115: Chapter 115: I don't understand it, but I'm deeply shocked!

The moment Ito Hirobumi fell straight backward, the entire bridge of the "child of the ocean" erupted in chaos.

"Captain!"

"Medic! Call a medic quickly!"

The adjutant rushed over in terror, only to feel Ito Hirobumi's cold body and faint breathing.

He had been so enraged that he passed out on the spot.

Almost simultaneously, the high-definition video released by the Xia official authorities, titled "On How a Qualified Power Bank Self-Destructs," exploded across the global internet after a brief period of fermentation.

At first, most people thought it was some top film studio teasing a new movie.

That deep, dark ten-thousand-meter seabed, that futuristic pitch-black submersible, and that blue figure strolling leisurely through the gunfire—every frame reeked of burning budget.

"Holy crap! These special effects are top-tier! Did 'Avatar 3' release a trailer?"

"Who is that blue lady? So cool! Taking on an alien warship all by herself?"

"This CGI is so realistic, has the film industry really developed to this point?"

However, as the video spread further, the sentiment in the comment section began to shift.

More and more sharp-eyed military enthusiasts and knowledgeable netizens appeared.

"Something's wrong. Look closely, why does the insignia on that warship look so much like the R-nation Navy's 'Devil Ray' submersible?"

"It's not just like it, it *is* it! Look at that unique diamond-shaped thruster design; it's one of a kind globally!"

"Holy f*ck! So this isn't a movie? This is real?!"

Soon, an anonymous military expert posted a confirmation on a professional forum.

It was not a movie special effect.

The thing in the video that was blown into a magnificent firework by its own artillery was the R-nation Navy's deepest-hidden, supposedly unsinkable flagship-class submersible—the "black tide no. 1"!

As for that blue figure... although her identity could not be confirmed, someone quickly dug up that the design language and style of the suit of armor she wore, which rippled like flowing water, bore a shocking resemblance to the student uniforms announced by the Xia Kunlun Academy in a promotional video not long ago!

With this, global public opinion completely boiled over.

The online world was like it had been hit by a nuclear bomb.

"Good heavens! Is this real? Has Xia already mastered this kind of individual deep-sea combat technology?"

"The f*ck is this technology? This is fantasy! One person in the ten-thousand-meter deep sea, taking on a warship's saturation artillery fire head-on, and reflecting all the attacks back? Does this conform to physics?!"

"To the person above, ever since Xia officially announced 'Spiritual Energy Revival' a few months ago, are you still trying to reason with them? Do you have more logic, or is their fist harder?"

"I'm dying of laughter. What kind of wicked thing did the R-nation people go and do at Xia's doorstep? They were played like monkeys for ages, and in the end, they blew themselves up with their own artillery?"

"I just feel bad for that power bank—oh no, the 'Siren' system. It worked itself to death generating power for ages, only to end up blowing its own people up. Where can you even reason with that?"

The internet was filled with mockery and exclamations from onlookers who loved the drama.

However, those who truly stood at the pinnacle of world power, after watching this video in their respective top-secret offices, were one by one struck silent, as if plunged into an ice cellar.

They did not see a joke or a meme.

What they saw was a terrifying power capable of dimension-reduction strikes, one that could grind all their existing military advantages into the dirt.

M-nation, the Pentagon, underground strategic Command Center.

Under the blinding white lights, the air was so heavy it could be squeezed for water.

An Old General with five stars on his shoulders was staring intently at the massive holographic screen before him.

On the screen, the video, which was only a few dozen seconds long, had been played back and forth over a hundred times.

His face was ugly to the extreme.

"Do you have a result?" he asked without turning his head.

A chief scientist in a lab coat, his forehead covered in fine beads of sweat, adjusted his glasses and handed over a report.

"It's out, General."

The scientist's hands were trembling slightly.

"We utilized the 'Titan' supercomputer to decompose and simulate every frame of the video."

He swallowed with difficulty.

"The conclusion is... we don't understand."

"What do you mean you don't understand?!"

The Old General turned around abruptly, his sharp gaze piercing the scientist.

"It just means... we completely don't understand it."

The scientist shivered in fright, but still braced himself to report, "Whether it's that ability to hover under ten-thousand-meter water pressure, or that force field capable of making high-energy particle shells make weird turns, it completely exceeds any of our existing knowledge of physics."

"The only thing we can confirm... is that blue figure."

The scientist's Adam's apple bobbed up and down.

"The instantaneous energy level she displayed exceeded the peak of any S-class superpowered individual recorded in our database by at least an order of magnitude."

"She, or rather they, the Xia people, have mastered a more advanced method of energy utilization that we completely do not understand."

"More advanced..."

The Old General chewed on these words, slowly turning his gaze back to the screen.

The image happened to freeze at the moment the blue figure raised her hand, and all the artillery fire reversed.

He slowly closed his weary eyes.

As the supreme commander of the M-nation military, he knew better than anyone what this meant.

From today on, the rules of the world's chess game were going to change.

The outside world was turned upside down because of a video, but Jiang Ning, the culprit behind it all, didn't care at all.

To her, getting rid of that annoying submarine was nothing more than casually swatting a mosquito.

Her entire focus at this moment was on the real trouble in front of her.

That mass of black pollution source, formed after the complete eruption of the "Black Water Mother" relic fragment, filled with an aura of deathly silence and ominousness.

At this moment, this terrifying pollution had completely turned the entire undersea volcanic crater into a "malignant tumor" constantly surging with black water.

It was like a living, pulsating evil heart.

Endless black matter sprouted from the core, madly crashing against the blue defensive force field deployed by the "base station" No. 1.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—"

At the boundary of black and blue, energy collided violently, emitting a harsh sound of annihilation.

Although the black pollution could not break through the barrier of the defensive force field for the time being, it was constantly consuming the base station's reserve energy at an alarming rate.

The light of the defensive force field was dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

More importantly, this thing was like a true black hole.

It wasn't just releasing pollution; it was crazily devouring everything around it.

Seawater, rocks, heat currents... even light, when approaching its edge, began to exhibit eerie distortions and stretching.

Jiang Ning hovered inside the force field, observing quietly.

Her attention was entirely focused on that patch of pure darkness.

This was no longer simple energy pollution.

It was distorting space and devouring matter.

This was erosion at the level of laws.

Suddenly, the core of that black water mass violently contracted inward, and then pulsed intensely!