Chapter 105: Desperate Threats
In R base, shops were closed, workers were on strike, and teams of superpowers were marching in the streets holding the flag of R country. When they walked through a street, many people would join them, and the mighty team had tens of thousands of people. So far, R base has only a population of more than 100,000.
The team came to the entrance of the command center and stood there. The leader was a high-level psychic named Hideki Kono.
Takano Hideki held up the R country flag and shouted, "We want to see Commander-in-Chief Kobashi Ichiro. We want to talk to the commander-in-chief!"
The superpowers behind him shouted along with him: "We want to see Mr. Commander-in-Chief!!!"
Takano Hideki shouted again: "Please give us an answer, Mr. Commander-in-Chief, we just want the truth!"
"Please tell us the truth, Commander-in-Chief! We have the right to know the truth!"
Ichiro Kobashi stood at the window of the headquarters and looked down. He could see people outside holding the national flag and marching. Ichiro Kobashi had just hung up Dewitt's video. Dewitt threatened that he must get the core technology of Jingshi Base as soon as possible, otherwise he would attack R Base. Ichiro Kobashi didn't know how the M Congress would treat their base if he couldn't get the core technology of Jingshi Base, but he knew that such a punishment was definitely not something R Base could bear.
Now the residents of his own base have started a parade again, which is simply internal and external troubles.
Ichiro Kobashi was anxious and angry, and cursed: "A bunch of useless fertilizer makers who can't help me but only make trouble. If we can't get the core technology of the Jingshi base, everyone will die. Instead of thinking of a way to get the technology, they are parading!"
The deputy commander immediately agreed: "These residents in the base are just living too comfortably."
A fierce light flashed in Kobashi Ichiro's eyes, and he said, "Where are the high-level psychics in the base? It's time for them to be put to use!"
The deputy commander said, "This won't do. There are too many people in this demonstration. If things really get out of hand and too many people die, and at this critical moment, I'm afraid someone from the Beijing base will take advantage of the situation and sow discord, and then everything will be ruined."
Kobashi Ichiro said, "I didn't really ask you to kill anyone, but it's just a threat, isn't it?"
The deputy commander-in-chief said hurriedly: "I'll arrange it right away."
Soon, a group of high-level psychics rushed out of the command center. As soon as they came out, they released their superpowers in mid-air, demonstrating their fighting power in an attempt to scare away the marchers.
However, the parading superpowers were not afraid at all. Instead, they were angered by the attitude of the people at the headquarters. Takano Hideki said angrily, "What does the headquarters mean? Is it Commander-in-Chief Xiao Qiaoyilang's intention that you use force to intimidate us?"
"We just want to know the truth!"
Takano Hideki said: "If you have to shed blood and die to have the right to know the truth, I, Takano Hideki, am willing to sacrifice myself, just so that the residents of the entire base can get the truth!"
Tens of thousands of supernatural beings behind him shouted at the same time: "We are also willing to exchange our lives for the truth, just the truth!"
"Just want the truth!"
"Just want the truth!"
Seeing that these parading psychics were not afraid and even a battle was about to break out, the deputy commander immediately ran back to find Xiao Qiao Yilang.
Kobashi Ichiro was extremely anxious. He yelled, "If they want to die, then let them die!"
The deputy commander immediately said, "Commander-in-Chief Kobashi Ichiro, now is not the time to act rashly. If we clash with them now, the situation will be irreversible. There are too many people participating in this march, more than 10,000 people."
Kobashi Ichiro sneered, "There is no one in this world who is not afraid of death. Kill a few people and they will know how to be afraid. They are a bunch of reckless people, and they will naturally disperse when the time comes."
“But…” The deputy commander-in-chief wanted to persuade Kobashi Ichiro a few more times, but Kobashi Ichiro was already furious. He yelled at the deputy commander-in-chief, “If I tell you to go, then go. I will be responsible if anything goes wrong. I am the commander-in-chief here!”
"Yes!" Although the deputy commander-in-chief felt that suppression by force was not feasible, he did not dare to persuade Ichiro Kobashi anymore. He took the order and went out to convey Ichiro Kobashi's order to the psychics in the command center.
The warriors from Base R immediately launched an attack on the parading psychics.
The samurai powers of the command center were activated quickly and swiftly. Hideki Kono and other marchers had never expected that the command center's psychics would attack them without even saying hello. By the time they reacted, many of their companions had already fallen.
The command center's action was like dropping a drop of cold water into boiling oil. The entire parade exploded at that moment. The supernatural beings in the parade immediately launched a counterattack. The two sides fought each other and the scene was chaotic for a while.
There were many people in the parade, and although their superpower levels were not as high as those in the headquarters, they were fearless and fought desperately with the superpowers in the headquarters, thinking that it would be worth it if they killed one, and it would be a profit if they killed two. Soon the superpowers in the headquarters fell into a disadvantage, and they were about to retreat back to the headquarters, but the parading superpowers were still fighting relentlessly and were about to break into the headquarters.
The deputy commander found that the situation was out of control and had to return to the headquarters to report to Kobashi Ichiro. Kobashi Ichiro scolded him again: "Useless, what else can you do? I just asked you to scare them! And those psychics are also useless. They can't even beat a bunch of vagrants. What else can they do!"
The deputy commander was timid and didn't dare to say a word, but he was madly complaining in his heart, "I said at the beginning that this wouldn't work. Wasn't it you who forced the order?"
"Commander-in-Chief Kobashi Ichiro, the situation is completely out of control now. In order to prevent those parading superpowers from breaking into the command center, please go down and calm them down in person!"
Kobashi Ichiro cursed: "You can't do anything right. What's the point of keeping you useless people? It's better to keep a dog. At least it can wag its tail when it sees me!"
Regardless, in order to prevent the base residents from rushing into the headquarters, Ichiro Kobashi finally appeared in front of the marchers.
"Stop fighting, stop fighting, Commander-in-Chief Ichiro Kobashi is here. Commander-in-Chief Ichiro Kobashi will answer any questions you have. He will give you a satisfactory answer and the truth!" The deputy commander shouted loudly several times, and both sides gradually stopped fighting.
At this time, there was a river of blood and corpses everywhere in front of the command center, and deep pits were blown out in the square in front of the command center.
After coming out, Ichiro Kobashi immediately put on a sad expression, as if he had learned Sichuan opera face-changing. He bowed deeply to everyone and said, "I'm very sorry that I came back late, which led to the situation like this and caused such serious bloodshed."
Takano Hideki was not fooled by Kobashi Ichiro's pretense. He questioned, "Commander Kobashi Ichiro, are you saying that the order to attack us just now was not issued by you, but was the personal act of the deputy commander?"
"Yes." Ichiro Kobashi replied without thinking, as if the order to threaten to kill was not really given by him.
The deputy commander was dumbfounded and wanted to explain but was glared back at by Ichiro Kobashi.
"Then this deputy commander issued such an order privately, resulting in so many deaths and injuries to us. Shouldn't the commander-in-chief give us an explanation?" Takano Hideki said aggressively.
Kobashi Ichiro nodded, "I will give you a satisfactory answer."
After saying this, Ichiro Kobashi didn't give anyone a chance to react and suddenly attacked the deputy commander. He used a skill so fast and fiercely that he directly blew up the deputy commander's head, without giving him even a chance to explain himself.
When the deputy commander died, his eyes were wide open, as if he couldn't believe it and died with his eyes open.
It must be said that what Kobashi Ichiro did was effective. He calmed down the angry crowd and completely removed himself from the matter. It was as if he really had no prior knowledge of the matter and that everything was decided by the deputy commander on his own.
Kobashi Ichiro bowed to the crowd again and apologized sincerely, "I'm very sorry that my lateness caused the incident to escalate. The base will be responsible for treating all the injured. As for the dead mutants, I would like to express my deep regret here. The base will be responsible for all their affairs after their death. As for those who have families, the base will also compensate them. I wonder if everyone is satisfied with this result?"
Takano Hideki was also fooled by Kobashi Ichiro's performance. He said, "Commander-in-chief, none of this is your fault. This person acted on his own initiative. We don't blame you."
Kobashi Ichiro immediately said, "I am the commander-in-chief. I should be held responsible for what happened in the base."
"I don't know why you are parading this time, but as long as it is something that R Base can do, I will do my best to do it."
Takano Hideki took out the terminal and clicked on it. A light screen appeared in the air. Takano Hideki said, "Someone from the Jing City Base announced online that they have developed a nutritional supplement that can only be found in interstellar science fiction movies. One tube can keep you from feeling hungry for a day! They said that the nutritional supplement is very cheap, only a dozen Jing City Base credits are needed for one tube, and that the nutritional supplements needed for a month are only one day's wages."
"They also left a message online, saying that the Jingshi base now has space storage props, which have the same function as the space of space ability users, but anyone can use it, including ordinary people and children."
"The people at the Jing City base also left a message saying that they have a treatment cabin that can heal broken limbs caused by battle that even healing psychics can't heal."
"We asked the headquarters before whether these things were true or whether the people in the Jingshi base were just bragging. At that time, the headquarters gave us a very positive answer and told us that these were all false. We believed it!"
Takano Hideki said, "Later, people from the Jingshi base published online that they had developed a mental scanner and holograms, but they were all denied by your headquarters. We believed them. We believed in our headquarters and our base. We even laughed at the Xia people online, saying they were daydreaming. But now planes from the Jingshi base have dropped terminals at our base, proving that holograms do exist. So, do those things that were previously denied by the headquarters really exist? We just want the truth!"
Previously, the network of the Beijing base was an independent internal network and was not connected to any external network.
The emergence of the terminal has opened up the Beijing base's network and connected with the rest of the world, allowing everyone to see messages posted online.
So when the people of Country Xia posted one miraculous invention after another on the Internet, inventions that were epoch-making, inventions that once existed in science fiction movies before the end of the world, the arrogant Country R's first reaction was to disbelieve it.
They couldn't believe that the Xia people, who were as stupid as pigs, could come up with such epoch-making research. Even the smart and noble-blooded M people couldn't come up with such amazing inventions, so how could the Xia people possibly do it!
These people from the R base deny this fact deep down, so when the command of the R base also publicly denied it, they became even more convinced that those online messages were all bragging by the Xia people.
Even though there are videos and evidence everywhere on the Internet, the R people are like blind people and cannot see anything. They only believe what they want to believe and only see what they want to see.
It was not until the Jingshi base invested the terminal in the R base that they witnessed the existence of the hologram with their own eyes, directly piercing the self-deceiving fantasies of the R people. Some sober people among the R people began to realize that perhaps it was not the Xia people who had deceived them, but their own people, their headquarters, and their base.
The terminals were placed randomly, and some were snatched by the R people. After overcoming numerous difficulties, these R people finally logged into the terminal and found that they could engage in real combat on the terminal. They wanted to show off their skills and beat the Xia people, letting them know how powerful the R people are.
But reality taught them a lesson, and the R country was beaten and cried for their parents. They found that the mental strength of the Xia people, especially those in the Jing City base, was particularly strong.
They are so powerful that it is difficult for their psychics to invade ordinary people's minds.
At this time they had to open their eyes and see the world and admit their ignorance. Without even knowing it, they had been left far behind by the Xia Kingdom in terms of economy and military power.
The R people, who were always arrogant in front of the Xia people, could not accept such a result, so they pushed everything onto the R base, believing that it was the base's concealment that led to all this.
Ichiro Kobashi didn't dare to admit it before because he was afraid of causing the current situation. He was afraid that these ignorant residents would force them to buy those things from the Jingshi Base. They had no idea how difficult the Jingshi Base was.
But with the situation getting to this point, Kobashi Ichiro couldn't deny it, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "We just recently investigated the truth of the matter, and we were just about to inform everyone that the scientific research results mentioned on the Internet are true, but not as exaggerated as the rumors on the Internet."
This is the usual tactic of the R base, suppressing the image of the Jingshi base among the residents of its own base.
For some technologies, they deny that they do not exist. If they really cannot hide it, they will say that those technologies are not that great and that everything is exaggerated by the Xia people. They are just saying that children's playing toys are the greatest and most advanced technologies.
But this time, the rhetoric that always worked was no longer effective, because with the real terminal in their hands, they truly experienced the magic of holography with their own hands. Holography was even more magical and powerful than what Xia people described on the Internet.
So what kind of magical existence are the nutritional supplements, treatment cabins, mental scanners, and space storage props that are also highly praised by the Xia people? Are they really as magical as the Xia people say?
Hideki Takano and others felt that they had been cheated. When they thought about the words they had said on the Internet, criticizing the Xia people for dreaming, which only exposed their short-sightedness and ignorance, the R people felt embarrassed.
"Why did you lie to us? Why didn't you tell us the truth?" asked Hideki Kono.
Ichiro Kobashi said immediately: "The base found the message from the Xia people on the Internet and immediately contacted the Jingshi base, but the people in the Jingshi base were arrogant and rude and were unwilling to establish diplomatic relations with our base. In the end, we went through many difficulties before we finally found out the truth."
"Of course, after learning the truth, we immediately planned to inform the residents of the base, and we had also chosen a date, which was three days later. However, we did not expect such a regrettable thing to happen today."
"But I can assure you with my dignity that although the Xia people do have those things, they are definitely not as magical as they describe on the Internet."
Hideki Takano and others once again believed what Ichiro Kobashi said. Although they had been deceived by the base command once before, they could not accept that the Xia people had really developed so well.
While they were still hungry and worried about whether they would have food to eat tomorrow, the Xia people have begun to no longer worry about the food problem. They have been taking nutritional supplements that only exist in interstellar movies.
Ichiro Kobashi successfully appeased the protesters such as Hideki Kono and promised some high compensation, and the matter was over.
On the other side, in the Xiaren Street of the R base, some Xia people gathered together to talk. Some of these Xia people came to R country to travel, some came here to visit relatives, and some were stranded here for business trips or visiting friends and other reasons and could not go back.
Now they gathered together to discuss heatedly, "The messages on the Internet are all true. Our country has really produced those amazing scientific research results."
A man who had immigrated to Country R for decades and changed his Japanese name to Matsushita Ben rolled his eyes and said, "Didn't you hear what Commander Kobashi Ichiro said? Although there are scientific research results, the technology is not mature. It is not as amazing as those comments on the Internet say. It is just a toy for children to play house."
Gao Wanli, the representative of the Xiaren Guild at the R base, said angrily, "Matsushita, don't forget which country's blood you have just because you took an R country name."
The other psychics immediately glared at him, and Matsushita said bluntly: "It's useless for you to look at me like that, this is the fact. The actual situation is that Xia Country can't beat M Country at all. M Country has always been far ahead in the field of scientific research. What M Country has not researched, Xia people simply can't do.
I am just telling the truth, seeking truth from facts, even if you stare at me to death it will be useless!"
Gao Wanli immediately asked: "Then how do you explain holography?"
"It turns out that holograms do exist. The Jingshi base has spent a lot of manpower and financial resources to drop a large number of terminals for free so that we, the Xia people stranded abroad, can get holograms, improve our combat effectiveness through holographic training, and have a better chance of surviving in a foreign country in the end times!"
Gao Wanli said: "Isn't this kindness worthy of our gratitude?"
Matsushita Ben curled his lips in disdain, "Pretending to be nice, if the Jingshi base really cares about you as much as they appear to, they should have taken you away!"
"you……"
"Forget it, forget it, don't talk to him. He is no longer a Xia countryman. He is now a dog of R country."
Several Xia people dragged Gao Wanli away in a rage. Gao Wanli and the others separated from Matsushita Ben and then sighed, "It would be great if the Jingshi base could really come to pick us up. I really miss China. If I had known that the end of the world would come, I would not have come out to study abroad. I don't know how my family is doing now?"
Everyone fell into silence. Gao Wanli looked around and saw that there were no suspicious people around. Then he said, "Maybe we can go back soon."
Several people's eyes lit up instantly. Among them, only Gao Wanli grabbed the terminal. Everyone looked at Gao Wanli, "What did you see on the hologram?"
"The Jingshi Base has a thread specifically for the Xia people stranded in foreign countries. The commander-in-chief of the Jingshi Base personally responded yesterday. He said that he would find a way to take those of us who want to return home, but he asked us to be patient for a while. He promised that day would definitely not be too far away."
"Really? Is this really a message from the commander-in-chief of the Jing City base?"
"Yes."
Several psychics were excited, their hearts were pounding, almost jumping out of their chests.
In the Beijing base, Gu Jinsheng asked Ji An, "How confident are you that you can bring back all the people stranded outside?"
Ji An said: "Seven points."
"The difficulty is not in picking up people, but how to gather them together and how to take them away without alerting the local command center." Ji An said.
Zhou Qin nodded, "This is indeed the main problem. Now every base wants the technology from our base. Once we show that we want to bring back the stranded Xia people, those bases will not let us go easily and will definitely ask us to exchange our technology for them."
Wan Xueying asked, "God Ji, how is your research going now?"
Wan Xueying didn't know what Ji An was researching, but she vaguely knew that it was related to the plan to pick up people.
Ji An said: "It's not difficult this time, it's already in the final stages."
At this moment, a staff member knocked on the door in panic. Without waiting for Gu Jinsheng and others to agree, he pushed the door open in a panic. The staff members turned pale with fear. He said, "Commander-in-Chief Gu, deputy commanders, this is bad. Go check it out. Kobashi Ichiro is broadcasting live on the public channel, demanding that we hand over all our core technologies, otherwise he will kill us who are stranded in his country!"
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