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Chapter 1808 The Destruction of the World Is Imminent

Within seconds of the energy sphere's creation, this area had become a boiling, absolute dead zone filled with deadly radiation and molten rock.

The earth's crust emitted a mournful cry, unable to bear the weight any longer.

Enormous cracks spread like a spider web, reaching deep into the mantle. Ancient geological faults were forcibly activated, and stress accumulated over millions of years began to be released prematurely under the catalysis of destructive energy.

A dull tremor, originating from the depths of the planet, began to superimpose on the pulsation of the energy sphere itself.

The third ripple: Death currents and infrasonic lament (radius: beyond 50 kilometers, continuing to spread).
Although the destructive force was relatively reduced, the transmission of destruction did not stop. The extremely powerful shock wave transformed into a devastating pressure wave propagating in the water.

Using water as a medium, it travels at speeds far exceeding the speed of sound in the air, forming ever-expanding, destructive "water hammers."

The distant underwater mountain ranges had their peaks collapsed, and vast deep-sea plains were ploughed into deep trenches. Fragile deep-sea ecosystems—coral forests and sponge gardens—were reduced to dust within seconds.

Even more deadly is infrasound. The ultra-low frequency pulsations of the energy core, originating from the forced resonance of matter, and the vibrations generated when the earth's crust is torn apart, combine to generate infrasound that can travel thousands of kilometers or even circle the globe.

It is below the range of human hearing, yet it can resonate with the internal organs of organisms (especially large marine animals).

Hundreds of kilometers away, a pod of sperm whales diving deep suddenly went berserk, rolling and thrashing in agony, their internal organs rupturing in silent vibrations; migrating whales lost their way and were stranded on unfamiliar shores.

This infrasound lament is the first and most subtle death signal that the disaster in the abyss is transmitting to the wider ocean.

At the same time, the seawater, heated to its extreme (although diluted), began to form a huge upward heat flow.

These "death currents," carrying high concentrations of radioactive particles, toxic metal ions (from melted seabed mineral deposits), and pulverized organic debris, are beginning to spread into the middle and even the surface of the ocean, like a potent poison injected into the global ocean circulation system.

The very existence of the energy sphere is like a red-hot iron plunged into the Earth's fragile crust. Its continuous burning and immense pressure on the underlying rock layers finally ignited a long-simmering geological rage.

The birth of a major earthquake: Directly beneath the energy sphere, the weakest point in the Earth's crust collapses first.

A devastating earthquake has occurred, with initial estimates exceeding 9.5 on the Richter scale (and possibly even higher, as conventional magnitudes can be distorted at such extreme depths and energy sources).

The epicenter was extremely shallow, almost directly below the point of impact.

This is not a slow release of energy from sliding between tectonic plates, but rather the instantaneous tearing and pulverization of the hard and brittle lithosphere by unimaginable external forces.

The devastation on the seabed: The seabed in the epicenter area was as if trampled by a giant, sinking hundreds of meters in an instant. It was then lifted up by the surrounding rock layers and lava, forming twisted and bizarre new mountain rudiments and bottomless rift valleys.

The seismic waves spread outwards with overwhelming force, further amplifying and complicating the damage caused by the second and third layers of ripples.

The gestation of the tsunami: This super earthquake instantly altered the volume of a massive amount of seabed topography, triggering the most terrifying tsunami in history.

Hundreds of millions of tons of seawater were forcibly displaced, and a death wall of water, with an initial wave height possibly exceeding one kilometer (in the deep sea, wave height is not easily perceived, but the energy is enormous), began to form, rushing towards the coastlines in all directions at the speed of a jet airliner. Its energy was enough to submerge low-lying continental shelves and penetrate hundreds of kilometers inland.

The volcanic inferno begins: the fissures torn open by the earthquake become rapid channels for mantle lava.

Under the direct heat of the energy sphere and the pressure released by the earthquake, mantle material surged upward at an unprecedented speed and scale.

Supervolcano eruption: Near the impact point, several or even dozens of huge craters erupt violently on the seabed.

This is no longer a typical underwater "black smoker," but a devastating eruption comparable to a terrestrial supervolcano.

Viscous, gas-rich basaltic magma, and even andesitic magma, is violently ejected into high-pressure seawater, forming lava columns that can reach heights of several thousand meters.

The moment the seawater comes into contact with the magma, a violent "fuel coolant interaction" (FCI) explosion occurs, generating an even more powerful shock wave and a massive amount of ultra-high temperature steam.

Toxic cloud: The eruption brings out not only lava, but also huge amounts of volcanic ash, sulfides (such as sulfur dioxide, which forms sulfuric acid aerosol), halogen gases (such as fluorine and chlorine), and carbon dioxide.

These substances are carried into the middle layer of the ocean by the jet stream, and may even break through the sea surface and enter the atmosphere.

Even if most of it is absorbed by seawater, it is enough to create a deadly, acidic, oxygen-deprived, and high-temperature "death zone" around the eruption point, which then spreads with ocean currents.

The doomsday carnival of "black smokers": The original hydrothermal vent system is completely activated or distorted, spewing out fluids with higher temperatures and greater toxicity, which may be mixed with abnormal radioactive isotopes activated or induced by energy spheres, forming new and more deadly "radiothermal springs".

On the distant ocean surface, in the eyes of the global ocean monitoring network and near-Earth orbit satellites, this disaster in the heart of the planet is revealing its destructive outline through a series of despairingly abnormal data.

Infrasound arrays: Infrasound listening stations distributed across the ocean floor have recorded the most powerful and lowest-frequency continuous pulse signals ever recorded.

The signal source pointed to that deep-sea trench, and its intensity and spectral characteristics exceeded the scope of all known models (earthquakes, volcanoes, nuclear explosions). The analysis computer crashed due to data overflow.

The operator stared at the constantly fluctuating peaks on the screen, a sign of destruction, his face turning ashen.

Deep-sea temperature and chemical sensors: An array of sensors deployed hundreds of kilometers away from the incident site transmitted catastrophic data in an extremely short time: the water temperature instantly soared by tens of degrees Celsius (an astronomical figure in the deep sea), the water pressure fluctuated violently, the dissolved oxygen content plummeted to zero, the radiation dose rate (gamma, neutron) soared thousands of times above the safety threshold, and at the same time, an explosive increase in the concentration of abnormal metal ions (such as mercury, lead, and radioactive elements) was detected.

Instead of climbing up the screen, the data cable plunged almost vertically into the red area representing destruction.

Satellite remote sensing: Optical satellites captured an unusually large and persistent white vapor cloud (formed by the vaporization of ultra-high temperature seawater) over that sea area, which appeared as a bright spot even at night due to thermal radiation.

More sensitive radiation detection satellites detected unusual gamma-ray and neutron flux signals penetrating from the deep sea, as well as volcanic gas components such as sulfur dioxide rapidly diffusing in the atmosphere.

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