Chapter 108 Global Counterattack! The Final Boss Arrives!
Su Wanqing's slumber did not last long.
The extreme weakness did not drag her into a long slumber; instead, like a taut string, after a brief relaxation, it awakened her with an even more violent tremor.
She opened her eyes, and Lu Zhanting was standing guard by her bedside.
The man's deep eyes were bloodshot, yet they were firmly suppressed by a calm composure that remained unchanged even if a mountain collapsed before him.
"Awake?" His voice was hoarse as he stroked her cold cheek with his fingertips and handed her a cup of warm spiritual spring water. "Leave the rest to me."
Su Wanqing shook her head and, with the help of that strong arm, slowly sat up.
She took the water cup, and the spring water entered her throat, turning into a warm current that nourished her nearly parched meridians. Finally, a trace of color returned to her pale face.
"No."
She looked into Lu Zhanting's eyes and said softly.
"It's up to us."
This is not a war you are fighting alone.
Lu Zhanting looked into the light in her eyes; it wasn't a weak spark, but a will strong enough to start a prairie fire. He remained silent, then nodded emphatically.
He knew that his wife was never a parasite.
She is a phoenix who can stand shoulder to shoulder with him and burn the entire world.
When Su Wanqing stepped into the study again, the place had been turned upside down.
The entire wall was replaced by a huge electronic world map, with dozens of glaring red dots flashing on it. Each dot represented a foot of a "catastrophe array" that was devouring lives.
A tense atmosphere, like the smoke of gunpowder, filled the air as several technicians with special military ranks worked rapidly in front of countless screens, and encrypted data streams flowed silently.
This place has been upgraded to a top-level combat command center codenamed "Pure Land".
Su Wanqing's appearance brought a moment of silence to the noise in the command room.
Everyone stopped what they were doing, stood up straight, and looked at each other with a mixture of awe, curiosity, and a hint of inquiry.
They all knew that this seemingly frail military wife was the only key to ending this global catastrophe, as Lu Zhanting had said.
"lady."
The first man, a middle-aged man with a refined demeanor and wearing gold-rimmed glasses, strode forward. He was Professor Chen, the chief scientist of the "Pure Land" project team.
"How is the situation?" Su Wanqing asked directly.
Professor Chen pointed to the large screen, his expression extremely grave: "It's terrible. We analyzed the 'antidote' that Commander Lu brought back overnight, and its structure... is beyond all current human understanding. We cannot replicate it, or even comprehend it."
He paused, his voice strained.
"All we know is that it works. But with just this small bottle, facing a global catastrophe, we..."
A drop in the ocean.
Su Wanqing nodded; everything was as expected.
“You don’t need to understand its principles.” Su Wanqing interrupted him, her voice not loud, but it instantly silenced the entire command room.
She turned and went into the inner room, and when she came out, she was carrying an old-fashioned wooden box.
"Thump."
The wooden crate was placed in the center of the command platform with a muffled thud.
The lid of the box is opened.
In an instant, a collective gasp filled the command room.
Inside the box, hundreds of small jade bottles were neatly arranged, reflecting a warm luster under the light, like the most sacred stars.
Each bottle contains a single drop of "purifying rain," enough to purify the water source of a major city and save tens of millions of lives.
Professor Chen was so excited that he was trembling all over, and his fingers were shaking as he adjusted his glasses.
He looked at Su Wanqing's face, which was even paler than before, his lips moved, but he couldn't utter a single word.
He couldn't imagine the terrifying price that had to be paid to create so many miracles.
"Time is running out."
Ignoring the shock of the crowd, Su Wanqing walked to the huge world map, her gaze sharp.
“Lu Zhanting, I’ll be responsible for finding the lesion, and you’ll be responsible for administering the precise treatment.”
"good."
Lu Zhanting only replied with one word.
This single word encapsulates a husband's boundless trust in his wife and a war god's entrustment of his life to his comrade.
A thunderous counterattack, sweeping the globe yet conducted in absolute secrecy, has begun.
Su Wanqing closed her eyes.
Her mind sank into the space once more. This time, her perception no longer went inward, but extended infinitely outward, following the unseen opposition between her bloodline and the "Great Array of Natural Disasters".
Her vision instantly broadened, allowing her to look down upon the entire planet!
She "saw" that in New York's underground sewers, billions of black worms were releasing mental toxins, polluting the city's water supply system.
She "saw" that deep beneath Paris, on an altar piled high with white bones, a yellowish-brown curse spread like a spiderweb, draining the life force from the entire city.
She "saw" a black pyramid, not belonging to Earth's civilization, deep in the Amazon rainforest, throbbing like an evil heart, injecting destructive energy into the earth.
Each array core and each energy node was crystal clear to her.
"New York, target: the three major water treatment plants on the Hudson River. The core array is located beneath the Statue of Liberty's base, containing an energy amplification device that must be destroyed by physical means."
"In Paris, the Louvre Pyramid is the convergence point of the curse. As the 'Purifying Rain' was poured into the Seine, a special task force was ordered to use high-frequency sonic weapons to bombard the pyramid at a frequency of 3.7 Hz, dispersing the solidified curse."
"Amazon, the pyramids are living entities. Conventional weapons are ineffective. Three drops of 'Purifying Rain' will be made into an aerosol and dispersed by a high-altitude drone. A special forces team, carrying Dragon's Breath munitions, will infiltrate from the south at the three o'clock position, targeting the energy core at the bottom."
Su Wanqing's voice was clear and calm, and she issued one incredible yet extremely precise command after another.
Everyone in the command center, including Professor Chen, was completely stunned.
The information she provided far exceeded the limits of what global intelligence networks could reach. Using sound waves to "disperse" a curse sounded like a myth, yet it subtly aligned with some high-dimensional physical law that they couldn't comprehend.
Lu Zhanting did not hesitate for a moment.
Every word Su Wanqing uttered was a supreme command.
"Pass on my orders!" His voice boomed in the command room, carrying a resolute and ruthless air.
"Operation 'Pure Land,' Team A, codenamed 'Dawn,' target North America!"
"Group B, codename 'Morning Bell,' target Europe!"
"Group C, codename 'Thunderclap,' target South America!"
"'Wolf Fang' Special Forces, led by Black Bear, will operate with Group C. They are authorized to use all necessary means!"
"Immediately contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, activate the highest-level 'Ark' contingency plan, inform all strategic partners, and provide 'purifying rain' (a form of aid). Tell them this is a do-or-die battle for human civilization; whether they believe it or not is their choice!"
Commands, issued from this small study, instantly reach every corner of the world through a top-secret quantum communication channel.
An unprecedented global joint operation has begun.
Moscow, the Kremlin.
A white-haired general held the warm jade bottle, his brows furrowing deeply as he listened to the Chinese ambassador's almost fantastical account.
But when he saw the top-secret intelligence accompanying the bottle about the corruption of the "Viper" mercenary base in the Golden Triangle by supernatural forces, and compared it with the unsolvable report of the "Frozen Soil Plague" in Siberia, he fell silent.
Finally, he slammed the jade bottle heavily on the table.
"In five minutes, the 'Alpha' team will depart aboard an Il-76. Tell our Chinese friends that the polar bear is never afraid of battle, even if the enemy is a devil!"
Washington, D.C., Pentagon underground bunker.
"Magic potion? Mysterious power from the East? That's the biggest joke of the century!" a hawkish general roared.
"General!" The White House's chief science advisor interrupted him, his face pale, and pressed play.
On the large screen, the black lesions under the microscope, like evil spirits thrown into a raging fire, screamed and twisted the moment they came into contact with the "purifying rain" diluted ten thousand times, and finally turned into a wisp of smoke and evaporated completely.
The entire conference room was deathly silent.
The old man in the main seat spoke slowly after a long pause: "Tell our pilots that their mission this time is not to drop bombs, but to sow seeds of hope."
Similar scenes are playing out in London, Berlin, Tokyo... in every corner of the world.
Faced with a common extinction crisis, human civilization has shown astonishing solidarity.
One fighter jet after another, one elite force after another, carrying the hope known as "purifying rain" to the world, headed to all corners of the globe.
...
The capital city, the command center.
Su Wanqing kept her eyes closed, her back soaked in cold sweat, and her body trembled slightly uncontrollably.
Simultaneously scanning dozens of high-energy reaction sites around the world was devastating to her mental and physical well-being.
Lu Zhanting stood behind her, one hand firmly pressed against her back, continuously channeling his powerful and masculine inner strength into her body, relieving her of the overwhelming pressure.
"New York's 'Dawn' team reports: Water purification complete! Urban hallucination rates plummet!"
"The Paris 'Morning Bell' team reports: the sonic weapon has hit its target! The energy field is collapsing!"
"Thunderbolt Squad has engaged the target!"
Good news keeps coming.
On the map, those glaring red dots gradually turned into green, representing safety.
A suppressed cheer erupted from the entire command center.
However, Su Wanqing and Lu Zhanting's expressions grew increasingly solemn.
In Su Wanqing's perception, even after the formation was dismantled, the enormous negative energy that should have dissipated did not disappear.
They... are flowing back towards the same coordinate!
...
A magnificent base inside an active volcano at some unknown coordinate in the world.
A man dressed in a black robe is looking at a world map made of light and shadow in front of him.
He stared at the extinguished lights one by one, his face devoid of anger, displaying only a cold indifference as if watching ants struggle for their last breath.
He was none other than Yan Qihuang, the leader of the Black Serpent Cult.
"The bloodline of Bai Zhilan... truly is the most perfect masterpiece in the world." He murmured to himself, his voice filled with a morbid obsession and admiration.
A black-robed subordinate knelt behind him, his body stiff with fear: "Master, our plan..."
"plan?"
Yan Qihuang laughed, but there was no warmth in his smile, only mockery of his prey.
"The real plan is only just beginning."
He raised his hand, and in his palm, the dark purple energy that had flowed back from all over the world converged into a dark sphere that was extremely concentrated and seemed capable of devouring light.
"I had intended to mercifully grant the world a new life, but since they don't want it..."
His gaze seemed to pierce through the entire planet, landing precisely on that small study in the capital.
"Then I'll have no choice but to... take matters into my own hands and retrieve my perfect offering."
"Issue the order to activate 'Divine Retribution'."
"'Candle Dragon', take off."
"Target: Beijing."
...
Meanwhile, at the Beijing command center.
An irresistible, terrifying malice surged upstream along with an unseen sense, crashing violently into Su Wanqing's mind!
"puff--!"
She suddenly opened her eyes, felt a sweet taste in her throat, and could no longer suppress a mouthful of blood, which gushed out, staining the world map in front of her scarlet!
"Qingqing!" Lu Zhanting's heart stopped, and he pulled her into his arms.
"He's here."
Su Wanqing wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, looked at Lu Zhanting, her eyes filled with no fear, only an intense fighting spirit.
"He abandoned the great formation and reclaimed all its power."
"He's coming to the capital in person to seize control of the space!"
Before the words were even finished, the sharpest and most piercing alarm in history blared throughout the command center!
A technician pointed at the main screen, his voice distorted with extreme fear, and screamed hoarsely:
"Report! Global energy backflow detected over the Pacific Ocean! There... there a shadow the size of a city has appeared!"
"My God! It's not any known aircraft! It's hurtling towards us at high speed!"
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