"The greatest disadvantage of marine life is their inability to survive long out of the sea, but marine creatures should be aware of this themselves and not be so helpless.
If there's no way to solve this problem.
Then starting a major war seems to have little meaning!"
After reading the detailed information officially released, Ding Yun fell into deep thought. For a long time, she could only think of two possibilities. First, perhaps the marine civilization didn't intend to completely exterminate humanity, but only wanted to fight a battle to deter them, so that humans would stop hunting marine creatures.
Second, they might have already mastered a method to raise sea levels, and even if they couldn't raise them immediately, they could do so gradually, slowly submerging all land.
In that case, a full-scale war would be no problem. After all, as sea levels rose and land reduced, they could gradually encroach on human territories step by step, eventually exterminating humanity.
Moreover, no matter how Ding Yun thought about it.
She felt the second guess was more likely.
This was because the sea races had the ability to cause massive damage to the polar ice caps, and even mobilize a large number of marine creatures to transport the ice from the poles to warmer regions to melt it.
In that scenario, it would be difficult for sea levels not to rise.
Not to mention that among the sea races, there were an extremely large number of creatures who had awakened water-attribute abilities.
They could stir up continuous torrential rain and floods at any time. Coupled with the abundant water resources already present on the planet, completely submerging all land might be difficult, but submerging eighty to ninety percent would definitely not be a problem. At that point, how would humanity survive?
It had to be said, it was truly terrifying to think about.
Subsequently, the changes in the situation announced by the news further confirmed the accuracy of Ding Yun's speculation step by step.
September 27th
The sea races directly unleashed dozens of super tsunamis, each thousands of meters high, submerging over a dozen island nations with relatively low altitudes. Not only did they drown those island nations and kill the people there, but they also mobilized hundreds of millions of ordinary marine creatures to completely hollow out those island nations, burying them deep in the ocean so that they completely disappeared.
This was done by digging down hundreds of meters into the islands.
The excavated soil was then buried in the deep sea, thus making the islands completely disappear and be buried beneath the sea.
October 7th
Large amounts of glaciers and ice caps in the North and South Poles were damaged.
October 9th
The underwater water systems of the world's largest freshwater lake were destroyed by the sea races. All the lake water was swept away by countless marine creatures proficient in water-attribute abilities, flowing into the ocean through the underground water systems.
October 27th
A total of forty-six freshwater lakes worldwide were completely destroyed by the sea races, their water disappearing, leaving behind only depressions.
The actions of the sea races were far more decisive than everyone imagined.
They were even more intent on complete annihilation.
The current situation was very clear. Anyone with a bit of sense could see at a glance that the sea races were simultaneously weakening and reducing humanity's freshwater resources and continuously submerging land with seawater. Furthermore, fearing that the sea level would not rise fast enough, they relied on their terrifying numbers to directly initiate a "land excavation and sea expansion" plan.
This was essentially taking humanity's land reclamation plan.
And reversing it.
By excavating land and rocks and burying them in deep-sea areas, thereby lowering the land's altitude and indirectly raising the sea level.
In short, to put it in one sentence.
Humanity was at a point of existential crisis.
Facing the relentless pressure from the sea races, countries unprecedentedly abandoned all their differences and mobilized all their forces to unite. On one hand, they used vast amounts of troops and weapons to furiously attack the gathering places of the sea races, especially those of higher intelligent life forms. On the other hand, they were forced to deploy the marine gene virus, which they were reluctant to use.
Currently, humanity's only advantage in the struggle against the sea races was that their technological level far surpassed that of the sea races. However, ordinary high-tech weapons could hardly inflict fatal damage on the sea races, and the destructive weapons were all weapons that harmed both sides, inflicting one thousand damage to self and eight hundred to the enemy.
Even if they could annihilate many sea creatures.
It would also cause irreparable damage to the environment.
Which would eventually backfire on humanity.
This was why humanity had been hesitant and reluctant to engage in large-scale warfare with the sea races. Humanity's high command was well aware that the outcome of a major war between them would either be mutual destruction or a pyrrhic victory for humanity.
The same applied to the virus developed to target the sea races.
It was an uncertain and terrifying weapon.
Although there were significant differences between the genes of the sea races and humans, they both originated from the same life-sustaining planet, and there were still many similarities in their genes.
The developers of the virus were not very sure if, after the virus spread and killed a large number of sea creatures, it would undergo secondary or tertiary mutations, and even eventually spread back to human society. Therefore, this method, even though it had been researched many years ago, had never been used, serving only as a last resort.
After all, if humanity was facing an extinction crisis, mutual destruction was acceptable. Even a pyrrhic victory would be better than complete annihilation.
Moreover, regardless of how one looked at it, humanity's biotechnology and virus research technology far surpassed that of the sea races. Even if the virus mutated and spread back to human society in the future, the responsible parties in various countries were confident that humanity could unite and develop an antidote.
Humanity had an advantage in this regard.
Now, the sea races' attempt to completely submerge the continents with seawater and exterminate humanity had undoubtedly crossed the bottom line of various countries, making them feel that humanity was truly at a point of existential crisis and must resort to ultimate measures.
The ultimate measures that humanity could employ were only nuclear weapons and viruses. Nuclear weapons not only could not completely exterminate the sea races but also posed a greater threat to humanity.
They even carried the risk of accelerating sea-level rise.
After repeated consideration.
This led to the decision to spread the virus.
Of course, all of this was carried out in secret, with no large-scale public announcement saying they were going to spread the virus. Therefore, neither ordinary people nor the sea races were aware of it until a large number of sea creatures began to die.
The sea race civilization had only been established for less than a century. Even if they could learn from human civilization, they could only learn superficial, ordinary technological knowledge that was readily available. Moreover, such technological knowledge could not be directly used in the ocean and required them to improve it.
Furthermore, many intelligent marine species did not have the habit of cooperation and exchange. Coupled with the fact that the entire marine civilization had only recently unified, the technological development of the sea races was very unbalanced. The development of medical biology and virus-related technological systems was almost non-existent.
After all, humans and marine creatures were different.
Few people researched special medicines for marine species.
Moreover, the development of such technological systems relied heavily on basic industries. Without sufficiently strong basic industries and theoretical knowledge, even if marine races could somehow steal data, they wouldn't be able to understand it.
Therefore, these intelligent marine life forms, facing the genetically engineered virus specifically targeting them, spread by humans.
Were almost defenseless.
At first, they didn't even understand what was happening. They also had no corresponding measures for prevention and control of infection. Coupled with the large quantity and wide range of viruses spread by humans, it wasn't long before the corresponding viruses bloomed throughout the ocean.
Marine life also began to die in large numbers.
Dying in the tens of millions.
Some sea areas were already filled with floating corpses of sea creatures.