"Damn it, it’s instant cast! This time it’s instant cast! Is this the power of gods?"
Emperor Atabia took a deep breath; this time the apocalyptic event had no casting delay, unlike the results analyzed multiple times in their King’s Council. They thought there was enough time to withdraw.
"Exposure over three seconds, and the body will have problems..." Under the cover of his guards, Emperor Atabia swiftly entered the Giant Snake Ark, escaping rapidly into the distance.
But the people who couldn’t avoid entering the Refuge Ark screamed in pain after only a few seconds of exposure, suffering intense burning pain like nuclear radiation, starting to melt rapidly like wax figures.
The enchanting Purple Mist covered the land, killing invisibly.
"Truly an evil Outer God!"
Hiding inside the refuge, Emperor Atabia watched the Celestial Vaulting outside through the Ark’s perception, filled with rage.
One wise man after another gazed at the giant enshrouded outside the cloudy world, a profound sense of powerlessness swirling in their hearts, watching helplessly as the people fell into the apocalypse again.
A minister behind comforted:
"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry. Before we encountered the Evil God, we had already evacuated our people. Most have been preemptively sheltered in the refuge. By now, many should have entered."
Indeed, this was the case.
A large number of citizens had prepared to enter the refuge early on.
In the current world, one could see fish swimming leisurely in the sea, subjected to intense ultraviolet radiation.
Yet the terrifying Purple Sky Divine Thunder, when irradiating fish, caused their cells to slowly peel off and decay.
Even some engineers, whose refuge-building technology was subpar, saw instant collapse of the vessel, and fish decomposed into rotten pulp, with the brain cells controlling the fish heading towards destruction too.
Just like a fish pond lacking oxygen, a large number of fish turned belly-up on the water surface, rapidly rotting and decomposing, beginning to die.
Yet the skilled engineers were still struggling.
They turned into frantic repairmen, patching one fish after another, undergoing mad evolution, forcibly proliferating a large number of cells, repairing the rotting parts of the vessel, but estimated not to last much longer.
Emperor Atabia had suspected something would happen, and immediately took action:
"Let’s begin! Our Atabia’s fish era is already collapsing, we must evolve to the next civilized biological form to resist the shine of this Evil God!"
They raced against time inside the National Engineering Department — Fish King.
The faster this ruling race’s king fish evolved, the more it developed the ability to resist the death rays, and distributed it among all the fish, the more it could reduce the people’s demise!
The fish school was struggling, rapidly adapting to the environment.
Emperor Atabia parsed the corrosive ability of ultraviolet rays, attempting new gene edits, while feeling increasingly turbulent inside:
"This ray, simply the domain we can’t comprehend... The world outside the Crystal Wall, with great Evil Gods, their civilization and power are truly desirable!"
What a grand and magnificent power it was.
What a massive, invincible, and bloated physique.
The mysterious, grand, towering Divine Technique, containing infinite mighty power, annihilated their kingdom in an instant, filling him with deep fear.
He researched while watching the fish swimming, observing the fish in the ocean painfully dying, while citizens wailed in despair and collapsed.
And he watched helplessly, unable to do anything.
"Majesty, cheer up!" the ministers said.
Emperor Atabia replied quietly:
"No, I’m not pained by the further departure of the citizens or the repeated destruction of civilization, but saddened by the repeated inability to find answers despite our civilization’s efforts."
"With wisdom, we have the thirst for knowledge in this world."
"What shape is the world really?"
"Is the outside world like ours?"
"In our world, which is flat and square, does the structure of the cosmos exist in multiple dimensional worlds? What is the truth? How were we born? How many forms of life exist? Is gene expression the root of all? "
"I hope that before the next evil god’s attack, I can lead civilization to break the limits of the world, surpass the destruction of the Crystal Wall outer god, and discover the true reality of the world."
This mass extinction event again sparked his questioning of truth.
It’s getting a little too hot.
Li Qing had irradiated for five or six minutes, this big fellow was getting too hot, and as it shone on the glass, he always felt some reflection affecting him, with his skin tingling a bit.
The ultraviolet intensity was high, cancer-causing.
He didn’t want to get cancer.
So, feeling the time was about right, he turned it off.
Many didn’t know, this type of equipment had too high power, just like super strong flashlight, if left on too long it would overheat and burnout, needing cooling for a while. Such expensive equipment borrowed secretly from the lab, if he broke it, both he and Doraemon would be finished, especially with the Asian BUFF stacking on him.
Today’s apocalypse ends here.
He slowly opened his micro-eye.
All over were carcasses of fish the size of mites, with fruitful results.
"They have never seen ultraviolet before, but clearly, ultraviolet cannot significantly harm multicellular organisms... Ultraviolet sterilization is mostly just that, sterilization."
Li Qing sighed a bit, yet he was not panicked.
"We need to immediately prepare for the next type of extermination."
"They are too quick, after all the first encounter was cells forcing themselves to look human with four flagellum tail, the next was bizarre humanoid creatures made of eighteen cells ... "
"It’s not strange if the next time they are in human form."
Although it’s still within the realm of multicellular organisms, this reality isn’t a superpower movie, currently on Earth, no creature’s bones and flesh could be harder than steel to break through the laboratory’s copper wall iron barrier.
The only possibility is that they might figure out strong acid, to corrode that glass.
But the likelihood of that short-term is minimal.
But Li Qing wouldn’t let his guard down there, strategically he underestimated the enemy, tactically he took them seriously.
He recalled Ning Guochang’s words: "Humans are just tool-using monkeys, it’s laughable to use one’s arrogant cognition to assess other unknown civilizations."
Who knows if it will leap beyond one’s cognition.
Thus after ultraviolet radiation, Li Qing didn’t leave, instead he took the bottle hanging on his neck, spoke to the beings inside:
"Next, while this world undergoes mass extinction, neglecting you, hide among their citizens, as an advance exploratory team, to destroy their Atabia Kingdom."