Chapter 1198: Protection

Protection

The Hill was razed to the ground.

Fiery red flannel edges swallowed the lush green land. All wild animals living within it were melted in an instant. The Grim Reaper's absolute Domain opened, and in an instant, harvested tens of millions of natural living beings.

The densely packed Red Paper was scorched and broken, falling from the air in a fluttering manner. Above the wasteland where residual fire leaped, an incredibly sorry-looking figure was pieced together...

"Cough cough cough cough cough cough..."

Chen Ling, whose whole body was covered in blood, coughed violently. The air was full of a pungent strange smell. Scalding hot fresh blood dripped from his mouth and nose, spreading out on the pitch-black ground.

But soon, these injuries were stopped. He stood up unsteadily from the ground. Aside from his whole body being covered in blood looking somewhat scary, there were no overly serious injuries.

Chen Ling was after all a Calamity. His physical quality was not something ordinary humans could compare to. Even if the air was full of Nuclear Radiation now, he also didn't have much feeling, only being shaken incredibly uncomfortably by the explosion aftershock just now.

"Is this the power of a nuclear weapon..." While wiping the fresh blood on his face, Chen Ling muttered to himself,

Chen Ling shook his unclear head, staggering forward.

During the process of fleeing the explosion just now, he and Ying Fu had completely separated. Ying Fu seemed to have other means to resist nuclear weapons, not knowing where he hid... However, Chen Ling was also too lazy to care about him. Right now the most important thing was to rescue Lu Xun and the others from Wushan Town!

The World War had already begun, pulling open the prologue of the Great Cataclysm. Any corner of this world could be dangerous. He must guarantee the safety of the Nine Monarchs.

While thinking, Chen Ling walked to the edge of the devastated mountains and looked toward the direction of Wushan Town.

In the next moment, he was stunned in place.

Only to see among the hazy clouds and mist, a second dazzlingly bright spot of light was currently falling straight toward the center of Wushan Town...

...

7012 Underground Project.

Thump——!!!

A burst of slight mountain shaking came. Everyone inside the conference room was taken aback, looking around blankly, as if not knowing what had happened.

"An earthquake?"

"It shouldn't be... Since they dared to build this underground project here, it shouldn't be in an earthquake zone."

"Did the air raid siren just ring??"

"What exactly is this situation?? Where is Director Sun? Why hasn't he come out yet?"

"Before, I felt it was strange why the meeting location was chosen here... What exactly is your Bureau 749 planning to do?"

"..."

Bursts of commotion came from within the conference room. The crowd, who already felt something was wrong, increasingly began to question Bureau 749's arrangement. And in the crowd, Chancellor Han's eyes stared straight at the ceiling, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Chancellor Han... What exactly is this situation?" Zheng Zhiqing shifted to his side and asked in a low voice.

"Something must have happened outside," Chancellor Han sighed lightly.

"I hope His Majesty can turn danger into safety..."

A few rooms away.

Sun Bumian frowned as he looked at the slightly trembling surroundings, slowly loosening the palm choking Sun Zhongliang.

Sun Zhongliang's soles fell back to the ground. His complexion was still incredibly pale. The staff members and military personnel on the side immediately stepped forward to support him, protecting him tightly behind them.

"You guys organized this Wushan Conference in advance just to gather all the inheritors together and then send them into this underground project?" Sun Bumian seemed to have understood something.

"This is a nuclear war sweeping the globe. All densely populated places cannot be spared." Sun Zhongliang slowly spoke. "You Divine Path Possessors are the treasures passed down by our country's thousands of years of culture, the concrete manifestation of human spiritual civilization... If you die in a nuclear war, it will be a tremendous loss."

Sun Bumian finally knew why this Wushan Conference was held so hurriedly. I'm afraid whether domestic or overseas, they all only truly realized the terrifying influence brought by technological regression in the last two days. And for Bureau 749 to be able to gather so many people together in a short two or three days was already extremely highly efficient.

No wonder they insisted on him immediately returning to the country, and no matter what didn't want to let him go out again. It seemed they had long anticipated that America would soon become a piece of wasteland. Hurriedly summoning him back was also in order to better protect him.

Sun Bumian admitted he had some prejudice against Sun Zhongliang before, but looking at it now, he indeed did what Bureau 749 most ought to do...

"Since it is for protection, why not just explain it clearly directly?" Sun Bumian asked again.

"First, how to respond to a nuclear war is the nation's highest secret. If it is revealed in advance, in case the news spreads abroad through spies, things will be quite thorny. Not to mention anything else, if a large number of countries knew we were hiding in Wushan, at that time dozens of nuclear weapons would turn this place into a wasteland that cannot recover for hundreds of years.

Second, everyone has selfish motives. If we let them know that a nuclear war is imminent, what about their parents, wives, children, relatives, and friends? The 7012 Underground Project is only so big, and the population it can accommodate is extremely limited. We can't let them bring their whole families in... Who we want to protect is the inheritors themselves, not their relatives and friends.

Third, if they learned that the 7012 Underground Project couldn't accommodate their families, they would either choose not to come, advancing and retreating together with their families; or they would choose to secretly tell the news to the people around them, letting them go to the best and highest-level Shelters one step earlier.

In case these people spread the news out, it would cause massive panic. Once the masses were in chaos, it would lead to a large number of tragedies... Never believe in Human Nature. When the threat of death is placed in front of them, too many people will choose to abandon Human Nature and become beasts selfish to the extreme."

After listening, Sun Bumian fell into silence.

Sun Zhongliang was very right. No matter from which angle one looked at it, not telling them the truth was the most correct choice... At least on the matter of the Wushan Conference, Sun Bumian couldn't pick out a single fault.

"I understand," Sun Bumian sighed.

"You guys are right. However, I don't plan to hide here... No matter how chaotic it is outside, this place doesn't belong to me."

"Very sorry, Mr. Sun, this is a one-way ticket," Sun Zhongliang answered calmly. "Having entered the 7012 Underground Project, one cannot leave. You are also our important protection target."

"I can't go out either?"

"Yes, absolutely anyone cannot."

Sun Bumian's brows furrowed again. "Then how long do we have to stay here?"

"Stay until all danger has passed... perhaps it is a month, perhaps it is a year, or perhaps... it is ten years." Sun Zhongliang paused for a moment. "Before the surface crisis is thoroughly resolved, everyone cannot leave. This is an order issued from above.

Please rest assured, you two, the reserves of the 7012 Underground Project are enough for everyone to use for fifty years."

Sun Bumian shook his head repeatedly.

"Impossible, I won't stay here for so long... I want to go up."