Clash Under the Dome!

North Ridge City.

A massive atmospheric vortex had appeared in the Asian sky; a typhoon was coming.

The airspace above the city was exceptionally quiet. Chen Ye stood atop a skyscraper with his hands clasped behind his back. The city and streets below were also eerily silent.

It was as if the government had already notified the public to evacuate this area.

The wind howled, constantly ruffling Chen Ye's suit.

He tugged at his tie, then casually tossed it away. The tie drifted with the wind, disappearing somewhere.

"So quiet."

Chen Ye put on a pair of white rubber gloves, then slipped his hands into his pockets.

It was quiet to the point of being unsettling. Clearly, the Nine-Tailed Foxes had arrived. Judging by their numbers, it looked like about two divisions?

From what Chen Ye could sense, there were roughly thirty thousand fully armed soldiers.

This was quite the grand entrance.

Chen Ye smiled faintly. "All great works are forged through sacrifice. Other creatures on Earth may not understand, but they must obey."

"The emergence of a God is an unshakeable fact."

"No matter how far I still have to travel on this path, it's only a matter of time."

"During this process, whether they call me a natural disaster or a demon, I will accept it all."

"Because any explanation is superfluous. The moment God descends upon the mortal realm, that is an undeniable truth."

"What do you think, Chu Yang?"

As Chen Ye finished speaking, a helicopter suddenly hovered overhead!

Chu Yang descended from the sky, landing directly in front of Chen Ye. "I'm here to negotiate, Weaver of Fate."

"Is that your opening line?"

"Or are you really imitating someone?"

Chen Ye chuckled. "Alright, no jokes. If you want to talk about last time, you should have brought that bomb with you again."

Chu Yang was dressed in a black uniform, his clothes also fluttering in the wind. "A bomb like that probably wouldn't kill you anyway. Besides, I don't have a bomb like that. That was fake. Otherwise, I would have self-destructed long ago."

"Then why do you dare show yourself?" Chen Ye asked with a playful smile.

"I told you, I'm here to negotiate."

"If I'm not mistaken, you want to directly control all of North Ridge City, using the citizens as hostages to force the Nine-Tailed Foxes to hand over North Ridge to you, right?"

"We can withdraw from North Ridge on the condition that you release half of the North Ridge citizens. We only have this one condition."

Chen Ye pondered for a moment.

Release half, keep half. Holding hostages, yet taking North Ridge without expending any effort.

It sounded too good to be true.

But when someone offers you a favorable condition, the first thing you should consider is why they are doing it.

They can't save everyone, so they'll only save half?

While this line of thinking might be valid, it didn't seem like something Asian soldiers would do.

Abandoning the few to save the many, saving half the people – this might be possible abroad, but not necessarily in their own country.

Therefore, behind this favorable condition, or the condition itself, could be part of their plan.

In other words, this was actually a smokescreen, meant to paralyze Chen Ye?

Chen Ye had his reasons for thinking this.

They brought thirty thousand people to confront Chen Ye, only to negotiate and save half of them?

"No, I seem to be missing something..."

Chen Ye's brow furrowed beneath his mask. "How did you know I was going to kidnap all of North Ridge City? Who told you?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Yang met Chen Ye's gaze without hesitation.

"You call yourself fate. Can't you guess?"

"Indeed. Those who claim to manipulate fate will eventually be played by fate themselves."

Chen Ye suddenly removed his mask and took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.

At that moment, countless humanoid puppets dressed in suits suddenly appeared before Chu Yang.

These puppets were not invisible; they stood there in plain sight.

One puppet stood to the side, blocking the wind. Another puppet took out a cigarette and placed it in Chen Ye's mouth. A third puppet produced a lighter and lit the cigarette for Chen Ye.

"Hoo..."

Chen Ye exhaled a puff of smoke. "Those who claim to manipulate fate will eventually be played by fate themselves, hmm..."

"Interesting. I'm curious to see what surprises fate has in store for me."

Weapons of mass destruction?

They dare to use them in the city?

Although there are no citizens in this area, the citizens in other districts clearly haven't evacuated. They dare to use weapons of mass destruction?

Hmm...

Perhaps not mass destruction, but small-scale could work too?

Chen Ye assessed his own body. Right now, taking a missile head-on would probably turn him to ash.

But it didn't really matter.

What truly made Chen Ye curious was how Chu Yang and the others knew his identity, and how they were so sure he would be here.

Of course, it was possible that Chen Ye had missed some clues, or that he had been located by satellite.

But there was no way they could have known about Chen Ye's plan.

After all, kidnapping the entire North Ridge City was an absurd idea. Even if their imaginations were unusually wild, they couldn't have possibly thought Chen Ye's threads could cover the whole city.

Unless...

Someone had glimpsed the future.

This hypothesis was very interesting.

If there really was something or someone that could observe the future, then it wouldn't be strange for them to make these preparations in advance, or even know Chen Ye's secret.

Thinking of this, Chen Ye exhaled a puff of smoke, "Let me guess, one of you can observe the future, right?"

"Or perhaps you're a reincarnator, you already knew my plan, or maybe both?"

Hearing Chen Ye's words, Chu Yang's expression clearly turned a bit uglier.

"It seems I guessed correctly, but how much of it is correct? Can you tell me? I'm also very curious about the future."

Chu Yang's eyes subconsciously glanced down. "You did guess correctly. One of us can see the future."

"This time, I will borrow the future to triumph over fate once."

Can someone really predict the future?

That's not good. If they truly knew the future in advance, then their daring to come here must mean they've already seen their victory in the future.

This was very bad for Chen Ye.

For safety's sake, he should probably leave.

Just as Chen Ye was about to move his feet, he suddenly frowned.

Something's wrong.

"Is it possible he's bluffing? Does he know they can't beat me, so he's pretending to be confident to force me to act?"

After all, if they had truly glimpsed a victorious future, why hadn't they made a move yet?

What were they waiting for?

Just as Chen Ye was wondering, Chu Yang suddenly took a step forward and launched a side kick directly at Chen Ye!

Seeing this, Chen Ye pulled on his threads, and a nearby puppet instantly grabbed Chu Yang's ankle.

"Didn't you say we were here to negotiate? What, no more talking?"

Hearing Chen Ye's words, Chu Yang gritted his teeth, directly used the force to kick away the puppet, and then charged fiercely towards Chen Ye!

"Negotiate? I'll negotiate with my fists!"