Read Novel Full Chapter 1597: Chapter 929: Jingzhou Attacks
Chapter 1597: Chapter 929: Jingzhou Attacks
“Knock, knock, knock!”
At the Leader’s Mansion, Liang Yuan was correcting documents when the door was suddenly knocked.
He didn’t even look up to know it was Zhuang Shuyuan.
To be honest, after these past few days, he had started to look forward to seeing what tricks that little seductress had prepared again.
“Come in.”
He said calmly.
The door pushed open and the sharp clicks of high heels rang out on the floor.
Only this time, Liang Yuan clearly heard something different in the rhythm of those heels.
He could almost feel the hurriedness in the steps.
Liang Yuan couldn’t help raising his head toward the door.
He saw Zhuang Shuyuan dressed in a golden qipao, long beautiful legs wrapped in black stockings.
Her fair swan neck bore a string of pearls, her hair pinned up in an old-style coiffure.
Clearly she’d put deliberate effort into her look today too.
But unlike before, Zhuang Shuyuan wasn’t playing at any kind of mood this time; instead there was a trace of anxiety on her face.
That actually surprised Liang Yuan a little.
“What’s going on that you’re in such a rush?”
Zhuang Shuyuan quickly handed over the intel to Liang Yuan and said urgently, “Mr. Liang, something’s happened, Kerry Technology’s James has been captured by the Jingzhou Military.”
“Right now Kerry Technology is headless, and the situation in the North is about to spiral into chaos.”
When Liang Yuan heard this, his brows rose at once. “James got taken?”
A flicker of shock crossed his mind. He swiftly took the report and read it from beginning to end, his expression turning dark in an instant.
James’s strength was far from weak; his gene recombination progress had already exceeded 80%!
His Superpower was a Silent Superpower specifically tailored to counter other Superpowers, and he had Kerry Technology’s formidable tech power backing him up.
Honestly, even if Jin Shirong were resurrected, without relying on a Sealing Array, he absolutely wouldn’t be able to beat James.
Yet such a powerful James had actually been captured by the Jingzhou Military. Liang Yuan found it downright unbelievable.
“Is the Jingzhou Military trying to force Kerry Technology to cooperate with them against the Divine Country?”
Beside him, Zhuang Shuyuan quickly said, “I’m afraid it’s more than that. The Jingzhou Military might even try to force Sprout to make a move as well.”
“But Kerry Technology is closer to the Divine Country, so they’re putting the squeeze on Kerry Technology first.”
Liang Yuan asked, “Do we know how the Jingzhou Military managed to capture James?”
Zhuang Shuyuan shook her head. “No idea. It seems to have been a covert operation.”
When Liang Yuan heard that, his expression grew even more grave.
“A covert operation means they grabbed James silently and without a trace.”
“James isn’t some mediocre fighter. How could he not put up any resistance at all?”
“Even gene recombination causes a huge disturbance. How could he be taken away without a sound?”
Zhuang Shuyuan shook her head. “We don’t know that either. My people have been investigating all along, but we haven’t found any leads yet.”
Liang Yuan thought for a moment and said, “I’ll go there myself.”
“You’re going personally?” Zhuang Shuyuan looked at Liang Yuan, unable to keep from asking, “Do you have some special plan?”
Liang Yuan said, “No special plan. When faced with a threat, you just hit it head-on.”
“Test their strength first, then decide.”
Zhuang Shuyuan couldn’t help saying, “How about letting someone else go test the waters first? If the Jingzhou Military really has some powerful weapon…”
Liang Yuan shook his head. “If James couldn’t stand against them, the others probably won’t withstand it either.”
“Relax. Whatever weapon they have, it shouldn’t be possible for them to keep me.”
Liang Yuan wasn’t being arrogant; he genuinely had that level of confidence.
At this point his gene recombination progress had already reached 98%.
Plus his Genetic Transformation could simulate and shift between all kinds of Genetic Species; he practically had no weak spots.
Put simply, as long as he wanted to leave, there was already no one on this planet who could stop him.
“Then… just be careful.”
Zhuang Shuyuan couldn’t help reminding him.
Liang Yuan nodded slightly and stood up. “No time like the present, I’ll head out now.”
“Should we hold a meeting? Inform everyone?” Zhuang Shuyuan asked quickly.
Liang Yuan said, “Time is tight. You pass the word on for me, I’ll just tell Ding Yan and the others when I get back.”
With that, Liang Yuan’s figure flickered and he vanished from the Leader’s Mansion.
Zhuang Shuyuan froze for a moment, then ran to the doorway, but already couldn’t see any trace of Liang Yuan.
Liang Yuan returned home. Only Lin Ya and Song Wen were there.
He quickly told the two of them what was going on and asked them to relay it to the other women later, then headed straight to the airport and found a spaceship.
The ship was piloted by Xu Huang. He was from the first batch of Yangshan pilots to be trained and was now already a commander in the air force.
But this time he had still taken the initiative to personally pilot the ship for Liang Yuan.
“Mr. Liang, I never imagined that one day I’d be flying this ship with you on board.”
Xu Huang said to Liang Yuan, a bit excited.
Liang Yuan chuckled. “You were in Yangshan’s first batch of trained pilots. Back when Yangshan was recruiting test pilots, you had the courage to step forward and believe in Yangshan’s technology. Of course we were going to put you to good use.”
“In the future it won’t just be me; there will be more and more people flying on your ships.”
Xu Huang said a little sheepishly, “Mr. Liang, to tell you the truth, back then I only signed up for the test pilot training because I’d really hit a dead end.”
“At the beginning I couldn’t even get a residence permit for Yangshan, I could only live out on the ice, begging for scraps.”
“Back then a lot of people said I didn’t care about my life, going to be a test pilot, but I knew that for someone like me, if I still clung to my life, then I’d really never have a chance to make something of myself.”
“Either I spend my whole life fishing on the ice, earning a tiny bit of money, getting pushed around by others, not even able to feed my own family, or I gamble once, and fight for a future.”
“It was Yangshan that gave me this chance, and you also gave me this chance. I’ve always remembered the good Yangshan did for me.”
Liang Yuan burst out laughing and patted his shoulder.
“Since ancient times, troubled times bring forth heroes. You are the hero born in these troubled times; don’t look down on yourself.”
“Heh, in front of you, I wouldn’t dare call myself a hero.” Xu Huang chuckled.
If his former trainees and students saw this scene, their jaws would probably drop.
Their coach, famous for being strict, actually had such an honest and simple side.
The ship flew for a while. In the end Xu Huang couldn’t hold back and struck up a conversation with Liang Yuan, asking:
“Mr. Liang, who’s our enemy this time?”
“The Jingzhou Military.”
Liang Yuan didn’t hide it, speaking frankly.
Next they would enter the airspace over Carey Technology Company, where they might encounter ships from the Jingzhou Military.
He naturally had to tell Xu Huang in advance so he could be prepared.
Hearing this, Xu Huang was startled: “The Jingzhou Military? Jingzhou still has an army? How did they become our enemy?”
“We were all civilians before. Since they call themselves the military, why aren’t they contacting us to cooperate, and instead want to go to war with us?”
In Xu Huang’s mind, the military represented the old government.
Especially the military from Jingzhou, which had once been the capital of Dragon Country.
Liang Yuan said in a deep voice: “They call themselves the military, but they might not actually be the real military.”
“It could be other ambitious men using the name of the military to steal the country, that’s all.”
“The old order has already collapsed, and a new order is being born.”
“Xu Huang, remember this: right now there are no civilians and government, there are only the various powers, and battles between Superpower Users.”
“In the future, we’re going to head for the stars. Humanity will sooner or later have to end these battles and work together, only then can we face this Evolution crisis.”
Xu Huang’s heart trembled. He looked at Liang Yuan and asked: “You mean, in the future humanity will enter that kind of federation era we see in movies and TV dramas?”
Liang Yuan nodded slightly: “Yes, and it’s inevitable. Our enemies are not other humans. In the boundless Cosmos, there will be far stronger enemies waiting for us.”
Xu Huang was utterly shaken inside. He hadn’t expected Mr. Liang’s vision to be so grand, that he had never even regarded the other human factions as enemies.
For a moment, his respect for Liang Yuan grew even deeper.
Inwardly he sighed: worthy of being Mr. Liang.
The ship was extremely fast. By now Yangshan’s ships had already iterated to the third-generation model.
Based on the initial generation of Yangshan ships, Yangshan’s vessels had absorbed the advantages of ships from factions like Sprout and Kerry Technology, and undergone technological iteration.
The current ship’s speed had already broken past four hundred meters per minute.
That was already supersonic. Not only that, the ship was equipped with a shield generated by the defense system, which could further increase its Defense Power in response to changes in external pressure.
Even if it charged straight into a Thundercloud, there would no longer be any pressure.
It could be said that Yangshan was not only seeing its Superpower Users grow stronger at a rapid pace; Yangshan’s speed was also developing at high speed.
Especially in aerospace, navigation, medicine, agriculture and other fields, the changes were particularly obvious.
It was practically different every single day.
Vast numbers of Runes brought the Shelter’s experts endless inspiration, and in the collision of countless ideas, naturally many ingenious concepts emerged, rapidly driving the development of Rune Technology.
This was when Liang Yuan’s previous emphasis on the importance of population really showed.
When there are many people, all kinds of talent appear.
Now it wasn’t just their hardware strength; in software, especially artificial intelligence, development was also surging ahead.
For example, the ship Xu Huang was piloting now was already equipped with basic artificial intelligence.
It could quickly identify targets within the nearby radar detection range and report them to the pilot in time.
Pilots needed extremely fast reaction speed in order to rapidly plan their flight paths.
In less than half an hour, the ship had already reached the area near Carey Technology in the northern part of Yu Province.
“Mr. Liang, do we not need to make a trip over to Sprout?”
“No need, go straight to Kerry Technology.”
“Understood.”
Xu Huang immediately continued flying, and a few minutes later, they had already arrived at the Floating Island where Carey Technology’s headquarters was located.
“Warning! Warning! You have entered Carey Technology Company airspace, please stop immediately, please stop immediately!”
In the sky over Carey Technology, ships instantly roared up, issuing the alarm.
Xu Huang quickly brought the ship to a halt, then opened the tower signal receiver to communicate swiftly with the ground.
“This is Yangshan Island Falcon 001 ship, requesting permission to land.”
The warning from the ground immediately ceased, and then a voice came from the control tower: “Permission to land!”
After that, the Floating Island’s shield opened, and the ship swiftly flew inside.
Before the ship had fully settled, several figures flew over at high speed.
“People from Yangshan have arrived. May I ask which honored guest has come?”
Molly quickly asked toward the ship.
The hatch opened, and Liang Yuan stepped out.
“Molly, Jacks, what’s the situation now?”