Using the MC system to pretend spiritual revival

Chapter 209 The Creeping Catastrophe
The choking smoke and dust rushed into my nasal cavity.

The flames crackled and popped as they burned.

Amidst the ruins that resembled those left after a missile bombing, Amen shook his head and got up from the rubble.

He couldn't help but slap his ears hard, trying to dispel the buzzing sound that filled his brain.

"Cough...cough..."

At this moment, his face was blackened by smoke, and his once neat and crisp police uniform was now tattered and torn.

Even the simplest action of getting up from the ground caused him unbearable pain all over his body, as if every bone in his body was broken.

Especially in the abdomen, there was a spreading crimson color, as if the internal organs were being shredded, and waves of excruciating pain came from it.

"Hiss...cough cough..."

Instinctively, I pressed my hand against the wound on my abdomen, and all I felt was a sticky, slippery substance.

As consciousness gradually returned, the pain intensified, and Amen was bent over in agony.

Fortunately, he survived and was able to get up unsteadily, leaning on the dilapidated building beside him to move his feet with difficulty.

"...What...what...is going on?"

He mumbled to himself, his consciousness still hazy since he awoke.

He instinctively grabbed the broken bricks and rubble beside him and came to a relatively spacious open area.

Looking around, the endless ruins gradually brought my confused consciousness, which had been disrupted by the explosion and shock, back to its normal state.

This also brought to mind the original appearance of the area surrounding the police headquarters in the city center.

The once spacious and clean streets, the towering buildings standing side by side—now, everything has been reduced to rubble.

Absurdity and fear washed over him, and the young man, who always considered himself the protagonist, stood there dumbfounded, in the only open space within a radius of several hundred meters.

Staring blankly in the direction of the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters, which should have been bustling and lively.

He remained there, stunned, for a long time.

Until the very far distance, the faint echoes of gunfire and shouts reached my ears.

After a long period of stillness, Yamen's body began to change; his eyes moved slightly as he looked at the collapsed buildings not far away.

He remembered...

Last night, his newly formed field team from the Hidden Gods Department ran into trouble on their first investigation mission due to a lack of cooperation from the team members.

So, early the next morning, a group of ten people rushed to the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters to retrieve information and look for new directions for the investigation.

Just as the group was walking out the door, each having made their own purchases, a piercing air raid siren suddenly sounded.

In an instant, the entire street and the police station behind it were thrown into chaos.

One after another, police cars filled with people drove out of the parking lot next to us.

Without giving it much thought, Yamen was about to find a car to follow them.

Suddenly, a sound came from high above, like the roar of fighter jets, but more like the deep hum of some kind of whale.

Immediately afterwards, one by one, the people around looked up, their faces quickly filled with fear.

They either opened their mouths wide or screamed while covering their heads, running away in all directions.

At that time, Yamen was still chatting and laughing with his companions when he saw several team members standing with their heads up like the others, so he also looked up curiously.

As a result, a huge dark shadow blocking out the sunlight came into view.

next second.

Everything before their eyes was then engulfed by a blinding, intense light.

What followed was a massive explosion and burst of fire that instantly plunged the world into deathly silence.

In a world where only tinnitus remained, Amen was shocked to see a blindingly large white beam of light descend from the sky and strike a building across the street.

In an instant.

The entire building melted away as quickly as ice and snow meeting the sun.

Explosions caused by igniting various objects sent flames soaring into the sky, blasting large sections of buildings into the air, where they were then reduced to black dots.

Immediately afterwards, the road surface was lifted, twisted, and wrinkled like a crunchy chocolate shell, and all the buildings in sight were rapidly collapsing.

In this moment, it seems as if time has slowed down.

He saw the thin, bespectacled young man in the group, who had a low profile and was taciturn, turn around and look at him with a pleading gaze.

His eyes were filled with terror and helplessness.

The result was the next moment.

A cement block the size of a car, with exposed steel bars, came hurtling towards them.

The man's upper body was crushed into a cloud of blood mist, leaving only his two lonely legs standing in place.

He also saw that, because of the sudden explosion and the panic of the crowd, several girls in the team huddled together in fear.

But the next moment, half of the collapsed building crashed down.

In this world on the verge of death, everything seems to be mercilessly ravaged.

In the last second before the shockwave from the collapsing building sent Yamen flying and knocked unconscious.

He saw Tomie Kawakami.

That timid girl who always inexplicably made him care too much.

At this moment, half of her body was a bloody mess, and she was facing him with her blood-stained face.

A pair of eyes that had lost their luster were deeply imprinted in his mind.

"...No...No—!! No—!!!"

Standing still, Amen was suddenly jolted awake from his memories.

His hand, also covered in smoke and blood, stretched out forward, leaning forward as if trying to grab something.

This posture was exactly the same as the one I remembered when he was thrown into the air.

Naturally, he caught nothing.

However, this sudden forward lean caused him to lose his balance instantly and fall forward.

"Thump!" He fell heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Suddenly, my abdomen, which had been somewhat numb, began to ache again, and my vision blurred and quickly darkened.

"...They're all...dead..."

As the final whisper faded, the entire ruins, except for wisps of smoke and scattered embers, fell into a deathly silence once more.

……

at this time.

If you raise your perspective and look down at the entire city...

You will find that along a straight line from Tokyo Bay to the city center, there are countless buildings and streets that have been completely destroyed.

Thick smoke billowed up, adding a post-apocalyptic wasteland feel to this modern metropolis that was just moments before glittering with neon lights.

At the very end of this road of ruins, you can see flashes of light on the ground from time to time, followed by explosions caused by beams of light.

Several fighter jets, leaving trails that cut through the air, circled the enormous, fish-like creature above the city.

The launch contrails were followed by a continuous barrage of missiles, which sparked bursts of fire.

However, this only earned them a few deep, chilling roars from the monster.

Wait for the smoke and dust to dissipate.

The fighter pilots quickly noticed that the monster hovering over the city had been torn open by missiles, leaving a series of wounds the size of washbasins.

However, these wounds seem insignificant compared to its enormous size, which is tens of meters long.

Aside from the blown-away and broken tentacles that were flailing around wildly, even the wounds were visibly wriggling and healing rapidly.

It's difficult to even seriously injure it, let alone kill it.

Instead, in the gaps, dozens of circular beams of light shot out from the monster's densely packed, ferocious maws and eyeballs.

The attack instantly struck a large number of fighter jets, frightening the lucky survivors who fled in panic.

"This is a flight formation! The missile bombardment failed to achieve its intended effect. We have suffered heavy losses and request to return to base!"

"To reiterate, this is a flight formation; the missile bombing failed to achieve..."

The noise and panic from the communication channels echoed continuously in the command center of the ship, which had already arrived in the bay.

In an instant, the atmosphere in the entire room became so oppressive that it felt suffocating.

Among them was a middle-aged commander in uniform, whose face was somewhat pale.

He was gripping the command platform tightly with both hands, his eyes fixed on the live footage transmitted from the center of the battlefield.

Those are Japanese fighter jets, capable of carrying the most powerful missiles.

Its explosive power is enough to raze an entire residential area to the ground; with a special warhead, it can even penetrate hundreds of meters underground.

To my utter surprise, even with all this, it was utterly useless against this monster...

at first.

When the fleet first arrived, no one felt anything was amiss.

After all, this is on this planet.

How many flesh-and-blood creatures can withstand even a burst of bullets from a regular rifle, let alone resist the large-caliber machine guns on a ship?
But what happened next completely shattered everyone's understanding.

The ground defense team's vehicle-mounted machine guns and anti-aircraft guns initially succeeded in blasting large, bloody wounds into the monsters.

Large amounts of dark purple blood and bits of flesh and skin were scattered everywhere.

However, soon.

The drone, which was raised for observation, captured the images precisely.

Those wounds, which were like mosquito bites compared to the monster's size, healed in just a few breaths.

Even at the site of the wound, a disgusting eyeball, gleaming with a ghostly purple light, suddenly opened.

But the attack continues.

Soon, the commander on the warship realized that something was wrong. He ordered the ground troops to continue the attack in order to wear down the monster's strength.

At the same time, armed helicopters and fighter jets were directly dispatched to conduct aerial interception and bombing.

Initially, after the armed helicopters climbed to a higher altitude and closed in, the small rotary machine guns and rockets they carried caused more widespread and sustained casualties than the army.

But once the weapons and ammunition are exhausted, the machine gun enters a cooling-off period.

After the smoke and dust cleared, people were shocked to discover that the skin, which had been badly damaged and occupied nearly one-tenth of the monster's size, was now intact.

It visibly distorted the moment the firepower stopped.

Deformed missile fragments and bullets, mixed with dark purple blood and chunks of flesh, fell like raindrops.

And those shattered tentacles and eyeballs, even under the watchful eyes of everyone in the command center, were captured on camera.

It wriggled like a newly hatched maggot.

It tears open directly along the wound, turning into a giant mouth, or splitting into several smaller eyeballs, and quickly recovers to its original state.

After nearly an hour of coordinated ground and air attacks, the monster's skin had almost been replaced, yet it showed no signs of fatigue or weakness.

instead.

The once smooth skin now had more gaping mouths and eyeballs opening at the wound site, and the powerful, unknown arc-shaped beams of light were being emitted more and more densely.

Soon, the ground troops were unable to raise their heads and could only spread out their lines, attacking while running.

As for the armed helicopters that were too slow or unable to react in time, they were all destroyed.

The fighter squadron successfully returned to its warship for resupply after losing nearly half of its fighters.

And just now, Japan has brought out its most powerful missile, capable of being launched.

But the result was that the monster was injured even more severely.

The earth-penetrating missile, capable of penetrating hundreds of meters of soil, successfully pierced into the body of the monster, which was tens of meters long.

The explosion from within sent a large chunk of flesh, the size of a room, flying out of the room.

It crashed to the ground with a thud, mixed with the twisted, pale bones and deep purple blood inside.

But as with many previous attacks, the larger wounds were met with the monster's swift and unrelenting healing.

And, more densely packed and twisted eyeballs and tentacles.

Due to excessive growth after the attack, the monster actually appeared to be a size larger than it was initially.

"...I'm afraid...only a nuclear bomb can destroy this monster, right?"

In the deathly silent command room, someone suddenly uttered this sentence.

However, no one responded.

Everyone looked at the image on the screen with complicated expressions.

No one spoke, but everyone present, including the middle-aged commander, instinctively wanted to avoid the question.

Looking at this monster that was completely beyond comprehension, everyone couldn't help but wonder, could a nuclear bomb really kill it?
Even if we completely disregard the millions of lives in the city below and activate a nuclear missile, can we really destroy this seemingly indestructible monster?
No one knows the answer, and no one dares to ask the question.

This suddenly appearing monster has clearly surpassed everyone's understanding of living beings.

Or rather, it can no longer be called a living organism; it seems impossible to kill, as if it were some kind of natural phenomenon.

A certain kind of natural disaster.

A natural disaster crawling over the city.

Everyone tacitly avoided the topic, remaining silent and helplessly watching the screen.

In front of the screen, the middle-aged commander's forehead was already covered in cold sweat.

They stared intently at the enormous, indescribable monster that leisurely roamed the skies above the city.

It completely ignored the attacks coming from below and all around it, and flew straight into the depths of the city.

The monster is now located in what is now central Tokyo.

At the corners of the screen, you can even see the dense crowd on the ground, like ants swarming in a rainy day.

They surged outwards rapidly along the network of streets.

Although there is no sound in the video, just seeing this scene is enough.

Everyone in the command center could almost hear the cacophony of cries and screams that sounded like the end of the world, just by imagining it.

This city has a population of over nine million.

It then expands outwards to several other adjacent districts, totaling a population of 14 million.

Men and women, young and old, rich and poor, were all caught in a race against time to escape.

However, what awaited them on their escape route was yet another ordeal from their own country...

……

At this moment, the ground forces in the city center are becoming increasingly weak.

Finally, under the successive attacks of several white beams of light from the monster, it fell into complete silence.

Only a dozen or so fighter jets remained in the sky, circling in the distance, but dared not make any rash moves.

Failed.

In just four hours today, the Kingdom of Sakura was utterly defeated by this suddenly appearing monster.

Although due to time constraints, only a fleet consisting of a single destroyer and more than 20,000 Army Self-Defense Force personnel were able to gather.

It's roughly one-fifth of the entire Sakura Army.

However, it is important to understand that it is almost impossible for a war to mobilize all of its forces.

Even in times of war, a military force of this scale would be enough to determine the life or death of a country.

Therefore, no matter from which angle you think or argue.

This time.

The Cherry Blossom Country was indeed utterly defeated by a strange fish that appeared out of nowhere.

Fortunately, things are not entirely hopeless.

Although all means have been exhausted, apart from the unusable nuclear weapons, the entire nation of Japan has no other effective countermeasures.

However, the middle-aged commander, who was still able to maintain his composure, discovered...

The monster hovering over the city doesn't seem to pose a significant threat to Sakura as a whole.

Or rather, this creature maintains a strange inertia.

The dense beams of light looked terrifying, but over those few hours, the locations that were bombarded all shared a common characteristic.

That was either the special police squad that launched an attack into the sky, or the Army Self-Defense Force that later entered the scene.

Now, after razing half of the city to the ground, the troops have either retreated or perished, the flames of the attack have gradually died down, and the frequency of the monster rays has also noticeably decreased.

It seemed that this indescribable monster, with its eyes covering its entire body, paid no attention to the densely packed crowd running on the ground.

Or perhaps, He simply didn't care.

Since the monster appeared, it seems to only react to various attacks and provocations.

At this moment, as the attacks subsided, the monster calmed down.

It maintained that speed, swaying its tentacles as it swam in a specific direction.

This seemed to remind him of something, and the middle-aged commander quickly stepped aside and went to a computer.

They pushed aside the original operators and quickly opened a satellite map of Tokyo.

His gaze quickly swept back and forth between Tokyo Bay, where the monster had initially broken through the water and taken off according to the intelligence, and the central location of the city where he was now.

Upon closer inspection, a path that is almost a straight line comes into view.

But if we extend this straight line of travel...

"...His target was the port? No, slightly off..."

The middle-aged commander, who had been staring at the map for a long time, frowned deeply, his eyes filled with doubt.

If you follow a straight line, there are no noteworthy buildings at the target location, and the nearest port is nearly 100 kilometers away.

It looks close on the map, but it's actually quite a long distance.

It seems their goal is to cross Tokyo directly and penetrate deep into the ocean on the other side...

But this doesn't explain His purpose at all, or rather, it's meaningless to try to understand a monster's thoughts with human thinking.

After examining the map again, the middle-aged officer, still clueless, could only report the marked map along with his own guesses to his superiors.

He then slowly straightened up and left his seat.

Instead of trying to investigate the monster's behavior, he looked at the camera footage that continued to track the monster and spoke in a deep voice.

"Withdraw the fighter jets, and keep only the necessary observation cameras and replacements."

As he spoke, he slowly exhaled.

"Kill status changed to observation".

Soon after the order was issued, the corresponding sergeant made a communication call to relay the latest order to the lower-level units.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged officer, with his eyes lowered and his expression unreadable, remained silent for a moment before speaking.

"How are the troops responsible for the blockade line handling things?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the liaison officer in charge of executing the plan immediately responded and reported:

"Report! Half an hour ago, the blockade was fully established, all ships and aircraft in the area have been disconnected from the network, and cover measures have been activated."

“At some major intersections, large numbers of people have gradually gathered. There have been no conflicts yet, but the situation is continuing to deteriorate.”

"Hmm..." The middle-aged officer did not turn around, but kept looking at the screen, nodding slightly and simply humming in acknowledgment.

After a moment of silence, he continued.

"According to the order issued by the cabinet, a small number of search and rescue teams will be dispatched four hours later."

"The list of personnel and their addresses has been sent to the database. The search and rescue teams that enter the area will then carry out the rescue operation according to the list."

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)