Quick Transmigration and Childbirth: The Target is Not Human

Xia Yangyang held a long pole with a long line attached to the end, from which hung a bundle of red threadworms. Her light blue cloak fluttered on the back of the large lanternfish.

She turned to look at the seabed—

The once vibrant coral reefs are now dull and lifeless, as if they have lost their color.

In the seaweed forest, the leaves that used to sway joyfully now hang heavily.

The once carefree fish were now filled with unease; their scales had lost their luster, and their eyes revealed a deep fear.

The ocean currents became erratic, turning from gentle currents into raging beasts that churned and whipped up layers of sand and dust, obscuring visibility.

Xia Yangyang lowered her head, gripping the long pole tightly in her hand: [If I hadn't been so insistent on keeping Ian, would none of this have happened?]

The system paused, then replied: [Don't blame yourself, Master. No one can predict the future. You made the best choice you could at the time.]

Xia Yangyang: [How's Victor doing?]

The system is hard to describe in words: [Let's watch it together.]

The system shares the playback screen.

Human military base... oh no, to be precise, it's more like a pile of factory ruins.

Several enormous mechanical claws gripped his left and right arms. His body was covered in blood and gore, making it impossible to recognize his original appearance. Only the tentacle patterns pressed into the ground by the mechanical claws could be used to identify him.

A red-haired woman in a white coat came out, holding a pocket watch, and said something to Victor.

The pocket watch hung in front of his eyes, swaying from side to side.

Victor opened his mouth and said something sarcastic, as always, sharp and arrogant. The red-haired woman smiled and put the pocket watch away.

Then, Ian was lifted up.

Xia Yangyang's expression changed immediately. Her lips tightened, and she stared intently at the moving transparent experimental box, almost as if she wanted to climb into the screen.

Victor's reaction was almost identical to hers.

Little Ian slept with a furrowed brow, clearly in pain and uneasy.

On its fair chest, a bloody hole was clearly visible, as if the ocean heart that had long slept there had been cut out.

The red-haired woman held Ian in her arms.

After that, no matter what they did to Victor, he did not resist.

Xia Yangyang stared at the screen, her eyes reddening, her fingernails digging deep into her flesh as she clenched her fist.

This was the first time the system had seen its host display such a frightened expression, and it quickly reassured him: "Don't worry! Ian isn't in any immediate danger. Think about it, Ian is humanity's trump card in controlling Victor; we won't let anything happen to him!"

Xia Yangyang: [Is there anything that can temporarily restore my physical strength? No, something that can enhance my physical strength.]

The system looked bitter: [Even with enhanced physical abilities, what then? Victor is so strong, yet he was still captured. Humans have laid an inescapable trap; rescuing them is far too difficult.]

If it were just biological genetic tissue, that would be fine, but now biological tissue is being combined with military bases.

There is also a psychopathic doctor who suddenly died and came back to life.

She's just a living, breathing person; how could she possibly break through the encirclement and rescue two more people?

The future is uncertain, and it's all too late.

Xia Yangyang lowered her head, shrouded in gloom. After a long while, a smile played on her lips, and she said in a hoarse voice, "[No, there is a way.]"

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Xia Yangyang: [No matter how many traps they set, they never imagined there would be two Victors in this world.]

The system was taken aback: [What?]

Xia Yangyang looked at it and just smiled.

The system suddenly slapped its forehead: "Ah! Teleportation! How could I not have thought of that!"

In fact, she didn't need to put in much effort. All she had to do was take back Ian, release Victor, and return the Heart of the Ocean to the sea.

The rest...

Humans don't really believe that they can contend with the Ocean Lords without Ian as a restraint.

Xia Yangyang was fishing for lanternfish, heading north.

But for some reason, the lanternfish suddenly became unruly and swam straight south, no matter how Xia Yangyang tried to catch it with bloodworms.

Xia Yangyang struggled with the fish for a long time, sweating profusely: [Let's try another one, this fish must be stupid.]

The system didn't respond, so Xia Yangyang repeated it again, but still received no reply. However, she felt the system pat her shoulder.

The system gasped, using the softest possible tone to avoid startling her:

[Master...look down...]

The image of the swaying pocket watch flashed through Xia Yangyang's mind, and her ominous premonition gradually grew stronger.

She looked down at her feet, and the underwater world had fallen into an eerie silence.

A massive sperm whale swam slowly past her feet, like a moving, silent castle.

In the deep, boundless ocean, countless marine creatures, from tiny plankton to tribal pods of killer whales, are all swimming southward.

Their eyes lost their former liveliness, as if hypnotized by some mysterious force, and they formed neat rows, creating a vast and eerie migration.

Xia Yangyang tensed up and gazed towards the distant south.

There stands a majestic underwater mountain range, its outline faintly visible in the dark waters, like a sleeping giant.

The system suddenly emitted a siren: [Warning! World collapse crisis triggered! Host, please initiate rescue immediately! Host, please initiate rescue immediately!]

Xia Yangyang gripped the lanternfish's fin tightly: [What's on that mountain?]

System: [That's not a mountain, that's a torpedo...]

Xia Yangyang was stunned.

The system continued: "[That's a torpedo powerful enough to destroy the entire ocean floor.]"

Xia Yangyang processed the meaning of those words for a moment, and when she understood, her eyes slowly widened: [Who released it? Humans? Are they crazy? Without the underwater world, Earth's civilization will perish!]

The system nodded, then shook its head: [The problem isn't there. The problem is... near the human seawall, Victor had explosives planted along the entire continental dike.]

Xia Yangyang's eyes widened even more than before: [Has he gone mad too?!]

A scene suddenly flashed through her mind: a month ago, Victor was holding Ian and giving her a meaningful, cold smile.

As for you... Xia Yangyang, I'll make you watch helplessly as the ocean engulfs the land. Humanity... heh heh...

So, when he says "submerge," he means destroying human-made dikes—inundating the land?!

In other words.

Once the torpedo explodes, the gunpowder on the dike will detonate sequentially, causing the dike to collapse and the ocean to flood the land...

Both land and sea will face annihilation at the same time!

Xia Yangyang and the system both gasped for air.

Xia Yangyang: [This absolutely cannot be allowed to happen; we must stop the procession from moving forward...]

If the team doesn't arrive, then humanity certainly won't press the detonation button, and there's always room for maneuver.

But her strength alone is like a drop in the ocean.

How can we stop it...?

Xia Yangyang frowned, her bitten lips turning white.

"Whoosh—!" A sound of a whip whistling through the air came from behind.

Xia Yangyang's neck was wrapped three times with a leather whip, and her body fell uncontrollably off the lanternfish, crashing onto a much larger, fishy-smelling body.

It was a giant manta ray that was over five meters long.

I had difficulty breathing, and my neck was burning from being strangled.

"Now I understand why Victor is so relentlessly pursuing you, with such a complex mix of love and hate. He underestimated you." Before anyone could be seen, a beautiful voice rang out.

The whip loosened, and black tentacles wrapped around Xia Yangyang's neck, the tips of which lifted her chin in an extremely flirtatious manner.

Xia Yangyang was taken aback when she saw the black witch walking towards her, and then her eyes lit up quickly.

She wasn't hypnotized?

The Black Witch crouched down, her contemptuous gaze finally turning serious.

She parted her lips, revealing crimson lips like vibrant camellias: "Your delicate and petite appearance is truly capable of deceiving the enemy."