I write obituaries for the gods

Triton knelt down in front of Xileina, looking at the trembling girl with an incredibly gentle expression.

“You don’t seem to want to be devoured,” Triton said softly, “but it’s restless; it’s demanding that you be offered to Him.”

"I..."

tide Lena's hands trembled slightly.

Now that the reaction core has been easily destroyed, the "Triton" before them is clearly not a target that she and Jiang Zhengge can defeat.

Being devoured seems to be the only outcome.

If the goal is to delay Katrina's birth... it seems there's only one option left.

suicide.

But when she saw her brother's familiar face, tide Leina's lips trembled uncontrollably.

"Don't you remember?" she murmured softly, "That hurricane destroyed our home, killed my brothers and sisters, killed my mother..."

"It followed me to the Rain City, killing so many innocent people, killing the Rom Hunters, killing..."

tide Lena closed her eyes

"...you."

“I don’t remember,” Triton shook his head. “I was born in a culture tank and have no memory of it.”

"But you remember me..."

"yes..."

Triton scratched his head.

"That's strange, I remember you, why is that?"

Terry was deep in thought, his brow furrowed slightly, like a confused child.

“The entity is urging me to give the order to allow it to devour you,” Triton said, gently rubbing his temples. “It believes that if you die, the next arrival will be a very, very long time away, and it doesn’t want that to happen…”

Xilena didn't speak; she simply stared directly into Triton's eyes—her brother's eyes.

Triton's expression grew increasingly agitated. He rubbed his temples more and more frequently, until it was almost like scratching. His bluish-gray skin cracked and bled.

“No, this isn’t right,” he whispered. “I should…protect my sister, but that goes against orders…”

“Brother…” tide Leina whispered.

She struggled to her feet and reached out her hand to Triton.

As the hand drew closer, the struggle on Triton's face became increasingly apparent.

His pupils gleamed with a deep blue light, and the surrounding space began to stir.

Just then, a furious roar rang out:

"Ahhhh!"

tide Lena turned around abruptly and saw Wu Hao struggling to stand up and pull out a pistol.

He set his sights on Triton!

Driven by grief and anger at losing his lover, he pulled the trigger the moment when the enemy was least likely to be on guard!

"Oh!"

At that moment, time seemed to stand still.

When Triton came to his senses, he saw blood splattered on his chest.

It wasn't his blood.

It is the blood of blood relatives.

tide Lena stood up and used her back to shield Triton from the gunshot.

Stripped of her powers, she was just a mortal, and a 9mm bullet could easily pierce her skin and embed itself in her flesh.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Wu Hao fired several shots in quick succession, and several bursts of blood erupted from tide Leina's back.

"Haa..."

"Stop! You're insane!"

Jiang Zhengge punched Wu Hao to the ground, then grabbed Wu Hao's wrist to prevent him from firing again.

"You can't hurt that demigod! You'll kill her!"

"So what!" Wu Hao roared, "She summoned a hurricane! Didn't you hear me?! She killed your parents! So many people! She killed them all!"

"She killed Xiao Fang too!"

With all his might, Wu Hao pushed Jiang Zhengge away and raised his gun at tide Leina once again.

But this time, he was met with a surging sonic wave—

"boom!!"

Triton raised his hand and blasted Wu Hao and Jiang Zhengge away.

At the same time, a gash appeared on his forehead, and a tentacle emerged, shaking violently.

Along with this, the thousands of tentacles also became active—

The multi-eyed sirens are starting to get out of control!

Sensing that Xilena was about to die, they began to rebel against Triton, trying to break free from its control and devour Xilena!

Through her blurred vision, Xileina saw the tentacles surging down like an overwhelming force!

At that moment, a figure tightly protected her.

"..."

It is Triton.

He used his body to block the Sirens' attack, and the tentacles slammed into his back, leaving wounds.

The wounds—my brother has countless scars on his back.

From childhood to adulthood, he has always been like this, protecting tide Leina without hesitation, and engraving the least romantic aspects of life on his back.

Why did you take a bullet for me?

A familiar face asked tide Leina in an unfamiliar tone.

"You know that thing can't hurt me."

"because..."

Xileina smiled at Triton.

“You’ve always protected me like this,” she whispered.

Upon hearing this, the deep blue in Triton's eyes flashed intensely.

His lips twitched a few times, and a violent emotion gradually welled up in his heart.

"I said, that's enough!"

Triton's scales suddenly opened, unleashing a torrent of wind blades that instantly tore apart the tentacles that were attacking him.

He shielded Xileina behind him, then manipulated the raging winds to tear apart the Foundation's containment facility—

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Jiang Zhengge wanted to go forward to save tide Leina, but a series of violent wind blades forced him back.

The turmoil created by the battle between the demigod and the Beta-level entity is destroying the structure of the Abyss!

Jiang Zhengge gritted his teeth, roared, and charged forward, trying to get through those wind blades.

But he had only taken a few steps forward when everything went black and he lost consciousness.

.......

"Beep...beep..."

When Jiang Zhengge awoke, he found himself lying in an escape pod.

At this moment, the escape pod was shaking violently.

Jiang Zhengge immediately guessed that he was flying away from the Black Abyss.

"Do not..."

He struggled to his feet and looked out the window.

He saw the upside-down giant tree—the multi-eyed siren had completely breached the facility, its enormous tentacles blotting out the sky, and the demigod hovered in the air, manipulating wind blades to fight it.

"tide Lena, not yet..."

"Give up. With that demigod protecting her, you won't be able to take her away."

An unfamiliar female voice came from behind him. Jiang Zhengge turned his head and saw a woman in a black suit with a serious expression standing behind him.

Wu Hao lay at her feet as the woman maneuvered the escape pod away from the Black Abyss.

"Who are you..." Jiang Zhengge asked weakly.

"Your direct superior sent me to rescue them, but unfortunately I arrived too late. The children on the ocean liner fought to the very last moment."

Meng Po looked at Jiang Zhengge, who was covered in wounds, with an indifferent expression.

"Get some sleep," Meng Po said. "You've done enough today."

A violent wave of drowsiness washed over Jiang Zhengge, and his consciousness gradually faded.

Before everything completely plunged into darkness, the last thing he saw was a pair of deep blue eyes.

......

Chapter 53 War is Imminent

"The operation was ultimately brought to a close by the Secret Party. During the subsequent investigation, it was discovered that Xiao Fang had sent a distress signal to Director Hua Molan before he died."

"Hua Molan immediately sought help from the Secret Party, but by the time Meng Po arrived, it was too late."

Jiang Zhengge finished his cigarette and casually tossed it into the rain outside the window.

“tide Lena was marked missing during that operation. Afterwards, the Foundation and the Bureau of Investigation held a meeting and agreed to keep the incident confidential.”

"Why keep it a secret?" Lin Chen didn't understand.

He remembered that Wu Hao chose to leave the investigation bureau because of the secrecy surrounding this incident, which resulted in the needless sacrifice of his teammates.

“Because the existence of the Abyss is too sensitive,” Jiang Zhengge sighed. “The Foundation shared intelligence that this is the birthplace of the multi-eyed sirens, but not the only one. There are many similar ruins. It’s all a scheme set up by the entity codenamed Katrina in an attempt to invade the real world.”

"Imagine the panic that would be caused if this information were released. In addition, the Foundation's containment facilities did objectively control the siren in the Abyss, delaying the arrival of the disaster, so the negotiations were ultimately successful."

“But those who died…” Li Zhanyi murmured.

Jiang Zhengge closed his eyes.

“I also questioned Hua Molan,” he said in a low voice, “and the answer I got was that even if we were to hold the foundation accountable, it couldn’t be done at the expense of destabilizing the situation.”

"Because of anger, the truth is released, causing a lot of panic. And then what? Sirens also feed on accumulated emotions, which will only hasten their return."

"Furthermore, the Foundation has pledged to train demigods to target aquatic entities such as the multi-eyed sirens and deploy them in the next crisis."

"Before we knew it, it was 2016."

Jiang Zhengge stared at the blurry windshield, and the past seemed to replay itself once again.

"The multi-eyed sirens invaded Rain City, and Triton defeated them..." Lin Chen remembered that Jiang Zhengge had mentioned this a long time ago.

Jiang Zhengge nodded:

"The sirens were indeed suppressed by Triton, including on the night of the whaler operation, when a siren awoke from the abyss and was immediately killed by Triton."

"Whether it was a show or not, Triton's suppression of the Sirens is beyond doubt."

"Later, I speculated that Triton was originally just a demigod body used to control the Sirens' actions. When Xilena awakened something in his consciousness, he began to rebel against his fate and devoured an entire Siren."

"After discovering that this method was effective, the Foundation must have arranged many experiments to have him devour sirens. Eventually, his abilities reached the undisputed Alpha level."

"Then came the show the Foundation put on for the entire Rain City in 2016—a demigod killed a monster that was about to destroy the city."