One option was to confiscate the Americans' tools for taking everyone down with them, leaving them unable to set off nukes—or making any nukes they did set off ineffective.
The other was to make Earth less indispensable. Why did the Americans think threatening mutual destruction would make Huaxia wary? Wasn't it because they were counting on Earth being humanity's only home? If the Americans knew that even if they destroyed Earth, the people of Huaxia could keep living on another planet, would they still consider setting off nukes all over the world?
Absolutely not!
Nobody was an idiot. If the Americans knew they couldn't inflict any real damage on their opponent, how could they bring themselves to blow up Earth? That wouldn't be taking their enemy down with them. It would be digging their own grave.
That was why Shen Bing's most urgent priority was to get off Earth and establish a foothold on another planet.
Even the moon would be enough to keep the Americans from acting rashly.
Shen Bing knew, of course, that he might be worrying needlessly. The Americans wouldn't necessarily be insane enough to blow up Earth. That would be a crime against humanity.
On the other hand, those who failed to plan ahead would soon find trouble at their door. Surely there was nothing wrong with preparing for the worst?
Just as Shen Bing left the Underground Base, Qiuqiu told him that the Americans had announced the end of their military exercise. Their Carrier Fleet had also withdrawn from Singapore's waters.
Ordinary people seeing that news would surely think the Americans' exercise really had ended. After all, it had lasted almost a month. It was about time it ended.
But Shen Bing understood that announcing its end now meant the Americans were backing down. They