Chapter 1129: Chapter 128: Giant Beast (8)
It’s like a bird that has eaten its fill flying back to the woods, leaving behind a vast white land that is truly clean.
For some unknown reason, this phrase flashed through Fang Xuewen’s mind.
He let out a deep breath, ceased his futile struggle to control the Mecha, and steadied himself within the confined space of the vine cage.
He could hear the gasps of surprise from his companions in the communication channel, the heavy breathing of the operators, the chaotic screams from the front line, and the sharp alarms echoing in the command hall.
The man before him wasn’t lying,
This cold and terrifying intuition lingered in Fang Xuewen’s heart, making his throat tighten as he hoarsely asked, "Why?"
"Ha,"
Li Ang chuckled, "The right question is not to ask me why,
but what I want.
If I were a follower of alien civilizations’ arrival,
believing humanity was beyond hope, wishing for the advanced civilization that created the deep-sea Giant Beasts to come and take over Earth,
then the right course of action would be to release the 「Pale World」, then hide and coldly watch human civilization struggle.
If I were an ambitious individual who mastered a terrifying weapon to pave my way,
then the right course of action would be to release the 「Pale World」 at more critical strategic locations, such as West Asia which connects Asia, Europe, and Africa and communicates with the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
At the same time, I’m not an ecological fundamentalist, or say, an extreme environmentalist who wants to eradicate humanity from the earth, returning the planet to a pristine state without humans,
because the 「Pale World」 is irreversible and would also inflict severe damage on animals, plants, and even microorganisms.
Excluding those possibilities, the answer becomes quite simple,
I’m here to help you."
Help?
You call releasing a large-scale bioweapon, threatening to turn human civilization to dust within three years, help?
Li Ang didn’t care about Fang Xuewen’s emotions, nor those of the PPDC higher-ups who heard this statement,
and continued, "The 「Pale World」 is not the harshest weapon.
In the first three phases, it won’t cause fatal damage to the ecological environment,
nor harm higher animals or plants.
In fact, the lichen polymers of the first three stages of the 「Pale World」 are edible for herbivorous mammals and some insects, rich in nutrients, and taste like ordinary mushrooms.
If I truly intended to annihilate humanity and human civilization as quickly as possible,
I could simply enhance the aggression of the 「Pale World」, making it secrete toxins in the first three stages, polluting water and soil."
Li Ang calmly stated, "The 「Pale World」 is a more straightforward nuclear deterrent.
You can regard it as one of my ’dead hand systems.’
Only my will can keep the 「Pale World」 at the first, second, and third stages, preventing further expansion and evolution.
But once I die, or lose my free will, relinquishing control over the 「Pale World」, it will directly enter the fourth stage, destroying everything.
Your scientists might have the ability to break the design of the 「Pale World」 and use a biological weapon against a biological weapon,
but that will take time.
Now, you cannot verify its authenticity,
you can, and must, believe every word I say.
And my first order is to lay down your weapons."
The vine-covered hall was deathly silent, you could hear a pin drop,
Fang Xuewen tightly gripped the Mecha control stick in the cockpit, but ultimately, he followed the superior order coming through the communication channel and laid down his weapon.
Rustle—
In the hall, over a dozen Mecha Soldiers simultaneously dropped their guns and blades,
Li Ang casually smiled, the countless vines extending from his sleeve pierced the joints of the Silverback Mecha, violently dismantling it from the inside out,
excavating a special device from underneath the Mecha’s chest armor.
The device is made of metal, hexagonal in shape,
wrapped in numerous electromagnetic coils connected by dozens of cables to various corners of the Mecha, like the heart inside a human body—a heart the size of a watermelon.
Upon opening the device, a deep-blue viscous liquid flowed out,
composed of water, hydrofluoric acid, concentrated phosphoric acid, and a large number of unknown amino acids.
In the middle of the deep-blue viscous liquid was an irregularly shaped light blue sphere—when Li Ang extracted it, it was still pounding.
This must be the pineal body of the deep-sea Giant Beast from the data, capable of generating the A.T. Force Field.
Li Ang penetrated the pineal body with vines, analyzing its composition,
while turning around towards the sea view through the floor-to-ceiling window, raising his revolver, and pulling the trigger.
Bang,
The gunshot rang out, the bullet’s instant body, Li Ang vanished from the spot.
The next instant, with the sea wind roaring and waves crashing against the shore,
Li Ang appeared on the ring road off the coast of New Port City, stepping on the crater blasted by the Demon-busting Bullet, gazing at the fortress nearby.
This is a giant steel fortress rising by the sea and built against a mountain,
facing the southeast sea, backed by the hillside, with its ends connected by hundred-meter-high island-encompassing walls, forming a semi-oval shape,
The inner side adjoining the mountain connects to a wide road, with numerous soldier-laden trucks departing from the fortress,
The outer side facing the sea has docks for ships to berth and depart, helipads for planes to land and take off, along with six gigantic gates seemingly designed for Titans.
This is the PPDC New Port Fortress.
Li Ang walked along the road leading to the fortress, the convoy of troop carriers braking urgently ahead,
the searchlights atop the towering fortress gliding across, illuminating Li Ang.
Alongside the searchlight beams, came eight medium-sized Mechas, each ten meters tall.
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Inside the PPDC Fortress, in the command hall.
"...From the molecular detection results returned from the front line, the fungal mycelium released by the opponent possesses indeed incredible vitality and aggressiveness, yet within Earth’s biological lineage,
distinctly different from the biotechnology on the deep-sea Giant Beasts.
Although we cannot currently disprove the opponent’s statement that the so-called fungal lichen can cover the Earth within three years,
theoretically, this possibility indeed exists."
Newton Geizler, a biologist from the PPDC Monster Science Department, clad in a white shirt, said to his dark-skinned superior.
"..."
General Stak Pentecost took a deep breath, slowly took out a metal gum box from his pocket, retrieved a white cube, and put it in his mouth, chewing slowly.
"Who exactly is he?"
A blonde, fair-skinned young man wearing a silver tactical suit with the name tag "Chaq Hansen" on his chest, watched Li Ang on the screen and frowned, "Can punch and blow away a Silverback Mecha three meters tall,
turn an entire building into plants with a wave of his hand,
and teleport instantly.
Fuck, have we entered a superhero comic world?"
"We have long been in the world of superheroes, Mr. Little Hansen."
A black-haired young man in spectacles and a suit stepped forward, speaking to Stak, "General Stak, we need you to take action.
New Port City is a crucial point in the Pacific Rim Defense Band, with nine million citizens and five heavy Mechas here, but there are seven billion human compatriots elsewhere in the world.
The opponent demonstrated nuclear deterrence means, so we at least need countermeasure capabilities.
From previous video records, the A.T. Force Field on the Mecha can effectively restrain the opponent, maybe we can use the A.T. Force Field to suppress the opponent..."
"..."
General Stak glanced at the PPDC Liaison, about to reprimand, when he heard a gentle female voice behind him.
