A Farm Boy and his Family Watch Jiangshen Destroy a Dam (Guardians of Nature #8)

Depicted in this artwork is Jiangshen, the Guardian of Amphibians and China's Yangtze River. First appearing in Western China at the mouth of the river, Jiangshen arose in response to China's disastrous environmental record, including the pollution of its own water supplies and air pollution through severe smog. Following the course of the river, Jiangshen covered the land with his poisonous breath, killing every human being that came into contact with it, and melted every city along the banks of the river he came across with his hyper-acidic bile originating from his throat sac. He easily tore through every dam blocking his way as well, causing catastrophic floods for all the people downstream. The amphibious kaiju (sharing traits of frogs, salamanders, and axolotls) eventually reached China's Three Gorges Dam and broke through it, causing Biblical floods to inundate Chongqing and every city further downstream, resulting in the deaths of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people. From there it breached land and rampaged its way straight through the Great Wall of China, and eventually arrived in Beijing, melting it to the ground. The Chinese government fell like a house of cards, its nukes and other military assets unable to counter the threat of Jiangshen and spread thin trying to recover from Umi-No-Kami's destruction of China's artificial islands, and cities in the coastal regions (like Shanghai).