The snow outside the window has accumulated to a great depth, and it is difficult to distinguish the ground from the residential buildings when viewed from above by a drone. It seems that the world has merged into the snowfield.
Except for doomsday beacons.
This top-of-the-line doomsday beacon, which Hermod painstakingly and tirelessly created over a month using the world's most advanced magical skills, is clearly not within the coverage area.
Even within a radius of a hundred miles around it, everything is normal.
The Doomsday Beacon can generate electricity from snow. When the surrounding snow accumulates to a certain thickness, the Doomsday Beacon will extend its mechanical arm to collect the snow and put it into its energy tank.
After the meteorite strike, the small fragments that were broken apart could not be disposed of, and the thick snow that fell on it was also irradiated, containing trace amounts of strange energy.
While humans and animals cannot absorb it, the doomsday targets can convert the trace amounts of energy within it. Although these amounts are extremely small, they can both slightly replenish energy and help deal with the snow disaster, making it a very good solution.
By this time, the streets around the doomsday beacon were crowded with people, mostly young people or burly men with tattooed arms, who came to demonstrate with weapons. Some people took off their clothes to show off their tattoos and muscles, but the outside temperature quickly taught them a lesson.
He hadn't even been off the coat for a second before he obediently put it back on.
"It seems like the number of people demonstrating hasn't increased for half a month." The Consul General sat by the window and couldn't help but take a deep breath: "Impatientness is a fatal flaw."
"Knock knock knock".
"Enter."
"Your Excellency, it's time for the meeting. Everyone has been waiting for a long time." Nan Zhu hadn't even finished saying "Come in" when he pushed the door open and entered, still wearing a polite smile, but appearing somewhat forceful in this situation.
"What's wrong? Is everyone so impatient these days?" The commander leaned back in his chair, looking at Nan Zhu meaningfully. "You, on the other hand, get along quite well with them."
"Maintaining harmony among everyone is my duty." Nan Zhu held the documents in his arms, his fingers tapping the cover idly. "It's just that if the Commander-in-Chief doesn't go to the meeting soon, everyone will probably be getting impatient."
"...Is it time for the meeting?" The commander subconsciously touched the badge on his chest. "How is the exploration team doing?"
"Everything should go smoothly. Please don't worry about it too much, sir." Nan Zhu stepped aside and gestured for him to remain calm. "In any case, please keep a calm mind, sir. That's the most important thing."
The Consul General didn't say anything more, but simply took a pen, put it in his breast pocket, stood up, and took one last deep look at the demonstrators outside the window.
Those below, whether indignant or opportunistic, were completely unaware that a growing number of menacing beasts had gathered on the low-rise residential buildings surrounding them.
But from this angle, you can see everything.
What level are these ferocious beasts? What level are the viruses they carry? The Commander-in-Chief doesn't know.
However, he knew that the turmoil in Yanlong Kingdom had lasted too long. Fortunately, before his patience ran out, the enemy's patience was slightly less.
The meeting remained solemn. The neutral faction, centered around the Consul General, all sat around him with grim expressions. They frequently looked up at the Consul General while holding their notebooks, only to be surprised to find that the Consul General seemed to be in a good mood today.
Seeing this, their agitated mood calmed down a little.
"Commander-in-Chief, what have you thought of our proposal?"
As soon as the Consul General sat down, some people couldn't wait any longer and asked questions directly, even before the Consul General could greet them or give an opening speech. They spoke hastily and impulsively.
"Tsk, Xiao Qi, what kind of behavior is this?" A middle-aged man reprimanded him in a low voice, but his expression showed no reproach: "General, I was ignorant, please forgive me."
Let someone slap you, then give them a sweet treat—that's a clever idea.
The commander-in-chief gave him a deep look but ignored him.
"Rejected. Blindly closing ourselves off is no different from the old policy of isolationism. If a country is closed off, its doors will eventually be opened. If we continue to close ourselves off, the apocalypse will eventually break through our defenses." The commander-in-chief said, word by word, "Some people want 100% control over the allocation of resources. Their intentions are obvious. I must remind you that we are still called Yanlong Kingdom."
“Of course, we are the Yanlong Kingdom, and we must be at the forefront. We can’t let other countries laugh at us.” Someone immediately chimed in with a smile, “But now that public sentiment is running high, we have no choice but to consider things from the people’s perspective, don’t we?”
"Sir, when you say the public is in a state of high spirits... do you mean the protesters outside the Doomsday Beacon, who make up less than 1% of the ordinary people left?" Nan Zhu interrupted the man with a smile: "If that's the case, it seems a bit unrepresentative."
The man was surprised that Nan Zhu had humiliated him. He looked at him with astonishment but didn't know what to say, and his expression turned somewhat unpleasant.
"My lord, forgive my bluntness, but it's because of wrong decisions and the wrong direction that all our efforts have been in vain." The middle-aged man who spoke first continued, "Our ability users have suffered heavy losses and are now like a disorganized mess, completely lacking discipline. The points deducted so far..."
"Isn't that what you caused?" The commander-in-chief interrupted the middle-aged man casually. "I'd like to ask you something else: you made 26 long-distance calls to people outside of Lianyanlong Kingdom via the signal branch line. What were you contacting?"
Everyone: "!?"
Half the people in the meeting room looked different. Their feeling was not an illusion; neither the leader nor Nan Zhu seemed to be acting normally today.
Nan Zhu had always been on good terms with them and obeyed their orders, but today he stood beside the commander-in-chief to refute them. The commander-in-chief seemed particularly confident today, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent.
Could it be... that Tokine has come back to life?
However, Shi Yin has been missing for so long, and the exploration teams and signal detectors sent out have not detected any information or vital signs of Shi Yin...
However, the leader...
Suddenly, some people felt uncertain.
"So the commander-in-chief is determined to reject our opinion?" The middle-aged man's face darkened after being refuted by the commander-in-chief: "You probably don't know this yet, but many of our exploration teams have already suffered losses outside. This fully demonstrates that radical plans for external exploration are definitely not advisable."
"Bullshit! Without the exploration team, where would the information we're gathering come from? It's all thanks to them!" A young man couldn't help but retort excitedly. "If we don't explore the outside world, no one will even know when monsters can eat nuclear weapons."
"Xiao Zhang! Calm down!"
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