Chapter 321 I'll take this world down with me!
Ning Hai was already preparing to use his brainwaves to activate the communication device and notify the guards to come in and dispose of the body parts.
However, Lu Xingfeng was unwilling to die like this. He channeled all his internal energy and used his broken wrist to grip the mechanical arm.
"ah!"
After a wild, beast-like roar.
He actually ripped the mechanical arm off his shoulder!
The fingertips of the robotic arm still held flesh and blood torn from his neck.
Blood gushed from the broken shoulder!
In the blink of an eye, with a distorted face, he took two steps forward, stepped on Ning Hai's chest, and threw the mechanical arm away.
Bang!
A loud bang.
The robotic arm exploded, leaving a crater two meters in diameter on the metal floor.
"You!" Ning Hai exclaimed in shock.
Lu Xingfeng didn't say another word and stomped down hard!
Crack!
Ninghai's chest was shattered, and his internal organs were scattered all over the ground. He died before he could even send out a call signal.
"Dad!" A startled cry rang out.
Before Lu Xingfeng could even savor the joy of victory, his heart sank, and he quickly turned around.
Ning Yao stood at the entrance of the hall, her face completely bloodless.
She left angrily at first, but calmed down a bit after a while. Thinking that Ning Hai was her loving biological father, and that her words about severing their father-daughter relationship were too hurtful, she decided to apologize to her father and have a proper talk with him.
Just as I reached the vicinity of the hall, I suddenly faintly heard an explosion coming from inside the door.
So he just opened the door and rushed in.
As a result... she witnessed Lu Xingfeng kill her father in such a cruel way.
"dad!!!"
A piercing scream echoed throughout the hall.
From the entrance of the hall to Ning Hai's location, it was more than a hundred meters away, but Ning Yao rushed over in the blink of an eye. In extreme anger and grief, she knocked Lu Xingfeng more than ten meters away.
Bang!
Lu Xingfeng, who was sent flying backward, slammed heavily against the wall, creating a large crater in the metal before finally falling to the ground.
"Dad... Dad! Wake up, Dad!" Ning Yao knelt beside Ning Hai's body, sobbing uncontrollably. "I was wrong... I'll listen to you from now on, Dad... please don't leave me, I beg you..."
She never imagined that her only relative, the person who had been the best to her in her life, would leave her so suddenly.
The separation of life and death happened without warning, but before her father died, she uttered the most hurtful words to him.
Heaven didn't even give her a chance to apologize.
She was consumed by immense grief and regret.
Lu Xingfeng staggered to his feet, circulated his internal energy to stop the bleeding, and temporarily stabilized the meridians in his fractured wrist. He stared intently at Ning Yao's back, his expression complex.
After a slight hesitation of two seconds, he gritted his teeth, and a murderous intent appeared in his eyes.
Now that things have come to this, before the Descent Legion's guards discover them, they probably have no choice but to deal with Ning Yao as well.
With his identity, status, and immense strength, he would surely be able to take over the entire Advent Legion, command tens of millions of genetically modified warriors and highly advanced military technology, and easily rule this planet with billions of people and abundant resources.
Moreover, Ye Zhi Qiu exists in this world.
At that time, he will not only be able to rule the entire world, but also realize his long-cherished wish of more than a hundred years.
Compared to all of this, his more than 100-year-old relationship with Ning Yao is nothing.
Without any hesitation, Lu Xingfeng endured the excruciating pain, used his severely injured right hand to draw his sidearm from his waist, aimed at Ning Yao, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
A gunshot rang out.
Overwhelmed with grief, Ning Yao collapsed to the ground, sprawling onto Ning Hai's corpse.
Lu Xingfeng stepped forward and kicked Ning Yao's body.
Ning Yao's head was mostly blown off by bullets, and tears were still slowly sliding down her remaining face.
Lu Xingfeng burst into laughter, "Hehe... Hahahaha! All of this is mine!"
"What... are you saying?" Ning Yao's voice suddenly rang out.
Lu Xingfeng looked as if he had seen a ghost, shuddered, and hurriedly took a few steps back, pointing his gun at Ning Yao.
Ning Yao, who should have been dead, parted her mutilated lips slightly, "Lu Xingfeng...you will die a horrible death..."
Lu Xingfeng's pupils constricted, and he hurriedly fired all the bullets in his pistol at Ning Yao.
Ning Yao's body was riddled with bullets, but she still managed to stand up crookedly, with half of her head slumped over her shoulder, and one of her bulging eyes staring intently at Lu Xingfeng.
Lu Xingfeng had seen countless grand scenes, and he had seen countless corpses, no matter how disturbing they were.
But the scene before him still sent chills down his spine.
The overwhelming hatred in particular made him tremble involuntarily.
"How is this possible..." Lu Xingfeng's forehead was covered in cold sweat. "Even with my 160 years of powerful internal energy, I couldn't possibly survive after being injured like this. I only taught you the basics, and your internal energy is only so-so... How did you manage to do this?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Ning Yao's eyes turned completely blood red, and more than a dozen bloody tentacles grew from her mangled body, engulfing Ning Hai's corpse.
Those tentacles were covered with fang-like barbs, and had sharp mouthparts at the ends.
As the tentacles rolled and surged, Ning Hai's corpse was completely devoured, leaving not even a trace of bone.
This scene made Lu Xingfeng want to vomit.
He gagged several times, then suddenly realized, "Wait! This is...this is something that only happens with gene fusion! Ning Yao, when did you undergo gene modification?"
"No, no, apart from the early stages of gene research projects that could create such monsters, later gene serums wouldn't change a person's appearance, so you...you..."
Before Lu Xingfeng could think further, Ning Yao didn't give him an answer. Several tentacles flew over and pierced through his body.
Although Lu Xingfeng was highly skilled in martial arts and possessed profound inner strength, he was already seriously injured. At this moment, even if he tried his best, he could not resist and could only watch helplessly as he was dragged in front of Ning Yao.
"You...go to hell." Ning Yao uttered in a cold voice.
The next second, more than a dozen tentacles slowly tore Lu Xingfeng apart.
Lu Xingfeng was in extreme pain, but because of his powerful internal energy, he hadn't died yet. He even watched as his beating heart was pulled out by tentacles and put into Ning Yao's mouth, where she tore it apart and swallowed it.
In the end, Lu Xingfeng's body was never found.
Ning Yao not only returned to her normal appearance, but also absorbed Lu Xingfeng's powerful internal energy from over a hundred years ago.
However, after regaining her senses, Ning Yao did not extinguish the anger in her heart by killing her father's killer; instead, she had nowhere to release her grief and rage.
"If it weren't for Ning Jinli's family... my father wouldn't have died, and he wouldn't have discovered what's happening now..."
"Ning Jinli, Ning Shan, Ye Zhi Qiu, I want you dead! I want this world to be buried with you!"
...
Since the supreme ruler, the Heavenly Venerable of Descent, passed away, Ning Yao, as his only successor and his own daughter, directly became the new Heavenly Venerable of Descent.
Ning Yao changed into a long golden robe and put on the same golden mask as Ning Hai, then sat on the throne in the Heavenly Venerable Hall.
In front of the throne was a golden staircase more than ten meters long. On both sides of the staircase, tens of thousands of high-ranking members of various departments of the Descendant Legion knelt on one knee in neat rows according to their status and rank, and swore allegiance.
"Initiate the attack immediately," Ning Yao coldly issued her first order as the Descending Celestial Venerable. "All Chinese people, or those with friendly relations with China, shall be killed without exception. In addition, people from other countries and regions who refuse to submit shall be killed without mercy."
Half an hour later—
From the massive pyramid-shaped headquarters mothership of the Advent Legion, one after another, aircraft larger than the world's largest aircraft carrier took to the skies around the world.
Then, like a honeycomb, these aircraft released a large number of combat aircraft, which directly bombarded their respective target locations.
This caught the whole world off guard.
The Heavenly Venerable had clearly said he would give them three days, but less than two days had passed before he launched his attack, and his first move was aimed at slaughter.
Around the world, large cities have been reduced to infernos and ruins, and world-class attractions sculpted by nature have been razed to the ground.
The entire Earth has become a battlefield, and no country or region has been spared.
Faced with the overwhelming high-tech offensive of the descending legion, countless people felt powerless, like ants.
Countless people died from the bombing by the Advent Legion, and countless others committed suicide in despair.
In just one day, more than half of the world's countries surrendered to the Descent Legion in order to survive, and then became pawns of the Descent Legion to slaughter other countries.
As the main force of resistance, China suffered increasingly betrayals from allied nations while also struggling to deal with the descending legions, resulting in extremely heavy casualties in a short period of time.
This nation, already the strongest in the world, is suffering repeated defeats under the attack of the descending legion.
Shangguan Ying sent the entire repair team, with Ning Jinli at its core, to the safest and most secluded base, and mobilized all available resources to fight the descending legion and its minions to the death.
Several months have passed...
The entire world, except for China, has fallen.
The world was filled with smoke that blotted out the sun, the sky turned yellowish-gray, and there were endless ruins and wreckage everywhere, like a scene from the apocalypse.
As for the Huaxia Kingdom, only some scattered areas, about one-tenth of its original territory, remained, and had not yet been completely conquered.
Energy, supplies, and weaponry are almost depleted.
Of the original millions of military personnel, only less than 100,000 remained, and the ordinary people were mercilessly slaughtered by the descending legion, reducing the population from over a billion to tens of millions.
Chinese civilization has once again reached a critical juncture, facing life and death.
This time, however, it was more despairing than ever before in history.
The war continues.
The repair project team is also doing its best to turn the theory of spacetime misalignment into a feasible technology.
Ning Jinli was extremely anxious, wishing she could leave the base and join the war against the descending legion. However, she knew that her strength alone would be insufficient to fight the war.
She could only suppress her anger and grief, and wait patiently inside the base.
Finally, when only three resistance strongholds remained in China, the repair project team's experiment succeeded.
As Shangguan Ying said, they used the theory of spatiotemporal displacement.
Previously, Ning Jinli had visited thousands of parallel worlds in her search for World No. 1, and in some of these worlds she either left behind the seeds of civilization or provided various kinds of assistance.
These worlds are all thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions or hundreds of millions of years older than the original world.
Because Ning Jinli has already recorded the spacetime coordinates of all the parallel worlds she has explored.
If we use existing coordinates as anchor points and compare them with the current time in the original world, and establish contact with parallel worlds to send signals requesting support, then it is possible to obtain help from other civilizations that have already developed in other parallel worlds.
This is a high-stakes gamble fraught with immense uncertainty.
Due to current technological limitations and energy supply constraints, the repair team can only convert their requests for help into electronic signals and transmit them across time and space.
Moreover, spatiotemporal positioning is not always accurate, and even if the positioning is accurate, it is not guaranteed that the complete distress signal can be successfully sent.
Even if the location is accurate and the signal is completely transmitted, the parallel world civilization that receives the distress signal may not necessarily, or may not be able to, come to help.
After all, compared to those worlds, far too long has passed.
No one knows whether those civilizations that once received Ning Jinli's help still remember her, whether they are grateful for her help, or whether they are willing to repay her.
And it's possible that many of those civilizations have already perished.
Some may not have even been able to develop enough high technology.
Some might have gone astray in their tech development—for example, they might have the technology for time travel but haven't developed their weaponry, or their weaponry might be more advanced than the Advent Legion's but they still haven't figured out time travel.
In short, there are too many possibilities and too much uncertainty.
But this was the last and only hope against the Advent Legion.
The instrument capable of transmitting distress signals across time and space has been assembled; the next step is to activate it with sufficient energy.
Upon learning of this good news, Shangguan Ying immediately began calculating and analyzing it in her office.
Shortly after, a commander came in to report:
"General Shangguan," news came from the other two strongholds: the Descending Legion has launched a targeted ground offensive, with the multinational surrender legion as the vanguard and the genetically modified legion as the main force... We probably won't be able to hold out for much longer.
The last three remaining strongholds of the Huaxia Kingdom are all built thousands of meters underground.
Each stronghold has complete military defense facilities and can accommodate more than 20 million people, equivalent to three super cities hidden deep underground.
These three strongholds also housed the last of China's resources and energy.
Currently, the remaining approximately 100,000 special forces soldiers and over 60 million civilians in China are all hidden in three strongholds.
Fortunately, the Advent Legion's powerful weapons could not penetrate the rock layers that were several kilometers thick.
Unfortunately, they have already begun their ground offensive.
In terms of manpower, weaponry, energy resources, and so on, the disparity between the two sides is too great. Even if all the survivors in China defend the last three strongholds to the death, it is only a matter of time before they are breached.
Upon hearing the commander's report, Shangguan Ying fell into thought.
The commander continued, "According to current statistics, if we use all our energy, we should be able to hold out for another month or two. But... after one or two months, even if the Descent Legion hasn't captured it yet, all three of our strongholds will run out of energy and turn into three underground cities..."
“Yes, I’ve calculated it all,” Shangguan Ying nodded slightly. “Pass down the order to activate all the energy resources from the other two strongholds and transfer them here in pure energy form.”
The commander was taken aback. "You mean, we're going to abandon those two dungeons?"
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