Chapter 338: Summoning the World, Sea Demon Clan
Boom!
A thunderous roar erupted at the seabed, the sound of the explosion muffled beneath the water, sounding like distant thunder.
Jian Qing and Jiang Shaoran, along with the Special Forces warriors, worked together to create a vortex reaching the seabed, creating an air environment, and then launched a nuclear bomb to destroy the crack on the ocean floor.
A mushroom cloud burst from the vortex, soaring into the sky, forming a mushroom cloud.
Though most of the power of the seabed explosion was absorbed by the water, it still formed a mushroom cloud over a thousand meters high on the sea surface.
The escorting warship had retreated ten kilometers in advance, yet still witnessed a massive wave like a tsunami rolling over during the explosion.
Fortunately, the giant wave lifted by the blast shockwave was only one ring, and the warship at ten kilometers only shook fiercely for a moment, not being greatly impacted.
The Special Forces warriors executing the mission, under the protection of Jian Qing, Cao Lixiong, Liu Haiyang, and Jiang Shaoran's tide summoning abilities, endured the shockwave of the explosion.
After completing the mission, six of the ten Ocean System Warriors received enlistment notifications.
[Abyss Battlefield: Enlistment countdown 7 days.]
Mission completion and enlistment information were immediately relayed to the Great Xia Southern War Zone Headquarters.
Upon hearing the adjutant's report, Li Guining promptly ordered: "Recall the Special Forces members who received enlistment notifications, and convey the message to all war zones to summon all enlisted warriors for battle preparation."
The six Ocean System Warriors, having just completed the mission in the Andaman Sea, hastily returned home by plane.
Those team members not enlisted in the Special Forces remained in the Andaman Sea to carry out subsequent tasks, clearing shipping lanes and establishing a naval port, securing control over the lanes.
This was the condition negotiated when Dragon Power initially resolved the shipping lane crisis, but actually gaining control of the lanes was not so easy.
In this era when order teeters on collapse, combat power dictates the global landscape.
The Lion City Strait is Blue Star's primary shipping lane, with a quarter of the world's goods passing through here.
The country originally controlling this area is unlikely to relinquish it easily; both sides will not easily open fire, but overt and covert struggles persist.
Blue Star is like a chessboard, the game between major powers akin to playing Go, where pieces are not easily captured, and the deciding move could be as little as one stone.
Now, with Great Xia relying on the Special Forces to defuse the lane crisis, it has placed a piece in the Andaman Sea, waiting to see how the opponent responds.
...
Great Xia.
Southern War Zone Headquarters.
The war zone recalled all enlisted Special Forces members, while issuing summons orders domestically to gather warriors with the same enlistment timing.
Lu Heng glanced at the countdown time sent back, comparing it to his own enlistment information.
[Abyss Battlefield: Enlistment countdown 6 days 23 hours 37 minutes 58 seconds.]
The timing was indeed precise.
This implied not only the six Ocean System Warriors from the Special Forces were enlisted, but he too was enlisted.
Since he was enlisted, the other three team members would surely be enlisted together.
Lu Heng took out his phone, checking the team's group messages.
Su Muyu, Lin Zeyu, and Xie Shi'en had already sent messages confirming their enlistment countdowns and inquiring about gathering times.
Lu Heng posted a message in the team group: I'm at Southern War Zone Headquarters, come over.
Li Guining summoned war zone advisor Qi Jinhui to organize tasks: "This enlistment preparation is entrusted to you."
Qi Jinhui was about to assent.
Lu Heng raised a hand, interjecting: "I need to participate in this enlistment preparation."
With the mission at the front completed and enlistment information arising, the war zone command center became bustling, leaving Li Guining no time to converse with Lu Heng. Upon hearing Lu Heng's words, a realization struck him immediately.
He made a decisive call, rearranging roles: "This enlistment preparation task is assigned to Comrade Lu Heng, with Advisor Qi assisting, fully supported by the war zone headquarters."
"Yes!" Qi Jinhui stood at attention with a salute, responding loudly.
...
Over half an hour later.
Su Muyu, Lin Zeyu, and Xie Shi'en arrived at Southern War Zone Headquarters.
Lu Heng located a meeting room for a brief exchange with the trio.
"I saw the war zone headquarters bustling when I came in; is it due to many people in the war zone being enlisted?" Su Muyu's perception was strong, gathering much information upon entry.
"Indeed, among the newly recruited ten Ocean System Warriors in the Special Forces, six were enlisted." Lu Heng revealed this crucial detail.
Lin Zeyu raised an eyebrow, blurting out: "So many Fishman Warriors enlisted, is this enlistment related to the ocean?"
He typically appears as if he dislikes thinking, but he's far from foolish, having derived patterns from numerous encounters in the Abyss Battlefield.
Lu Heng, bearing extra information from his rebirth, had already inferred the target world for this enlistment, directly stating:
"Yes, this enlistment concerns the ocean, and I have additional information. The target world for this enlistment is likely a civilization existing beneath the sea."
Hearing this, the trio's expressions showed a hint of surprise.
Xie Shi'en interrogated: "Is it a technological civilization or a magic civilization?"
This distinction is crucial.
A technological civilization would find survival underwater exceedingly challenging.
It's not that survival is impossible, just that many technologies would be hard to realize.