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Chapter 258 Northwest Space Marines Sweep! Laplace's Demon Disguised as a Cat! (Please Subscribe)

In the modern world, in Shanghai, a high-end apartment.

Zhong Mengyao put down the multi-functional life detector in her hand. On the screen, the life curve and infrared characteristics representing the target person were very stable.

She rubbed her sore eyes and checked the monitor again to see Lin Lizheng peacefully petting the cat.

That's right, petting cats.

A tabby cat covered in black and brown stripes lay on its back, squinting and purring contentedly.

Zhong Mengyao felt that her top-notch equipment and professional skills had been insulted.

That cat is so weird!

How could they let a stranger they just met on their first day take them home and masturbate like that?

She took a deep breath and organized today's surveillance report—including the discovery that he caught a cat while the other party was taking a night walk and then took it back.

After organizing it, I sent it directly to my immediate supervisor, Li Weiguo.

I thought Mr. Li would have been asleep by now, but the phone screen lit up almost instantly.

Li Weiguo: "Why is there an extra cat over there at Linli's place?"

Reply instantly!

Zhong Mengyao looked at the question, scratched her head, and quickly replied with a voice message: "Reporting to President Li, it's very strange. The other party seems to be particularly attractive to cats. He found a cat on his way to a walk! I wonder whose cat it was that abandoned."

"Didn't he wait for the cat's owner?"

"He waited a long time before leaving! As you know, there are tabby cats everywhere in Shanghai. Sometimes, you can just turn around and one will pop out of the bushes by the roadside."

Li Weiguo: "Okay. I see. I understand. Keep a close eye on their every move!"

Zhong Mengyao: "Okay, Mr. Li."

After ending the call, Zhong Mengyao looked at the tabby cat sleeping on its back on the screen and couldn't help but mutter to herself, "It's just a cat that actively seeks out its owner, why is she so nervous? —"

The neighboring building has rows of bedrooms.

His consciousness was pulled away from the command room of that other world for several minutes.

As he petted the cat, he thought about Su Mingjin and the others, who must be feeling restless right now.

He glanced down at the little guy, who was fast asleep on his back with his four legs in the air, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

This newly appeared cat is no ordinary tabby cat.

This was another trump card he had acquired after reaching a certain level of exploration: a Laplace's demon disguised as a cat—a super-being that could theoretically calculate all the microscopic motions in the universe and even predict the future.

Right now, it's pretending to be the most harmless one, enjoying its owner's petting.

Lin Li looked into the distance, smiled slightly, and then went to the restroom.

He had long been aware of the prying eyes coming from all directions, but he didn't care.

Being made into dumplings? That's not going to happen.

He can open a portal to another dimension and leave whenever he wants; no one in this world can stop him.

Then, Lin Li lay back down on the bed, closed his eyes, and his consciousness instantly entered a special space.

As Lin Li's thoughts took hold, a large amount of spacetime source matter was being rapidly consumed, transforming into countless streams of light that converged in the center of the space, enveloping a humanoid silhouette.

That humanoid silhouette was Lin Li's projected clone.

He is modifying and disguising the projection clone he previously altered.

As the light flashed, the projected clone was encased in armor, and more details were gradually perfected.

The armor is incredibly thick, painted in a dark green like volcanic rock, and bears the double-headed eagle emblem on its chest, symbolizing the human empire.

Below his strong arm hung a ruggedly designed bomb gun, while in his other hand he held a power sword that shimmered with blue lightning.

The menacing helmet, the massive shoulder armor, and the totem on the shoulder armor representing the son of a dragon—all these things clearly demonstrate its identity—a descendant of a dark-skinned Primarch, a Space Marine.

This is the source of Lin Li's confidence.

As the pioneering team from Dongda explored and cultivated the land of the other world, interacted with various races, and learned about information about the other world, Linli's exploration progress was slowly increasing, while the spacetime source matter was increasing exponentially.

Once the forbidden zone of the ancient civilization was discovered, human probes entered that sealed special space. With the help of the high-dimensional perspective of the probes, Lin Li saw a large amount of equipment left behind by the ancient civilization, and the exploration progress and spacetime source matter increased once again.

When the celestial bodies converged, even more information was obtained by the pioneering team, and Lin Li reaped a great harvest!

Once the exploration progress of the "Sacred Star" reaches 30%, one can no longer use spacetime essence to strengthen oneself, increase the size of the spacetime gate, and open a small spacetime gate.

Now it can not only be used to accelerate the learning of knowledge, but also has many more incredible uses.

"Any Time-Space Gate: Can open more safe time-space gates, allowing normal travel between Earth and other worlds, or restricting the travel of life and resources between the two worlds."

The newly introduced arbitrary time-space portal function is incredibly powerful, allowing Lin Li to open doors in some hidden locations at Dongda University.

It can make it easier and more convenient for Tokyo University to transport supplies, and it can also restrict the creatures and other things in the other world.

For example, opening a one-way door —

If quirky characters from another world invade the modern world, or if other people enter another world and can forget about getting out...

Or maybe they were thrown into the freezing cold —

If you want to play, you can also open gates for some factions you don't like.

Or perhaps the whole world will know about it, and those who are hoarding the spoils will be attacked by the masses.

In any case, Lin Li has countless possibilities.

Of course, Lin Li won't be doing this for the time being.

"Time-space repair: Consumes a certain amount of time-space essence to repair time-space vulnerabilities. It can also create a filtering mechanism to filter and input specific items back and forth."

The previous "arbitrary time portal" gave him more means of operation, while this "time repair" seems to be somewhat overpowered.

This means that as long as there is enough spacetime source material, he can even restore the God-Abandoned Continent, which has been torn apart by the phenomenon of celestial convergence, back to a stable state.

Lin Li's thought flashed through his mind for only a moment before he immediately dismissed it.

repair?

The value of that other world would actually decrease significantly.

The heavens meet, and guests from all realms arrive.

While this presents immense dangers, it also offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

What kind of magnificent future will emerge if a world that already possesses magic and technology were to be infused with the sparks of other civilizations?

Lin Li even suspected that a supernatural system similar to that of cultivators existed in that world.

The new feature he had just unlocked gave him a sense of familiarity.

"Laplace's Demon's Greed"

"Every world has a Laplace's Demon, which can take any form! You can consume a certain amount of spacetime essence to lure it into helping you solve your problems."

"Feed it some spacetime source matter, and it can help you answer some small questions that it can handle."

"If you're a wicked person, you can even have Laplace's demon observe the objects and substances that exist in the world and tell you all the secrets!"

"However, it is a greedy Laplace's demon, and it often holds out for the highest bidder!"

"Warning: There is a certain probability that it may trigger an unknown danger."

Friendly note: This greedy little guy is great as an intelligence whiz, but be careful when petting him!

If the first two abilities only make Lin Li the best assistant, a nearly flawless and perfect behind-the-scenes tool.

Then the last note, imbued with strong personal emotion, is like a key, suddenly unlocking a long-sealed memory.

He had only ever heard this tone from one other person.

Parents who went on a trip abroad and then mysteriously disappeared.

It was because of this discovery that Lin Li's last trace of doubt and unease completely vanished.

If a pie in the sky is a trap, then you should be careful when tasting it.

If it was given to you by your parents, it means it was a family heirloom that your parents wanted to provide for you so that you could have a better life.

It was this confidence that gave him the right to send his projected clone to proactively contact Dongda University.

Now, he is even more confident that he can help the University of Tokyo and help the world take another step forward!

"loyalty!!!"

Having confirmed everything, Lin Li calmed his mind and quickly switched to a high-dimensional perspective, precisely locking onto the battlefield in the other world that was submerged by green waves.

Gunfire, smoke, and roars—utter chaos.

Excellent, a perfect stage.

He quickly selected the landing point for his projection clone!

Just as the execution was about to take place, Lin Li suddenly thought of a problem.

He suddenly opened his eyes.

The "greedy little guy" was lying on his bed with his four paws in the air, exposing his soft belly, fast asleep, his little paws still twitching slightly.

Lin Li, feeling both amused and exasperated, leaned closer and lowered his voice.

"Hey, wake up."

The tabby cat's ears twitched, but it didn't react.

"When I take you there later, could you change the color?" Lin Li looked at its highly recognizable patterns and had a headache. "This skin is too down-to-earth and a bit conspicuous."

The tabby cat finally reacted. It lazily opened its eyes, its pupils flashing in the darkness, clearly reflecting Lin Li's face.

There was a hint of displeasure in his eyes, as if to say, "Are you disturbing my sleep?"

Then, it yawned, slowly rolled over, turned its back to Lin Li, and impatiently flicked the tip of its tail.

"I'll give you spacetime source matter!"

Meow~

In another world, on the front lines of a time-space rift where the Greenskins are rampant!

boom! boom! boom!

Zhao fired three shots in quick succession. His exoskeleton power armor transferred the recoil of the 12.7mm rifle to his rear, and the three bursts of armor-piercing incendiary rounds knocked a nearly three-meter-tall, muscular green-skinned orc wielding a tattered weapon to the ground.

As his comrades' bullets rained down, the orc let out a final "WAAAGH" battle cry before dying unwillingly.

Its blood stained the scorched earth that had been burned many times, making this region, which had long hovered in sub-zero temperatures, scorch hot.

As the temperature here gradually rose, Zhao became quite worried.

The spores of the green-skinned orcs need a certain temperature to hatch, but the temperature here is getting higher and higher. Perhaps it won't be long before the spores of the green-skinned orcs take root and sprout here!

The scientists said that if the spacetime rift, which is constantly bubbling with magma, exists dozens of kilometers away, it will greatly improve the natural environment in the vicinity.

In the future, the surrounding area within tens of kilometers may become a relatively warm world.

Thinking about this made Zhao even more worried!

He looked at the battlefield that was being burned extensively, and confirmed that there were no living green-skinned soldiers. His other teammates began to burn the corpses with bio-engineered soldiers. Zhao Cai rubbed his sore arms and took out a cigarette from his pocket.

I touched it, and it was empty!

It turned out that the intense battle had caused him to unknowingly finish a whole pack of cigarettes.

"Captain! Here!" Xiao Zhou handed Zhao a cigarette.

Zhao accepted the cigarette: "The reconnaissance unit just reported that there are no Greenskins attacking us yet, so everyone should take a rest. Friendly forces' sentries and air units will continue to protect us."

"Hmm, our post-battle points should be catching up with Butcher and his team on the western front, right? Hehe, I feel like we'll regain first place as the Otherworld Pioneer Special Forces!"

Zhao smoked a cigarette and smiled, but there was a hint of bitterness in his smile.

He glanced down at the special forces soldiers around him.

His comrades-in-arms were all elite special operations personnel from Dongda University, skilled in reconnaissance, infiltration, and various types of technological warfare.

But now we must be like nails, nailed into this world.

"There are no cowards at Anton Coward Airport, and there won't be any cowards here!"

"Luckily, we have excellent logistical support!"

Zhao's mind was in turmoil, and he remembered that he and his comrades had gathered all the intelligence before they came—

"Comrades, the green-skinned orcs are dangerous. When they have fully adapted to this world, the WAAAGH field can be deployed, and the power of my thoughts can be released normally, we will face the most difficult battle."

The words of a political commissar who always had a smile on his face came to mind.

Although Zhao and the soldiers who participated in the battle knew that endless and arduous battles were to come, they still came here with great enthusiasm!

After resting for a few minutes, there were still no enemies in sight.

Suddenly, Xiao Zhou next to him cursed, "I really want to shoot those people who created these races all over again!"

Zhao opened his mouth: "Get some rest, conserve your energy!"

"yes!"

Zhao closed his eyes, feeling quite displeased!

Damn, I've never seen such a strange race. They can grow naturally with just sunlight and soil, and a single spore can quickly evolve into an entire civilization. Moreover, they can also evolve their own technology based on the technological level of the enemy civilization!

For humanity, which hasn't even mastered nuclear fusion technology or life science technology, this is way too advanced!

"Don't get angry, don't get angry! Get some rest, then we'll fight!"

Zhao Chong closed his eyes and rested in the cover like the other soldiers.

Until the communication channel suddenly rang.

It was Brigade Commander Fu who called directly.

This time, Brigade Commander Fu directly opened the high-authority channel of the defense line, so the combat troops could hear Brigade Commander Fu's voice during the battle.

However, the main task was for Zhao to connect with Brigade Commander Fu.

"Zhao, within the next twenty minutes! If your defenses encounter unfamiliar combat units, or non-green-skinned orc combat units, do not fire first! Make sure to confirm their intentions; they may be friendly forces."

"Could friendly forces be arriving? Non-greenskin orc combat units?"

Zhao was puzzled and did not understand what Brigade Commander Fu had told him.

The same applies to the other soldiers!

"Reporting to the brigade commander, could you tell me what friendly forces are involved? The military report information provided this time is rather unclear!"

"We're not sure either; the other side is very mysterious! They're probably the force that sent us the time portal! Zhao, inform all combat units!"

"Understood!" After confirming, Zhao immediately informed the special forces members stationed there.

Although everyone had their doubts, they didn't express much.

At the same time, after watching the flamethrowers and the burning, and thoroughly cleaning up the bloodstains and remains of the green-skinned orcs, the Butcher and his men also heard the same command!

"Received!"

And so, the troops that had been fighting hard began to look forward to the unit that headquarters called the friendly force, wondering who it was and what its origins were!

Time ticked by, second by second!

Zhao glanced at the tactical watch on his wrist—fifteen minutes had passed.

In peacetime, this is just a matter of smoking a cigarette or having a cup of tea.

But here, every second felt like a stretched steel wire, keeping everyone's nerves on edge, stretching out as if an eternity had passed.

On the deathly silent battlefield, only the crackling sound of burning corpses and the low hum of the distant spacetime rift could be heard.

"Captain! Another group of green-skinned soldiers is coming out at three o'clock!" The scout's voice boomed through the communication channel, calm but urgent. "Eight hundred and eighty-eight of them, charging towards our lines!"

Zhao suddenly opened his eyes. The bloodshot in his eyes had not yet faded, but his gaze had regained its wolf-like sharpness.

"Same old routine, lure them to the incineration area before starting the fire!"

"clear!"

The soldiers swiftly took their positions, their guns aimed at the distant, undulating green tide. Each movement was precise, almost mechanical, without a single wasted motion.

However, no sooner had the order been given than the Greenskins entered firing range than a sudden change occurred!

The sky brightened without warning.

A thick blue beam of light tore through the dim sky and landed precisely on the open ground several hundred meters in front of the position.

The light was dazzling yet filled with an indescribable sense of oppression; it could probably be clearly seen even from tens of kilometers away.

Within the beam of light, an outline slowly solidified and descended.

"Fuck you!"

Xiao Zhou, who was standing next to him, blurted out a curse word without thinking, and almost dropped the gun in his hand.

It was a colossal figure, at least three meters tall, covered entirely in heavy green armor. The shoulder armor was broad, and the breastplate was engraved with a golden double-headed eagle pattern, exuding both the elegance of an ancient knight and a cold, technological feel.

A long, heavy sword was tucked diagonally into his waist.

What's even more outrageous are the weapons hanging on his arms and legs.

Is that thing a gun?

No, it's more accurate to call it a one-handed cannon.

The muzzle was dark and gaping; the caliber must have been at least 20 millimeters!

This shoulder armor cannon has a large caliber for humans, but it seems very suitable for his more than 3-meter-tall body.

Just as everyone was stunned by the sudden appearance of this divine soldier, a slightly smaller beam of blue light followed closely behind.

As the light faded, a figure appeared, instantly plunging the entire position into deathly silence.

"Doraemon?"

A young soldier rubbed his eyes, his voice trembling, wondering if he was hallucinating due to excessive mental stress.

Yes, it's that round, blue figure.

Standing less than a meter tall, with blue and white skin, a golden bell around its neck, and a distinctive four-dimensional pocket on its belly.

It even strode with its comical short legs, twisted its headless head, glanced at the human positions behind it, and blinked its large mechanical eyes, as if confirming something.

Zhao felt his brain freeze for three seconds.

He had considered that the allies might be aliens, higher-dimensional beings, or even a robot army, but he never dreamed that a blue fat man would fall from the sky!

Is this some political commissar's twisted sense of humor?

The three-meter-tall armored giant completely ignored the collective petrification of the human soldiers behind him. He took a step forward, his heavy metal boots creating a shallow crater in the ground.

He drew his greatsword with one hand and raised his hand cannon with the other, his movements fluid and powerful, his aim fixed on the greenskins who hesitated slightly due to the sudden turn of events.

After a brief moment of confusion, the green-skinned men were instantly ignited by that tall figure!

"A giant shrimp!"

"So tall! So strong! Absolutely amazing!"

"I'm the most WAAGH ever, let me WAAGH him!!!"

"What the hell?! WAAAGH!!!"

A primal and frenzied battle cry instantly resounded through the sky.

For the greenskins, fear is nonexistent; a stronger and more imposing opponent only fuels their fighting spirit to the extreme!

"WAAAGH!"

Eight hundred and eighty-eight green-skinned orcs let out excited, maniacal screams and swarmed towards the green-armored giant who had descended from the sky.

Then, the green-armored giant moved.

Without any battle cry or unnecessary movements, he simply strode forward quickly.

Zhao and the others, who were a hundred meters away, only felt a gust of wind blowing from the front.

Then, they felt a heavy battering ram, carrying unparalleled kinetic energy, crash straight into that green wave.

Sixty kilometers per hour?

No, even faster!

Under the dynamic visual capture of Zhao and his group of soldiers, the huge green-armored figure initially ran at a slow speed, and their gun barrels could easily catch up.

However, the opponent quickly accelerated.

Once the opponent charged into the green-skinned group, it almost instantly turned into a blurry afterimage.

Before the few green-skinned orcs at the forefront could even swing their crude weapons, a muffled, war-drum-like explosion erupted among them.

Bang!

The Space Marine fired his massive hand cannon.

A green head, like a watermelon struck by an invisible hammer, vanished instantly in a cloud of blood mist, along with half a shoulder.

Immediately afterwards, the heavy longsword was drawn.

A fierce blue arc of electricity flashed across the sky, so fast that its trajectory was impossible to track.

The seven or eight green-skinned orcs at the forefront froze in unison. The next second, their upper bodies slid cleanly off their waists, splattering their internal organs and blood all over the ground. The cuts were as smooth as mirrors, and even emitted scorched blue smoke.

The slaughter began.

That was no longer a battle, but a one-sided slaughter.

The Space Marines' massive bodies darted and weaved through the Greenskins, displaying a terrifying agility completely disproportionate to their size.

Each swing of the power sword brought forth a deadly blue arc of light, easily severing the green-skinned, tough body along with its rudimentary armor.

Every now and then, the sound of the hand cannon blasting out meant that a green-skinned body was blown to pieces.

"WAAAGH————"

A green-skinned creature had just raised its battle axe, its roar barely half-uttered, when a large hand covered in green armor grabbed its neck. In its terrified gaze, the hand merely tightened its grip.

Click.

The sound of the neck bones cracking was clearly audible.

The greens, who had previously been fearless and clamoring to tear everything apart, have finally collapsed.

That primal, boiling fighting spirit was utterly crushed in the face of absolute power, transforming into the purest fear.

"Run! Run!"

"Shrimp are monsters! All shrimp are monsters!"

The surviving green-skinned orcs screamed in terror, abandoning their fighting instincts for the first time, throwing down their weapons and turning to run.

"The Greenskins are cunning and cruel, and they will only crumble when faced with an absolute terror that they cannot defeat—" Zhao thought of the description in the database. He looked at the figure in the center of the battlefield, which was like a demon god, and felt his throat go dry.

Xiao Zhou, standing beside him, still had his gun pointed forward, but his finger hadn't pulled the trigger. His mouth was half-open as he muttered to himself, "That was too intense!"

"Stop fucking spacing out!" Zhao snapped back to reality, his roar jolting everyone out of their petrified state. "Attack!"

Leave all those who tried to escape behind!

"yes!"

"Fire!"

"Da da da da da!"

The long-suppressed flames finally erupted, and the net of bullets accurately enveloped the fleeing green-skinned soldiers.

From the appearance of the green-armored giant to the complete collapse of the green-skinned orcs, the entire process took less than a minute.

When the last fleeing greenskin was shot down, the battlefield fell silent once more. The remains of more than 880 greenskins littered the front of the position, more than 200 of which were the work of that green-armored giant.

All eyes were focused on the massive figure slowly sheathing his sword.

He didn't turn around, not even glancing at the human positions.

Not far behind him, Doraemon, the blue robot cat who also fell from the beam of light, pulled out a small support flag from somewhere and waved it idly.

Meanwhile, the bells around its neck rang out with a series of crisp "ding-dong" sounds, which seemed out of place and utterly absurd in this bloody battlefield.

Upon seeing this, Zhao's eye twitched violently.

Just then, the Space Marine moved.

He strode forward with heavy steps, ignoring the corpses scattered on the ground, and walked straight toward the still restless, buzzing spacetime rift in the distance.

The childcare robot, Doraemon, also stuffed the little flag into its dimensional pocket, and then followed along with its comical short legs, wobbling along.

They—are they going to go into the crevice?

Soon, the mystery was solved. Zhao held the binoculars tightly, and the scene inside the lens was utterly absurd.

The blue robot cat that looks just like Doraemon is gesturing with its round fingers in front of it, seemingly muttering something to itself. Then, it reaches its round hand into the four-dimensional pocket on its belly and rummages around for a while!

"Captain, that thing—is he reaching into his pocket? Is he going to use time-space glue to fix it?"

A young special forces soldier nearby couldn't help but lean over, his voice even changing tone.

Zhao didn't say anything, but he could feel his temples throbbing.

The blue robot cat fumbled around for a while before finally pulling out something—a round metal can that looked like a can of cola.

It handed the cola to the Space Marine next to it.

The three-meter-tall steel giant took the round can, weighed it in his hand, and then, with a sudden twitch of his arm muscles, threw it violently into the depths of the spacetime rift in a standard grenade-throwing motion.

The moment he threw it, the Space Marine didn't hesitate; he turned and sprinted backward at an astonishing speed!

"Lie down!"

Upon seeing this, Zhao almost instinctively shouted out those two words.

Something that could make Space Marines retreat immediately must be far more powerful than they could imagine!

Almost at the same moment he roared, an indescribable green light burst forth from the center of the crack!

No sound.

That was true at least initially.

The world fell into a deathly silence, all sound swallowed up by the green light.

Immediately afterwards, a devastating shockwave swept in with a deafening roar!

Boom—!

Zhao felt as if he had been slammed to the ground by an invisible giant wolf hand. Sandbags from the defensive fortifications were blown away, and dirt and gravel rained down on him.

He could see nothing but dazzling green, and all he could hear was a sharp buzzing sound.

I don't know how much time passed, maybe a few seconds, maybe a few minutes.

As Zhao struggled to lift his head from the mud and shook the debris off his helmet, his vision finally cleared.

He instinctively looked in that direction.

Empty.

That spatial rift, tearing through the sky and nearly ten meters high, rendered countless warriors helpless, resembling a scar from the apocalypse—

That's it!

The sky was pitch black, a cold wind was blowing, and apart from the stench of the green-skinned corpses, it was as if everything that had just happened was just a nightmare.

Only a huge, scorched, vitrified crater remained on the ground, a testament to what had just happened.

silence.

The entire position was deathly silent.

All the surviving soldiers stared blankly at the sky that had returned to normal, their mouths agape, but no sound came out.

A heavy, rhythmic footstep broke the silence.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

The Space Marines strode steadily to the front of the position.

The shadow cast by his enormous body made everyone feel a suffocating pressure.

Zhao suddenly came to his senses and scrambled out of the fortification, not even bothering to brush the dust off his clothes.

He stood ramrod straight and gave a solemn military salute.

"My friend, thank you for your help! Without you, we—" Zhao Chong's voice was a little hoarse, and for a moment he didn't know how to express his gratitude.

The voice of Lin Li's projected clone, disguised as a human, came through the helmet's speaker, carrying a metallic hum: "Without the replenishment of psionic energy from that world, the danger posed by the green-skinned orcs will be greatly reduced."

"There is also a special way to sterilize this place, which can reduce the DNA genetic characteristics of green-skinned people to a safe level! However, for complete safety, you must burn this place completely."

His gaze swept over all the soldiers present.

"Gentlemen."

May humanity live on forever! Until we meet again!

As soon as he finished speaking, two familiar blue beams of light descended from the sky, precisely enveloping the Space Marine and the cute-looking Doraemon.

Seeing their figures begin to fade into the distance, Zhao panicked and, disregarding all formalities, shouted, "Friend! Wait! There are still many spacetime rifts in this other world. What should we do? Are you just going to leave like this?"

""

The Space Marine did not answer.

A flash of light, and only the dust kicked up by the shockwave remained, slowly settling down.

They arrived abruptly, and left even more abruptly.

Zhao stood there in a daze for a long time before slowly lowering his salute.

He looked back at his comrades behind him, whose faces were also filled with shock and confusion. He took a deep breath, and the confusion in his eyes was gradually replaced by a new kind of determination.

He grabbed the communicator, his voice hoarse but incredibly firm.

"Gentlemen, let's continue making glass!!!"

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