Boom!
Those words thundered past like lightning from the nine heavens!
The blood instantly drained from Smith's twisted face, leaving him deathly pale!
The country he took such pride in, the hegemony he represented-Elder Xu had casually consigned them both to the dust of history!
This was no longer humiliation!
It was an ancient civilization's utter contempt for, and judgment of, a newly risen upstart!
"I..."
Smith opened his mouth to argue, only to find that he could not force out a single syllable. His mind went blank.
Compared with that vast perspective, spanning five thousand years and looking down upon the rise and fall of the world's civilizations...
His earlier bluster seemed so petty, so childish, so hopelessly narrow-minded!
"Holy shit! Well said!"
Jin Dapao flushed with excitement and began clapping!
Clap, clap, clap!
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap!!!
Soon, thunderous applause filled the grounds.
Liu Gang and the Bureau 7 agents trembled with excitement, applauding with all their might.
As they gazed at Elder Xu's back, they felt they were looking not at a man, but at a mountain-a towering monument forged from five thousand years of civilization!
"Damn it!"
Smith finally snapped out of his daze, his face turning a dark, purplish red.
His crushing humiliation became towering rage, but he was no fool.
Quite the opposite. As one of Eagle Country's finest elite agents, his mental fortitude was his strongest weapon!
He stared fixedly at Elder Xu, sensing a danger unlike anything he had encountered before!
This old man was no ordinary person!
An ordinary veteran might have a soldier's iron resolve, but he could never possess such vision and presence, surveying the world and speaking with authority on millennia of history!
*And he had fought on the Korean Battlefield. He even knew about the crushing