"What's going on?"
After Ning Chen logged off, what he saw was a think tank that was both frantically busy and gripped by utter panic.
Shen Qingling came over and handed him a screen. "Look..."
Ning Chen stared at the screen, where a city appeared.
Above the city, the underside of a cuboid spaceship had opened up like a black hole, radiating a terrifying suction force as it rapidly swallowed vast numbers of humans.
White people screamed as their bodies floated upward and were sucked into the spaceship one after another.
"Interstellar pirates from space?"
Ning Chen's face went pale. He had only just felt a premonition, and reality had immediately proven it true!
"This footage came from the Americas region... ten minutes ago!"
Sorrow tinged Shen Qingling's voice as well. "That pirate ship only stopped for seven minutes and thirty-six seconds, yet it ravaged several cities and abducted a population in the millions... As for the self-defense forces' defenses..."
Ning Chen clenched his fists.
He could see stealth fighters and tanks firing furiously at the spaceship, yet they could not even break through its energy shield.
The scene was like Native Americans wielding primitive stone weapons against Westerners armed to the teeth—a sight brimming with despair!
"The technological gap is far too great..."
Ning Chen gritted his teeth.
"According to observatory observations, they've already left and vanished around Pluto..."
Shen Qingling wanted to pat Ning Chen's shoulder comfortingly, only to find that she could reach no higher than his waist. She could only give up helplessly. "This isn't your fault..."
"No, it is my fault. I'm still too weak..."
Ning Chen murmured, "What if this time, the spaceship had attacked not the Americas region, but the Asia region, or even this place? If anything happened to you, I'd never