bookbashuk Chapter 206 Nuclear Bomb Unharmed, Martial Arts Path Ahead
Chapter 206 Nuclear Bomb Unharmed, Martial Arts Path Ahead
Chapter 206 Nuclear Bomb Unharmed, Martial Arts Path Ahead
Cao Yi left, taking with him the thirty-odd "Ape Fang" special forces soldiers.
As they walked, their steps were unsteady, and their usually upright backs were now slightly bent.
Their eyes were dazed, and the crossbows in their hands hung limply at their sides, as if they didn't even have the strength to hold them. Only in their eyes, looking at Wang Chao, was there still a lingering sense of bewilderment and fear after their worldviews had been shattered.
Liu Mubai, a physical education instructor from the elite special forces unit "Sharp Sword," remained expressionless as he drove the unit's light off-road vehicle at top speed to another similar campsite in the suburbs.
After the car stopped, Liu Mubai took three steps at a time and walked to the front of a dormitory building. He went directly to a courtyard behind the first floor and knocked on a door.
"Liu Mubai? You've come all the way from the Sharp Sword Camp to see me? What's going on? Did you lose a duel and want to spar with me?"
The door opened, and a voice as delicate as a nightingale's song came from inside—it was a woman's voice!
The room was dark, with no lights on, but there were muffled, crackling sounds like rain, more than twenty per second, making the air tremble.
A woman dressed in loose, white gauze clothing is striking a bronze statue.
Although it was pitch black and dimly lit, Liu Mubai seemed very familiar with the room and casually sat down on the sofa.
"You really have plenty of free time, still practicing your skills here. The whole organization is in an uproar, don't you know?"
"The entire Fang Army was defeated, and Wu Wenhui was even captured alive, and you still know nothing about it," Liu Mubai said casually when he saw the woman.
"A whole fang was defeated by one person bare-handed? Liu Mubai, are you kidding me? Was your opponent Zhang Sanfeng?"
The woman didn't believe it at all and laughed casually.
"Yan Yuanyi, it's true, I'm not lying to you, and the entire Fang Clan was fully armed at the time," Liu Mubai said again.
"What? You're telling the truth?"
The woman named Yan Yuanyi sensed the seriousness in Liu Mubai's words and was slightly taken aback: "How is that possible? Although the Fang Unit has lost its instructors, it is still one of the three elite special forces units. It is not a problem for them to defeat thousands of people on the battlefield."
"Being defeated bare-handed, and even having one's commander captured alive? Even if the opponent were a resurrected Zhang Sanfeng or a living Shakyamuni, it would be impossible."
"The opponent is Wang Chao, the one Wu Wenhui trained himself. We originally wanted him to be the instructor for Ape Fang." Liu Mubai smiled insincerely, took out a stack of documents from his briefcase, and slammed them on the coffee table.
"Look for yourself, all thirty-odd fanged soldiers who came back said the same thing."
"Impossible!" Yan Yuanyi said decisively, "Is it that brat that Black Belt magazine is hyping up?"
"He's no little kid. I've seen those thirty-odd fanged warriors, and almost every single one of them was terrified," Liu Mubai remarked.
Yan Yuanyi turned on the light, and with a swish, the light illuminated her body and face.
This woman looked very young, with beautifully drawn eyebrows, flawless skin, and a graceful figure; she was probably only twenty-three or twenty-four.
But his tone was mature and composed, which was obviously due to his age, though his appearance was not quite right.
Yan Yuanyi didn't say anything more, just stared at the text on the document.
"So Wu Wenhui actually went to capture Tang Zichen."
"That brat Wang Chao is actually Tang Zichen's disciple?"
Upon seeing this, Yan Yuanyi raised an eyebrow and looked at Liu Mubai.
"So what's the decision from above? Are they going to rescue Wu Wenhui? Or are they going to negotiate?"
"The higher-ups haven't decided yet whether to rescue Wu Wenhui or negotiate," Liu Mubai's voice deepened. "But—the people of City C have already begun to evacuate."
Yan Yuanyi paused, a hint of seriousness flashing in his eyes: "It seems to be more serious than I thought."
She could also understand the problem.
Although Wang Chao demonstrated tremendous value.
But a truly extraordinary being appears in reality, unrestrained and disregarding authority.
No one in a position of power would want to see this happen, nor would they allow someone like Wang Chao to appear in City C.
After Wang Chao crippled Wu Wenhui's old dog, life was surprisingly peaceful, and more than a week passed in the blink of an eye.
During these days, Wang Chao didn't see a single person.
No heavily armed soldiers came to rescue Wu Wenhui, no missile launchers drove to the villa, and not even a reconnaissance helicopter appeared in the sky.
It's as if the fact that a general with real power over a military region is facing a life-threatening crisis doesn't exist.
But Wang Chao knew that this was just the calm before the storm.
Just one day later, all the shops along the street suddenly pulled up their roller shutters, and the windows were covered with "Temporarily Closed" signs.
Then, the residential buildings around the villa became lively as police knocked on doors one by one, their tone urgent yet restrained, guiding residents to evacuate out of the city.
In just one week, the entire city seemed to have been "cleared out".
There were no pedestrians on the streets, no human voices in the neighborhoods, and even the park benches were covered in a thin layer of dust. Only the organization's astonishing mobilization ability remained, leaving silent traces in the ghost town. Even the traffic flow of various vehicles and the highways were closed. There were no vehicles on the streets now.
Huo Ling'er, Han Xiaoqing, and Cao Jingjing had already been picked up by their families a few days earlier.
Wang Chao did not stop him from doing so.
More than ten days passed, and in the vast city, only three people remained.
On the twelfth day, negotiators finally arrived.
It's still Cao Yi.
He looked at Wu Wenhui, who had been beaten and chained up at the door like a dog, and couldn't help but wipe away his sweat. His voice trembled as he spoke:
"Wang Chao, the leader, has been dismissed from his post after the organization has determined that Wu Wenhui's handling of the matter was inappropriate."
"Moreover, as compensation, we are preparing to promote you to lieutenant general. All you need to do is release Wu Wenhui and let the organization try him. You must not act impulsively."
"Cao Yi, stop spouting nonsense." Hearing this, Wang Chao said calmly:
"If what you're saying is true, then what are those various nuclear warheads that are ready to be launched 30 kilometers away?"
"Are those fireworks meant to congratulate me?"
Hearing these seemingly joking words, Cao Yi instantly broke out in a cold sweat.
What a joke! The launch sites are 30 kilometers apart, and their movements are completely concealed.
But Wang Chao, without leaving his house, was able to sense everything clearly!
Is this really a person?!
Cao Yi's face instantly turned pale, his fingers trembled like leaves, and he frantically pressed the walkie-talkie button, his voice cracking: "We've been exposed!"
Launch immediately! Launch now!
The next second, a dozen small black dots shot out from the distant clouds, trailing grayish-white plumes of smoke.
The speed was astonishing, approaching ten times the speed of sound, and it covered several miles in the blink of an eye. Its tail flames scorched the air, and even the ground in the distance could feel a faint tremor.
"Wang Chao! You beast!"
Seeing the black dot flying in from afar, Wu Wenhui, who was tied up, suddenly burst into laughter, his laughter hoarse.
"This is the power of a nation! No matter how strong you are in a fight, you're just an ant in front of a nation!"
He seemed to already see Wang Chao's death, his eyes filled with madness: "So what if you're extraordinary? In the end, you'll still have to be buried with me!"
Wang Chao didn't even look at him, his eyes completely expressionless: "Death? You overestimate yourself."
"You will indeed die, but not now. Two days from now, I will drag you in front of your backers and skin you alive, bit by bit."
As soon as Wang Chao finished speaking, the conversation lasted only eight or nine seconds, and the dozen or so missiles had already crossed a distance of thirty kilometers and arrived right in front of him!
The most powerful weapon on this planet is capable of destroying a human!
What an extravagant act!
Everyone present watched the nuclear bomb approach as if they were welcoming their final death.
Apart from Tang Zichen.
She never imagined that the country would go to such lengths to kill Wang Chao.
But Tang Zichen remained calm inside.
Even when a missile, larger than the entire villa, flew right in front of her, she didn't sense the slightest hint of death.
Could it be that we are blind and deaf, and the principle of sincerity has failed?
This is of course impossible.
She watched silently as the missile approached.
The next moment, everyone's eyes widened.
Just before the entire villa seemed to be reduced to ashes, the missile seemed to crash into an invisible barrier!
"BOOM!!!"
A deafening roar erupted, followed by a deathly silence. The light at the center was so bright it could pierce the retina, a thousand times, even ten thousand times, brighter than the midday sun!
Before Cao Yi and Wu Wenhui could even finish their screams, the intense light burned their eyes, and tears streamed down their faces.
The core temperature of a nuclear warhead explodes at tens of millions of degrees, and scorching flames shoot into the sky, turning the sky blood red.
At the epicenter of the explosion, all the ground structures outside the villa, whether steel, trees, or rocks, were instantly vaporized, and shockwaves exceeding ten times the speed of sound swept outwards!
In the distance, reinforced concrete buildings were torn apart and shattered like paper, with broken beams and rubble flying everywhere.
The sound that had been tearing the heavens and earth apart vanished instantly, and everything was pushed into a vacuum by the powerful shockwave.
The ground shook violently, and the ground within a ten-kilometer radius sank dramatically. The center of the crater, created by the nuclear bomb, was a giant crater hundreds of meters in diameter, and the rocks at the bottom of the crater were melted into a glassy state.
A mushroom cloud rose from the ground, soaring into the sky. Black smoke and dust blotted out the sun, leaving only a blinding red light and a teeth-grinding roar in the world.
It seemed like only a dozen seconds had passed, yet it also seemed like countless hours had gone by.
The world seemed to fall silent.
Cao Yi opened his eyes, but could barely see anything in front of him.
But he could see that he, Wang Chao, and the entire villa behind them were all safe and sound.
It was as if nothing had happened.
Looking into the distance, all that could be seen outside the entire villa was a bottomless pit hundreds of meters wide, like a living hell, but the area around Wang Chao's villa remained calm and peaceful.
Seeing the stark contrast between heaven and hell, he collapsed to the ground, his face ashen.
"How is this possible?!"
Cao Yi couldn't believe it at all.
It should be noted that each of the dozen or so nuclear warheads launched this time has a yield far exceeding that of "Little Boy" by ten times, and together they are enough to level half a city.
Cao Yi was even prepared to die for his country, but the scene before him completely shattered his understanding.
"Wang Chao—even a nuclear bomb—even a nuclear bomb couldn't kill him?! They couldn't even get close to him?"
Cao Yi's eyeballs were almost bulging out of their sockets. His hands were digging into the rubble beneath him, his knuckles turning white. He made a suppressed sound in his throat.
He had considered Wang Chao's formidable strength, even to the point that the military had resorted to nuclear weapons.
Because Wang Chao seemed to possess the power to control people's minds, no one was willing to use ordinary people to kill him.
This isn't even suicide; it's actually strengthening the enemy, making it completely pointless.
The best solution is to eliminate him using a force that Wang Chao cannot handle!
The military had also conducted countless simulations of nuclear bombardment.
The worst-case scenario is that Wang Chao will sense the missile and immediately evacuate, running out of the nuclear bomb's impact center within ten seconds, at most absorbing some of the shockwave's aftershocks.
Therefore, the military even increased the yield of the nuclear bomb. Even so, just being exposed to the aftershocks should have resulted in serious injury or even death on the spot.
This is all within the scope of our understanding.
After all, even the strongest warrior cannot escape the ultimate killing blow of firearms; this is common sense ingrained in everyone's bones.
But what is the reality?
Wang Chao stood still, not moving an inch!
Even the villa behind him was completely intact, without a single tile or pane of glass broken!
Those nuclear bombs that could easily level ten kilometers away didn't even touch the outer wall of the villa; they were all reduced to dust outside the invisible barrier!
Looking at the devastated City C, Cao Yi felt as if an invisible hand was tightening around his heart, making even breathing painful.
He couldn't help but think wildly: if someone could withstand a nuclear bomb and be completely unharmed by it, was there anything he couldn't do?
"For someone like Wang Chao, what difference does destroying a country make from stepping on an ant?"
On this planet, he is no longer a "human"; he can almost be called an omnipotent god!
Wu Wenhui could no longer laugh.
His mouth was agape enough to fit a fist, and his pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints.
"Impossible—this is absolutely impossible! You must have used an illusion! You must have!"
Wang Chao looked down at Cao Yi, who was slumped on the ground, trembling all over.
Cao Yi shakily raised his head, looked at Wang Chao, and stammered, unable to utter a complete sentence: "You—you are—what kind of monster?"
His worldview completely collapsed.
How could a life form that even humanity's ultimate weapons cannot subdue actually exist in reality? Such a being should not even be possible on Earth!
Tang Zichen also stepped out at this moment, and even with her spiritual level, she felt it was incredible and her heart was filled with shock.
For Tang Zichen, no matter how strong he became in martial arts, he could never be on equal footing with the nation.
That's why she established the Tang Clan, trained her own army, and even wanted to develop nuclear weapons.
But at this moment, seeing that even the ultimate weapon of mankind, the nuclear bomb, was like a bubble to Wang Chao and could do nothing to her younger brother, she was also deeply shocked.
"Martial arts training... can it really reach this level?!"
The path of martial arts seemed to be unfolding before Tang Zichen at this moment.