“A single eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano wouldn't cause the world-ending catastrophe that ordinary insectoids imagine."

In an underground air-raid shelter in the southern suburbs of London, England, a volcanologist was reporting to the heads of the European Union via video conference in a special conference room. "Although Yellowstone is currently the largest and still active supervolcano in the world, its potential eruption volume isn't the highest.

Let me put it this way,

the geological community uses the Volcanic Explosivity Index to assess the power and volume of volcanic eruptions.

A VEI-6 eruption ejects 10-99 cubic kilometers of volcanic material.

A VEI-7 eruption ejects 100-999 cubic kilometers.

A VEI-8 eruption, what ordinary insectoids commonly refer to as a supervolcano, ejects 1000-9999 cubic kilometers.

Yellowstone has erupted three times in its history. The first time was more than two million years ago, with an eruption volume of 2450 cubic kilometers. The second time was 1.3 million years ago, with 2800 cubic kilometers. The third time was 630,000 years ago, with 1000 cubic kilometers.

There have been more than 40 VEI-8 supervolcano eruptions in Earth's history, and Yellowstone is only of medium size. Above it, there's the Toba volcano in Indonesia with 3200 cubic kilometers, the La Garita Caldera in Colorado with 5000 cubic kilometers, the Sham volcano with 6800 cubic kilometers..."

"Wait a minute."

A high-ranking official of the European Union interrupted the video conference, "I remember the Toba volcano erupted 75,000 years ago, right? It released the energy equivalent of 120 billion tons of trinitrotoluene, equivalent to two thousand Tsar Bombs exploding simultaneously.

This directly caused the Earth's average temperature to drop by 5 degrees Celsius within six years, directly entering an ice age, nearly causing human extinction."

"Yes, you have a good memory, Prime Minister."

The volcanologist nodded, "But that was 75,000 years ago, before human civilization was established.

Now, our insectoid civilization has built cities and possesses technologies such as modern agricultural greenhouses, night lights, soilless cultivation, and gas masks, which can minimize the impact of supervolcano eruptions.

Yes, if Yellowstone erupts, and it's a full-scale eruption,

the 2800 cubic kilometers of volcanic ash it erupts will spread to the upper atmosphere of the entire United States within a few days, and enter the global atmospheric circulation system within a few weeks.

In the following years, it will block sunlight and heat, causing the global average temperature to drop by 5 degrees Celsius,

causing global agricultural decline, a large number of plants will die due to lack of sunlight, and cause a chain reaction in the ecosystem, leading to the large-scale extinction of some herbivores, carnivores, and insects.

At the same time, it will also trigger drastic changes in global climate, changing the westerlies and ocean currents, turning Europe into a subarctic or tundra climate, and causing alternating freezing disasters and droughts in southern East Asia.

But the entire insectoid race will not become extinct.

Even in the worst-case scenario, the insectoid civilization would only lose about 1.5 to 2 billion,

the vast majority of whom would be in areas such as Africa and South America that do not have large-scale modern greenhouse agricultural technology—the local insectoids would starve to death first because they cannot get assistance from the United States and Europe, and then fight each other to the death over resources, triggering wars.

Moreover, these 2 billion insectoids would slowly die off over 6 to 10 years.

If we have to calculate the number of insectoids who die within 15 hours due to the Yellowstone eruption, it would probably be... 300,000.

First, there are the 90,000 insectoids living around Yellowstone Park, and then another 200,000 insectoids in the surrounding areas who would suffocate to death from inhaling excessive volcanic ash."

"300,000..."

The heads of the European Union looked solemn and grave.

In the past half hour, Li Ang had fully demonstrated his threatening nature. All insectoids believed that this higher-dimensional being would not make useless moves.

He certainly knew that detonating the Yellowstone volcano wouldn't achieve the goal of exterminating 500 million insectoids within 15 hours, but he was still doing it, and there must be a reason behind it.

Someone asked softly, "Could it be that he wants to create large-scale weather weapons through the massive amount of volcanic ash produced by the supervolcano eruption?"

"First ask if it's possible, then ask if that's the case."

The volcanologist said seriously, "American volcanic research institutions have always sent people to reside in research institutes at Yellowstone and other large volcanoes to monitor the volcano's condition.

Generally speaking, before a supervolcano erupts, there will be a preparation period of several months to a year—the magma in the mantle enters the crust, undergoes several eruptions, and accumulates pressure within the crust. Finally, the internal pressure exceeds the external pressure, forming an eruption.

During this process, the volcano will continuously release bubbles, which the researchers stationed outside can detect immediately.

However, Yellowstone volcano has not shown any depressurization characteristics before, indicating that it is not at all prepared to accumulate energy for an eruption.

In other words, that transcendent being who descended from a higher dimension must detonate it manually—the way to detonate Yellowstone is to bury at least five Tsar Bomb-level high-yield nuclear bombs deep in the volcano and detonate them simultaneously.

Only in this way can we theoretically give the crust enough pressure to urge the magma reservoir below the volcano to activate and complete the eruption."

"Five Tsar Bombs..."

The European leaders in the video conference were silent, and someone asked softly, "Should we terminate the intercontinental missiles launched towards the United States?

Li Risheng has been there for more than 10 minutes. Maybe he is waiting for us to actively launch the intercontinental missiles with nuclear warheads."

"No, there's no need to terminate the intercontinental missiles."

One of the European leaders shook his head. The Tsar Bomb actually had a yield of 60 megatons. Below that was the B41 nuclear bomb with a yield of 25 megatons.

Currently, all countries fear Li Risheng's strange power. Before figuring out his details, all the intercontinental ballistic missiles launched at him were small-yield nuclear bombs,

such as the W76 with a yield of 100 kilotons and the W80 with a yield of 150 kilotons.

The power of these nuclear bombs is very great, but compared with the B41 and even the Tsar Bomb, they seem a little insignificant.

"From the beginning, Li Risheng has been intentionally avoiding direct contact with intercontinental ballistic missiles and has been teleporting non-stop.

Maybe he really doesn't have the ability to withstand a nuclear explosion from an intercontinental ballistic missile at close range.

Staying in Yellowstone Park at this moment may also be for the purpose of intimidation and deterrence. Deterring us from stopping the intercontinental ballistic missiles launched at the United States, so that he can collect missiles to bomb American cities."

One of the European leaders took a deep breath, "Now the American insectoids have fallen into chaos. We must be clear-headed and calm, maintain restraint,

and launch more intercontinental missiles at them."

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In Yellowstone Lake, Li Ang, hidden among the layers of towering trees, listened to the voices of the surrounding vegetation.

He could imagine what the insectoid leaders in the United States, Russia, Europe, and other regions would think after discovering that he had come to the Yellowstone caldera.

They would be fearful, frightened, suspicious, and timid.

This was normal, because this was exactly the emotion Li Ang wanted them to have.

"The distance from the Russian Bering Strait to Wyoming is 5000 kilometers, and the distance from mainland Britain to Wyoming is 6800 kilometers.

Calculating the time, it should be almost here,

the first wave of intercontinental missiles."

Accompanied by Li Ang's murmur, the layers of trees above the lake slowly tightened like the palms of giants, carrying Li Ang into the lake water.

White dots quietly appeared in the sky.

Herds of deer leisurely strolling raised their heads to look at the blue sky,

A brown bear sitting in a stream, devouring salmon, subconsciously put down the plump fish body and listened to the sharp whistling sound tearing through the air.

That was a nuclear bomb, the embodiment of the Earth civilization's strongest destructive power.

Intercontinental missiles from East Asia and the Atlantic Ocean crossed tens of thousands of miles and descended over Yellowstone Park.

The anti-aircraft artillery arrays around the lake automatically activated, firing dense ammunition into the high altitude, but the intercontinental missiles, which were falling semi-vertically at a maximum speed of Mach 20, did not provide too many interception windows.

Many of the targets hit by the anti-aircraft artillery arrays were just fake target missiles from the B-23 Doomsday Defense Program. The real ballistic missiles detonated directly in the high altitude.

Endless light and heat rapidly expanded, as if a new sun had been hung in the sky.

The air was infinitely heated and turned into an isothermal fireball,

The lake surface, which was subjected to light and heat radiation, was concave like a gel, and a large amount of lake water instantly vaporized and evaporated,

The plant vines around the lake withered and collapsed in an instant, turning into powder.

The fireball dimmed and shattered, forming a shock wave that pushed outward at a speed of 40 kilometers per second.

All objects that came into contact with the shock wave were flattened and crushed,

The nearby forest became a charred ruin,

All the leaves in the distant forest were swept away, leaving only a very few thick and long tree trunks still standing alone in place.

At the same time, the shock wave generated by the rupture of the light ball sucked the air and dust below upward,

forming a column of smoke and dust, which eventually merged with the top layer of clouds and mist to form a mushroom cloud.

Rulers all over the world were anxiously watching the images captured by the near-Earth orbit monitoring satellites. After the first intercontinental missile successfully exploded, some of the subsequent ballistic missiles lost contact due to the existence of shock waves, mushroom clouds, and radiation.

The remaining missiles could only complete airbursts at higher altitudes, creating one mushroom cloud after another.

A total of ten nuclear bombs were detonated above Yellowstone Lake.

"Was it successful?"

"Did he die?"

"Did we succeed?"

Noisy and urgent questions sounded in different communication channels. All insectoids' eyes were focused on Yellowstone Lake, which was shrouded in mushroom clouds.

It would take three hours for the mushroom cloud to completely dissipate, but they obviously didn't have that much time.

Soon, two teams of American soldiers wearing full-coverage protective suits drove vehicles to the edge of Yellowstone Park, controlling unmanned vehicles and drone formations to rush into the periphery of the mushroom cloud.

In the smoke and dust, they finally saw the scene of Yellowstone Lake.

A large amount of water in the entire lake had evaporated, and the remaining water was turbid and unbearable, with excessive radiation levels.

The plant vines that originally covered the lake had all been annihilated, revealing the dry, charred, and ugly lake bed.

Li Risheng's shadow was nowhere to be seen.

"Where is he?"

"Is he dead?"

"Did we succeed?"

Amidst the clamor of countless insectoids,

a piece of charred lakebed rock quietly cracked.

*Crack.*

The gravel on the surface of the rock continued to peel off, blooming layer by layer like a lotus, falling to the ground and shattering into powder.

The rock itself trembled slightly, like a dinosaur egg.

It was not until this moment that the insectoids watching the picture realized in astonishment that

it was not a rock, but a wooden cage woven from countless vines.

*Crack, crack.*

The wooden cage disintegrated on its own, and Li Ang stepped out.

The *Shenlong* red-maned coat on his body was continuously absorbing the remaining radiant heat, crackling,

and gradually turning red, as scarlet as blood.

"Hmm..."

Li Ang took a deep breath of the turbid and hot air, tilted his head towards the camera drone that had stopped motionless on the shore as if it was in a daze, and said calmly, "Who told you that a nuclear explosion could kill me?"

The camera drone remained motionless, silently conveying the insectoids' astonishment and fear.

Li Ang ignored them, stepped on invisible steps, entered the mushroom cloud with excessive radiation levels, and ascended rapidly toward the sky.

Detonating a volcano is not just about burying nuclear bombs in the rock layer.