Section 170

A succession of thuds echoed out!

It was the sound of those twenty-plus crocodiles collapsing!

Watching those twenty-plus crocodile corpses collapse in an instant... billions of people around the world gasped in unison!

Their faces turned pale with terror!

Because...

A massive, gaping hole of flesh and blood had been blasted into the abdomen of every single crocodile! Their entrails were spilling out in a mess!

And the culprit responsible for all of this...

Was that silver flash that had flickered by just a moment ago—the [Small Water-Drop Dolphin]!

In this moment...

Everyone finally truly understood! What it meant to have the ultimate aesthetic of violence! What it meant to have the ultimate art of violence.

No explosions...

No gunpowder...

No lasers...

Just the purest, most primitive, and most direct method of attack—[Collision].

Super-fast speed, combined with incredibly hard materials... transformed this [Small Water-Drop Dolphin] into an unstoppable bullet!

And it was a massive, sentient bullet at that!

One capable of automatically destroying any target that dared to attack "its master".

This simple, ultimate, and terrifying method of attack... left everyone feeling as though they had been struck by lightning, their brains jolted by an electric shock!

But...

After a brief silence,

The entire world erupted.

Especially at the United Nations...

The various national representatives who had been worried about Lin Xian just moments ago... were now screaming and shouting, completely disregarding their dignity, as excited as baboons that had just successfully mated—

"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! My Maria, what kind of primitive and terrifying lethality is this! There were no flashy attack methods... no exaggerated attack effects, not even a glimmer of light! It was just... it was just a quiet, smooth silver arc—one you might even overlook if you didn't look closely—that accurately pierced the abdomens of over twenty crocodiles! It killed them all!"

"Water... Water-Drop! There's no mistake! This [Small Water-Drop Dolphin] created by Lin Xian... to put it bluntly, it's the alien Water-Drop probe from the science fiction novel 'The Three-Body Problem'! I've read that novel... when that alien Water-Drop probe destroyed the human space fleet, it was exactly like this: using the most primitive collision and piercing to solve the problem! Simple and brutal! Absolutely ultimate!"

"Art! This is the goddamn ultimate aesthetic of violence! I have never seen any military weapon... that could be so exquisite to such an extreme degree! *Cough, cough, cough*, excuse me, I was too excited just now. What the hell am I saying? Isn't this... isn't this obviously just an agricultural tool? Isn't it a piece of fishing equipment? *Cough*... I must have been possessed by General Mike just now; everyone, please ignore that."

"At this point, there's really no need to keep up the charade, is there? Anyone who sees this thing... wouldn't believe for a second that it's an agricultural tool, would they? This is clearly a [targeted weapon] designed specifically to destroy carrier strike groups, isn't it!? Everyone knows... a carrier strike group, with all its various warships and submarines, totals over two hundred vessels. In the face of the [Small Water-Drop Dolphin]'s monstrous speed and hardness, wouldn't they just be like targets, getting pierced one after another!?"

"Exactly! This Super Black Technology... even though Lin Xian has consistently insisted it's an agricultural tool designed for fishermen... once applied to naval warfare! This Water-Drop Dolphin could almost certainly utilize its purely extreme [collision] attacks to... one after another, row after row, punch a massive hole through every single warship. It's a super-weapon that could truly destroy all eleven of the United States' carrier strike groups in an instant!"

The representatives from these countries could see it.

As the Director of National Defense for the United States... how could General Mike fail to see it too!?

Damn it...

This little thing was even more terrifying than he had imagined.

It wasn't some little dolphin at all...

It was a devil lurking in the water!

General Mike knew clearly...

If such a [Small Water-Drop Dolphin] were in the ocean, speeding toward a U.S. carrier strike group!

There would be no way to defend against it!

Its size was simply too small! Its speed was simply too fast!

No modern weapon could possibly hit it!

Even if they unleashed a blanket of fire... what would it matter if they did hit it?

The [Small Water-Drop Dolphin]'s terrifying hardness and smoothness would absolutely deflect any bullet that struck it!

Its size was too small...

But its targets were huge! Things like aircraft carriers and frigates!

With targets that big and speeds that high... how could it possibly miss!?

At this moment...

That terrifying scene had already materialized in General Mike's mind...

Just like in 'The Three-Body Problem,' when the human space coalition's two thousand warships lined up neatly, attempting to capture the Water-Drop...

Out on the vast Pacific Ocean.

All eleven U.S. Navy carrier strike groups! Proudly sailing side by side across the ocean!

Mighty and imposing! Fearless! Unrivaled!

But just then!

A few meters beneath the water... a ruthless devil, a cold-blooded killer... a [Small Water-Drop Dolphin] was approaching at high speed.

Its speed was as fast as lightning!

[Bang!] A thunderous boom!

It punched straight through the outermost destroyer! The massive hole in the bow caused the ship to sink rapidly!

[Bang!] Another thunderous boom!

The cruiser next to the destroyer was also pierced! A shocking, gaping hole in the hull! Seawater was rushing in violently!

[Bang!] Another thunderous boom!

The anti-aircraft ship behind the cruiser... had its hull nearly snapped in two by the sheer force of the impact! It teetered, on the verge of splitting apart!

[Bang!] Another thunderous boom!

The final line of defense in front of the aircraft carrier... the frigate was also blasted open with a searing, massive hole! It nearly capsized!

[Bang! Bang!] An unprecedented, thunderous boom!

And it was two sounds!

That's right...

That was the sound of this single [Small Water-Drop Dolphin] piercing through the entire aircraft carrier!

It rammed into the bow of the carrier!

Just like skewering a kebab, it punched straight through the hull from bow to stern!

Then it blasted out the back!

Leaving another shocking, gaping hole!

One in, one out... that's why there were two "bang" sounds!

And then!

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...

It was like setting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival!

The remaining ten carrier strike groups... a total of over two thousand warships and submarines!

The sounds of explosions were continuous, like knitting needles clicking together! It pierced through every single vessel, one after another!

And all of this...

Happened in just a few dozen seconds!

The very first destroyer damaged hadn't even had time to sink yet—all of the U.S. Navy's combat strength, over two thousand vessels—

[Completely wiped out!]

Terrifying...

Truly terrifying