Chapter 188 Submarine
Leviathan's gaze was as cold as the abyss, penetrating the steel plates and blood mist, and taking in everything in the watertight compartment. Those cold eyes contained no emotion, yet seemed to be able to judge everything, causing an indescribable sense of oppression to rise from the depths of one's soul.
"This thing... How could it appear here..." Klaus murmured softly, the long blue blade in his hand trembling slightly. He had never seen such an existence before. Even as a half-blood of the Holy Palace, his blood instinctively felt fear when facing this power from the depths of the sea.
The nine heads of the Hydra curled up completely together, making a desperate and trembling low roar, like a child who had made a mistake facing a real god.
Vincent looked at Leviathan in horror and murmured, "It is the gatekeeper of the Kingdom of God... It will not allow anyone to open that door... All blasphemers will be devoured by it... We are all finished..."
Leviathan's huge mouth slowly opened, and the low whale song sounded again, like the last elegy between heaven and earth. The song not only shook the air in the cabin, but also made the entire YAMAL begin to groan under the heavy burden. The steel plates twisted and shattered under the interweaving of extreme cold and huge force. Tiny ice crystals condensed from all directions, like the spread of cold death.
"The hull can't hold!" a guard shouted in horror.
Klaus's face turned pale, and he suddenly turned back and yelled: "Retreat! Everyone get out of the water immediately!"
Lu Mingfei frowned as he looked at the giant whale. There were still his people on the ship, and he couldn't let the whale destroy the ship.
"Mai," he whispered, his eyes never leaving Leviathan, but his tone was calm and decisive, "Organize everyone to retreat, try to stay away from the watertight compartment and the stern, and tell the exploration team to bring their equipment and assemble on the deck."
Jiude Mai looked serious and nodded: "I understand, but what about you?"
Lu Mingfei slowly took a step forward and stood as close to Leviathan as possible. His voice was low and calm: "I'll go and deal with it."
As Lu Mingfei stepped forward, the black membrane wings behind him slowly spread out as if growing from the void, and the Budū Yuhun appeared in his hand.
Leviathan's gaze rested on Lu Mingfei, and there seemed to be a subtle hint of vigilance in that cold gaze.
The beast's singing came to an abrupt halt, and the atmosphere in the cabin suddenly became tense. The Hydra shrank even tighter at this moment, and its instinct drove it to bow its head and submit to Leviathan, but the murderous intent emanating from Lu Mingfei made it dare not act rashly.
Klaus looked at Lu Mingfei with a complicated expression. He gripped the long blade tightly and said in a low voice: "This kid...what is he?"
"Mr. Klaus! We must evacuate!" a hybrid reminded anxiously, his eyes full of fear.
But Klaus did not move. He stared at Lu Mingfei, as if trying to see through the true face of this young man.
Just when Lu Mingfei was about to take action, a strange noise was heard in the cabin. Maria's tentacles actually spread to the nuclear power cabin not far away, intending to detonate the small nuclear reactor inside.
The moment Maria's tentacles touched the nuclear power cabin, the alarm suddenly sounded, and the piercing alarm lights flashed continuously throughout the cabin, indicating that the nuclear reactor's safety system had been destroyed and entered an irreversible countdown.
"Nuclear power compartment damaged, danger level: red alert, countdown ten minutes, evacuate immediately!"
The sound of cold machinery echoed in the cabin, and everyone's expression became more terrified because of this sudden disaster.
Lu Mingfei's eyes fixed, and a hint of coldness flashed in his golden pupils. His voice was low, but unquestionable: "Ma Yi, take everyone to evacuate, now!"
Jiude Mai was stunned for a moment, then realized the seriousness of the situation and nodded quickly: "Understood! Boss, be careful!"
After that, she turned and rushed to the exit, commanding the remaining personnel to retreat. At the same time, she issued an urgent order to the exploration team. The hybrids and guards also began to evacuate in a panic. Only Vincent remained where he was, looking at Maria with complicated emotions in his eyes.
"Maria, you really hate me..." Vincent's memories surged out in chaos, his eyes fixed on the tentacles that were gradually destroying the cabin, his heart filled with regret and fear. The secrets hidden deep in his soul were now completely revealed like a cold wind blowing across the ice.
In 1939, Vincent won Maria's heart with sweet words and deceived her into marriage. Maria had not yet stepped into the abyss of the Kingdom of God at that time and was only a mysterious witch. Vincent, on the other hand, was a speculator who would do anything for power and wealth. He regarded marriage as his passport and Maria's talent and belief as his ladder.
“Together we will change the world.”
When he said this, Maria believed it. She even thought she had found a companion, a soul mate.
However, in 1943, when the mysterious expedition was about to begin, Vincent chose to escape. He was afraid of the unknown deep sea, and even more afraid that he would not be able to bear the consequences of failure. On the destroyer outside the ice zone, he watched Maria's back disappear in the cold wind from afar. Together with her was the man who was called the Führer at the time, the leader who was obsessed with the Kingdom of God.
When Maria and the Führer returned from the sunken ship, she was no longer the same as before. There was a deep and terrifying light in her eyes, and her body exuded an indescribable pressure. It was not just a sequelae of the expedition, but something "indescribable" awakened in her body.
After the war, Vincent fled to Argentina with a damaged Maria, fearful and greedy, trying to use time to heal her pain while keeping her secrets firmly in his hands.
A year ago, when Maria's body was completely out of control, Vincent made the cruelest decision of his life. He couldn't stand the fear, nor could he face the monster he created, so he ordered people to build an iron box, stuffed Maria's body into it, and filled it with cement.
“I’m sorry, Maria,” he whispered at the time, knowing she might not hear him. “This is all about survival.”
But in fact, he knew that this was not only to survive, but also to cover up the sins of his half-life.
At this moment, Vincent watched the tentacles climbing up the nuclear power cabin, the countdown of the nuclear alarm echoing in his ears, his face was pale, and despair was revealed in his eyes: "Maria... I just want to live, I just... just..."
However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a low sound coming from Maria's chest.
"Betrayer...you will pay the price."
Maria's voice was hoarse and full of hatred. Her tentacles slammed into the hull of the nuclear power cabin, and the entire hull shook violently, as if it would be destroyed in the next moment.
Lu Mingfei watched all this, his eyes calm but full of pressure. His gaze briefly paused between Maria and Vincent, and finally fell on the ever-shortening countdown.
"three minutes."
The cold mechanical sound of the countdown echoed in the air.
"I don't want to get involved in your family affairs." Lu Mingfei's voice was calm, but it was chilling. He waved his Budu Yuhun gently, and a black light swept through the air, cutting off part of Maria's tentacles. "Mai, evacuate everyone to a safe distance, I'll deal with this guy." Lu Mingfei ordered, his eyes never leaving Maria.
Maria's pupils suddenly turned to Lu Mingfei, and endless hatred and pain burned in those vertical pupils: "You are also one of them...Destroy, everyone will have to pay the price for my pain!"
Lu Mingfei just smiled coldly: "You can take revenge if you want, but nothing can happen to my people." He raised the Budu Yuhun and rushed towards Maria and the nuclear reactor like a flash of lightning.
At this moment, Leviathan let out a low and long whale song, like a command from the deep sea. The sea surface began to freeze rapidly, trying to freeze everything.
Lu Mingfei wanted to stop the nuclear reactor from exploding, but it was too late, and he flew towards the people who had gathered on the deck.
At the last ten seconds, Lu Mingfei finally arrived at the deck. He looked around and confirmed that everyone had gathered, including Rijireve. He raised the Budu Yuhun without hesitation and stared at the ship below that was gradually losing control.
"Hold on tight, this might get a little exciting."
At the moment the countdown reached zero, a violent vibration was felt from the stern of the ship, and the nuclear reactor exploded completely. Dazzling light gushed out from deep within the cabin, and the scorching energy devoured everything around it like a ferocious beast.
The explosion of the nuclear reactor tore the hull below, flames and shock waves swept in like huge waves, the scorching light pierced the sky, and the deafening roar mixed with the sound of the hull breaking, as if announcing the end of the deep sea.
Lu Mingfei was suspended in the air, and the membrane wings behind him were like a protective barrier, firmly protecting Jiude Mai, Rijileifu, and all the team members who evacuated to the deck.
The hot energy outside the membrane wing crashed like a tide, blowing away the black ball formed by Lu Mingfei.
The light of the nuclear explosion pierced through the depths of the ocean like the scorching sun, dyeing the night sky blood red. The frenzy of energy stirred up layers of ice chips on Leviathan's body. The originally indestructible ice armor began to crack, and the figure of the giant beast looked particularly desolate in the blazing torrent.
Leviathan's low whale song sounded. This time, its voice was no longer cold, but carried an unspeakable sadness and majesty. Its huge body slowly sank to the bottom of the sea amid the impact of the nuclear explosion.
As the energy of the nuclear explosion gradually dissipated, the YAMAL turned into wreckage and slowly sank into the deep sea.
"Damn it... I almost flipped over here." The black ball formed by Lu Mingfei was directly blown away for several kilometers. When he landed on the ground, he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. Now he was facing the explosion of a nuclear bomb head-on, and he was not unscathed, but fortunately, the few people under the protection of his membrane wings were safe and sound.
"Boss, are you okay?" Jiude Mai quickly came to Lu Mingfei's side. Her voice was anxious and her eyes were fixed on the fatigue on his face and the blood at the corner of his mouth.
Lu Mingfei waved his hands to indicate that he could still hold on. He slowly straightened up, and the black membrane wings behind him vibrated gently twice before disappearing into the air.
His eyes swept around. The desolate ice field stretched as far as the eye could see. The cold wind blew on everyone's face, bringing a biting chill.
"I'm fine," Lu Mingfei looked up at the dim sky in the distance and sighed, "But our problems have just begun."
Rigid Reeves walked up to him, her expression serious: "You mean, there will be more trouble next?"
"Trouble?" Lu Mingfei coughed and smiled helplessly. "We don't even have trouble now. Even surviving has become a problem. Look around us - there are no ships, no materials, no supplies, only ice and snow. If we don't find a way to survive, we will all freeze to death."
Jiude Mai's communication equipment was severely interfered with. After trying many times, she shook her head helplessly: "There is no signal... The environment here is too harsh. There is no way to contact the outside world in a short time."
At this moment, a low sound came from the distance, like the muffled sound of ice breaking, or like the low roar of some creature coming from the deep sea.
Reggie Reeves' expression changed, and she quickly looked at Lu Mingfei: "Did you hear that?"
"I heard it." Lu Mingfei's expression was solemn, his eyes locked on the direction of the voice, "It seems that our troubles are not over yet."
A huge black object emerged from under the ice. It turned out to be the command tower of a submarine.
On the icy wasteland, the abruptly appearing black submarine command tower is particularly eye-catching. The sound of breaking ice is still echoing in the ears, and the huge steel hull is gradually emerging from under the deep ice.
This is not an ordinary submarine, but Russia's most advanced Borei-class nuclear submarine, representing the pinnacle of deep-sea technology.
"God of the North Wind..." Jiude Mai recognized its model at a glance, with shock and confusion in her tone, "Why did this submarine appear here?"
Lu Mingfei stared at the submarine calmly with sharp eyes. He did not answer, but tilted his head slightly and gestured to Jiude Mai: "Can you contact the submarine? See if there are any living people."
Jude Mai immediately adjusted the communication equipment and tried to access the submarine's frequency, but there was only snow and noise on the instrument screen, and the signal was chaotic.
"No response." Jiude Mai shook her head, frowning, "The interior of the submarine may also be disturbed."
Ridgelife looked alert: "The appearance of this submarine is too coincidental. We just escaped from the nuclear explosion and saw this... I suggest not to approach it rashly."
Lu Mingfei thought for a moment, but then walked towards the submarine. His tone was firm and unquestionable: "We have no way out. This submarine is our only chance to survive."
Just then the submarine's hatch opened and a man came out.
When Lu Mingfei saw the man's face, he was shocked. It was a face he had never expected.
"Mom..." Lu Mingfei murmured to himself.
The woman who walked out of the submarine hatch was standing straight, wearing a dark gray military windbreaker, and her face was almost exactly the same as the mother in her memory.
(End of this chapter)
