The moment the beam of light pierced the heavens and earth, the entire world seemed to go deaf.
There was no deafening explosion as one might imagine.
It was an extremely bizarre, muffled sound, like cloth being torn apart.
Zzzz—
The black stream of high-energy particles, like the scythe of death, ignored the distance of space, instantly traversing ten nautical miles of sea, and slammed viciously into the bottom of that floating "sky island."
Right into the center of that dense cluster of blue light points.
Time seemed to stagnate for a second.
Then.
BOOM!!!
The space around the point of contact instantly collapsed.
It was as if a smooth sheet of white paper had been forcefully crumpled into a ball.
The hard black rock, the wildly growing purple vines, along with hundreds of tons of seawater surging upstream around them, were all mercilessly swallowed by that black void in that instant.
Annihilated.
Not even dust remained.
That was the unique Spatial Collapse Effect of the "Kiss of Death" in its Shipborne Form.
"Hit!"
Li Ruobing stared fixedly at the observation screen, her fists clenched so tight they turned white, her nails almost digging into her flesh.
"Direct hit on the core area!"
"Did it penetrate?!"
Everyone in the cockpit held their breath.
However.
Qin Yu's expression did not relax; instead, it grew even more grave.
His palm gripping the Fire Control joystick was slick with cold sweat.
"It didn't penetrate."
Qin Yu's voice was cold as ice.
"That thing's defense is thicker than we imagined."
As the black beam of light dissipated, the enormous void blasted open was exposed before everyone's eyes.
A crater with a diameter of a full fifty meters.
Bottomless.
But what made their scalps tingle was this:
The edges of that crater showed no signs of fractured rock.
Only dark red, frantically wriggling flesh buds!
And vast amounts of ink-green liquid were gushing out from the wound like a waterfall, spilling down into the sea below.
"That's..."
Yao Xue, who was administering an IV to Chen Xiaoya, looked up out the window and nearly dropped the IV bag in her hand.
"Is that blood?!"
"That island... is alive?!"
ROAR—!!!
As if to confirm Yao Xue's speculation.
A roar filled with pain and fury erupted from the depths of that floating giant island.
This sound was no longer the previous low-frequency hum.
It was a tangible sonic shockwave!
A visible white shockwave, centered on the island, violently expanded in all directions.
The sea surface instantly exploded.
Waves dozens of meters high were forcibly lifted by the sonic wave, like towering walls, bearing down on the President.
"Alert! Under high-frequency sonic attack!"
"Hull structure under extreme stress!"
"The glass is going to shatter!"
Li Ruobing shouted, her hands flying across the control console, trying to activate the defensive Shield.
Crack!
A fissure actually appeared in the bulletproof, explosion-resistant Special Glass of the Main Control Room, shaken by the vibrations.
Qin Yu violently spun the helm wheel.
The President carved an extreme S-shaped drift on the sea surface, narrowly avoiding a massive wave crashing down head-on.
"Alive is just fine."
Qin Yu's eyes turned fierce, fixed on the massive crater still spewing blood.
"Anything alive can die."
"Anything alive can feel pain."
"Continue charging!"
He patted the enormous black cannon before him.
"That last shot was just an appetizer."
"If its shell is this thick, then we'll just fire a few more rounds. I refuse to believe we can't strip it bare!"
However.
"Kiss of Death" did not respond to Qin Yu as it usually would.
The patterns that once shimmered with blue light now flickered erratically.
[Warning! External Strong Magnetic Field Interference!]
[Charging Circuit Disrupted!]
[Warning! Gravitational Field Undergoing Severe Distortion!]
Red warning boxes from the system flooded the screen.
Qin Yu's heart skipped a beat.
"Gravitational distortion?"
Before he could react.
An utterly terrifying force of suction suddenly pulled from above.
This time.
It wasn't the slow, gradual rise like a frog in warming water.
Instead, it felt as if an invisible giant hand had seized the mast of the "President" and violently yanked it upward!
"Ah—!!!"
Yao Qian and Chen Xiaoya screamed in terror.
The entire "President," with its displacement of hundreds of tons, was lifted directly off the sea!
Like a kite with its string cut, it spun wildly as it soared into the sky!
Objects inside the cabin clattered and flew everywhere.
Cups, pen holders, half-eaten instant noodles—all broke free from gravity, floating mid-air.
"Grab onto something fixed!"
Qin Yu roared, hooking his legs tightly around the base of the console, one hand gripping the railing while the other strained to reach the manual pressure release valve.
The sensation was nauseating.
It felt as if his internal organs were being squeezed up his throat.
Li Ruobing floated entirely off the ground, but she reacted quickly, wrapping her arms around a load-bearing pillar.
"Qin Yu! The altimeter's blown!"
"We're ascending at twenty meters per second!"
"If this continues, we'll crash directly into that island!"
Qin Yu struggled to lift his head.
Through the cracked glass window.
He finally saw the colossal entity in its entirety.
It was enormous.
Truly enormous.
From ten nautical miles away, he could barely make out its outline.
Now, as the distance closed.
The floating "island" loomed like a continent of darkness blotting out the sky, completely dominating his field of vision.
Before this behemoth.
The once-proud "President" seemed as insignificant as a speck of dust.
Even a single strand of seaweed hanging from the island was thicker than the "President" itself!
Was this what an S-Class or higher creature was like?
This wasn't a living being.
It was an entire independent ecosystem!
"Is this... absolute power suppression?"
Qin Yu gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead.
But the fire in his eyes didn't extinguish.
Instead, it burned even fiercer.
"So what if it's big?"
"Dinosaurs were huge too, and they still ended up as fossils!"
Just then.
The fabric over Qin Yu's chest suddenly glowed.
A searing heat instantly scorched his skin.
"Huh?"
Qin Yu instinctively reached into his shirt.
He pulled out the two objects.
At this moment.
These two fragments, no larger than a fingernail, vibrated wildly in the palm of his hand.
Their vibration frequency was perfectly synchronized with the distant giant island's "heartbeat"!
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
Blue light spilled from between Qin Yu's fingers.
Illuminating the dim cockpit.
More like two lighthouses in the darkness, instantly drawing the attention of that colossal island.
[Ding! High-energy resonance detected!]
[Fragments of the "Ocean Soul Crystal Mother" are calling out to each other!]
[Warning! Host has been locked onto by the "Abyssal Lord"!]
[Warning! SSS-grade pressure descending!]
Qin Yu looked at the two fragments in his hand and suddenly laughed.
A somewhat ferocious laugh.
"So that's why."
"No wonder you came all this way."
"Want these two puzzle pieces back?"
Qin Yu clenched his fist violently, gripping the two scorching fragments tightly.
"Then let's see who devours whom!"
"Whoosh—"
The moment Qin Yu grasped the fragments.
The black storm that had been shrouding the giant island in the sky suddenly dispersed.
Not naturally.
But was forcibly shattered by an even more terrifying presence!
That enormous black "island" began to transform.
The surface, which originally looked like rock, began to shed in large chunks.
Revealing the grayish-white, steel-hard carapace beneath.
That was no island at all.
It was a massive dorsal shell!
"Crack, crack, crack—"
A series of bone-grinding sounds echoed through the sky.
Under the gaze of everyone aboard the "President."
From the edges of that "island," four wings that blotted out the sky slowly extended.
Each wing, when fully spread, was several kilometers long.
The wings were draped with rotting seaweed, shipwreck debris, and even a few struggling, desiccated whale carcasses.
And at the very front of the island.
Three eyes slowly opened.
Three vertical pupils.
Each as large as a football field.
The pupils displayed an eerie purple-gold hue, flowing with a cold-blooded indifference toward all living things.
It lowered its head.
All three eyes simultaneously focused on the ant-like insignificance of the "President."
To be precise.
They focused on Qin Yu.
That kind of gaze.
Was not like looking at an enemy.
But like a person looking at an ant that had stolen a grain of rice.
[Monster Name: Three-Eyed Spirit Roc · Abyssal Lord (Complete Form)]
[Current Rating: SSS-grade (World Boss)]
[Description: It is the aerial overlord of this post-apocalyptic sea, the ultimate product of old-era bio-weaponry. It carries an island on its back, uses gravity as a weapon, and views all things as mere straw dogs.]
[Special Abilities: Anti-Gravity Field, Matter Disintegration Ray, Abyssal Summoning.]
[Note: It possesses an extremely dense "Ocean Soul" aura within its body.]
The system panel popped up before Qin Yu's eyes.
A glaring red.
Complete Form SSS-grade?
Just the intangible pressure alone had already immobilized several people on the ship.
Yao Qian had fainted from fright.
Chen Xiaoya huddled in a corner, trembling uncontrollably, without even the strength to scream.
"How do we fight?"
Qin Yu endured the terrifying pressure that felt like a mountain crushing down on him.
Slowly, he straightened his body.
His bones creaked.
It was the lament of his body resisting the gravity field.
But he still stood straight.
He fished out a cigarette from his pocket.
His hands were shaking badly.
It took three tries to light it.
"Puff—"
Qin Yu took a deep drag and exhaled a cloud of blue smoke.
He raised his head.
Through the shattered glass window.
He stared directly into those three lofty purple-gold eyes.
"How do we fight?"
Qin Yu grinned, revealing two rows of stark white teeth.
"By fighting to the death, of course."
He grabbed the microphone on the console.
His voice wasn't loud, but it carried a hysterical madness.
"Ruo Bing! Redirect all power to me!"
"Living quarters, power zones, even life support systems! Cut them all off!"
"Channel every bit of energy into that cannon!"
Li Ruobing froze.
"Cut off life support? Then we..."
"Do it!"
Qin Yu roared, his eyes bloodshot.
"We only have one shot!"
"It may be huge, but that just makes it a bigger target!"
"The last shot only hurt it."
"This time."
"I'm going to blow its brains out!"
Qin Yu slammed the two fragments of the "Ocean Soul Crystal Mother" into the energy slot of the "Kiss of Death"!
"Vrrrrr—!!!"
The massive black cannon, which had gone silent, instantly reacted upon contact with the fragments.
As if injected with a stimulant.
It emitted an unprecedented, high-pitched shriek!
The black barrel instantly turned transparent, crystalline.
Energy surged wildly inside, even forming a small vortex.
Those two fragments were the key to unlocking the final form of this SSS-grade weapon!
In the sky.
The "Abyssal Lord" seemed to sense the danger.
For the first time, a flicker of emotion appeared in its indifferent gaze.
Within its central giant eye.
A sphere of purplish-black light began to coalesce.
That was the "Matter Disintegration Ray"!
It intended to erase this ignorant, overconfident ant!
"Come on!"
"Let's see if your eye is faster, or my cannon!"
Qin Yu laughed maniacally, advancing instead of retreating.
His hands gripped the scorching launch lever tightly.
The "President" swayed violently within the gravity field.
On one side, a purple sphere of light akin to divine punishment.
On the other, a massive black cannon carrying all their hopes.
Two forces capable of annihilating heaven and earth.
In this apocalyptic expanse of sea and sky.
Were about to collide!
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