The tentacles lay in overlapping layers, resting silently over the Undersea Space Wormhole.
If he hadn’t been fighting the World Beasts for so long and become so familiar with their anatomy, Shen Feng would have mistaken them for a series of undersea mountain ranges.
By now, his Nanomechanical Cluster had spread for hundreds of kilometers across the seabed. His Thought Field, using the Nanomechanical Cluster as a medium, began to probe the underwater environment.
For a moment, Shen Feng found himself completely unable to gauge the specific size of the World Beast that had appeared above the Undersea Space Wormhole!
He finally understood. When he had previously used the remaining reconnaissance satellites to scan the area near the Space Wormhole, he’d discovered a several-thousand-kilometer stretch of seabed that was shallower than expected, as if a new chain of undersea islands had formed.
That was no new geological formation. It was a colossal World Beast lying just outside the Undersea Space Wormhole!
’This thing... how could it be so big!?’
Shen Feng was stunned, finding it hard to believe what he was seeing.
’Just how long is it?’
’Two thousand kilometers?’
’Three thousand kilometers?’
’Four thousand kilometers?’
The Moon’s diameter is only 3,400 kilometers. The sheer size of this gargantuan World Beast lying on the seafloor was comparable to the Moon itself!
If it chose to surface, it would be an entire new continent!
Before it, humans were less than specks of dust. Even a Super Giant War Armor was nothing more than a tiny insect.
Its immense mass was even distorting the local gravity, creating a unique tidal environment.
He finally understood why the world’s sea levels had risen so much.
The sea level rise caused by the displacement from this one super-beast alone was incalculable.
And that didn’t even account for the water pouring in from the Space Wormhole.
’What is this thing?’
’The Beast Ancestor?’
’The Mother Empress?’
At this moment, Shen Feng was more grateful than ever for his decision not to confront the World Beasts head-on, but to instead prepare to travel to the Shield UY Star Realm on the other side of the Wormhole.
Otherwise, if this super-World Beast were to awaken and battle humanity, the tsunamis it would generate would be enough to submerge all the world’s remaining land, capsize every Floating Island Market, and plunge the last remnants of humanity into ruin.
Before him was the Space Wormhole, nearly a hundred kilometers in diameter. The Zero Super Giant War Armor that Shen Feng piloted was less than ten kilometers away. One final push was all it would take to dive right in!
The World Beasts behind them seemed to have sensed Shen Feng’s objective and began to close in frantically.
"Xiaofeng, there’s a turbulent energy flow over the Space Wormhole. If you try to force your way through, you’ll be blocked, and you’ll definitely wake up that massive monster!" Jingwei’s voice came through again, warning Shen Feng of the anomaly.
As a Wormhole connecting two Star Realms 5,100 light-years apart, its energy must be stabilized by some special means.
Otherwise, if matter could pass freely between the two sides, Earth might have been sucked through long ago.
Shen Feng had already anticipated this and had gained a detailed understanding from the Wormhole data provided by Jingwei No. 2.
"Shake off the pursuers and rally to me! The complete opening of the Space Wormhole will last for about half an hour."
The Nanomechanical Cluster, now dense enough to form a suspension in the seawater, had become an excellent communication medium, relaying Shen Feng’s words to all the Super Giant War Armors.
Even with the Nanomechanical Cluster for maintenance, under the siege of hundreds of World Beasts, the Super Giant War Armors were battered and broken, and some of the warriors inside had even perished.
But no one retreated. Upon hearing their Commander’s call, the Super Giant War Armors charged recklessly toward Zero Armor.
All the War Armors now gathered by the Undersea Space Wormhole. Beside them lay the Moon-sized World Beast, and surrounding them were thousands upon thousands of other World Beasts, hemming them in completely.
It seemed humanity had been driven into a hopeless situation, on the verge of annihilation with no possibility of escape.
Shen Feng let out a dark chuckle. He pulled a silver metal sphere covered in intricate patterns from around his neck and placed it into the energy transfer device connected to the weapons system.
It was one of the two Quantum Force Field Cores.
Immediately, the Quantum Force Field Core was transported into Zero Armor’s chest-mounted Energy Cannon.
The previously closed chest plates flew open. Energy from the Fusion Reactor flooded the Energy Concentration Cannon, then converged in an instant, violently bombarding the Quantum Force Field Core at its center.
It was, in effect, a simplified particle accelerator-collider.
In the next instant, an extremely fine, dazzling blue beam shot from Zero Armor’s chest, slamming into the Space Wormhole before them!
Unlike a normal energy blast, this blue light seemed to move slowly, yet it also felt as if it had been there from the very beginning. Chaotic energy fluctuations immediately rippled outward, causing the surrounding seawater, Super Giant War Armors, World Beasts, and even the sand and stone to become ethereal and semi-transparent.
The turbulent energy flow over the Space Wormhole vanished in an instant. The Wormhole itself erupted in a blinding light, and the starry sky on the other side seemed to spring to life!
The gigantic, Moon-sized World Beast shuddered violently, its tentacles beginning to writhe. At the same time, a flat, yellow area dozens of kilometers across appeared on the seabed.
It was the World Beast’s eye!
Everything in the vicinity now looked like a damaged image from an old video cassette, rippling and flickering with a semi-transparent, unreal quality.
This was the method humanity had devised to seize control of the Wormhole for a short period.
"Now! Go!"
Shen Feng roared, and with its engines at full power, the Zero Super Giant War Armor instantly plunged into the Space Wormhole, which was now as calm as a lake’s surface.
The surface of the Wormhole, previously shrouded in turbulent energy, broke open. Dozens of Super Giant War Armors followed Shen Feng’s Zero Armor and charged in!
At the same time, a furious, low roar echoed from the other side of the Wormhole. It was the sound of the man-made Mad Beast Horn.
This time, however, Shen Feng had encoded the sound of the Mad Beast Horn to transmit a specific message.
The message conveyed by these roars was that he intended to utterly destroy the Space Wormhole, creating a singularity that would then collapse into a black hole.
A newborn black hole, powerful enough to swallow the entire Earth!
The massive eye that had just opened blinked several times, stirring up a violent tsunami. In the next instant, a powerful earthquake shook the seabed, accompanied by spouts of lava and the eruption of undersea volcanoes.
GUUUUU—
The super-World Beast let out a low hum. Shockwaves propagated through the water for thousands of kilometers, pulverizing the internal organs of immense numbers of sea creatures, which floated to the surface in a spray of blood.
Then, the super-beast’s tentacles reached into the Space Wormhole. Its entire body followed, squeezing through like an octopus. It slid swiftly through the hundred-kilometer-wide passage and vanished in the blink of an eye.
Behind it, the other World Beasts swarmed forward, following close behind the Beast Ancestor and diving into the glowing Space Wormhole!
Thousands upon thousands of World Beasts roared and charged into the Space Wormhole as if on a pilgrimage.
The sudden disappearance of these World Beasts displaced a massive volume of water, creating a gigantic vortex hundreds of kilometers in diameter in the sea above the Wormhole!
Viewed from space, it was as if a blue-and-white eye socket had appeared on the surface of Earth, much like Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.
A short while later, the distorted, chaotic light around the Space Wormhole gradually faded, and everything returned to normal. A World Beast, perhaps having rushed from the other side of Earth, was halfway through when it let out a series of shrieks. Its body was suddenly sliced in two as the Space Wormhole sealed shut again. Blood instantly turned the sea green, leaving only the front half of the World Beast to thrash and howl in its death throes.
It was as if nothing had happened.
But the effects of the World Beasts’ mass departure were just beginning to spread across the globe.