Chapter 317 The Arrival Will Guard the Time-Space Passage

Ning Hai crossed one arm over his chest, raised his right hand, and gently touched the mask with his index finger.

"You do have some brains, but not many. Your idea is theoretically impossible to realize because reverse time flow within the same space-time would create a space-time paradox. In addition, the two worlds have already established a space-time connection, which means that the time flow anchor point has been determined. No matter how advanced my technology is, I cannot connect to a node in the original world that is earlier than the previous connection time. I can only continue the time flow anchor point and connect to the subsequent time period of the original world."

These words completely blew the president's mind out of control.

He could understand each word individually, but when put together, he simply couldn't comprehend them.

Ning Hai sighed, touched the bridge of the mask with his right hand, and commanded:

"Go back first. Just guard the tracking device I placed there and make sure the core of the device is not damaged. You will see me again in a few hours to a dozen hours. If you can't even hold out for that short time, then you don't deserve to live."

Since it was a direct command, the guild leader didn't need to rack his brains to figure out the principles. He immediately kowtowed and said, "Yes, Lord Ning, I will defend you to the death until you descend upon the original world."

bite.

A metal syringe fell onto the floor in front of the chairman.

“Take this,” Ning Hai said to him. “This is a third-generation gene serum. It was just made recently. It’s very strong and very rare. You’ll need it if it comes to a critical moment.”

"Third-generation drug?"

The president's pupils trembled, and his expression became agitated.

He knew that those injected with the first-generation drug would become powerful but inhuman monsters; those injected with the second-generation drug would become warriors like the Guardians of the Advent Society, possessing monstrous combat power and still able to maintain human form, but would also become cold-blooded, ruthless, and bloodthirsty, and their lifespan would be greatly shortened, with an average lifespan of less than thirty years.

Although the effects of the third-generation potion are still unclear, if the second generation was so powerful, wouldn't the third generation be incredibly potent?

Moreover, Lord Ning said that the third-generation potion is very powerful and very rare.

"Thank you, Lord Ning... Thank you for your kindness, Lord Ning!" The president held the syringe with great care, as if it were a precious treasure.

After the president of the Advent Society left with utmost respect.

Ning Hai stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at the gray sky in the distance, lost in thought.

"Dad!" Ning Yao's voice pulled him back from his reverie.

He turned around, and Ning Yao skipped and hopped towards him with a smile.

“Daughter…” Ning Hai’s tone softened as he reached out and gently stroked Ning Yao’s head. He suddenly sighed, “You’re still the same as before, but your dad has really gotten old…”

“Dad…” Ning Yao carefully approached and gently hugged Ning Hai.

Due to the abnormal abilities he possessed back then, most of Ning Hai's skin has remained in a semi-healed state, and even the slightest touch causes him excruciating pain.

That's why Ning Yao was so careful, afraid of hurting him.

Even with such a light touch, Ning Hai still felt as if his skin was being scraped by a razor blade, but he didn't show it and gritted his teeth as he hugged his daughter.

"Dad, what's wrong with you today? Are you in a bad mood?" Ning Yao asked.

Ning Hai shook his head. "No, I'm just worried about what you'll do when I'm gone someday."

"No!" Ning Yao said hurriedly, "You'll always be here! Our technology is so advanced now, we'll definitely be able to cure you in the future and let you live to be a thousand years old!"

Ning Hai said with a smile, "The technology we develop is all for the purpose of war, even in the field of medical biology. In order to speed things up, we have long since abandoned normal research and gone further and further down the wrong path. You have to promise your father that you will never touch anything related to gene modification. As for your father, I should still be able to live until the day we return to our original world. At that time, using the top medical methods of our original world, I can probably still be cured."

Hearing him say that, Ning Yao felt relieved and also sensed that Ning Hai's mood had improved considerably. So she mustered up her courage and decided to confess to him the true nature of her relationship with Lu Xingfeng.

"Dad, what do you think of... Uncle Lu's performance?" Ning Yao asked tentatively.

Ning Hai said, "The performance is not bad. Not only did we take over Xuan Kingdom faster than I expected, but we are now almost in control of the whole of Asia."

"Hehe, it seems you approve of him."

“Acknowledge him?” Ning Hai chuckled, a hint of disdain in his voice. “I merely took advantage of his obsession with the Xuan Kingdom. No one else could have been this efficient.”

Ning Yao was stunned for a moment, "Dad, are you... just using him?"

Ning Hai said, "It's just mutual exploitation. Isn't he using my power to achieve his goals? Besides, if I hadn't saved him, would he still be alive today? Daughter, this person can only be used as a tool, not trusted. If used well, he can be a sharp weapon; if used poorly, he might turn on his master. If necessary, he can be killed. Next, I will teach you how to become a leader. Everything I have will be inherited by you."

Ning Yao's eyelids trembled slightly, and she swallowed the words that were about to come out, silently humming in agreement.

——

The moment the Advent Society's president returned to the original world headquarters, the United Defense Forces had already stormed into the main hall.

Furthermore, the rest of the headquarters has been occupied by the defense forces, and thousands of management personnel have been arrested.

Only a dozen or so heavily wounded law enforcement officers remained, still putting up a stubborn resistance.

Even super soldiers injected with second-generation gene serum were forced to retreat under the desperate offensive of the Joint Defense Forces.

Inside the huge and magnificent cathedral-style hall, the bodies of the fallen Allied Defense Force soldiers were piled up like mountains, and the air was thick with the stench of blood.

"Found it! This is the passage!" a squad leader of the defense force shouted, pointing at the huge mural.

He discovered that the giant mural was glowing during the chaos, and the president of the Descent Guild walked out from it.

As soon as the words were spoken, all the defense troops present were greatly encouraged and launched a charge with even greater recklessness.

The statue's exterior was impenetrable, so the only way to destroy the spacetime passage was to remove the obstruction from the inside. The casualties were enormous, but not a single soldier in the defense force showed any fear of death.

The president of the Advent Society trembled with fear, hurriedly took off the golden scepter and stuffed it into his pocket, ordered the enforcers to hold out to the death, and then turned around and crawled into the back door next to the mural.

After another bloody battle, the joint defense forces, having sacrificed nearly a thousand soldiers, finally wiped out more than a dozen seriously wounded enforcers of the Advent Society.

Without taking a break, they immediately went to the mural to set up explosives.

Just then, machine gun fire suddenly erupted inside the hall.

Caught off guard, a large number of the joint defense forces fell on the spot.

It turns out there's another layer of hidden defenses inside; heavy machine guns capable of automatically locking onto targets are concealed high up in the walls surrounding the main hall.

The president of the Advent Society sneaked through the back door in order to enter the control room and activate the switch.

When machine gun bullets intertwined into a dense barrage of fire, the defenders inside the hall had nowhere to hide. Their bulletproof vests were as flimsy as paper in the face of bullets thicker than fingers.

Just as they were about to be wiped out, a tall and sharp figure rushed into the hall like lightning.

"Get down! Don't move!" The command, leaving no room for argument, rang out.

The surviving defenders immediately stood still.

With one gun still and the other moving, all the machine guns locked onto the single moving target.

Dozens of bullet flashes were fired in unison.

But the figure was not only incredibly fast, it could also nimbly dodge using the environment. A few seconds later, the figure leaped onto the huge mural and stopped, clinging to the mural relief with its hands and feet.

The joint defense forces then realized that it was actually Shangguan Ying, the world's supreme commander of this major operation!

Within half a second of stopping, Shangguan Ying's eyes swept across every corner of the main hall.

Only when all the machine guns were aimed and firing in unison did she push off the relief with both feet and leap to the side.

Da da da!!

A hail of bullets struck the spot where she had just briefly stood, instantly blasting a large hole in the center of the giant mural.

Shangguan Ying's combat uniform was torn in several places by machine gun bullets, and blood stained the wounds. But she didn't have time to care about her own injuries. While continuing to draw fire and destroy the wall using the same method she had just used, she used her earpiece walkie-talkie to direct the defense forces to take away the wounded.

Until the last surviving wounded soldier was dragged out of the main hall, Shangguan Ying used the machine gun in the main hall to break down the entire wall with the huge mural.

She was the last to leave the main hall, and then she ordered the guards who were already prepared outside to fire a round of shoulder-fired rockets inside.

Nearly a hundred rockets hurtled in, locking onto the scorching machine gun barrel with their onboard infrared sensors, followed by a series of explosions.

When everything returned to calm, the main hall was almost a ruin, and all the machine guns had been destroyed.

“General Shangguan, your injuries…” one of her subordinates looked at her battle uniform, which was stained with blood in several places.

Shangguan Ying waved her hand, "It's a minor injury, nothing serious. Quickly send the wounded out for treatment."

And what about you?

"I need to check the situation here to make sure the passage has been destroyed."

"Yes, General."

Shangguan Ying adjusted her breathing and slowly walked into the main hall.

The scene was devastated, and countless defenders had sacrificed their lives, many of whom were not even left with intact bodies.

But now was not the time to be upset. Shangguan Ying gritted her teeth and stared intently at the broken wall. When she got closer, she discovered that there was a spherical device about two meters in diameter behind the wall.

It looks ordinary, but it is suspended in mid-air and is surrounded by a protective energy field.

It was the presence of this protective energy field that prevented the sphere from being damaged in any way.

Without a doubt, this is the spacetime portal device that allows the Advent to connect with another world.

Shangguan Ying pulled out her pistol and fired several shots, only to find that the bullets were deflected by the energy field. After a moment's thought, she reached out with her hand.

Zi—

The tactical glove burned through the moment the palm touched it, and an intense burning pain shot through it.

But Shangguan Ying did not stop, because she discovered that her palm could slowly pass through, feeling as if she were probing into thick magma.

Then, she held her breath and focused her mind. An invisible aura surged into her palm and then rushed towards the spherical device.

boom!

A muffled thud.

The spherical device developed a dent.

If you hit it a few more times, you'll definitely be able to destroy it.

Shangguan Ying's right hand was already torn and bleeding, but she remained calm and prepared to exert force again.

Just then, a figure suddenly attacked, and the huge impact sent her flying more than ten meters away.

As Shangguan Ying was being thrown into the air, she quickly adjusted her body, braced herself against the corner of the wall, and charged towards the figure without hesitation, unleashing a series of swift and fierce punches and kicks.

To her surprise, the other party was only forced back a few steps.

“Hehe… As expected of a third-generation potion,” the other party clenched his fist and slowly raised his head. “You must be General Shangguan of China. I’ve heard so much about you. It would be my honor to kill you.”

"Are you the president of the Advent Society?" Shangguan Ying frowned. "How did things turn out like this?"

The man before me had transformed from a middle-aged man with gray hair into a burly man nearly two meters tall, his muscles bulging and veins popping out, as if he were brimming with explosive power.

"Come on, let's have some fun!" After saying that, the president rushed towards Shangguan Ying.

Shangguan Ying pulled out another pistol and fired as she retreated.

Each bullet hit a vital spot, but only left a small red mark on the skin.

The chairman had already closed in. Shangguan Ying dropped her pistol, quickly drew her dagger, and slashed the chairman's face.

The blade made a metallic scraping sound, and left only a faint red mark.

At the same time, the president punched Shangguan Ying in the stomach.

Bang!

Shangguan Ying coughed up blood and slammed heavily against the wall behind her.

“You can’t hurt me at all,” the chairman sneered. “Conventional weapons are ineffective against me unless you have a nuclear bomb on you. Of course, even if you do, you will definitely die, while I may not die on the spot, hehe.”

Shangguan Ying knelt on one knee, clutching her stomach with one hand, blood flowing all over the ground.

The president swaggered closer, grabbed Shangguan Ying's head with his large, fan-like hand, and said condescendingly, "The most powerful military officer in China, as rumored, isn't all that great. He's about to have his head crushed by me with one hand, isn't he? General Shangguan, I'll send you on your way."

Before she could finish speaking, Shangguan Ying suddenly swung her dagger again, aiming for the chairman's wrist.

The president didn't take it seriously at all and didn't even try to avoid it.

But the next second, his wrist was severed!

"This... how is this possible!" The president stared at the bleeding severed wrist, his face filled with disbelief.

The knife was still the same knife, which hadn't been able to harm him at all before, so how come it could now sever his wrist?

Shangguan Ying wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her eyes gleaming. "Conventional weapons are indeed ineffective against you, but what you don't know is that conventional melee weapons have a different use in my hands."

The president hurriedly looked at the dagger in her hand and saw that there was a faint fluctuation on the dagger, as if some kind of aura was covering it.

"What is that?" The president sensed danger.

“This is…” Shangguan Ying said softly, “a gift left to me by the most important person in my life.”

brush--

A flash of light appeared.

Before the president could react, his head had already rolled on the ground.

His imposing figure was still standing.

Shangguan Ying swung her dagger again, the blade flashing like lightning as it made several cuts.

The headless body crashed down, shattering into more than a dozen pieces the moment it hit the ground.

New body tissue keeps growing from the cut, but because each piece is too far apart, they can no longer heal together.

As Shangguan Ying kicked the pieces of meat aside, she walked up to the chairman's head.

"No...don't kill me!" the guild leader pleaded, his eyes wide. "I...I can serve you!"