107: sneak attack in the shadows

"Captain, target spotted!"

In the pitch-black seawater, a Sea Wolf monster transmitted information to its captain through special sonic waves.

"Just three kilometers ahead, a glowing big guy—it's exactly like the Dragon Country Base in the records!"

"Very good." A cruel glint flashed in the Sea Wolf Captain's vertical pupils. "Everyone, maintain stealth! Approach from the bottom of the base! That's where the defenses are weakest!"

"Understood!"

A dozen or so dark shadows, like ghosts of the deep sea, silently changed direction. Using the jagged rocks on the seabed as cover, they crept toward the bottom of the Dragon Country Base.

They were incredibly fast and agile, looking not like humans at all, but more like natural deep-sea predators.

In their eyes, this sneak attack was as easy as reaching for something in a pocket.

No matter how powerful the Dragon Country people were, they would never imagine that these attackers had mastered such terrifying genetic modification technology.

Once they used biological acid to corrode the base's hull and watched the scene of the Dragon Country people being crushed into meat patties in despair, it would surely be wonderful.

Three kilometers, two kilometers, one kilometer... the distance grew closer and closer.

The Sea Wolf Captain could even see the metallic luster reflecting off the base's hull.

"Prepare to strike!" he issued the command to attack.

The corners of all the sea wolves' mouths split into a hideous grin. Their sharp, claw-like hands were already aimed at the base's hull.

However, the instant they stepped within a five-hundred-meter radius of the base!

A sudden change occurred!

"Voom—"

Without any warning, a massive electric net woven from countless blue arcs of lightning instantly formed in the seawater around them!

That electric net covered an area of nearly a thousand meters, enveloping all the sea wolves within it!

"What is this?!"

The Sea Wolf Captain's heart jumped. Before he could react, a terrifying current, powerful enough to shock a soul into charcoal, instantly surged through his entire body!

*Zzzzt—*

Tens of thousands of volts of high-voltage current erupted with devastating power in the highly conductive seawater!

"Aaaaaagh—!"

Screams so shrill they didn't sound human spread through the seawater via sonic waves.

The sea wolves who had been so arrogant just a moment ago were now like loaches thrown into a frying pan, twitching, twisting, and rolling frantically!

Under the impact of the high-voltage current, the hard scales on their bodies exploded piece by piece, revealing charred, mangled flesh.

At this moment, the keen five senses brought by genetic modification instead became the most fatal curse.

The bone-deep agony caused their nervous systems to collapse instantly; even their most primal animal instincts were drowned out by this pure pain.

They couldn't even summon the thought of escaping. They could only endure wave after wave of electrical torture within the net, a fate worse than death... Inside the Dragon Country Base's main control room.

"Warning! Warning! High-intensity energy reaction detected at the base perimeter!"

"Multiple fast-moving biological targets detected!"

The sudden blare of the alarm caused the Dragon Team members, who had just relaxed, to tense up instantly once again.

"What's going on?!" Wang Yi rushed to the main console in a single stride.

On the screen, the sonar system clearly showed a dozen unidentified creatures struggling frantically amidst a field of flickering electric light around the base.

"Is this... a trap?" Wang Yi was stunned. "When did we set a trap?"

"It's the Administrator!" Li Bingyao reacted immediately. "The Administrator must have discovered them in advance!"

Realization dawned on everyone, and their awe for that mysterious Administrator deepened by several degrees.

"What kind of ghost things are these? Not quite human, not quite fish." Chen Hu frowned as he looked at the silhouettes of the monsters on the screen.

"No matter what they are," a cold light flashed in Wang Yi's eyes, "if they dare to creep up to our doorstep, they can forget about leaving!"

He turned to look at the battlefield command station in the corner of the main console that Su Yuan had just mapped out for him.

"Since the Administrator has prepared an appetizer for us, we can't let it go to waste!"

Wang Yi extended his hands, and a powerful electromagnetic wave centered on him instantly rippled outward.

"Lightning Attraction!"

He gave a low growl, precisely controlling the current to form a dozen small electromagnetic whirlpools within the massive electric net outside the base.

Each whirlpool accurately locked onto a dying Sea Wolf.

The powerful electromagnetic suction, like a dozen invisible giant hands, forcibly dragged those half-dead sea wolves out of the water and toward a special airlock of the base.

That was the isolation airlock normally used for waste disposal and external equipment maintenance.

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

A dozen half-human, half-fish monsters were slammed heavily onto the cold metal floor of the airlock, producing a series of dull thuds.

They weren't dead yet, but they had been charred black by the electricity. With more air going out than coming in, they could only twitch futilely like fish out of water.

"Chen Hu!" Wang Yi's voice rang out over the channel.

"Here!" Chen Hu, who had long been unable to restrain himself, gave a great roar. Shouldering his high-frequency battle blade, he strode toward the airlock.

*Clang.*

The inner door of the airlock opened.

Looking at the monsters on the floor emitting a burnt stench, there was no pity on Chen Hu's face.

For these enemies who could no longer be called human, he would show no mercy.

"Die, you pieces of trash!"

Chen Hu roared, and the high-frequency battle blade in his hand traced a cold arc.

*Swish!*

A flash of the blade.

A dozen hideous heads with vertical pupils and fish gills flew into the air.

Black blood splashed across the entire wall of the airlock.

The battle had ended before it even truly began.

"Clean it up. Don't let this garbage dirty our place," Wang Yi said coldly.

He looked at the corpses of those monsters on the screen and fell into deep thought.

Had the Lighthouse Country already started following such an evil path?

To win, they didn't hesitate to transform their own compatriots into these monsters that were neither human nor ghost?

Such crazy and desperate methods made Wang Yi feel a hint of alarm.

He had a premonition that this deep-sea dungeon would likely not be as simple as he had imagined.

What they didn't know was that when the Sea Wolf Squad was annihilated, those shrill screams and the heavy scent of blood had already disturbed an even older, more terrifying existence near these ruins.

In an abyss trench several kilometers away from the base, within the endless darkness, an eye larger than a basketball court, emitting a ghostly blue light, slowly opened.