I'm a magnetic field madman

"My father wants me to go there to find valuable people and things, and more importantly, to find a suitable place," the First Lady said softly, toying with a crystal.

“My father said that the future First City of Sea Tiger could not be built on a small island. I neither agree nor disagree with my father’s words, but I am indeed familiar with that place, after all…”

"That's where I was born."

31. Internal strife as always

The decline of human civilization in this world, like their loss in the Gastrea War, can be described as inexplicable and nonsensical.

Possessing cutting-edge technologies such as nanotechnology, satellite weapons, practical nuclear fusion, and prosthetic body modification...

Human civilization is now at a level that fully meets the requirements for leaving our home planet to explore the solar system and establish interstellar colonies.

However, this human civilization, full of hope for the future, was inexplicably destroyed by an unknown viral outbreak.

Even the fact that this virus outbreak itself was created by humans through experimentation... these elements alone are enough to make it seem utterly nonsensical.

Although Bai Wujie viewed the golden age of human civilization in this world as no different from a sandcastle, the Gastrea should have been the dominant and powerful force.

Regardless of the birch magnetic field, which was suddenly "discovered" at the end of the war and could easily kill Gastrea...

Using only human weapons, eliminating a group of carbon-based fleshy creatures that are exceptionally regenerative would not be too difficult.

Regardless of experimental weapons, a single nuclear bomb would be enough to easily subdue these Gastrea, not to mention that besides nuclear bombs, humanity also possesses nanoweapons, space-based weapons...

Electromagnetic weapons and even devices that manipulate local gravity are technologically groundbreaking capabilities.

Even the most resilient Stage 5 cannot survive the core explosion exceeding ten million degrees and the subsequent explosion spreading to tens of thousands of degrees. Even if they could survive, their cells would undergo irreversible mutations under radiation. And even if their vitality is truly that tenacious, they cannot be completely unharmed.

Even if they were to survive, they would certainly not be able to destroy the world under the saturation attack of human civilization.

At the very least, human firepower is absolutely sufficient to keep these nonsensical things pinned down on their own territory and prevent them from escaping.

As for its infectivity? While some foolish countries may act utterly ignorant and foolish in the face of infectious diseases, gastroviruses have never been particularly contagious.

It can only be transmitted through bodily fluids, and the time from infection to incubation to symptoms is only three days. In terms of transmission and incubation speed alone, it is definitely not a virus that can "destroy the world".

If this virus can be transmitted through the air and has an asymptomatic incubation period of more than a month, then it would be more accurate to say that such a virus could wipe out the world.

Given how weak Gastrea is, the likelihood of it wiping out humanity is probably even lower than the chance of a zombie virus wiping out humanity...

Moreover, even in the worst-case scenario, humanity should be able to launch a counterattack and reclaim their land in a very short time after learning of the existence of chromium, using weapons made from these metals.

Because it is not difficult in itself. Although chromium is a non-renewable resource, its production has never been low.

Japan, in particular, as the main production area, is so wealthy that it has created dozens of giant stone monuments, hundreds of meters high, to enclose itself within just a few years.

The amount of chromium material needed for the super-chromium bullet that could have destroyed Scorpio was probably less than twenty pounds.

The erection of the megaliths was already a victory for humanity. In such a "safe" place, even if humanity's total productivity were reduced to only ten percent, it could still easily control those so-called Gastrea.

Despite having no shortage of resources, humanity not only failed to fight back but also faced extinction.

Especially the two countries on the mainland, which possessed the world's top three nuclear arsenals, were destroyed incredibly quickly and in an incredibly bizarre way.

Human civilization perished so swiftly and irrationally, destroyed by a group of "monsters" who were actually nothing at all.

It was destroyed by a bunch of carbon-based chunks of flesh that weren't even worthy of shining Godzilla's shoes.

All of this reveals a nonsensical, ridiculous joke and a sense that quickly evokes the stench of human depravity.

Bai Wujie never sought the answer to this question... even though he had guessed most of it, even though he could reveal the answer at any time if he wanted to.

But pursuing answers so directly is too boring. It's more interesting to slowly search for the answers to some questions and the answers to some things.

At the top of the towering Blue Dream Tower, in an extremely luxurious hall and room... Bai Wujie, sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed, holding a cigar in one hand and a wine glass in the other, looked like an arrogant nouveau riche.

In front of him sat a middle-aged man with gray hair and a sorrowful face, while behind him stood two young women who looked to be around sixteen or seventeen.

A person with long, silver-gray hair, deep red eyes, and an expressionless face.

She was dressed in a robe that covered her entire body, resembling a nun's habit. She was tall and slender, but overall appeared petite. When silent, she exuded an aura of aloofness and taciturnity...

The other one was a black-haired, one-eyed woman with short, flowing hair, wearing a slightly worn-out women's suit...

She was also tall and slender, but a size larger than the former, and had a mature, model-like appearance. Her face was beautiful but gloomy, and her blind left eye was fitted with a black, modified prosthetic eye.

Both of them are children of the curse, and both are quite powerful.

Bai Wujie became very interested in them because he was only missing two girls on his list of adopted daughters, and he felt that these two girls were very suitable.

However, it seems that they are all "taken" now, and have already pledged allegiance to a power or country.

Although it's a bit of a shame, Bai Wujie isn't the kind of person whose collecting obsession and compulsion are so severe that they'd stop at nothing.

Moreover, Bai Wujie's greater interest now than the two of them was in the middle-aged man in front of him and the strange device with a drill bit that he brought, which was placed in front of Bai Wujie and was about two meters long.

“Mr. Bai, this is what we told you before, the thing that caused our nuclear weapons and nuclear facilities to become completely ineffective.”

The middle-aged man, his face somber, placed his hand on the device and said softly…

Neutron jammer.

In 2015, a major breakthrough was achieved in stellarator-based nuclear fusion research, spearheaded by the United States…

Nuclear fusion technology has been successfully developed and officially put into use in 2018.

Not to be outdone, the East also made a breakthrough in nuclear fusion using a tokamak device structure developed by Seris in collaboration with Lucia around 2018. Everything in the world is developing in a positive direction.

But until early 2019, the gastroenteritis outbreak destroyed all of humanity's thriving potential to reach the stars.

Gastrovix, which originated in Japan, and the zodiac army spread to the rest of the world at an incredible speed... and successfully launched the so-called "Gastrulian War" in early 2020...

It was a war that everyone thought would end quickly, that a decisive victory would soon follow, but who knew...

The failure was simply unbelievable.

First, Seris and Lucia, the main battlefields of the Gastrea Wars, collapsed at an incomprehensible speed. While the troops at the front were still resisting, large areas in the rear inexplicably fell.

Next came the complete fall of Asia, then Europe, and finally the Americas. And without a doubt, the Americas, as the last region to be affected, suffered the least.

Although the United States also claimed to have "suffered greatly" in this war, it was the only major power that did not completely disintegrate...

Furthermore, the complete blockade of the sea and the release of nuclear weapons prevented the Gastrea catastrophe from taking place at sea.

But the strangest thing is not this, but that Japan, the origin of the Gastrea disaster and the country that "existed" in all eleven zodiac zones, was not "destroyed"!

The safety zones, primarily consisting of five areas—Tokyo, Osaka, Sendai, Hakata, and Sapporo—protected much of Japan's vital territory, while also connecting these areas via megalithic monuments…

Protected by the megaliths and aided by those inexplicably well-preserved nuclear fusion power plants...

Surprisingly, residents' lives are not much different from those in 2020—in this apocalyptic setting, they can still follow celebrities, trade stocks, and play video games?

Anyone with a modicum of intelligence can see that something's wrong!

However, the countries that still have a voice in the world have chosen to remain silent... Not only that, but they have even established the so-called International Initiator Supervising Organization under the coordination of Japan, continuously exporting the most produced ruthenium metal in their own country, and colluding with countries including Australia, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, showing the demeanor of wanting to be the "boss".

Everything is fucking absurd and ridiculous!

Bai Wujie was actually quite curious about the ins and outs of this ridiculous story... but he patiently refrained from actively seeking the answer.

So, he waited for the answer to come to him in person.

“At the very beginning of the virus outbreak, we could have contained the disaster at its source!” The middle-aged man in front of me, who was also one of the leaders of the few remaining dungeons and survivor cities in Seris, recounted the beginning of this absurd story in a sorrowful and hateful tone.

"But at the time, out of humanitarian considerations and also considering that dropping nuclear bombs on Japan would affect coastal areas, we chose to stop."

At this time, we passed an internal vote to provide humanitarian aid to these people, and accepted some of the Japanese refugees into our country..."

"But unexpectedly, while we were facing off against the Gastrea army led by the Zodiac, they were stabbed in the back!!"

His fists were clenched so tightly they turned white, and the veins on his temples bulged on his weathered face!

"Perhaps there were already problems within our own borders. Among those refugees, there were human bombs who deliberately carried the original virus, and there were also some who brought these neutron jammers into the country!"

While we were fighting the Gastrea, they dropped these devices in the area where nuclear weapons should have been deployed, devices that inertize neutrons so they can't bombard atoms!

The battle that could have been won on the front lines has failed, and from the rear they keep releasing gastroenteritis into our safe cities, even..."

General Yuan's voice was blurred and indistinct, choked with grief and hatred...

"They even used soldiers created by the so-called 'New Human Creation Project' to repeatedly assassinate our high-ranking personnel... choosing to create massive chaos while we were preoccupied with other matters!!"

"That's why you failed so quickly," Bai Wujie said softly, tilting his head.

The biggest reason for Seris's defeat was probably because they didn't think that the Japanese would choose to betray them at this time... and they didn't expect that they would have something like a neutron jammer that could directly affect the course of the war.

"It wasn't just us, there was also Russia... Their internal problems were more serious than ours, and with the UKL's similar backstabbing, the moment Taurus captured Moscow, those of us still holding on knew it was too late," General Yuan said with deep resentment.

"So Lucia and I both initiated the follow-up 'Dead Hand'. But after that, Lucia was replaced by a puppet supported by the forces behind the scenes and by traitors within the organization, and we completely severed contact with them..."

The terrifying peace created by nuclear weapons is entirely based on the premise that no nuclear-armed superpower would allow other countries to benefit after their own demise. This has nothing to do with morality; moreover, their defeat and national collapse were due to the betrayal of humanity!

However, with the presence of neutron jammers, those countries that should have been destroyed by nuclear weapons are probably all safe and sound, while those that shouldn't have been dealt with... God knows.

"But we can confirm that, in addition to fission nuclear weapons, we also deployed some newly developed fusion weapons," General Yuan said in a low voice.

"We don't know how effective it was, because all our satellites were destroyed after that. But I think a few of them must have successfully hit America..."

A nonsensical, seemingly complete story has come to an end—just another foolish infighting spree. Bai Wujie smirked, swirling his wine glass as he chuckled…

"But judging from the actual situation, the real 'mastermind' is probably still alive and well, right?"

"The organization that betrayed us is in Japan, called the Five Flying Association." Behind General Yuan, the girl with long silver-gray hair stepped forward and said coldly to Bai Wujie…

"They are the main executors of the 'New Human Creation Project,' and also the key instigators of the assassination attempts against our high-ranking officials. Their leader is called..."

"Qi Wuzong Xuan," Bai Wujie gently took over the conversation with a smile.

"The 'President' of the Osaka area, the leader of the Five Sho Association, can you share any new information?"

"You know?" another gloomy girl with a black prosthetic eye stepped forward and asked.

"Of course, the Five Flying Gang, a bunch of self-important rats, the financial backers who were just marching outside my building not long ago," Bai Wujie said with a chuckle, taking a sip of his drink.

"So, is there any new intelligence? You don't actually think that a bunch of stinking rats on this island nation are the real culprits behind the destruction of the world, do you?"

Bai Wujie's attitude of watching the show with amusement was extremely irritating. However, General Yuan remained calm and said in a deep voice...

"As Mr. Bai said, including neutron jammers, distorted stellarator structure nuclear fusion technology, and even gastritis and new human modification projects, we do not think this is something the Japanese government could do."

"There must be a bigger mastermind behind them, and it's highly likely..."

"Alright, alright, I'm the kind of person who likes to save the mystery for last. And I like to save the fun for much later," Bai Wujie interrupted him, smiling knowingly...

"Let's get straight to the point. You didn't come to me to tell stories, right? You want to team up with me, but to what extent do you want to go?"

"Destroy the Five Flying Soaring Society and avenge our fallen comrades!" General Yuan declared resolutely.

"This is advantageous for Mr. Bai, isn't it! We join forces to eliminate the Five Flying Gang, and Japan will belong to your Blue Dream Company, we..."

"Too small, too small, too limited in scope." Bai Wujie shook his finger and said slowly...

"Let's be direct. People from outside Tokyo, do as you please, kill them all. I don't care."

32. Specter Shark and His One-Eyed Step-Sister

After being betrayed and losing the war against the Gastrea, the entire territory of Seris was in dire straits. With the defeat of the front-line army and the explosion in the rear, Seris was on the verge of destruction.

But they ultimately survived, almost entirely thanks to the few underground cities they had dug with foresight before the war, the relatively intact defenses of some cities after the troops returned to defend, and the nuclear fusion bombs they finally dropped.

He retained some of his strength without relying on chromium and began to recover.

At least compared to Lucia, which has now been completely controlled by behind-the-scenes forces and turned into a puppet regime, they have retained the integrity of their sovereignty.

Tragically, without the "support" of the mastermind behind the scenes, the situation in the country is far worse than in Russia. They are completely unable to rely on "others" and can only rely on themselves to slowly recover.

So, backed by Japan, which produces tens of millions of tons of food annually and keeps itself in captivity... it's not only a bunch of traitorous dogs and trash, but also an utter waste of resources!

Of course, this also includes the fact that the country itself is already "supporting" and "controlling" it.

For the Japanese, ten years is just ten years of living in their own pigsty, getting by... But for Seris, it was ten years of incredibly difficult, gradual recovery.

Ten years have passed, and the gradually recovering Seris has gained the ability to explore the outside world. Most of the Gastrea in the country have been wiped out... but the remaining population and resources are still insufficient to support them in carrying out their revenge.

But it was precisely at this moment, when they restored external communications, that they discovered Bai Wujie and Lanmeng Company.

In the grand scheme of their enemies, a fellow countryman, wielding unimaginable, groundbreaking technology, defeated the incredibly powerful Scorpio and seized control of all of Tokyo.

At that time, everyone, including General Yuan, was not only bewildered but also on high alert.

They believed that Lanmeng Company and Bai Wujie were quite likely to be the agents of the behind-the-scenes black hand organization that was the Five Flying Society.

Even so, they still could not give up this great opportunity to revitalize their motherland.