“Country Lord, there may be something else going on with this matter.”
“This country, Yan Xia, would never do anything for no reason.”
“Among them, there must be a reason.”
“Laser weapons are complicated to build, especially high power laser weapons, which are even more difficult to build.”
“And the Yan Xia Country, in such a short period of time, has built so many laser weapons.”
“I reckon that they had prepared for this earlier.”
In the middle of the grand hall, the State Council Advisor speculated.
The Rice State Lord was shocked at his words, “Are you saying that the Yan Xia side, has long anticipated today’s ending, so, they had planned ahead?”
“But how could this be possible, that Giant Formation was constructed under the auspices of the Yan Xia people, and the ones who screamed the loudest and believed the Giant Formation could win in the first place were also the Yan Xia people.”
“How could it be possible that they would, early on, make preparations for today’s defeat?”
The Mi Kingdom Lord was somewhat incredulous.
The events of that year were fresh in his mind.
At that time, the entire globe was preparing for the Doomsday Survival Plan.
They, the Mi Country, had even built a large number of spaceships just in preparation for when the World Tree erupted, sending their Mi Country elites towards a safe place outside of Earth.
But then, the appearance of the Giant Formation changed the winds.
The act of building spaceships was characterised as escapism, and everyone was punished.
So much so, that all the doomsday spaceships they had built at great expense to Rice were blown up.
At that time, all of humanity did not think that the Giant Formation would fail.
Therefore, he was naturally shocked to hear that Yan Xia might have saved for a rainy day in advance.
And at this time, another intelligence officer came to report.
“State Lord, our country’s detection satellites have discovered that a large number of spaceships have unexpectedly appeared at Yan Xia’s aircraft launch base.”
“There are about thousands of them!”
“And, they are being fuelled.”
“It seems that a launch flight is about to take place in the near future!”
What?
This intelligence made the Mi Country Lord even more confused.
They actually still had airships?
They surprisingly didn’t blow it up!
They really left a way out?
“Son of a bitch! Son of a bitch!”
“Those bastards of Yan Xia, they let us destroy our own back roads and blow up the escape ships.”
“But they secretly built thousands of them themselves!”
“We’ve been tricked.”
“All the countries around the globe, have been tricked by Yan Xia!”
The Mi Country Lord was furious to the extreme.
He had never thought to death that all the countries around the globe had been tricked by Yan Xia.
They had the rest of the countries, breaking their backs to fight the World Tree.
They themselves, on the other hand, were surreptitiously building weapons, developing spaceships, and preparing to flee for their lives.
This group of damned Orientals!
“Bomb!”
“Blow up Yan Xia’s airship for me!”
“We can’t run away, and neither can the Yan Xia people!”
In the hall, the angry roar of the Mi Kingdom Lord was heard.
However, this could not actually be blamed on the Yan Xia officials.
After all, all of this scheming was secretly prepared by Zhang Nanhai, hiding it from everyone.
Whether it was the laser weapon, or the escape craft.
It was all planned by Zhang Nanhai.
The staff, too, had all signed confidentiality agreements and were branded with Zhang Nanhai’s spirit.
Therefore, outsiders didn’t know at all.
Yan Xia officials didn’t know, didn’t know clearly, and naturally couldn’t talk about deception.
As for the ordinary people of Yan Xia, naturally, they knew even less.
Otherwise, given the situation at that time, letting others know that Zhang Nanhai was silently preparing for failure and running away, he would inevitably lose his reputation, and these things, too, would be blown up and difficult to preserve.
Of course, the Mi State Lord didn’t really blow up those spaceships.
It is just a threat, as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the Yan Xia side!
After all, nowadays, all the countries in the world, can in a short period of time, a large number of spaceships, there is only one Yan Xia.
If these are blown up, then the human race at that time, there is really no way to run.
Therefore, the United States directly negotiated with Yan Xia.
Hope that Yan Xia, can be divided out part of the airship, to the rice country, used in times of crisis, to transfer the elite of the rice country.
At first, Yan Xia naturally disagreed.
However, the Rice side was too despicable.
If they didn’t agree, they would make this matter public.
At that time, not only the Rice side, but all the countries of the world would be on a crusade against the Yan Xia side, believing that the Yan Xia side had deceived them.
This was something that was difficult to defend.
Unable to do so.
The Yan Xia side, only had to let go.
Although it didn’t hand over the spaceship to the Mi Country, it gave the Mi Country side some places.
When the end came, they could get on the spaceship and escape to outer space.
Actually, thinking about it, at times like this, the country, the nation, actually didn’t matter anymore.
After leaving the Earth, they would all be Earthlings, homeless wanderers.
It’s pointless to make such a clear distinction.
What they did was only for the sake of preserving human civilisation.
Just like this, in the next period of time, Yan Xia’s side was building the fortress city with great vigour.
The infrastructural maniacs were frantically working hard, and endless high walls were constantly rising up.
A laser cannon was also erected on top of the high walls.
Of course, Yan Xia was not alone.
They had told the other countries about the World Tree’s fear of lasers as well.
So, the rest of the countries, too, began to follow Yan Xia’s example and started building fortress cities as well.
The big countries, pouring in all their national strength, also began to be able to build some laser weapons and transform a million or ten million level fortress city in a short period of time.
When the small countries did not have enough national strength, multiple countries joined together to warm up.
And the World Tree was exceptionally calm during this period of time.
It seemed to be resting.
It was set up in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, not moving a bit.
This state of affairs lasted for half a year.
During this half a year, fortress cities sprang up, scattered all over the globe.
Among them, there were a total of nine fortress cities above the million level.
The largest, when it came to the one built by Yan Xia, accommodated 100 million people, and was named Nanhai City!
Yes, this fortress city was named after Zhang Nanhai’s city.
As for the other fortress cities, the largest one, only held ten million people.
Other than these large fortress cities, there were those thousands of human gathering points scattered all over the place.
After all, there was a considerable portion that didn’t believe that fortress cities could resist the World Tree.
They would rather live outside in the diaspora, rather than burrowing into the fortress cities and being wiped out by the World Tree in one fell swoop.
These changes around the globe, the God of War and the others, who were far away in the Indian country, naturally looked at them as well.
They were severely injured, and even with Duanmu Wan’er’s as well as Yue Yao’s and the girls’ divine healing techniques, they were only lingering on, having long since lost the might they had back in the day.
Therefore, even though they were alive, they did not return to their respective countries.
Rather, they watched from afar.
They were the losers, and the current ones, they were truly not qualified, to command their own countries anymore.
They could only look forward now, and now the Fortress City Plan, could be somewhat useful.
As for Ye Fan, between these half a year, he had not shown up again.
After he entered the secret realm, he was nowhere to be found.
This is good!
He was in the secret realm and had a good rest and cultivation.
The God of War, Aaron and the others all hoped that Ye Fan would come up with a better solution.
In this way, the human world spent the last half year in peace.
After half a year, the end came!
In the Pacific Ocean, the World Tree, which had been resting for more than half a year, completely awakened!
The fangs of the God of Death, once again, reached out to the life on Earth.
Only, this time, there was no more giant shelter.
Humans, can only fight against the World Tree with the weapons of the secular world!
Who knows, this time, what kind of ending will there be?
After the World Tree awoke in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, it quickly approached East Asia.
The World Tree had its own spiritual sense.
He could sense where it was filled with a large amount of qi and blood vitality.
The first thing he sensed after waking up was that there was an area thousands of kilometres away from him where a large amount of life had gathered.
It was going to kill them all completely just like last time!
Of course, after the lesson from last time, the World Tree was a bit more cautious this time.
It wouldn’t be as reckless as it was before.
Because, the World Tree also realised that on this planet, there were still forces that could threaten him to a certain extent!
Especially that giant, as well as the sword that slashed down, and the giant dragon that the Thunder Forge had transformed into.
Although these weren’t enough to threaten its life, they could already pose some threat to it.
It seemed that this planet was not all bugs that could be slaughtered by him.
Moreover, after having this lesson, the World Tree was somewhat sceptical if there was an unknown force that existed other than that giant.
On the other hand.
All the countries around the globe had undoubtedly sensed the awakening of the World Tree.
At this moment, the heads and people of the countries were all paying attention to the movements of the World Tree.
Because, at this moment, the World Tree was heading towards the fortress city established by the Yan Xia side, the Southern City.
In these half a year, the craze for fortress cities had risen globally.
However, as of yet, there was no consensus amongst the people as to whether or not this trend brought up by Yan Xia had any effect.
And now, it was undoubtedly the time for this idea to be put to the test.
At this time, the World Tree was getting closer and closer to the South Sea Bastion City.
The eyes of the globe, all converged here.
In the South Sea City, Lu Tianhe, as well as the top management of Yan Xia, gathered in a closed basement.
They were solemn and expressionless.
Just like a group of teachers, they were waiting for the students they had personally coached to go through a big test!
This was a test that determined life and death!
This is a test that determines survival or destruction.
To be able to survive like this, it meant that Zhang Nanhai’s theory was tenable.
Then they, the human race, would still be able to survive for a while, waiting for a miracle to come.
But if they couldn’t, then it was estimated that Yan Xia, as well as the human race, would be destroyed today.
The World Tree that had rested for more than half a year, no one doubted that this awakening must be for the purpose of slaughtering all humans!
Finally!
As the World Tree landed, a large amount of seawater flowed down along its branches.
Thousands and thousands of tonnes of seawater, like pouring water, fell from the sky.
Like monsters landing on the coast.
Then, the World Tree flew thousands of miles at an unusually terrifying speed, violently rushing towards the Southern City where humans gathered.
“Warning, warning, target approaching 30,000 metres!”
“Twenty thousand metres!”….
“Fifteen thousand metres!”
….
“Warning, target approaching three thousand metres, in range!”
….
In the command room, the red alarm light flashed frantically.
Emotionless machine tones couldn’t stop coming out.
Finally, after smashing into range, Lu Tianhe immediately ordered.
Laser cannons, gather and attack!
Whoosh…
As Lu Tianhe’s order fell, the lasers, like a sharp sword, cut through the long sky and stabbed fiercely towards the World Tree.
However, it was different from swords.
Swords couldn’t attack a point.
But light can!
Those millions of light particles, although came from all directions.
But now, under the setting of the programme, they all attacked the same point of the World Tree.
The high-temperature, scorching particle streams almost burned space to nothingness.
Just like that, before the World Tree could react in time, it ruthlessly shot into the World Tree’s branches and leaves!
“Hit!”
“Shot!”
In the command room, a burst of cheers erupted.
But Lu Tianhe was calm.
The fastest thing in this world was the speed of light.
Therefore, as long as the laser cannon had locked onto the target, once the laser was fired, it would be impossible for the World Tree to avoid it.
No matter how fast he was, he would never be faster than the speed of light.
Therefore, being hit by the laser was almost a foregone conclusion.
There was nothing to be surprised about.
What Lu Tianhe was concerned about now was whether these attacks could hurt the World Tree or not!
And just as Lu Tianhe was worried.
The countless laser beams had already converged to a point.
All of them shot at the leaves of the World Tree.
However, to everyone’s despair, the beams didn’t penetrate the leaves of the World Tree, but were actually blocked.
Like a black cloth, it blocked the sunlight.
“This…This…”
“How is this possible?”
Many people instantly despaired.
All the people from countries around the globe who were paying attention to the battle here were also wowed in their hearts.
This result was by no means what they wanted.
Could it be that it was going to fail again?
Just like last time, the Giant Formation.
Humanity, was it going to be another defeat in front of the World Tree?
However, Lu Tianhe did not give up.
At a time when many people were despairing, his eyes, were still staring dead on.
It wasn’t over yet!
He didn’t believe that the back way that Mr Zhang Nanhai had left behind for them humans was useless.
Therefore, until the last moment, Zhang Nanhai would never give up.
With determination, he asked the staff, to increase the power of the laser beam to the maximum.
Although this would exhaust the energy in an instant.
However, it was already too late to care about that.
Even if it was exhausted, it was still much better than being useless.
Just like that, with Lu Tianhe’s desperate attempt.
Everyone then saw that those laser beams, surprisingly, really penetrated the leaves of the World Tree!
And after that, it hit the earth below.
The leaf that had been penetrated slowly fell down like a kite with broken strings.
The World Tree stopped.
The pace of his forward rush ended there.
There was no more, not the slightest bit forward.
Perhaps, he was also in shock.
After such a long time, his leaves, for the first time, were pierced through.
Even though that giant last time, although it had delayed his attack, it still hadn’t pierced through even one of his fallen leaves.
And now, his defence, for the first time, was pierced through.
Although it was only a single leaf.
Although there were countless leaves on his body.
However, he didn’t know if these humans, had any stronger attacks.
Or, would an attack like the one just now, be strengthened again?
Anyway, after seeing his leaves being pierced through, the World Tree stopped moving forward.
After stagnating for a moment, it even directly turned around, heading in two directions, and disappeared.
Nanhai City.
At this moment, there was silence.
Even after seeing the leaves of the World Tree being pierced through, and seeing the World Tree turn around and leave in a grey direction, the entire city, was dead silent.
No one knew how long it had been before a burst of rejoicing erupted.
Success!
They succeeded!
They, the humans, for the first time, had relied on the power of the secular world to withstand the attack of the World Tree.
This was something inspiring.
It was even more significant.
Humans across the globe, were thrown into a frenzy.
“General Lu, congratulations, you’ve succeeded.”
“You are the hero of the world.””You have shown humanity, the feasibility of another path.””It’s you, who once again gave mankind, hope.”
“You are humanity’s, saviour.”
The Yan Xia Kingdom Lord came to congratulate him.
Lu Tianhe, however, was not happy in the slightest.
After the World Tree left, he slumped helplessly in his chair.
Sweat was pouring from his forehead as he panted heavily.
Just now, although it was only a few short seconds, to Lu Tianhe, it was as long as a century.
Because, what he was carrying, was the hope and life and death of all mankind!
Of course, saying this might be a bit too much.
If the inheritance really succeeded, it didn’t mean that, mankind would survive.
But at least, it survived this time, didn’t it?
It was this huge psychological burden that overwhelmed Lu Tianhe.
As if he was deflated, he lay there, panting heavily.
Only after a long time did Lu Tianhe calm down.
In the face of the bragging of the State Lord and the others, Lu Tianhe was shaking his head, “State Lord, you are too optimistic.”
“According to Mr Zhang Nanhai’s projection, after we, Yan Xia, block the World Tree’s attack, the next thing that will happen is the real life and death.”
The State Lord and the others froze at the words.
The smiles on their faces dispersed.
“This…This can’t be right?”
“It’s wrong, isn’t it?”
“We didn’t manage to block the World Tree’s attack and injure it.”
“This is a good thing, how can you say that it’s the beginning of the end of life?”
The State Lord was puzzled.
The rest of them were also puzzled.
But Lu Tianhe didn’t speak anymore.
Even more so, he didn’t explain.
He just looked at the radar, on which the point of light representing the World Tree was frantically moving away.
“Wait and see.”
Lu Tianhe said quietly, and his words were filled with inexplicable sadness.
He knew that tragedy was about to happen, but he couldn’t do anything about it.
That kind of helplessness and hopelessness was incredibly sad.