Using the MC system to pretend spiritual revival

Chapter 248 Blockade, Success
Although the communication channel was noisy.

The scene before us and the explosion we had just seen in the distance both proved that something serious had happened ahead.

But attracted by the big news and the desire for promotion and a raise, the ships and news helicopters from various countries did not stop, and even increased their speed.

"Woo——!!"

As the distance drew closer, the news cameras at the forefront finally revealed a different scene.

A sound similar to a whale's cry, but even more piercing, rang out.

At the same time, the enormous, twisted figure suddenly swooped down from mid-air.

The target was precisely in the direction the fleet was located.

The host, who was originally full of excitement and talking boastfully, was now in the air, closer in the helicopter.

Upon seeing the enormous, floating black shadow rapidly approaching in the camera's view, his expression immediately froze, and his mouth gradually opened wide.

As the entire lens was covered in shadow, some twisted, tentacled structures came into view.

Pairs of eyes of varying sizes, shimmering with deep purple, were densely and haphazardly piled up everywhere.

Below, a huge, crooked mouth that occupies two-thirds of the entire front view slowly tears open towards the camera, revealing a dense array of sharp teeth.

This incredibly impactful image seems to be swallowing everyone in front of the camera whole.

Suddenly, countless viewers who had been waiting in front of their screens until the early hours of the morning accidentally knocked over their coffee cups.

An idea simultaneously surfaced in the minds of countless people.

The host has finished.

Although the camera captured a distant scene, judging from the speed at which that twisted, enormous creature swooped down, it probably only survived for a few more seconds.

Just as the host, who was already terrified in the helicopter, thought the same thing, the monster's surging momentum suddenly stopped.

"Boom-!!"

A clanging sound that made your teeth ache suddenly reverberated.

The enormous, twisted fish crashed headfirst into the thin, almost transparent light barrier, letting out a mournful cry as it was violently bounced back.

Deep purple blood splattered out, but the transparent membrane shimmering with dark blue patterns remained completely untouched.

Large swaths of filth fell down like mosquitoes being driven away, leaving no trace.

Everyone was stunned by what they saw; the horrific scene they had expected did not occur.

The thin, dim light film, which some people mistook for some kind of lighting or lens effect, actually acted like an impenetrable barrier, easily intercepting the monster that looked like it had crawled out of a nightmare.

Just as everyone was shocked by this counterintuitive scene.

The floating monster that had just crashed into something and was bleeding profusely has already healed its wounds.

Adjust your direction and swim upwards along the barrier.

The target was clearly the slowly rising sky, not yet covered by the membrane.

Some people saw this and, after realizing what was happening, immediately tried to speak up to warn others.

However, the next moment, a golden streak that was faster than anyone else suddenly appeared.

When the light disappeared, everyone saw that the monster, which had been so ferocious just moments before, had its head bound by a pale gold rope about the thickness of a finger.

His body stiffened, as if he had suddenly lost all the strength to struggle.

As the rope hanging from the sky traced upwards, a figure in a long robe, seemingly insignificant compared to the monster, stood silently high above Yinghua Island.

The ropes binding the giant beast were being gently grasped by its outstretched hand, and it didn't even bother to turn around and look at them.

It seems even simpler than an ordinary person catching an ant on the ground.

Although it is not very clear due to the distance.

But at that moment, the keen-nosed journalists excitedly focused their cameras on the figure whose back was revealed only by a light blue robe and white hair.

In contrast to the excited news media, the scene on the sea below, where the fleets of various countries were divided into large and small groups and sailing side by side, presented a completely different picture.

"boom--!!"

"Fuck! These guys! I swear to the Queen! These people arrived at least a day early!!"

On the naval fleet flying the Gallic flag, a middle-aged man in a red and blue uniform, dressed as a high-ranking naval officer, angrily slammed his fist on the table in front of him.

The trembling fat on his stomach and the light reflecting off the ceiling above him both testified to his turbulent emotions.

The atmosphere was quiet for a moment, when someone handed over a handkerchief, and at the same time a magnetic voice came out.

“Your Excellency, this is clearly a shameful breach of contract and betrayal, but I think we should focus more on the current situation.”

As he finished speaking, the bald, blond-haired middle-aged man took the handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his brow.

He took a deep breath, his abdomen heaving.

Once she calmed down a bit, she turned her gaze to the thin, upright young man with medium-length hair standing beside her.

"Phew...you're right."

"Sir John, do you have any good suggestions?"

Upon hearing this, the impeccably dressed young man, referred to as Sir John, reached out and took the recording equipment from his assistant, spreading it out on the table.

The screen displayed a live stream with over 100,000 viewers online, while the other images were aerial views from different angles.

He met the Deputy Prime Minister's questioning gaze.

Sir John raised his hand and pointed to the strange-looking, enormous floating monster bound by thin ropes in the center of the live broadcast screen, and began to explain.

"Your Excellency, this is an emergency that occurred a few minutes ago."

"This bizarre-looking creature, initially estimated to be between eighteen and twenty-three meters in size, and with a deep purple, twisted appearance, suddenly appeared and launched an attack on the approaching news helicopter with a clear objective..."

As the events unfolded, the middle-aged deputy prime minister, now calmer, listened attentively, nodding occasionally.

However, the more he looked at the monster that was tied up with ropes, the more familiar it seemed.

Sir John, who was explaining the sequence of events, also noticed the change in the other person's eyes.

As if he had expected this, he reached out and took another paper file, skillfully flipped to a certain page, and pushed it to be flush with the screen.

That was none other than the information about the Kingdom of Yinghua that had recently been sent to the desks of world leaders.

The very first picture shows the ship emerging from Dongjing Bay and traversing the entire island nation.

It is also speculated that it is the creature that initiated the series of unusual events and extraordinary changes that followed.

The floating monster was named "Crawling Catastrophe" by the Yinghua government at the time.

At the table, a middle-aged man's face, piled high with fat, had a pair of brown pupils that darted back and forth between two pictures.

Although the structures, sizes, and organ positions of the two creatures don't match up in any way, it is precisely this chaotic and distorted sense of color that proves the great connection between the two.

At that moment, a new development emerged on the screen displaying the live stream on the left.

Amidst a series of trembling and buzzing sounds, hundreds of enormous monsters, all looking very similar, pushed aside the seawater and the scorching ruins and rose one after another.

As if provoked, it swam up and headed straight for the figure that had just made the move.

This scene startled the Deputy Prime Minister, who was deep in thought.

"So, there's more than one of these monsters?"

His words also voiced the doubts in the minds of many people at this moment.

Before he could be any more surprised, Sir John handed him a freshly printed report.

"Your Excellency, the latest intelligence sharing from the Russian bear country has been compiled. There is some bad news in it, and I wonder if you would like to hear it."

They were just going through the motions with polite formalities.

The deputy prime minister, who was already used to this method, looked at the ever-growing, massive shadows in the image.

At this moment, I felt that the elegant language and dialogue passed down from ancient times were a bit too slow, making me anxious.

He waved his hand irritably and took the report, which still smelled of ink.

A pair of eyes quickly scanned the text, and soon they saw the bad news the other party had mentioned:
"...Based on the analysis of residual thermal radiation in the air and its scale, a nuclear bomb with a yield of over ten million kilotons was instantly detonated at an altitude of 700 to 2,000 meters above Yinghua Island just now?!"

Upon reading this, the middle-aged deputy prime minister, whose face was jiggling with fat, could no longer contain himself.

He suddenly looked up at the huge black shadows emerging from the live stream screen, and a chilling sensation that made his face twitch quickly filled his mind.

At the end of the report, which slipped from his hand and fell to the ground, a passage of text flashed by:

"Based on the above speculation, the unknown enormous creature currently hovering over Yinghua Island can survive for at least four microseconds at a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius, and for another ten to twenty seconds in an environment approaching the surface temperature of the sun. This is extremely dangerous, and we advise proceeding with caution..."

This message, along with the final warning, quickly appeared on the desks of the supreme commanders of every fleet.

Similar reactions appeared on the faces of everyone in high positions.

This data is so rigorous it's like an experimental record, yet it's also so absurd it's like a clumsy joke.

Regardless of what they think, at this moment, everything in the sky above Yinghua Island continues.

At this moment, Lu Gu, who was facing away from the fleet behind him, was quite satisfied with the various point rewards that were rapidly appearing on his screen.

His elaborate preparations were worthwhile, and the event came to a successful conclusion.

However, most of the tips only yielded a few tenths of a MC, which was obviously due to the secondary transmission of the footage, resulting in a significant reduction in the rewards.

But Lu Gu didn't care about this, after all, there was still a lot of information prepared for these foreigners that would shock them for the rest of the year.

Imagining the expressions on these people's faces in a moment, Lü Gu couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.

However, looking down at the hundreds of cloud whales that he had created, they were already roaring and charging towards him as ordered.

Lu Gu also composed himself, flipped his hand, and took out a set of ropes he had borrowed from the wandering merchant from his inventory.

After changing the color, he waved his hand and threw the fish below, some of which were rather garbled, one by one.

To outsiders, the graceful figure high in the sky appeared perfectly composed as she took out a small golden rope.

With a single flick, it grew longer in the wind, extending infinitely, binding the monster, which was a hundred times its own size.

This continued, and to the astonished gaze of the crowd, hundreds of enormous monsters, each nearly twenty meters long, appeared as if they were a string of grasshoppers strung together.

They floated motionless in mid-air, while the thin, pale gold ropes around their necks stretched upwards like ropes.

Ultimately, they all converged into one point, which was gently grasped by that raised palm.

This move made it impossible for these monsters to break free.

Below, on the sea surface.

As the nation that launched the nuclear missile, and the other nations that knew about the launch, had just experienced an unprecedented surge in their perception of those twisted and horrifying monsters.

The next moment, they were all subdued by the white-haired figure floating in the air in the blink of an eye.

This dramatic change plunged the command rooms of ships from various countries into a deathly silence.

Soon, they saw through the lenses of various satellites and drones that the figure that had been waving his hand to restrain all the monsters was moving again.

With a flick of his free hand, it was as if a dark, forearm-length, rhomboid object was pulled from the void and appeared in his palm.

The fleets of various countries reacted swiftly upon witnessing this scene.

As orders were issued, the camera zoomed in suddenly, trying to see what it was.

However, as soon as I saw the object with its regular matrix-like patterns resembling stacked rocks, my vision blurred.

The target had already been thrown down by the owner of the item.

The moment it left my hand, it seemed to possess a spirit, suddenly splitting into countless identical individuals of the same size.

They spread out in the air and flew in a regular pattern toward the coastlines of the long, narrow island nation below.

"Thump thump thump—!!"

Amid a series of thuds as they landed, these black prisms, about a meter long and as thick as an arm, seemed to take root in the ground.

The moment they touched the ground, they merged together seamlessly, becoming indistinguishable from one another.

After doing all that, Lü Gu raised his right hand, which was gripping the rope, again and swung it downwards.

With the combined efforts of the cattle, horses, and villagers, the ropes seemed to come to life, spreading out in a rather orderly fashion.

It quickly extended towards the ground, eventually dragging the huge, twisted fish at the other end of the rope, and tightly binding it to the prism on the ground.

After doing all this, the dark blue barrier that had been slowly rising from the sea below gradually closed off beneath Lü Gu's feet.

At this moment, the lockdown is complete.

The idea that this place was isolated from the outside world crossed the minds of everyone who had watched the whole thing.

However, the United States fleet, which had lost several ships and retreated to distant waters, had a slightly different focus.

MacArthur, who temporarily took over Joel's position as commander, looked behind his sunglasses at the black stone pillars in the paused image.

A sense of familiarity lingered, as if I had encountered something similar in my memory, but I just couldn't remember what it was.

However, before long, his thoughts were scattered by his agitation.

The fleet suffered heavy losses, and his own men and the superhuman forces he had dispatched were nowhere to be found. Now, Yinghua Island was both subjected to nuclear explosions and a barrier blockade.

Even MacArthur, who had always been able to calmly handle anything, could only silently puff on his corncob pipe, one puff after another.

(End of this chapter)