bacchusnovels Chapter 274 Global Counterattack
Chapter 274 Global Counterattack
Song Chen didn't answer the question directly. Instead, he turned to Han Duo and said, "Let it go."
The lights in the conference room automatically dimmed.
The main projection screen lit up, playing footage recorded an hour earlier by the spacecraft's observation system.
Song Chen stepped out of the spaceship and hovered above the clouds.
His body began to glow, and the silvery-white light emanating from deep within his bones penetrated his skin and the Northern Darkness Armor, illuminating the entire night sky in silvery white.
Three beams of starlight descended vertically from the depths of the universe, enveloping him in a curtain of gold and silver light.
The beam of light pierced through the clouds, leaving a perfectly circular hole, and points of light poured into his body like a galaxy.
The video played for five minutes without fast-forwarding or editing.
The twelve members of parliament watched from beginning to end in complete silence.
But some people sat up straight, some took off their glasses, and some dropped their pens on the holographic table with a soft hum.
The scene ended, and the lights came back on.
The meeting room fell silent again.
After a long while, Qi Shanhe spoke.
His background is the starry sky over the Mongolian Plateau, indicating that he is clearly on a mission in the field.
"What is that?"
"The legacy of the Cangxing civilization".
Song Chen answered without batting an eye, offering no further explanation.
Li Qingcang looked at Song Chen on the other side of the screen, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes tightening slightly, but he still didn't speak.
He knew that what Song Chen was about to say was the key point.
Song Chen placed his hands on the podium and said, "I called everyone here not to watch a video."
"I only have one thing to say."
"The time for a global counter-offensive has come."
The meeting room fell silent again.
This silence wasn't due to shock, or at least not entirely.
Rather, it's because the phrase "global counter-offensive" carries too much weight.
The Great Xia Dynasty fought a defensive war for fifty years. All its strategic resources, all its defensive deployments, and all its military systems were centered around the concept of "defense."
The walls of the 108 base cities form the border of the Great Xia Dynasty; every inch of land was built with lives.
After the great victory in the Arctic War, Bactria began its counter-offensive. Now, the global counter-offensive means a complete change in the nature of the war.
After hesitating for a long time, Qin Zhen said, "Song Chen, the global counter-offensive is a strategic decision that requires the joint action of dozens of existing countries. It's not something that Great Xia can decide on its own."
"I know," Song Chen nodded.
"The number of land beast kings worldwide is conservatively estimated to be over fifty."
Another member of parliament chimed in, saying, "It's sequence 009."
"There are at least two hundred more in the ocean. Even if you could kill them all by yourself, could you handle it all? The monsters won't line up for you to slaughter."
Song Chen quickly replied, "Yes, because I can kill them faster than they can run away."
Just as Sequence 011 was about to speak, Song Chen raised his hand, signaling him not to.
He wasn't going to answer any more questions; words are always just supplementary in strategic meetings, and what shuts people up is real information.
Han Duo pressed another button on the data panel, and the holographic projection area in the center of the conference room was emptied, projecting a three-dimensional spatial image with a diameter of ten meters.
Song Chen stepped down from the podium and walked into the center of the projection area.
"Void travel".
After saying that, he disappeared on the spot.
Without any acceleration or movement trajectory, his body vanished from its original spot in an instant and reappeared at the other end of the conference hall, ten meters behind Li Qingcang's speaker's seat.
Almost simultaneously, all the members of parliament turned their heads.
Song Chen stood there, his hands hanging at his sides, the dark patterns on his Beiming Battle Armor still retaining the silver glow of starlight infused into his body.
Then he disappeared again, returning to the projection area directly in front of the podium, as if he had never moved at all.
There was no sound in the meeting room.
Sequence 009's glasses slipped off his nose, but he didn't pick them up.
Sequence 005 Qin Zhen's face was very tense, and his pupils were rapidly contracting. He was a sixth-level martial artist who had fought for forty years, and he understood what that scene just now meant.
Li Qingcang, sitting in seat 001, looked at Song Chen with a changed gaze.
"How far can that go at most?" Qi Shanhe's voice came from seat number 002.
"Currently 100 kilometers."
Qi Shanhe didn't say anything more; he just nodded.
"I agree."
Song Chen returned to the podium and continued, "Next, I will wipe out all the sixth-tier beast kings in the world, on land and in the sea, one by one."
"We don't need the Great Xia to send troops, we don't need a joint fleet, we don't need anyone's support. You only need to do one thing: cooperate with the results of the mopping-up operation, recover lost territory, and rebuild the defense line."
"As for the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, you can handle the communication there."
"Tell them that someone from Great Xia is about to begin a global purge; they can cooperate or not."
"Those who cooperate will have the lost territory recovered; those who don't cooperate will still be dealt with, but don't even talk about post-war distribution."
The meeting room fell silent again.
But this silence is different from the one before. The silence before was filled with shock and incomprehension, while the silence now is because everyone is recalculating.
Song Chen stopped talking; he had said what he needed to say and shown what he needed to show.
Li Qingcang stood up from the speaker's seat, and all the councilors' eyes immediately and instinctively turned to him.
Let's vote.
Three words, very concise.
Zhou Wangyue pressed his finger on the voting button on the holographic table, and the screen lit up green.
Qi Shanhe's finger fell simultaneously. Qin Zhen followed closely behind.
Then came sequences 004, 006, 007...
Twelve seats, twelve votes in favor.
Unanimous vote.
Li Qingcang withdrew his hand from the voting button and his gaze fell on Song Chen.
"I'll handle the negotiations with the United States, and Lao Qi will communicate with the United States. The military in the United States recognizes his authority. As for the European Union, I'll have the Foreign Minister handle it directly."
"Just go ahead and kill; we'll handle the communication."
Song Chen nodded, then turned and walked down from the podium. Han Duo was already waiting at the door.
"Councilor Song, where's our first stop?"
Qi Shanhe's voice came from behind.
Song Chen continued walking, turning his head to reply, "Start from the west."
After leaving the parliament building, Song Chen stopped and looked up at the starry sky.
The Milky Way stretched overhead, from the eastern horizon to the western horizon, with countless stars huddled together, some so bright they were almost blue, others so dim they were just tiny white dots.
He stared at the Milky Way for a long time.
Fifty years ago, a meteorite flew from a certain direction in this starry sky, crashed into the Pacific Ocean, and turned the blue planet into what it is today.
That meteorite came from the Cangxing civilization. The power flowing through his body now, the fate of every alien beast he has killed, and the fate of every person in the city beneath his feet all began from that unknown point deep in the starry sky.
A year ago, he was a senior high school student in Anning City. His biggest worry on his way home was his blood and qi levels.
Back then, he could see the stars, but he never thought about what was on the other side of the stars.
He stands here now, a member of the Great Xia Council, a sixth-level martial artist, having just announced the global counter-offensive in front of twelve councilors.
"We've finally reached this point."
Song Chen couldn't help but sigh.