NOVEL WEB Chapter 258: The Great Harvest.
"No need!"
Chi Qiu's eyes narrowed slightly, a glint flashing in them, "As long as one stares at one of these people for a long time, that person will become infected and slowly turn into the same shape and appearance as me."
"Isn't that more real than you?"
"Patriarch, is this alright?"
The Patriarch of the Chi Family was startled for a moment, then suddenly thought of this matter, glanced at Mr. Zhang who was busy commanding in the distance, and spoke in a low voice, "You guys go handle it, just remember to record a video, be careful, and don't let people notice."
Why hadn't he thought of this earlier?
Then he looked at Ke Gou again, who had just had a moment of realization, and nodded in appreciation once more. Little Qiu, the servant, might not be the brightest, having not thought of this himself, but his loyalty was indeed plain for all to see.
This is what made him the most qualified servant.
Not the brightest, but loyal enough, and that was all that mattered. What else could one want?
...
"Did you already think of this long ago?"
Chi Qiu looked at Ke Gou with a complex expression. Knowing Ke Gou as he did, how could it be possible for Ke Gou not to think of something that even he could figure out? The suggestions he had been giving to the Patriarch these days had all been told to him by Ke Gou.
"No."
Ke Gou shook his head and did not elaborate on this point, instead, he quickly arranged the Feign Death diversion.
There were many things he couldn't say.
For instance, if it had been his suggestion just now, the Patriarch of the Chi Family would have been displeased, because it involved the possible annihilation of the entire Chi Family to protect Chi Qiu. As an outsider, he had no right to make decisions for the Chi Family.
But if the suggestion was for him to die, although it was still his proposal to the Chi Family, because it was about his own death, the Patriarch would focus more on his unwavering loyalty, thereby reducing many negative opinions about him.
This way, with Chi Qiu bringing up the suggestion, everything would proceed naturally.
Otherwise, based on his understanding of the Patriarch of the Chi Family, the purpose of raising a profligate son was to be ready to offer the son's head as an apology to those above when it mattered most, even though he had used some methods to make the Patriarch grow quite fond of Chi Qiu recently. In the face of the entire Chi Family, the Patriarch would still make the correct choice.
...
The vast Sankui Wasteland was already packed with people.
Not just the Sankui Wasteland, the surrounding wilderness was also filled to the brim. Nearly a million people were running wildly towards Fengtian City, and the city's army had already marched out, arraying themselves to carry out a devastating assault on these people.
Every shell that fell signified that within a ten-meter radius, none would be left with even bones intact!
Countless Gunslinger Transcendents were converging into an army, showing the world through their actions that when it came to legion combat, the Gunman Profession reigned as the undisputed king!
Other high-end combat powers and top forces of Fengtian City were also bombarding the crowd with all sorts of methods!
In just half an hour.
More than five hundred thousand corpses lay on the wasteland, a sight extremely harrowing. This was the efficiency of Fengtian City; these people, though looking eerie and shocking, did not answer back when cursed, nor did they fight back when attacked. From beginning to end they did not hesitate, merely rushing towards Fengtian City in unison!
They just had to keep bombarding them along the way to easily achieve very impressive results!
Just like now.
In just half an hour, more than half had been wiped out. The rest were estimated to be finished in another half an hour.
...
*sigh*
Watching all this, the mayor breathed a deep sigh of relief, "It seems this random event is just a bit strange to look at, a bit tricky to handle, but doesn't have any other special aspect."
So far, Fengtian City had almost zero casualties.
Only one person was seriously injured.
This seriously injured person was still flying in the air when he found that none of the running crowd could fly because of no energy sources, so he crashed into the surging crowd and was trampled on by tens of thousands of people alive. It was only because his physical fitness was not bad, and he had life-saving items with him.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have just been serious injuries.
He probably would have lost his life right there. Aside from this, there were no other casualties; these people did not resist at all from start to finish, and it would have been hard for any casualties to occur.
"How is it going?"
Zhang Wanlin, with his hands in his pockets and a cigarette in his mouth, walked over in a great mood and looked towards the remaining crowd still running, "Didn't I tell you, all these people are just paper tigers?"
"I don't know what you're all afraid of."
"What is there to be afraid of?"
He was in a very good mood now, even indifferent to the mayor's initial defiance of his orders. His one hundred container trucks were already packed full.
Each truck was crammed with hundreds of experimental subjects.
His containers were no ordinary containers, they were large-capacity ones.
Not only were the containers stuffed full, but the sides and tops of the containers were also tied with ropes filled with experimental subjects, a total of about seventy thousand specimens. This was his harvest for this operation.
All alive.
There was simply no more room to pack them, time was pressing, and this was the only convoy nearby.
But the most important thing was—
Before the military of Fengtian City arrived, he had already sent people to capture all the individuals at the front of the surging crowd who resembled Chen Miao, stuffing them into his shipping container without a single one escaping.
In the current crowd, a portion of the "Chen Miaos" were shot dead on the spot, and the rest had been captured by him, but even so, 70,000 experimental subjects—though a significant fortune—were still far from enough to excite him.
What was more exhilarating for him...
He had snatched a wand from one of the Chen Miao's hands and discovered that he could actually use this prop, despite it being "First Show of Sharpness," a time-limited prop with not an insignificant reputation in the federation.
Even if he had snatched the wand, it didn't mean he could completely possess the entire prop.
But... let's not forget that Chen Miao was not only carrying a single prop, indeed, these clones of Chen Miao seemed to possess the same props and abilities as the original, but the problem was that they were incapable of attack, just like wax figures.
Though he was reluctant to admit it, he had to acknowledge that Chen Miao's strength was indeed much stronger than that of other supernaturals of the same rank, even surpassing some of the higher-ranked ones.
If all the Chen Miaos in the container were to be killed, the props in their backpacks would drop.
At that time...
"Hehe!"
Zhang Wanlin's thoughts drifted, and the idea of having a troop of Gunslinger Transcendents with formidable firepower sent him into an uncontrollable excitement. He was aware of the unique-skinned firearms that belonged to Chen Miao; all he needed was to train a group of Gunslinger Transcendents.
Once he distributed the weapons that dropped, he would have the federation's foremost gunman army!
Even...
The position of the Patriarch of the Zhang Family, Zhang Wanlin felt, was not beyond his reach!
With that in mind, he could hardly be bothered to pay attention to the developments that followed nor to reprimand the mayor who had just defied his orders, instead, he hurried back to his container and commanded it to head towards the headquarters of Beifeng Hospital Group!
He intended to commence his harvesting within the huge underground chamber at the group's headquarters.
Here was merely a branch of Beifeng Group, not the headquarters, which was located in the outskirts of Jingjiu City. The Zhang Family owned a large piece of land there; their ancestral home was there, and many of their business headquarters too.
"Zhang Family Territory."
The destination he was headed for was exactly this place.
...
"Ah..."
The Patriarch of the Chi Family, holding a video of 'Chi Qiu' being killed, intending to step forward and apologize, looked at Zhang Wanlin who left in a hurry without turning his head, sighed with a bit of helplessness.
"It seems this young master was so preoccupied with his own thoughts that he forgot his own words."
"Is the Chi Family that negligible to others?"
"One day, the Chi Family will stand on equal footing with the Zhang Family!" Experience more tales on empire
Perhaps due to an overwhelming sense of humiliation, the Patriarch of the Chi Family, staring at the receding figure of Zhang Wanlin, silently vowed, setting this grand yet distant goal for the Chi Family.
Ke Gou, who heard all these words standing behind, muttered to himself.
If things went south, it was impossible for the Chi Family to match the Zhang Family in a thousand years. The gap between the two was simply too vast, and there seemed to be no solution; he didn't even know how the Chi Family could catch up with the Zhang Family.
At that moment.
Chi Qiu suddenly popped up from the side. Although his appearance was disguised, Ke Gou immediately recognized him and hurriedly approached with concern, "Qiu, how did you come back? Didn't I tell you to leave Fengtian City quickly?"
"I'm here to keep an eye on things for you; after you leave, I'll follow."
"Even though you pulled off the deception, if Zhang Wanlin carefully checks Fengtian City's rankings and sees your name, he'll still realize we tricked him."
"..."
After silently staring for a long time, Chi Qiu finally looked at Ke Gou who was full of urgency and the equally perplexed Patriarch of the Chi Family, "I was almost fooled by you guys just now. Take a good look at the leaderboard, where on it do you see my name?"
"My whole life, Chi Qiu has been inconspicuous and unnamed, how could I possibly be on the list?"
"Ah..."
The Patriarch of the Chi Family was startled, but quickly realized this, flipping through the list before exclaiming in surprise, "You really aren't on it, huh?"
...
Eight hours later.
Night had fallen.
The grand convoy of shipping containers drove into "Zhang Family Territory," entering the factory of Beifeng Pharma Group and one by one descended into an underground tunnel, leading to the Beifeng Pharma Group's underground chamber—
the heart of the Zhang Family's domain.
Along the way, they encountered numerous Zhang Family checkpoints, as the convoy of over a hundred containers tied up with so many people looked suspicious to any observer, but under the escort of Zhang Wanlin, the scion of the Zhang Family, they proceeded without encountering any obstacles.
They arrived smoothly and parked in the Beifeng Pharma Group's underground chamber.
Seeing tens of thousands of Chen Miaos haphazardly bound and scattered on the floor, Zhang Wanlin couldn't feel more elated, his smile nearly stretching ear to ear.
"Unbind them all!!!"
Zhang Wanlin commanded triumphantly with a wave of his hand.
These individuals had no ability to attack, and once unbound, they would continue to run toward Fengtian City, persistently bumping into walls.