Published at 21st of January 2021 11:08:19 AM
Chapter 49
hapter 49 The Second Great Extinction
Boom …
The moment the fireballs hit the ocean, violent vibrations spread . As great water currents surged, the water temperature immediately multiplied . Lin’s eyeballs that were observing on the surface could not tolerate the heat and died immediately .
What was that? Stars falling from the sky?
Lin’s troops were at the ocean bottom hundreds of meters below but all the fish seemed to feel the abnormality . They started to wildly swim north, and the steadily swimming schools of fish seemed to go mad .
The helmet fish furiously swayed to charge, squeezing aside weaker fish as they swam north at full power . The sharks had disappeared long ago . Lin did not know where they had fled . The dunkleosteus were the most troublesome . They used their enormous bodies and mouths to tear all organisms in front of them, not for eating, but to be at the front .
The time had come …
Lin’s transporters could not move in the wild schools of fish . Some of the transporters at the rear had been chewed by the dunkleosteus, blood and cells spreading among the entire group . But Lin was not concerned as there was a greater threat now …
The sensitive tentacles of the transporter could feel the vibrations of an enormous impact coming from the sea surface . The vibrations were created by countless fireballs hitting the ocean surface .
Also, Lin could feel a wave of vibration coming from the distance . That was the cause of madness in the fish .
This wave came from the ground, and formed a vibration similar to an earthquake . It formed a rapid and terrifyingly strong current of water that could be described as “shockwave . ”
Lin calculated . If it was hit by this strong current, its organs might be crushed . Lin did not know how the wave had formed or why it was able to spread so far .
Was it useless to be in the deep ocean so far from the land?
Nothing happened to the northern continent Leviathan was on . No wonder the schools of fish were going over there … Lin had to work now to make sure the transporters survived .
Otherwise, all the nutrients gathered in a hundred million years would be wasted .
It was about to arrive …
Lin ignored the mad schools of fish . It had all the transporters speed up their hearts and send large amounts of gland cells to the ectoderm . They secreted the strongest chitin substances they could, and hardened the entire ectoderm of the transporters .
The impact was near . The entire region of water gave off powerful vibrations . The arthropods organisms on the seabed stopped moving and dug into the sand under them, attempting to hide in the sand . The fish swam even more madly …
Here!
The powerful impact swept the entire region instantly . Large numbers of helmet fish had their bodies crushed at the moment of impact, blood, and organs spraying out of their gills, mouths and other places . Even their helmets cracked .
The hardened outer shell of the transporters cracked greatly at the moment of impact, their inner organs squeezed and damaged . While there were still some cells alive, they could not move . However, those were only transporters at the rear . The transporters near the front didn’t even have cracked shells .
This wave seemed to have slowly decreased in power, but, in this moment, it killed the majority of the helmet fish . More than half of the dunkleosteus had died, as they swam at the very rear .
Many of the arthropods hiding in the sand were blown out, but their thick armor protected them from great damage .
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After this series of vibrations, all organisms started to move at full speed without regard for their expenditure .
Lin gathered the transporters that had been scattered . There were a thousand and three hundred left . Lin had lost many but could not return to take their corpses .
Danger appeared to just be starting .
Just after the shockwave, the ocean became restless again . Large amounts of bubbles appeared off the seabed . The gas bubbles seemed to be harmless, but their appearance caused the water temperature to rise again . Many organisms that could not tolerate heat died instantly .
The enormous group that originally had tens of thousands only had a few thousand left .
Lin’s transporters could not tolerate the heat wave . While they did not die immediately, if this continued …
Full speed!
Lin also started to disregard the expenditures . All transporters immediately took off their hardened outer shells and started to swim with their spouts at their full speed . They had to leave this area before dying of heat . While Lin did not know how large the heated area was, it could only do the best it could .
At this time, many stone pieces sank down from the surface . These stones should be the fireballs that landed on the water surface . They already reached this depth? Some of them were more than ten meters in size, others only half a meter . An enormous dunkleosteus near the rear of the transporters was hit by several small pieces of stone . It twisted violently in pain, struggling for a while before falling on the seabed .
Lin could feel that these stones were as hot as lava .
Suddenly, an enormous stone thirty meters in size smashed in front of Lin’s transporters . The transporters at the front could not stop in time and hit the giant stone .
A feeling of extreme burning came from the giant stone . The cells on the transporter’s ectoderm died instantly, and the burning passed into the entire body . These transporters died the moment they touched the giant stone .
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Lin just lost a dozen transporters but ignored it . All the remaining transporters swerved around the stone and charged northwards!
But it was hard to dodge during a rush . Many transporters were hit by those stones and were killed immediately by the heat .
At this time, Lin felt distant vibrations again …
Would this ever end?
No … this was …
Lin found the feeling was not like the one-time shockwave . It also did not come from behind, but the seabed below … an earthquake?
This was an opportunity … . !
As Lin thought, it had the transporters slow down and focus on avoiding the stones .
Not many helmet fishes were still alive . This gave Lin more space . Now, it only had to wait .
The sense of the vibrations continued to come closer and closer… …
Boom-om-om! !
The seabed below suddenly shook and the entire seabed in this region rose! As the water rose, the compressed water and all the organisms within all rose up . The hundreds of meters of distance to the surface disappeared instantly . The water formed an enormous wall that charged out of the surface, Lin’s transporters and other organisms trapped in this tsunami .
The vibrations did not stop . Another vibration on the seabed caused the tsunami to charge forward at a speed Lin had never seen before .
Originally, the tsunami could not last for long, but the sea vibrations in this area did not let the wall of water fall . Lin’s group sprinted north on this enormous wave .
In the tsunami, the transporters could not move their bodies but see the surrounding environment through the water . The tsunami had left the area the fireballs were falling and heading in the direction Lin wanted .
The seabed continued to shake . This maintained the speed of the tsunami and caused it to grow higher than a hundred meters at a rough estimate .
The tsunami was extremely fast . In about two days, it could reach the land in the north . Of course, this was only if the tsunami continued . If the sea vibrations stopped, the tsunami would quickly calm .
Lin hoped the tsunami would calm . It had already left the fireball region . If it rode the tsunami and hit the steep walls of the land in the north … Lin would suffer great losses .
But as the tsunami moved, the vibrations seemed to move as well . The vibrations always occurred below the tsunami or close by . The tsunami did not stop and continued .
As day and night switched, the transporters in the tsunami could see the north lands in the distance .
The Leviathan, who had stopped at the steep walls of the shore also saw the giant walls in the distance . The water level around Leviathan had decreased greatly . The walls tens of meters tall now were hundreds of meters as though all water had been sucked away by the tsunami in the distance .
The vibrations disappeared, but the last shake was enough to make this enormous wave crash into the land!
Translator Ramblings: I don’t think meteors alone create such an uproar unless those were enormous ones . All this disaster is more likely the result of continental plates moving .