ocean-life Chapter 60 The Final Barrier Activated! Treat him like an ancestor!
Chapter 60 The Final Barrier Activated! Treat him like an ancestor!
China, the capital city, the Western Hills.
A secret base hidden deep inside the mountain.
The level of security here is comparable to that of a head of state's official residence.
The air was thick with a suffocating sense of oppression.
Li Zhenguo and dozens of his confidants were staring intently at the holographic projection sand table in front of them.
On the sand table, a video was playing repeatedly.
A video, transmitted from that small courtyard house a few hours ago, is powerful enough to overturn human cognition and reshape the world order.
The scene begins the moment Lin Fan walks out of the courtyard gate.
When those thirteen golden figures, tearing through the night like the sun falling to earth, descended.
Inside the command center, all breathing sounds ceased.
"Energy level...cannot be estimated!"
"The instrument's measurement limit has been breached!"
A technician's voice was trembling with tears.
"God...this is a true god who stepped out of mythology!"
"The capital...it's over..."
Despair, like a plague, breeds wildly in confined spaces.
Li Zhenguo's palm was pierced by fingernails, and blood seeped out, but he was completely unaware of it, already preparing to issue the order to activate the final counterattack plan.
However, the scene that appeared the next second brought everyone's thoughts to a standstill.
What did they see?
Mr. Lin, whom they placed their last hope in, codenamed "The Hermit".
He came out carrying a... shiny, oily pig's trotter.
Then, he frowned and waved his hand, as if shooing away annoying flying insects.
He said, "You bunch of light bulbs are too dazzling."
And then.
That "God of War" whose body was engulfed in divine flames and who looked capable of destroying a city with a single punch.
His strike was imbued with immense divine power.
It was blocked by that pig's trotter so casually.
Yes, pig's trotters.
What followed shattered the worldviews upon which all the elites present depended for their livelihood.
With a single finger, two gods were sent flying.
He opened his palm and swallowed a golden torrent large enough to flatten mountains.
A snap of the fingers.
A gigantic golden net, covering the entire capital city and whose nature even their detection equipment could not fathom, appeared out of thin air.
At last.
That arrogant war god, like a chick with its neck being choked, was carried into the yard by Mr. Lin with one hand.
The remaining twelve deities.
They fell from the sky like dumplings, and knelt down in unison on the ground.
Then, they lined up, heads bowed, and walked into the courtyard house, which was nothing short of hell for them.
The video ends.
The image freezes on the moment the courtyard gate slowly closes.
The entire command center was so quiet that you could hear each other's frantic heartbeats.
Everyone looked like a puppet whose soul had been ripped out, staring blankly at the sand table.
"Gulp."
A labored swallow broke the deathly silence.
This seems to be a signal.
"Fuck..."
An elderly professor with gray hair, highly respected in academia, and who usually paid the utmost attention to his demeanor, was the first to swear.
Immediately afterwards, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground.
He didn't wail, but repeated himself over and over in a dreamlike voice.
"He didn't overthrow a god... he overthrew Newton... he overthrew Einstein..."
"He overturned everything we knew..."
"Team...team leader..."
The adjutant beside Li Zhenguo trembled so much that he couldn't utter a single complete sentence.
"The thirteen gods we...saw...were just... taken by Mr. Lin...all by himself..."
"No."
Li Zhenguo slowly shook his head.
His face was as pale as paper, but his eyes were frighteningly bright.
"That wasn't a total wipeout."
His voice was hoarse, yet carried an almost manic tremor.
"He...he wasn't fighting at all."
"He was... cleaning up some trash that had fallen into the yard."
"No, it doesn't even count as cleaning up trash."
Li Zhenguo suddenly pointed to the frozen image, to the man who was carrying a pig's trotter from beginning to end.
"He was just shooing away a few flies... that had landed in his yard and were buzzing annoyingly."
These words struck everyone present like a thunderbolt, causing them to tremble violently.
They looked at the screen again.
The man's expression remained largely unchanged throughout.
There was disdain, impatience, and even a tiny bit of curiosity.
The only thing missing was solemnity and seriousness.
Yes.
He wasn't serious at all.
A world-ending crisis that made the entire nation of China tremble and prepare to deploy its nuclear arsenal.
In that man's eyes.
It turned out to be nothing more than a farce that didn't even qualify as a warm-up?
This realization is even more terrifying than witnessing a god descend.
"immediately!"
Li Zhenguo suddenly snapped out of his daze and roared at everyone.
"Classify this footage as a top-level national secret, 'God-level'!"
"All contacts are to be quarantined and investigated on the spot! No one is allowed to leave the base without my order!"
"Sever all physical and network connections between this place and the outside world!"
"Activate the 'Final Information Barrier' protocol!"
His command sent a chill down everyone's spine.
The "Final Information Barrier" protocol is a top-secret contingency plan that is only activated in the event of a national crisis or genocide.
Once activated, these people will be isolated from the world.
It might take a few years, or it might take decades, or even a lifetime.
However, no one objected.
Because they know better than anyone that if even a single pixel of this video were leaked, it would trigger a global collapse of faith and a complete breakdown of social order.
That would be the end of human civilization.
"Team leader, what about... Mr. Lin..." the adjutant asked in a trembling voice.
"Mr. Lin..."
When Li Zhenguo thought of this, his eyes became incredibly complicated.
He recalled their first meeting, and how the other person had that lazy, old-timer-like demeanor from Beijing.
Then she remembered the other person planting trees in the yard, and how she clung to their leg, crying like a 300-pound child.
Finally, all of these memories were frozen on that god-like figure and that... pig's trotter.
Li Zhenguo's mind was completely in chaos.
"I'll go myself."
He made a decision.
"Team leader! It's too dangerous!" the adjutant exclaimed in alarm. "We have no way of knowing his stance! He's no longer someone we can understand! If you go over there, what if..."
"There's no 'what if'."
Li Zhenguo interrupted him, pointing to the tranquil courtyard house on the screen.
"He is Chinese, and his roots are here."
"And haven't you noticed?"
"From beginning to end, he did not allow even the slightest trace of the battle's aftermath to leak out of the alley."
"The craters created by the two gods that were thrown back were precisely controlled within the alley."
"Aside from the initial pressure and electronic device malfunctions, not a single pane of glass was broken in the entire capital city."
What does this mean?
"This means he is protecting us, protecting this city."
Li Zhenguo paused, a stiff, unnatural smile appearing on his face, a smile that was neither quite a smile nor a cry.
"He is not our enemy."
"He is our... ancestor."
"We can't afford to offend them, so we can only... appease them."
"Pass on my orders!"
"Mobilize all the resources we can!"
"From this moment forward, we will spare no expense to fulfill any of Mr. Lin's requests!"
"He wants the stars in the sky, so we'll research and build a spaceship to get them for him!"
"He wants the underground dragon veins, so we'll dig up the Himalayas for him!"
In short, in a word!
Li Zhenguo scanned the command center, at each of his subordinates whose faces were pale with fear and shock, and roared out each word with all his might.
"Give him a good beating!"