After a brief pause, he laid out everything he knew.
"I just got here not long ago, these..."
"..."
...
A minute later, Chen Miao had recounted the entire incident.
"You an, as of now, these beings pose no threat and are just advancing slowly?"
Mayor Zhang looked thoughtfully at the population of millions, focusing his gaze on those people who had the exact sa face as Chen Miao. After Chen Miao's reminder, he did not linger his sight too long on any one person.
It was a quick sweep.
"To be precise, they're evolving, or rather, learning. Their current harmlessness doesn't an they will be harmless in the future."
Chen Miao spoke with a calm expression, "My suggestion is to quickly kill off these people, especially those who have been infected with my appearance. They must be killed imdiately."
Just then—
"Hehe."
A sneering laugh burst out from beside them, and a young man erged slowly from behind the mayor, staring at Chen Miao with a bad expression and suddenly burst into laughter, "Allow to introduce myself. I am Zhang Zuolin, the acting chairman of Beifeng Pharma Group, and my father is Zhang Boling!"
"The man from the Events Bureau you killed just now, he was my cousin."
"That deputy director, he was my cousin's subordinate."
"Do you think nobody knows about all this? Don't you know the precision of military satellites can reach a few centiters? I even saw the disbelief on my cousin's face when he died."
"Last ti I asked you quite nicely how you woke up from that dream, but you deliberately tried to harm , and now you brazenly kill people from my Zhang Family. Do you truly not realise how terrifying my Zhang Family is?"
"..."
Chen Miao faced this old acquaintance who had suddenly erged from behind the mayor with a calm expression, remaining silent and simply listening as the other party listed his faults. After he had finished his rebuke, Chen Miao finally asked, "Are you done?"
"What about it?"
"Doesn't your Zhang family also have a Transcendental who likes to wear tailcoats and drink red wine, probably in his forties? Seems like his occupation was so kind of Magician?"
"What about it?"
"It's nothing. In a secret realm, I killed him. Before he died, he seed to say sothing about you being his brother. Were you two close?"
Zhang Wanlin was montarily stunned, then his entire being could no longer contain his emotions, and he stared intently at Chen Miao, his voice venomous saying, "Are you looking for death?!!"
Of course, he knew!
He had long known that his cousin had just died in the secret realm, but he had no idea that his cousin had died at Chen Miao's hands!
This made the emotions he had been suppressing impossible to hold back any longer!
He wished he could rush forward and kill this man who was always at odds with him right now!
"Not bad."
Chen Miao pulled out a cigarette from his chest, lit it, and then looked up at the clouds that had filled the sky without his notice and spoke softly, "Killing him was pretty simple; I didn't even see any effect from his 'Magician' occupation before he died."
"I was quite curious about this special occupation, didn't expect it to be so weak."
"You seem to have quite a few cousins."
Having said that—
Chen Miao wasn't planning to engage further with this person but simply waved his hand, turning the Gatling gun towards the crowd, ready to fire; although he wasn't sure what these people were or what the consequences of killing them might be.
But his instinct told him.
If these people were just left to go on like this, they would definitely be difficult to deal with.
But just as he was about to fire, he heard Mayor Zhang's voice by his ear.
"Hold it."
The Mayor, expressionless, slowly raised the remote in his hand and looked at Chen Miao while saying word for word, "This is a missile fire control, a privilege for the use of one person as the mayor. After pressing it the first ti, all the missile trucks in Fengtian City will ignite, all missile silos will open their hatches, and will lock onto you as the target."
Then, under Chen Miao's gaze, Mayor Zhang pressed the button on the remote.
"After the second press, all missiles will launch imdiately."
"I don't think you want to press it a second ti."
"By mayoral decree, I order you to hold fire."
"..."
Chen Miao, with an expressionless face, fell silent for quite so ti before slowly waving his hand and withdrawing the Gatling back into Nothingness Space, murmuring, "There are still missiles after the world becos Transcendental?"
"Is it so surprising that among Supernatural Props there are missile trucks and missile silos?"
"When the missiles co, won't you all die?"
"Most high-level Supernatural Props with wide-range attack abilities basically co with a whitelist function; those on the whitelist within the range will not be hard."
"Pretty good."
He paused for a mont and then sighed softly, "Do you really need to do this just to keep from firing? Aren't we old acquaintances after all?"
"The fact that I haven't ordered your imdiate arrest is already giving you face, giving face to the ti we've known each other, and even more to the face you earned by saving the Federation last ti."
Mayor Zhang tucked the remote control back into his sleeve, his face a mask of unapologetic coldness as he spoke.
"This random event is by no ans ordinary. Jingjiu City is already on high alert, and they've dispatched people who are on their way, as well as..."
"The higher-ups are highly suspicious that this random event is connected to you and have ordered you to evacuate quickly. Otherwise, let there be no talk of rcy."
"This is no joke."
"Although you're very strong, believe , you can't stand against the foundation of the entire Fengtian City. Do you really think that for so many years, it has just been the Events Bureau and Sang Biao holding the fort?"
"Tch."
Chen Miao clicked his tongue and briefly glanced over the crowd. After this brief delay, thousands in the crowd had already taken on his appearance, and as the number grew, the rate of spread was also accelerating.
The whole scene looked extrely eerie.
Thousands of people looking exactly like him stood here; any person of faint heart would be enough to break into cold sweat.
And the most fatal aspect was...
The man who initially took on his appearance now not only looked exactly like him, but even the color in his pupils began to erge, which bore a strong resemblance to the color in Chen Miao's own pupils.
Even the clothes on his body had sohow changed to match Chen Miao's exactly.
And most chillingly,
This man... now held a cane in his hand, a cane which was an exact replica of Chen Miao's.
This man was becoming a full-fledged duplicate of him in every respect, and those around him who were secondarily infected were also undergoing a deep-layered infection, with the clothes on their bodies and the colors in their pupils changing unnoticeably.
Just as Chen Miao was about to say sothing, Mayor Zhang had already taken out the remote control again, and was staring at him icily, clearly ready to open fire if Chen Miao did not withdraw soon.
"I need to say one last thing."
Although his insides churned with irritation, Chen Miao nonetheless calmly raised his cane and pointed it towards the man in the crowd who first took on his appearance: "See the cane in that man's hand? He originally didn't possess such a thing."
"He's rapidly closing in on my abilities. Right now it's just a cane, but in the next mont it might be my Thompson Submachine Gun."
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"I must remind you,"
"So far, I have never gone all out with my firepower. You might not have a clear understanding of my capacity for destruction. Even I'm afraid of it when I'm at full power."
"And here we nearly have a million people."
"If nearly a million people here get infected and beco Chen Miao with my full Strength,"
"I hope you realize what a nightmarish scenario that would be."
"Don't think just because you in Fengtian have a few missiles, you can completely control this situation."
Chen Miao's eyes narrowed slightly as he spoke in a deep, eerie whisper: "Missiles? I have them too, as many as I want. Nearly a million Chen Miaos at full firepower, and destroying Fengtian would only require the blink of an eye."
"Such a scene would be too horrific."
"I hope you don't take this too far."
"I'm not ready for the world to end just yet; I still have plenty to do."
"Are you done?"
Zhang Wanlin looked at Chen Miao with a sneer: "If you're done, then just scram. No need to scare people here. Don't think nobody understands the little gas you're playing in your head—just trying to inflate your own importance so the Federation won't issue a warrant for your arrest, right?"
"Rest assured, the Federation won't issue a warrant for you."
"You can just wait for the retaliation from the Zhang Family."
"..."
Chen Miao stood frozen in place, silent, as if his earnest advice had fallen on deaf ears. He lifted his head to look at Zhang Wanlin: "Since you're so angry, why don't you just co at and kill now?"
"Hmph."
A hint of fear flickered in the depths of Zhang Wanlin's eyes, but his face showed a tinge of mockery, his feet subtly moving closer to the mayor: "Kill you? No need to dirty my hands."
"Fine then."
After seeing the impatience in the mayor's eyes, Chen Miao decided not to linger. He summoned his Gatling and, together with Hungry Monkey and Yuan Buping, few not far off to Zhou Shen. After picking up Zhou Shen, they vanished into the horizon.
...
On a tall mountain far from the Sankui Wasteland,
Chen Miao stood at the edge of a cliff and watched everything unfold. Thanks to the passive skills of a marksman, his vision was much better than that of an ordinary person. Even though he was at an incredibly long distance and nothing obstructed his view,
and there was no foggy weather,
he could still vaguely see the direction in which this near million-strong mass was heading.
"Miao,"
Zhou Shen, standing behind Chen Miao, had a trace of fear in his eyes and his voice trembled slightly as he spoke: "Are you saying that this million people will all beco you with full actual strength?"
After learning of this, he knew his hopes of being reinstated to his official post had completely burst.
Events Bureau head? Forget Fengtian City—the whole world would be destroyed!
Why was he following Miao? Because he thought Miao was incredible, that Miao could hold up the sky even if it fell. And now he was telling him that a million Miaos were about to unleash full firepower?
That was even worse than the sky falling!
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