The next morning, Zhang Yun convened a meeting with all the senior executives of the Yunze base.
In addition to listening to reports from the heads of various organizations on the progress of their work during his and Yang Shize's absence, he also needed to familiarize himself with the changes in the political situation.
Over the past ten months, the biggest events at Yunze Base have been the signing of a friendly cooperation treaty with the capital and Yunze Base joining the New Human Alliance.
He Jiajia said, "The West Continent is still delaying and refusing to give up its seat in the New Human Alliance, which should be held by Ze Shen. Should we join forces with the other continents to put pressure on the West Continent?"
Zhang Yun shook his head. "There's no need for that. We only need to do one thing."
"What is it?" Everyone was curious.
"Collecting debts."
...
That afternoon, a live broadcast room suddenly appeared on the homepage of the StarNet, which is used worldwide.
Title: The Return of the Double Nine War Gods!
Once a user reaches the seventh rank, they are revered as a god, and currently, there are only two ninth-rank war gods in the world.
Zhang Yun and Yang Shize are world-renowned, so this title immediately attracted a large number of netizens to watch.
After discovering the live stream, news platforms across the globe also reported on it in real time and shared the link.
The video shows Zhang Yun and Yang Shize in a helicopter, with a basin below. Viewers familiar with Dongzhou's geography have already provided the location information in the comments.
"This is Jiuchuan Province, isn't it? Are Ze Shen and Yun Shen going to destroy Jiuchuan?"
"No way? Jiuchuan is one of the bases of the Five Provinces Alliance of Dongzhou. Didn't Yunze sign a friendly cooperation agreement with the capital? How could they possibly be fighting?"
The comments section was filled with speculation, while in the video, Yang Shize had already jumped directly out of the helicopter.
Without deploying a parachute, he landed with a thud, and the ground beneath his feet cracked open.
"???" "???" "???"
After a series of question marks, someone finally typed—
"Holy crap! Is this even human?"
"This is a god, not a human!"
"Ze Shen is awesome! (voice cracks)"
"Earth: I split open!"
"..."
At this moment, Zhang Yun also jumped down and teleported to Yang Shize's side.
"Hello everyone in the live stream!" Zhang Yun greeted everyone with a smile in the video.
A barrage of comments appeared saying "Yun God is great~"
"We are currently in front of an experimental building in Yudu District, Jiuchuan Province. This building belongs to the Ye family."
"As you all know, Ze Shen and I were attacked by a laser satellite by the Ye family, led by Ye Hui, in the capital, and almost died."
"Because Ye Hui had previously come to our base and demanded that Yunze Base submit to them, I did not agree, and as a result, we were attacked by satellite the next day."
The reasons why Zhang Yun was attacked by the Ye family's satellite were clear to the high-ranking officials of the Five Provinces Alliance Base and the Yunze Base.
However, the people at Yunze Base were too young and didn't know how to use public opinion. They directly led a group to attack the Ye family in the capital, which resulted in Yunze having a very bad reputation among the lower-class people in other bases.
Later, a cooperation agreement was reached with the Capital Base, but how could the people of the Capital possibly clear their names?
Ye Hui and his forces are, after all, from the capital. If it were revealed that they had deployed a laser satellite due to internal strife, what would people think?
Just because the top-ranked ability users on both lists refused to submit, you launched a laser satellite attack?
If this matter is made public, the reputation of the five-province alliance base, led by the capital, will plummet.
Previously, the person in charge was not present, and the others in Yunze were unaware of the inside story. In addition, they were busy rescuing people and did not have the time or energy to clarify these matters. Now that Zhang Yun has returned, he will naturally clear Yunze's name and take the opportunity to collect the debts owed before, with interest!
As for the face of the major powers in the capital, and the face of Elder Shen?
What face do they have?
It's just a matter of mutual exploitation.
When Vulcan led Yunze's men into the capital and killed the forces belonging to the Ye family, these people stood by and watched because this was exactly what they wanted.
Moreover, if Zhang Yun's life signal hadn't appeared in time and hadn't had a certain deterrent effect, and if Vulcan and his group hadn't realized they were in the wrong and withdrawn from the capital, all the forces in the capital would have killed Yunze's group after Qi Heng and his group wiped out the Ye family, and then taken over the Yunze base.
The people from Yunze Base stormed into the capital and wreaked havoc, gaining nothing and suffering a severe drop in reputation.
Apart from the fact that Zhang Yun's system controlled the access to the laser satellites, the Ye family's resources and influence in the capital were divided up by various major powers in the capital.
They reaped all the benefits without ever thinking of sharing anything with Yunze, nor did they consider clarifying the facts or restoring Yunze's reputation. Now they want Zhang Yun to give them face?
Heh, where does your face come from?
"If I hadn't been lucky enough to advance to the eighth rank and teleport out with Ze Shen, Yang Shize and I would have died. The number one human evolver and superhuman on the list didn't die fighting against zombies, but from the ultimate weapon researched by humans themselves."
When Zhang Yun said those words with a hint of sarcasm, the live chat exploded.
In an effort to quell public opinion, the capital government announced that the two laser satellites were launched to kill two high-level seventh-tier zombies and their accomplices!
Unexpectedly, they were actually targeting two human beings, who were also the top-ranked war gods on the leaderboard!
The barrage of comments was filled with angry curses, and some people were even calling for the people from the capital to come out and confront them. Many people who had experienced unfair treatment in the five-province bases were clamoring to leave the five-province alliance and join Yunze.
The official forum representing the five-province alliance was bombarded by angry citizens, yet it remained silent and dared not issue a statement in rebuttal.
This behavior, in a sense, proves that what Zhang Yun said was the truth.
Zhang Yun glanced at the comments and said, "We welcome anyone willing to join the Yunze base. After Ze Shen and I resolve today's matter, Yunze will negotiate with the capital to ensure everyone's safe relocation to Yunze."
"As for today..." Zhang Yun looked at the laboratory building in front of him, "Listen up, everyone inside, we will be searching this building in five minutes. Everyone come out immediately, otherwise we cannot guarantee that there will be no casualties."
A line of people piloting combat mechs rushed out of the building's courtyard, the guns on the mechs aimed most accurately at two people.
Yang Shize slightly raised his hand, as if throwing a punch at the air in front of him.
The mech legion in the distance seemed to be hit by a tornado, instantly retreating and crashing into the wall behind them, denting the sturdy wall.
"What happened? Can Ze Shen attack from a distance now?"
"I just slowed down the video by 50 times and replayed it. Ze Shen was too fast. He rushed over, threw a punch, and then retreated back to his original position. Even when I slowed it down by 50 times, I could only see his afterimage."
"Is this the power of the ninth rank?"
"A single 6!"
Zhang Yun smiled and glanced at his watch: "Two minutes left."
The mech legion guarding the building, controlled by evolved humans, was easily defeated. People inside the building began to panic, and people wearing white lab coats came out one after another, crouching down on the open ground with their heads in their hands, as instructed by Zhang Yun.
“…Time’s up.” Zhang Yun nodded to Yang Shize.
Yang Shize went inside.
The live stream provided by the system was from a God's-eye view centered on Yang Shize, clearly showing the environment inside the experimental building as Yang Shize passed by.
The first floor was just some office space for receiving guests and clerical work. Yang Shize didn't stop and went straight to the second floor.
On the second floor, the laboratory became somewhat terrifying, filled with corpses, human organs, and animal carcasses, but still within the realm of human understanding.
This building must be a place specifically for biological research.
The public's attention followed Yang Shize's footsteps to the third floor.
The metal door leading to the third floor was tightly closed. Yang Shize raised his foot and kicked it open.
The alarm sounded, and a guard at the door raised his gun to fire, but Yang Shize snatched the gun away and kicked him away.
The other guards rushed over and fired their guns at Yang Shize.
Yang Shize used the gun he had seized in one hand to fire at them.
In terms of numbers, Yang Shize was at a significant disadvantage, but the outcome was one-sided.
Yang Shize didn't need to find cover at all. Every shot he fired accurately took down a person. But the bullets from the other side hit him like bubbles from a bubble machine; he didn't even feel an itch.
It was a one-sided massacre!
After dealing with the guards, Yang Shize walked into the corridor and "push" open the laboratory door on this floor.
The people inside the laboratory continued their work nonchalantly, showing no concern that the outer defenses would be breached. When one researcher saw Yang Shize enter with a gun, he asked in surprise, "Who are you? How did you get in? Where are the guards?"
As he spoke, he pressed the alarm on the wall. The alarm went off for a long time, but no one came.
"You are surrounded. Everyone, put your hands behind your heads and squat down," Yang Shize said, pointing his gun at the man.
The man immediately covered his head and squatted down, crying, "Don't kill me! I surrender!"
The others in the lab belatedly realized what was happening and, in fright, immediately covered their heads and crouched down.
Yang Shize walked in.
This time, the scene in the laboratory was rather frightening. The fiberglass containers holding live specimens were filled with the organs and limbs of zombies. The test tubes and beakers on the table contained various dark green, brown, and dark red blood specimens. On the largest experimental table in the middle, a struggling third-level zombie was tied up.
Yang Shize pointed his gun at its head.
With a "thud," it stopped moving.
An elderly professor, crouching beside the lab table with his head in his hands, looked on with a hint of heartache in his eyes and muttered softly, "This specimen was so hard to get..."
Yang Shize glanced over and immediately shut up.
After scanning the lab, Yang Shize asked, "Who has elevator access to the fourth floor?"
There are no stairs from the third floor onwards in this laboratory building; you can only go up by elevator. And the elevators above the third floor require fingerprint and retinal unlocking, so the security is very strict.
"The person who tells me will not die."
"Him!" A dozen people in the lab pointed at the old man who had just complained about how expensive the specimens were.
The old man wanted to cry but had no tears.
Yang Shize nodded, "Very good, you can leave now. Take me to the fourth floor."
The others rushed out of the laboratory as if granted a pardon and ran downstairs.
With a pained expression, the old man was led to the elevator by Yang Shize, who verified his fingerprints and retina before leading him into the elevator.
As the elevator ascended and the doors opened, the old man instantly hid in a corner of the elevator, while Yang Shize was immediately bombarded with comments as soon as he stepped out.
He grabbed a handful of bullets that were aimed at him and scattered them.
The person hit by the bullet he threw fell to the ground immediately.
The barrage of bullets aimed at him suddenly thinned out.
Yang Shize disappeared and reappeared at the position of the guards. Apart from him, there was no one else standing there.
In the live stream, the person watching the video at -50x speed commented again: "Ze Shen's speed is too fast, it must be supersonic!"
The old man walked out of the elevator shakily, looking at Yang Shize as if he had seen a ghost.
"Who, who are you?"
"A debt collector," Yang Shize said coldly, and walked into the laboratory on this floor.
Like the third floor, the laboratories here all had special alloy doors, all tightly locked. Yang Shize simply pushed them open forcefully—
"Holy crap! What is this?!"
"Damn it! You scared the crap out of me!"
"My goodness, is this Jiuchuan? Are the people at the Jiuchuan base this twisted now?"
"..."
The live stream chat was already buzzing with excitement because of Yang Shize's domineering performance, and now it has surged dozens of times in an instant.
Because the laboratory on this floor contains live specimens pieced together from human bodies and zombies!
When a monster with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a zombie octopus, inside a transparent culture tank, sensed the outside light and opened its eyes, audiences all over the world went crazy!
What the hell is this?!
How could anyone conduct such horrific experimental research?!
...
Yang Shize destroyed the laboratory.
Next, the fifth floor, the sixth floor, the seventh floor...
As more and more terrifying and bizarre laboratories and experimental subjects were exposed to the public, public anger continued to build.
When they saw a pregnant woman, half-zombie-like but still retaining human consciousness, crying and begging Yang Shize to end her life and the life of the monster in her womb in the top-floor laboratory, everyone could no longer control their anger.
The residents of Jiuchuan Base have left their homes and spontaneously searched for the experimental building that Zhang Yun and his team had searched. Finding that they could not enter, some continued to stake out the building, some staged a protest march, and others rushed to the government building and surrounded the administrators.
...
Similar protests also occurred at other bases of the Five Provinces Alliance. The Jiuchuan base is under the jurisdiction of the capital, and the five bases are closely connected. If Jiuchuan Province has such an inhumane research base, what about the other provinces?
If it weren't for Zhang Yun and Yang Shize's violent exposure, who knows how many more people would have suffered because of these horrific experiments.
The experiments are secondary; the real question is, if the research is successful, on whom do they intend to use the results?
The leaders who are high and mighty certainly wouldn't risk their lives; it's the ordinary people who will suffer!
This time, the people are united like never before!
Capital base.
Old Shen's house was also surrounded, with a crowd of angry people outside.
Elder Shen's bodyguard, Chen Fei, said, "Sir, they've gone too far!"
Shen Shengzhi smiled bitterly, "Zhang Yun, this young man, is polite to everyone, but he is not an easy person to talk to. Yunze Base suffered such a big loss in the capital before, it would be unreasonable for him not to get back the money with interest. The Ye family is completely finished now."
"Back then, during the battle of the capital, all the benefits left behind by the Ye family in the capital were divided up by others. You, Chief, didn't take anything, so why should he drag you down with him and be criticized by the public?" Chen Fei felt very indignant on behalf of Elder Shen.
Old Shen shook his head. "I am the official spokesperson for the capital, so it is only natural that I am implicated. Although Zhang Yun is decisive, he is not clear about right and wrong. At most, we will be harassed by the masses who do not know the truth, and it will subside in a couple of days. But the other families... this time, if they do not really utter something to calm things down, they will probably be the next Ye family."
“We’ve been in our comfort zone for too long, and our thinking is no longer suited to the current situation. Dongzhou needs leaders like us who are outspoken, decisive, and capable. The younger generation will surpass the older generation. As for me, I’m getting old!”
Shen Shengzhi gazed in the direction of Jiuchuan, his tone filled with satisfaction and emotion.
With such an outstanding successor in Dongzhou, he can truly rest assured.
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