Chapter 243
Chapter 243
Night arrived in the blink of an eye, and Zhang Bei opened the link Heizi had sent him.
The first thing he saw was dozens of Cannon units lined up neatly along the edge of the Island.
“Oh? The fighting started today?”
Song Xin’s voice was filled with resignation.
“If you’re really that bored, you can come help me.”
“Forget it. This is pure suppressive fire. Even if I went, I’d just be watching the show.”
“All right, pay attention and learn. You won’t get many chances to study a battle like this.”
“Got it!”
Out at sea, two fleets faced each other across the water.
A man seated on the deck stared at the blinking red dots on the radar and curled his lip.
“We came here to fight, but they won’t even let us open fire. This is damn frustrating!”
“Captain, are we really just going to sit here and watch?”
“Don’t worry. The Island isn’t as simple as it looks.”
Before long, over a hundred people dressed as mercenaries successfully landed in a secluded corner of the Island.
As far as they were concerned, it was probably just a small island with some firepower stationed on it.
Only a very small number of people knew that surveillance covered the Island without a single blind spot.
Song Xin watched the feed until no one else emerged from the sea, and a strange sense of exhilaration welled up inside him.
This wasn’t like his special forces days, when every firefight had to be fought on a shoestring and every round of ammunition had to be conserved.
“Let’s test that Targeting Electromagnetic Cannon. Alternate direct fire, two volleys!”
“Yes, sir!”
Crisp acknowledgments immediately sounded through his earpiece.
In an open area on the Island, Cha Bing rubbed his hands together. “Everyone, it wasn’t easy getting our hands on this thing. Let’s get moving!”
The Targeting Electromagnetic Cannon looked more like an oversized mortar.
It appeared crude, but each one cost over five hundred thousand to build.
After all, it was only an experimental prototype produced by the Laboratory.
Several team members quickly adjusted the angle, then dropped a black sphere into the barrel.
Excitement flashed in Cha Bing’s eyes as he pressed the switch.
Blue electricity crackled across the entire Cannon, and the black sphere shot into the sky in the blink of an eye.
Several team members crowded around their Captain and stared at the feed on his tablet.
The screen was split in two. One half displayed the projectile’s flight path, while the other showed the hundred-man team cautiously feeling its way forward.
The projectile soared high into the air and abruptly changed shape.
Its black spherical casing fell away, revealing an enormous lotus spinning rapidly beneath it.
Only seconds later, the lotus trailed pale blue flames as it slammed into the hundred-man team.
On the other half of the screen, pale blue light engulfed everything within a three-hundred-meter radius.
Forget the hundred-man team-even the ground had been melted into a deep crater.
Song Xin was extremely satisfied with the result.
When you’re poor, you rely on precision strikes. When you’re rich, you blanket the area with firepower.-Shuren Xun Zhou.
“Electromagnetic Cannon, target the enemy submarine zone! Rapid fire for two minutes!”
“Anti-aircraft guns, acquire the enemy aircraft! Rapid fire for two minutes!”
“Ground combat team, proceed to the paratroopers’ position and launch an assault with man-portable electromagnetic weapons!”
The three orders came one after another, and activity erupted across the Island.
Out at sea, the Commanding Officer of our fleet stared at the satellite feed, his eyes brimming with envy.
Damn, that looked satisfying!
Hell, I haven’t even gotten to see what an Electromagnetic Cannon looks like up close!
The people aboard the opposing fleet also felt a powerful jolt.
For them, however, it was the agonizing kind.
That had been over a hundred people!
And just like that, they were gone?
Just as they began wondering whether they should retreat, the sky seemed to be blanketed in blue electric light.
Countless Electromagnetic Cannon rounds rained down over the area where the submarines were hiding.
A colossal plume of water erupted into the air as countless shards of metal went flying in every direction.
Lying in bed, Zhang Bei watched the real-life blockbuster unfold and sighed.
What an environmental disaster!
The battle had been far easier than expected. Under a saturation barrage of electromagnetic weapons, the attackers’ equipment never stood a chance.
Barely ten minutes later, the Island had already begun clearing the battlefield.
Zhang Bei rubbed his chin as he watched a massive pile of submarine wreckage being dredged out of the sea.
This junk was completely useless to him.
If he ever wanted to venture beneath the ocean, he could simply pull far more reliable technology from the System.
Still, this thing was the culmination of all kinds of cutting-edge technology.
After mulling it over, Zhang Bei called Professor Li directly.
“Old Li, want a watered-down submarine?”
“Our country’s submarine technology is among the best in the world. Why would we want some watered-down junk?”
“If you don’t want it, I’ll sell it for scrap. This thing is polluting the Island.”
The two keywords, “submarine” and “the Island,” made Professor Li’s eyes widen in realization.
“What exactly do you mean by ‘watered-down’?”
“It’s taken on water, obviously. What else am I supposed to call a submarine full of water?”
Seated in his chair at the Laboratory, Professor Li took several deep breaths in a row.
“I’ll take it!”
There was no way to keep news of Nuclear Fusion completely under wraps, and Professor Li was well aware that the Island was about to be attacked.
He had even worked out several contingency plans with a few other old fellows.
The submarine that had attacked the Island?
It might not have represented the very pinnacle of submarine engineering, but the technology inside was still enough to make most people salivate.
If Professor Li hadn’t caught on in time, Zhang Bei might really have sold it as scrap metal!
“Then send someone to haul it away yourself. The wreckage is all piled up on the Island.”
Professor Li gripped his phone tightly. “Next time, explain yourself clearly!”
That had been close. He had almost missed out on a treasure trove of cutting-edge technology.
Zhang Bei glanced at the time, hung up, and went to sleep.
But on this late night, the internet was anything but quiet.
The website Zhang Bei had asked Meng Chuan to develop was suddenly flooded with visitors.
The reason was simple: that absolute masterclass of a Werewolf match had gone viral.
It had started when several regular visitors to the Amusement Park clipped a few highlights from the video and posted them to Moments.
Of course, most people initially assumed they were watching a trailer for some new movie.
But as more and more people took notice, the revelation that it was actually a game immediately ignited their curiosity.
The video was clipped, edited, and reposted again and again until practically everyone knew the rules of the game.
And so, those who were genuinely interested, those who merely wanted to watch the excitement, and those desperate to find out who the Chuunibyou kid was all logged onto the website that night.
Dong Dong Dong: [Why isn’t this a computer game?!]
Xiaoxiao: [This is ridiculous. Is No. 11 literally Zhuge Liang reincarnated or what?]
Dream of a Billion Girls: [Bullshit. Without Chuunibyou, the good guys would’ve lost for sure!]
Meng Chuan was lying in bed and had only just closed his eyes when his phone began ringing urgently beside him.
Still groggy and carrying a trace of resentment toward that contract, he answered the call.
“Boss, bad news! The website’s about to crash!”
“Slow down. What happened?”
“A massive wave of traffic came pouring in out of nowhere. The servers can’t handle it anymore!”
“Are we under attack?”
“No! Every IP address is legitimate!”
Meng Chuan glanced out the window at the bright moon in the nearly starless sky.
“I’ll be there right away. Get the backup servers ready!”