Eternal Night

Chapter 666 First Round of Draws
Europa has a regular standing army of 150,000, not just a full-scale armed field army, but a fully armed one, equipped with the most complete military structure and weaponry, looking like it's ready to fight a total war.

In fact, this is not only the case on Europa, but also in all the territories under the Azure Government, including Earth, the Moon, and the farthest Kobo Belt observation station, all of which are in a state of full-scale armed manpower.

This stems from the aftermath of the founding of the Azure Government. Although the Azure Organization resolved the bio-beast frenzy at the end of World War III and led to a second revival of human civilization, even after several hundred years, the Azure Government remains deeply wary of many secrets surrounding the bio-beast frenzy. Some of these secrets are even unknown to the highest-ranking families and leaders of the Azure Government.

Furthermore, some terrifying rumors circulated among the higher-ups that the bio-beast frenzy had not ended, but had only temporarily subsided for other reasons. Therefore, throughout the entire Blue Government's rule, various standing armies maintained a high state of alert.

Therefore, when the riots caused by Wu Pifu occurred, the Changbei Legion stationed on Europa immediately activated its emergency response plan. Various automated weapons were deployed in the first wave, and the army also quickly recalled personnel and initiated the counterattack process.

And then... no more.

Within ten seconds, Wu Pifu cleared all the floating automated weapons in the city of Europa. Without stopping, he arrived above the military district, which was still under preparation, within a few seconds. Below him, the military district's surface-to-air defense weapons were immediately activated, and a large number of high-explosive, low-penetration weapons bombarded the airspace where Wu Pifu was.

These weapons were incredibly powerful, and even Wu Pifu's hundred-foot-tall aura barrier couldn't withstand them in the slightest. Although dodging was easy, Wu Pifu's purpose was to intimidate everyone, so how could he possibly dodge at this moment?

He reached into his personal space and took out the dimensional ring, the protective pendant he had commissioned the chairman of the First Company to make. He then stuffed it into the ring and, without dodging or avoiding, let the dense anti-aircraft firepower bombard him.

Explosions, intense heat, plasma... all the firepower, enough to destroy everything that humanity has ever created, bombarded Wu Pifu, yet his clothes remained completely undamaged. All the observation instruments within the military region showed Wu Pifu's unharmed figure, and then everyone saw him descend step by step from the sky, enduring this terrifying firepower.

"...What kind of monster is this?!"

Commanders, staff officers, technical personnel, and even ordinary soldiers who witnessed this scene were all in a state of extreme shock and disbelief.

Because they understood just how powerful and terrifying the weapons they used were, they were shocked and incredulous when the Wu Pi Fu, which was immune to physical attacks, appeared on the spot. Even the strongest bio-beasts in legends could not be immune to this level of firepower; it was beyond the realm of life!
"Immune to high temperatures and heat, plasma flow... What kind of monster is this... Activate high-penetration weapons immediately! I command, activate high-penetration weapons immediately!!"

A high-ranking officer roared, but his order was not carried out immediately. Everyone in the command room looked at him with strange eyes, and the entire command room fell silent.

High-penetration weapons are taboo in outer space colony star cities because the canopy surrounding the entire outer space star city is a physical entity. Although there are energy shield generators that can withstand very strong bombardments, explosions, and penetrating damage, these are designed for attacks from outer space meteorites and are wide-area defense systems. They are very effective against explosions, high temperatures, and large-scale destruction, but they are not so good against small-sized, high-penetration attacks, especially high-penetration weapons used by the military. At full power, they can fire hundreds of thousands of rounds per second without any problem. If used, the star city's canopy will be directly destroyed.

You must understand that outside Star City lies the terrifying and harsh alien environment of Europa. Humans cannot survive for more than three seconds in that environment. Once the sky breaks, all humans in Star City will perish!
Seeing no one respond, the high-ranking officer continued to roar, "Are you all idiots? The military region has its own miniature sky screen. Once the star city's sky screen is detected to be collapsing, the sky screen inside the military region will be activated. Moreover, we have so many shuttles and escape pods inside, so even if the sky screen is damaged, we will still be fine. If we don't stop this monster now, not only will we all die, but the civilians outside will also die. Furthermore, if it gets to Earth, our human civilization may be destroyed. Are you all still hesitating?"

Before today, what this high-ranking officer said would have been perfectly reasonable.

This has been the Blue Government's long-standing propaganda: to achieve victory through sacrifice. This is the key to the Blue Government's revival of humanity, so naturally, they have put a lot of effort into it.

Although many people have joined in the corruption, and it could even be said that the Azure government's army is rotten to the core from top to bottom, such as the troops stationed on Europa, from commanders to ordinary soldiers, almost all of them have participated in smuggling, selling weapons, and acting as protectors for gangs, this is the world in which everything is in disarray, and you can't just try to be aloof and self-reliant.

At its core, before today, some lower-ranking soldiers still believed in the Great Way of Sacrifice, and believed that for the sake of human civilization and to resist those bio-beasts, even sacrificing tens of millions of people on Europa was worthwhile. These good people truly believed in this, and they were the backbone of the Azure Government's army.

However, after today, the scandals exposed by the chairman of Chu's Logistics Group, especially what Wu Pifu said and what Chu Qingyu said, these decent young men were truly confused. Combined with what they had seen and heard in the military, as well as the scandals of high-ranking military officials broadcast live on the screen, it was not just about acting as a protective umbrella or participating in smuggling and theft of weapons, but about many truly inhumane dark secrets.

For example, this commander who issues orders, in the black material rolling back and forth on the sky, there is a scene of him participating in a cannibalistic feast.

This isn't an adjective; it's a literal description of a cannibalistic feast, a banquet where humans are the food!

These things were played back and forth on the entire sky screen, and not only the citizens of Star City saw them, but also the soldiers stationed there. Now, the commander was shouting to use high-penetration weapons and to break the sky screen for the sake of all mankind. The information in this made everyone suspicious, and many people even suspected that the commander's purpose was to break the sky screen and erase all the pictures, videos and other evidence filled with his dirty secrets.

For a moment, the entire command room fell silent.

Seeing this, the commander's heart skipped a beat, then he sneered menacingly, "You dare disobey orders? I can shoot you all right now! And do you think that monster will let you go? Don't be ridiculous! Even if that thing isn't human, do you think you're clean? Heh heh, smuggling, gangsters, prostitutes and slaves trafficked from Earth, the Moon, and Mars, and those severed organs... So what if I eat people? As if you haven't eaten people?"

"Get this straight, every penny of dividends you receive is made from the blood and flesh of people you've consumed. You son of a bitch, you don't actually think we higher-ups can achieve all this, do you? Or do you think that idiot Chu Qingyu is wrong? That those uncultured, immoral, good-for-nothing lowlifes have any value other than their bodies?!"

The commander roared, "Those things aren't human at all! They're just livestock in human skin! They should have been eliminated long ago! It's because of these creatures that we humans have been held back from leaving the solar system. Chu Qingyu is just making this implication clear. Isn't that what you all think? Isn't that what you're doing?!"

Everyone present fell silent. Then, some began to act, issuing commands, some bowed their heads to assist in the mobilization, and some felt ashamed. However, their actions were resolute. Except for a very few who were confused, most people were in a strange state of silent yet determined action.

Just as the commander said, and just as Chu Qingyu said before, this is the mainstream ideology of this era. Most people at the bottom of civilization have lost the ladder to upward mobility. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. In particular, education has also created a dividing line. Most people at the bottom are receiving happy education and intellectual education. With the great advancement of technology and productivity, the people at the bottom seem superfluous...

Take Europa, for example. The city has about ten million permanent residents, all of whom are considered "elites." There are no lower-class people among them. The black and gray population, who number more than ten million, are the lower-class people. The best they can do is become a member of a gang, while others are used as consumables, prostitutes, slaves, or the like.

The mainstream ideology of the elites in this era truly believes that the lower class is hindering the development of human civilization, and they have even made early preparations for purging the lower class from the perspective of public opinion!
This scene didn't just happen in the command center.

Initially, the sudden release of the damaging information, especially the numerous inhumane contents that caused physical discomfort to many, led to a surge in disbelief and nausea. However, after the initial shock and disgust, and particularly after the alarm bells that rang throughout Star City triggered by Wu Pifu, with various shelters opening and millions genuinely feeling their safety threatened, a flood of complaints, accusations, and questions arose. The argument that the lives of the lower classes were incomparable to those of the elite was rampant. All of this was reflected in Wu Pifu's super-brain emotional perception.

Until the lower military district deployed a high-penetration weapon array, some of which were not conventional weapons but ground-to-space defense weapons based on asteroids or planetary surfaces. Their power was enormous, but once used, it would almost certainly mean the abandonment of the colony and the death of all personnel on the colony who had not entered the shelter.

But how could the soldiers in the military region possibly care about that at this time?

To put it bluntly, they have all accepted their "elite" status with a clear conscience, so how could they possibly care about the so-called "common people" at this point?
All sorts of weapons were laid out, with the intention of killing Wu Pifu first and then dealing with other matters. There was even a dark thought involved: to completely destroy the Europa colony and bury everything that had happened there.

Then, at this moment, Wu Pifu finally moved, slamming his palm down on the ground. A clearly visible dragon-shaped burst of energy erupted from his palm, winding downwards and striking a honeycomb-shaped weapon window.

With a deafening explosion, the entire weapon window was reduced to rubble. Immediately following behind was Wu Pifu, who descended from the sky with a swift and powerful slash. In the blink of an eye, he was on the ground, and everything in his path was shattered into pieces. A series of explosive shockwaves followed, and the high-powered penetrating weapon that the soldiers had placed their hopes on was reduced to ruins before it could even be used.

Wu Pifu then spoke: "All soldiers stationed on Europa, you are now surrounded. Surrender and obey my orders. Those who resist will be killed without mercy!"

The sound traveled throughout the entire military region, and everyone within the region could hear it.

Everyone looked incredulous.

This is truly turning the world upside down!
They are the regular army of the Azure Government, the government's true trump card of violence. Compared to them, no family, power, or group security group, or even the police force, can act with such confidence.

They've always been the ones saying these things to others; when did it become anyone else's turn to say them?

Most importantly, Wu Pifu was all alone, how dare he do that?

Soon, everyone knew why Wu Pifu dared to do it...

With a normal movement speed of 10,000 meters per second, no weapon could damage him. His attacks, whether it was the dragon-shaped energy that could reach tens of thousands of meters away or the ancient, indestructible broadsword, reduced more than one-fifth of the military region's fortifications to ruins in less than five minutes. More than 30,000 soldiers' bodies were nowhere to be found, more than half of the heavy vehicles were completely destroyed, and shuttles attempting to take off secretly were all shot down...

In an underground fortification, officers and hundreds of soldiers huddled inside, trembling. Each of them stared wide-eyed at the alloy door, powerful enough to withstand a nuclear explosion. Cold sweat poured down their backs. The fortification was eerily silent.

The next second, a knife mark appeared on the alloy door, cutting a slit in it. Then everyone saw a pair of hands reach out from the slit and pull the alloy door outward with force.

In the instant everyone's hearts tightened, a sound that could not possibly be caused by a living being appeared. The alloy door, half a meter thick, was torn apart, dented, and ripped open. Everyone saw Wu Pifu standing outside the door, waving the five-meter-diameter circular alloy door, which was then sent flying thousands of meters away with a muffled thud. Hundreds of people inside the room involuntarily trembled.

The leading officer shuddered, immediately threw down his weapon, knelt down, and raised his hands, shouting, "We surrender! We surrender! We surrender!!"

The remaining soldiers immediately threw down their weapons as if they were burning their hands, and each of them roared in despair, "We surrender! We surrender!"

Wu Pifu did not continue the attack. He pointed outside and said, "Line up in your respective formations on the square, immediately!"

Hundreds of people hurriedly got up and ran towards the flat square outside as if they were being chased by ghosts. As soon as they ran out, they saw that there were already densely packed surrenderers outside, numbering at least tens of thousands. These people were arranged in their respective orders and neatly lined up in rows. If someone who did not know the situation saw this, they would think it was a military training exercise.

Not long after, as the last of the surrendered soldiers arrived, all of the nearly 100,000 remaining troops stationed on Europa were gathered here. Everyone was trembling, their eyes were glazed, and many people were secretly weeping as they lined up.

Their livers and gallbladders were completely shattered, and they no longer had the slightest courage to resist.

Then they saw Wu Pifu rise into the air, standing about twenty meters above the ground, so that everyone could see him.

"I won't say anything more. You all know what you need to know. At the same time, you all consider yourselves elites, viewing the lower classes as a burden, as livestock in human skin, utterly worthless and meaningless..."

Wu Pifu's words rang in everyone's ears, and everyone could hear them easily.

“I have confirmed this repeatedly: not all of you are non-human, but you are not human either. Humans cannot take the suffering of other humans for granted. You are sick, you are contaminated, and I will save you now!”

Wu Pifu said this, but before all the soldiers could breathe a sigh of relief, his voice rang out again.

"Round 1: Five draws, one kill. Begin!"

(End of this chapter)