231: Chapter 231 Tsunami! The Reversing Dragon!

The shrill alarm sounded like a red-hot branding iron, stabbing ruthlessly into the eardrums of the thousands of people at Golden Beach.

That sound was sharper and more filled with despair than any previous alarm, carrying a terror that could make the very soul tremble.

Just moments ago, it was a cloudless sunny day with a scorching sun; within a few dozen seconds, the weather changed abruptly!

At the end of the horizon, massive clouds as black as ink rolled and gathered at a visible speed, like an ancient beast opening its giant maw to devour heaven and earth.

The howling gale arrived!

What it swept up was no longer hot air, but bone-chilling, salty mist. Raindrops as large as beans fell from the sky without warning, pattering against the scorching concrete ground and everyone's faces with painful force.

"Highest level Red Alert! Repeat! Highest level Red Alert!"

"A powerful earthquake has occurred off the coast of Shenzhen! A massive tsunami is expected to reach Golden Beach in fifteen minutes!"

"All personnel! Evacuate to inland high ground immediately! This is not a drill! This is not a drill!"

From all the loudspeakers on the pier, a roar came through, completely distorted by extreme terror.

"Tsunami—!"

"Run!!"

After a brief silence, a collective panic erupted like a landslide or a tidal wave.

The female workers who had been crowding the shore just a second ago, their eyes misty and faces flushed with a desire to touch Wang Fugui, saw the passion on their faces instantly replaced by the deathly pallor of fear.

They screamed and wailed like a swarm of headless flies from a disturbed nest, recklessly pushing aside those around them and fleeing toward the inland in a frenzy.

If their high heels broke, they ran barefoot; if they were pushed down, they scrambled through the mud on all fours.

In the face of death, all desire, order, and status became worthless.

The entire Golden Beach was in total chaos.

Second Mother Sai did not run.

She stood where she was, letting the wind and rain lash against her. Her expression was gloomier than the dark clouds in the sky and colder than the seawater beneath her feet.

She didn't look at the fleeing workers; her gaze was fixed intently on the behemoth in the core deep-water area of the pier.

—It was an ocean-going freighter over two hundred meters long with a displacement of over ten thousand tons, the "golden queen."

On that ship was the entire fortune she had spent half her life fighting for, risking her life and struggling among men!

That was her empire, her throne!

Yet at this moment, her empire was wailing.

The Force 12 gale whipped up dark green waves over ten meters high, like invisible giant hands frantically tearing at this steel beast.

"Crack... Crack... Crack..."

The six nylon-steel composite cables, as thick as thighs, that secured the hull were making a tooth-grinding sound as the fibers snapped under a force far beyond their limit.

Every snap was like a heavy hammer blow, striking ruthlessly at Second Mother Sai's heart.

Suddenly—

"Bang!"

"Bang! Bang!!"

Three consecutive dull booms, like cannon fire, erupted amidst the storm!

The three main cables at the bow, unable to withstand the world-destroying tension, snapped completely at the same time!

The severed cables, like three enraged black pythons, whipped through the air with immense force, letting out ear-piercing whistles as they smashed the half-meter-thick concrete guardrails at the edge of the pier!

Debris flew, and dust filled the air!

Having completely lost the restraints on its forward section, the ten-thousand-ton freighter instantly went out of control!

Driven by the giant waves behind it, its massive stern was like a collapsing mountain of steel. Carrying terrifying kinetic energy that could crush anything, it swept in a deadly arc toward the pier's core unloading area... and toward the hundreds of female workers who hadn't had time to evacuate!

It was over.

Only these two words remained in Second Mother Sai's mind.

Once it hit, her life's work would instantly vanish into thin air.

More terrifyingly, the hundreds of workers still fleeing in the chaos would be crushed into meat paste by this mountain of steel!

In her life, she had killed, seen blood, and faced gun barrels pressed against her forehead.

But she had never felt as small and powerless as she did at this moment.

Before the true wrath of heaven, the power, wealth, and methods she took pride in were nothing but a joke.

With a "thud."

Second Mother Sai's legs gave way, and she could no longer support herself, collapsing in despair into the cold, rainy mud.

She watched helplessly as that deadly mountain of steel drew closer and closer to the pier...

At this critical moment when everyone was plunged into despair.

A figure as majestic as a mountain made a move that no one could understand.

He ran against the frantic crowd and into the tearing storm, like a crazed ancient beast, charging toward the most dangerous edge of the pier where the giant ship was about to strike!

It was none other than Wang Fugui, who had just stepped ashore from the sea!

In his hand, he was dragging something.

It was the spare anchor chain, made of pure steel and weighing several tons, which he had snapped with brute force from the main anchoring pile on the shore!

"Is he crazy?!"

"Come back! It's about to crash there!"

A fleeing female worker looked back, saw this scene, and let out an incredulous scream.

Wang Fugui was deaf to it all.

The gale made his facial muscles quiver slightly, and the rain blurred his vision, but his pitch-black eyes were locked onto the out-of-control ten-thousand-ton freighter.

He didn't know how much money was on that ship.

He only knew that if the ship crashed like this, those slow-moving women behind him would die.

That was all.

It was close!

Less than ten meters from the edge of the pier!

He slammed on the brakes, his military rubber shoes letting out an ear-piercing screech as they skidded on the slippery concrete.

Then, under the horrified gazes of everyone, Wang Fugui's legs bent to an extreme angle that almost looked like they would snap, and his steel-like thigh muscles suddenly bulged!

"Boom—!!!"

A thunderous roar!

The hard, thick concrete beneath his feet was actually stomped into two deep pits by this extreme force, and spider-web-like cracks spread frantically in all directions!

And his body, aided by this unparalleled counterforce, soared into the air like a heavy missile launched from a surface-to-ship silo. Facing the towering waves and defying the laws of physics, he leaped directly toward the out-of-control ten-thousand-ton freighter that was crashing into the pier!