It was like eating all the birds in the forest until there were none left, leaving behind a vast, pure white earth, truly clean.
For some inexplicable reason, this sentence flashed through Fang Xuewen’s mind.
He slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, ceasing his futile struggles in the mecha, and steadied himself within the limited space of the vine cage.
He could hear the astonished cries of his comrades on the communication channel, the heavy breathing of the operator, the chaotic screams from the front lines, and the sharp alarm bells rising and falling in the command hall.
The man before him was not lying.
This cold and terrifying intuition settled in Fang Xuewen’s heart, tightening his throat, and he subconsciously asked in a hoarse voice, "Why?"
"Heh,"
Li Ang smiled. "The correct question isn't 'Why me?'
But rather, 'What do I want?'
If I were a member of the Advent Faction, worshiping alien civilizations,
Believing humanity to be beyond redemption, and hoping that the advanced civilization that created the Kaiju would come to rule and take over Earth,
Then the correct thing for me to do would be to deploy the [Pale World], and then hide, coldly watching the struggles of human civilization.
If I were an ambitious man who had mastered terrifying weapons, wanting to use them to pave my own path,
Then the correct thing for me to do would be to deploy the [Pale World] in more strategically important locations, such as West Asia, which connects the three continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa, and links the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
At the same time, I am not an ecological fundamentalist, or rather, an extreme environmentalist, who wants to eradicate humanity from the Earth, restoring the Earth to a pure state without humans,
Because the [Pale World] is irreversible, and will also cause extremely serious destruction and damage to the animal, plant, and even microbial worlds.
Excluding these possibilities, the answer is very simple.
I'm here to help you."
Help?
You call deploying a weapon of mass biological destruction, threatening to scatter the ashes of human civilization within three years, help?
Li Ang didn't care about Fang Xuewen's emotions, or those of any of the PPDC's high-ranking officials who heard this.
He said to himself, "[Pale World] isn't the most devastating weapon.
In the first three stages, it won't cause fatal damage to the ecological environment,
Nor will it harm advanced animals or plants.
On the contrary, in the first three stages, the [Pale World]'s lichen polymer is edible for herbivorous mammals and some insects, nutritious, and tastes like ordinary mushrooms.
If I really wanted to eliminate humanity as quickly as possible, to destroy human civilization,
Then I could completely increase the aggressiveness of the [Pale World], allowing it to secrete toxins in the first three stages, polluting water sources and soil."
Li Ang said calmly, "[Pale World] is a more direct nuclear deterrent.
You can think of it as one of my 'Dead Hand' systems.
Only my will can keep the [Pale World] in the first, second, and third stages, preventing it from continuing to expand and evolve.
And once I die, or lose my free will, lose control over the [Pale World], then it will directly enter the fourth stage, destroying everything.
Your scientists may be able to crack the design of the [Pale World], using bioweapons against bioweapons,
But that takes time.
Now, you can't verify the truth.
You can only believe every word I say.
And my first order is to lay down your weapons."
The hall, filled with vines, was silent, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Fang Xuewen gripped the mecha control stick firmly, but in the end, he followed the orders from the communication channel and laid down his weapon.
Shuā lā lā—
More than a dozen mecha warriors in the hall simultaneously put down their guns and blades.
Li Ang smiled casually. Countless vines extended from his sleeves, drilling into the joint crevices of the Silverback mecha, violently disassembling it from the inside out.
He dug out a special device from under the chest armor of the mecha.
The device was made of metal, hexagonal in shape,
The surface was wrapped with a large number of electromagnetic coils, connected to every corner of the mecha's body through dozens of cables, like the heart in the human body—a watermelon-sized heart.
After opening the device, a dark blue viscous liquid poured out.
The ingredients were water, hydrogen fluoride, concentrated phosphoric acid, and a large number of amino acids of unknown composition.
In the middle of the dark blue viscous liquid was an irregularly shaped pale blue sphere—it was still throbbing when Li Ang took it out.
This is the Kaiju pineal gland mentioned in the data, which can generate A.T. fields.
While using vines to penetrate the pineal gland and test its components,
Li Ang turned around, faced the sea view outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, raised his revolver, and pulled the trigger toward the distance.
Bang.
The gunshot rang out, the bullet flashed, and Li Ang disappeared from the spot.
The next moment, the sea breeze roared, and the waves crashed against the shore.
Li Ang appeared on the ring road outside Newport City, stepping on the deep pit blasted out by the anti-demon bullet, looking out at the fortress not far ahead.
This was a giant steel fortress standing around the sea and built on the mountain.
It faced the sea in the southeast, backed by the hillside, with both ends connected to the hundred-meter-high ring city walls, forming a semi-ellipse as a whole.
The inner side, leaning against the mountain, was connected to a wide road, and a large number of trucks loaded with soldiers drove out of the fortress.
The outer side, facing the sea, had docks for ships to dock and enter, runways for aircraft to take off and land, and six huge gates that seemed to be used by Titans.
This was the Newport City PPDC base.
Li Ang walked on the road leading to the fortress. The dense convoy of troop carriers coming from the front suddenly braked and stopped.
The searchlights at the top of the towering fortress swept over, illuminating Li Ang.
Along with the searchlight beams, there were also eight medium-sized mechas with heights of ten meters.
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Inside the PPDC fortress, command hall.
"...Judging from the molecular detection results sent back from the front line, the fungal hyphae deployed by the other party do have incredible activity and invasiveness, but they are still within the Earth's biological spectrum.
It is completely different from the biological technology on the Kaiju.
Although it is not possible to disprove the other party's claim that the so-called hyphae lichen can cover the earth within three years,
But in theory, this possibility does exist."
A PPDC Kaiju Science Department biologist named Newton Geiszler, wearing a white shirt, said to his dark-skinned superior.
"..."
PPDC General Stacker Pentecost, took a deep breath, slowly took out a metal chewing gum box from his pocket, took out a white square from it, put it in his mouth, and chewed slowly.
"Who exactly is he?"
Behind General Stacker, a blond white youth wearing a silver tactical suit with the name tag "Chuck Hansen" on his chest, frowned as he looked at Li Ang on the screen. "One punch can send a three-meter-high Silverback mecha flying,
Raising his hand and turning an entire building into plants,
And being able to teleport.
Fuck, have we entered the world of superhero comics?"
"We have long been in the world of superheroes, Mr. Hansen."
A black-haired youth wearing glasses and a suit stepped forward and said to Stacker, "General Stacker, we need you to take action.
Newport City is an important node in the Pan-Pacific Defense Belt. There are nine million citizens and five heavy mechas here, but there are seven billion other human compatriots in the world.
The other party has shown nuclear threats, so we must at least have countermeasures that can counter it.
Judging from the previous video recordings, the A.T. field on the mecha can effectively limit the other party's abilities.
Such as weakening physical attacks, and abilities suspected of being mind control.
Maybe we can use the A.T. field to suppress the other party..."
"..."
General Stacker glanced at this liaison officer.
The PPDC is an international military organization composed of Pan-Pacific countries and regions such as the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, South America, and Australia to defend against the Kaiju threat.
The PPDC operates independently, but is also influenced by major sovereign states.
Each member state has the right to send liaison officers to supervise the operation of the PPDC.
Just as General Stacker was about to say something, he heard a gentle female voice behind him, "I don't advise you to provoke him in any way, General Stacker.
When he says he can cause destruction to a city, a continent, a world,
You better take it seriously."