Read Novel Full Chapter 1657: Chapter 989: Zhang Qiubing
Chapter 1657: Chapter 989: Zhang Qiubing
“How is that possible? Mount Fuji is quite far from here.”
Liang Yuan frowned slightly, realizing the information must be incorrect.
Did Tu Long and the others head south, or did they go east?
The Japanese approaching from the south are mostly from the Ryukyu side.
Further south would be the Philippines.
So, Tu Long and his group might have chased them all the way to the East Sea!
But the Magnetic Field Domain of the Eight-headed Great Serpent is supposed to be nearby, which doesn’t add up.
“Could it be that this Eight-headed Great Serpent has moved over to the Ryukyu side?”
Liang Yuan suppressed his doubts, needing to measure the scope of this Magnetic Field Domain.
If, by any chance, the Magnetic Field Domain of the Eight-headed Great Serpent covers the entire Japan, from Mount Fuji all the way to Ryukyu, that would be terrifying.
That would be over fifteen hundred kilometers!
How massive must its body be?
You must know, Liang Yuan, even in his Star Beast form, his Magnetic Field Domain would not exceed sixty kilometers!
The disparity is just too big!
However, Liang Yuan immediately dismissed this speculation.
“If the Eight-headed Great Serpent had such a large Magnetic Field Domain, it would have been repelled by the Blue Star long ago. How could it still linger on the Blue Star?”
Liang Yuan quickly used telepathy to ask Huihui and Xiaojie.
“Did you say this is where Ling Yurong and the others sent their last message?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Where were they before?”
“Um, that we don’t know either; we just know they were chasing the Japanese down south, but we don’t know the exact route.”
Liang Yuan asked no more questions and turned to Zhang Qiubing, inquiring, “How many people do you have here?”
“Over seventeen hundred, Mr. Liang; most of them are women and children.”
“Previously, people from other shelters came here to trade population, and they only wanted women and children.”
“Later, the leader here realized women and children were valuable, so he actively went to rescue them, keeping only superpower users and discarding ordinary men.”
“Moreover, this island lacks resources, with very few Superpower Stones to mine, so everyone has to go out and hunt Mutant Beasts for food and drink.”
“Thus, people here are still living unfulfilled, cold lives.”
Liang Yuan asked, “Haven’t any other forces wanted to occupy this place?”
“Yes, but there’s nothing valuable here besides people.”
“Those who came here as leaders have changed several times.”
“They were either killed or overthrown by their subordinates.”
Liang Yuan glanced at the sallow, emaciated people. It was evident they lived difficult lives.
Clearly, what Zhang Qiubing said was likely the truth.
Liang Yuan immediately lost interest in the people of these bases.
He didn’t have much fondness for the Japanese, though Japanese women were decent.
Perhaps they could be brought back to grow the population.
Just over a thousand people scattered into various shelters wouldn’t cause waves, even if there were ambitious people among them.
Liang Yuan immediately released his Spiritual Power to probe the Floating Island’s interior, inspecting the Heart Core and Brain Core within the island.
Indeed, as Zhang Qiubing said, the island’s resources were exhausted. The island’s bloodline channels had dried up, and there was no Blood Crystal left.
One wonders what happened to this Floating Island corpse before, with not a single Blood Crystal remaining, completely drained.
“Excuse me, Mr. Liang, is our country doing okay now?”
“Were you sent by the government to rescue us overseas compatriots?”
Zhang Qiubing timidly inquired.
Liang Yuan glanced at him and said, “What are you thinking? Do you think with continuous heavy rain and floods for so long, the country still exists?”
“Huh? What… what do you mean by this?” Zhang Qiubing asked, shocked, and quickly followed up.
Liang Yuan replied, “The land has long been submerged. Now, over there is the same as here, turning into a vast ocean.”
Zhang Qiubing’s face turned ashen, and his body staggered a step.
He trembled, “How… how is that possible? That… that’s the continent!”
“The continent that the Japanese longed to land on, even… even that side is submerged?”
He couldn’t believe it and was even somewhat despairing.
In the past two years, he had been yearning to return to the continent, thinking that if he reached the land, he might avoid this disaster.
He regretted countless nights.
Regretted why he foolishly came to Japan to work for a living.
Fully aware that this lousy place rejected all Chinese, fully aware of their irreconcilable enmity with the Chinese.
But there was no choice; he had to live, had to work.
Every night, he regretted studying such a useless Japanese major in university, coming to this lousy place.
If only he had stayed in his hometown in Gansu Province. With Gansu’s elevation, how could it possibly flood?
Yet Liang Yuan’s words nearly drove him to collapse.
He quickly said, “How can that be? I wasn’t talking about coastal cities, the inland, the elevation there is so high; surely it can’t be submerged?”
“The Tibetan Region’s elevation is so high, it can’t be submerged either, right?”
Seeing him so agitated, Liang Yuan just shook his head and said, “I don’t know about the Tibetan Region, but I’ll tell you clearly, no rescue from Dragon Country is coming.”
“Superpowers have appeared. Do you think the world will be like before?”
Zhang Qiubing’s eyes reddened, “But… but my family is still back home…”
Liang Yuan didn’t respond. Under the great flood, how many families have been shattered?
Surviving is already not easy.
“How long have you been on this island?”
“Over a year.” Zhang Qiubing said, dejected.
“Over a year?”
“Yes, when the flood first began, my wife, child, and I escaped onto my father-in-law’s boat.”
“Fortunately, there was plenty of food on that boat, and a freshwater purifier. We drifted at sea for a long time, and then a group seized our boat, making us their slaves.”
Speaking of these things, Zhang Qiubing’s eyes reddened.
“What about your wife and child?”
“Dead.”
Zhang Qiubing’s tone was nearly cold, seeming to grit his teeth.
Liang Yuan was surprised; this didn’t sound like the emotion after one’s wife and child had died.
Seemingly noticing Liang Yuan’s confusion, Zhang Qiubing sneered at himself and said, “My wife was Japanese. After the flood erupted, we lived on her family’s boat. At first, they treated me decently, but as time passed, they grew more displeased with me.”
“My son was also raised by them to despise me.”
Liang Yuan frowned, puzzled, “Why would they despise you?”
Zhang Qiubing sneered, “What else could it be, because I’m a Dragon Countryman.”
“The animosity the Japanese hold towards us is rooted in their bones.”
“Before, when I had a high income and salary, my wife and her family treated me like a lord.”
“After the flood, what did I have left? Just my identity as a Dragon Countryman.”
“Their animosity towards me accumulated over time, gradually exposed.”
“Especially after our boat was hijacked. My wife and father-in-law blamed it all on me, thinking I was useless, a waste.”
“Later, my wife tried to please the superpower user who hijacked our boat, even telling him my identity as a Dragon Countryman.”
“Had I not been alert, jumping ship to escape immediately, I wouldn’t have survived until now.”
Liang Yuan was speechless; he did not expect Zhang Qiubing to have experienced such a story.
Indeed, cross-national romances are unreliable.