??665: Chapter 665: The Wheel of Fortune Turns
665: Chapter 665: The Wheel of Fortune Turns
Being a player ans looking down from on high?
Compared to the risks players have to take, Xu Huo felt that Nicks could show a little sympathy for him first.
In so ways, players and ordinary people are the sa; players rely on their power to “pity” the weak, and perhaps in the eyes of the “weak,” they are but fleeting teors, destined only for shattered bones.
The so-called sympathy was never on the sa level to begin with.
Once life itself starts being compared, the true aning of life is dood to be distorted.
There was no change in Nicks’s expression as he pressed the question, “In your country, there’s a saying ‘what goes around cos around.’ Aren’t you worried about bringing trouble to your own country by doing this?”
The room was silent.
What answer does he want?
Could it be that Country Y had unleashed the Black Rain thinking that Country X was causing trouble within their borders?
It’s just tit for tat.
Girl in the painting walked in from outside the door and waved her hand at Nicks, who was standing by the door, signaling him to get out of the way.
A murderous intent flashed in Nicks’s eyes, but he didn’t lash out.
Instead, he was given a cold look by Girl in the painting.
After she entered the room, soone else spoke up from behind the door, “Rember what you said, ‘what goes around cos around.'”
The energy in the room vanished, and Nicks, infuriated and embarrassed, punched a hole through the adjacent wall before striding out, grinding his teeth and muttering, “Those damn dogs!”
They indeed were a bunch of damn dogs, because when Xu Huo appeared, he clearly displayed features of a person from Country X.
Before the Orchid Safety Zone’s rescue operation could even unfold, the leaders of Country Y called for an urgent eting, proposing sanctions against Country X and the launch of a national war, determined to make Country X beg for rcy.
Only the highest leaders of Country Y and the few in charge of planning knew about the Black Rain attack.
Faced with the outrage of others, they appeared sowhat dejected.
Retaliation was expected, but it ca faster than anticipated.
With internal troubles unresolved and an external threat now erging, the two most robust and expansive safety zones, built with trendous effort and resources, were gone in less than half a day.
Moreover, many of those who managed to move into the safety zones early on were families of important governnt officials.
Casualties hadn’t yet been tallied, but deaths were expected to be substantial.
“Only two people really ca?” the leader asked again.
“Just two,” the secretary handed over a freshly prepared report, “This attack seems to be a warning.
The enemy didn’t co here with killing in mind.”
With a loud “Bang!” a general slamd his hand on the table.
“So many are dead, and you call it a warning?”
“The enemy could cover such a great distance in a very short ti.
They must have powerful spatial artifacts in hand, and it’s reported that while they were in the safety zone, our spatial artifacts were restricted and couldn’t be used.
The expert team concludes that they are capable of moving between different safety zones.”
“Not far from the Orchid Safety Zone is Jiwei Safety Zone, which abuts the Variant Base.
They didn’t choose it.”
The so-called Variant Base essentially comprised a group of individuals who were kept in confinent and mutated by Country Y.
Their numbers were not small; due to frequent experints, many of them fell into madness.
The Variant toxin used in the Black Rain was extracted from them.
If the intruders had destroyed the Jiwei Safety Zone, the adjacent city would have quickly fallen, and the death toll, certainly not just from collapsing buildings or burial, would have been unimaginable.
“This is our nation’s secret; the enemy couldn’t possibly know!” the general disbelieved.
The secretary brought out another docunt, “This is data acquired by our agents from a pioneer forum.
The poster indeed received an encrypted list of our confidential facilities, among which Jiwei Safety Zone and the Variant Base were clearly marked.”
“The intruder’s choice of Orchid Safety Zone had a purpose.”
“Moreover, this hacker who provided us with the information went missing after releasing the list.”
Most of the people in the eting felt enraged.
To them, this was not an act of rcy but a threat, a provocation!
The proposal to declare war was brought up once more.
Others objected, reasoning that their own dostic issues weren’t sorted out, and waging war might end with nothing gained.
The eting room erupted into chaos, and at that mont, Nicks received a call.
He asked straight out, “Is the Black Rain event in Jing City our doing?”
The room fell silent as eyes, both within and without the video feed, turned to the supre leader at the head.
His expression and silence said everything.
“This is their warning,” Nicks spoke after a long pause, “If there’s been a first ti, there will be a second.
Even with our advanced artifacts, we cannot be completely defensive.
tallic safety zones aren’t reliable; we need to consider other asures.”
The supre leader assigned this task to him.
By “other asures,” he ant either purchasing intelligence in the ga or buying appropriate artifacts from an Artifact Maker.
But artifacts of the sa type are difficult to find twice, so the best course of action is to find a material that can replace the existing tals—an artifact doesn’t necessarily have the power to destroy all tals.
Hope was still within the ga.
Country Y didn’t hold a reflection eting.
After a brief squabble, the decision to declare war on Country X was put on hold.
The more pressing issue was to plug the leak.
However, while the governnt took the matter lightly, Country Y’s citizens were incited to resist.
If the safety zones turned out to be such shoddy construction, how could they trust their governnt?
Thus, after the rescue operations in both places were completed, Country Y’s governnt also had to deal incessantly with dostic protests and riots; trouble lay ahead.
The happiest were the citizens of Country X.
When foreign players were exposed attacking the Special Defense Departnt Headquarters, and especially after the subsequent rescue reports were broadcast, national hatred toward Country Y peaked.
The collapse of two of Country Y’s safety zones caused jubilation online as though it were a holiday.
“Good riddance to bad rubbish, I love this swift karmic retribution!”
“I heard their safety zones were pretty luxurious, but just a glossy facade over crap—my kid has more fun with mud pies!”
“Country Y was so happy watching our troubles before, now it’s my turn to laugh!”
…
There was a plethora of schadenfreude and teasing comnts, but they were soon overshadowed by analyses from savvy citizens suggesting a high likelihood that the event was orchestrated by Country X players, reaching an interesting conclusion thanks to information from foreign friends:
The act was ruthless but left room for doubt, a true Country X style!
However, with so little ti, this news hadn’t been confird.
Likewise, to protect their own country’s players, only a minority on the net hyped up this report, until the citizens of Country Y caught on and began their backlash.
Country Y’s governnt released a photo of Xu Huo entering the safety zone, publicly challenging the Special Defense Departnt.
However, they didn’t take the bait; since they didn’t acknowledge capturing persons from Country Y after the Black Rain incident, how could they admit that the attack on the safety zones was the work of soone from Country X?
Maybe soone was trying to stir up tension between the countries by impersonating another, right?
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