44: Typhoon is coming! The Devil's Triangle roars!

The Devil's Triangle sea area lived up to its name.

As the Coral Route fleet sailed into these waters, cursed by countless sailors, the sky seemed to be covered in a thick layer of lead-gray. Low-hanging dark clouds rolled, like dirty cotton, pressing heavily on the turbulent sea. The air was thick and heavy, carrying an indescribable salty and… decaying smell. The light became extremely dim; though it was noon, it felt as if dusk had arrived early. Even stranger, the ship's navigation and communication equipment were severely interfered with, pointers spun wildly, screens flickered with static, and communication channels were filled with piercing noise.

"Captain, report! Magnetic field anomaly index exceeds safety threshold by 300%! Satellite signal completely lost! Sonar… sonar background noise abnormally high, severe interference!" The radar officer's voice carried a hint of imperceptible panic.

"Maintain formation! Reduce speed to 15 knots! sea shadow, report the situation!" Zhao Tiezhu stood on the bridge of the Iron Rock, his brows tightly furrowed, staring intently at the dark sea ahead, which resembled a giant beast's mouth. Gao Qiang's previous warnings and the guide's intelligence coiled around his heart like cold venomous snakes.

"sea shadow reporting. Depth 350 meters. Passive sonar is heavily interfered with by strong low-frequency noise, detection range is significantly reduced. No clear target signals found. But… I just feel like something isn't right, this sea… it's too 'noisy'." Gao Qiang's voice came through the encrypted channel, carrying the submarine's characteristic sense of oppression and a hint of confusion.

Zhao Tiezhu's heart sank even deeper. Even the sea shadow felt it was tricky… Raging Waves, where exactly are you? What are you?

Suddenly!

Whoosh—!!!

A low hum, almost beyond the limit of human hearing, yet seemingly capable of directly shaking the soul, surged from all directions without warning! The entire sea area began to shake violently and erratically! The ship's hull let out a grating groan!

"Report! Sonar detected a super-large underwater disturbance source! Number… uncountable! Extremely wide coverage! Speed… very fast! Surging from the deep sea towards the surface!" The sonar officer's voice was distorted by extreme shock.

Zhao Tiezhu rushed to the porthole, only to see the once turbulent sea instantly boiling! Countless huge, murky bubbles surged madly from the seabed as if a pot had boiled over, bringing up towering white water columns! The seawater seemed to be stirred frantically by an invisible giant hand, forming countless chaotic, gigantic whirlpools! Even more terrifying, above the sea, the thick leaden clouds seemed to be summoned by something, beginning to rotate and descend at an unprecedented speed!

"Is it an undersea earthquake? Or a volcanic eruption?!" The adjutant cried out in alarm.

"No! It's not!" Zhao Tiezhu's face was ashen; he saw it! Beneath the churning, bubble and murky water-covered surface, an unimaginably huge, mountain-like moving shadow outline was slowly rising! As it ascended, the dark clouds in the sky rotated faster, forming a massive, terrifying funnel-shaped vortex, its center pointing directly at the sea below! Gale-force winds instantly reached hurricane levels, whipping up giant waves dozens of meters high, which crashed towards the fleet like moving mountains!

"Raging Waves! It's Raging Waves!" Zhao Tiezhu's eyes were bloodshot; he finally understood the true nature of this ultimate weapon! It wasn't a ship, but a — mobile sea weather weapon platform! It could create and guide destructive superstorms!

"Iron Rock, Raging Waves! Maximum combat speed! Turn! Get out of the storm's center! Claw! Protect the merchant ships! Release all fixed anchors! Stabilize the hull!" Zhao Tiezhu roared with all his might, his voice so faint amidst the hurricane's roar.

Too late!

Boom! ! !

The sky exploded! An unprecedented, massive lightning bolt, as if tearing the sky apart, struck the sea not far in front of the Iron Rock like a spear of divine punishment! The huge explosion created a water curtain tens of meters high! This was followed by a deafening, ear-splitting thunder!

The gale transformed into a tangible shockwave! The hundreds-of-tons frigate Iron Rock was thrown violently like a leaf in the wind, then slammed down hard! The hull groaned under the strain! All unsecured items on the deck were instantly swept away! Giant waves, like city walls, crashed onto the bridge, and the bulletproof glass let out a heartbreaking cracking sound!

"Port side… port side engine flooded! Power down 40%!"

"Radar completely destroyed! Communication antenna destroyed!"

"Raging Waves! Raging Waves was hit by a giant wave on its bow! Severely damaged! Speed plummeting!"

The communication channels were filled with chaotic distress calls and reports. In the face of this power of nature, human steel creations seemed so fragile! The two merchant ships struggled like toys in the towering waves, in danger of capsizing at any moment!

"sea shadow! sea shadow! Report!" Zhao Tiezhu clung desperately to a fixed object, roaring into the communicator.

"Gao Qiang… reporting! We are being… being impacted by violent ocean currents and infrasound… depth control lost! We are… trying to surface! Unable to… unable to attack the target!" Gao Qiang's voice was intermittent, interspersed with violent crashing sounds and alarms.

Despair! Like icy seawater, it instantly engulfed Zhao Tiezhu's heart. Was this the Ark's ultimate weapon? Inciting natural disasters, destroying everything! They couldn't even find the enemy's true position! That rising giant shadow seemed to be only the core where the storm's energy converged, not a physical platform!

Just then!

Whoosh— — — —!!!

A siren's long wail, sharper and more piercing than the storm, tore through the roar of the wind and waves! A brilliant beam of light, like a sharp sword cleaving through chaos, suddenly pierced into the dark sea on the edge of the storm!

A massive, magnificent steel behemoth, its bow cleaving through mountain-like giant waves, charged into this living hell with an unyielding, resolute momentum! Its towering hull was as steady as a mountain in the storm, and its iconic integrated mast and the giant cannon on its bow, emitting a cold blue light, were clearly visible amidst the lightning and thunder!

Deep Blue Blade!

On the flagship's bridge, Lin Feng's figure stood tall as a pine, his gaze like a hawk, piercing through the violent wind and rain, firmly locking onto the abnormally churning sea at the storm's center and the terrifying cloud vortex rotating above. His voice, clear through the intermittently interfered public channel, reached every Deep Blue ship:

"Deep Blue Fleet! Lin Feng is here!"

"Iron Rock, Raging Waves! Hold steady! Move closer to the flagship!"

"Claw! Protect the merchant ships at all costs!"

"sea shadow! Report your position! Hold on!"

"As for you…" Lin Feng's voice suddenly rose, carrying boundless fighting spirit and cold killing intent, as if declaring war on this raging world: "Raging Waves! You cowardly thing! Show me — your true form!"

He suddenly waved his hand: "Thunder System! Target: Energy convergence point below the storm's core! Maximum power! Charge!"

On the bow of the Deep Blue Blade, the "Heavenly Punishment-I" electromagnetic railgun, which had been fully cooled and optimized, suddenly glowed intensely with a Deep Blue light! The air around the muzzle violently distorted due to the powerful magnetic field! The low hum even overpowered some of the wind and waves' roars!

"Commander, report! Thunder charged! Target locked! Energy core output stable at 100%!" The weapons officer's voice trembled with excitement.

"The wind and waves are too strong! The ship is pitching violently! Firing accuracy…" The fire control officer reported nervously.

"No precision needed!" Lin Feng's voice was decisive, "What I want is — to tear apart this storm! Break its energy cycle! Blast it!!!"

"Fire!!!"

There was no earth-shattering cannon blast, only a "whoosh—bang!" explosion, sharper than before, as if tearing space itself!

A highly condensed, thick orange-red stream of light, with a diameter far exceeding that of test runs, like a divine arrow shot by Hou Yi in mythology, instantly tore through the violent wind and rain! Where it passed, rainwater was instantly vaporized, forming a temporary vacuum channel! At dozens of times the speed of sound, carrying destructive kinetic energy, it fiercely pierced into the boiling, churning, shadow-surging sea below the storm's center!

Boom! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

An indescribable colossal sound!

It was not a simple explosion, but a terrifying release of energy like a planetary collision! The struck sea surface was instantly vaporized, ionized, forming a giant vacuum crater hundreds of meters in diameter! Immediately after, the surrounding seawater rushed back with trillions of tons of terrifying force, creating a super water column connecting heaven and earth, a hundred times more spectacular than a nuclear mushroom cloud! This water column shot straight into the sky, fiercely crashing into the center of the rotating cloud vortex!

The sky seemed to have a hole punched through it!

Terrifying chains of lightning flashed wildly in the clouds! The rotating cloud vortex was brutally shattered and torn apart by this utterly brutal force! The concentrated storm energy instantly lost its core guidance, beginning to erupt and vent uncontrollably!

The direction of the gale became chaotic and disordered! The towering giant waves lost their unified "command," colliding and canceling each other out! The lead-gray clouds covering the entire Devil's Triangle were torn open, creating a massive gap! The long-lost, dazzling sunlight, like the gaze of a god, streamed down from thecrack, illuminating the devastated sea below!

The storm… was forcibly interrupted!

"Suc… successful?!" Zhao Tiezhu looked at the wind and waves, which had instantly weakened by at least half, and the huge sunlit crack in the sky, barely believing his eyes!

"Raging Waves… was hit?!" Gao Qiang, in the newly re-controlled sea shadow, looked at the sonar screen's hellish, terror-energy-churned area, equally shocked beyond words.

On the bridge of the Deep Blue Blade, Lin Feng's gaze remained cold and sharp, fixed on the center of the energy explosion. Beneath the crack of sunlight, the murky seawater gradually settled, and the massive shadow outline seemed to disappear… But in the core area of the explosion, a twisted, damaged, sparking, bizarre creation, like a giant metal sea urchin, was slowly surfacing, revealing a corner of its ferocious form!

That was the true body of Raging Waves! The core of the ultimate weapon from the Ark, capable of creating and guiding destructive storms!

"Target not completely destroyed!" Lin Feng barked an order, "All active warships! Full firepower! Sink it completely!"

Iron Rock, Raging Waves (dragging its damaged hull), Claw, and the sea shadow, which had just surfaced, all aimed their cannons and missile launchers at the struggling metal monster on the sea surface!

However, at this critical moment!

Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—

A low, distant horn sound, as if from ancient primordial times, pierced through the gradually calming waves without warning, coming from the deep sea! This sound carried an indescribable majesty, desolation… and a hint of awakened… anger!

On the sonar screen, a massive shadow, even larger and deeper than the Raging Waves core, emitting terrifying biological energy signals, was slowly awakening in the deep sea below the explosion area! Its gaze seemed to penetrate thousands of meters of seawater, coldly "watching" these tiny steel insects on the surface that had created such immense noise and destruction.

"Deep… deep-sea behemoth?!" Gao Qiang's voice, for the first time, carried uncontrollable horror.

Lin Feng's pupils suddenly contracted! The legend of the Devil's Triangle… the energy impact of Raging Waves… had finally awakened the true master of these waters!