Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 180: Dealing with the Disobedient

The onlookers were still peering inside. A few people turned to leave, but when they saw Zhou Yuan approaching, they all screamed and fled. Before the other onlookers could react, the police had already drawn their guns. When the onlookers saw the police draw their guns, they realized something was wrong and turned to look. They were all horrified and, like the others, screamed and ran away.

Zhou Yuan continued walking forward as if no one else was around. "Zhou Yuan, stop! Don't move! If you move again, we'll shoot!" a policeman who seemed to be the leader shouted, though the policemen's hands holding their guns were visibly trembling.

Zhou Yuan ignored it, tearing off the fake face as he walked and throwing it far away on the ground. The onlookers who had been watching earlier hadn't gone far; they were all taking photos or videos.

After Zhou Yuan ripped off the fake face, everyone saw the true face of the mysterious and legendary Dharma Body of the Du Sect, and people started taking photos and videos even more frequently. Several young women screamed loudly.

Eight policemen outside the cordon watched Zhou Yuan walk straight towards them, unsure of what to do. As they hesitated, the guns in their hands suddenly slipped from their grasp. Two of the officers, gripping their guns tightly, were lifted off the ground. They had no choice but to let go, and all eight guns rose into the air, muzzles pointing downwards, each aimed at the head of the corresponding officer.

Eight police officers quickly raised their hands, and four of them inside the cordon fired at Zhou Yuan. The four beams of laser particles seemed to hit an incredibly hard, invisible wall, and a small ripple appeared at the end of the particle stream. Zhou Yuan seemed to be covered by an invisible, transparent energy shield.

Zhou Yuan continued forward, the laser particle stream shooting but constantly being blocked, until the four policemen simply gave up firing. Zhou Yuan walked towards the ambulance carrying the bodies of the maintenance family of three. Doctors and nurses immediately moved aside. Zhou Yuan got into the ambulance and first unzipped the body bag of the maintenance family. Looking at the wound on the maintenance family's chest, Zhou Yuan couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

Zhou Yuan placed his left hand on the maintenance worker's head and his right hand on his wound, slowly rubbing both hands together. Passersby and police officers watched Zhou Yuan's strange behavior, constantly taking photos and videos; it's likely already being broadcast live on the news or online.

Zhou Yuan's left and right hands moved faster and faster, and a fleeting halo seemed to appear where his hands touched. Suddenly, everyone saw a shocking scene. The maintenance worker, who had recently died, stood up and sat upright as if he were still alive, and the timid onlookers ran away.

The maintenance worker's eyes darted around, and when he saw the body bags of Maria and the child, he jumped off the stretcher, threw himself onto Maria's body, and wept bitterly. He then threw himself onto the child's body and wailed loudly. The maintenance worker looked at the people outside the vehicle, and they seemed to see the anger and endless hatred in his eyes.

The operations engineer knelt down with a thud, facing Zhou Yuan, pleading, "Zhou Yuan, please save Maria, please save the computation!"

Zhou Yuan helped the operations engineer up, looked at him face-to-face, and shook his head, indicating that he couldn't save Maria and her child. A look of disappointment flashed across the operations engineer's eyes.

"Let's go." Zhou Yuan and the maintenance crew got out of the car, and a group of police officers watched as the two prepared to leave.

Six fighter jets roared in from the sky, unleashing a barrage of laser beams at Zhou Yuan and the operations team. Like a police laser gun, the beams were blocked three or four meters in front of them, creating ripples of light.

Zhou Yuan stretched out his left hand and pointed it at the six fighter jets in the air. He rotated his five fingers counterclockwise, and the six fighter jets were torn apart and fell to the ground as if they were being violently torn and kneaded.

The crowd stared at the terrifying scene, as if time itself had frozen, utterly silent. Then, as if struck by a colossal object, a person suddenly knelt before Zhou Yuan. Others, seemingly influenced by this, followed suit, some chanting incantations. Zhou Yuan heard them reciting scriptures of salvation. At this moment, Zhou Yuan was already a "god" in their eyes.

"Zhou Yuan, where are we going now?" The operations engineer was also surprised by Zhou Yuan's god-like abilities, but he was filled with hatred and hoped that Zhou Yuan would lead him to cause a big scene.

"Operations, I need you to do your best to utilize your talents." After saying that, Zhou Yuan took out a tablet and handed it to the operations engineer.

"So what should I do now?"

"Blow up the presidential palace, blow up the parliament building."

"clear."

As expected of an operations engineer, his exceptional computer skills allowed him to channel his burning hatred into a hacker, relentlessly searching for weaknesses and targets in the vast ocean of electronic data.

Ten minutes later, eight missiles were launched from the Longxin military base on the outskirts of the capital, tracing graceful arcs across the sky. Four were aimed at the Presidential Palace, and four at the Parliament Building. The reason the operations and maintenance team deployed missiles from the Longxin base was that the base was very close to the two targets, and the missiles' high speed made it easy to quickly destroy both targets. Even if there were missile interceptor weapons, their reaction time would not be fast enough.

Eight missiles, like the Grim Reaper descending, played a hellish symphony of revenge and vengeance. The citizens of the capital covered their faces, unable to bear watching the eight missiles strike the Presidential Palace and the Parliament Building.

Twenty seconds later, eight missiles struck the presidential palace and the parliament building directly, reducing both targets to rubble. If Acting President Felch had been in the presidential palace, he might have been killed in the bombing. However, the operations team knew that the presidential palace was meticulously fortified and guessed that Felch and his team could not have been wiped out so easily and were likely already hiding in the underground bunkers of the presidential palace.

The maintenance team continued to fiddle with the tablet, searching for Felch's whereabouts. It was confirmed that Felch had indeed appeared at the presidential palace that morning, but it was unknown whether he was injured or killed, or whether he was taking shelter in a bunker.

When the operations team informed Filch of the location tracking results, Zhou Yuan frowned, and a murderous glint appeared on his face.

The onlookers had long since fled, leaving only the police and medical personnel still dumbfounded.

Zhou Yuan waved his hand, and a police car started automatically, slowly driving towards Zhou Yuan and the operations team. The two got into the car, and Zhou Yuan didn't say anything. The police car drove automatically, as if driven manually, and sped towards the Presidential Palace.

The presidential palace has been completely destroyed by four missiles, and the ground reeks of burning.

Four or five police cars were already parked ahead, and eight or nine police officers were observing the ruins of the presidential palace. When the officers saw a police car approaching, they assumed it was one of their colleagues. As Zhou Yuan and the maintenance crew got out of the car, the officers hurriedly reached for their guns at their waists. However, their guns spontaneously detached from their waists and rose up, muzzle pointing downwards at the officers. The officers were so frightened that they dared not move.

Zhou Yuan and the operations team continued forward. When Zhou Yuan reached roughly the center of the Presidential Palace, he bent down, pressed his right palm against the ground, and intently examined it. Zhou Yuan stood up, closed his eyes, and emitted a dazzling blue light. A blue halo enveloped him, spinning rapidly. Suddenly, the shape of the blue halo changed, becoming wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, forming a vortex, before disappearing. The operations team and the police were stunned by Zhou Yuan's superpower.

About five minutes later, a dazzling blue light emanated from the spot where Zhou Yuan had been standing. Then the blue light faded, revealing Zhou Yuan. In his left hand, Zhou Yuan held a long, thin metal rod, and in his right hand, he was holding Filch's head! Filch's head was still dripping blood, his mouth was wide open, and his eyes were still wide open, as if he had died with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

Zhou Yuan planted the metal rod in the ground, then lifted Filch's head and pressed it hard against the tip of the metal rod, impaling Filch's head on the metal rod.

The police officers were already trembling with fear. Zhou Yuan stood in position by the metal pole, waved to the operations and maintenance personnel, and Zhou Yuan's voice suddenly rang in their minds, "Operations and maintenance personnel, take a picture and a video of me, and then post it online with the caption, 'This is the fate of the conspirator and the rebel Filch.'"

The operations engineer, as instructed, took out his small tablet, pointed it at Zhou Yuan, and began taking photos and videos, then uploading them online. The operations engineer gave Zhou Yuan an OK sign, and Zhou Yuan came to his side.

"Operations, could you do me one more favor? Could you see if you can find Thomas and George?"

"Ok."

The maintenance team continued operating the tablet. "Found them. They're being held captive at the Longxin military base."

"Dragon Heart? It seems we need to go home."

"This is bad. Many troops are converging here from different directions."

"Operations and Maintenance, let's go to Longxin."

Zhou Yuan waved his hand, and the police car automatically approached. A few minutes later, it sped off towards the Longxin Military Base, carrying the two men. Several minutes later, the guns on the policemen's heads fell off. The policemen hurriedly drove away, leaving only a metal rod stuck in Filch's head.

"Operations and Maintenance, please find a way to upload the photos and videos you just took to special departments such as the military, police, courts, procuratorates, parliament, and the Imperial Fleet."

"I'll give it a try." As expected of a genius, the operations engineer managed to infiltrate all the key departments of humanity on Earth, except for the Imperial Fleet, which he failed to reach.

When the police car arrived at Longxin Military Base, rows of soldiers were lined up in the base square. In the middle of the square, Zhou Yuan saw Thomas and George.

Thomas and George waved as the police car slowly descended, and Zhou Yuan and the operations team got out. Thomas and George stepped forward, and the soldiers in the ranks saluted Zhou Yuan and the operations team in unison.

“Old friend, we don’t know how to thank you enough. You saved humanity on Earth.” Thomas shook hands with Zhou Yuan.

“Thomas, George, you’ve been wronged. Filch, he deserves it.”

"Zhou Yuan, you did a good job."

"But Thomas, how did you know I would come?"

“After you killed Felch in the basement of the presidential palace, they cheered and immediately launched a counterattack to wipe them out. Felch’s remaining forces have been almost completely wiped out. The reason I knew you would come here was because of my intuition; I believed you wouldn’t abandon us.”

Regardless of whether Thomas was telling the truth, Zhou Yuan knew that Thomas trusted him implicitly.

"Only the presidential palace and the parliament building were..."

"There is no new life without destruction, Zhou Yuan. We don't blame you. Rebuilding the Presidential Palace and the Parliament Building is not difficult. What is difficult is rebuilding our hearts and minds."

"um, yes."

"Zhou Yuan, I hope you can give a speech to the people of Earth. You know, we desperately need to unite people's hearts and minds right now."

"no problem."

Thomas turned to face the operations team. "Operations, we are very saddened and sorry about Maria and the baby. If I had discovered Filch's plot sooner, they wouldn't have..." Thomas choked up.

"Mr. President, this is all fate. Life and death are determined by destiny." When the operations engineer saw Felch's head in Zhou Yuan's hand, his hatred vanished.

"Thomas, what exactly is the reason Filch launched the coup?"

"George and I later analyzed the situation and estimated that I had rejected his 'military strengthening plan'."

"'Strengthening the Military Plan'? Doesn't that sound great? The Quadrifoglio fleet is about to arrive."

“Filch is just using the ‘Strengthening the Military Plan’ as a front, and this plan is directly related to you.”

"I understand."

In short, Filch's plan to strengthen the military involves using Zhou Yuan's serum to genetically modify soldiers, turning them into super soldiers.