"Chen Jingmo! You treacherous disciple who betrayed your master and ancestors!"
Upon hearing Chen Jingmo's direct accusation, Chen Qing flew into a rage.
"You traitorous beast! How dare you betray the clan that gave you life and raised you!"
"After you die, you will go to the eighteenth level of hell and be expelled from the family genealogy!"
"Lineage?"
Chen Jingmo sneered and retorted without backing down.
"You've only ever used me as a tool to make money!"
"Don't take yourself too seriously. My shipyard will succeed just as well without the so-called financial assistance from your Chen Family!"
"I'll kill you, you traitor, and take you with me!"
Enraged, Chen Qing suddenly lunged forward, attempting to take everyone down with him!
"Clang!"
A flash of light appeared.
Lin Bayi didn't even make a superfluous movement; with a swift motion, he severed Chen Qing's legs!
"Aaaaaah!"
Chen Qing screamed and fell into a pool of blood.
Take them all.
Lin Bayi coldly gave the order.
"Father! I'll repay your kindness in the next life!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Menghua turned to leave, but as soon as he turned back, he was pushed to the ground by a figure.
"You better behave yourself, you coward."
San Duo strode forward, slapped Chen Menghua on the head, pinned him down, and dragged him away.
The soldiers quickly carried away the two frozen corpses of Mark and Chris, which were encased in black ice.
Chen Qing, who had lost both legs, was carried by Lin Bayi himself.
Before leaving, Lin Bayi stopped and turned to look at Jiangnan.
"Mr. Dragon God."
"The China military will definitely give you an explanation regarding Zhang Lingqi's matter."
"This time, regarding your family division issue, it will be the same."
Jiangnan didn't speak, but simply nodded calmly in response.
Then, he turned to Chen Tong and Piano, and tossed them a note.
Do you have anything to say?
Chen Tong hurriedly stepped forward, her face full of worry. "Jiangnan, I want to know... what will happen to my father?"
Piano shrugged nonchalantly.
"Master, I have nothing to ask."
"Anyway, my cheapskate father has already been rescued, so let him be."
Lin Bayi answered Chen Tong's question.
"Although Chen Jingmo briefly colluded with traitorous forces, his outstanding contributions to China's shipbuilding industry over the years should be taken into consideration."
"In addition, he voluntarily pulled back from the brink and surrendered himself, thus making a great contribution."
"He may be spared the death penalty, but he cannot escape punishment."
"It is expected that the military court will sentence him to up to ten years in prison."
"Very good..."
After hearing this, Chen Tong finally felt relieved. "As long as they're alive, that's all that matters."
"In addition..."
Lin Bayi turned his head and looked sharply at Pier Casson.
"This France Country gambler will also be coming back with us for a full investigation."
"The main purpose is to clearly explain the specific details of the alliance between the France Country base and the Chen Family."
"Besides that, once the investigation is complete, we'll be in a hard labor camp on the Polar Icefield..."
"Oh no, construction battalion, there's a good job waiting for you."
"Absolutely a perfect match for my major."
Upon hearing Lin Bayi's words, Pier Casson was not afraid at all; instead, his eyes lit up and he immediately raised his hand.
"Sir! I'm willing to go!"
Piano looked at him with disdain.
"Have you lost your mind, old man? Going to the Arctic to dig for ice?"
"Aren't you afraid they'll sell you out?"
"What do you know! This is completely different!"
Pier Casson retorted loudly, even stepping on a shard of ice that was on Mark's foot.
"China is a land of civilization, with a military known for its strict discipline!"
"They're not like those French pigs!"
"These idiots are trying to cover up the aging electrical circuits at the base and are unwilling to allocate funds for repairs, so they're actually claiming that turning on the air conditioning is harmful to the environment!"
"It's so hypocritical, it couldn't be more hypocritical!"
"Most importantly..."
Pier Casson glared at Piano, "I'd rather dig ice than stay here shining your shoes!"
Having said that, Pier Casson, quite consciously, quickly caught up with the China soldiers escorting him.
Piano rolled his eyes but didn't say anything to stop it.
Foreign attitudes differ from those in China; once children reach adulthood, parents typically kick them out of the house.
That's how Piano was kicked out, which eventually led to him being framed and imprisoned.
"Jiangnan, let's retreat first."
Lin Bayi waved goodbye to Jiangnan Nan, "Don't worry, our military will catch up with your purge soon."
This time, Jiangnan didn't use a note; instead, she simply said, "Okay."
Immediately, Lin Bayi led his soldiers and prisoners away from the beach.
Jiangnan glanced at Chen Tong and Piano, gesturing for them to return to the RV first.
Having just experienced the loss of loved ones and betrayal, the two indeed needed time to process their emotions, so they obediently turned around and went back.
Not long after the two left.
Wang Meng ran out of the RV's driver's seat, holding a communicator in his hand.
"Boss! Someone's looking for you!"
Jiangnan took the communicator, and Shen Lian's voice came through.
"Mr. Dragon God."
"We just received a report from the border radar station, and the commander of the Su Country Base Eleven will be arriving later."
"Yeka Jimier is heading this way."
"The other party sent a plaintext message, claiming to be your... father-in-law."
"Judging from their demeanor, they probably don't mean any harm."
Upon hearing the name, Jiangnan raised an eyebrow slightly, feeling that it sounded somewhat familiar.
Yeka Jimier...
Yekater...
Yekaterina...
Good heavens, so this whole family is lining up to come and claim kinship?
However, Jiangnan felt that there shouldn't be any major problems.
After the Chen Family and France Country's recent bluff, they made an example of someone.
This incident has been enough to deter those petty thieves who were still watching from the shadows.
However, Shen Lian was clearly not finished speaking.
She knew Jiangnan's personality too well and guessed that he probably wouldn't bother with such trivial matters.
Then, another piece of heavyweight intelligence was released.
"Mr. Dragon God, regarding the reason why the Chen Family and the France Country base acted together this time..."
"I just traced the source."
"I discovered that they've named this operation against you the 'Family Separation Plan'."
Jiangnan's eyes sharpened.
"Has the culprit been caught?"
A chess player cannot easily allow himself to become trapped in the game.
Since the other party was able to devise such a conspiracy, they must be a very cunning and shrewd old fox.
"You guessed right, there is indeed an unseen force behind them."
Shen Lian spoke with admiration, then changed the subject and chuckled softly.
"The other party's network concealment methods are very sophisticated, including the encryption logic of their firewall."
"Even my [Supernatural Brain] couldn't break through it for a while."
However... his cleverness backfired.
"You underestimated my reverse tracing techniques."
Shen Lian said confidently.
"In this world, there are firewalls that even I can't breach..."
"There's only one person."
"By using the process of elimination, we don't even need to crack it; we can directly pinpoint his true identity!"
"That is..."
"The Cyber Machine God Duo from the Eagle Country, Dr. Sullivan!"
The moment Jiangnan heard the name, he immediately switched to a battle-ready expression.
It was him!
At the same time.
Inside the laboratory in the hidden cellar of the Eagle Country camp.
"Hehehe..."
Dr. Sullivan was holding a cup of coffee, looking at the firewall alerts on his computer screen.
Instead of panicking, he burst into cheerful laughter.
You want to breach my defense system?
"Little girl from China, go back and train for several more decades."
Then, he turned his head and looked into the dark corner of the laboratory.
Two people were huddled together there.
General Mike, and his adjutant and assistant, Jesse.
Poor Jesse was just doing her routine of bringing tea.
Unexpectedly, he was directly caught up in it and was captured on the spot by Sullivan's robot.
"Shh!"
Sullivan raised an index finger to his lips, gesturing for the two to be quiet.
"Quiet down, you two."
"When this farce is over, I will lead you to the true Stars and immortality."
Mike and Jesse were furious and wanted to argue back.
But the high-frequency blades in the hands of those robots were already pressed against their necks.
If you dare to move even an inch, you will be beheaded instantly.
"Sizzle... sizzle..."
Just then, the laboratory's overhead light suddenly started flickering.
Sullivan was not alarmed; instead, he put down his coffee cup.
"She's here... my dear granddaughter."
As the lights returned to normal, Berris's holographic image appeared on the large computer screen in the center of the laboratory.
"Old Deng! He's infuriating me!"
As soon as Berris appeared, she started shouting loudly.
"Berris has been threatened!"
"That Purple Sky from the Dragon God faction, he used some kind of sorcery to forcibly control First Unit!"
"And he took away my access!"
"Hurry up and find out if there's any backdoor method to help me regain root access!"
Sullivan had already prepared his expression and was just about to flash that kind and gentle smile.
But when he heard the news that [the Machine God's authority had been stolen]...
Sullivan's face immediately turned ferocious!
"What?!"
Sullivan stood up, slammed his hands on the lab table, and roared.
"What are you doing?! How could you possibly hand over the highest level of authority to First Unit?!"
In the corner, Mike and Jesse shuddered in fear at Sullivan's rage.
Where is even a trace of his usual gentle and refined scientist demeanor?
He's a complete hysterical Madman!
It turns out that his amiable face was all a disguise to cover up his ambition!
However, on screen, Berris showed no surprise at Sullivan's outburst.
She even crossed her arms and gave a slightly sarcastic, cold laugh.
"Hey, Old Deng, don't get so angry!"
"I didn't do it on purpose~ It was First Unit's own problem, after all."
"The system automatically identified him as the highest-ranking driver. What can I do?"
"Impossible!"
Sullivan was furious and pointed at the screen, cursing loudly.
"I already took advantage of your [Genesis] Supernatural Ability!"
"Your neurons have been forcibly connected to the core of First Unit!"
"Unless you voluntarily relinquish control, the Machine God will absolutely never obey another's commands..."
Sullivan's roar abruptly stopped halfway through.
He seemed to realize that, in his anger, he had revealed a secret he shouldn't have!
At that moment, Berris on the screen smiled.
His laughter was utterly sorrowful.
"You let it slip, old Deng."
"It really was you..."
Berris lowered her head, looking at her half-ghostly, transparent body, her shoulders trembling slightly.
"No wonder I've been losing control of my body lately; I can't eat what I want, and I can't drink what I want!"
"All of this... it was you who tampered with me!"
Berris raised her head and immediately exposed Sullivan's hypocritical facade.
"The side effects of the Machine God are not at all about slowly turning the user into a ghost!"
"It was you! You used the characteristics of Genesis to try and forcibly strip me of my body!"
"Let me become the mindless spirit of the Machine God forever!"
Sullivan was stunned for two seconds after being exposed by his own granddaughter.
Then, he reached out and took off his glasses, no longer pretending.
"It seems... you're more rebellious and smarter than I imagined."
Sullivan straightened up, his eyes turning cold.
"That's right, that's what I think."
"I'm going to make you abandon this useless physical body and become the eternal spirit of the Machine God!"
"Not only that..."
A fanatical look appeared on Sullivan's face. "I will also kill Sun Zhengdao and gain eternal life!!!"
The words had barely left his mouth.
Sullivan pressed the miniature remote control switch in his hand.
"Click!"
Immediately afterwards.
The power to the entire underground laboratory has been cut off!
Darkness descended!
Moreover, it's not just the electricity that's being cut off!
With several explosions, all the fiber optic cables connecting to the outside world were simultaneously severed by the embedded miniature bombs!
Inside this underground prison, only the supercomputer in the center, with its own power supply, continues to emit light.
Berris's Holographic Projection was trapped inside the screen.
She glared through gritted teeth at her mortal enemy outside the screen—a person whose name, written as "Grandpa," but read as "Demon"!
Sullivan finally revealed his true colors to the world!
At the same time.
Flat-Top Mountain Camp, ground area.
"Beep beep beep! Beep beep!"
The sound of suona horns rang out in the camp during the torrential rain!
At this moment, a banquet was set up in the open space of the camp!
In the very center of the venue, a black and white portrait of the deceased hangs high.
The girl in the photo has blue hair and freckles; she is Dorothy, who died tragically in the woods.
And below the portrait.
Several hundred Eagle Country soldiers were all wearing white mourning cloths wrapped around their heads.
With a hemp rope tied around his waist, he followed local customs and held a Chinese-style funeral for Dorothy!
In the brazier, paper money and paper villas burned brightly.
"Waaaaah... Dorothy! My poor teammate! How could you just leave like this!"
Andrei, Parker, and Bart knelt before the brazier.
They threw paper money into the incense burner while wailing loudly.
Because the Eagle Country simply do not understand the essence of China funeral culture.
Every now and then, they would turn around and consult the professional Funeral Squad they had borrowed from China.
"Excuse me! Master!"
Holding up a paper effigy of a boy and a girl, Andrei humbly asked the China old man next to him for advice.
"When burning this paper effigy, is it necessary to recite a passage from the Bible for its salvation?"
"And this paper sports car, if we don't burn a paper driver's license underneath it, will Dorothy get arrested by the traffic police in heaven?"
The old man from China twitched and waved his hand dismissively.
"No need to chant scriptures, sincerity is key! Burn them quickly! Burning more is better than anything else!"
"Okay!"
Andrei believed it without a doubt and immediately threw the ghost money into the brazier.
After a lot of trouble.
Dorothy was buried with great ceremony.
Coincidentally, it was all to take advantage of the auspicious location.
Her tombstone stands not far from the Stainless Steel Tombstone of the Dragon God.
Andrei knelt on one knee in the mud, stroking Dorothy's tombstone, his eyes red-rimmed.
"Dorothy, don't worry."
"I, Andrei, swear on the honor of being the former captain of the White Eagle Squad..."
"I will personally kill Zhang Lingqi to avenge you!"
"That's right!"
Parker clenched his little fist behind his back. "God, that heretic will definitely be punished!"
Only Bart, kneeling at the very back, had his mind completely elsewhere than on the funeral.
He casually tossed paper money into the brazier while looking around.
"Strangeness..."
Bart muttered to himself, "Why hasn't General Mike given me a response yet?"
"After the communication was cut off, I couldn't get in touch with them anymore."
"What exactly are those old foxes up to in the basement?"
"No, I have to go to the cellar to find him myself; I haven't settled my final payment yet!"
Having made up his mind, Bart was just about to find an excuse to slip away.
But just as he stood up, his gaze inadvertently swept across the distance...
The [Stainless Steel Tombstone] of the Dragon God was being relentlessly struck by lightning.
Bart was taken aback for a moment.
Immediately afterwards!
"Fuck!"
Bart screamed as if he'd seen a ghost in broad daylight!
I was startled by his sudden shout.
Parker turned around impatiently, frowning and cursing.
"What are you yelling about?! Are you wailing so loudly you're tearing your balls off?!"
"No... no... look..."
Bart, his legs trembling and his face deathly pale, pointed straight ahead!
"What are you looking at? Don't be so alarmed... Fuck!"
Parker looked ahead in the direction Bart was pointing.
The next second!
He also became like Bart.
Even Andrei, who was standing to the side, raised his head and made the same sound!
"Fuck! How could he..."
Because... it's there!
That Stainless Steel Tombstone that was struck by lightning for several hours...
At that moment, it was actually crushed into a steel disc by being stepped on from the top!
What terrified them even more was...
The man with his foot on the steel disc.
That's right...
Dragon God!
He didn't die!