Chapter 1591: A Nuclear-Free World

A Nuclear-Free World

Lu Xun knew who the "they" he spoke of were.

In fact, when Lu Xun heard Yang Xiao say there was no fixed waveband, the same question arose in his heart... But he didn't know how to answer. How... could he answer?

Lu Xun walked closest to them, but even he couldn't completely guess their thoughts. He couldn't go question them. Even if he turned around and went into the conference room to question them right now, the answer he ultimately got would probably be a vague response...

Different stances, different goals; everything was intertwined, making it impossible to judge who was right and who was wrong anymore. Lu Xun, as the middleman between the country and the Nine Monarchs, was silent for a long time, and finally could only slowly spit out a sentence:

"I... don't know."

On the other end of the phone, Yang Xiao didn't say a word.

Perhaps, when he asked this question, he already knew that Lu Xun couldn't give him an answer at all...

Raging fire burned on the wreckage of the laboratory, and the scorched smell of flames licking human corpses filled Yang Xiao's nasal cavity. That originally pure white scientific research coat was already stained with fresh blood. Looking at everything devastated before his eyes, he felt an unspeakable sorrow in his heart.

But now he wasn't clear either. Was he exactly the guardian of humanity... or a controlled slaughter weapon?

The bloodstained white coat walked step by step on the ruins;

In the hazy gray sky in the distance, the roar of countless fighter jets faintly transmitted over.

The anger and hostility of a country surged howling toward the white-clothed figure on the ruins like a turbulent tide. Yang Xiao could clearly sense the existence of every single one of them, and could even hear their fear and verbal abuse toward him in their communication channels...

Why he originally came was no longer important. At this moment, he had already become an enemy of the entire nation, an Eastern weapon.

The hand Yang Xiao used to hold the phone unconsciously clenched tight...

"Old Lu..."

"I don't want to be a killing tool anymore."

Lu Xun on the other end of the phone paused for a moment, and then calmly gave his response:

"Do what you want to do. I will handle the rest."

"...Mm."

Yang Xiao hung up the phone. He calmly looked up at those fighter jets whistling towards him. The struggle and pain originally in his eyes were gradually replaced by a touch of firmness.

He took a deep breath, and in the next moment, his figure soared straight into the sky!

Whoosh——!!

The whistling sound of his body cutting through the long sky echoed in the void.

His speed was too fast. Those fighter jets that originally had their firepower locked onto him lost their target one after another at this moment. Watching helplessly as an aurora rose into the sky, they were given a huge fright!

They originally thought that humanoid weapon was coming for them, but soon they realized they were wrong. Yang Xiao seemingly didn't intend to fight them, but rather pierced straight through the atmosphere... turning into an aurora star gradually leaving Earth.

At the same time, the auroras in his pupils surged, and a power permeated towards every terminal country directly through electrical signals!

...

Beneath the freezing seawater.

Several massive dark shadows silently sneaking in the deep sea all seemed to lose control at this moment. The pitch-black hatch covers slowly opened, and missiles directly cut through the seawater, rising straight upwards!

"What's going on?? The secret key clearly wasn't inputted, why did the nuclear weapons launch on their own?!"

"Quick!! Quickly notify and report upwards!!"

This sudden unexpected change directly left the soldiers inside the nuclear submarines completely dumbfounded. They frantically tried to contact their superiors, however, they didn't realize that this was not an isolated case.

At this moment, no matter which country it was, no matter whether the nuclear weapons were deployed on the seabed or on land, they all seemed to be directly controlled by someone, unified in launching towards the sky. After experiencing a global nuclear war, only an extremely small number of countries still had nuclear weapon reserves, and they were all specially hidden away prepared to be used as a trump card...

But now, all concealments had nowhere to hide. These most powerful weapons in human history had all broken free from humanity's control at this time. Under their astonished and panicked gazes, they turned into meteors flying towards the deep space of the universe!

"Dr. Lu!! Why were the nuclear weapons forcibly activated? What did Yang Xiao do?"

In the conference room, figures walked quickly to Lu Xun's side in the outside corridor one by one and asked questioningly.

Lu Xun quietly watched those "stars" leaping from the earth to the sky, as well as that white-clothed figure "commanding the stars" across the ocean at this moment, the corners of his mouth turning up slightly...

After an unknown amount of time, he finally spoke slowly:

"He is saving the future of humanity."

Yang Xiao didn't choose to fight with any side; he just silently flew into the sky and took away humanity's ultimate weapons for killing each other... On one hand, without nuclear weapons, the subsequent casualties of the global war would be reduced a lot, and the fewer the sacrifices, the greater the advantage humanity could gain when encountering the Calamity tide in the future;

On the other hand, Yang Xiao needed to count exactly how many countries in the world right now had secretly manufactured nuclear weapons possessing the Extra-dimensional Wake effect.

Facts proved that there were quite a few countries possessing this technology.

On the Earth at this moment, there were a total of thirty-eight nuclear weapons left, among which nine carried the Extra-dimensional Wake effect and could briefly open a channel to the Gray World... It was just that no one knew exactly which place in the Gray World these nuclear weapons would connect to after detonating.

Yang Xiao's line of thought was also very simple. Since he couldn't open the door at a fixed point, he would make up for it with quantity... The more Extra-dimensional Wake missiles detonated at the same time, the greater the probability of the door opening in the Bitter Flesh Forest, and the higher the chances of Director Chen and the others coming back.

And during this process, there would inevitably be a massive amount of Calamities attempting to enter Earth through the channels. Once they really descended, humanity would inevitably fall into chaos, so Yang Xiao chose to take these nuclear weapons and leave Earth. Wait until the time agreed upon with Chen Ling arrived, and directly open the channels in the universe.

This way, even if the vast majority of Calamities came through the channels, they would be lost in the universe and unable to truly reach Earth. And with Lu Xun there, he could guide people back through the starlight at any time!

This was the optimal solution under the circumstance that they couldn't open the channel at a fixed point!

Auroras flowed around Yang Xiao, ensuring his own isolation from the vacuum environment of the universe. As the atmosphere continuously distanced itself beneath his feet, the profound and boundless deep space of the universe gradually wrapped around his body...

One nuclear weapon after another followed his figure into the universe. Those nuclear weapons without the Extra-dimensional Wake were all redeployed by Yang Xiao, scattered in low Earth orbit. If necessary in the future, Yang Xiao could control them at any time to fly back to the ground and cause a strike.

After doing all this, Yang Xiao took the nine Extra-dimensional Wake nuclear weapons and continued to move forward into the deep space...

"Director Chen, we can only do this much..."

"The rest is up to you guys."

Yang Xiao muttered to himself.