Silver Fox was right, Guan Tong had indeed overlooked the existence of the Flying Fire Fleet.
This was a true super-weapon. Its power hadn't been fully unleashed earlier simply because there were too many hostages on the ships.
The consequence of Yuzawa Jun blowing up the ships to cover his own escape was that the fleet now had no more restraints.
During Guan Tong's standoff and battle with Yuzawa Jun, the fleet had already locked onto his position. Now, clusters of missiles descended from the sky, raining down a torrent of violent bombardnt onto the three-headed serpent's body.
The scales on the serpent's body could indeed withstand bullet attacks, but the destructive power of bullets and missiles were not on the sa level.
Guan Tong and Uenoshi witnessed with their own eyes as Yuzawa Jun, transford into the three-headed serpent, was blasted into a bloody pulp, his massive body turning into puffs of bloody mist that spread across the sea surface.
After one round of bombardnt ended, only Yuzawa Jun's three heads were still floating on the blood-red sea. It seed he had exhausted all his power to protect these three heads, preventing them from being blown to pieces.
However, this death throes struggle held little aning.
Guan Tong and Uenoshi exchanged a glance and hurried forward.
The expressions on all three of Yuzawa Jun's faces were utterly withered and exhausted. Seeing the two approach, he knew his death was imminent.
But he didn't give up. Instead, he begged for rcy.
"I surrender, don't kill ."
"......"
Guan Tong remained silent. At this point, surrender held no aning in his eyes.
Uenoshi grabbed one of the heads and forcefully crushed it: "This is for Uenoshi Mitsumi."
After learning that her biological mother had been sent to a laboratory months ago, she had held no more illusions.
She had either died in the experints or beco a mber of the Serpent Slave Army.
Either way, it ant the two of them would never have a chance to speak again, and Uenoshi would never be able to ask the questions she wanted to ask.
With one of his heads blown apart by Uenoshi, the expressions on Yuzawa Jun's remaining two heads beca extrely anxious.
His life and power originated from the seven heads that grew after obtaining the bloodline ability, enhanced through increasing his Mind Power, plus his original head, making eight in total.
Only when all eight heads were completely destroyed would he be truly killed.
Now with only two left, Yuzawa Jun knew Uenoshi hated him to the extre and would never let him go.
He had to seek a new...
"Pfft!"
Guan Tong manipulated the Shadow Blade, piercing through the head Yuzawa Jun was just about to speak with.
For an enemy guilty of such monstrous cris, Guan Tong didn't want to hear anything more from him, nor did he believe he had any reason to continue living.
Yuzawa Jun, with only one head remaining, was still unwilling. He cried out loudly, "I have many more secrets to reveal! Don't kill ! I can accept imprisonnt in Beixing!"
He didn't want to die.
He still wanted revenge.
As long as he could survive, keeping one head, there might be a chance to escape in the future.
By then, he could still regrow the other heads, recreate the Serpent Slave Army, and unleash the true power of the Myriad Serpents Domain.
At that mont, Silver Fox's voice sounded in Guan Tong and Uenoshi's earpieces.
"Guan Tong, Uenoshi, the Captain wants you to take him ali..."
Before the word "alive" could be finished, Yuzawa Jun's last remaining head was bitten by a black figure.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
The crisp sound of chewing ca through.
Guan Tong looked slightly startled at Coal Ball, who had swallowed Yuzawa Jun's final head.
Uenoshi was also surprised, unsure what breed this beast was that looked like a leopard but could also swim.
"...Too late."
Guan Tong's voice held a hint of regret, but the corner of his mouth lifted slightly.
After a mont of silence in the earpiece, Silver Fox sighed, "Then forget it. Helicopters are heading your way. Prepare to return."
The call ended, and Guan Tong removed his earpiece.
Coal Ball paddled over to him, owed a few tis, jumped onto the floating platform made of shadow, and vigorously shook the water droplets from its fur.
Guan Tong patted its head, "Well done."
For scum like Yuzawa Jun, such a death was quite fitting for the cris he had committed.
"Is this your... pet?"
Uenoshi examined Coal Ball.
"What is it?"
"A cat."
"...A cat?"
Uenoshi couldn't help but feel bewildered. What cat was this big?
As if reading her thoughts, Guan Tong joked, "In this era, even multi-headed giant serpents have appeared. A big cat isn't that strange, right?"
"......"
The sound of helicopters approached in the distance. Guan Tong asked, "What are your plans after this? I asked before, but I wonder if you have a different answer this ti."
Last ti, Uenoshi said that after investigating her parents' matters, she would have no more attachnts to the world and might end her own life.
But this ti...
"I don't want to die anymore."
Uenoshi gave a new answer.
After experiencing all this, many of her thoughts had changed.
"People like Yuzawa Jun... I want to kill them all... Do you think that's too extre of ?"
"No."
"...Is your previous invitation still valid?"
"Of course." Guan Tong shook her hand. "Welco to the organization that currently only has you and
as mbers, and doesn't even have a na yet."
...
The darkness faded, and light rose.
On the morning of January 6th, cleanup work was proceeding rapidly.
Beixing mobilized a large number of ships overnight to salvage the containers that had fallen into the sea. So luckier Sakura Prayer Country people were rescued, but most still suffocated and perished.
After this night, the Yuzawa Family was completely destroyed. Their family's private soldiers and many key mbers were on the cargo ship; when the ship blew up, they perished along with it.
The death of their leader, Yuzawa Jun, completely shattered his family's ruling system over Sakura Prayer Country. After the news broke, the country fell into chaos.
However, Beixing was prepared for this. They dispatched a large number of personnel for maintaining order into the cities of Antu and Bandzhen, where they would remain stationed until everything settled down.
Furthermore, after a night of salvage operations, Beixing ships retrieved a large amount of incriminating evidence from the cargo ship involving personnel connected to the experints.
Stuffing thousands of people into containers and sending them to a cargo ship for experints wasn't sothing the Yuzawa Family alone could accomplish. It involved nurous personnel, big and small, belonging to this sa network.
Under Beixing's strict supervision, the Sakura Prayer Country Peace Office, now with many personnel replaced, swiftly acted. They arrested and detained all involved personnel regardless of status, awaiting subsequent investigation and trial.
For a ti, over one-third of the people in Sakura Prayer Country's entire administrative building were taken away, creating a spectacular scene.
Ordinary Sakura Prayer Country people watching from the roadside applauded and cheered. After seeing the evidence released by Beixing online, they were utterly horrified and filled with dread.
The Doomsday Rules were terrifying, but compared to being captured for experints and transford into snake-man monsters, it was better to die by the Doomsday Rules.
Such drastic personnel changes would have caused nationwide shock and attracted global attention during peaceti.
But in the current era, especially with the whole world's gaze focused on the parasitized forms in the Black Flag Country region who had declared statehood, the major events in Sakura Prayer Country beca minor by comparison.
However, for Guan Tong and the others, this matter was an incredibly significant event, because they were the ones who personally participated throughout and contributed to this final outco.
Even for Guan Tong, whose personality was usually quite placid, this event evoked many feelings within him.
For instance, Yuzawa Jun's strength was far greater than his impression of those holding great power. If both sides were at full strength in a one-on-one duel, winning would still consu a massive amount of Mind Power.
This made him once again inwardly wary of the "World's Number One Ascendant" title others had pinned on him. Others' flattery was one thing, but if he truly believed it and developed arrogance, he would surely be headed for a fall.
Apart from that, he also gained a considerable sense of accomplishnt.
At the very least, he believed his efforts in eliminating the Yuzawa Family directly or indirectly saved many people, sparing them from horrific persecution.
Otherwise, if Yuzawa Jun had continued his secret experints, eventually the entire Sakura Prayer Country would have been turned into a "Serpent Country," with all its people transford into the "Serpent Slave Army."
At that point, neighboring Beixing Country would undoubtedly have faced imnse pressure. Beixing's higher-ups certainly foresaw this, which was why they fully supported Guan Tong and the others' actions this ti, even sending a warship fleet for support, all to eliminate this future threat.
If there were any other gains besides these, Guan Tong considered Uenoshi's joining to be important.
This ant that nearly two years after the appearance of the Doomsday Rules, he had finally established his own organization. Even if the organization was small, with only two people, this breakthrough from zero to one was particularly significant.
As for how this small organization would develop in the future, how to recruit more people, or even what na to give it... these could all be done slowly, no need to rush.
And now, one matter placed before Guan Tong was celebrating his birthday.
That's right. That afternoon, unable to withstand the strong suggestion of that little girl Chen Na, Guan Tong held a small birthday party in Pinglu at dusk.
Apart from him, the protagonist, there were only a handful of participants.
From the investigation team, only Chen Na and Silver Fox participated. Uenoshi was in a very bad mood due to her mother's situation and didn't want to dampen the mood, so she didn't attend.
As for Suzuki, she returned to work at the Peace Office. She wasn't that familiar with Guan Tong and wouldn't presumptuously suggest celebrating his birthday. Besides, Guan Tong had so doubts about her condition, suspecting she had spore-related issues.
Because when they first captured her in the forest, she had admitted that to profile his identity, she had heavily relied on spore assistance. Guan Tong had always kept this point in mind and intended to investigate it in detail later.
Besides Chen Na and Silver Fox, the only others invited to participate in the birthday party were Chen Na's mother, Wang Yan, Guan Tong's friend Xu Xiaotian, and Shi Jingyi from the academy.
These were all people Guan Tong was relatively close to and could trust. Since he decided to celebrate his birthday, and they were all in Pinglu, he simply invited them all.
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