Chapter 1 Li Tianran's Departure

Li Tianran didn't stay in the Federation for too long. After finishing the affairs of the logistics department, he set off to return to Kuangxi Island. The time for the ancient civilization weapons to recover was getting closer and closer. To prevent any accidents, Li Tianran couldn't continue to wander in areas outside Kuangxi Island.

Although a human defense line had already been established, the defense line was not airtight. From some ocean tributaries and underground river locations, there were still sea beasts or smaller sub-sequence followers who could sneak in quietly.

What if an apostle secretly infiltrated the human defense line, found traces of Li Tianran, and took the opportunity to attack while he was away from Kuangxi Island...

The consequences would be very serious!

Although the human civilization had won the war against the ancient civilization in the past, even so, as the supreme ruler of human civilization, Li Tianran didn't even dare to travel openly within the human defense line as he pleased, let alone leave the tall walls of the human defense line!

This was also a kind of shame.

The tall walls of the defense line were both protection and a cage!

The victory of one war cannot reverse the entire situation. Only when ordinary humans can cross the walls and travel to every place on Blue Star by plane and ship, just like in the past, will that represent true victory!

The plane Li Tianran was on flew away.

In the Nancheng Shelter, Yu Cheng looked at the plane disappearing into the sky, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

He knew very well that this meeting between himself and Li Tianran might be the last time for both of them in this lifetime!

In the near future, the full recovery of ancient civilization weapons would definitely lead to an extremely fierce counterattack, and humanity would suffer unprecedented terrible disasters.

At that time, the entire human defense line might collapse, and many people would die.

Even Li Tianran might fall in the future war...

...

A giant freighter sailed in the waters within the human defense line. The ship's draft was very deep, obviously indicating that the amount of cargo it was carrying had reached a terrifying weight.

This was a freighter departing from Kuangxi Island, transporting resources such as steel, food, and fuel to a human defense base. Due to the impact of the Third Destruction Epoch, the various resources formerly stored by countries around the world had been exhausted.

And the only way for humans to obtain resources now is to plant large quantities of LV2 crops, harvest them, and then send them to Kuangxi Island for unified distribution. After Li Tianran's point repurchase, resources are then purchased through the system store and finally sent to countries around the world!

Although the whole process seems a bit troublesome, for the current human civilization, this is already the only way to obtain resources.

On the sea, the giant freighter slowly moved forward.

A team of evolved soldiers stood on the deck. They were not members of Kuangxi Island, but an army dispatched by Country Y specifically to escort the supplies. The destination of this shipment was precisely a base guarded by Country Y.

"Damn it, since the ancient civilization recovered, the temperature seems to be getting higher and higher..."

The blond, blue-eyed captain observed the movements on the distant sea surface with binoculars, sweat dripping from his chin onto the deck. The sea was calm and there were no waves.

He put down the binoculars, picked up a thermometer, looked at it, and cursed again in a low voice: "It's almost 104 degrees Fahrenheit!"

Country Y and most other countries use different temperature units. 104 degrees Fahrenheit is roughly equivalent to 40 degrees Celsius, which has already reached the point where it makes people feel breathless.

The source of this temperature is the Earth's core.

It seems that the Earth's core is constantly expanding, emitting amazing heat outwards.

"At this rate... one day, Blue Star will become a huge burning fireball!" The captain took off his outermost uniform coat, and the feeling of stuffiness was lessened a lot. His expression was extremely worried: "How will humans survive then..."

Immediately afterwards, the captain laughed self-deprecatingly.

It wouldn't be long before the ancient civilization would start another war with humans, and that would be an extremely tragic and terrifying war!

Maybe humans wouldn't even be able to survive that war...

Considering the future changes of Blue Star now is really a bit of worrying about the sky falling!

"Full speed ahead! We must reach the Corunna defense line within ten hours!" The captain shook his head, throwing all the messy thoughts out of his head, and then used the intercom to issue orders to the crew: "I don't want to see the stinky faces of those annoying judge advocates because of overtime problems!"

The freighter went full speed ahead, its giant engine roaring.

Giant ripples appeared on the surface of the sea.

The captain turned around and walked towards the control room.

But at this moment, the originally extremely stable hull suddenly trembled violently, and then tilted to the left, as if it had hit a giant reef!

The captain staggered and fell to the deck, and the other crew members were also thrown to and fro. No one except that team of evolved soldiers could remain stable under such a violent tilt.

"What happened? Did we hit an iceberg?" The captain grabbed the gap on the deck with force and shouted loudly into the intercom: "Radar, sonar, immediately scan the underside of the hull!"

The crew's panicked response immediately came from the intercom.

"The radar and sonar equipment have failed!"

"No... it's not a failure, it's just that the signal seems to be blocked by something! We can't receive any feedback!"

Sweat dripped from the captain's forehead. The radar and sonar had failed, and at this time, the tilt of the hull was getting bigger and bigger. Almost the entire front of the freighter had completely left the sea, while the rear half had been swallowed by a large amount of seawater!

The front of the hull seemed to be supported by something!

Tap tap tap!

Suddenly, several evolved warriors nimbly grabbed the railing and jumped into the sea.

Their faces were very solemn, and their steel knives were unsheathed, as if they had guessed why the freighter was in this situation!

A giant tentacle as long as thirty meters suddenly stretched out from under the hull, accurately wrapping around an evolved warrior, and with a slight force, slammed him heavily onto the deck of the ship like a cannonball!

Crack!

As a series of extremely grating steel cracking sounds rang out.

The evolved warrior's body exploded instantly, and together with his combat suit, bones, and flesh, directly became a cloud of blood mist!

And a human-shaped dent also appeared on the hull!

"Sea beast! It's a sea beast!"

When the captain saw this scene, his pupils shrank, and he shouted into the walkie-talkie with his loudest voice: "Sea beast attack!"

In fact, he didn't need to shout. At this time, all the members on the entire freighter saw the giant tentacles stretched out from under the hull.

One, two, three...

Those tentacles were like demons from hell, grabbing the hull and dragging it bit by bit into the sea!

The raging sea water poured in frantically from all directions!

Before being submerged by the sea water, the last scene the captain saw was...

A giant octopus beast king and a figure with wings on its back standing on its head!

"Kuang Feng..." the captain roared angrily.

A large amount of sea water poured into his mouth and nasal cavity, instantly swallowing all the sounds...