HCB Chapter 265 Saving another 1 million
Chapter 265 Saving another 1 million
Despite having his gills destroyed and his chest cavity injured, Cang Yuan remained conscious.
It did one thing: it spat out all its remaining psionic energy reserves, creating a wall of heavy water with a density close to its limit in front of it.
The wall was over a hundred meters thick, and its psionic density was so high that even Song Chen's Eye of Truth couldn't see through it.
Then it turned and ran away.
Sea dragons are the fastest of all sea creatures underwater.
With all four limbs and tail exerting force, Cangyuan's entire body shot towards the deep sea like an arrow.
It didn't turn back, didn't utter any threats, and didn't make any unnecessary moves. Instead, it used all its remaining spiritual energy to accelerate.
When Song Chen broke through the other side of the heavy water wall, Cang Yuan was already thirty kilometers away.
"You run really fast."
Song Chen didn't give chase. Cang Yuan was too fast. If they were on land, they could have caught up, but this was the deep sea.
Moreover, half of its gills were destroyed, and its chest cavity was pierced by the blade's energy. Even if it managed to escape, it would take several years to recover.
Moreover, there may be more Tier 6 units providing support from the deep sea, so chasing too deep alone is not a wise choice.
After Song Chen collected the crystal cores of several beast kings, he turned around and floated upwards.
It was almost dark when he broke the surface of the sea.
Dozens of drones are hovering above the ruins of Tianhai East Fortress, their searchlights illuminating the sea as if it were daytime.
Countless beast corpses floated on the sea surface. The largest six-tier corpses were being towed to shore by tugboats. These were the four beast kings that Song Chen had killed underwater, and their corpses were now surfacing.
On the walls of Tianhai City, countless people are still waiting.
Upon seeing Song Chen set sail, a deafening roar erupted from the city wall.
Soldiers waved their arms on the ramparts, and the communication channels were filled with cheers. Even the most composed veterans were shouting along.
When Song Chen walked back to shore from the sea, black smoke was still rising from the various fortresses.
Zhou Wangyue stood next to a command vehicle that had been overturned by the shockwave. When he saw Song Chen walking over, he nodded with relief.
Song Chen said with some regret, "Teacher, Cang Yuan has escaped. The deep-sea environment is too restrictive; we can't catch up."
"It's normal that the Sea Dragons can't catch up with you underwater. You've killed four Tier 6 dragons, that's enough."
Song Chen didn't reply; he looked down at the system panel.
Kill count: 5750 million.
After killing four level-six beasts, plus those killed on the sea earlier, I've accumulated fifty million.
It's still quite a distance from 100 million.
Song Chen clapped his hands: "Teacher, you handle this mess."
"There's still a retreating tide of beasts on the sea; I'm going to chase them."
Zhou Wangyue glanced at him and nodded.
"How long will it take?"
"Come back when you've killed enough."
Song Chen turned around and stepped back onto the water.
His silhouette stretched out as a white line across the sea, extending into the depths.
Zhou Wangyue stood on the ruins, watching the white line disappear into the night.
Then he turned around and began to organize the cleanup of the battlefield.
……
Ocean.
Song Chen did not dive any deeper. He remained at a depth of fifty meters below the surface, spreading his Eye of Truth to its maximum extent to search for the remnants of the retreating beast tide.
After Cangyuan fled, the retreating beast tide lost its unified command and scattered in all directions.
But the retreat direction is always towards the deep sea, from the continental shelf towards the trench, and from the shallow sea towards the deep sea.
Song Chen only needs to follow the retreat route to catch up.
The first group of defeated soldiers appeared 120 kilometers away.
It was a group of sword-kiss sharks, led by three fifth-tier sharks, followed by more than two hundred fourth-tier sharks, and countless low-tier sea beasts.
They retreated relatively slowly. The stamina of the goblin shark is below average among marine mammals, and long-distance, high-speed swimming is extremely taxing on them.
Song Chen cut directly into the center of the shark swarm.
The field of lightning spread across the water, enveloping the entire group of sharks.
The fourth-tier sword-kiss shark convulsed and rolled belly-up amidst the lightning. The three fifth-tier sharks tried to scatter and escape, but Song Chen caught up with them with three strikes, one strike taking one down.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 19500 kill points]
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 37500 kill points]
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 5644 kill points]
……
The kill count jumped up and down on the system panel.
After killing this batch, the kill count reached 6800 million.
Song Chen glanced at the total amount and continued chasing the deep sea.
The second wave of defeated soldiers was a herd of sea buckthorns.
The spines on the back of the Seathorn automatically detach when retreating, reducing weight and increasing speed.
When Song Chen caught up with them, most of the sea beetles had already shed their spines, and their bare backs looked like turtles without their shells.
The lightning field swept through.
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 3900 kill points]
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 36500 kill points]
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 4223 kill points]
……
The kill count has reached 82 million.
Then came the remnants of the iron-boned whale pod.
Iron-boned whales were the main force in this beast tide, and therefore suffered the most heavy losses.
Start the killing!
Three minutes later, the kill count reached 87 million.
Song Chen continued his pursuit into the deep sea, maintaining a speed of 2,000 kilometers per hour, his Eye of Truth always locked onto the fleeing psionic light ahead.
Moonlight penetrates the sea surface, turning into shimmering spots of light underwater.
A school of fish swept past him; some were strange beasts, while others were just ordinary fish.
He only kills exotic beasts; the system doesn't recognize ordinary creatures.
After chasing for another eighty kilometers, he encountered a group of stragglers.
Sea scorpion beast, mutated sea serpent, scaled fish...
The majority are second-tier, with a few fourth-tier ones interspersed.
These are low-level sea monsters that served as fillers during the beast tide. They were left behind by the main force during the retreat, so they were slow and had a low density, but their numbers were considerable.
Song Chen expanded the diameter of the lightning field to eight hundred meters, sweeping it across like a trawling net.
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 185 kill points]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 210 kill points]
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 3400 kill points]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 172 kill points]
……
The kill count is 93 million.
Song Chen stepped onto the water and looked around.
The sea surface was covered with corpses—sword sharks, sea beetles, iron-boned whales, sea scorpions—of all shapes and sizes, spread across the surface like an uneven carpet.
The moonlight shone on the dead fish's eyes and its white belly, reflecting a bleak, silvery-gray hue.
Some of the corpses were still twitching slightly, their nerve endings not quite dead.
Song Chen stood amidst the corpses and let out a breath.
"Seven million is still needed."
He continued deeper into the sea.
The deeper into the sea, the fewer defeated soldiers there are.
Cangyuan's order to retreat had clearly traveled far, and most of the strange beasts had already dispersed into the deep sea.
Song Chen chased for another 150 kilometers, only encountering a few scattered sea creatures.
Ninety-six million.
After chasing for another thirty kilometers, a lone iron-boned whale appeared on the sea. It seemed to have retreated from another direction and was not one of the group from the Tianhai Battlefield.
It is a little over 300 meters long, at the initial stage of the fifth rank, and has an old claw mark on its back.
Song Chen solved it with a single slash.
They continued their pursuit, and a long stretch of sky appeared over the sea.
The moonlight shone on the smooth sea surface. There were no strange beasts, only the occasional ordinary flying fish leaping out of the water.
Song Chen continued eastward, his Eye of Truth searching every inch of the sea.
He encountered the last group of defeated soldiers at a distance of 480 kilometers in a straight line from Tianhai City.
A group of sword-kiss sharks, the leader of which was twice the size of a normal sword-kiss shark, approaching the threshold of the fifth rank but not yet having broken through.
Song Chen wasted no time. With the first strike of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes, the blade energy sliced across the sea, splitting the shark swarm in two.
The electric arc follows up, finishing off the lone attacker.
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 3900 kill points]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 554 kill points]
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 3740 kill points]
……
After killing the group of sharks.
The kill count has reached 104.23 points.
Just right.