Chapter 237: Ruins Form

Everyone in the conference hall was filled with anxiety.

“Brother Hong, do you have confidence?” Thunder God and Hong sat in a corner, with no one else daring to approach.

“No confidence at all!” Hong slightly shook his head. “However, even without confidence, I must step forward at the final moment! With my current Seventh Stage Star Level cultivation and my domain, I am unrivaled among all Star Level warriors. Combined with the ‘Moyun Vine,’ which rapidly grows stronger by consuming wooden crystals, even a life-or-death battle against a Stellar Level One opponent is not without hope!”

“The biggest problem is that we don’t know the true strength of this Devouring Beast,” Hong said in a low voice.

“Hmm,” Thunder God nodded slightly.

Yet Hong and Thunder God clearly did not understand that there was a difference between a Stellar Level One human warrior and a Stellar Level One beast. Even less so when the beast in question was an incredibly terrifying Star-Sea Beast—the peak bloodline of the Star-Sea Beasts, the ‘Golden-Horned Beast,’ which was said to possess one of the most supreme bloodlines in the entire universe.

This was also the main reason Babata believed Earth was doomed.

“Everyone!”

“Everyone!”

The American President called out twice. “We have just received a new video from America showing the Devouring Beast!”

Instantly, the entire hall fell silent.

Luo Feng also raised his head to look.

On the screen, a new video began playing. It showed a vast wasteland area, with a military base spanning a wide river. However, from this base, countless soldiers were fleeing in panic, tens of thousands rushing to escape! Even saucer-shaped fighter crafts had begun taking flight!

“They have just received orders from the General Headquarters to abandon the base and retreat immediately,” the American President explained beside the screen. “The main reason is that our General Headquarters, through satellite surveillance, discovered that the Devouring Beast is flying in this direction.”

“But the Devouring Beast is too fast. The evacuation hasn’t completed yet—”

On the screen, a golden streak of light halted. It was the Devouring Beast, with four clawed hooves and a pair of scale-armored wings.

The entire conference hall fell into silence.

“Will it devour it again?” Luo Feng slightly shook his head.

In the video, the Devouring Beast suddenly dived like lightning, sweeping over the military base. The scales on its wings were like blades, slicing through the base as if it were tofu. The entire base collapsed instantly. Some soldiers who hadn’t managed to evacuate were crushed to death, while others were touched by its wings and turned into meat paste!

The base was reduced to ruins!

The Devouring Beast’s cold, dark-gold eyes gazed at the saucer-shaped fighter crafts fleeing in all directions. To it, their speed was laughably slow!

It simply swung its front hooves!

“Whoosh!” “Whoosh!” “Whoosh!”

Five golden beams of light!

Incredibly fast, they struck five distant saucer crafts, which immediately exploded into fireballs with booming sounds! Five fireballs stood out starkly against the dark sky.

The video ended.

“Everyone,” the American President said gravely, “from this video, we have noticed two key points. First, this time it did not devour the base but destroyed it. Second, it has a long-range attack capability.”

“Damn it!”

“What a pain!”

At the edge of the conference hall, a group of the world’s top nuclear experts erupted into curses! These elderly men with white hair were all absolute titans in their fields. Normally, it was almost impossible to hear them utter a swear word, but now many of them were furious, their faces red with rage.

“What’s wrong?” Hong looked over.

“I will explain.”

One of the Russian nuclear experts with a large nose stood up and addressed the crowd. “We had been discussing the idea of detonating super high-yield hydrogen bombs on the surface or inside the mouth of the Devouring Beast. Earlier, our biggest concern was the ‘devouring ability’ of the beast—whether it could interfere with electronic signals if it swallowed the bomb. However, we had nearly resolved this issue!”

“Now we have found the biggest problem! It has long-range attacks!”

The large-nosed Russian shouted angrily, “Given the incredible defensive capabilities of this Devouring Beast, even a super high-yield hydrogen bomb exploding more than fifty meters away might not even penetrate its armored scales!”

Everyone in the conference hall was stunned.

“Everyone!”

Nuclear bombs primarily harm humans through “shockwaves” and “radiation,” while the instantaneous blast itself causes minimal destruction. However… the shockwave from a hydrogen bomb is utterly ineffective against a creature like the Devouring Beast. As for radiation, even our Councilor-level warriors show no fear of it—let alone this Devouring Beast.

“Therefore! Only the instantaneous explosion power can harm the Devouring Beast!”

Luo Feng nodded slightly as he listened.

Once a super high-yield hydrogen bomb detonates, the instantaneous temperature can exceed 20 million degrees…

“But it must be close to it!”

“Because the massive energy released by fusion spreads in all directions. The farther away from the center, the weaker the power becomes! For a mysterious and incredible being like the Devouring Beast, the closer, the better. Ideally, we would detonate it inside its mouth! The internal defense of its mouth is definitely inferior to its armored scales. If we detonate a hydrogen bomb with a yield of hundreds of millions of tons inside its mouth, it would surely blow its head into nothingness!”

Luo Feng’s eyes lit up as he listened.

A hydrogen bomb with a yield of hundreds of millions of tons?

There’s no way it won’t die!

Inside Luo Feng’s wrist space, Babata’s main body was present.

“A hydrogen bomb with a yield of hundreds of millions of tons, detonated inside its mouth?” Babata was eating an apple, shaking his head. “Sounds great, but they don’t understand the Devouring Beast at all… This is the ‘Golden-Horned Beast,’ a Star-Sea Beast with a terrifying reputation even in the universe, one of the peak bloodlines among Star-Sea Beasts.”

“Not even the primitive, intermediate, or advanced civilizations in the universe dare to underestimate it.”

“If it could die so easily, it wouldn’t be the Golden-Horned Beast.”

“Unfortunately… I have very little information about the ‘Golden-Horned Beast’ and don’t know its weaknesses.” Babata sighed helplessly.

Even for an immortal warrior, Star-Sea Beasts are incredibly rare.

They are considered Class A rare creatures!

China calls pandas rare, but even today, some zoos still have unmutated pandas. However, the ‘Golden-Horned Beast’… even for the immortal master of the Yimo Star, who lived over 60 million years and traveled through countless star systems, he had never encountered a single Golden-Horned Beast in his entire life.

Even among Golden-Horned Beasts themselves, from birth to death, wandering the universe with their long lives, it is extremely difficult to encounter another of their kind!

Incredibly rare!

Because they are so rare and hardly ever seen, even if one occasionally encounters one, it is impossible to dissect it! Even dissecting a corpse would not allow one to study the special characteristics of this Star-Sea Beast!

Therefore!

In the vast universe, understanding of Star-Sea Beasts has always been a blank slate! Even immortal warriors don’t know much, only having vague knowledge. Perhaps only those even older, stronger, and more knowledgeable than the ‘Yimo Star Master’ might know a little more.

Sixty million years of immortality is still quite young.

In the virtual space of the War God Palace, the conference hall.

“Everyone, the current biggest problem is, if our fighter crafts carrying hydrogen bombs are destroyed by a golden beam from thousands of meters away by the Devouring Beast, what should we do? Even if successfully detonated at that distance, it probably wouldn’t kill a Star Level warrior,” the large-nosed Russian expert said.

“Everyone, the hydrogen bomb’s close-range explosion is a one-time opportunity.”

“If it fails, given the intelligence of the Devouring Beast, once it has suffered a loss, it will absolutely not allow any fighter craft to approach again. We will have no more chances.” The large-nosed Russian looked at everyone.

Suddenly…

Hong stood up: “At that time, I will use my Honghuang-level intelligent fighter craft to carry the hydrogen bomb! The defensive power of the Honghuang-level intelligent fighter craft is so strong that unless it attacks in person, a casual golden beam won’t be able to destroy it. Once the fighter craft gets close, the intelligent system will control it to self-destruct!”

“Thank you,” the large-nosed Russian was overjoyed.

The Honghuang-level intelligent fighter craft was the strongest fighter craft on Earth!

A Qiankun-level intelligent fighter craft could withstand a collision with a King-level beast.

The Honghuang-level was even capable of withstanding a collision with a beast emperor!

Its defensive power was even stronger than Hong’s own defense! It was definitely one of Hong’s greatest treasures obtained from ancient civilization ruins.

“With this, the possibility of detonating the hydrogen bomb inside the Devouring Beast’s mouth has greatly increased,” the large-nosed Russian was excited, and all the top global experts were equally thrilled.

At this moment…

Luo Feng was frowning, communicating with Babata through consciousness.

“Everyone,” Luo Feng stood up.

Everyone in the conference hall turned to look at him. Seeing that it was Luo Feng speaking, many were puzzled. Hong and Thunder God also looked at him with confusion. Luo Feng was neither a nuclear expert nor a national leader, so what could he say?

“I know some information about this Devouring Beast,” Luo Feng said solemnly.

Instantly, the hall fell into silence.

“First, once the Devouring Beast devours something, the surrounding space becomes twisted and separated from the outside world. Remote control of the hydrogen bomb inside the fighter craft to detonate is absolutely impossible. Furthermore… when it is devouring, within the ‘devouring twisted space’ range, the metal of the fighter craft and the bomb will automatically begin to decompose, so the possibility of the bomb exploding inside its mouth is very low!”

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone’s faces changed.

This was an incredibly bad piece of news!

“Second, the strength of this Devouring Beast is indeed at the Stellar Level!” Luo Feng added the second point.

“Third, the only good news is that its devouring ability is limited, not bottomless. Just like earlier, it started destroying the military base instead of choosing to devour it.”

Luo Feng’s voice echoed in the conference hall.

Of these three pieces of news, only the third was somewhat positive; the first two were terrible!

“Congressman Luo, are you sure?”

“Are you certain?”

All the top nuclear experts looked at Luo Feng.

“Certain,” Luo Feng nodded. “This Devouring Beast has the ability to devour and decompose metal, and then absorb it!”

“No wonder it ate the base.”

“Terrible.”

This news made many people anxious.

At this moment, Luo Feng walked to Hong’s side. Hong was still troubled by Luo Feng’s earlier statement that the Devouring Beast was at the Stellar Level.

“Director,” Luo Feng looked at Hong.

“It seems that this year, you’ve also gained some insights, discovering some precious information about the Devouring Beast.” Hong looked at Luo Feng. He wasn’t surprised. Many people on Earth had explored ancient civilization ruins. It would be strange if someone who had become a congressman didn’t explore them.

“I want a list of all the ancient civilization ruins on Earth,” Luo Feng said solemnly. “I hope each ancient civilization ruin has some introduction and description.”

“What are you planning?” Hong was taken aback.

“I want to see which ruin might contain some powerful weapons!” Luo Feng said.

Hong shook his head. “I can give you the list and descriptions of the ancient civilization ruins. However, Luo Feng, weapons capable of killing a Stellar Level being are extremely hard to find. Even if there are… they are probably already decayed.”

“I want to try.” Luo Feng didn’t want to hesitate.

He had time, but humanity on Earth didn’t!

Seeing Luo Feng’s expression, Hong nodded seriously. “Alright, I will immediately send you the list of ruins. However… you must also be careful!”

“Hmm.” Luo Feng slightly nodded, and his body suddenly vanished from the virtual space, clearly having left it.

“The moment of humanity’s survival.”

Hong murmured, “Luo Feng is also doing his best. Everyone is fighting. I hope we can survive this catastrophe!”