Chapter 314 The Beast Tide Attack Erupts
The person in charge said:
"To date, Ms. Ning has found more than a thousand parallel worlds, which span billions of years."
"Thirty-seven of them are alive."
Of the thirty-seven, fifteen developed into human civilization.
"The other twenty-two did not evolve into humans. Ten of them were dominated by other types of mammals; seven were dominated by insects, which led to the emergence of insect civilizations; dinosaurs did not go extinct in three of the worlds, and dinosaur civilizations were born; the last two worlds did not even evolve animals, and were all plants, which even formed a very unusual plant civilization."
It's obvious that World Number 1 still hasn't been found, otherwise the person in charge would have notified Shangguan Ying long ago.
Shangguan Ying asked, "Among the parallel worlds that have been explored, are there any that take place after our time?"
The person in charge shook his head and said, "No, they are all compared to the period before ours. The closest to our time is World 3, which is about 25 years later than our time. Interestingly, every time Miss Ning enters a new parallel world, she will encounter various 'key' moments or 'events'."
"What's the meaning?"
“For example, witnessing an asteroid impact on Earth in World 2, or her parents being involved in a car accident and falling into a river in World 3, these kinds of situations.”
As the person in charge spoke, he took out video clips of the exploration operation and showed them to Shangguan Ying on the projection screen.
This is more intuitive.
Shangguan Ying saw that in World 397, Ning Jinli witnessed the first fish crawling from the swamp onto land during the ancient Devonian period.
In World 402, Ning Jinli rescued several ancient apes stuck in the crevices of rocks, treated their wounds, and even made a fire for them.
In World 453, Ning Jinli guides a group of giant butterflies trapped in a desperate situation to escape.
In World 517, Ning Jinli encountered a dinosaur tribe that had evolved into humanoid forms, and even helped deliver three dinosaur eggs for the tribe's leader who was in the process of giving birth.
In World 656, Ning Jinli dispelled the poisonous fog that shrouded a mountain stream, allowing sunlight to shine again on the dying plant species at the bottom of the valley. As she left, the plants swayed their branches and leaves at her, and even wove her image with their vines.
...
As Shangguan Ying watched, she couldn't help but be moved.
The person in charge added, "Miss Ning sometimes saved certain parallel worlds or brought enlightenment to civilization and technology to certain parallel worlds. We did not stop her from doing so because those are other worlds and would not interfere with our historical timeline. It's just a pity... we still haven't found Parallel World No. 1."
"We will find it..." Shangguan Ying smiled, her eyes resolute. "We will definitely find it."
After playing the video clips, the person in charge turned around and found that Shangguan Ying had fallen asleep on the table.
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More than a month later.
Three secret investigators dispatched by China finally followed the clues and found a suspicious location in the R region that was extremely well hidden.
That was once the most famous volcano in the R region, with snow-capped peaks and cherry blossoms covering the base. Back when it was part of R country, it attracted countless tourists from all over the world.
Now it has become a desolate and lifeless place.
The remaining cherry blossom trees, crooked and twisted, clung to the barren cracks in the rocks, looking like gaunt ghosts struggling to rise from the ground under the gray sky.
Following the clues they found, the three investigators took advantage of the darkness and ventured into a pile of rocks halfway up the mountain. They found a cave that was only wide enough to crawl through, and they went inside without hesitation.
Four more days passed quickly.
At dawn, a few minutes before the sun rises.
In the pitch-black darkness, an investigator struggled to climb out of a pile of rubble, clutching a blood-stained cell phone in his hand.
When the signal connection icon appeared on his phone screen, he was overjoyed, as if he were filled with energy again, and he quickly sent voice messages while running.
At the same time, the ground suddenly shifted in several inconspicuous locations nearby, revealing passageways from which dozens of fully armed men in black emerged one after another.
The man in black, wearing night vision goggles, quickly located the investigator's trail.
Before long, they caught up with the exhausted investigator and severed both of his legs with a single stroke.
The pain was excruciating, but the investigator didn't utter a sound of agony. Instead, he laughed, lay back on the ground with his arms outstretched, and looked up at the sky.
A man in black pried his hand open and snatched the phone, only to discover that the investigator had already successfully sent the message.
Enraged, the man in black immediately ordered the investigator to be chopped into mincemeat.
The sound of a blade slicing through a body rang out.
The investigator didn't blink, gritting his teeth and straining his eyes. Only when he saw the first hint of dawn breaking on the horizon, signaling the end of the deep darkness, did he close his eyes with a smile.
After venting their anger, the group of men in black quickly turned back, entered the mountain, and reported the situation directly to their superiors.
The news quickly reached a room decorated with ornate cherry blossom patterns.
Inside, there was a middle-aged man kneeling on the ground wiping a long knife, and several other men were drinking and singing with women in their arms next to him.
Upon hearing the report, the men present all changed their expressions drastically.
The middle-aged man wiping his knife cleaved the low table in front of him in two, his face dark as he quickly pondered for a few seconds before ordering the immediate implementation of the beast tide operation.
A man nearby said that the beast tide operation was not fully prepared and that launching it now would greatly reduce its effectiveness.
The middle-aged man glared angrily and cursed a few times, saying that the news had already been leaked and China would definitely take swift action. There was no time to wait; the beast tide operation had to begin.
The others present thought for a moment and then all agreed, taking out the keys from their waists and handing them to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man took all the keys, opened a secret room door behind him, and strode inside.
On the other side.
The top leadership of China finally learned the true situation in the R region.
Three top investigators risked their lives to uncover the secrets of the beast tide.
It turns out that there are still some extremists in the R region who are trying to overthrow the country. They claim to be the legitimate bloodline of the R country's royal family, secretly collude with the São Tomé and Príncipe Empire, and are led by the Adventist Society.
The reason they were able to bypass the blockade and control was that the São Tomé and Príncipe Empire possessed teleportation technology, which was even more advanced than that of China.
Currently, China can only establish teleportation portals within the same time and space in a few locations, and the teleportation distance is only a few hundred kilometers. Ning Jinli had witnessed this once before when she had just woken up from her coma; a teleportation point had been set up in her villa.
The São Tomé and Príncipe Empire used a similar method to establish secret contacts with extremists in the R region, helping them build a base beneath the volcano.
For about ten years now, extremists have been continuously adding genetically modified drugs provided by Adventist groups to the daily food ingredients and bottled drinking water of residents in the R region.
The dosage is kept at a level that cannot be detected, but over time, the quantitative change is enough to trigger a qualitative change.
One hundred million people from the original R country in the R region became tools for extremists without their knowledge.
Extremists are delusional about regaining the so-called royal glory and rule of R country. Their desire to destroy China remains undiminished, to the point that they are willing to turn all the people on their side into monsters.
Such a distorted and insane ideology has greatly shocked and angered the top leadership of China.
"Report!" A senior officer rushed into the conference room. "A volcano has erupted in region R, but what's erupting isn't lava, but a special sound wave that can cover the entire region! We've detected biosignals from mutated humans! Their numbers are skyrocketing!"
It turns out that extremists first used drugs over many years to cause changes in the genes of residents in region R, and then used this special method to activate the mutations.
Even if they are not ready and hastily launching the activator may not result in all of them successfully mutating, even if only one-third of the approximately 100 million residents mutate, that would still be a terrifying number.
Without the slightest hesitation, Shangguan Ying immediately ordered: "Withdraw all cruiser fleets in the waters surrounding R region, as far away from R island as possible, and launch a long-range hydrogen bomb attack!"
"Yes, sir!" The officer received the order and left immediately.
Half an hour later, a long-range missile carrying a hydrogen warhead was launched from a launch base in China, soaring into the sky like a dragon.
Meanwhile, within the R region island, the number of humanoid monsters is growing exponentially.
Some ordinary people who failed to mutate even became targets of the monsters.
The entire island changed every second; almost in the blink of an eye, monsters ravaged the land, and corpses littered the fields.
Countless highly destructive monsters ravaged city buildings, causing fires and explosions. In the past half hour, the R region has become a living hell.
The horde of monsters, as if possessing a collective consciousness, surged onto the western side of the island, heading towards the ocean and attacking the East China Sea.
Countless humanoid monsters mutated again after entering the sea.
By devouring other monsters around them and any marine creatures they could catch, their bodies rapidly swelled, transforming them into super monsters comparable in size to blue whales, covered in thick armor, with tentacles tens of meters long and sharp claws.
Four minutes after the launch of the Chinese long-range missile, it arrived at the volcano in the R region.
With a deafening explosion, the entire volcano instantly transformed into a giant mushroom cloud, and everything in its path was reduced to ashes by the shockwave.
Then, more missiles appeared in the high sky above the R region, locking onto groups of monsters and bombarding them rapidly like a torrential downpour.
Meanwhile, the carrier battle group, which had retreated to a safe range, also unleashed its full firepower on the sea, killing the continuous surging beast tide towards the East China Sea.
The battle was swift and fierce.
Just as hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the eastern battle zone of China were concentrating their efforts on dealing with the beast tide.
Most other countries are watching with bated breath.
However, a very small number of small countries bordering China are showing signs of restlessness.
Although the world now largely follows China's lead, there are still some with ulterior motives who want to take advantage of the situation.
A certain small country couldn't hold back any longer and quickly and secretly gathered its troops, marching towards the border.
However, before they even reached the border, several conventional missiles rained down from the sky, wiping out most of their army on the spot, followed by a dense barrage of drones bombing and clearing the area.
Then, before its national leadership could even grieve over the loss of troops, they received a stern warning from the Chinese military—if they dared to lay hands on them again, their country would be destroyed!
In such extraordinary times, China will no longer be polite to petty villains.
Only by using swift and decisive measures to deter others can stability be maintained.
This act of making an example of someone proved effective; the other countries that had designs on the matter but hadn't acted immediately became docile.
Three hours into the battle against the beast tide, more than half of the monsters on the island in region R had been eliminated. Meanwhile, the missile and drone bombardment by China continued, and warships and transport planes began to deploy tactical robot dogs to help clear the remaining monster hordes on the island. At this point, it was not necessary for the soldiers to personally take to the field, so there were no casualties among the Chinese legion personnel.
Comparatively speaking, the beast tide currently crossing the East China Sea is the most difficult to deal with.
They are more numerous, more ferocious and larger, and possess extremely strong defensive and self-healing abilities. Their sustained swimming speed even far exceeds the instantaneous burst speed of the sailfish, the king of speed in the ocean.
This allows you to leave submarines and even warships behind, and you can use speed to dodge torpedoes and dive to avoid missiles.
Shangguan Ying gave a strict order: absolutely no monster should be allowed to land.
Once the monsters land, they will not only cause damage to the coast of East China Sea, but the military will also be hampered and unable to launch a full-scale attack.
Therefore, the military deployed a large fleet in the East China Sea to prepare for the enemy, forming the first line of defense in the far sea area; all the coastal defense artillery was also ready to fire, forming the second line of defense in the near sea; at the same time, behind the coastal defense artillery, hundreds of thousands of fully armed marines built the third line of defense along the coast.
The rest of the world is watching this unprecedented war, and world leaders are both terrified and secretly relieved.
What's alarming is that China's military strength and organizational mobilization capabilities have reached such a terrifying level.
Fortunately, those tens of millions of monsters were heading towards China and did not venture into their own territory.
Based on known observational information, even the most common human mutated monsters in the beast tide, just a couple hundred of them, could sweep across more than half of the small countries on this planet.
After all, among the more than 200 countries and regions in the world, the number of countries that have fighter jets can be counted on one hand, and many small and medium-sized countries don't even have a single tank or a decent modern army.
But at this very moment, a strange light appeared in dozens of locations around the world, most of them in densely populated areas of major cities in various countries.
The light continued to widen, as if it were opening up a gap in space.
Out of curiosity, a large number of passersby gathered to watch and take photos with their mobile phones. Even local news media organizations sent teams of reporters to come and film and interview.
In the city center of a European capital, a strange beam of light, four meters wide, shot straight into the sky from the ground. Local police tried to maintain order, but they couldn't stop the crowds of curious people who rushed to get a closer look at this spectacle.
Reporters from major media groups squeezed to the closest position to the beam of light, stood in the middle with their backs to it, and started a live broadcast into the camera.
As they were talking, the reporter saw his colleague, who was carrying a camera, suddenly become dumbfounded, dropping the camera to the ground. The rest of the onlookers also looked stunned and terrified.
The reporter frowned and turned around, the next second—
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