2: Luckily, I don't eat fish heads.

At this moment,

Above the sea, waves surged.

A small fleet, led by the ‘Dingbo’ light frigate and flanked by two ‘Haiying’ class patrol boats,

Was cutting through the grey-green waves in a combat posture,

Cruising at low speed.

The Divine Summer Dragon Flag fluttered at the masthead.

Inside the bridge of the ‘Dingbo’, the atmosphere was as heavy as lead.

Colonel Li Weiguo stood ramrod straight,

His hawk-like gaze fixed on the sonar display screen, which glowed with an eerie light.

His voice was low, carrying an undeniable chill:

“Sonar power to maximum! That beast, Sawtooth, has already torn apart three fishing boats and claimed dozens of lives! Today, we must find it and eliminate it!”

“Yes, sir! Sonar maximum power engaged!”

The operator's fingers tapped on the console, making rapid clicking sounds.

On the other side of the bridge,

Lieutenant Colonel Wang Meng, the executive officer, had a rugged face and tightly furrowed brows.

He rubbed his rough chin, his voice filled with suppressed confusion:

“Old Li, this world… it’s really gone to hell! First, all the satellites above went blind, then the seawater surged like crazy… now, even great white sharks over ten meters long, capable of shrugging off torpedoes, are appearing! What the hell is happening to this world?”

Li Weiguo's gaze remained locked on the screen, the constantly shifting ripples reflected in the depths of his pupils:

“Strange… this world is becoming stranger… and more dangerous…”

Before his words even finished!

“Woo—!!!”

A shrill, piercing alarm, like steel needles, abruptly tore through the oppressive air in the bridge!

Red lights flashed wildly!

“Alarm! Alarm!”

The sonar operator's voice instantly rose,

“Unknown large underwater target detected! Bearing 345, distance 3000 meters! Depth… depth 800 meters! Target size… enormous! Enormous!!”

“Ha!”

Wang Meng's eyes blazed with ferocity, and he slammed his fist on the console.

“Finally found that beast! All hands to General Quarters! Torpedoes…”

“Wait!”

Li Weiguo sharply interjected,

His arm rose like an iron gate, stopping Wang Meng’s hand from pressing the weapon launch button.

His gaze swept over the sonar screen, at the abnormally massive mass,

An echo shadow that nearly filled the specific sector.

“Target… moving slowly, stable trajectory, showing no aggressive intent!”

“Sonar signature… doesn’t match any known aggressive sea beast in our database!”

“It’s too big… ridiculously… big!”

On the screen,

The outline volume calculated from the echoes,

Was astonishingly over a hundred meters!!!

Wang Meng's hand hovered above the weapon button, his knuckles white from tension, and he said urgently:

“Captain! What do characteristics matter! The size is right there! It’s definitely a new type of mutated giant beast!”

“Threat level unknown! Let's strike first! Anti-submarine torpedoes, depth charges salvo! Firepower saturation! Let's blast it half to death first!”

“No!”

Li Weiguo took a deep breath and decisively stopped Wang Meng.

“Sawtooth was only ten meters long, and after taking one torpedo, it went berserk and fled. This… hundred-meter behemoth…”

“Do you think a few torpedoes can rip open its skin? Can they shatter its bones?”

“Once we provoke it… will these three ships of ours be enough for a snack?!”

His sharp gaze swept over the enormous, stable, yet suffocating shadow on the screen:

“Maintain distance! Continue tracking! Keep it in your sights! I want to know what it’s trying to do!”

Logically, no carbon-based life form should be able to withstand the attack of thermal weapons,

But,

The world was different now.

Li Weiguo didn't have much confidence in the power of the thermal weapons at hand.

At this moment,

Beneath the sea,

In the dim waters at a depth of 800 meters.

Su Chen's massive body, like a moving mountain, slowly ceased its swimming.

Ten tentacles, thick as ancient colossal pillars, stretched out in the water, creating silent undercurrents.

Because,

Su Chen heard

The piercing alarm from above.

And saw that beneath the three steel ships, several dark torpedo tubes had already rotated and aimed in his direction!

No!

Can’t get any closer,

Any closer and they'll open fire!

Although,

With his current strength as the Kraken,

He could easily crush these three Divine Summer ships.

But,

His goal wasn't to become a rampaging sea monster.

Instead, he wanted to see if he could cooperate with Divine Summer,

To leverage this massive nation,

To help him evolve and awaken the Kraken's exclusive talent.

“Oh no, my current body doesn’t have vocal cords, so I can’t speak? What should I do?”

Su Chen scratched his forehead with a tentacle, troubled.

Surfacing directly was definitely not an option.

At this moment,

His tentacles plus his body were a colossal hundred meters long.

Imagine,

If a hundred-meter-long giant sea monster suddenly swam towards you,

Would you open fire?

You know,

Even the largest creature on Blue Star—the blue whale—is less than 30 meters long,

And he was a living Kraken, three times the length of a blue whale!

That overwhelming sense of oppression,

Was enough to make even the bravest sailors break down!

“No!”

“I need to find a way to let them know I mean no harm.”

Su Chen's thoughts raced.

Right!

They came here… most likely to search for the mutated great white shark I just ate!

Su Chen clearly remembered that in his previous life, around this time,

His warship frequently received missions to deal with mutated marine creatures.

“Got it!”

One of Su Chen's terminal tentacles suddenly shot out, like a nimble giant python, precisely coiling around the only remaining, incredibly hideous head of the mutated great white shark, which lay on the seabed below.

“Good thing… I don’t like eating fish heads.”

With that thought,

Su Chen's massive body began to surface.

He controlled his speed, slow and steady, like a living island rising from the abyss. The seawater parted and compressed around him, forming silent undercurrents.

Soon, Su Chen reached a depth where the ship's sonar could clearly image him.

Then, he stopped.

The tentacle, clutching the enormous shark head, rose slowly like a giant hook displaying its prey,

Lifting that shark head, full of sharp teeth and empty eyes,

And suspending it in the seawater directly beneath the ‘Dingbo’!

“Oh my god!!”

The sonar operator and observer screamed almost simultaneously, their voices distorted by extreme shock!

On the sonar screen,

A huge and familiar shark head outline was instantly locked onto and magnified!

Beside it was the even larger, more suffocating shadow outline!

Their positions were crystal clear!

The images captured by the high-definition underwater camera instantly froze the blood of everyone on the bridge:

In the dim seawater, a hideous, giant shark head belonging to “Sawtooth” was steadily held aloft by a dark, impossibly thick tentacle covered in huge suckers, as if displaying a trophy!

Behind the tentacle was the faintly visible, despairingly massive main body of the shadow!

Silence!

Only the low hum of equipment and heavy, suppressed breathing remained on the bridge.

A chill raced wildly up everyone's spine.

“It… it killed Sawtooth… it knows we were hunting Sawtooth… it… it’s ‘showing’ it to us?!”