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13: Chapter 13: Three-Way Shock! Allies Rejoice, Enemy Countries Fall Silent, the World is Mute.The rain at Luofeng Slope had stopped, but the lively scene had only just begun.

After a typical large-scale beast tide, only two sounds could usually be heard on the battlefield: the suppressed groans of the wounded and the footsteps of stretcher teams running through bloody mud.

That suffocating silence was a nightmare that no surviving veteran could shake off.

But today, the atmosphere changed in a rather absurd way.

”Hey, you! Second Company Commander! Be careful with your hands and feet, damn it!”

The Zhao Gang had just finished regenerating his severed arm, and was now standing full of vigor on a mountain of Wind Demon Wolf corpses, waving a battle saber still stained with blood, his spittle flying everywhere:

”This is the back skin of a Wind Demon Wolf! It’s the main material for making Level 3 Anti-Magic Soft Armor! If you slash it and ruin the pattern, the value of this hide will drop from one hundred thousand to five thousand! You wasteful brat!”

The Second Company Commander who was being scolded was a young lad who usually acted like a mouse seeing a cat when meeting the Zhao Gang, but now he was grinning, his boning knife dancing in his hands:

”Zhao Gang, aren’t you being a bit stingy? Look at this scene, this stuff is everywhere, at least over a hundred thousand heads, so what if one is ruined? We’re rich now, we don’t care about these scraps.”

”Bullshit!” The Zhao Gang kicked him, laughing and scolding, ”Have you been made stupid by living in poverty? Forgotten how our regiment had to haggle with Old Wang from the Logistics Department last month just to repair a few broken armored vehicles? Now that we’ve finally made a fortune, be careful! These are all points, they are equipment!”

Indeed, the scene before them was too dreamlike.

In the past, fighting against exotic beasts meant carpet bombing with artillery, missile strikes, and finally, clashes between superpower users.

After a battle, let alone corpses, one would be lucky to find a few intact bones.

Precious furs, crystal cores, claws, and teeth were basically destroyed in high-intensity energy collisions.

Therefore, extraordinary Materials in Longxia Country had always been in short supply, and a single intact high-level Wind Demon Wolf hide could fetch an astronomical price on the market.

But now?

Everywhere one looked, thousands of high-level exotic beasts looked like specimens fresh off an assembly line.

Because they were either eliminated at fixed points after ”Time Stop” or disintegrated from within by the green rain, most of their external fur remained undamaged.

Even those blasted to death by tanks mostly had their internal organs shattered, while their outer shells remained intact.

This wasn’t battlefield cleanup; it had turned into a large-scale wholesale market stocking scene.

At this moment, speak of the devil.

A middle-aged fat man wearing thick-rimmed glasses was stumbling over.

It was the Logistics Department Chief of the Southwest Theater, Wang Suanpan, whom they had just mentioned. He was the stingiest person around, who would calculate for half a day even when approving an extra two jin of pork for the cafeteria.

At this moment, this Department Chief Wang was holding a tablet computer, his fingers trembling as if he had Parkinson’s, his lips purple, and tears streaming down his face.

The Zhao Gang’s heart tightened, and he quickly supported him: ”Old Wang? What’s wrong? Is the casualty count out? Are the numbers very bad?”

Although there had been Su Yun’s miraculous rain, the previous battle had been fierce, and casualties were inevitable. The Zhao Gang also felt heavy-hearted.

Wang Suanpan grabbed the Zhao Gang’s sleeve, crying until he was out of breath: ”Bad... too bad... our warehouses aren’t big enough! We can’t even fit them all!”

The Zhao Gang: ”...”

Wang Suanpan wiped his tears and said: ”Old Zhao, you are a coarse man, you don’t understand! Do you know how much we earned in this battle? Huh? Just these hundred thousand plus intact Wind Demon Wolf hides, if taken to the international black market, could be exchanged for full sets of exoskeleton armor for five full divisions!”

”And the Shadow Leopard’s crystal cores! That is a miraculous medicine for Assassin professionals! In the past, we couldn’t even get a few no matter how much we begged, but now? They’re everywhere! The soldiers are even kicking them around like marbles!”

Wang Suanpan became more excited as he spoke, even starting to pinch his own thigh to confirm if he was dreaming: ”I just did a rough calculation, the profit from this battle, after deducting ammunition consumption and pensions, not only did we not lose, but we actually earned this much!”

He held up five fingers and waved them in front of the Zhao Gang.

”Five hundred million?” The Zhao Gang asked tentatively.

”Fifty billion!” Wang Suanpan howled, ”And that’s not even counting the special Materials from the Lord-level exotic beasts! Old Zhao, our Southwest Military Region has been poor for decades, and today we have finally turned the tables and can sing a song of triumph! I want to re-equip the soldiers! Replace everything with the latest! Thor individual cannons, Dragon Scale Armor, buy, buy, buy! Buy it all for me!”

Looking at the Logistics Department Chief who appeared to be in a state of madness, the surrounding soldiers looked at each other and then burst into laughter.

The scene became even livelier.

...

Across the Atlantic Ocean, the Eagle Federation.

In stark contrast to the festive, New Year-like atmosphere in Longxia Country, the air inside the highest operational meeting room deep beneath The Pentagon was as heavy as if it were filled with mercury.

The huge circular conference table was full of high-ranking officials in uniforms with general stars, but no one spoke at the moment. Everyone was staring at the holographic screen in front of them with furrowed brows.

There were only two images on the screen.

One was high above the East Sea, where two F-22 Raptor fighter jets were like sculptures nailed into the Void Realm, their exhaust flames spewing but they remained motionless.

The other was a satellite image transmitted back from Luofeng Slope, showing mountains of exotic beast corpses piled up on the ground, and the festive, New Year-like expressions on the faces of the Longxia Country soldiers.

”Can someone explain this to me.”

A blond old man sitting at the head of the table spoke slowly. He was wearing a dark blue admiral’s uniform with four stars on his shoulders, his face as hard and cold as granite.

He was ”Storm” George, the commander-in-chief of the naval fleet, and also the Eagle Federation’s renowned S-rank water-type superpower user, known as the ”Poseidon of the Atlantic Ocean.”

Usually, this hawk-faction leader would always have a cigar in his mouth, pointing out the country’s direction with a condescending attitude. But today, the cigar in his hand had burned down to his fingers, yet he was completely unaware.

”This does not conform to fluid dynamics, nor to the conservation of energy, not even to the law of universal gravitation.”

A white-haired scientific advisor wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said: ”According to satellite telemetry data, the engine thrust of the two F-22s is completely normal, gravity parameters are normal, and the surrounding air density is also not abnormal. Logically, they should be cruising at supersonic speeds of Mach 2.2, or have crashed due to a stall. But the reality is... their kinetic energy has been ’zeroed out’ by some force.”

”Zeroed out?” George threw away the cigarette butt. He didn’t slam the table in rage like an ordinary general, but instead narrowed his deep blue eyes, ”You mean, Longxia Country has mastered a weapon that can render physical rules ineffective?”

”Perhaps it can no longer be called a weapon...” The scientific advisor swallowed with difficulty, ”It’s more like... a Domain. A divine Domain capable of arbitrarily modifying reality parameters.”

There was silence in the meeting room.

In this era of Spiritual Qi revival, extraordinary powers were not rare. S-rank powerhouses could indeed do many things that defied common sense; for instance, George himself could whip up a hundred-meter-high tsunami.

But that kind of power had traces to follow; it was violent, a clash of energy.

But the scene before them was too quiet.

So quiet that it made one’s hair stand on end.

No explosions, no light beams, no energy fluctuations. Simply, just making you ”stop.”

This kind of silent, creeping horror was more intimidating than any nuclear weapon.

”Admiral, this cannot be a standard weapon.” Another intelligence officer tried to regain some confidence, ”Maintaining this level of confinement, the energy consumption must be astronomical. Longxia Country cannot maintain it for a long time, those two planes will soon...”

Before he could finish, the time on the screen jumped.

Exactly thirty minutes had passed.

The two F-22s were still hanging in the sky. Steady as a rock.

George stood up, walked to the screen, and gently stroked the frozen image, as if he could feel the bone-chilling cold emanating from ten thousand meters above.

As a commander who had experienced many battles, and also a top-tier powerhouse, his intuition was far sharper than so-called data, and he had a better grasp of the overall situation.

”This is not a weapon malfunction, nor is there any energy depletion,” George’s voice was low and hoarse, ”This is a demonstration! Dragon Summer has bared its fangs and seized our Achilles’ heel!”

He turned around, his hawk-like gaze sweeping across the room.

”Seal off the news! Cut off all external communication channels! This matter must absolutely not be known to the public, and even less so to those media outlets who fear no chaos!”

George gritted his teeth and said: ”If not handled well, this will be the greatest disgrace since the establishment of the Eagle Federation Air Force!”

However, what George didn’t know was that some things cannot be sealed off just because you want to.

...

There are no airtight walls in this world, especially when a brilliant sun is hidden behind that wall.

Although the Eagle Federation was desperately trying to cover it up, Longxia Country had no intention of hiding anything.

Soon, a set of high-definition satellite photos titled ”Longxia Country Border Spectacle” began circulating wildly on the dark web, Twitter, and major military forums.

The first photo: On the southwestern border of Longxia Country, the corpses of hundreds of thousands of hideous exotic beasts of various shapes, as if cut by some kind of precision scalpel, were neatly stacked on the wilderness.

Longxia Country soldiers wearing exoskeleton armor shuttled among them, as if harvesting crops in their own backyard, hauling away truckloads of S-rank Materials that were considered strategic contraband by other countries.

The second photo: Ten thousand meters above the East Sea, two F-22s, looking like a pair of poignant lovebirds, were frozen in the clouds, with even a seabird perched on the wing to rest.

The world instantly exploded.

On the dark web bounty list, the price for intelligence regarding ”Dragon Summer’s mysterious new weapon” soared from ten million USD to one billion USD in just half an hour, and it was still rising.

[God! Is this photoshopped? Can someone tell me what the principle behind this is?]

[Did the physics engine glitch? Earth Online is too lazy to even fix it?]

[Stop being a smart aleck, person above. I am from the Europa Royal Academy of Sciences, and we just reviewed all the data... There is only one conclusion: Longxia Country may have already touched upon power at the ’rules’ level.]

[It’s over, it’s all over. I just bet my entire net worth on shorting Longxia Country’s exotic beast concept stocks. It’s very windy on the rooftop right now.]

Meanwhile, the barometer of the international situation shifted dramatically.

The surrounding small countries that were originally watching from the sidelines, or even secretly trying to trip up Longxia Country, did a 180-degree turn in their attitude.

A certain island nation in the South Seas, which was protesting Longxia Country fishing boats crossing the border ten minutes ago, had its Foreign Minister personally deliver a televised speech ten minutes later, enthusiastically praising Longxia Country as the mainstay for maintaining regional peace, and stating that they would immediately send a special envoy delegation carrying the best tropical fruits to the capital to pay tribute... oh no, to visit.

Ambassadors to Dragon Summer from several Alliance countries in Europa, not sleeping in the middle of the night, carried gifts and started running to the Dragon Summer Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the guise of ”strengthening bilateral cultural exchanges,” but in reality, they were all sounding out: Big Brother, that thing of yours isn’t aimed at us, is it?

...Kunlun Underground Command Center.

Su Yun sat in a chair, holding a thermos cup in his hand, watching the reactions from all over the world on the big screen, which were like an exploded pot, with a leisurely expression.

”The commotion is indeed quite large.” He took a sip of hot tea and commented objectively.

Long Yi stood beside him with his hands behind his back, his usually stern face now carrying a hint of a smile.

”The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ phones are ringing off the hook.” Qin Shuangyue walked over quickly holding a tablet. ”Most are here to test our stance, and some are here to protest, saying that we used inhumane weapons of mass destruction, violating international conventions.”

”Inhumane?” General Li, who was on the side, sneered. ”Is it humane for them to fly planes into our home to defecate and urinate? We just helped them hit the emergency brakes, how is that inhumane?”

”What does the Eagle Federation say?” Su Yun asked.

Qin Shuangyue’s expression turned strange for a moment: ”Just a moment ago, the Eagle Federation ambassador to China sent an official note, sternly condemning our illegal detention of their pilots and fighter jets, demanding that we... release them immediately and compensate for related emotional distress, otherwise they reserve the right to take further military action.”

Upon hearing this, the command hall was silent for a few seconds. Then, a roar of laughter erupted.

Even the usually steady Zhou Weimin couldn’t help but shake his head: ”This bunch of Anglo-Saxon bandits is really used to being robbers. Even with a gun pointed at their foreheads, they can’t change this stinking habit of acting bossy.”

Su Yun also smiled. Whether in his previous life or here, the Eagle Federation could never change its base nature.

”Elder Long, how do you plan to respond to this?” Su Yun asked.

Long Yi knew Su Yun had an idea, so he said: ”The person who tied the bell must untie it. Su Yun, since you were the one who froze them, naturally, I’ll listen to your opinion on how to handle this.”

Su Yun pondered slightly and said: ”My original plan was to withdraw the skill. After all, maintaining it there, although it doesn’t consume much, is quite mentally taxing.”

”However...” Su Yun changed his tone, ”Since the Eagle Federation insists on talking to us about ’emotional distress,’ then let’s have a good talk.”

”Elder Long, I don’t think we need to return those two planes for now. Not only will we not return them, but we must also carry forward the spirit of humanitarianism.”

Long Yi asked: ”Oh? How are we to be humanitarian?”

Su Yun pointed to the two pilots on the screen who were frozen in the cockpit, their faces covered in snot and tears.

”Our Dragon Summer is a land of etiquette, and those who come are guests. The guests are hanging ten thousand meters high in the air, blowing in the cold wind; they must be thirsty and hungry.”

”I suggest sending a few drones up to give these two international friends some water and food. After all, our skill only freezes their bodies, not their mouths; feeding them is still doable.”

The people in the hall were slightly stunned. What kind of revenge is this? Isn’t this returning evil with good?

Only Qin Shuangyue sensed something was wrong. She looked at Su Yun’s harmless face and thought to herself that people who look gentle are all black-hearted.

Sure enough, Su Yun continued: ”When sending the food, bring a few high-definition cameras up as well. Let’s start a live stream for these two warriors across all platforms, 24/7, with no dead angles.”

”I’ve already thought of the name—’High-Altitude Survival Challenge for Eagle Federation Ace Pilots’.”

”I think people all over the world would be very happy to see how Raptor pilots, who usually throw their weight around, perform ’eating, drinking, and defecating’ ten thousand meters in the air after losing all high-tech assistance.”

”By the way, we can enable the tipping function in the live stream room, and donate all the proceeds to the reconstruction work of Luofeng Slope.”

Pfft—General Li, who was drinking water, sprayed it all over the monitor in front of him.

Ruthless. Too damn ruthless.

This isn’t just killing the person and condemning their heart; this is clearly tearing off the Eagle Federation’s skin, throwing it on the ground, stomping on it twice, then spitting on it, and finally using it as a rag to wipe the floor!

Shooting them down directly would be giving them a quick end; they might even get a martyr title and return home to enter Arlington National Cemetery.

But hanging in the sky and live-streaming them defecating and urinating? For the Eagle Federation Air Force, which has always touted itself as ”elite,” ”invincible,” and ”noble,” this is ten thousand times more painful than killing their whole family!

Imagine, when billions of people around the world open their phones and see not the mighty and imposing air combat posture, but a coward frozen in the cockpit, pants soaked, sobbing loudly because of fear and physiological incontinence...

The myth of military deterrence that the Eagle Federation spent a century building will be shattered into nothing in this live stream filled with ”flavor.”

”This... isn’t that a bit too vicious?” Zhou Weimin wiped his sweat. Although he said that, the smile at the corner of his eyes couldn’t be hidden.

”Vicious?” Su Yun blinked, ”They were the ones who said they wanted ’emotional distress’ compensation. Isn’t that exactly what I’m helping them create? Otherwise, how could they have the nerve to come ask us for money?”

Long Yi was silent for a moment, then the old man threw his head back and laughed, his laughter hearty and uninhibited.

”Good! A very good ’emotional distress’!” Long Yi waved his hand and made the final decision: ”Approved! Let the Propaganda Department follow up on this immediately! Not only must it be broadcast domestically, but the signal must also be connected to foreign networks! I want the big screens in New York’s Times Square to see our ’humanitarian concern’!”

The old man turned around, looked at Su Yun, his eyes full of admiration. War is fought with hard power; but diplomacy and gamesmanship are fought with psychological warfare.

This move by Su Yun will not only slap the Eagle Federation in the face, but also make them swallow their own teeth.

”Su Yun, oh Su Yun,” Long Yi sighed, ”It’s fortunate that you are one of our Dragon Summer people. If you were let loose, this world would probably really be in chaos.”

Su Yun just smiled and picked up his thermos cup again. ”Elder Long, please don’t slander me. I’m a model student.”

...Meanwhile, deep underground in The Pentagon, General George still didn’t know what kind of social death storm he was about to face.

He was still racking his brains on how to get the planes back with dignity, not knowing that from today on, the word ”dignity” would be completely unrelated to the Eagle Federation Air Force.

— — PS: It’s my birthday today. Can you big bosses say happy birthday to me? (｡◕‿◕｡)ﾉ Thank you very much. It would be even better if you could give some free little gifts (whispering)