Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 406 Control
Screams, wails, chaos, death, flames, and thick smoke filled this greatest city in the world.

Perhaps Ji Fuyou himself did not cause too much direct damage to the city. The bombardment of those metal rods may not have been as destructive to the Vatican as one or two nuclear bombs.

However, the incredible penetrating power of this space-based weapon destroyed the entire Tower of Supremacy, and the devastating impact of the Tower of Supremacy collapsing from the sky was far beyond what a few nuclear bombs could achieve.

Thick dust and smoke billowed, engulfing almost half of the Vatican. Everyone trembled in fear at this horrific scene of destruction.

It was in this environment that Ji Fuyou found the last cardinal bishop in the Papacy.

Of course……

He had just found another cardinal bishop, but the first thing that bishop did upon seeing him was to summon the temple knights around him to attack him, showing no willingness to communicate with him normally.

Therefore, Ji Fuyou could only send them on their way, and thus chose the well-behaved old man in front of him.

"Cooperation! We'll agree to any cooperation you ask for! We just hope we can both sit down calmly and have a proper talk!"

The old man cried out, his body trembling slightly.

"This is not the place to talk. Let's go to the Academy of Science and Technology for a detailed discussion."

Ji Fuyou said something.

An aircraft flew over quickly.

The old man obediently boarded the aircraft.

Immediately, the two headed straight for the Academy of Science and Technology.

Despite being about 80 kilometers apart, the collapse of the tower and the raging fire in the city below still stirred up a lot of dust that drifted to the tower, plunging everyone on it into a state of grief.

However, many people had no idea what had happened. They only knew that a foreign enemy had invaded, but they had no idea who the enemy was or where they came from.

In this context, when Ji Fuyou and the Cardinal returned to the tower, the numerous researchers who recognized him were overjoyed, bowing, greeting, and even prostrating themselves in worship, as if they had found their pillar of support.

As for Ji Fuyou, who was beside him, few people made any other comments.

Soon, the Cardinal, who was revered as the Lightforged, led Ji Fuyou to a conference room.

“My divine messenger, please feel free to ask for anything. Our Cult of the Machine God has always been benevolent. As long as we can help you, we will do our utmost to fulfill your request.”

"You must have corresponding control backdoors for all biochips, right? Are these backdoors lethal?"

Ji Fuyou inquired.

Bishop Forged Light Hess hesitated for a moment before saying, "Normally it's not fatal, but it has a special program inside that, when fully activated, will destroy the chip. Since this destruction process occurs inside the brain, it can indeed cause brain damage and death."

Ji Fuyou wasn't surprised at all and said directly, "First, you need to do one thing, which is to delete this program."

"This... program cannot be deleted..."

The cardinal hesitated, "Unless the chip is removed..."

"Can't do it?"

Ji Fuyou turned his gaze to him.

Noticing Ji Fuyou's hostile gaze, the Cardinal quickly said, "Although the program cannot be deleted without removing the chip, the activation procedure of this program requires the signature of at least three Cardinals, or the Pope himself, to be executed, and the center of the signal transmission is in the Supreme Tower."

He quickly said, "Now that the Tower of Supremacy has been destroyed, commands cannot be transmitted to satellites in space, so this function is effectively rendered useless."

"Three or more cardinal bishops..."

The entire Mechanicus has 12 Cardinals, and only 3 of them are needed to issue this order, which could wipe out almost everyone in the world...

It must be said that people are truly cheap in the eyes of the Mechanicus.

Which system is responsible for this?

Ji Fuyou inquired.

After a moment, he estimated that the cardinal would not be able to answer the question, and then said, "Summon someone who can answer my question. At the same time, lift the city's defenses and do everything you can to help with disaster relief."

"Yes."

Zhu Guang responded immediately, activated a communication device, and issued the command.

At the same time, he felt a sense of relief that this person from another world...

They weren't as difficult to get along with as I had imagined.

It's all because the Pope and his men were too arrogant and ordered an attack without listening to the otherworldly person's demands, which led to this predicament.

Blame yourself.

Thinking about it, he felt a little relieved.

It seems that if we cooperate properly, we won't lose our lives.

The main reason his thinking changed was that Ji Fuyou almost completely ignored their military strength.

If he hadn't demonstrated absolute power, even countering their military tactics by controlling their space-based weapon platform to collapse the Supreme Tower and beheading the Pope and other high-ranking officials, delivering a fatal blow to the Cult of Machine God, this Cardinal would never have had such an idea.

He would probably act like everyone else, ordering the capture or even killing of any beings from another world as soon as he learned of their appearance.

Do you know what the consequences of losing the Heavenly Ranking War are?

Ji Fuyou Road.

"It will... expose our coordinates, attracting invaders... In addition, more and more alien beasts will emerge from the mist, eroding our world..."

The cardinal carefully chose his words before responding. "But it seems you don't take it too seriously?"

Ji Fuyou was acting strangely.

"Well... actually, we've been on high alert... Recently, we've not only been intentionally expanding the War Knights from three to six, but we also plan to promote the 9th generation chip so that everyone can devote themselves to production with greater enthusiasm. In addition, the Church itself is also on high alert, monitoring all anomalies, and immediately containing and destroying any emerging fog zones..."

The Cardinal responded.

"You think you can stop us?"

Ji Fuyou looked puzzled, then seemed to realize something: "You don't actually think that what you need to deal with are those beasts and monsters that are only at the seventh or eighth rank in the first stage, do you?"

"In recent months, the Pope has convened several meetings, originally planning to double the number of orbital weapons in the next three years and expand the Knights Order, but... didn't a large number of elites lose their positions after the Heavenly Ranking War?"

Zhu Guang was somewhat embarrassed: "Many positions have become vacant, and the Pope and the bishops are discussing who should fill them, which has caused the chip project and the weapons project to progress a little slower..."

Ji Fuyou listened, and although he was speechless, he also thought it was normal.

Compared to the alien threats and the fog threats, whose exact strength is still unknown but which seem manageable at present, the most important thing is to place their people in key positions and give them important roles.

Wasn't the Dawn Civilization also plunged into civil war due to the loss of a large number of sword saints?
Not only the Dawn Civilization, but according to information from the investigation team, more than 30% of civilizations will fall into power struggles due to the loss of a large number of participants.

The other 30% descend into chaos and collapse due to fear and other reasons.

The remaining civilizations are those that truly recognize the seriousness of the problem and quickly unite to find a way out.

"The threat of the fog is far more terrifying than you imagine. For defeated civilizations, a large amount of fog can engulf the entire world in just one or two years. You should be well aware of the impact of the fog on technological weapons. Once your entire world is shrouded in the fog, only death awaits you..."

As Ji Fuyou spoke, he seemed to sense something: "You built a space station?"

"One or two years!?"

Zhu Guang was startled: "According to researchers' calculations, it will take at least 30 more years before the fog can cover the world."

He then added, "We are building a space city... It is expected to house 300 million people... When there is fog on the planet, we will escape to space until we figure out a way to solve the fog."

“Under normal circumstances, it would indeed take decades for the fog to cover the entire globe, but for a defeated civilization… the speed at which the fog spread cannot be judged by common sense.”

Ji Fuyou shook his head as he spoke: "Besides, how can you guarantee that you won't be affected by the fog once you hide in space? Perhaps the fog will appear directly in your space city, causing the space city's power system to fail and thus crash to the ground."

"This……"

The cardinal said with a worried expression, "The space city is also our last resort. We thought... with our technology, we should be able to defeat the fog."

Soon, a group of more than ten people rushed over.

These people included not only department heads and technicians, but also Templar Knights.

The Templar Knights looked at Ji Fuyou with wary eyes, but in front of the Bishop of the Lightforged Machine, they dared not act rashly.

"Mechanical Spirit".

Zhu Guang immediately said, "Describe our 'All Beings' system in detail to this envoy."

"Yes."

“I don’t quite understand your language, so describe it to me using your mental powers.”

Ji Fuyou said something.

The person in charge, Mechanical Spirit, is also a master-level spiritual power user.

He glanced at Zhu Guang, and only after seeing the other party nod did he activate his spiritual power.

He activated his spiritual power, which was then guided into the Realm of the Void God. He vaguely sensed something was amiss, but he didn't dare to raise any objections.

It briefly describes the "All Beings" system.

What he didn't know was that after he was accepted into the Realm of the Void Gods, his spirit and thoughts were almost completely exposed to Ji Fuyou. Even some key information about the "All Beings" system that he had been hiding was clearly presented to Ji Fuyou.

In addition to these, he also received a secret order.

The order to summon all the Temple Knights to "rescue the king" was issued.

The one who issued this order was Cardinal "Light-Borrowing".

However, since the bishop could not discern his true strength and the two were relatively close, he was hesitant to act rashly and ordered only to gather the Knights and prepare for battle. The final order had not yet been issued.

Ji Fuyou ignored this.

He quickly figured out the "All Beings" system.

Following that, using the virtual divine realm, they were able to initially "see" more than 3300 satellites corresponding to the "All Beings" system.

The Cardinal was right; the destruction of the High Tower has temporarily prevented the control center from activating the "All Beings" system.

That would be easy.

Without hesitation, Ji Fuyou bypassed the control center of the Supreme Tower and transmitted a message via communication satellite to all living beings with biochips installed.

Information about an impending massive invasion by the Mist that will destroy the world.

At the same time, he passed down a book of cultivation methods.

Only by mastering this cultivation method, condensing spiritual power, and sensing the beings of the "Divine Kingdom" can one be granted the power of the "gods," defeat the strange beasts in the mist, and gain salvation.

(End of this chapter)