Pretending to be a genius starts with the civilization advancement assessment.

Chapter 16 Old acquaintance

Lin Yi's gaze fell on the phone screen.

A video, clearly filmed by a passerby with their phone, was playing silently on the screen; the video was shaky and the footage was clearly taken by a passerby.

The filming location appears to be a central square in Lanjing City, the capital of Jiangsu Province, where Helu City is located, with the famous landmark building, Zifeng Tower, towering into the clouds in the background.

However, at this moment, atop this landmark building, coils a colossal, dark purple serpent whose size defies description.

Even with only half of its body visible above the clouds, it is enough to evoke the image of a mythical serpent.

The giant serpent raised its ferocious head high, and with each flick of its barbed tongue, a thick, crimson flame, as powerful as a waterfall of lava, shot out!

The video camera zoomed in and shook wildly, showing several armed helicopters hovering near the giant snake, like moths drawn to a flame, desperately attacking with machine guns and rockets.

Machine gun bullets powerful enough to tear apart tanks struck the giant snake's body, which was covered in dark scales, and only produced a few sparks.

At that moment, a rocket whistled through the air and struck the snake's body, the explosion instantly engulfing it in flames.

The next second, the smoke cleared, and the part of the giant snake that was hit only had slightly charred scales, but its skin was not even broken!
The giant serpent seemed to be enraged. It opened its mouth wide and unleashed an even more terrifying pillar of fire. A helicopter that couldn't dodge in time was instantly engulfed by the flames, disintegrating and exploding in mid-air like a paper toy, turning into a burning wreckage.

Chen Yu looked up at Lin Yi and noticed that Lin Yi's brows were furrowed. He glanced at the claw marks on Lin Yi's body that had almost torn through his armor, pursed his lips, and ultimately said nothing. He simply swiped the screen with trembling fingers.

Screen switching.

This time, it's a shot of the sky taken from below.

Two fighter jets were engaged in a low-altitude dogfight with a giant eagle whose wingspan blotted out the sky and whose body was covered with bluish-black metallic feathers. The giant eagle was as fast as lightning, and the edges of its wings flashed with a sharp, cold light.

At that moment, a missile streaked in from a distance, appearing to be a beyond-visual-range strike launched by another fighter jet or ground troops, and it was about to hit the giant eagle!
However, the giant eagle suddenly opened its beak, and a blinding, air-distorting blue-white lightning bolt shot out, precisely intercepting the missile.

Boom!

The missile exploded in mid-air.

Almost simultaneously, the giant eagle made an incredible, sharp dive, its sharp wings sweeping across the fighter jet's wing.

The fighter jet's wing was severed instantly, like a hot knife through butter. The out-of-balance aircraft tumbled, trailing thick smoke and flames, and plummeted into the distance.

Chen Yu silently tapped the screen, and the image switched again.

This time it's a vast sea.

The photographer was likely aboard an American destroyer or frigate, as he was photographing an aircraft carrier flying the American flag.

This ultimate power, symbolizing human maritime hegemony, is now like a leaf in a raging storm.

A gigantic, squid-like abyssal beast, its size unimaginable, covered in suckers and grotesque mouthparts, tightly coiled around the aircraft carrier's hull with its massive tentacles, as thick as skyscrapers. The naval guns and missiles that struck it were like tickling.

As the steel behemoth emitted a chilling groan, its massive hull was forcefully overturned by the terrifying tentacles, sending countless carrier-based aircraft and personnel crashing into the sea like ants.

"This isn't even the most outrageous thing. Yi-ge, look at this. Isn't this a punishment from heaven?"

As Chen Yu spoke, he swiped his finger, and a highly impactful video appeared on his phone screen.

The background of the video appears to be a series of snow-capped mountains, suggesting it was filmed by mountaineers. Within the clouds, a long, powerful, and slender Eastern dragon coils and meanders. Its body is not covered in scales, but rather by a flowing, azure shield of lightning energy, with countless tiny arcs of electricity leaping and exploding on its surface.

More than ten fighter jets, having likely exhausted their missiles, were now frantically attacking the giant dragon with their machine guns.

The machine guns' fire and beyond-visual-range missiles, trailing plumes of fire, bombarded the blue shield with a dense barrage, like festive fireworks.

However, all attacks, upon touching the shield, vanished as if they had sunk into the sea, merely creating faint ripples of energy before being completely annihilated, unable to even touch a single scale of the dragon.

Just then, the person filming the video seemed to notice something, and the camera suddenly zoomed out to the distant horizon.

A massive missile, trailing a long plume of flame and moving at incredible speed, was tearing through the sky and hurtling toward the dragon in the air with the force of a thunderbolt. Its unique trajectory and speed indicated that it was a ballistic missile!
Boom!

The missile hit the dragon precisely, and a huge fireball, a million times brighter than the sun, exploded in the sky!
The terrifying shockwave spread instantly, completely tearing apart and pushing aside the surrounding clouds. The intense flash even caused the phone screen to overexpose instantly, turning it completely white.

A few seconds later, the bright light dissipated and the image returned to normal.

High in the sky, the huge fireball and smoke from the explosion were slowly spreading and dissipating.

And in the center of that smoke and dust
The giant dragon covered in a blue lightning shield was completely unharmed!

It even gracefully stretched its body, as if it had just been touched by a gentle breeze.

The shield's surface still glowed with blue light, and the electric arcs continued to crackle and leap, seemingly without even the slightest ripple appearing.

The dragon lowered its head slightly, seemingly having grown tired of playing. It then swung its claw in the air, and a blue ripple burst forth and spread, instantly sweeping over the surrounding fighter jets, causing them to explode in mid-air!

The video ends abruptly here.

"They're all familiar faces."

Lin Yi's expression was solemn, and he sighed inwardly.

"Even tactical nuclear weapons are useless, Yi-ge. Look, there are still these... We'll all be dead soon, right?"

Chen Yu didn't even look up, muttering to himself as he kept swiping his phone.

On the streets, packs of Corrosive Abyssal Wolves tore at fleeing crowds, their tails spraying acid that corroded vehicles and walls.

Inside the subway station, a humanoid beast with rock-like skin and scorching steam spewing from its joints smashed through the turnstiles with its massive stone fists and charged into the terrified crowd.

In a city park, a deformed giant dog with multiple heads, spewing poisonous mist and ice spikes, is engaged in a fierce battle with a small squad of police officers, with light weapons having little effect on it.
Lin Yi stopped paying attention to the video. He had seen too many of these things in his previous life. Instead, he keenly sensed that something was wrong with Chen Yu's condition.

"enough!"

"Ayu! That's enough!"

Lin Yi grabbed Chen Yu's hand, stopping him from flipping through the videos. He glanced around and noticed that most people looked ashen-faced and dazed. He subtly raised his voice and said in a deep voice:
"Listen to me, everyone! It's not time to despair yet! The authorities still have large-yield nuclear weapons they haven't used."

"Besides, I just killed two monsters outside, and they left behind something very special!"

(End of this chapter)