But at that moment, a sudden change occurred!

A sudden wave, tens of meters high, appeared without warning on the calm sea surface, reaching the shore in an instant, sweeping more than a dozen unsuspecting Hunters into the sea. In a flash, the white foam was tinged with a hint of blood.

"Can this wave actually crush a person?" Sun Hang's eyes twitched, "No, there's something hidden in the wave!"

"Detected the meme reaction of an anomaly!" shouted the Hunter holding the equipment, "Comparing with the database... Found it! I found a matching frequency! It's... it's Beta Twenty-five, Yamata Orochi!"

His voice carried a slight tremor, and Sun Hang could completely feel that undisguised fear.

"Isn't the activity area of Yamata Orochi in the Fusang Sea area? How did it appear here?" The fisherman gasped, "Did the observatories set up around the Tsushima Strait fail to notice its movements?"

"There's no time to worry about that now, everyone retreat quickly! Don't fight it on areas with water!" That Hunter carrying the monitoring equipment ran swiftly, "That creature can control water flow and spread deadly poison in water, contact means death!!"

Before he finished speaking, two spiraling water columns shot out from the water, piercing the two Hunters closest to the beach.

The seven or eight Hunters standing beside these two got splashed by the water droplets — initially they showed no obvious reactions, but after a few seconds, they collapsed to the ground, their limbs convulsing crazily, with black blood oozing from their noses and ears.

"Run!" The fisherman shouted to Sun Hang, "Although Yamata Orochi can come ashore, its danger is greatly reduced once it leaves the water!"

The remaining Hunters all sprinted towards areas away from the beach, while the spiraling water columns were like ballistae fired from the sea, picking off the slower Hunters one by one — except for a few Hunters with defensive abilities who escaped unharmed, all others marked by the water columns were pinned dead on the sand.

Finally, when the surviving Hunters reached the forest, the monster lurking beneath the sea surface stopped firing water columns; aside from the remains and blood foam floating on the sea and the bodies strewn across the beach, everything returned to tranquility.

"Huff... Huff... Did we run out of its range?" a Hunter gasped deeply.

"I don't know... at least... we're alive..." The Hunter holding the monitoring equipment sat down heavily — he seemed more inclined towards academic research type rather than combat type — although he was the first to react and run towards the forest among them, he was one of the last to enter the forest.

He had narrowly escaped death several times, the closest being a rotating water column that pierced a Hunter less than three meters away, only thanks to throwing his cloak to block the poisonous water, or he would have joined the bodies on the beach.

Of course, running slow might also be attributed to his unwillingness to let go of the heavy equipment even in the face of death.

"Did that Yamata Orochi leave?" Sun Hang asked, looking out at the distant sea from behind a tree.

"I don't know." The Hunter carrying the monitoring equipment shook his head, "The distance is too far, it's beyond the equipment's detection range now."

"Most of our supplies are scattered on the beach... Should we go back and get them?" the female Hunter who was on the same landing boat as Sun Hang and the fisherman asked.

"Let's wait for now, I don't want to go back now." Another Hunter immediately shook his head like a rattle, "In my view, let's observe for a couple of days at least... for all we know, that creature might be lurking beneath the sea surface, waiting for us to return."

"Can't we summon a destroyer to eliminate it with overwhelming firepower?"

"If a single destroyer could take out Yamata Orochi, it wouldn't have survived until today." The fisherman sighed, "Back in the action against Yamata Orochi, the Federation dispatched a fully equipped fleet, successfully luring it onto dry land, involving over two hundred Hunters and continuous air fire suppression... but even so, it still managed to escape in the end."

"Shino, didn't you participate in the action against it too? Does it have any weaknesses?" another Hunter asked the Hunter with the monitoring equipment.

"In water, it's almost invincible. It can create a swirling 'defense field' with rapid currents around it, any torpedo that enters this field will be destroyed, conventional weapons can't effectively harm it." The Hunter known as "Shino" leaned the large suitcase-like equipment against a tree trunk, and took out a telescope from his backpack, "The Federation later tried nuclear strikes, but a small yield strike not only failed to kill it, but prompted further mutation, while a large yield strike would severely pollute the coastal waters, even affecting Jinggu City and Chunming City. Fortunately, Yamata Orochi has been quietly resting in the depths of the Fusang Sea, without any intention of moving towards the Xiazhou Federation, so the Federation high command suspended further eradication plans."

"It's just polluting the seawater." said another Hunter, "In my case, I'd rather pollute the ocean than let such a monster live... Besides, Shino, didn't your ancestors do such things? Dumping nuclear waste into the ocean back then caused many freaks to appear along the coast."

"You..." Shino's face flushed red, the veins on his forehead bulging.

He wanted to retort something, but the opponent's words were truthful, leaving him with nothing to argue against.

"At least it shows the Xiazhou Federation high command has some conscience." The fisherman tried to mediate, "Unlike the idiots in the Fusang Country back then, shortsighted, selfish, and shameless... Even though there were many opposing voices within Fusang at the time, sadly the high command wouldn't listen."

"But now that Yamata Orochi has appeared here, doesn't this mean those suspended eradication plans will be brought back on the agenda? Being so close to Chunming City, surely the Federation high command won't let such a huge threat appear in coastal regions, right?"

"I've sent the report of Yamata Orochi's discovery back to the warship via drone, I guess Chunming City has received the news by now." Shino sighed, "Just don't know if the trial will continue."

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