The Spell's Range Covers the Entire Territory of China? Hand It Over to the Nation

19: Chapter 19 A Mirage Emerges from the Fog! General George: Impossible, absolutely impossible![Detecting host’s will...]

[F-rank skill ”Mist Totem” is being released...]

[Judging... Talent ”Territory is Domain” intervenes.]

[Judgment passed. Current coverage: 9.6 million square kilometers + 3 million territorial waters]

[Skill energy level detected as too low, unable to match current range... Extracting historical depth... Reshaping concepts...]

[Skill mutation complete.]

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[Mirage Dragon’s Breath · White Night]

[Description: The giant clam is a mirage, exhaling to form towers; when the mist rises, the territory becomes an array, shifting the universe, scrambling Karma.]

[Effect 1: Drawing a line to make a prison. Within the mist’s range, all light, electromagnetic waves, and Divine Sense detection are blocked. Hostile targets fall into a state of ”Absolute Isolation”.]

[Effect 2: Mirror Flower, Water Moon. When hostile targets move within the mist, their sense of direction will be randomly tampered with.]

[Effect 3: Clear as Fire (Friendly units only). Dragon Summer faction units gain the ”True Sight” effect, the mist becomes transparent, and hit rate is corrected by +100%.]

[Current consumption: 10 mana (already deducted), maintenance consumption: 0 (due to ”All Under Heaven Is The King’s Land” trait, consumption is compensated by free energy from heaven and earth).]

[Note: Sink into the mist!]

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South China Sea, Longya Island waters.

In the command room of poseidon, the atmosphere was reaching a climax. General George held a champagne flute, filled with pale golden champagne, bubbles rising continuously, much like his currently expanding mood.

”Gentlemen, to freedom,” George raised his glass high, ”To this sea beneath our feet that no longer has any secrets.”

”To General George!”

A chorus of agreement rang out, the crisp sound of clinking glasses echoing in the command room.

Just as George tilted his head back, and the cool wine touched his lips, a sudden change occurred.

Without any warning, the world turned white.

It wasn’t the kind of fog that gathers gradually, nor was it water vapor brought by the sea breeze. This white came extremely abruptly, as if someone had taken a giant brush, dipped it in thick white paint, and painted the entire world in the blink of an eye.

One second before, it was a blue sea and sky, shimmering with light; the next second, the sea surface, sky, escort ships outside the window, and even the ski-jump ramp at the front of the aircraft carrier’s deck, all disappeared.

Replacing them was an incomparably thick ”white wall.”

”What’s going on?” George gave a light exclamation: ”Where did this smoke screen come from? Are the Dragon Summer people still unwilling to give up, trying to use such a childish method to block our view?”

He subconsciously thought this was some kind of large-scale smoke interference, which is not hard to achieve nowadays with various types of professionals.

Unfortunately, in modern warfare, smoke is only useful for covering infantry charges. For a modern fleet equipped with a full set of phased array radars and thermal imaging Systems, it is as good as nothing.

”Pass the order down, turn on thermal imaging, activate millimeter-wave radar.”

”Tell all ships to maintain formation; don’t lose your footing just because of this little smoke. The Dragon Summer people can only disgust us; don’t let them make a joke out of us.”

However, two seconds passed.

No one responded to his order.

The originally noisy and orderly command room was now eerily quiet.

George frowned and turned back: ”Radar officer? Are you deaf?”

The radar officer was staring at the screen, his expression as colorful as if he had just swallowed a poisonous mushroom. His hands were typing frantically on the console, sweat dripping down his forehead.

”Re... Report, General!” The radar officer’s voice was stuttering, as if he had seen a ghost, ”Ra... Radar has failed!”

”What do you mean failed?” George strode over, ”Interfered with? Switch frequencies! Do I need to teach you this kind of thing?”

”It’s not interference... it’s... it’s gone!” The radar officer pointed at the screen. On the display that should have shown the light spots of dozens of surrounding ships, there was only a patch of dismal white snow. ”There is nothing! The sea surface... the sea surface is empty!”

”That’s impossible!” George pushed the radar officer aside and leaned over the screen himself.

Empty.

It really was empty.

Not to mention the surrounding escort ships, even the seabed terrain scan had become a straight line.

Immediately, George’s heart sank, and an ominous premonition arose.

”What about sonar? Sonar should at least be useful!”

”Sonar... it’s all noise!” The sonar operator took off his headset, covering his ears in pain, ”It sounds like millions of cicadas screaming on the seabed; it’s impossible to distinguish any echo!”

Could it be... Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

George couldn’t believe his initial judgment was wrong. He grabbed the communication microphone, trying to call the nearest ”Jeanne d’Arc” frigate.

”Jeanne d’Arc! Jeanne d’Arc! This is poseidon! Answer if you can hear me! Report your position immediately!”

Unfortunately, all that came through the microphone was the teeth-grinding sound of electricity: ”Zzz... Zzz...”

”Damn it! Satellite phone! Connect me to The Pentagon!”

”General... no signal.” The communications officer held up the special satellite phone, which was claimed to be able to communicate even at the center of a nuclear explosion, with a pale face, ”GPS lost, GLONASS lost... all frequency bands, completely disconnected.”

At this moment, George finally felt fear.

This was not simple interference.

This was deprivation.

The entire fleet, armed to the teeth, representing the highest crystallization of human industry and technology, the steel wall on the sea, was in this instant deprived of sight, deprived of hearing, turning into a group of headless flies thrown into a white dye vat.

”Turn on the searchlights! Turn them all on!” George rushed to the floor-to-ceiling window, trying to see something through the eerie white mist.

Several high-power searchlight beams pierced into the mist.

But this strong light, capable of penetrating heavy rain, extended less than three meters before being ”swallowed” by the thick mist, disappearing without a trace.

Not only did it not illuminate the front, but under the diffuse reflection of the mist, the world outside the command room became blindingly bright, as if they were in absolute nothingness.

And what they didn’t realize was that the ’Athena’s Shield’ that had been on the aircraft carrier all along had quietly disappeared at some point.

...

And at this time, the chaos on the sea had just begun.

If it were just not being able to see, sailing by inertia would be fine.

But Su Yun’s [Mirage Dragon’s Breath] had another more fatal effect — Mirror Flower, Water Moon.

An absolute distortion targeting perception.

On the Sakura Country’s ”Kirishima” destroyer, Captain Tanaka was holding the compass, sweating profusely.

”Baka! What’s going on? Why is the compass spinning around? What about the backup gyroscope?”

”Report, Captain! All navigation equipment has failed!” The helmsman shouted in terror, ”And we... we seem to be veering to the left?”

”Then correct the rudder to the right! Fast! We must keep a straight line!” Captain Tanaka roared.

The helmsman steered hard to the right.

In his perception, the ship was indeed correcting its course, slowly returning to the right track.

But in reality, the ”Kirishima” was circling crazily towards the rear right in a bizarre posture, like a husky biting its own tail.

And not far from them, the Gaul’s ”Jeanne d’Arc” frigate was facing an even more embarrassing situation.

”My God, this fog is too thick!” The Gaul captain held half a glass of red wine, trying to calm his nerves with alcohol, ”Notify the engine room, slow down! Slow down immediately!”

”Captain! There seems to be something in front!” The lookout suddenly screamed.

”What?”

In the white mist, a huge black shadow suddenly emerged.

It wasn’t a reef, nor a monster.

It was a huge, rotating propeller blade, with ”Made in USA” stamped on it.

Oh my god, it was the butt of the ”poseidon” aircraft carrier!

”Damn it! Full rudder left! Full rudder left! We’re going to crash!” The Gaul captain was so scared that he spilled his red wine directly onto the adjutant’s face, throwing himself onto the helm wheel and turning it frantically.

But the sense of space in this mist seemed completely distorted.

Even though it looked like there were still hundreds of meters, the next second, the huge metal butt was already stuck to their faces.

Creeeak —!

A teeth-grinding sound of metal friction rang out.

Although they managed to avoid a direct collision through timely evasion, the ’Jeanne d’Arc’s’ fragile port side still scraped violently against the aircraft carrier’s rigid torpedo defense belt.

Sparks flew and metal shards scattered everywhere as the expensive phased array radar antenna collapsed, falling in heaps as if harvested like leeks.

”Who is hitting me?! Which bastard is hitting me?!”

George was shaken so violently in the command room that he fell flat on his face, scrambling up to rage impotently at the empty air.

He rushed to the broadcast System, trying to call out on the public channel, but after yelling for a long time, only his own echo looped infinitely in the empty channel: ”Bastard... bastard... bastard...”

Fear.

The most primal fear began to spread like a tide through this once arrogant fleet.

If someone could look down from a god’s-eye view at this moment, they would see an extremely comical and absurd scene:

The joint fleet, which had originally been arrayed in perfect formation with a menacing Aura, now looked like a bunch of drunks who had downed tons of vodka.

Some were spinning wildly in place, some were charging around like headless flies, some had their bows butted against each other in a stalemate, and others were even more absurd, turning around and charging in the direction they had come from, thinking they were launching an assault.

And on the edge of all this chaos, three destroyers of Longxia Country were quietly parked on the sea surface.

...

”Zhenhai”, forward deck.

Lin Weiguo had been holding a piece of braised pork in his mouth for a full minute without chewing.

He held a large tea mug printed with ”Serve the People,” his eyes wide as copper bells, watching this magical scene before him.

Just a moment ago, he had also thought something terrible was about to happen.

When the overwhelming white fog surged toward them, he had even prepared for the entire ship to go blind.

However, when the white fog truly enveloped them, he was surprised to discover—

He wasn’t blind.

Not only was he not blind, but his vision had become absurdly clear!

The white fog, so thick that it could swallow light, was actually transparent to him and all the Longxia crew members!

It was as if they were wearing X-ray glasses that only belonged to the Longxia faction.

The white fog turned into faint blue smoke, not affecting their vision at all.

And within the blue smoke, each of the Seven Nations’ warships was even outlined with a faint red glow, visible clearly even from far away.

”What... what the Hell is going on?” Lin Weiguo gulped down the braised pork and turned to look at the first mate beside him, ”Did you see that? What are those bastards doing?”

The first mate was also completely bewildered: ”Com... Commander, I see that Japs’ ship seems to have been spinning in place for eighteen laps. I don’t know if it’s dizzy, but I’m getting dizzy just watching it.”

”And that one over there!” the boatswain next to him pointed to the other side, holding back laughter, ”That French ship almost kissed the carrier’s ass just now! Now it’s hanging behind the carrier, being dragged along!”

Lin Weiguo froze for a few seconds, suddenly remembered something, and slapped his thigh hard.

”Immortal! Truly an immortal!”

Just then, the phone in his pocket vibrated.

Lin Weiguo didn’t even need to look to know who it was.

He answered the phone: ”Chief! This is too amazing! This fog... is it something our National Scholar Su created?”

On the other end of the line, Long laughed and said: ”How is it, Old Lin? Is this show satisfying to watch?”

”Satisfying! Extremely satisfying!” Lin Weiguo looked at the fleet in the distance, which was a complete mess, and smiled until his teeth were hidden, ”You didn’t see it, George was acting like a big shot just now, and now he’s probably wetting his pants in the command room! It looks like they are completely blind, while we seem to have opened our Heavenly Eye!”

”Pretty much. Su Yun calls this trick ’swatting mosquitoes with the lights off’.”

Long said leisurely, ”Now they can’t see you, communication is completely cut off, and their sense of direction is messed up. Didn’t you feel wronged? I’ll give you some time to mess with them.”

”There’s such a good thing? Haha, thank you, Chief.”

Lin Weiguo stood up straight and pushed his military cap up, ”Just watch! We won’t bully the disabled, but we can definitely ’point the way’ for them!”

Hanging up the phone, Lin Weiguo waved his hand.

”All hands, listen up!”

”Turn on our loudspeakers and set the power to maximum!”

”And connect a voice changer for me, make it sound a bit eerie.”

The first mate was stunned: ”Commander, what are you going to do?”

Lin Weiguo put down his tea mug and grabbed the microphone: ”Don’t these foreigners like to talk about science? Don’t they refuse to believe in evil? I’m going to teach them a lesson today about what Eastern metaphysics is!”

...

On the ”poseidon”, the chaos continued to escalate.

George was on the verge of a breakdown.

All technological means had failed.

He even sent out several A-rank archmages on board the ship, trying to use magic to disperse the fog.

As a result, the few archmages wearing robes had just flown into the sky, and before they could flutter twice, they fell into the sea like kites with broken strings, unable to be fished out.

This fog seemed to contain some kind of high-level suppression, and any energy that tried to resist it would be instantly disintegrated.

”What on earth is it... what on earth is this thing?!” George grabbed his hair, his eyes bloodshot.

Just then, a strange sound suddenly came from the originally silent fog.

Zzz... zzz...

It was the sound of electric current, mixed with intermittent opera singing, like a low moan from Hell, or the wailing of vengeful spirits from the deep sea.

”The~ great~ fog~ rises~ and~ the~ clouds~ fly~ away...”

The sound, refracted by the fog, became elusive, as if it were right next to their ears, and yet as if it were at the edge of the sky.

Without translation, just that tune alone gave this group of Westerners goosebumps.

Immediately after, an eerie yet somewhat playful voice echoed faintly in the cockpits of all the ships in stiff English:

”General George... aren’t you looking for Longya Island?”

”Turn the rudder to the left... keep turning left...”

”The gates of Hell... are opening over there~”

George shuddered: ”Who?! Stop playing these spooky tricks! Come out!”

”Who am I?” The voice laughed wickedly, ”I am the local deity here, I am the Dragon King... you are stepping on my back, I am in pain...”

It was actually Lin Weiguo.

This old guy was holding the microphone, pinching his voice to make it sound funny, while directing his subordinates to film this wonderful scene: ”Quick, quick, quick! I see a destroyer really turning to the left! A little more to the left and it will hit the reef! Hey, that’s right!”

On the ”poseidon”, the navigator was already on the verge of a mental breakdown: ”General! The radar shows instantaneous afterimages, there seems to be an exit at 30 degrees to the port side! What that voice said is true!”

”Don’t listen to him! That’s a trap! It’s psychological warfare from the Longxia people!” Although George said this, his eyes were already full of hesitation.

Just as he hesitated, the ship’s hull shuddered suddenly.

Boom—!

A dull, loud noise came from the bottom of the ship.

Followed by the ear-piercing sound of metal tearing.

”Re... report!” A heart-wrenching roar came from the damage control center, ”We hit a reef! The bottom hold is flooding! We hit a reef in the reef area outside Longya Island!”

George’s brain went ”buzz”.

It’s over.

The world’s number one nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, without encountering any artillery fire, had... hit a reef at sea?

If this got out, he, George Smith, wouldn’t need to go to a military tribunal; he might as well jump into the sea and end it all, so as not to bring shame to the Family.

”Reverse! Reverse quickly!” He roared hysterically.

However, this was just the beginning of the nightmare.

Because they had lost unified command and vision, the escort ships behind had no idea that the flagship had hit a reef and stopped. They were still moving forward with their previous momentum, or following the guidance of that ”ghostly voice,” and accelerating toward them.

Bang! Bang!

Two more loud bangs.

A destroyer slammed straight into the side of the ”poseidon”, and another supply ship was even worse, crashing head-on into the destroyer in front. Fuel leaked, and although it didn’t catch fire, the pungent smell of oil spreading in the white fog caused everyone’s nerves to snap.