NOVEL NEXT Chapter 167 Swallowed
The cold air assailed them.
Yang Qinglan's hair wavered without wind as she was about to employ "Giant Mouth Bird Style: Temperature Regulation," but Li Changzhou stopped her with a hand on her shoulder.
"There's no need to waste 'Ability' on this level of cold," he said.
Yang Qinglan nodded, and a refreshing breeze passed by in a flash before the cold assaulted them once again.
"We're feeling cold from this far away, how about that battleship? Won't the muzzles be frozen?" Li Qianxia asked, her breath visible in the air.
No sooner had she finished speaking than Zhu Xiongjie aboard the gunboat threw a punch.
Bang!
At high noon, when the temperature and sunlight are usually at their peak, a burst of fire erupted, covering everything with bright light.
The heat wave was intense, as if the sun had descended upon the sea!
Looking up, the Song City docks were split between ice and flames. The gunboat's two thick smokestacks billowed black smoke, and the scene before them was like a vibrantly colored painting.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
Ratatatatatatatatat!
A 120mm naval cannon, a 76mm anti-aircraft gun, two 57mm guns, and three 7.62mm machine guns fired at once.
The dark mass of cannonballs and the torrential downpour of bullets broke through the visible front where the hot and cold air collided and bombarded the Basket Starfish's body.
Bang!
The colossal Basket Starfish disappeared in an instant!
In the face of modern weapons, its demon-like body was as fragile as a dandelion. The strong wind from the gunfire blew it away like smoke.
"Kill it!"
"Kill it!"
The soldiers on the gunboat cheered as they reloaded the cannons.
"Woo——"
A dull roar, and Zhu Xiongjie, maintaining the force of his punch, changed his expression. It was not the cry of the Basket Starfish.
Boom!
A huge bubble surged up from the sea.
The bubble raced from the depths at an alarming speed, splitting in the middle into two giant waves, within which a dark ridge emerged.
A giant whale!
The gunboat was 55 meters long, yet the length of the giant whale exceeded that of the gunboat, reaching nearly a hundred meters!
The waves caused by the bursting bubble surged forward in succession, making thunderous noises as the gunboat bobbed like a small fishing vessel.
Not to mention the small fishing boats at the docks, which were swept onto land by the waves. Some were smashed to pieces, with wood splinters flying everywhere.
Witnessing the scene before them, if it weren't for the soldiers on the gunboat being specially trained, they might have already been kneeling and bowing in awe.
This was truly the embodiment of natural power!
"Fire! Fire!" an officer roared, "Don't let that monster recover!"
Bang!
A shell fired out, the ship shook, and the aim of the cannon shifted, hitting the shore and blowing open a large building like a sandbag.
"Steady the ship!" Zhu Xiongjie bellowed across the deck.
A man dressed in a long robe, along with a group of men, looked up to the sky and roared.
Boom!
The gunboat sank abruptly, as if weighed down by a heavy object.
Li Changzhou's gaze sharpened as he saw that the robed man and his men were closing their eyes in contemplation, clearly practicing some sort of visualization technique, but it was unclear which kind that could increase body weight so significantly.
The monstrous whale roared furiously, throwing itself forward, ready to crush the gunboat with its huge body.
Suddenly, tentacles stretched out from the bottom of the sea, tightly binding the whale.
An octopus, a squid, and a jellyfish—these three water monsters were only about ten to twenty meters in size, which would normally be terrifying enough, but next to the hundred-meter-long whale, they seemed like mere children.
"Woo!" The whale struggled fiercely.
Not just the three water monsters, it seemed like the entire dock might flip over.
But—
The octopus's suction cups were firmly attached to the whale, and teeth on its tentacles tore away, leaving the whale bleeding profusely.
The squid suddenly contracted and released a large mouthful of poisonous ink into the whale's head, turning the seawater pitch-black in an instant.
In the midst of darkness, the jellyfish glowed brilliantly, with light flowing through its body like rivers of luminescence.
The whale's struggle grew weaker, poisoned and bewildered.
"Woo—" This time it wasn't any form of roar but the sound of a conch shell, distant and serene.
A mermaid flew out from the blowhole on the whale's head, blowing the conch.
"Ah!!!"
The octopus, squid, jellyfish, soldiers who were about to fire cannons, and the meditating man all let out screams.
Soldiers with poor physical conditioning had blood spurting from their ears.
Even from a thousand meters away, Li Changzhou and the others felt a series of chest compressions.
"I told you it was dangerous!" Little Radish, lying on the butterfly, clung to her ears and shouted, "Let's get out of here, shall we?"
"Is this a player from the ocean?" Li Changzhou watched as the whale began to thrash again in a frenzy. It opened its mouth wide and sucked in, as if tearing open a hole in the sea, and the light-bodied jellyfish was directly pulled in.
The martial artists' visualization was disrupted, and without the "weight", the gunboat instantly turned into a vessel as fragile as a bubble, toyed with by the waves, and many soldiers fell into the sea like dropped dumplings.
Without the gunboat and these sailors to operate the cannons, no one would be able to handle these monsters.
The starfish basket had regenerated half of its body that was previously lost!
"Seeking death!"
Like the Fire God scorching all in his path, Zhu Xiongjie finally released his hands, transformed into a rocket from the gunboat's watchtower, and streaked towards the mermaid on the whale's back.
The mermaid was graceful, with seaweed-like dark hair.
Her small figure, when locked onto by Zhu Xiongjie, shone as if illuminated by a bright light.
With a flick of her tail, the mermaid drew an arc in the air and burrowed into the whale's blowhole.
Bang!
A ten-meter-wide hole was explosively carved out on the whale's back by Zhu Xiongjie, in which the flames burned, forming a sea of fire.
Even with the whale's thick skin, a ten-meter-wide hole, as high as a three-story building, still brought it immense pain.