Chapter 145: Don’t Leave Me Behind Again
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The allied commanders were all in unusually high spirits — the winds and waves at sea were strong, but far smaller than before. This sign of calming weather, wasn’t it indicating that the creator of this terrible weather had already been eliminated?
“I really hope this damn military exercise ends soon.” The fleet commanders gathered together, and the North American-led coalition commander smoked his rather vintage brass pipe, exhaling clouds while his mouth was full of complaints.
For the military, exercises were equivalent to going to work, and very unfortunately, regarding the matter of working, North American soldiers all felt deep hatred. How could doing actual work be as interesting as partying and having fun with the female sailors on the ships?
Moreover, they had actually just experienced a military exercise not long ago.
— The deterrent against the Shenzhou region.
Originally, after showing off their muscles, they should have disbanded and returned to port for reorganization. But after the New Zealand incident occurred, under Vill-V’s mediation, the fleet that had just disbanded and was preparing to go their separate ways was urgently assembled again. After hastily resupplying in Singapore, which wasn’t too far from New Zealand, they rushed over.
Otherwise, a military exercise typically required 10 days to half a month to organize—how could they have arrived so quickly?
This was the effect of full-speed sailing after hasty resupply.
— If not for the upper-level personnel’s reassurance: “You only need to go there for a trip, show off your muscles a bit, you won’t need to stay too long.”
The navy bigshots, being upper-class people, wouldn’t so easily obey and work overtime.
It’s just that things always develop contrary to expectations.
…No, perhaps this time was actually an exception.
This mighty combined navy could indeed end this military exercise early as those commanders hoped.
— By being buried at sea.
“Boom!”
The massive roar made the ship’s hull emit explosive sounds, the huge splashes soaked the deck with an ominous blood-red color, and the capsizing sensation brought by the violent shaking made the commanders who had been laughing and chatting burst into inexplicable curses:
“Shit, what happened?”
“Sir, we’re under attack, a destroyer has gone silent.”
“What? Attack? Where’s the enemy?” Despite being completely confused, no matter how poor their quality, they at least still possessed some combat capability — the lead commander Doug, who quickly snapped out of his panic, shouted loudly.
“Found it!”
Under the operation of the ship’s operator, their proud technology finally located the beautiful girl who had landed on a certain destroyer.
“What, a little girl? Just a little girl?”
“Are you kidding me?”
Doug burst into profanity, completely incredulous.
Such a little brat sank one of his destroyers?
“She might be a Herrscher…”
“F**k! Wasn’t the Herrscher already eliminated?!”
Military personnel of sufficient rank would more or less know some information about Honkai. Although the navy’s lower-level soldiers knew nothing, as the commander of the combined fleet, Doug was aware of the existence of so-called Herrschers.
— Of course, having never personally encountered a Herrscher, he had no fear of this existence marked as extremely dangerous in the files.
A mere flesh and blood body — could it be more powerful than his naval artillery?
Especially after learning that the First Herrscher was killed by high-powered weapons, this arrogance grew even further.
If given the chance, the commander would very much like to personally hunt a Herrscher. After all — for peacetime, merit was really hard to obtain. If he could kill such a thing, maybe he could hang five stars on himself?
It’s just a pity that Congress’s final decision was to use nuclear weapons to deal with the Herrscher first, avoiding direct contact, so as a soldier he could only obey.
Now, the opportunity seemed to have come!
“F**k, that idiot Gessar actually filed a false military report. I’ll definitely send that bastard to a military tribunal later!”
While delighted, he was also angry at Gessar’s misleading intelligence — it was because of that bastard that he lost a destroyer without any value while completely unprepared. As the commander, Doug angrily cursed, planning to shift the responsibility for this loss onto that bastard.
Then, he arrogantly roared loudly:
“Boys, your time to build merit has come! Open fire on that monster! Use all your firepower to greet her thoroughly!”
The rich rewards for killing a Herrscher made him ignore the danger behind it — why the Herrscher could still survive under nuclear bombardment, why that bastard Gessar was nowhere to be found.
What remained was only thick greed.
The power of greed made his eyes turn red.
The same went for all the soldiers of the combined fleet affected by this temptation. They howled excitedly, wielding weapons, beginning to vent their inner desires.
In places no one could observe — threads wound around their bodies, controlling them!
Naval guns, missiles.
Even the carrier-based aircraft that couldn’t operate in such extreme weather rushed out of the aircraft carrier deck with red-eyed pilots roaring, then stumbled and fell into the sea under the storm’s embrace, crushed to dust.
Perceiving the source of this madness, 【Wendy】, standing barefoot on the silent destroyer, looked at those ships spewing firepower at herself, a hint of killing intent flowing in her eyes.
For more effective deterrence — ‘she’, who possessed the ability to instantly annihilate this fleet, chose this ‘gentle’ method of elimination.
After all, if the fleet were instantly annihilated, that would be too terrifying, and it would be detrimental to MEI and their work afterward.
Therefore, Jiang Qiao wanted to complete this task in a way that could bring sufficient terror to the humans of the Previous Era, yet not make them feel completely hopeless.
To step over an ant without crushing it — the control of force involved was truly difficult to master.
But now, he changed his mind.
“They all must die.”
The slowly clenching palm, as if gripping the throat of fate itself, the ultimate fluid manipulation made heaven and earth seem like doomsday at this moment.
Those soldiers whose states were obviously abnormal also woke up, looking at the sky with terrified expressions.
The sky… was falling!
“Boom—!”
Everything quieted down, leaving only the turbulent sea surface.
The crystallization of human technology they were proud of, those ships, had now disappeared without a trace.
Seawater was also fluid — the ocean was also the Wind Herrscher’s home field.
“You really give me difficult problems.”
The girl looked up at the sky. Under the bright clear sky, the vast universe couldn’t be seen clearly, but those emerald eyes seemed to pierce through to the moon where The Cocoon resided.
He sighed.
…This entire fleet, hundreds of thousands of people, were all Herrschers of Domination!