Chapter 186 Unite all forces that can be united
After Jia announced to Lan that the air-raid shelter was full and expelled the humans directly from the door, the remaining 270,000 humans panicked.
They were ordinary human NPCs in this city, their choices and actions no different from those of pre-apocalyptic humans. Thinking of Jia Xianglan's final words, rumors began to spread among the crowd, saying that Xu Lingqu, the commander-in-chief of the North District, had his own private air-raid shelter and was unwilling to share it with ordinary humans.
An angry crowd instantly poured into the North District. At that very moment, Commander-in-Chief Xu Lingqu's doomsday speech was underway in the center of the North District. The enraged humans surrounded the area, and the crowds who had come specifically to see her speech far outnumbered those who had come to see Jia Xianglan. Almost all of the remaining 270,000 people were crowded into the North District.
Xu Lingqu, wearing a black windbreaker and a military cap, stood on the podium and looked at the crowd glaring at her.
"There is only one air-raid shelter in this city, and there won't be a second one. The Zerg will arrive in two hours and fifty minutes. I haven't prepared a hiding place for myself, and I will never hide." She first clarified the matter of the exclusive air-raid shelter.
"Then can you take over that air-raid shelter! You killed those officers in the South District! Let us in! We will vote for you!" The shouts of ordinary humans came from the crowd.
"No." Xu Lingqu directly rejected the plan.
Someone in Moye’s group just asked her why she didn’t attack the Qing army first. Even if she couldn’t seize the air-raid shelter, she shouldn’t let them suffer any consequences.
"I will never do anything like pacifying the country before resisting foreign aggression. The end of the world is imminent, and the lives of everyone in this city are threatened. I stand here to unite all forces that can be united." She looked up at a building in the distance, "Including you, the Qing Army S-rank soldier Cheng Xing, who is aiming a sniper rifle at me right now."
Through the sniper scope, Cheng Xing saw Xu Lingqu's cold expression clearly. When she accurately pointed out his name, Cheng Xing was shocked and quickly pulled the trigger.
The sniper bullet did not kill Xu Lingqu as he wished, but hit the energy shield.
Xu Lingqu was not so stupid as to stand on the podium unprepared and be killed.
At the same time, a cannonball fired towards the ground where Cheng Xing and the others were. The floor they were on collapsed instantly, and several people fell to the next floor.
The artillery fire was not aimed at their people, but only to make them unable to move.
Cheng Xing gritted his teeth as he climbed up, his face covered in dust. A young blonde girl was holding a gun and looking at them coldly. It wasn't just her; there were several other Moye men behind her, their guns pointed at them, but they didn't fire.
Xu Xizhen wanted to kill them all directly. This group of people actually dared to attack Xu Lingqu, but thinking of his sister's order not to kill them, Xu Xizhen reluctantly endured it.
Outside, Xu Lingqu's preaching continued.
"I can't provide you with air-raid shelters to hide from the Zerg. All I can do is give you weapons." She waved her hand lightly, and more than 10,000 drones, robots and mechanical dogs carrying weapons and equipment suddenly rushed into the crowd.
"I can't be everyone's savior alone, and neither can the one hundred North District soldiers I lead. To truly defeat the apocalypse, everyone needs to take up arms."
One person can’t do it, one hundred people can’t do it, but 270,000 people might be able to do it.
Xu Lingqu will lead this group of ordinary NPCs and 99 Moye students to fight against the impending Zerg.
"Are you kidding me? I'm just an ordinary person. Do you want me to fight those horrible bugs?" Protests were immediately heard from the crowd.
Xu Lingqu remained calm despite being questioned: "When the Zerg are wreaking havoc, they don't care whether you're an ordinary person or not."
She looked at everyone. "I won't force every one of you to take up arms. We still have two and a half hours until the Zerg arrive. Those who feel they can't fight may leave now and find somewhere to hide, but you are not allowed to take your weapons. Your hiding place is not as safe as a bomb shelter, but during the Zerg arrival, we will do our best to protect your lives, at all costs."
As soon as she finished speaking, ordinary people in the audience began to leave one after another. They did not pick up weapons, but instead looked for places to hide.
Tens of thousands of people chose to leave, but even more chose to stay. 210,000 NPCs in this city of hope were willing to take up arms and defend their homes.
"...She's actually going to lead this group of NPCs to fight the Zerg." Professor Zhuang didn't know how many times he'd been shocked by Xu Lingqu's actions in the game. "She... But can this game's mechanism really be defeated?"
"Perhaps we could ask it another way. Is the mechanism truly invincible?" Colonel Ren stared at Xu Lingqu's figure on the podium. "I don't know what Skynet's intention was in creating this game map. Did they want to see Moye and the Qing Army reach a consensus and shake hands in the air-raid shelter? Or did they want to fight for this air-raid shelter? None of this matters now, because Xu Lingqu has provided a solution that goes beyond the designer's ideas..."
"Xu Lingqu is never one to sit back and wait for death. She always takes the initiative, seizing the seeds of victory in her own hands. She treats every opponent this way, and this Saitu system is no exception." Lieutenant Quan's eyes gleamed with excitement. "It's people like this who can inspire a group of people to follow them to the death."
"Yeah, when these ordinary NPCs actually took up arms, I got goosebumps. Doomsday is the doom of all humanity, and to fight against it, all of humanity must fight. And those ten people from the Qing army, Moye actually let them go..." Teacher Chang shook his head. "The difference is immediately apparent, truly, the difference is immediately apparent."
[Fuck, I'm really fired up! If I were an NPC, I'd really be more willing to follow Mo Xie and pick up a weapon to fight to the end.]
[Me too, but my reason is much simpler. As long as Lingqu appears in front of me and asks me to do anything, I will agree to do it, even if it means dying. Sorry, I can't refuse Lingqu at all.]
[She didn't even target Jia Xianglan once. The Qing army even sent people to snipe her, but in the end, she actually let those people go. This is the power of uniting everything that can be united. Oh my god]
I apologize for my previous stereotype of Moye and Xu Lingqu. I always thought Xu Lingqu was the kind of person who would choose destruction without hesitation when faced with the choice between saving and destroying...
[Jia Xianglan wouldn't come out to cause trouble at this time, right? ]
"No, if he jumps out as a clown at this time, wouldn't all his previous performances be in vain?"
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