At 3 p.m., sowhere in the Sethiyan Federation, at an inconspicuous coffee shop, Wei Tianyang had nothing pressing to do, planning to take a couple of days off before heading back to Yin Country to check on Yaha.
After a fling with Zhao Ling, he now wanted to cool off and empty his mind.
He ordered a cup of coffee and sat at a small table outside the door, quietly watching the passersby.
Helena Mina had given him a new smartphone, of course, fully customized, featuring this year’s latest flagship model from Blackberry.
To prevent damage, the body was not made of glass but military-grade material. Helena Mina had also suggested he use a flip cover case for the phone...
The morning rain had left the ground wet, but by the afternoon, the streets had nearly dried, and the flow of pedestrians was ceaseless. Wei Tianyang tried his best not to listen to their thoughts.
This ability was entirely passive; he wasn’t sure about Zoe’s situation but felt like he had beco a human radio receiver, unable to fully switch off, which was aggravating and confusing.
These noisy sounds were like hundreds of short videos continuously playing by his ear, with no way to block them out even with earphones.
Wei Tianyang sighed, drank up his coffee, and stood up to leave when a luxury stretch car stopped at the corner of the street. A suited elderly man got out, polite and standing by the car door, waving at him and gesturing him to co over.
Wei Tianyang approached, only to see a Caucasian woman sitting in the back seat, leaning over to greet him.
"Do we know each other?" Wei Tianyang asked.
The woman replied, "I am the President of the Prussia Will Democratic Republic, Leona Surtz. I was at your speech yesterday—I sat in the eighth row on the left—you might not have seen ."
"Good afternoon," Wei Tianyang said.
"Please, get in... I have a favor to ask," Leona said.
"Speak with Helena Mina first," Wei Tianyang said.
"I’ve spoken to her... She told to find you," Leona said.
Wei Tianyang looked at the smartphone in his hand, shook his head, and slid into the car.
The scent inside the car was pleasing, not Leona’s perfu, but so kind of air freshener.
Wei Tianyang sat opposite Leona, examining her closely.
He couldn’t guess her age; she might, like Helena Mina, have disguised her true years with costic dical technology.
She had fair skin, blonde hair, wore a white suit and skirt set, a high nose bridge, and her blue eyes sparkled like gems. She was a composed woman.
Sohow, the atmosphere in the car reminded him of Ruan Yu; he had t Ruan Yu under similar circumstances.
"Have you heard about Fogen?" Wei Tianyang didn’t give Leona a chance to start but directly addressed the issue.
"I’m aware, Helena Mina decrypted so of the files on that matter," Leona said.
"I expect things to follow standard procedures this ti; I hope there won’t be any mishaps," Wei Tianyang said.
"This eting follows the protocols of the United Council. She wouldn’t authorize the V Protocol unless absolutely necessary," Leona said.
"The V Protocol?" Wei Tianyang was startled.
"I guess it ans asking for your help, but we had to give the contingency plan a na, right?" Leona said with a light smile.
"Alright, I guess Libitelli has been kicked off that little table... You’ve taken their place, but why haven’t you summoned the other presidents? The Emperor is also still around," Wei Tianyang said.
"Governor Steijie has a difficult situation to handle, I’m not aware of the Emperor’s schedule, and the others are tied up with their matters and couldn’t get away," Leona said.
At that mont, Wei Tianyang’s smartphone rang. He tapped his earpiece and Helena Mina’s voice ca through.
Leona also touched her earpiece, and the three of them entered a conference call.
"Wei, I’m very sorry for the intrusion, but this matter is urgent, so... once we confird you were alright, we reactivated you," Helena Mina said.
"As long as it’s not a situation like Libitelli," Wei Tianyang said.
"Two months ago we dispatched peacekeeping troops to the Prussia Will Democratic Republic. The situation was indeed serious, but we couldn’t reach you at the ti," Helena Mina said.
Hearing her say this, Wei Tianyang beca serious. It seed that sothing dire had happened.
"What’s the situation?" Wei Tianyang asked.
"Let Leona explain," Helena Mina said.
"Four months ago, an extraordinary Heavenly Falling Object dropped onto our eastern city of Gerlitz," Leona said.
"Heavenly Falling Object? I would think that thing has been taken by so pharmaceutical company for research by now, hasn’t it?" Wei Tianyang said.
"I know you have a distaste for the pharmaceutical corporations... but as it stands, all nations deal with the Heavenly Falling Objects in no different manner," Leona said.
"Let guess, sothing unexpected happened during the research, right?" Wei Tianyang said.
"No... I say it is extraordinary for a reason," Leona said.
Wei Tianyang narrowed his eyes.
"It’s still alive..." Leona said.
A desire surged deep within Wei Tianyang. A living Heavenly Falling Object, he had seen one at the bottom of the sea.
"Alive? So it’s still moving about within your country?" Wei Tianyang said.
Leona nodded and continued, "I have already sealed off the eastern region, and we’ve managed to evacuate about forty percent of the population from three cities."
"Four months and you’ve only evacuated forty percent?" Wei Tianyang said.
"Had you been here two months ago, perhaps more could have been evacuated... I an no bla, but now is not the ti to mourn the deceased," Helena Mina said.
"What does the Heavenly Falling Object look like? What are its capabilities? Do you have footage of it in combat?" Wei Tianyang asked.
He needed as detailed intelligence as possible to ensure that he could approach it suddenly and strike it dead in one blow, then absorb its powers.
"I haven’t actually seen it... but I can share with you the footage captured by our military’s spy satellites and drones. From what I can tell, it doesn’t move fast, nor does it cover a wide area, and the entity itself has no direct destructive capabilities," Leona said.
"No direct destructive capabilities... that ans there are indirect ones?" Wei Tianyang said.
"You might think I’m making this up... but after it fell, within half a month, it turned the entire city of Gerlitz into zombies. Afterward, over the course of a month, it moved slowly southward about sixteen kiloters, transforming the people of a village as well..." Leona said.
"Zombies... the kind with rotting bodies, slow movent, but still animate corpses?" Wei Tianyang said.
Leona nodded.
"7.62mm bullets and incendiary rounds can completely eradicate them, and tanks or transport vehicles equipped with machine gun turrets can clear them out. If you’ve confird there are no survivors in Gerlitz, you could just send a few hundred missiles their way. I’m not needed for this kind of thing," Wei Tianyang said.
Zombies were once people, and human muscle and bone cannot withstand tal bullets enchanted by physics.
"Our conventional weapons are ineffective against them..." Leona shook her head.
"How is that possible..." Wei Tianyang said.
"Listen to this recording... this seems to be the voice that the Heavenly Falling Object speaks through them..." Leona said.
She took out a slightly damaged recording pen from her bag and pressed the button.
From the tiny speaker ca the crackle of rifle fire, accompanied by a few curses in Prussian, followed by the rapid footsteps and the sound of a car engine starting.
This recording pen ca from Gerlitz, likely belonging to a journalist or soldier.
He continued listening, hearing the sound of vehicles overturning, people screaming, sporadic pistol fire, the sound of flesh being chewed, and a hollow, low moan of "Err... err..."
Finally, all was quiet, and sothing seed to pick up the recording pen. A low voice said,
"Gods cannot be killed."
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