Crossover Anime: How a Shameless Person Lives

Chapter 227 Thalassemia, the Beginning of Naval Warfare

Yamada is a Japanese Navy captain and the commander of the destroyer he is standing on.

He started to feel that the world was getting crazier and crazier six months ago.

First, there were the mysteriously appearing parasitic beasts, then there were man-eating ghouls among the higher-ups. Urban legends that were once just jokes started to appear more frequently, and even more horrifying cases were reported from time to time in the small towns and villages in the countryside.

Rumors of demons have also spread from Amelia's side, along with recent events such as the destruction of the British capital and an aircraft carrier being dragged into the water by a giant monster.

These are all things he has access to.

"The world is becoming increasingly dangerous..."

Yamada looked down at the sea, dark and deep, as if a huge shadow was staring at him.

As a veteran who has served for more than 20 years, he had never felt that the ocean was so terrifying.

Today, in particular, this fear reached its peak. In the past 20 years, he had never felt such a strong urge to escape the sea.

"Damn it, please don't let anything happen. After this mission, I can go back to my daughter's wedding."

What are you muttering about?

The vice-captain walked over and patted him on the back.

"It's nothing, just a little uneasy. Hopefully, we can complete the mission as usual this time," Yamada said solemnly.

"Of course." The vice-captain's words were without the slightest hesitation. "It's just about luring those brainless sea monsters to a designated location. Haven't we done this many times? Come to think of it, I've been with you for 10 years. This kind of safe mission is practically tailor-made for lazy people like us."

"Things are different now," Yamada murmured, his gaze fixed on the vast, dark sea. "Recently, all the giant beasts in the seas have become strange. I heard that the Ningen giant beast herd in Antarctica suffered a terrible massacre."

Upon hearing this, the deputy captain's heart tightened.

He had read about the Ningen group in Antarctica.

To put it bluntly, those monsters that live in groups and whose individual members reach over 100 meters in length usually operate in groups of dozens.

On this vast ocean, let alone slaughtering them, there are very few giant beasts that can even go toe-to-toe with them.

"Captain, are you sure...?"

Before he could finish speaking, the ship suddenly shuddered slightly.

The vibrations were so subtle that the soldiers on deck wouldn't even notice anything amiss; they would simply mistake it for ordinary waves hitting the ship.

But Yamada's heart suddenly clenched, and every hair on his body stood on end.

A 20-year naval veteran's intuition is never wrong. This isn't a wave, absolutely not.

"What's wrong?" The vice-captain noticed his sudden tense expression and subconsciously straightened his back to look at the sea.

At this moment, the sky was cloudless, the sea surface was as smooth as a dead mirror, there were no waves, and the view was empty, with nothing unusual in sight.

"Sound! Check the sound data immediately!" Yamada instantly suppressed all distracting thoughts, his voice suddenly becoming sharp and serious.

"Hi!"

The sonar operator on duty on the bridge immediately looked down at the screen, his fingertips rapidly swiping across the screen. A few seconds later, he looked up, his face full of confusion: "Reporting, sir, everything is normal. There are no large marine organisms in the area, and all depth and hydrographic parameters are within acceptable limits."

The vice-captain breathed a sigh of relief and comforted him, "You're too nervous. Although strange events are happening all over the world, the habits of the giant sea monsters have never changed. They will only follow the bait and will not actively approach the warship."

In two more hours, we'll have deployed the bait and completed the towing mission, then we can head back to rest. Later, we'll go to an izakaya for a nice drink.

Yamada didn't relax for a second. The tremor just now was too real, as if some enormous creature had gently brushed against the hull of the destroyer in the deep sea.

He gripped the binoculars tightly, his gaze sweeping across the boundless Black Sea, and said in a deep voice, "Notify all personnel: Level 1 alert. Weapon systems on standby. All detection equipment fully operational. Do not overlook any subtle anomalies."

Seeing Yamada's unprecedentedly solemn expression, the vice-captain nodded into the communicator and relayed the instructions.

In an instant, the entire destroyer quietly entered a state of alert. The previously relaxed crew members all took their positions, the cold shipboard weapons slowly started up, the radar operated at high speed, and the screen was densely filled with sea area detection data.

The sea remained deathly still.

There were no waves, no unusual sounds; the entire sea was so quiet it was suffocating.

In just a few minutes, a suffocating silence enveloped the entire warship.

"Sir! Something's wrong!" The sonar soldier's voice suddenly changed, filled with barely concealed panic. "Sonic... we can't detect the seabed anymore! The depth data is rapidly dropping to zero! All deep-sea detection signals are being blocked!"

Yamada's pupils suddenly contracted.

Under normal sea conditions with constant depth and all equipment functioning properly, it is absolutely impossible for the detection system to fail.

Just then, another tremor struck.

This time it's far more intense than before!

The heavy destroyer rocked violently, and the metal equipment on the deck emitted a piercing, rattling sound.

The neatly arranged instruments crashed to the ground, and the soldiers staggered to grab the railing, their relaxed expressions completely vanishing.

Something is slowly lifting this destroyer weighing thousands of tons from the depths of the sea!

The entire warship was slowly rising, its hull tilting slightly, and the originally stable deck was constantly tilting upwards.

"Baka yarou! What is that thing! Radar! Scan with radar immediately!" the vice-captain roared in a low voice, his face turning completely pale.

The radar screen was filled with static; all detection signals were disordered and interrupted.

The entire sea area seemed to be completely isolated by an invisible force, rendering all human military detection equipment ineffective.

"I can't see anything... I can't see anything at all!" The operator's voice trembled. "No heat source, no sound waves, no signs of life!"

Yamada stared intently at the sea, which suddenly became turbulent.

The sea surface began to rise slightly, and from the destroyer as the center, the seawater within a radius of several hundred meters slowly bulged upwards, forming an enormous seawater ice formation.

At this moment, he finally understood where that deep-seated fear came from!

Beneath the dome, an immeasurably large shadow slowly pressed against the bottom of the ship.

The shadow was so large that it covered the entire destroyer and continued to spread outwards across the surrounding sea.

The icy chill penetrated the steel hull and seeped into everyone's bones.

The bridge was deathly silent, save for the heavy, rapid breathing of the crew.

The vice-captain froze, all his previous confidence and wishful thinking shattered at that moment!

As Yamada gazed at the boundless shadows of the deep sea beneath his feet, the image of his daughter in a wedding dress flashed through his mind. His expectation of returning home once the mission was over now seemed incredibly distant.

His Adam's apple bobbed, his voice hoarse and cold, carrying a hint of utter despair:

"Send a telegram to Tokyo saying... a new monster has been discovered."

"Hi!"

The moment the words left his mouth, the sea dome suddenly and violently bulged up!

The next second, the entire pitch-black sea surface was suddenly engulfed by a dark wave that swallowed everything.

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