sea surface.

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Zheng held down her wrist.

"Get back alive first."

"Shanghai isn't so poor that it needs one person to guard the entire coastline."

Wang Ya's lips moved.

"The little bear..."

"It's here."

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Zheng took the little bear from the Military Medic and tucked it into her arms.

The ambulance door closed.

Wang Ya looked down at the little bear.

"I have... disappointed Mr. Lin."

The sea beast army tore open gaps on both flanks, and the second line of defense began to shrink.

Inside the settlement area, someone spoke while leaning against the wall.

"The land cannot be defended."

"We might as well surrender to the King of the Deep Sea."

The same words soon spread from three settlement points.

Zhao Dingshan raised his gun and shot the man leading the incitement.

"Draw a perimeter line."

"Anyone who spreads talk of surrender again will be dealt with as a traitor!"

Inside the ambulance.

Wang Ya held the little bear, blood seeping from beneath her combat uniform.