180: Chapter 181 Fierce Battle Against Ocean Monsters

Thunderstorm was still dazed himself, looking at his palm over and over, feeling the texture of the skin on his palm and the tangible sense of strength that came every time his knuckles bent.

He suddenly slammed his fist onto the iron table beside him.

Bang!

With a dull thud, a large dent was smashed into the thick iron tabletop.

This strength was no different from his previous arm.

"Song Yang, you are now..."

Deputy Director Wang took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down, but the awe in his words could not be concealed.

"Since you are back, what are your thoughts on the current situation, especially regarding that 'Black Dragon'? We all want to hear your opinion."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone held their breath.

Indeed, having witnessed that miraculous scene just now, and connecting it to the unfathomable aura on Song Yang, they suddenly realized that the young man before them had likely already reached the pinnacle of the entire Shelter, and even all of Dahai City.

His opinion would directly determine everyone's future.

Song Yang's expression didn't change.

"Nothing to say."

"I will kill it before it completes its next evolution."

As his voice fell, the conference room plunged into dead silence once again.

Slay a dragon?

That is a "Dragon"!

It is a terrifying monster that has left the entire Official Shelter helpless, able only to defend passively, watching helplessly as the city is slowly gnawed away!

"Brother Song Yang! Do you need help?"

Thunderstorm was the first to speak, slamming the table in excitement, "You can pick any of the Warlord Rank experts in the Shelter! We will go with you!"

"Yes! We can't let you risk it alone!"

"Count me in!"

For a moment, the crowd was stirred. The power Song Yang displayed gave them unprecedented hope.

Song Yang, however, shook his head, his gaze sweeping over them.

"You can't."

A burly man's face stiffened, somewhat unconvinced:

"Although we are not as good as you, we are also Warlord Rank; surely we can help a little..."

"The Black Dragon's strength is not something you can imagine."

Song Yang interrupted him without the slightest tact, "If you go, it's no different from seeking death."

"What you need to do is stop the ocean monsters it brought."

"Don't let those monsters interfere with me."

The burly man who had been rebuffed flushed and turned pale, his thick hands clenching and unclenching before finally dropping dejectedly.

He was no fool; he understood that what Song Yang said was the truth. Facing that kind of monster capable of destroying a city, numbers truly had lost their meaning.

The atmosphere in the entire conference room became somewhat subtle.

Just then, the door to the conference room was slammed open, and a communications soldier scrambled in, his helmet tilted to one side.

"Report! C-3 Supply Depot is under attack!!"

Deputy Director Wang stood up abruptly, knocking his chair over backward.

"What?!"

The C-3 Depot stored the next month's rations for the Shelter and spare parts for all critical equipment!

It was one of the lifelines of the entire Shelter!

"The monsters crawled out from the sea!"

The communications soldier gasped for air, his eyes full of terror.

"We can no longer contact the Third Garrison Team!"

This one sentence caused the atmosphere in the conference room, which had just relaxed, to instantly drop to freezing point.

The Third Garrison Team consisted entirely of Evolvers, and the captain was even a quasi-Warlord Rank expert; had they really lost contact without even sending out a distress signal?

"Damn it!"

Thunderstorm's newly grown palm clenched into a fist, his knuckles popping like firecrackers.

"These beasts have actually started to attack on their own initiative."

Deputy Director Wang's face turned pale, and he steadied the chair that had almost toppled over, "Number of monsters? Scale?"

"Not clear!"

The communications soldier was almost crying, "All surveillance and communications at the C-3 point have been cut off! We only managed to receive one image: a giant octopus tentacle tearing open the gate of Warehouse Three."

Before the words had even faded, Thunderstorm had already stood up.

"What are we waiting for! Assemble the troops, let's go get them!"

"Calm down!"

Deputy Director Wang shouted to stop him, but the cold sweat on his forehead betrayed his inner turmoil.

He forced himself to look at Song Yang, a hint of pleading in his gaze: "Song Yang, what do you think..."

Before he could finish.

"I'll go."

Song Yang spat out two words and walked out the door.

"Everyone, enter the highest state of combat readiness immediately!" Deputy Director Wang was the first to react; he slammed his fist onto the table and roared the order with all his might.

"Leave some people to guard the base, the rest support C-3! Hurry!!"

...

Inside the Shelter, piercing alarms blared to the skies.

But none of this had anything to do with Song Yang.

He had already flown into the sky, advancing at high speed toward the warehouse.

Soon, a wave of heat mixed with the smell of blood and a thick, briny sea odor washed over him.

The entrance to the C-3 Supply Depot had been violently torn open, leaving a huge gap, with twisted steel bars exposed like the ribs of a monster.

The scene before him was a hellscape.

Flames shot into the sky; the massive underground supply depot now looked like a grave dug open by a giant, with countless remains of supplies and equipment parts burning and billowing thick smoke.

Several ocean monsters, three stories tall, were wreaking havoc on the ruins.

They took various forms; some looked like giant octopuses walking upright, whose slick tentacles could smash a concrete wall into powder with every swing;

others had hideous fish heads and giant crab-like claws, using those sharp pincers to stuff prey into their mouths.

Foul-smelling drool dripped from their ugly mouthparts, corroding pits into the burning ground.

And further away, on the pitch-black sea surface, it seemed even more shadows were surging toward the shore.

Perhaps sensing Song Yang's presence, the octopus monster that was using its tentacles to crush a shipping container into an iron disc suddenly paused.

Its disproportionate, truck-sized head slowly turned, its turbid, lantern-like giant eyes locking onto the tiny black dot in mid-air.

"Gurgle..."

A low, muffled sound emitted from within its body.

The next second, a thick tentacle tore through the air with a gust of nauseatingly fishy wind, smashing down toward Song Yang!

The tentacle was covered in dense suction cups, and in the center of each suction cup grew a ring of fine, keratinous sharp teeth like those of a shark!

Song Yang's figure merely shifted slightly to the side in the air, nimbly avoiding this thunderous strike.

Boom!!

The tentacle slammed hard into the position where he had just been hovering, smashing the reinforced concrete ruins below into powder, creating a massive crater over ten meters in diameter, with the shockwave suppressing the surrounding flames.

With the strike missing, the octopus monster seemed to be enraged; more tentacles rose from the ruins like giant pythons dancing in a frenzy, sealing off all of Song Yang's escape routes.

However, Song Yang didn't dodge again at all.

He hovered in the air, and a blood-red light blossomed from behind him.

One.

Two.

Twenty-four!

Twenty-four blood vines unfolded behind him like a peacock spreading its tail.

Without the slightest pause, one of the blood vines advanced instead of retreating, shooting toward the giant tentacle that was lashing out again!

The size comparison between the vine and the tentacle was like a toothpick against a giant pillar, appearing incredibly small.

But at the very moment they were about to make contact, the blood vine displayed a terrifying flexibility completely at odds with its size; like a living venomous snake, it instantly coiled around the thick tentacle and climbed rapidly along its surface!

The octopus monster seemed to sense the threat and whipped its tentacle frantically, trying to shake off this annoying "little bug."

But it was too late.

The blood vine had already wrapped around the tentacle three full times, and then tightened!

"Squelch!!"

That tough tentacle, capable of smashing a tank, was forcibly severed under the strangulation of the blood vine!

No, it was crushed to the point of explosion!

Purplish-black, foul-smelling blood and shattered muscle tissue rained down like a storm, scattering over the ruins below and igniting patches of sizzling smoke.

Having succeeded with one strike, the blood vine did not stop.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh—!

Twenty-four red reapers descended from the sky!

They transformed into the most efficient killing machines, accurately pouncing toward those behemoths on the ground.

A fish-headed monster that was biting into a generator didn't even have time to react before it was pierced simultaneously by three blood vines through its eye sockets and mouth; the vines churned frantically inside its body, and in just one second, its massive body stiffened abruptly, then collapsed with a boom, devoid of any sign of life.

Another crab monster waving giant claws had a hard shell, but it was easily pierced by two vines through its soft spots, which exited from both sides of its body, pinning it firmly to the ground.

For a moment, the entire C-3 Supply Depot became a hunting ground for the blood vine.

Thunderstorm, Deputy Director Wang, and others who had just arrived at the perimeter of the depot and were preparing to organize a defensive line, happened to witness this scene.

They stared blankly at the black figure in the sky, watching those red vines, which seemed like extensions of his arms, efficiently and coldly harvesting one terrifying giant beast after another.

"This..."

Thunderstorm's mouth hung open in an "O" shape, unable to utter a complete word for a long time.

A battlefield that was a living hell just a second ago, after Song Yang arrived, in less than a minute, had become a one-sided...

Slaughter.