bookbashuk Chapter 67 The Wisdom of Mortals
Chapter 67 The Wisdom of Mortals
He got it.
Developing super hearing isn't difficult; the challenge lies in how the brain processes the endless stream of information. Otherwise, even if you can hear it, it's just endless gibberish, serving no purpose other than wasting brain cells.
Having figured this out, he leaped from the sky and landed in the crowd in the city.
The crowd initially dispersed, but after realizing that what had fallen from the sky was a human, they gathered back together.
Wang Lu shouted, "Can anyone tell me the time?"
"Oppa! I love you!"
Upon hearing his question, a beautiful young woman dropped the stroller she was holding and rushed over, reaching out to grab Wang Lu's pants.
Wang Lu grabbed her hand: "Now is not the time. I'm in a hurry to save the world."
"ah!!!"
The young woman screamed and shoved her phone into the mountain peak.
"Oppa! I'm too tired. You can look at your phone yourself."
Wang Lu coughed lightly, reached in and found that the texture was wrong.
How can it be fake?
Suddenly, his perspective changed. He saw only the young woman's bones, muscles, heart, and the prosthesis on her face, as well as the surgical scars on her facial bones.
“…………”
He silently withdrew his hand, rubbed it on his clothes with disgust, and removed a layer of putty.
After checking the time on my phone.
boom----
It rose from the ground and soared into the sky.
This flight was very different from the previous ones.
This time, we have super vision!
Even at an altitude of 10,000 meters, Wang Lu could clearly see everything happening on the sea.
After being harassed, the civilian ships near the Tsushima Strait all became quiet. At this time, the sea was calm and there was not even a small sampan in sight.
So he flew down the coastline to the point where the East China Sea meets the Pacific Ocean, near the Miyako Strait.
After negotiating with Chu Xuan, the major power urgently dispatched warships to patrol the nearby waters and prevent merchant ships from heading north.
But as Chu Xuan said, in 1997, a certain major power was practically a roadside outpost. After issuing warnings, those ships completely ignored them.
Coupled with the weak enforcement of the law, Chu Xuan's trip was essentially a waste of time.
When Wang Lufei arrived in the airspace near the Miyako Strait, he saw a large number of ships continuing to sail without any regard for the consequences.
In other words, the Sea of Vengeful Spirits had not yet flooded the Nine Provinces at this time; otherwise, these ships would have been the culprits that plagued humanity.
He didn't bother to persuade him, and simply took out his floating cannon and began to charge it up.
boom----
A massive beam of red light descended from the sky, like divine punishment, instantly shattering a ship that ignored warnings, causing it to slowly sink...
The beam of light was so thick that it could be seen by sailors within a radius of tens of kilometers.
"holy! shit! what is this?!"
A crew member held up binoculars and looked in the direction from which the beam of light fell. He saw that where there had been one ship, there were now two ships.
Each of the two ships has half of it.
"Holy shit!"
He quickly raised the binoculars again, looked up, and saw a huge beam of light falling directly onto his head.
boom----
Another ship has been destroyed.
boom----
The fully powered floating cannons consume a tremendous amount of telekinetic energy; a single shot can deplete one-fifth of their energy. However, Wang Lu replenishes his energy incredibly quickly; a ray of sunshine instantly restores his full power.
As a result, red beams of light appeared almost every second, and any that were within visual range were sunk by a single floating cannon shot.
Some boats didn't actually intend to break through the checkpoint; they just followed the lead and tried to take advantage of the chaos. But Wang Lu didn't care about that; he would shoot anyone he saw.
If you can't see it, chase after it and hit it.
He flew around the coastline, and whenever he saw a ship heading towards Japan, even if the ship was hundreds of kilometers away, he would still destroy it without hesitation.
Boom boom boom—
The bombing lasted for several hours, so much so that news from all over the world was reporting the same thing, and even ships in the Atlantic Ocean stopped in their tracks, afraid to move. Only then did Wang Lu fly back to the island where Chu Xuan and the others were, to reunite with his teammates.
When he landed gracefully, Chu Xuan had already explained the situation to everyone.
"Captain, what's the situation outside? Where have the vengeful spirits spread to?" Zhan Lan asked anxiously.
Wang Ludao said: "When I landed, the vengeful spirits had already spread to the Kyoto area, and the Japanese finally realized what was happening and began to flee. When I returned, I saw many planes carrying refugees."
Wang Lu didn't care about these planes; as long as there were no vengeful spirits haunting the planes, he would let them escape.
Hearing his words, Chu Xuan asked, "What about the time? How long has it been since we left?"
Wang Lu: "Less than a day."
Everyone was startled.
"So fast. From the moment Kayako was killed until her vengeful spirit spread throughout Japan, it wasn't even three days! This..."
"Damn it, hundreds of millions of people, and it's that easy..." Zheng Zha felt a chill run down his spine.
"We absolutely cannot let the vengeful spirits cross the ocean, or humanity in this world will be doomed," Zhan Lan asked anxiously.
Wang Lu nodded and said, "We bombed a lot of ships just now, so there shouldn't be any ships daring to approach Japan at sea now."
"That's good. At least the vengeful spirit is under control and won't spill over to other places."
Just as Zhan Lan breathed a sigh of relief, Chu Xuan ruthlessly rejected her:
"Don't forget, Kayako can be resurrected. After her resurrection, will she continue to grow stronger by devouring other vengeful spirits, thus developing new abilities?"
"By then, will the sea still be able to stop her?"
Everyone recalled the scene of Kayako devouring souls upon their return, and a shadow fell over their hearts, but Chu Xuan had not yet finished speaking.
"After killing humans, will the vengeful spirits stop? Will they devour each other and evolve into even more dangerous beings, capable of crossing oceans?"
"So, according to you, isn't this world destined to end?" Zheng Zha asked.
"Based on the information we have so far, that is indeed the case," Chu Xuan said calmly.
“…………”
This guy made a definitive statement, leaving everyone else speechless.
The crowd exchanged bewildered glances and then looked at Wang Lu.
"Captain, what should we do now?"
"Is that even a question? Of course, it's about saving the world. If we succeed, we should at least get an S-rank side quest, right?" Wang Lu said.
"Are we going to kill all the vengeful spirits? There are over a hundred million. Even if we work ourselves to death, we still can't kill them all, right?" Zheng Zha asked.
Wang Lu shook his head:
"The most urgent task is not how to kill the vengeful spirits, but how to stop the people on the island from escaping. Airplanes are fine, but if it's a ship, it could easily become a series of stepping stones, allowing the vengeful spirits to reach the mainland by ship."
"Although I've prevented outside ships from getting close, the real crisis has only just begun."
Everyone felt a chill run down their spines once again.
"What should we do now?"
Chu Xuan: "Relying on just a few of us, we'll probably be exhausted to death on the beach. The most urgent task is to negotiate with other major powers, especially the United States, and use the military to stop the vengeful spirits from spreading."
As they were talking, the radio received a signal from a major power.
After translating the signal into ciphertext, Chu Xuan said:
"We just received news that the Americans are putting pressure on us to explain our indiscriminate bombing of civilian ships."
"Explanation... how do you think we should explain it?" Wang Lu asked with a smile.
Chu Xuan thought for a moment: "Given the Americans' style, some gold will suffice. I also have some high-tech data that I can hand over to them; these things are useless to us anyway."
Wang Lu looked at Chu Xuan with a smile and said, "I don't believe that's your true thought."
Chu Xuan's glasses flashed, and he asked curiously, "Oh? So, based on your understanding of me, what should my true thoughts be?"
"What you're really thinking is that I should punch an American to death and then leave all the high-tech data to some superpower."
Chu Xuan said calmly, "It sounds like something only an angry young man would do, but unfortunately, I'm not. That was my true thought just now, and it seems your intelligence was wrong."
Wang Lu chuckled and shook his head: "My intelligence is infallible; it's your judgment that's wrong. Even an artificial human born evil, like an ordinary person, can mistake a rational and correct judgment for their own inner desires."
The pursuit of correctness, or rather, the pursuit of conformity, has overshadowed the pursuit of authenticity; even a genius like Chu Xuan is not immune to this.