A god-tier fishing spot, anglers lined up to give me money.

Just when everyone at the central base thought victory was assured, two deafening explosions rang out.

The cheering anglers fell silent, and almost simultaneously everyone turned to look in the direction from which the sound came.

Three hundred kilometers away, two mushroom clouds, seemingly existing on the east and west sides, appeared out of nowhere.

A grayish-white column of clouds rises from the horizon, its top expanding to form a circular cloud crown with a dark red inner flame.

Flowers bloomed above the clouds.

Everyone at the Central Base: 😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯.....

The people who were just cheering with their poles raised their arms.

The person who was still patting his companion on the shoulder withdrew his hand. The person sitting on the wall, panting, stood up and looked in that direction. Everyone had their mouths open, but no one made a sound.

Although the shockwave from the nuclear explosion traveled 300 kilometers, it had already weakened into a very slight wind pressure by the time it reached here.

But that chilling aura that seeped into your bones was more terrifying than any direct impact.

The two clouds that symbolize the enduring life of heaven and earth were only used twice, and those two times they shocked the world.

They had seen it in textbooks and online, but never in the real sky.

...

The door to the command room was suddenly flung open, and Zeng Tianguo dragged his exhausted body out.

The bandages hadn't even been properly wrapped, and blood was still seeping from the wound, but he seemed completely oblivious to the pain.

His gaze was fixed on the two mushroom clouds that were rising on the east and west sides, seemingly sharing the same heaven and earth.

His hands, gripping the railing so tightly that the veins bulged and the bones stood out, forced out a voice filled with extreme anger: "How dare they... how dare they!!!"

"Cough cough cough..."

Overwhelmed with anger and anxiety, his chest heaved violently. "Tens of thousands of lives! How dare they..."

Zeng Tianguo raised his wrist, and the communication interface of the smartwatch popped up in front of him.

Two calls were made in quick succession, and in the first answer, Michael's face appeared on the screen.

The background is inside the cabin, with the sky rushing past the window.

The second scene immediately follows, showing Protin's bushy beard taking up most of the screen, and he is also inside a plane in flight.

"you,"

Zeng Tianguo stared at the two faces on the screen, emphasizing each word, "How dare you?"

Michael leaned back in his chair, his face weary and resigned: "Old Zeng, I did my best. Those two fish kings... Alas, the Great Wall of the Boundary Sea ultimately failed to hold. Since it couldn't be held, those anglers should stay there and perish!"

Zeng Tianguo clenched his fists: "Then why didn't you die there?"

Michael was silent for a few seconds, then spoke, his voice cold: "Hmph, my life is not comparable to those of ordinary anglers. Old Zeng, I advise you to leave quickly. Your life is more precious than theirs. Retreat when you should, don't stay until the last moment."

Protin chimed in, "Old Zeng, the east has fallen, the west has fallen, there's no point in defending the center anymore, just retreat!"

Michael: "That's all I wanted to say. I hope we'll meet again someday!"

Communication was lost.

The instant the light screen went black, Zeng Tianguo stood still, closed his eyes, and gazed at the sky at a 45-degree angle.

Just then, footsteps began to appear on the platform behind him.

Gu Hua, Ye Fan, Tang Xuan, Zhang Daolin, Alavanga, Yue Houshan and others gathered from different directions.

Eleven people stood behind Zeng Tianguo, watching the two mushroom clouds that seemed to symbolize the enduring life of heaven and earth slowly dissipating in the distance.

silence…

After a long silence, Zhang Daolin stepped forward, his brows furrowed deeply: "Heaven, what's going on? How dare Michael and Protin release nuclear weapons without authorization? This thing..."

"...Used in such a place, abnormal energy fluctuations would be detected globally, and the secret of the Great Wall of the Boundary Sea could not be concealed at all."

"It's too late."

Zeng Tianguo turned around, his gaze sweeping over everyone behind him. "Everyone, organize an evacuation immediately! Now, right now, begin!"

Alavanga: "Withdraw now? The defenses can still hold out..."

"We can't hold it anymore." Zeng Tianguo interrupted him, "Two nuclear bombs will completely shatter the Great Wall of the Boundary Sea, and the central base will also become ineffective."

Moreover, the radioactive material in the seawater will spread to the waters surrounding the central base within a few hours via ocean currents. Those living behemoths, stimulated by radiation, will only attack the defenses more frantically and uncontrollably. We are no longer facing a simple beast tide, but a massive mutated school of fish contaminated by nuclear radiation. The walls in the central base won't hold for long. Everyone, evacuate if you can.

Yue Houshan stood at the back of the crowd and left immediately.

Gu Hua and Ye Fan exchanged a glance, then simultaneously turned and walked towards the defensive line.

Tang Xuan clasped his hands and chanted: "Amitabha, you have committed many sins, this old monk will seek justice for them."

Zhang Daolin was extremely frustrated. He wasn't afraid of god-like opponents, but he was afraid of pig-like teammates, especially two pigs.

He couldn't stand it, so he said, "Baldy, when you're performing the ritual to help them pass on, call me along."

Alavanga clenched his fist, then exhaled and followed Gu Hua down the road.

The 11 people dispersed one after another to carry out the evacuation orders.

Zeng Tianguo returned to the command center and turned on all the broadcasts. At the same time, he announced: "Gentlemen, the west and the east have fallen. Nuclear weapons... Evacuate! Everyone, leave in an orderly manner."

"Repeat: The Great Wall at the Boundary Sea has fallen. Everyone, evacuate in an orderly manner!"

The moment the broadcast ended, the entire central base was devastated.

"Withdraw, withdraw! Victory is in sight. If we're allowed to withdraw, then all our desperate efforts will be a joke."

"Those cowards in the east, those softies in the west!" A burly man covered in wounds kicked over a tentacle. "Two nuclear bombs and we're completely cut off from our retreat! Damn it, East and West, why didn't you say you couldn't hold out? If you had, I wouldn't be here cleaning up their mess!"

"Let's go. We've used nuclear weapons. The Great Wall of the Boundary Sea is completely destroyed."

"To hell with the East and West ministries, those damn high-ranking officials! They can blow up tens of thousands of lives like that. Why don't those two bastards, Michael and Protin, blow themselves up?"

"Stop cursing, stop cursing, let's get out of here! The general said to evacuate in an orderly manner."

"Yes, yes, thank goodness our commander in the central region is Zeng Tianguo, otherwise everyone would know whether that mushroom cloud would explode right at our feet."

"Don't push, don't push,..."

The crowd began to surge, filled with curses and urging, creating complete chaos.

The entire evacuation team from the central base headed towards the airport.

……

Rewind to before the nuclear explosion.

While everyone in the central base thought victory was assured, the west and east had become a living hell.

The western region was breached by two 500,000-jin (250,000 kg) snakefish, each with its four legs pointing upwards.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of mudskippers, stingrays, and other giant creatures that can move briefly on land climbed onto the strong shore.

The anglers on the wall used all their fishing techniques based on the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth) to no avail.

The giant creature that climbs on it kills the chicks like a baby, one bite for one child, and two bites even fight each other.

Before a fisherman in a gray combat uniform could even utter a second cry, he was snapped in half by a giant mouth.

Its lower body was hanging on the wall, while its upper body was swallowed into the giant mouth.

Another angler rushed over and grabbed his arm, and then a four-legged snakefish with its hook swept in from the side and was thrown into the chaotic group of giants.

"what……"

My heart was pounding, and I watched helplessly as my insides were hollowed out and I was devoured alive.

There were countless ways to die like this, amidst screams and the sounds of chaos...

Despair? No, that's not the most desperate situation. They are still fighting a bloody battle, while the higher-ups, Michael, have resolutely abandoned them.

Boarding and running away, beep beep beep... plane takes off!

They believed until their deaths that their general was still fighting...

The western base has fallen.

Giant creatures like snakefish, octopus sharks, and whale sharks swept across the Great Wall, leaving ordinary anglers who couldn't escape in time.

A young fishing master was bitten on both arms by two four-legged snakefish at the same time.

He was lifted into the air, and as his body was pulled by the two enormous objects, his left arm was torn off from the shoulder along with the tendons.

Immediately afterwards, his right arm was also severed from his body, followed by his torso being cut in half at the waist.

As the intestines spilled out, the two snakefish jostled and grabbed them, pulling them in different directions.

The blood flowed down in a long stream.

Its head rolled off the severed neck, its expression still showing an open mouth as if it wanted to scream.

There were severed limbs and heads everywhere.

Bloodstains appeared in patches, blooming like flowers, their fragrance a bloody scent, patches of reddish-brown in varying shades.

Even worse, a giant octopus whale circled around the side of the wall, its eight tentacles reaching out from the front of its body and grabbing four anglers at the same time.

It slams them together in mid-air, then opens its mouth and bites the upper body of the person in front.

The skull was fractured.

Nearby, an elderly fisherman, in despair, clutched explosives and used his last strength to detonate his stockpile.

The blast wave ripped off the front half of the nearest giants, but the ones behind immediately filled the gap.

His existence had been completely erased in that ball of fire.

The situation at the eastern base was only getting worse. Protin stood on the edge of the command platform, watching the defensive line below being torn apart.

The largest crack in the wall had been smashed open by the swarm of giant objects, creating a gap nearly ten meters long.

Seawater poured in through the breach, washing away the equipment that hadn't yet been removed from the platform, causing it to tilt and fall.

Several smaller octopus whales had already squeezed in through the opening.

Their tentacles cannot stretch out in the narrow passages, but their meat grinder-like biting force is equally deadly in close contact.

A fisherman, submerged in waist-deep water, had his neck entangled by the tentacles of an octopus whale.

As he struggled, he reached for a short blade beside him and stabbed it into the base of the tentacle. The octopus whale hissed and released him as the blade pierced through.

But as soon as he stood up, he was tackled underwater by another, even larger octopus whale.

Blood bubbles continued to rise on the sea surface, then the water calmed down, leaving only a constantly swirling tentacle slowly stirring the ice shards.

……

Protin, seeing all this, still had a conscience and couldn't bear it.

But he had little conscience left; half of it had been devoured by a dog. His adjutant beside him tugged at his sleeve, pulling him towards the plane, and urgently said, "General, let's go! We can't hold out any longer!"

"While they are still resisting, we still have a chance to escape."

"Sigh, those are all our soldiers!"

Protin closed his eyes briefly, then turned around without hesitation and boarded the plane.

That departure was swift and decisive, faster, more accurate, and ruthless than dumping your partner 😇...

But once up there, she pretended to be reluctant to leave, turning her head to look at the window.

Seeing the horrific scene below, the plane took off...

The eastern base was thus lost.

The massive objects that had poured in through the cracks in the wall began to spread into the interior.

A seven-meter-long, upside-down snakefish chased two running anglers into the base's corridor.

The short limbs move faster in this enclosed space, twisting and moving forward quickly.

The two anglers ran behind the blast door at the end and closed the gate. The loud thud of the snakefish's head hitting the metal door caused both of them to collapse to the ground.

But the next second, the blast door was smashed open from the outside by another huge object from the other side.

……

Then, the lights went out, the person died, and only two piles of blood-stained writings remained.

After the defenses were breached, a large number of surviving ordinary anglers began to flock towards the central base.

Some of them were wearing torn uniforms, while others were running barefoot on the ice, carrying backpacks swollen from being soaked in seawater.

The group on the ice field grew longer and longer, from a sparse dozen or so people to waves of refugees.

A giant creature is chasing from behind, and an unknown danger lurks ahead, its safety uncertain.

What they didn't know was that the higher-ups who had fled had never intended to let them go from the very beginning.

Michael leaned back in his cabin seat, looking out the window at the rapidly receding clouds and ice fields.

His gaze drifted aimlessly downwards, then he sat up slightly.

A large number of people were seen fleeing towards the central base. Michael stared at those figures for a few seconds, then unceremoniously connected to Protin's communication.

"Did you see those fishermen fleeing the disaster?"

The camera switched to Protin's view, showing his face on the screen against a backdrop of dim lighting inside the cabin.

He nodded: "I saw it."

The two remained silent, while the ant-like figures on the ice below continued to move.

"If they go to the central region, they'll tell everyone about our desertion."

"If the news gets out that the supreme commander deserted in the face of battle, our political careers will be over."

Protin tapped his fingers twice on the armrest, looking at Michael's expressionless face on the screen: "What do you mean?"

"Only the dead would keep a secret and dispose of the rest?"

Michael continued, "The only way to wipe them out is with nuclear weapons, leaving no survivors."

Upon hearing this, Protin leaned back: "Macser, I never expected you to be so heartless."

"Likewise, likewise!"

"The shockwave from a nuclear explosion," Michael continued, "is wide enough to cover the entire area. If even one person survives, I'll admit defeat. How about it, are you in?"

"We absolutely have to do it."

The two hit it off.

The moving black dots on the ice field below had no idea what was about to happen and were still desperately trying to escape.

...

Michael immediately pulled a red flip button from his briefcase.

He glanced at Protin on the screen one last time, and Protin nodded slightly at him.

When two people press the flip cover with their thumbs at the same time, the protective cover pops open with a slight click.

The circular button underneath is exposed.

"Time it," MacArthur said.

Protin's thumb hovered half an inch above the button: "Three."

"two."

"one."

Both of their thumbs fell at the same time.

...

boom.

A mushroom cloud, symbolizing the enduring power of heaven and earth, appears!

In the distance, on the ice field below the plane, the horizons in both the east and west directions began to light up simultaneously.

A scorching white light seeped from the edges of the ground, engulfing the moving figures and their shadows on the ice field in the same instant.

Before anyone could even turn their head, they were already enveloped by the expanding light.

Michael leaned back in his seat and pulled down the sunshade of the porthole. Then he adjusted the seat to a more reclined position and closed his eyes to rest.

Protin also cut off communication, and after the light screen went dark, only the low hum of the engine remained in the cabin.

And the sliver of white light seeping through the edge of the sunshade from outside the window as the light recedes into the distance.