pjbooks Chapter 334 The chaebol is in an uproar! They wouldn't even take this worthless inheritance for
Chapter 334 The chaebol is in an uproar! They wouldn't even take this worthless inheritance for
Kyoto, conference room at the headquarters of the Kirin Zaibatsu.
In front of a 20-meter-long black and gold conference table.
A dozen or so high-ranking executives from conglomerates, dressed in suits, were staring at the large screen.
On the screen, hundreds of green dots representing the work teams in the abandoned mine in Jiangcheng turned into gray, a symbol of death, just half an hour ago.
The last to be extinguished were Zhou Tao, who led the team, and the senior executive in charge of overall coordination.
The head of the conglomerate sat in the main seat, twirling two high-level psionic cores in his hands.
"Total annihilation?"
He slammed the core in his hand onto the table, denting a section of the alloy surface.
"Has the lamplighter gone mad?! That's a historical site that our Qilin Group spent a fortune to break into, and they dare to do something like this in Jiangcheng!"
The executives present remained silent, trembling with fear.
Jiangcheng has always been a peaceful place; who could have imagined that such a devastating disaster would occur today?
"Activate the backup intercity teleportation array on the third underground level!"
The leader suddenly stood up and slammed his hand heavily on the table.
"Send the entire 'Blood Lion' squad forward! I want to take over the Jiangcheng mine within ten minutes!"
A trusted executive wearing gold-rimmed glasses, standing to his left, adjusted his glasses and immediately took out a micro-terminal to begin operating it.
"boom!"
Before the command could be issued, the alloy door of the conference room suddenly twisted and deformed, and a terrifyingly high temperature rushed in instantly.
Everyone turned around in shock.
The trusted executive with the gold-rimmed glasses suddenly chuckled softly.
The laughter grew louder and louder, eventually turning into a grating metallic scraping sound.
"What are you doing!"
The two tycoon elders closest to him sensed something was wrong and immediately retreated in fear, about to activate their spiritual energy to protect themselves.
late.
The traitorous executive's arms instantly extended, transforming into two high-speed rotating overclocked plasma cutting blades. With two sharp, slicing sounds, they directly severed the two elders in half at the waist.
Blood mixed with internal organs was spilled all over the ground.
The helmsman's eyes were bloodshot:
"You...you're actually a scumbag from the Council of Order! You dare to infiltrate..."
"The things in that Jiangcheng ruin are something your Qilin Group simply cannot control."
The voice of the mole executive had been completely transformed into a synthesized electronic voice, and his pupils, which were originally black, were now glowing bright red.
"That's the original mechanical heart that the Council of Order has been searching for for thirty years! No one can take it away!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a miniature nuclear bomb emitting a ghostly blue light appeared in his hand.
Countdown: Three, two, one.
A blinding white light instantly engulfed the entire top-floor conference room.
Along with the incalculable cost of the intercity teleportation array, it was all reduced to scrap metal.
However, just a second before the explosion.
A string of encrypted coordinates was precisely sent to the agents of the Council of Order.
Let's switch our focus back to Jiangcheng.
Inside the makeshift underground command post, alarms blared incessantly.
Lei Zhen stared at the main screen, feeling completely drained, and slumped into his chair.
The satellite thermal image on the large screen.
The wilderness two hundred kilometers to the north is quiet and peaceful.
On the contrary, a red energy beam shot into the sky from an abandoned mine less than ten kilometers outside Jiangcheng.
It even burned out a huge blind spot on the radar.
"Director Lei..." The intelligence officer's voice trembled. "The energy level reaction at the mine has exceeded the critical point! Moreover... all the mining teams that the Qilin Group reported there have lost their vital signs."
Lei Zhen slapped himself hard.
The crisp sound of a slap echoed in the command room.
"We've been tricked! We've been made a fool of!"
He suddenly jumped up from his chair, pointed at the screen, and started cursing.
"He wasn't even deep in the wasteland! He used the illusion of that insect hive to stall us while he raided the mine and took down the conglomerate!"
The thought of that terrifying being that could even burn up high-dimensional radar sent chills down Lei Zhen's spine.
The secret mining operation by the Qilin Group was the result of secret negotiations between the two parties.
Now, it's been taken down.
If headquarters finds out...
He has private dealings with the Qilin Group...
No!
"Everyone assemble!"
Lei Zhen grabbed the tactical helmet from the table and put it on his head, his eyes bloodshot.
"Bring all the remaining high-level binding equipment from the warehouse! Contact the Heavy Mech Company and surround the mine!"
at the same time.
Beneath the Jiangcheng mine pit, in a green fluorescent space the size of a football field.
Chen Yifan stood before the half-machinery body hanging upside down in mid-air. The aura of the external forces in the surrounding air was so dense that it almost condensed into liquid.
"Intruder detected..."
"Inheritance Test... Begins."
The synthesized mechanical sound echoed in the space.
Immediately afterwards, the beating, seven-colored mechanical heart inside the mangled body suddenly burst forth with a dazzling halo.
The halo ignored the barrier Chen Yifan had constructed outside his body using his mental power and penetrated it directly.
Before Chen Yifan could even use the external forces within his Heart Palace to retaliate, everything suddenly went black.
When I opened my eyes again, the scenery around me had completely changed.
There were no mine pits or tunnels.
He stood on a scorched wasteland, looked up, and froze.
The sky is no longer filled with clouds and stars.
Instead, there was a terrifying creation so vast that its boundaries were impossible to see, woven from countless intricate chains of rules.
It's like an inverted bowl, completely encasing the entire planet inside.
He didn't know what it was.
But suddenly a name popped into my mind!
[World Engine]!
It wasn't a holographic image, but a real, tangible entity with a chilling, oppressive aura that sent shivers down one's spine!
Chen Yifan's breath hitched.
Under this immense pressure, a deafening sound of war drums suddenly rang out from the scorched earth below.
Thousands upon thousands of figures rose into the sky.
These people were not wearing any equipment produced by the system.
The power they wield is violent, primal, and completely irrational.
Some people's bodies suddenly grew to 100 meters tall, crashing headlong into the descending chains of light;
Some people tore through space with their hands, and a giant hammer that blotted out the sky suddenly slammed down.
These are the first human pioneers?
Those ancestors who had no genetic or mental locks?
At the very front of the charging formation, Chen Yifan spotted a familiar figure.
It was a giant with bulging muscles all over his body.
But he didn't have the aura of a living person; instead, he was a mechanical doll imbued with extreme violence.
That appearance.
It's that half of the body hanging upside down outside.
Chen Yifan watched as the giant roared and crashed into a corner of the world engine, then punched down, shattering the chains of rules that area instantly.
A shower of light fell from the sky.
But then, a beam of colorless white light descended from the void.
The white light flashed for only a moment, and the giant's right arm, along with his lower body, was silently erased.
It's like erasing a piece of paper with an eraser.
Cleaner.
The giant's upper body fell from the sky and crashed heavily onto the scorched earth in front of Chen Yifan.
Those mechanical eyes stared intently at the sky, their seven-colored hearts still beating stubbornly inside.
The scene abruptly ends there.
The illusion shattered like broken glass.
Chen Yifan suddenly came to his senses and found himself still standing in the underground green space.
My back was soaked with cold sweat.
That scene was so shocking.
The absolute suppression of the world engine and the pioneers' relentless, suicidal charge were all buzzing in his mind.
Is this a form of resistance?
Didn't wait for him to think about it.
"The inheritance scene has finished playing."
The emotionless synthesized voice once again emanated from the upside-down, mangled body.
"Trial participant. Please fully release your mental defenses and accept the energy infusion from the seven-colored core."
"If you can survive for ten seconds under this energy, you will receive the original inheritance and become the first generation of protectors."
"Warning: This energy infusion is extremely violent. According to historical data, the first 1,300 prodigies who attempted to receive the inheritance all had their genetic sequences collapse within 0.1 seconds, turning into blood."
The seven-colored heart beat faster and faster, and a nauseatingly violent energy began to gather in the space.
Chen Yifan pursed his lips.
Ten seconds?
Let go of your mental defenses?
Let alone whether the external spiritual palace within one's own body is willing to accept this foreign thing.
The information revealed in that illusion alone made him completely lose his appetite.
No matter how fierce this man was in life, he was just a laborer who charged ahead.
Although that punch shattered the chains, it couldn't even withstand a single blow from the opponent.
What kind of ultimate inheritance is this?!
Besides, this thing isn't human at all.
Who knows if this inheritance might be some kind of trap?
"Get out of here."
Chen Yifan sneered.
The massive amount of spiritual power within his body transformed directly into a giant hand capable of crushing heavy armor, which slammed down on the glowing, seven-colored heart.
He wanted to see if he could forcibly dismantle the thing and see what materials were hidden inside this broken power unit.
The giant hand had just touched the layer of seven-colored light.
"Boom!"
A deafening roar suddenly came from the ground above!
Tons of rubble and soil crashed down like a waterfall, shaking the entire underground space violently, and green fluorescent stones fell in large quantities.
What's going on?
Immediately afterwards, two distinctly arrogant voices echoed down the passageway.
"Jiangcheng's Lantern Bearers are on duty! Immediately cease all resistance! You are completely surrounded!"
That was Lei Zhen's angry roar through the loudspeaker.
Another sound, accompanied by the piercing screech of mechanical tracks, carried a strong sense of mockery.
"Director Lei, stop shouting. Your methods as Lamplighters can't protect what's inside. This mine is under the control of the Order Council."
Chen Yifan suddenly turned his head.
His mental energy spread rapidly, following the bronze door, and instantly focused on the area outside the ruins.
A heavily armed squad of lamplighters and a group of cyborgs exuding a dangerous aura were staring at each other.
The atmosphere was incredibly lively.
Two large armies simultaneously pressed on the border.
Chen Yifan looked at the sea of black heads above.
He glanced again at the still-beeping, broken body of the inheritor in front of him, then flicked his wrist and stopped what he was doing.
He laughed.
"Better late than early. Since you like this tattered heirloom so much, you can have it."