Chapter 025 Is it an inherent attribute of God to like gold?
Under the pitch-black night, the churning seawater was like thick black ink, and it roared strangely with the strong wind.
At this moment, a huge fleet was constantly rising and falling in the waves. In the command room of the aircraft carrier at the head, an old man in military uniform looked at the ocean ahead with a serious look on his face.
"Has the satellite locked onto the target?"
"General, the satellite has tracked the target area, and the underwater radar has locked the target!"
After receiving a positive answer from his assistant, the old man known as the general nodded, and then looked again at the fuzzy huge "monster" on the computer screen at hand.
In this satellite photo taken from the sky, the outline of this emerging creature looks a bit like a giant whale commonly seen in the ocean, but its body is covered with ferocious bone spurs.
Right in front of the head, there are more than ten strange scarlet eyes densely distributed.
Near its underwater abdomen, five or six huge tentacles can be vaguely seen, just like whales and squids mixed together, and many strange things are added to form an evil monster.
"What the hell is this?"
The general's heart was heavy.
As a member of the country's top leadership, he is naturally aware of the strange events that have occurred around the world a while ago.
In a specific area, humans first fell into a widespread coma, and then some humans mutated into man-eating monsters for unknown reasons, attacking other humans crazily and irrationally.
According to the current situation, it seems that the mutated people are mostly art practitioners and various criminals.
Especially those weird modern and post-modern artists, as long as they are in the mutation zone, basically none of them can escape the fate of mutation.
People can mutate, so... what about animals?
This is a problem that almost all high-level officials realize immediately. You must know that there are many more animals than humans!
However, at the beginning, no examples of animal mutations were found anywhere. Judging from the intelligence secretly obtained from various countries, mutation events in other countries seemed to be limited to humans.
However, just two days ago, the United States satellite accidentally took this photo.
For the sake of the future of mankind, he must determine what is happening with this monster, whether it is a product of nature or an accident, or whether it is the first animal mutant discovered by humans.
"General, the target is currently floating under fifty meters of water and is basically in a stationary state. Do you want to send a submarine to approach it as planned?"
"Let the unmanned submarine go first and approach the target carefully. We need to obtain enough information."
Following the order, two unmanned small submarines disguised as a mixture of marine garbage and seaweed were put into the sea. Under the control of the aircraft carrier's console, they began to sail quietly underwater.
Fifty meters deep only takes ten seconds for a submarine. Soon, a huge shadow appeared under the turbid sea bottom on the camera screen.
It was... a huge body covered with abscesses, tumors, and huge bone spurs protruding from the flesh and blood. It looked extremely ugly!
As the angle changes, you can see that the giant whale's soft barbels, which were originally used to filter and swallow small fish and shrimps, have now turned into thick, twisted blue-purple tentacles that can make people's scalp numb.
It twists and swings crazily in the sea water, like countless wriggling poisonous snakes!
"Wait, it's looking over!"
As the operator exclaimed, the monster suddenly moved its huge body, and a large set of scarlet eyes looked at one of the submarines. As a thick black shadow flashed, the screen instantly turned black.
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From the angle of another submarine, you can see an outrageously thick purple tentacle covered with ferocious small round mouthparts, suddenly stretched out from under the monster, and instantly twisted the discovered submarine into a knot.
Scrap metal!
After that...the rest of the screen also went black.
"It might have spotted us..."
Such a ridiculous idea couldn't help but appear in the old general's mind.
Yes, it was obviously just a ferocious monster, and it was impossible for him to understand what an unmanned submarine was, but he just felt that this monster had just "seen" him.
"Oh my God, General, it's rising! It's going so fast!"
"Remove the silent state, and everyone enters a state of preparation for war!"
The old general immediately issued the order.
Since you can't observe quietly, then do it. Even if you can't capture him alive, you can take the body back with you!
"I don't believe that a mere mutated animal can withstand the torrent of steel!"
Looking at the huge body that suddenly arched up from the water in front of him, he picked up the radio at hand and roared loudly.
"Boys, for the sake of the great United States, fire!"
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"On September 22, the United States Third Fleet encountered extreme weather while conducting exercises in the East China Sea. Three warships were damaged. According to expert analysis..."
Snapped!
"Today's TV is really getting boring, and there is not much news to watch."
Looking at the turned off TV, Alvin shook his head and threw the remote control aside.
On a rare weekend, he got up to have breakfast and wanted to watch TV, but after searching around, he couldn't find any interesting programs. It was either news or a group of girls jumping around. It was boring to death.
Although the show was a bit boring, I have to say that he was in a very good mood today because...this.
[Teleport Scepter]: After use, it can instantly move your own units to your own or friendly ground units or buildings. It can be used once every 90 seconds.
Price: 2000 gold coins
To be honest, when I got up today, I made it a habit to check the daily new products in the [Mysterious Treasure Room], and after discovering this thing among the eight products, Alvin was stunned for several seconds.
Because, this is really... so conscientious!
The asking price for such a treasure that can be called an artifact is almost the same as the [Report Scroll], a similar disposable item that the skeleton mage pretended to use before. This is so worth it!
Having decisively taken down the [Teleportation Scepter], Ivan was in such a mood that he wished he could go to the Pure Land right then and there.
So even though the TV program was boring, it still didn't ruin his good mood.
Speaking of which, his daily life has calmed down completely recently. He goes to school, club, dojo, rental house, four o'clock and one line every day, almost calm.
But while everything is calm in the main world, the excavation of ruins is gradually increasing.
During this time, he successively dug up many stone slabs with inscriptions, metal coins and various sundries.
The most valuable among them is a book made of pure gold sheets.
This "golden book", which seems to have been made by a believer to express reverence for God, weighs two kilograms, but only one poem is recorded on it:
"Supreme Araya, please give me wisdom,
Let me see through the clouds and see the light;
I will use fire to destroy the evil in the world,
Even if you are turned into firewood in the holy fire, you will not live up to this life.
Supreme God of Light, all glory be to you,
I pray that you will give me the courage to fear no difficulties;
I will pierce the spreading darkness with a spear of whorlwood;
Let the deceased find true rest!"
I have to say, this poem is very interesting, very interesting.
Ivan thought about it for a long time last night, especially on key words such as "God of Light", "Aruoya" and "the dead sleep in peace on the earth".
He felt that he might have found a clue as to why the plane of Alda turned into the world of death it is today...