Having stayed up all night, Yang Mei had just fallen asleep when she was awakened by the piercing alarm sounding inside the White Tower.

The S-level warning broadcast begins automatically, calling all personnel involved in the deep-sea project to assemble at the central control console immediately.

Yang Mei had only been at the headquarters for a few days when she was promoted and given more authority. She only fully understood the details of this authority last night.

She is honored because she successfully developed a virus vaccine, and has now been transferred to the most mysterious deep-sea project department at headquarters.

The highest-level warning broadcast made the already serious atmosphere in the headquarters building even more tense.

Yang Mei didn't have time to think about what had happened. She grabbed her clothes in one hand and her work computer in the other, and rushed into the control panel while getting dressed.

She had just gone in when Pei Yankai and a group of elderly project workers followed her in.

Before he could even sit down, Pei Yankai immediately entered the password to start the monitoring record and received information transmitted from various monitoring points outside the tower.

"What's wrong?" Yang Mei had just arrived and saw the flashing red light on the screen. She tentatively asked the female researcher next to her.

The other person shook their head, their brows furrowed, and said only one sentence: "We're in big trouble."

Yang Mei thought to herself, now that the biggest problem, the virus, has been solved, what bigger problem could there be?

"Marine creatures attacking the White Tower?" Yang Mei asked again, watching the fully armed security personnel run past the entrance.

Then, the scene on the screen changed, and a huge whirlpool and a large cargo ship appeared before everyone's eyes.

Yang Mei remembered that cargo ship; it was the company's only large cargo ship, making two round trips a day between the mainland and the headquarters on White Pagoda Island.

At that moment, the huge cargo ship was like a tattered rag, caught in the whirlpool and nearly disintegrated.

Judging from the video's timing, this happened five minutes ago in the sea area near the White Pagoda.

Upon seeing the vortex, the researchers didn't react much at first, but quickly consulted their respective department heads for information on casualties, supplies, and other details.

Half a minute later, Pei Yankai zoomed in on the real-time monitoring image with the flashing red light. All the researchers who were busy working stopped in unison, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Yang Mei was also startled, her hair standing on end. "This...this is deep-sea energy fluctuation monitoring..."

She stayed up all night last night to review all the energy wave monitoring data in history. In the eighty years since humans began to monitor energy waves, this data has remained very stable.

Occasional small increases indicate that the creature in the deep sea is feeding.

However, the energy wave data being transmitted now is steadily increasing, exceeding ten times the previous highest frequency!

What does this represent?

A brief silence fell over the control panel as the flashing red lights illuminated everyone's faces.

Pei Yankai spoke in a hoarse voice: "He has woken up."

"Why did you suddenly wake up? There were no warning signs at all. What happened on that cargo ship?" Yang Mei asked, her voice choked with difficulty.

Then someone asked, "Should we go down and take a look?"

Pei Yankai nodded, and his men immediately dispersed, some going to sea, others gathering intelligence on the cargo ships.

In the blink of an eye, only one-third of the core researchers remained at the control panel. They looked at each other, unsure of what to do next.

This is because the person in charge of the deep-sea project had just produced a work deployment report entitled "He will continue to sleep for at least a hundred years".

They were all prepared to drop food into the deep sea every three days for a full twenty years. Who would have thought that the guy would wake up like that?

An unknown behemoth, whose sleeping, curled-up form could span two oceans, would cause devastating disaster to any planet if it were to awaken and simply turn over.

We've just solved the virus that nearly wiped out humanity, and it seems like the hard times are finally coming to an end.

But the next second, fate played a cruel joke on everyone.

Pei Yankai's expression was solemn. The other core members were not in much better shape than him, and they ridiculously began to check the inventory of incendiary bombs.

"It's no use," Pei Yankai said coldly.

"Now we need to determine whether He has really woken up. If He has, what is the reason for His awakening? After checking them one by one, we need to find a way to keep Him in a deep sleep."

“And that ship!” Pei Yankai stared intently at the cargo ship spinning in the whirlpool.

The ship was full of food they had prepared for Him, so he prayed that the guy was just impatient to eat early, and not that he had actually woken up.

While everyone was waiting for news, Yang Mei arrived at the helipad on the top of the building at some point.

This is the highest point of the building, with unobstructed views on all sides, offering a clear view of everything happening in this sea area.

The blue sea shimmered, not a single bird flew on it, and there was not a single mutated marine creature of grade C or above in the waters near the white tower.

The cargo ship sank in the deepest part of the sea west of the White Pagoda, where a shrinking whirlpool could be seen through a telescope.

The cargo ship did not sink; the whirlpool's power had weakened considerably. The captain steered the ship out safely and, guided by the company's pilot ship, is now heading towards the dock.

The possibility that Pei Yankai ate before his prayer was ruled out.

That guy is awake!

Yang Mei's breathing quickened instantly. A strange longing was tightly enveloping her reason, and she even had the crazy idea of ​​communicating with Him face to face.

But at the same time, her pitiful sanity yanked her out of this insane thought.

Pei Yankai once said that if that guy just moved a finger, the planet beneath her feet could be destroyed.

After glancing at the excessively calm sea, Yang Mei hurriedly ran downstairs to the control panel.

The people who went to investigate the cargo ship have returned with news that the ship, loaded with cargo and residents who were coming to the island, departed from port on time this morning.

When the ship reached the deepest part of the sea, the escort team received a report of smuggling. They led a team to search the cargo hold and found a group of stowaways. A brief firefight ensued, one stowaway died on the spot, and a boy and a girl jumped into the sea to escape. The rest were all captured.

It sounds like nothing is amiss.

"Wait a minute," Pei Yankai suddenly asked, "An adult and a child jumped into the sea to escape? There was a child among the stowaways? How old was the child?"

The subordinate replied, "It was a child who looked about four or five years old. The visibility was very poor in the hold at the time, so I couldn't see him very clearly. He must have boarded the ship with an adult."

Upon hearing this, Yang Mei and Pei Yankai quickly exchanged a glance and exclaimed in unison in shock, "Nth number!"

The researchers present were well aware of all the details regarding N, but someone immediately questioned, "Wasn't it already dealt with using incendiary bombs? How could it still reappear?"

"And if it's number N, how could it possibly come back? Wouldn't that be walking right into a trap?"

Pei Yankai and Yang Mei were also very puzzled.

But seeing the energy wave data constantly surging, everyone had no choice but to put aside their doubts for the time being and find a way to resolve the impending huge crisis.