Chapter 216: Pre-War Mobilization Against the Other World

*Clap clap clap clap clap! *

Following Ji Donglai's words, crisp applause immediately rang out across the scene, with Li Huowang clapping the hardest.

Fang Can stood frozen in place, completely stiff.

Wasn't this supposed to be a meeting? Why suddenly bring up something like this before the meeting even starts?

Watching the superhumans around him whistle and gesture, Fang Can felt like he'd come to the wrong place.

He had somewhat miscalculated the weight of this meeting.

Compared to a solemn high-level conference, this felt more like a laid-back family meeting.

All goddamn superhumans — in Ji Donglai's eyes, all family — here they didn't even need to use official titles.

He gave an awkward, faint nod to the crowd, found a seat, and flipped open the documents on the round table to read through them.

After a quick scan, based on the intel in the documents, Fang Can roughly understood the meeting's content.

What had been swapped over this time was a Great Chu city called Sunflare.

Drone observation showed the city's total population was around five million, with a total area covering one million square meters of urban district and three million square meters of surrounding land.

A city of this scale would be considered mid-sized even in the relatively ancient Dayan, and it couldn't be ruled out that there were martial artists at the Heaven-Treading Stage inside.

Relevant personnel had already been sent to negotiate, and now they were discussing how to handle it.

After briefly praising Fang Can and chatting a bit with a few others, Ji Donglai got down to business.

"Based on the researchers' hypothesis, the people from City C who were swapped didn't die — they're just currently stuck in Great Chu in a state of suspended time."

"As long as we move the anchor point, the next time a swap happens back, the people of City C can return."

"The current guess is that the anchor point is on that ancient city, so next we're preparing to move the entire city. Any thoughts?" Ji Donglai looked at everyone present.

"Then just move it." F-Superman flicked his clothes lightly. "How heavy is that city?"

"Land plus buildings plus population, roughly around one billion tons." Ji Donglai gave a number.

"Then I'm still a bit short — can't lift it." F-Superman said in a languid tone. "Boss, why don't you just lift it yourself?"

"Do you know how wasteful that is? Do you have any idea how much it costs to move a billion-ton object intact over dozens of kilometers?" Ji Donglai's temple throbbed — he'd never seen anyone so prodigal.

"Then let me help." A cool, clear voice rang out.

A superhuman with dark-green long hair, a black leather uniform, and a gold five-pointed star insignia on the shoulder spoke up. Fang Can recognized them — it was the Divine One.

They didn't possess any offensive superability themselves, but had amplification power, able to enhance the abilities of corresponding superhumans.

"With your help it should work too — multiply my strength by ten, and it's roughly enough to barely move it." F-Superman nodded indifferently, clearly having cooperated several times before.

"Now let's move on to the second topic. Next, we need to prepare to go to Great Chu." Ji Donglai spoke slowly, but it drew everyone's attention.

"Ji Laoda, how do we get there?" Li Huowang asked eagerly, clearly very interested.

"That ancient city will serve as the anchor point. As long as we stay inside that city when we cross over, we should be able to reach the other side through the anchor point."

"In other words, from now on, to ensure we reach Great Chu, we have to stay in that city at all times?"

A superhuman pouted. "That's way too much trouble."

"If it's about the timing of the crossing, I can give advance notice." Fang Can suddenly spoke up.

"My intuition can roughly guess the specific crossing time, within ten minutes of accuracy."

"Oh, that makes it simple. Just go together when the time comes." Everyone nodded, no objections.

"Don't be so relaxed. This trip is extremely dangerous." Ji Donglai said solemnly:

"Most of your bodies are more fragile than a First-Turn martial artist — a single glance from a Mind-Phase martial artist would turn you into an idiot."

"Even though you're Continent-level ability users, assassination, poison, curses, traps, ambush… any one of these is enough to kill most of you."

"Compared to those all-around enhanced martial artists, we individual superhumans are simply a disadvantaged group."

"But precisely because we're disadvantaged, we should band together even more. Only the bond of our united strength can resist all enemies — otherwise, only extinction awaits us."

"The one thing we're stronger than those lowly species in is precisely the unbreakable bond between us."

"Originally I was planning to wait through a few more swaps, gather intel on each of the Fourth-Turns, and then go over as a group."

"But now news from the other world says they want to capture our family — that is, Fang Can — and make him a dual-cultivation furnace cauldron. That is absolutely unforgivable."

"Any attack against a superhuman is a declaration of war against our collective. So no matter how dangerous, we face it together — this is the foundation of New Nation's existence."

Ji Donglai looked solemnly at the superhumans present and said:

"Next, to face those Fourth-Turns, we need to prepare our team compositions in advance."

"Myself, Li Huowang, the Sacred Separator, the Divine One, and Fang Can will form the core team and must go. As for the rest, you can volunteer."

"This time when we go over, we'll first try to destroy or rule a nation, to prove the bond between us to those lowly otherworld natives."

Ji Donglai lightly struck the table, his tone absolutely firm!

This speech immediately drew cheers from the whole room, and Fang Can's superhuman family members began applauding one after another.

"Long live the superhumans!"

"That's how it should be! Don't lose face — enslave those otherworld martial artists hard, and grow our own strength!"

"We'll follow Ji Laoda's leadership forever."

……

Watching the scene, Fang Can was genuinely moved, but another thought surfaced: 'Can we actually win?'

Based on what he'd learned about Dayan during this time, these Continent-level superhumans individually were roughly stronger than Third-Turn.

But facing Fourth-Turns, who had an absolute gap over Third-Turns, could they really win?

After all, these superhumans' weaknesses were so extreme that a single operational mistake would be fatal.

As if noticing Fang Can's thoughts, Ji Donglai smiled and waved his hand: "With preparation against the unprepared, united, we're guaranteed to win this time."

"Now you go with F-Superman and the others, head into that ancient city and scope out the whole thing, see how we handle it next."

"We're preparing to formally declare war anyway, so you don't need to worry about being exposed."

Since the other party had already said as much, Fang Can could only nod. Then, under Li Huowang's teleportation, the four of them appeared together above the ancient city, looking down at the clamor of the crowd below.

(End of chapter)