Chapter 763: Battle and Gambit, Trap and Cage

The ocean underwent earth-shaking changes.

The power of the Ancient Sea descended. All marine life within a 200-kilometer radius had their body sizes increased by 500%. Their bloodlines received the empowerment of the Ancient Sea's power. They were no longer ordinary creatures.

In that moment, they all came under the dominion of the Four Turtles.

They formed an ultra-large-scale marine life cluster, surging like a tidal wave.

The man-eating sharks under Mary I's command also grew larger.

Within their consciousness, two commands clashed violently.

One was Mary I's command. The other was the will of the Ancient Sea and the Four Turtles.

The conflicting orders gradually pushed these man-eating sharks' consciousness toward chaos.

They began tearing at each other.

Blood stained the seawater red.

But it also thoroughly activated the bloodthirsty trait within the man-eating sharks.

They attacked the surrounding creatures with even greater frenzy.

Mary I looked at the out-of-control shark swarm around her fleet, her face turning ashen.

She had tried to control and stop them, but it was useless.

On the other side, the Steel Fleet was likewise surrounded by a sea of corpses and blood.

They fired at full power at the surging giant marine creatures.

Tallow tracked the steadily depleting ammunition and energy, a flicker of change appearing in its emotion code.

"This ability is no simple matter!"

Although the threat of small fish could be ignored.

Those large marine creatures were already enough to pose a threat to its warships.

As it spoke, sea spray exploded in all directions. Eight massive tentacles extended from beneath the surface. After a brief charge-up, they viciously slammed down onto a missile frigate.

The powerful impact caved in the frigate's deck, and its armor warped and deformed to varying degrees.

In the blink of an eye, the missile frigate was tightly entangled by the tentacles.

Amid a tooth-aching creak, the frigate was dragged into the sea by this giant octopus.

BOOM!

The intense crushing and twisting caused the ammunition depot to sympathetically detonate.

This was not an isolated case.

In the distance, a towering water column erupted.

A giant whale over two hundred meters long leaped high from the sea surface.

And directly below it was a missile destroyer.

Catastrophic disaster descended!

Under the opponent's terrifying weight, the missile destroyer's deck collapsed, its functional zones were destroyed. Even if it wasn't scrapped, it could no longer be used.

Immediately after, the Close-in Weapon Systems of a nearby frigate locked onto the whale.

HUM

A hum sounded.

A storm of bullets broke through the whale's thick blubber and skin, exploding inside its body.

A crimson ray also shot from the top of the frigate toward the whale's head.

It penetrated instantly.

The giant whale died on the spot.

But the next moment, the frigate was lifted upward.

A sharp mountain peak pierced through it.

It was the Cangjia Rock Turtle!

HUM HUM HUM

Upon spotting the Cangjia Rock Turtle, several artillery shells flew toward it, but just as they were about to hit.

Five massive black rock shields rose from the Cangjia Rock Turtle's shell, rotating around it.

The shells were intercepted by the black rock shields.

Just as the laser emitter on the frigate was about to complete its charge.

A thick fog appeared around the Cangjia Rock Turtle.

The laser fired. The plasma evacuated all water vapor in its path. The laser shot over, but hit nothing.

The Cangjia Rock Turtle had vanished.

The next moment, the Shadow Phantom Turtle's claws sliced through a frigate's armor. Seawater flooded in. Alarms blared.

HUM, the turtle cry sounded again.

The marine creatures all charged at the two fleets like mad, then died one after another in the attacks.

Yu Yuan also dove into the water at this moment.

The Destiny Armor activated underwater mode.

His entire body transformed into a swift fish, arriving at the Cangjia Rock Turtle's side at incredible speed. A large hole had appeared on its back shell, blood flowing out.

The earlier laser attack, despite the Cloud-Tide Flying Turtle's cover, had still inevitably wounded it.

He injected the Cangjia Rock Turtle with a healing potion.

[Wolf Den · King: Initiate Phase Two plan.]

Inside the Command Vehicle, Alpha received the message Yu Yuan sent.

He immediately looked toward the four-armed Palu.

"Palu, it's time to enter Phase Two."

"Phase Two? Haha, understood!" Palu rubbed his palms together, and the next moment his fingers flew across the keyboard.

Alpha simultaneously issued orders.

"Tactical Nuclear Missile Beta, enter launch sequence!"

"Yes, sir!"

Three new-type tactical nukes flew toward the battlefield.

This batch of nukes were all nuclear missiles recently produced. Compared to the previous nukes, they had many spiritual materials added.

They had originally been intended for explosion testing to collect data.

Now they would directly collect combat data.

The four-armed Palu connected to the micro-robot lurking aboard Tallow's mothership.

The long-hidden micro-robot cut through a signal optical cable. Upon contact, it immediately began invading Tallow's mothership core database.

At that very moment, Tallow revealed the smile of a predator watching its prey fall into a trap.

"Finally can't hold back!"

— [Warning! Long-range strike missiles detected and locked on. Quantity: 3.]

"Hmm~ Planning to interfere with my missile interception? You underestimate me too much!"

The next moment, a massive data stream, aided by the micro-robot, began a reverse invasion.

"Let me see just who you really are! Reserving 40% of my processing power is more than enough to handle this battlefield."

It immediately split off a portion of its consciousness, crossing hundreds of kilometers through the data channel to arrive at the server where the four-armed Palu was located.

Looking at the surrounding electronic firewalls, Tallow was slightly surprised.

Because it discovered that the opponent's firewall construction level was quite good.

But only quite good.

A connector formed of data code connected with the firewall.

Countless green code flashed through the space. The firewall trembled continuously, but ultimately, unwillingly, it opened.

Behind it was a second firewall.

This only heightened Tallow's interest.

"Interesting, interesting! Let me see just how many firewalls you have."

The cracking continued. Tallow unhurriedly broke through layer after layer of firewalls, without triggering the slightest detection from the defense system.

Finally, when the ninth layer of firewalls was breached by Tallow.

No new firewall appeared. Instead, there was a giant library.

Looking at the library, Tallow was quite surprised, and quite excited.

The core database.

It casually pulled out a file to examine.

— [Felda Revolutionary Army Coordinate Summary]

It pulled out another file to examine.

— [Black Ice Express Tactical Nuclear Strike Data Summary]

"Black Ice Express?"

Tallow was slightly startled.

Information about Black Ice Express surfaced.

Black Ice Express — Bloodlands member — eliminated in the Moon Shadow's Breath War.

"Moon Shadow's Breath?"

Now Tallow sensed something was off.

"Could it be that the one supporting Greenfield is Moon Shadow's Breath? The Blood Clan?" The thought had barely surfaced before it dismissed it.

"No, Moon Shadow's Breath's intelligence network has also been gathered. She is not from the Ice World..."

Tallow grew interested, continuing to examine files.

— [Tak's High Tower Tactical Nuclear Strike Data Summary]

Hmm? Another player eliminated by Moon Shadow's Breath, another person from the Bloodlands.

The suspicion in Tallow's mind grew heavier.

"These materials are off. Let me download them first!"

Tallow decided to play it safe, initiating a remote quantum download.

But the instant the download began, the file in its hand turned into garbled text.

"Bzzt... bzzt..." Tallow instantly sensed something wrong.

But it was already too late!

Space instantly solidified.

The library dissolved into an illusion. What appeared before Tallow.

Was already a digital cage constructed of six smooth, mirror-like walls...