“What is he doing?”

“Where is he going?”

Similar exclamations of fear echoed in military bases around the world.

Li Ang didn't bother concealing his movements. He figured AIM's software had already infiltrated near-Earth orbit satellites, making it impossible to avoid detection.

Besides, almost all North American Chongren (bug people) were following emergency shelter instructions, lying dormant and hidden.

The only one who could freely teleport and cause disturbances on the surface was Li Ang.

As time passed, other sovereign entities around the world had also learned about the meme attack on the upper echelons of the American military.

Fortunately, AIM had warned them in advance, and the major sovereign entities had not established any global joint military forces or collaborative command systems.

The militaries of different sovereign entities were independent of each other, communicating through multiple liaison officers and AIM's encrypted programs.

Therefore, the first round of meme contamination was limited to the upper echelons of the American military, failing to wipe out the global sovereign entities' military command systems in one fell swoop.

Moreover, AIM had secretly left a backup plan. His residual artificial intelligence program, upon detecting the meme contamination, quickly cut off the American military's upper echelons' communication privileges with subordinates and the outside world.

Using network remote control, it sealed off the underground air defense facilities where the four-star generals were located, delaying the meme contamination as much as possible,

thereby preventing Li Ang from using the US military to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles at Europe and Russia.

But this also made the militaries of other countries even more panicked and uneasy.

They vaguely guessed that Li Ang had used the long-range shelling of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base to achieve meme contamination of the upper echelons of the American military,

using the objectively existing geopolitical military landscape to drastically reduce the number of cruise missiles tracking him over American territory, forcing Russia, Britain, and other countries to continue launching attacks with intercontinental missiles.

However, unlike cruise missiles that can make high-speed maneuvers within the atmosphere, once an intercontinental missile is launched, it is not easy to change its target at will, let alone track over long distances within the atmosphere.

As long as Li Ang was determined to move, performing super-long-range teleportation of 500km, intercontinental ballistic missiles could not catch up with him.

"Still, too slow..."

In just three teleports, Li Ang traveled from Los Angeles to Wyoming, thirteen hundred kilometers away, arriving... above a geyser.

The water in this geyser was a clear, deep blue. The water wasn't deep, and the soil around the edge was a distinct light brown and dark brown, like paint splatters casually thrown onto a canvas by a painter.

"Heh."

Li Ang smiled, stood up from the crater left by the Colt revolver, and ascended into the sky on the invisible steps of the Ti Yun Zong (sky laddering technique).

This was a national park in Wyoming, vast and scenic, dotted with canyons, waterfalls, hot springs, and other landscapes. American bison, American cormorants, Yellowstone cutthroat trout, and other wildlife lived there, and occasionally rare animals such as American cranes could be seen.

Yellowstone Park.

The world's first national park, covering hectares, has one of the largest forests in the world, hot springs, more than 300 geysers, and more than 290 waterfalls.

At the same time, it also has... Yellowstone Volcano.

Li Ang walked forward in the air, pacing to above Yellowstone Lake, overlooking this three hundred and fifty square kilometer inland lake.

If it were normal times, there would be no shortage of tourists fishing for trout around this lake area, but now, it was empty, with only a few water birds playing and frolicking on the shore.

Li Ang lowered his hands, and a massive amount of plant vines hung down from his sleeves. Under the control of the Swamp God power, these vines pierced through the sulfurous blue lake water, drilled into the lakebed, penetrated the rock layers, and went all the way down.

This entire lake is actually the center of the Yellowstone active volcano.

Whoosh... whoosh...

The sound of a massive amount of vines cutting through the lake water sounded pleasant and melodious. Li Ang lowered his eyes, feeling the vines' rapid spread within the rock layers.

Whizz—

The sound of air being torn apart came from a very far distance. Li Ang looked to the west, only to see dense spots of light in the sky.

Those were not cruise missiles, but M270 rocket launchers.

Twenty kilometers from the center of Yellowstone Park, thirty M2 Bradley fighting vehicles, covered in camouflage, were hidden at the edge of a dense forest.

This was a thousand-strong unit of the American Army. The M270 rocket launchers they used had performed excellently in the Gulf War. Each had two launch boxes, each with six launch tubes containing six rockets.

Thirty tracked vehicles, which is three hundred and sixty rockets in one salvo.

A dense rain of rockets poured toward the skies above Yellowstone Lake where Li Ang was located.

But there wasn't much of an expression on his face. With a casual wave of his hand, giant plant tentacles like those of a Kraken extended from beneath the lake surface, intercepting all the rocket rain attacking him.

Boom!

The plant tentacles were blown into several sections, and countless damaged plant vines had just fallen into the lake when they were recycled.

A single rocket could no longer pose any threat to Li Ang, it was just a matter of how much divine power he needed to expend to casually swat it away.

"I remember, the M270 rocket launcher can launch tactical missiles, right..."

Li Ang thought casually.

The fact that this American army unit was so well hidden was undoubtedly a defensive measure that AIM had laid down in advance to be on the safe side—he and the Chongren (bug people) civilization's brain trust were also wary of Li Ang detonating a certain, or even several, supervolcanoes worldwide.

But, it was still the same problem. Conventional weapons without nuclear-level power were meaningless to Li Ang.

He took out a sub-Master Ball from the void and threw it out casually.

The Finks Pit Beast descended into the world again, roaring to the sky as soon as it landed, venting its unquenchable rage.

Compared to last time, the Finks Pit Beast had increased in size again, and its body surface was fixed with thick, solid metal armor with rivets and steel nails, and a chain hammer was tied around its waist.

Originally, Li Ang wanted to equip it with a heavy machine gun or something, but this creature was too stupid to use overly complex weapons.

Moreover, due to some unknown mechanism, Li Ang couldn't modify its brain too deeply—once the Finks Pit Beast's brain began to evolve, it would inexplicably absorb nutrients from its entire body, causing its muscles to atrophy and degenerate.

Unable to become a super soldier with a "Hulk body, Bruce Banner brain",

it would only turn into a super trash with a "Bruce Banner body, Hulk brain",

unable to do anything, and never full no matter what it ate.

Completely unclear why this was the case, so he could only let it be.

"Go."

Li Ang casually gave an order, and the Finks Pit Beast immediately rushed towards the rocket army down the mountain.

The distance of 20 kilometers was only a hundred or so breaths for this war behemoth.

The American army soldiers who were staying at the edge of the forest didn't even have time to abandon their vehicles and flee before they were caught up by the Finks Pit Beast, which smashed several rocket launcher vehicles with a chain hammer. The remaining survivors had to flee into the forest in a panic while firing.

And Li Ang in the distance continued to control the expansion and spread of plant vines.

The plants above the ground covered the rock layers around the lake surface, forming several smaller-sized Dawn Train giant cannons, as well as dense anti-aircraft gun arrays,

to guard against the incoming cruise missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The plants below the lake surface continued to drill downwards along the rock layers of the volcanic crater, exploring the Yellowstone Volcano's volcanic conduit and magma channels.