Chapter 1201: I am the Lord of Tianshu

I am the Lord of Tianshu

The underground shelter.

The dim and cramped environment was filled with panicked cries and terrified panting. In a corner of the crowded throng, a girl hugged her backpack tightly, crouching down, her palm gripping the hem of the man's coat beside her.

"Dad... are we going to die?" Jiangjiang's voice trembled slightly.

"It's okay, don't be afraid. Dad will protect you."

The man, wearing a simple coat, shielded the girl behind him. His weathered face was filled with exhaustion, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Just last night, he had thought he was favored by the god of luck. Someone had generously spent nearly twice the price to buy his basically unprofitable storefront... After getting that money, the man's first thought was that he could take his daughter away from this small town, live in a better house in a big city, and attend a better school.

But no matter how anxious he was, the school registration procedures had to be handled normally. He finally finished the school's process, but right on their way to the high-speed rail station, disaster struck...

All the expected beauty vanished like an illusory bubble, instantly shattering without a trace. By the time he came back to his senses, he was already in this shelter. The roar of the explosion echoed frantically in the distance, and the haze of death made him unable to see any hope of survival.

In the crowd, someone who knew a little about nuclear explosions spoke in despair.

As soon as these words came out, many people around completely broke down. Despair spread frantically through the crowd!

"Why couldn't the shelter have installed air filtration equipment in advance?!"

"Why didn't they build a few more shelters!!"

"Why do other people get to enter Grade A underground facilities, while we were only guided here?!!"

"..."

Under extreme despair, the darkness in people's hearts was infinitely magnified. All kinds of hysterical complaints and furious roars rang out from all directions, scaring Jiangjiang in the corner into shrinking into a ball. She didn't even dare to look at the chaotic crowd.

Chu Changqing watched the gradually out-of-control citizens around him, his brow furrowing tighter and tighter.

He could fully understand the public's reaction. If he were in the dark like them, he might have joined the ranks of complainers too... But Chu Changqing was a personal witness to the Red Star incident. He fully understood what was going on.

It had only been about ten days since the Red Star descended, and the satellites failing was just an event from the last two days. Even if the higher-ups could roughly guess that a world war was imminent, these short two or three days simply didn't leave enough time to build more shelters... And the existing shelters were all built according to regulations. Once a wartime state was entered, everything had to go by the procedure. With hundreds of cities large and small across the country and tens of thousands of shelters, how could they just be modified on a whim?

But regardless of the reason, most of the citizens could only blindly see the results. Driven by the crisis of death, commotion broke out everywhere in the shelter.

Some, knowing there was radiation in the air, frantically wrapped things around their mouths and noses, almost suffocating themselves.

Some, feeling certain death was inevitable, simply released the long-suppressed violence in their hearts. When someone accidentally bumped into them, they got into a brawl, dragging a large area into chaos.

Some mistakenly thought that since there was radiation in the air, it would be better to let the people around them inhale more. If others breathed in a large portion of the harmful substances for them, they could survive, so they laid flat on the ground... Most critically, this action was taken by people around them as a secret method of survival, and they all followed suit. Swaths of people hastily lay down, terrified that taking one more breath would cause them to die faster than others, churning the already cramped space into extreme chaos.

Even though some were trying hard to maintain order, it still had no significant effect. The chaos spread uncontrollably in all directions. Even though everyone had survived the explosion, some had already begun to die at the hands of their maddened compatriots...

Just as the scene was about to reach the peak of chaos, a voice completely overpowered all the noise, echoing through the shelter.

"Stop it, all of you!!"

The next moment, a blinding starlight lit up at the top of the shelter, like a scorching sun in this dim environment, instantly illuminating the breeding darkness so there was nowhere to hide...

The starlight was scorching, making it hard to open one's eyes. The citizens could only see that above the shelter, a figure was actually slowly floating up!

Hazy starlight permeated from around him, almost covering the entire shelter. The man stood right in the center of the sky full of starlight, looking down at everyone with a gaze of helplessness and pity.

"My starlight will filter out the harmful substances in the air and also isolate a portion of the radiation, so there is no need to panic... Today, no one will die." Lu Xun's voice was deep and full of power. In this unstable and shaky scenario, it was like a needle calming the sea, making people subconsciously believe him.

Everyone was stunned; they couldn't comprehend everything before them... Starlight appearing underground, a mysterious person suspended in mid-air—this was an existence you would only see in a sci-fi movie.

But there was no doubt that in this environment, an existence that shattered the cognition of ordinary people was exactly what was needed. Only when he appeared could he conquer the crowd in an instant and, with his own unmatched power, bestow them with a sense of security.

Lu Xun was this person.

"Dad... are there really immortals in this world?!" Jiangjiang looked at Lu Xun in the distant starlight and spoke in shock.

"This..." The man scratched his head, replying uncertainly himself.

"Perhaps, there are?"

"Holy crap, Pao Ge, what did I tell you? There definitely are Kamen Riders in this world!!" The boy to the side was also extremely excited.

"Kamen Rider my ass, he didn't even transform, alright... It's more appropriate to say Doctor Strange or the Scarlet Witch." Pao Ge rubbed his chin, his eyes equally shining.

"Who are you???"

In the crowd, someone asked with equal astonishment.

Everyone raised their heads, looking at the figure in the starlight, their eyes full of doubt and yearning.

"My name is Lu..." Lu Xun instinctively started to answer, but after seeing the gazes of those people, he fell silent.

Lu Xun realized that what these people needed right now wasn't a name, but a hope that could make everyone believe they could survive the disaster... and a person who could point the way for everyone.

Lu Xun looked at the slowly rotating Big Dipper in his hand, and suddenly, a name surfaced in his mind.

His lips slowly parted:

"I am the Lord of Tianshu."

"From now on, everyone follow my commands."

There was no self-introduction, no discussion. Lu Xun used the calmest tone to implant a "command" into everyone... an unquestionable command.