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Chapter 1723 Melting Damage Area
Connors is like a giant terracotta figure, barely held together by lava and flames, on the verge of disintegration; every step could be the last.

The behemoth has not yet truly set foot in the sea, but its very existence has already become a catastrophic harbinger for the ocean:

When Connors's mountain-like remains finally approached the coastline, the nature of the disaster was no longer a physical impact, but a self-continuous purgatory composed of pure energy and destructive matter.

With each step he took, the already riddled earth transformed into flowing lava ravines amidst muffled groans.

Even more terrifying was the invisible death domain—with him at its core, within a radius of several kilometers, the air had long since exceeded scorching heat; it was heated to the edge of plasma, emitting a blinding incandescent glow.

This was not ordinary radiant heat, but rather a terrifying energy leaking from the raging, collapsing "star core" within his body—energy powerful enough to instantly sublimate steel.

This energy is like billions of invisible, red-hot steel needles, piercing the near-shore seawater.

And so, the sea boiled.

It wasn't a gentle bubbling, but an apocalyptic rage.

Within a radius of several kilometers, the seawater was heated to far above the boiling point in a fraction of a second, as if it had been slammed into a boiling oil pan by an invisible giant's hand.

The deafening roar was the roar of billions of cubic meters of seawater instantly vaporizing. A wall of clouds, composed of pure white, scalding hot water vapor filled with death, rose from the ground amidst the suffocating heat and deafening noise, soaring straight into the sky and blotting out the sun.

This was by no means a clean cloud; it greedily carried with it the highly toxic ash ejected from Connors' body as it continued to burn and disintegrate—high concentrations of heavy metal dust, incompletely burned carbonized organic matter, and most deadly fission products and activated particles with half-lives of thousands of years.

The steam cloud instantly transformed into a moving, high-temperature, high-humidity, high-radiation, and highly toxic wall of hell, rolling and roaring as it rushed inland.

Wherever it passes, the air corrodes metal and concrete like strong acid, vegetation instantly carbonizes and withers, and creatures that cannot escape have their lungs charred the moment they inhale the first breath of the scorching toxic mist.

This wall of death is a terrifying mixture of acid rain, poisonous gas, and invisible neutron streams, proclaiming the complete demise of the edge of civilization.

In coastal areas, the laws of physics are distorted and deformed in the face of extreme energy.

The sea temperature had already soared by hundreds of degrees before Connors even set foot there.

This once vibrant body of water was instantly transformed into a pot of boiling soup.

Massive numbers of fish, shellfish, plankton, and even resilient algae die instantly, are cooked, and decomposed in the ultra-high temperatures, before they even have a chance to struggle.

But this was only the prelude to disaster.

Radioactive dust emanating from Connors' body, like billions of deadly seeds, was either injected directly into the ocean or settled on the scalding seabed along with boiling water and rising steam.

Cesium-137, Strontium-90, Plutonium-239... These names, which are most feared by mankind, are forcibly stuffed into the marine ecological cycle at concentrations that exceed the natural background levels by tens of millions of times.

The fate of this sea area is sealed—it will become an underwater desert with radiation levels far exceeding those of the "Red Forest" outside the Chernobyl sarcophagus, where only the most primitive microorganisms will struggle to survive for hundreds or even thousands of years.

The foundation of the ecosystem has been completely destroyed, leaving behind only a desolate blue desert.

The colossal, lava-like feet of the beast finally touched the edge of the shallow sea.

In an instant, the scale of destruction expanded exponentially. Its mass, comparable to that of an asteroid impacting Earth, and its unimaginable heat (its core temperature is estimated to be far greater than that of the sun's surface), instantly penetrated the relatively cold seawater.

The point of contact unleashed a devastating burst of energy.

This is no longer a simple boiling, but a planetary-scale explosion triggered by a phase transition of matter.

Leidenfrost effect?

No, at this moment the effect is as insignificant as a candle flame in a solar storm!
The contact between the icy seawater and Connors's molten body triggered a violent phase transition that exceeded the limits of physics.

The seawater does not vaporize uniformly, but is heated to terrifying temperatures far exceeding the critical point within a fraction of a second of contact, and some of it is even ionized.

High-pressure steam bubbles are generated and expand within nanoseconds, and then compressed and collapsed at supersonic speeds by the massive amount of seawater surging in from the surrounding area—the cavitation effect is pushed to its extreme.

Each collapse is a miniature vacuum implosion, releasing shock waves and unimaginable local high temperatures (theoretically estimated to reach tens of thousands of Kelvin instantaneously). These microscopic explosions converge on a macroscopic scale to form a continuous, earth-shattering roar.

"Boom—Crack—!!!"

It was like millions of depth charges detonating simultaneously on the seabed.

The shockwaves were visible to the naked eye, forming countless pale white shock rings in the boiling seawater, spreading violently in all directions.

The seabed is as if it is being repeatedly hammered by an invisible giant hammer, vibrating violently and cracking.

What soared into the sky was no longer a wall of steam, but the boiling seawater itself!

A massive, milky-white, deadly fluid, like scalding milk mixed with asphalt and ash, carrying along torn seabed silt, molten rock, and highly radioactive fragments from Connors' disintegrating body, formed a filthy pillar connecting hell and heaven, shooting straight up into the stratosphere thousands of meters high.

Its top curls and spreads out, forming a super mushroom cloud that covers the sky, is murky, and continues to expand by absorbing the rising matter below.

At the heart of this cloud lies an absolutely deadly inferno: ultra-high temperature steam, high concentration of acid mist, heavy metal aerosols, and an invisible storm composed of gamma rays and high-energy particle streams.

It is the most grotesque carving on the tombstone of civilization.

Connors's giant foot, made of molten metal, scorching rock, and unknown high-strength material, slammed heavily into the shallow seabed.

Under the combined effects of absolute high temperature and enormous pressure, the sediments and bedrock at the contact point did not even have time to melt before they directly sublimated and vaporized or transformed into an amorphous, obsidian-like but extremely complex and bizarre glassy melt.

Large amounts of gases dissolved in the sediments (methane, hydrogen sulfide, etc.) are released instantly and ignited or catalyzed by high temperatures into new toxic gases, forming countless churning and exploding giant bubbles in the boiling seawater, further exacerbating the sea's ferocity.

With each step he took, he left a giant crater on the seabed, hundreds of meters in diameter, filled with dark red and orange-yellow lava.

The icy seawater rushed in and filled the void, instantly triggering an even more violent steam explosion that propelled his massive and mangled body to sink even faster.

His burning, constantly crumbling and peeling body was tightly enveloped in a churning, milky-white "hellish soup" made from a mixture of superheated seawater, deadly poisonous gas, molten glass fragments, and radioactive mud, as thick as asphalt.

(End of this chapter)