Wilford won't get very far.
Before he even left the forest, the Pangu's massive feet, size 40+++, stepped over his head and landed right in front of him. The stomp nearly blew away all of Wilford's dwindling hair.
Feeling the force of the stones, sand, and tree debris hitting him, Wilford finally decided to give up.
He lowered his head and slumped helplessly to the ground.
A short while later, another group of soldiers wearing black exoskeletons came from the other end of the forest. Wilford heard the sound, glanced up, and obediently allowed himself to be pinned to the ground and searched by the group.
After verifying his identity, the soldier in charge of receiving him took out a temporary agreement specifically for criminals, grabbed Wilford's thumb and made him put his fingerprint on it, and then quickly jumped away through the Spacetime Tunnel.
The mission of the Pangu has come to an end.
Curtis and his group, standing beside the railway, blinked, and the massive mech vanished from the ground without leaving a trace.
"They're leaving just like that?" Curtis hadn't figured out what had happened, and he didn't even have the heart to reminisce about the enormous mech.
He was wolfing down a can of food.
Even though he was shivering from the cold, he didn't care; his entire body instinctively began to stuff food into his mouth.
The others were in a similar situation, searching for anything edible on the train that was being cut into sections.
In the distance, a large number of local military and police personnel were also present.
In fact, they had already spotted the Pangu when it first appeared and had been following it nearby ever since.
They just waited until now to dare to make their appearance.
The remaining passengers on the train were taken in by these military and police personnel.
Wilford's farce has come to an end.
"Yes, it's over..."
Mather witnessed this scene in South America firsthand through satellites in the sky.
All passengers were rescued safely; Wilford was likely taken away as well.
The stage play concluded with its final act, and the belated South America officials brought the curtain down on a successful performance.
His missile launch failed.
Compared to Cheng Wanli's team, which can achieve global one-hour express delivery, their missile technology doesn't hold much of an advantage. Especially since, even in this timeline, they haven't yet launched...
The exhibition showcases a missile that can be redefined.
So that missile was destroyed immediately after it was launched.
It was just a high-altitude firework display.
This ending was not unexpected.
If they had any ability left to cause trouble, they wouldn't have come up with a plan to restart human civilization.
However, the interception of the missile also convinced Mather that he had been being watched by Cheng Wanli for some time.
Then he received a call from Cheng Wanli asking him to accept the call immediately...
After much deliberation, Mather decided to call Morgan first.
I mainly want to know what to do next.
He was completely dumbfounded.
Morgan's reply was also very simple:
"We've been destroying evidence for the past two days. Buy us a little more time..."
"Buying time?"
"Yes, the relevant personnel at the CW-7 factory are already cleaning up. Give us three more days, and what we did before will disappear without a trace, like water flowing into the ocean."
"Even if Wilford criticizes them then, they won't have any direct evidence. That traitor was only responsible for building the railroad; he has no direct connection to CW-7!"
"By the way, these next few days you should step forward and calm the public down, let everyone see your presence, and stop hiding in the base."
Hearing Morgan say that, Mather could only agree, and then he reluctantly called Cheng Wanli, explaining that the signal at the base had been bad these past few days, and that he would pretend not to hear about CW-7 and the issue of global cooling.
After hanging up the phone in his bunker, Morgan immediately called his subordinates.
How's the progress?
"80%! Give us two more days and we can finish!"
This figure reassured Morgan considerably.
"How's everything going with Mather's arrangements?"
The other end immediately replied, "It's done. We've already inserted Mather's mental illness record into his medical history."
"Discrimination, violence, and destructive tendencies, along with an extremely perverse desire for control and boundless greed, a split personality... all according to your orders, sir."
"Once we finish modifying the remaining data, any future investigations will assume that Mather and Wilford, two destructive lunatics, accidentally discovered CW-7."
This statement further convinced Morgan
He felt greatly relieved, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders.
Mather was unaware that his file had undergone subtle changes without his knowledge, and that he had suddenly gained dozens of secret medical records from psychiatrists and psychologists.
These records show that he was a person with serious psychological problems.
He and Wilford, the terrorist who took the hostage, were the masterminds behind the CW-7 incident!
In fact, something like the CW-7 simply cannot erase all traces.
This kind of refrigerant isn't so easy to manufacture; otherwise, they could just secretly produce it and then quietly release it, wouldn't that solve everything?
It's because manufacturing this stuff is many times more complex than extracting enriched uranium, and it consumes enormous amounts of resources, so much so that it has to rely on international cooperation to manufacture it together.
In other words, various documents related to CW-7 are actually preserved in countries around the world.
They could get away with it before, but now that there are doubts, many countries can follow the clues and conduct verification.
It's only a matter of time before the true capabilities of the CW-7 are revealed.
Furthermore, the timing of the global temperature drop coincides so perfectly with the CW-7 emissions—do they really think everyone's a fool?
Therefore, instead of doing something unrealistic like destroying evidence, it would be better to address the root cause and simply replace the person in charge of the Doomsday Cooling Plan.
What business is it of the Morgan family?!
That was something that madman Mather did himself.
He doesn't know either!
Anyway, CW-7 was a project that Mather had been pushing hard since he took office. It had a total preparation period of seven years, and for six of those years, Mather was the salesman outside. He was the spokesperson for this project in the outside world.
It's reasonable to say that he orchestrated the whole thing.
"So, has the executor been arranged?" Morgan continued to ask.
"Don't worry, everything has been arranged."
The sound of papers turning could be heard from the other end. The subordinate read aloud the text on the paper, "A farmer who believes in extreme environmentalism. He previously protested at the CW-7 release site with a banner and made personal attacks on Mather. He also tried to cause trouble for Mather's mother, but failed."
"After the temperature dropped, all the cattle on his farm froze to death..."
"The person he hates most right now is Mather!"