"Adding more scenes?"
Yao Qian tightened the last screw.
She sniffled.
"Brother-in-law, this isn't the time for such hellish jokes."
"Though this place is already hell itself."
She forcefully stuffed that slippery crystal eyeball into the motherboard interface of the radar.
Click.
A perfect fit.
"Done!"
Qin Yu wasn't looking at the screen.
He stubbed out his cigarette butt on the console.
That feeling he called "adding more scenes" was growing stronger and stronger.
Not a sixth sense.
But a warning... coming from those fragments in his hand.
Right at that moment.
[Ding!]
An extremely piercing system notification sound exploded without warning in everyone's minds.
Not the usual crisp tone.
But like fingernails scraping across a blackboard.
Grating on the nerves.
Everyone covered their ears.
Even Qi Chun, who was drinking cola on the Floating Fortress, nearly swallowed the bottle.
[Server-Wide Announcement!]
[Server-Wide Announcement!]
[Detection: Regional BOSS has been eliminated!]
[Core Rule Collapse...]
[Data Restructuring in Progress...]
[The "Botanical Onslaught" version event is forcibly ending!]
...
As these lines of blood-red text floated by.
The world outside.
Changed.
Those enchanting, bizarre, even moving blue-purple vines that had been entwined around the underwater ruins.
In that instant.
Seemed to have all their moisture sucked dry.
Withered.
Turned black.
Crumbled to dust.
In just a few seconds.
That once kaleidoscopic, full of life yet deadly "Underwater Garden."
Was completely dead.
Leaving only bare rock.
And endless mud.
The faint green poison mist in the seawater also rapidly dissipated.
Replaced by.
A suffocating... ashen gray.
"It's... over?"
Li Ruobing looked out the window at the instantly petrified plants.
A bit dazed.
"Did we clear it?"
"Clear it?"
Qin Yu sneered.
He stood up and walked to the porthole.
Looking at that seawater that had become even deeper, even colder.
"This damn system."
"Never does business at a loss."
"The Botanical Onslaught is gone."
"Which means the next course to be served."
"Is tougher."
"Than those man-eating flowers and plants."
Before his words faded.
The System Panel flickered again.
This time.
No sound.
Only lines of black, tar-like text flowing down.
[Version Patch Loaded.]
[Due to the "outstanding performance" of a certain player (you know who you are).]
[Resulting in the fracture of the current regional ecological chain.]
[To maintain ecological balance (to kill you).]
[Effective immediately, the following settings are removed:]
[1. Remove "Extreme Weather" mode (acid rain, heat waves, cold waves, etc.).]
[2. Remove "Safe Rest Period."]
[3. Remove "Monster Aggro Distance Limit."]
[New Settings Added:]
[Endless Slaughter.]
[Description: Since you all love killing so much, then kill to your heart's content. All sea monsters' aggressiveness increased by 300%, perception range increased by 1000%.]
[As long as you are alive.]
[They will find you.]
[No death.]
[No rest.]
After reading those few lines.
Inside the cockpit.
A deathly silence.
Even the usually thick-skinned Qi Chun gulped over the intercom.
"Bro..."
"Is the system just being unfair?"
"The aggro range increased tenfold?"
"Does that mean if I fart, sharks fifty kilometers away could smell it?"
"Pretty much."
Qin Yu's expression remained unchanged.
"And."
"You don't need to fart."
He pointed at the radar screen.
"They're already here."
Everyone turned sharply.
Looking at the newly upgraded "Omniscient Radar."
The next second.
Everyone's scalps.
Prickled.
Red dots.
Dense, countless red dots.
Not dozens.
Not hundreds.
But thousands upon thousands!
They were like locusts crawling out of hell.
From all directions.
From every crack in the seabed.
From every stretch of ocean above.
Rushing madly toward the location of the [President]!
No formation.
No probing.
Only pure... killing intent.
"Did they call over every fish in the entire Pacific Ocean?!"
Li Ruobing grabbed her heavy hammer, veins bulging on the back of her hand.
"This many?!"
"How do we fight this?!"
"How do we fight?"
Qin Yu lit another cigarette.
His hand was steady.
His gaze cold.
"Before, they hid from us."
"We had to go looking."
"Now it's better."
"Less trouble."
He yanked the bolt of his gun.
"Since they're delivering themselves to our doorstep."
"Then we'll send them off to be reborn."
"Surface!"
"Unlock all weapon systems!"
"Whether it's torpedoes, missiles, or that Kiss of Death."
"As long as it can make noise."
"Let it all loose!"
"Yes!"
...
Above the sea surface.
The once calm seawater now boiled as if in a pot.
Countless dorsal fins sliced through the water.
Countless tentacles slapped against the waves.
"Whoosh—"
The [President] broke through the water.
Like a steel behemoth, it crashed heavily onto the sea surface.
Before the ship could stabilize.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Over a dozen Mutated Swordfish, like javelins, slammed hard into the Titan Alloy armor.
Though they didn't pierce through.
They still rocked the ship violently.
"It's starting already?!"
Qi Chun's Floating Fortress hovered in mid-air.
At that moment.
He was controlling the half-finished S-Class Turret.
Firing wildly at the fish swarm below.
"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat—"
Flames spat.
Chunks of flesh flew everywhere.
But it was useless.
As one batch died.
Immediately, more filled in.
These monsters.
Just as the system said.
Had gone mad.
Even if half their bodies were blown off, as long as they had a breath left, they would drag their intestines and charge forward.
"Damn it!"
"This isn't survival!"
"This is a slaughterhouse!"
Qi Chun roared while pouring water over the cannon barrel to cool it down.
"Bro! We can't hold on!"
"There are too many!"
"At this rate, my ammo stock will be empty in half an hour!"
Qin Yu stood on the deck.
Letting the foul sea wind tousle his hair.
He gazed at the endless Beast tide.
Without a trace of panic.
Even.
He felt like laughing.
"The one above."
"Seems to be truly desperate."
He muttered to himself.
A black heavy sniper rifle appeared in his hand.
[Kiss of Death (Individual Soldier Form)].
"Since you want to play with swarm tactics."
"Then let me show you."
"What a... Decapitation Strike is."
"Yao Qian!"
"Radar lock!"
"Find the commander among these small fry!"
"A beast tide of this scale can't be without a leader!"
"Looking!"
In the cockpit, Yao Qian's fingers moved so fast they became a blur.
The All-Knowing Eye was operating at a frenzied pace.
Processing massive amounts of data.
Three seconds later.
"Found it!"
"Three o'clock direction!"
"Distance five thousand meters!"
"Water depth three hundred meters!"
"It's a... Mutated Blue-Ringed Octopus King!"
"SS-Grade Potential!"
"It's commanding the fish in this area!"
"Good."
Qin Yu grinned.
Raised his gun.
Aimed.
He didn't even need to look at the sea surface.
In his eyes.
It was as if data streams were flashing.
That was the passive effect of [Omniscient, Eye of Vanity] at work.
He could see.
Beneath the seawater five thousand meters away.
That big guy hiding in the shadows, waving its tentacles and issuing orders.
"Five thousand meters."
"Just enough."
"Bang!!"
A muffled gunshot rang out.
The Kiss of Death spat a blue tongue of flame.
The bullet carried the effects of "Absolute Penetration" and "Tenfold Gravity."
Instantly tearing through the air.
Plunging into the seawater.
Ignoring the water's resistance.
Ignoring the dozen or so mutated sharks blocking its path along the way.
Directly...
Drilling into the octopus king's head.
"Pfft—"
In the distant deep sea.
A burst of blue blood bloomed.
The Gravity Field erupted.
The octopus king's head.
Was directly flattened into a meat pancake.
"One down."
Qin Yu pulled the bolt.
The shell casing ejected.
Landed on the deck with a crisp clink.
"But that's not enough."
He looked at the still-frenzied beast tide.
Although it became somewhat chaotic after losing its commander.
That suicidal ferocity remained.
"These beasts."
"Have had their underlying logic rewritten."
"Killing the king can only make them chaotic."
"It can't make them afraid."
"Ruo Bing."
"Yao Xue."
"Stop conserving ammunition."
"Bring out all those tons of [High-Explosive Incendiary Shells] we stockpiled before."
"Since this sea is cold."
"Then we'll just..."
"Boil it!"
...
Meanwhile.
In a distant, unknowable place.
The Arbitration Tribunal.
In that control room filled with a silvery-white glow.
The Executive Officer numbered 9527.
Was currently watching the large screen, observing the [President]'s hell-furnace-like firepower output.
His face.
Twisted in the light of the incendiary shells.
He hadn't expected.
This Qin Yu.
To be so resilient.
"Incendiary shells..."
"Incendiary shells?!"
"He's just a survivor, where did he get so much military hardware?!"
"Wasn't he a university sports student?!"
"Did he empty someone's armory?!"
The Executive Officer slammed his fist on the control console.
Sending the coffee cup flying.
But he paid it no mind.
His eyes were bloodshot.
His superior's words.
Still echoed in his ears.
"Quite interesting."
These four words.
Seemingly an evaluation.
Were actually a knife.
Held against his neck.
If even this couldn't kill Qin Yu.
Then the one to die.
Would be him.
"Add!"
"Keep adding!"
"I don't believe his ammunition is infinite!"
"Deploy all the BOSSes from the deep-sea regions, anything that can move, send them all over!"
"From the Arctic Ocean!"
"The Indian Ocean!"
"Anything S-Class and above, summon them all!"
"You want to play?"
"Then I'll fill the entire ocean!"
"Let's see how many bullets he has!"
On the President.
Qin Yu fired another shot.
This time.
He didn't hit a monster.
Instead, he shot at the sea surface.
A water column tens of meters high erupted.
Splashing him all over.
But he didn't wipe it off.
He could feel it.
The sea beneath his feet.
Was trembling.
Not out of fear.
But out of... rage.
Countless powerful auras.
Were awakening from the deep sea all around.
"It seems."
"Old friends."
"There's more than one."
"They're calling to me."
"And they fear me."
"But it doesn't matter."
"This battle."
"Isn't over yet."
"It's only just begun."
"Ruo Bing."
"Go throw that bottle of Dragon Saliva Incense into the sea."
"Since they want to come."
"Let's give them a little extra spice."
"This time."
"I'm going to take down all the bosses in the entire Pacific."
"In one fell swoop!"
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