After careful calculation, although nearly 10,000 black beasts were killed and injured in this battle, compared to the huge base of mutated creatures, the population of Hong Kong City only accounted for a fraction of others. Relatively speaking, Hong Kong City was the party that suffered more heavy losses.
In the past three months, except for the battle at the beginning of the city's founding, they had been defending the city and taking advantage of the right time and place, so they could control the attrition within a limited range.
The population has plummeted in the last days, and every experienced soldier is the most valuable asset of the port city. This time they are really injured.
The most important thing is that the two black beasts that swallowed the red droplets escaped.
The first mutated seagull was all alone, but the most troublesome thing was the escaped queen.
Data collected by the Guangzhou Military Region over the years before the disaster showed that in a mature fire ant nest, a queen can lay 1,500 to 5,000 eggs per day. Depending on the evolutionary direction of worker ants, weapons, male ants, and female ants, it takes about 20 to 180 days for a red imported fire ant egg to develop into an adult, with soldier ants being the slowest, and it only takes a short 20 days to form a combat-effective worker ant. sky.
In other words, as long as the queen ant is there, the red fire ant colony has a steady stream of combat power. Not to mention that the queen ant has been strengthened by red droplets. Maybe within a month, the lost worker ants and soldier ants of the ant colony can be replenished in large quantities.
These rapidly reproducing and powerful fire ant colonies have been a major hazard in South China, but they have been hidden from view since the disaster, and only now have they come into the sight of survivors in the port city.
Thinking of the many situations he might face in the future, even Chen Biantao couldn't help but feel worried.
At this moment, an ethereal and distant whale call suddenly came from the distant sea. This sound seems to come from ancient times, triggering resonance in the human body at a very low frequency, and can't help but bring a feeling of fear to people.
"Woo-buzz-wow."
Chen Biantao squinted his eyes and looked at the sea, as if he was the only one who heard it. Because the soldiers around them didn't react much. They just looked around after the sound appeared, as if they couldn't tell where the sound was coming from.
Stimulated by the sound, they felt slightly uneasy physically. They had no idea that twenty kilometers away on the sea, a large, bloody mouth full of sarcoma jumped out of the sea and swallowed the escaping seagull.
It was a huge beast seventeen meters long and weighing thirty tons. Its body is fat and bloated, its dorsal fin is dark and shiny, and it arches its body to form a smooth curve.
It seems to have passed by here accidentally. After its upper body emerged from the water, the white ventral folds were exposed. Then its wide pectoral fins slapped the water, and the whale's body sank into the water and disappeared. Only the complex "whale call" continued to sing.
But Chen Biantao would not believe this "accidental" passing by, the huge movement of the mysterious droplets forming,
There is no reason why such a big guy should not be alarmed.
And the wisdom revealed by the obviously premeditated waiting for the rabbit to happen makes people even more wary.
This is an adult humpback whale, and its sound frequency is between 15 and 25 Hz, which only partially overlaps with the hearing range of the human ear. Among the 100,000 human survivors in the port city, only Chen Biantao's evolutionary ability could help him capture this shock.
Counting a month ago, this was already the second whale call he had heard.
"finally come."
Chen Biantao's hands slowly clenched into two fists.
He looked into the distance and couldn't help but said silently: "Yue'er, this time it's up to you."
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No one knows whether the mutated seagull absorbed all the core within one minute after it swallowed it.
No one knows whether humpback whales can indirectly benefit from the melted core after swallowing seagulls.
What we know is that due to the appearance of this uninvited guest, the cabin of the Haikou ship ten kilometers away from the shore has become a mess.
Many sailors swarmed onto the deck, leaning on the railings and commenting loudly.
"Look, look what that is!"
"It's a whale. Isn't that a humpback whale? You see it has a hump and its head is very flat."
"What's it doing? Why is it here?"
"By the way, this is winter, it must have come to the lower latitude waters to mate and reproduce!"
"Buzz--" The alarm sounded again in the chaos.
"The entire ship is on alert, level 1 combat preparation!"
"What's wrong? Do you want to fight?"
"But it didn't come in our direction..."
"Nonsense! Can't you hear the order? All units should be in position quickly! Anyone who disobeys the order will be subject to military law!"
"yes!"
On the other side, the female officer who had appeared by the window before was now standing in front of the only viewing platform on the bridge.
She stared intently at the sea surface ten kilometers away, staring at the behemoth that crossed the sea surface from time to time, her eyes under the camouflage training hat were sharp and menacing.
She grabbed the communicator with one hand and put it to her lips and shouted an order:
"Henan, where is your torpedo? Kill it for me!"
"Yes! Anti-submarine torpedoes on the stern of the ship, three consecutive rounds of rapid fire!"
"Jingle Bell……"
As the bell rang, the launch cover on the starboard side of the stern slowly rose, revealing a black torpedo launcher.
White smoke comes out first, which is actually fog caused by compressed air. Then one, two, and three big ones with a total length of six meters came out of the launch tube one after another, like green fish being released into the sea, falling into the water and splashing white waves.
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After entering the sea, in a place invisible to people in the water, the Yu-21 light torpedo, driven by the electric power system, rapidly increased its speed to 45 knots, forming a series of bubble trajectories below the sea surface.
The course of the anti-submarine torpedo is pointed directly at the mutated humpback whale ten kilometers away!
"Call Warehouse No. 1, the first round of launches is over, and the spare torpedoes will be loaded immediately."
After this round of launch, the launcher turned back to the cabin at a 45-degree angle.
The Haikou ship's torpedo room has a highly automated reloading system. A single launch tube can be reloaded within 15 seconds, and all six torpedo tubes can be loaded within two minutes. In order to avoid being unable to reload during wartime, warships have always started the next round of loading procedures early.
Soon, after several minutes of short-distance navigation, three 324mm anti-submarine torpedoes also arrived at the predetermined coordinates under the joint guidance of sound rays. One torpedo hit the whale's tail fin directly, and the signal density of the other two reached its peak when it reached the belly of the fish.
At the same time, three fuses detonated immediately, producing huge shock waves and bubbles in a very short period of time.
The density of water is a thousand times that of air, so the energy transferred by the same amount of explosion underwater is a thousand times greater than in the air!
A thousand times the explosion shock wave envelops the bubbles and rapidly impacts the target, forming a violent foam spray. The shock wave directly acted on the folds of the fish's body, instantly tearing the flesh and skin to pieces!
With a bang, a huge wave of blood seemed to rise in the sea.
The huge shock wave started from the sea surface and ran upward and downward for thousands of meters, shattering everything in its path!
"Look! We've got a hit!"
"Yeah, hit!"
In fact, this whale looks big, but compared with humans, it is not even as good as a gunboat in terms of tonnage, and its flesh and blood body cannot compete with explosives. Not to mention the huge shock and tremor caused by the explosion, as long as the whale is within the 50-meter explosion range of the Yu-21 torpedo, there is no possibility of survival.
After all, torpedoes are anti-ship weapons after all. Their length and speed are comparable to an ordinary killer whale. Isn't it overkill to deal with a mutated whale at the beginning of the apocalypse?
Waves of cheers rang out on the warship, and the female officer on the bridge also showed a smile.
She thought of Chen Biantao's instructions to "pay attention to the sea" before leaving, and it suddenly became clear.
"The teacher is indeed very thoughtful."
The female officer didn't know what the future results would be if they let the tiger go back to the mountain this time and allowed such an ocean overlord to grow.
But the only thing she knows is that if you strike first, you will gain advantage, and if you strike later, you will suffer disaster. They would never risk the lives of the people in the city.
