Reborn as a tiger, he was chosen by the nation as its guardian beast.

Chapter 105 Arrival at the South China Sea, Cui Jiuyou's Plan

After some introductions on the helicopter, Wang Hu quickly became familiar with the team members. However, since they were all unfamiliar with each other, they ran out of things to say after a few simple words.

Wang Hu sized up these "colleagues" who might be going on missions together in the future.

Fang Zheng was like an iron tower, sitting there motionless.

Wang Ye closed his eyes, seemingly trying to regulate his breathing, but his slightly trembling eyelashes betrayed his unsettled state of mind.

The twin sisters, Li Qingyi and Li Ziyi, hadn't uttered a single word since boarding the plane, remaining as quiet as two exquisite porcelain dolls.

The atmosphere is a bit dull.

Feeling a bit bored, Wang Hu took out his phone again.

The entire cabin couldn't help but be drawn to it out of the corner of their eyes.

They were all very curious about what this master, who could rival Lord Long, would do to pass the time on his way to the battlefield.

Are you studying mission materials? Or are you closing your eyes to meditate and adjust your state?

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Wang Hu skillfully unlocked the screen and then tapped an icon.

Familiar music began to play.

"Welcome to the King's Canyon."

Wang Ye's eye twitched slightly.

The sisters, Li Qingyi and Li Ziyi, also looked completely taken aback.

This is quite different from the style they imagined.

Wang Hu completely ignored the gazes of these people. He opened the ranked match and then looked up and glanced around.

He raised his phone and typed a few words on the screen.

"Five-player squad, looking to climb the ranks."

Wang Ye couldn't help but come closer, his face filled with disbelief.

"Big Cat—you, you still play this?"

Wang Hu glanced at him, said nothing, but simply pushed his phone screen forward again, displaying his gleaming King rank.

Wang Ye's breath hitched.

He himself was just a diamond goalkeeper.

Moreover, this was before he awakened his extraordinary abilities; after that, he rarely fought.

But now, seeing Wang Hu's screen, he was immediately intrigued.

"I'll do it, I'm a pro at jungling!" Wang Ye immediately pulled out his phone.

Li Qingyi and Li Ziyi exchanged a glance and silently took out their phones.

Opportunities to play ranked matches against a top player like Wang Hu are rare.

"I—we'll go down the road," the two said.

As for the top lane position, it ultimately went to Li Shitou, who has thick eyebrows and big eyes.

What Wang Hu didn't expect was that this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who looked honest and unassuming, was also a King-level player, just like Wang Hu.

Clearly, he's been secretly ranking up quite a bit.

For a moment, only Cui Jiuyuan and Fang Zheng, two "outsiders," remained in the cabin.

Fang Zheng's honest face was full of struggle. He looked at his big fist, then at his phone, and finally shook his head. His fingers were too thick; he couldn't handle such delicate work.

Cui Jiuyuan watched the group of young people with a smile, not only not stopping them, but also becoming an audience member with great interest.

And so, a hastily formed "Nine Cauldrons Black Team" was born on a helicopter bound for a military base.

Time flies when you're playing games.

Soon they transferred to a large military transport plane and flew to an altitude of 10,000 meters.

After more than ten hours of flight, the plane slowly began to descend.

Wang Hu looked out the porthole.

Below lies the boundless deep blue sea, and in the distance, the outline of an island covered by military facilities becomes increasingly clear.

A massive fleet of ships, all gray in color, stood silently in the naval port like steel behemoths, exuding a chilling aura just by looking at them.

"Is that one of our Chinese destroyers? It's huge—" Wang Hu couldn't help but exclaim in his heart.

He was somewhat lost in thought as he looked at it.

This was the first time he had ever seen such a magnificent fleet in real life.

This thing must be pretty expensive, right? I wonder how big a crater it would create with just one shell.

And what about aircraft carriers?

Didn't they say that China already has four or five aircraft carriers?

This base is so big, how come I didn't see an aircraft carrier? That thing is really cool.

The plane landed smoothly and quickly.

The moment the cabin door opened, a gust of hot, humid sea breeze rushed in.

A commander in his fifties was already waiting on the tarmac. His skin was tanned bronze by the sea breeze, but there was a lingering weariness between his brows.

Upon seeing Cui Jiuyuan, he immediately stepped forward to salute, and then got straight to the point.

"Director Cui, you've finally arrived."

"On Yellowstone Island, where that extraordinary plant is located, the spiritual energy has been gathering more and more terrifyingly lately, and there's also a strange fragrance wafting from it. I'm afraid we'll have results soon, and we probably can't wait any longer—"

Upon hearing the commander's words, Cui Jiuyou frowned and asked, "What's the giant whale doing now?"

Upon hearing Cui Jiuyou's words, the commander led the group directly to the base's command center.

A huge screen covering an entire wall displays a real-time dynamic map of a vast sea area.

The commander pointed to an area highlighted in red in the center of the map and spoke in a deep voice.

"As before, any ship that approaches that island will be attacked."

"And now it's not just that island anymore."

The commander drew a huge circle on the screen with his finger, encompassing the surrounding sea area for hundreds of miles.

"This area is now its territory. Its subordinates, those mutated whales, have completely sealed off this place."

He paused, then pulled up a video.

The video shows more than a dozen warships battling a pod of extraordinary whales, with cannon fire booming and giant columns of sea spouts shooting into the sky.

The commander continued, "Two days ago, the Libyans, unwilling to give up, tried to break through again, relying on their powerful backers."

"As a result, another warship was lost, and both the crew and the ship were used to feed the fish."

Upon hearing this, Cui Jiuyuan's brows furrowed into a deep frown.

He knew better than anyone how difficult it was to deal with such a behemoth entrenched in the sea.

These creatures are enormous, and in the deep sea, ordinary shells and torpedoes can cause them very little damage.

The leading superhuman blue whale was incredibly cunning. After nearly a year of observation and probing, it seemed to have figured out the human navy's combat methods, knew which weapons posed the greatest threat to it, and knew how to evade them.

Moreover, it can create towering waves, fire water jets with the power of heavy artillery, and even generate huge underwater whirlpools.

If relations were to truly break down and strategic weapons were used, not to mention the potential exposure of our hand, if a decisive blow could not be delivered, then China would have gained another powerful and irreconcilable enemy in the South China Sea.

At that point, the South China Sea will likely never have peace again.

The price is too high.

Cui Jiuyuan remained silent for a long time before slowly turning around and turning his gaze to Wang Hu.

"Big Cat, it seems you'll have to work hard this time."

His voice wasn't loud, but it drew everyone's attention in the command center to the tiger.

"Among extraordinary beings, the most simple and direct law of the jungle applies."

"If we want it to sit down and talk to us, we must first show it enough power to overwhelm it."

"Moreover, it must be a force that it can understand, not these cold airplanes and cannons."

Upon hearing this, Wang Hu immediately understood.

This means he has to go and fight that whale one-on-one until it submits.

He raised his paw, quickly typed a line of text on his phone, and handed it to Cui Jiuyuan.

"I'm a tiger, not a shark. The sea is its territory; how can I fight it?"

Upon seeing the words on his phone, Cui Jiuyuan couldn't help but laugh.

He walked up to the huge military map in the command center, stretched out his finger, and pointed at it.

"Who said you were supposed to go to the sea and fight it?"

Cui Jiuyuan's fingers landed steadily on the isolated island where extraordinary plants had been born.

"Our battlefield is not in the sea."

"And here."

"What we need to seize is the extraordinary plant, not to fight him to the death in the sea. As long as we can hold onto this island, the initiative will naturally be on our side."