170: Chapter 168 The Overlord's Buffet, Pandora's "Egg"

"Chirp~"

In the sky, Mothra seemed to think that Godzilla was eating too slowly, one by one.

She elegantly dove, flapping her wings to stir up a gentle current of air.

On the ground, over a dozen nuclear warheads were gently lifted by this air current, lining up like a string of candied haws, and flew steadily to Godzilla's mouth.

Godzilla opened its massive mouth and swallowed them in one gulp.

"Well done, little moth!"

Luo Yu couldn't help but give Mothra a thumbs up.

This scene caused the Minister of Finance of Eagle Country, inside the White House command center, to roll his eyes back and faint on the spot.

The medical staff nearby frantically pinched his philtrum and fed him medicine.

"Minister! Minister, wake up!"

"Don't... don't save me..." The Minister of Finance slowly regained consciousness, tears streaming down his face, and said aggrievedly, "That string was worth at least thirty billion US dollars... and it's just gone like that..."

For the next few hours, it was hellish torment for the upper echelons of Eagle Country, while for Godzilla, it was a gluttonous carnival.

It ate intercontinental missiles like spicy strips and chewed tactical nuclear bombs like popcorn.

When it encountered the high-purity enriched uranium and Plutonium-239 materials stored in the warehouses, it would simply open its mouth and inhale sharply.

Those heavy metal blocks instantly transformed into brilliant torrents of energy, which were sucked into its belly.

The entire Area 51 had turned into a massive buffet restaurant.

Godzilla was the only patron.

Mothra was the diligent waitress.

And Eagle Country was the sucker left to pay the bill through tears.

When the last nuclear material warehouse was drained, Godzilla's evolution progress had soared by a full twenty-five percent.

【Current evolution progress: 68.5%】

Luo Yu could clearly feel that the power fed back from Godzilla caused his own spiritual power value to surge once again, bringing him one big step closer to that legendary tenth tier.

On Godzilla's massive body, magma-like red light began to faintly shine through the gaps in its dark golden scales; this was a sign that the power of the Red Lotus was about to overflow.

"Full?" Luo Yu patted its head.

"Hiss..." Godzilla let out a satisfied burp and nodded.

"Then let's go; there's still another place to visit."

As soon as Luo Yu finished speaking, he prepared to take Godzilla to move on to the next nuclear base.

But just then, Godzilla's movements suddenly paused.

Its golden vertical pupils suddenly turned toward the ruins of the largest underground nuclear material warehouse it had just emptied.

No, to be precise, it was beneath the ruins.

"Hmm?" Luo Yu also sensed that something was wrong.

That area, according to the system map, should have been ordinary rock strata.

But at this moment, there was a faint, yet extremely bizarre energy source, slowly pulsing.

It was not nuclear energy. Nor was it abyss energy.

It was a kind of... energy that Luo Yu had never seen before, full of life force, yet carrying a hint of ominousness.

"Godzilla, dig it out."

Receiving the order, Godzilla didn't hesitate to lift its massive foot and stomp hard onto that patch of ground.

Boom!! The earth cracked open, and a massive cavern hidden hundreds of meters beneath the warehouse was exposed to the eyes of Luo Yu and the whole world.

Dust flew everywhere, and the massive rift, created by Godzilla's violent stomping, lay across the center of Area 51 like an ugly scar.

Deep within the rift, it was not the rock or groundwater layers as expected. Instead, it was a... massive circular space constructed from unknown metal.

The style of this space was completely different from any technology humans currently possessed.

There were no rivets on the walls, no traces of welding; it was seamless, as if it had grown naturally, and the surface was engraved with countless complex and profound patterns that looked like circuit boards or perhaps some kind of biological meridians.

And right in the center of the circular space, a massive, semi-transparent "egg" with a diameter exceeding one hundred meters was quietly suspended there.

Calling it an "egg" was due to its shape. But its shell seemed to be composed of some kind of amber crystal, and the interior was filled with a viscous liquid emitting a faint green light.

Through the semi-transparent crystal wall, one could vaguely see a massive, curled-up black shadow slowly floating and sinking in the liquid.

With every rise and fall, the bizarre energy within the entire space would pulse in sync, just like a heartbeat.

"What... is this thing?" Luo Yu leaped down from Godzilla's head, hovering above the rift, his brows tightly furrowed.

His system panel was currently flashing red alerts frantically.

【Warning! Unknown high-dimensional lifeform detected (dormant state)!】

【Life form: Unable to parse】

【Energy attribute: Chaos/Life (mixed)】

【Threat level: ??? (Current host capacity limit, unable to evaluate)】

【Recommendation: Flee immediately! Or... destroy completely!】

The string of "Unable to parse" and "question marks" cast a shadow over Luo Yu's heart.

This was the first time the system had given such a vague, yet fatal warning.

"Hiss!!" Godzilla let out a low, hostile roar at the giant egg.

In its golden vertical pupils, a serious expression appeared once again.

It was an instinctive vigilance, the feeling of meeting an equal opponent, or rather, encountering a "predator" of the same level.

"Chirp!" Mothra in the sky also abandoned her elegant posture; the scales on her wings stopped falling, and in her pure white eyes, light flickered uncertainly, clearly having also sensed the immense threat from the thing below.

This scene, broadcast live, plunged the whole world into dead silence.

White House command center. The newly awakened Minister of Finance, seeing the giant egg on the screen, rolled his eyes back and fainted again.

The President suddenly stood up, grabbed the collar of an intelligence director nearby, his eyes bloodshot.

"What the fuck is this thing?! Why is it in Area 51! Why has there never been a record of this thing in our top-secret files?!"

The director was scared out of his wits and stuttered in reply: "Mr... Mr. President, the... the security clearance for this thing is 'Above Maximum Authority'; only... only past presidents and a very few people know about it..."

"Then what the hell is it?!"

"It... it is 'Pandora'."

"Pandora?"

"Yes, this is the only 'living thing' we found in the... flying object that crashed in Roswell last century."

The director's voice was trembling uncontrollably, "It has always been in a dormant state; we... we tried every method, but we couldn't wake it up, nor could we destroy it; we could only... only seal it in the deepest part of the underground, and even after the Abyss Era began, there was still no way to wake it."

"A living thing..." The President let go and slumped powerlessly back into his chair.

A secret that had been hidden for so many years was just like that, in the most humiliating and unexpected way, stepped out by Godzilla.

In the rift. Luo Yu naturally couldn't hear the conversation at the White House, but he had already made his own judgment.

This thing absolutely must not be left alive. Whether it was the system's suggestion to "destroy completely" or the instinctive reactions of Godzilla and Mothra, it all explained everything.

Whatever was gestating in this "egg" was definitely not anything benevolent.

"Godzilla, give it a shot." Luo Yu's voice turned cold.

"Roar!" Godzilla let out a roar to the sky, and the dark golden crystals on its dorsal fins were instantly dyed a brilliant crimson.

The nuclear reactor in its chest shone with blinding light, like a supernova explosion.

The aura of destruction began to permeate the area.

However, just at the moment when Godzilla's "Kings Breath" was about to be unleashed.

The giant egg below seemed to have sensed the fatal threat. The crystal wall on its surface suddenly began to flicker violently with green light.

The curled-up black shadow inside suddenly stretched out!

Crack! A crisp shattering sound came from inside the giant egg. Immediately after, countless cracks spread across the crystalline eggshell at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Oh no!" Luo Yu's expression changed. It was... hatching!