Chapter 1 Pray

Ying Long's calm voice echoed in the empty hall.

The crowd was first stunned, then silent.

It was as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over them from head to toe, chilling them to the bone.

Artificial intelligence has no human emotions, it doesn't joke, and it doesn't feel fear. Ying Long saying this could only mean that with its database and computing power, it could not calculate any solution.

"Is there no way?"

Ya Zi's eyes were a little red.

"None whatsoever."

Ying Long replied coldly.

Data flowed down, displayed on the projection:

"According to the calculated universe replacement rules, the two are roughly equal in size. And according to the data obtained by the Mars rover, the unknown species replaced not only Olympus Mons on Mars, but also a larger mass beneath the surface...

Insufficient data, unable to estimate its true size..."

The hall was empty. Ying Long spoke calmly, "But such a huge size means that every move is a cataclysmic disaster. The dust it blows up with its breath is enough to cause a sandstorm spanning Eurasia. A single roar is enough to tear the atmosphere apart and shake down any aircraft that doesn't exceed the atmosphere.

Simply flapping its tail repeatedly is enough to split Eurasia, collapse the continental shelf, and the resulting tsunami would be enough to submerge all coastal countries such as Fusang and the Philippines..."

This was different from an asteroid impact, because this monster was alive!

"Xuan Xing is going to be destroyed..."

In the deathly silent hall, an observatory worker couldn't bear the blow and collapsed to the ground, covering his face with his hands, his face ashen.

The eyes of the Special Affairs Bureau members also dimmed.

They had all crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. They weren't afraid of death, only the helplessness of facing the end of the world without any means of resistance.

Like primitive men in the Stone Age seeing a nuclear bomb falling from the sky, or dinosaurs walking on the grass seeing an asteroid falling from the sky.

No matter how much you roar and brandish your claws, you are powerless to change anything.

With the cries of the workers, a deep sense of despair arose in almost everyone's hearts and rapidly expanded, tightly gripping their hearts.

Making it impossible for them to breathe.

"Heh~"

Qing Long's body trembled. He felt his lips were dry and about to crack, his voice hoarse and sharp, "Pray? To whom? Gods? Demons? Buddha?"

Qing Long laughed, the past flashing through his mind like smoke.

He came from a military compound, learned martial arts from the Gu family in his youth, mastering the ancient Xin Yi Quan (Heart and Mind Fist), and then served in the army for twenty-three years. He experienced thousands of battles in his life, killing as many as four hundred people with his bare hands.

Ten years in the Special Affairs Bureau, he had not used force again, but it seemed that even the blood in his heart had cooled?

Hu~

He suddenly turned around, his eyes sweeping over everyone like an eagle, focusing on the projected image, as if speaking to Ying Long, as if speaking to everyone present, and as if speaking to himself:

"For ten thousand years, Da Xuan's ancestors did not leave us with the foundation to dominate the world, but their spirit has always existed.

If there are mountains in front, we move them. If there are floods, we control the waters. If there are plagues, we taste all kinds of herbs. The sea is vast, but we still fill it with earth!

Even if our heads are cut off, we will not fall. We can still fight even in death!"

Under the immense and indescribable pressure, some people cried in despair, and some people looked ashen.

But there were also people who refused to give in!

Qing Long looked around at everyone, and an unprecedented flame burned in his heart. In a trance, he seemed to see the gods twinkling like stars in his body.

The seeing-god (见神) realm he had been seeking for more than ten years seemed to be within reach, but he no longer cared.

As the words were spoken, he felt that his heart had never been so carefree.

"But you have no means to resist the monster that is about to descend."

In the deathly silence, only Ying Long remained unmoved: "I have notified all departments to evacuate to the underground shelters that have already been built..."

Since discovering the Mars anomaly, Da Xuan and other countries around the world had been monitoring Mars and looking for countermeasures, and had also built many underground shelters and bunkers.

Not to mention a construction maniac like Da Xuan.

"Then we won't let it descend!"

Qing Long replied decisively.

"Then you will die today."

Ying Long expressed some incomprehension: "There is a saying in Da Xuan, it is better to live shabbily than to die well. With your status, you can enter any shelter."

"That's why you are not a person, and even less like me."

Qing Long shook his head, saying no more, and stepped into the darkness that seemed to have no light:

"If I must die today, then I will die today!"

......

Kaka Kaka~

The sound of countless instruments operating rang in a secret underground base.

Looking at one email after another being sent, Marcus breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "Merciful Lord, please bless my family to arrive as soon as possible."

"Marcus!"

A tall white man walked into the room. He had a cold face and was accompanied by a bulldog: "Have all the people been notified?"

"All the emails have been sent, and the system is automatically dialing the numbers. Some people have not responded yet, but most have responded."

Marcus stood up and saluted. The man was his superior, Yehudi, and also the highest commander of this underground shelter.

"Speed up the urging, we don't have much time."

Yehudi glanced at his watch, expressionless: "Immediately abandon those who cannot be notified after the second notification, pass the order, and notify all the people in the second tier. There must be no problems with this 'Ark Project'. The 300,000 places in our shelter cannot be wasted in the slightest, and there cannot be one extra!"

"Yes, yes."

Marcus was drenched in cold sweat, feeling that his superior's words had a hidden meaning.

"Your wife and children can be brought here, but your parents are too old. Our 'Ark Evolution' is to pass on the flame of civilization, and we cannot let everyone in."

Yehudi patted his subordinate's shoulder and said lightly, "At this time, no one can be an exception."

"But, but..."

Marcus's body trembled, and he knelt on the ground: "I, I notified my parents, they..."

He had no chance to speak.

Two tall white men who walked in had already pressed him to the ground and dragged him out.

"Four places have been vacated."

Yehudi glanced at another subordinate who followed in: "The places are given to you. Do not select waste to come in. My 'Ark' does not allow waste to enter."

"Yes!"

The subordinate lowered his head in awe: "Your will shall be fully implemented."

Rumble!

Suddenly, a loud noise accompanied by rolling flames erupted in the shelter.

"Ah!"

Accompanied by a series of gunshots, dozens of burly men rushed in: "Chief, go quickly, Dreamwalkers, the Dreamwalkers are here, they want to take over the 'Ark Shelter'. The place is too small, we are no match for them!"

"Those damn bitches!"

Yehudi cursed angrily, pulled out his gun, gritted his teeth and rushed out: "Anyone who dares to snatch my 'Ark' will die!"

......

Three minutes after the dark clouds dispersed.

Alarms had been raised in many cities in various states of the Golden Eagle Federation, and all streets were cleared to ensure smooth roads.

Under Poseidon's high-speed operation, shelters in various states of the Golden Eagle Federation were activated immediately, and countless military trucks drove in all directions.

Vehicles, airplanes, ships... all means of transportation were put into operation immediately.

The Golden Eagle Federation, which has the most satellites in the world, was the first to discover the anomaly, and with its complete evacuation preparations, its actions were extremely fast.

In just three minutes, the first batch of elites from various cities had begun to evacuate.

And those who entered earlier than them, in addition to the first batch of people, were the countless resources collected from all over the world, as well as various high-end instruments.

In a silvery-white shelter hall, there was silence.

Elites from all walks of life, filling all the seats, sat upright, solemnly and mournfully looking at the white-haired old man who was speaking on the high platform, also with a mournful expression.

They were in mourning.

Before life and death, they chose themselves, but they were equally saddened.

......

At this time, under the heavy protection of Ying Long and Poseidon, the world's two top artificial intelligences, a meeting destined to be unknown to the public was being held.

In a spacious conference room simulated by data, more than two hundred data projection people with unclear faces were seated, without speaking to each other.

The atmosphere in the entire conference room was heavy and silent.

No one spoke, everyone was solemnly looking at the image on the huge projection screen in the center of the conference room.

That was the Xuan Xing model under the monitoring of all satellites.

On the huge grid, a dazzling red dot flashed.

And in addition to the red dot, the entire grid was densely covered with countless green dots.

Those were all the aerial interceptions around the world, all the aerial defense forces of mankind in Xuan Xing.

Under the threat that was huge enough to destroy all of mankind, this meeting, known as the 'Brain Meeting', took only a little over a minute to convene.

And the time that everyone silently looked at this huge grid network diagram had exceeded ten minutes.

More conspicuous than the grid was the time hanging above the conference room.

Time passed by every minute and every second.

The countdown to the end of the world was only thirty minutes!

But they seemed unaware, everyone was staring at the huge projection.

Watching that extremely fierce interception and blocking battle, spanning the entire Xuan Xing, jointly participated by the whole world, unknown to most people.

Countless people were desperately trying, countless people were racking their brains to think of countermeasures.

This was a silent meeting.