160: Chapter 160 Dragon Kingdom Official: Ahem, Jiang Chen's meaning is our meaning.

Kyoto, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Blue Room.

This place is the focus of global media attention and a battlefield for countless verbal attacks.

At this moment, the air was thick with the smell of gunpowder. Hundreds of Western reporters, like a school of sharks that had smelled blood, had their cameras and microphones locked tightly onto the middle-aged man on the podium.

He was the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Old Zhang.

He was known for being 'refined and gentle,' but those who knew him were aware that when this man roasted someone, he never used profanity, yet he could leave them choking with internal injuries.

'Mr. Zhang!'

A top reporter from CNN stood up abruptly. Without waiting to be called upon, she thrust her microphone into the air, her tone aggressive:

'Regarding Jiang Chen's "land grabbing" and "charging fees" on the Far Side of the Moon, and even his public threat to destroy other nations' spacecraft, what is your government's stance?'

'This is a blatant act of space piracy! It is a plunder of assets shared by all of humanity!'

'Is the Dragon Kingdom government going to challenge the bottom line of the entire international community for the sake of this one person?'

The question was very sharp. It could even be called a trap.

If he admitted to supporting Jiang Chen, that would be a violation of international conventions; if he opposed Jiang Chen, it would be equivalent to pushing their own hero out to die.

The eyes of the entire room were focused on Old Zhang, waiting for his panic, or perhaps a diplomatic Waterloo.

However.

Old Zhang just leisurely straightened his tie, then picked up his thermos, and gently blew on the tea leaves floating on the surface of the water.

'This reporter friend, your emotions seem a bit agitated.'

Old Zhang put down his cup, a consistent, refreshing smile on his face:

'First, I must correct a word you used.'

'Piracy?'

'As far as I know, Jiang Chen spent real money to develop the Moon. He built elevators, constructed a Moon Base, and even helped certain countries (referring to Eagle Sauce) take in a few homeless astronauts.'

'How is that piracy? That is clearly—an international humanitarian rescuer, a pioneer of interstellar development.'

The CNN reporter's face turned green: 'But he violated the "Outer Space Treaty"! The Moon does not belong to any sovereign state!'

'That's right, you said it yourself, it doesn't belong to a "state".'

Old Zhang spread his hands, his expression one of taking it for granted:

'Jiang Chen is an individual, a legal citizen of the Dragon Kingdom. He is conducting commercial development on ownerless land in his personal capacity; this fully conforms to the spirit of free trade.'

'As for that treaty...'

Old Zhang paused, a glimmer of profound meaning flashing in his eyes:

'That is an old calendar signed in the 1960s.'

'Back then, everyone hadn't even figured out Earth, who could have imagined that now someone could take an elevator to the Moon?'

'The law is lagging behind; we must look at problems with a developmental perspective. We can't use the sword of a previous dynasty to behead the officials of the current one, right?'

These words were watertight, and also extremely shameless.

This was clearly telling the whole world:

Treaties?

That is to restrict you bunch of rookies.

For the strong, that thing is just a piece of waste paper.

'But...'

Another reporter from Eagle Sauce stood up, unwilling to give up, 'What if he really attacks our spacecraft? Shouldn't an individual possessing weapons of mass destruction be subject to your country's laws?'

Hearing this question.

The smile on Old Zhang's face faded slightly.

He adjusted the microphone, leaned forward slightly, and in those originally gentle eyes, a dignity of a great power that no one dared to look directly at suddenly emerged.

'Ahem.'

He cleared his throat. His voice was not loud, but through the live broadcast signal, it clearly reached the ears of everyone trying to play tricks on the Moon:

'Regarding this point, we have also held profound discussions internally.'

'The conclusion is—'

'Jiang Chen is a citizen of the Dragon Kingdom. His legal rights overseas... ahem, off-planet, should be protected by the motherland.'

'His assets are the assets of the Dragon Kingdom; his safety is the safety of the Dragon Kingdom.'

Old Zhang scanned the room, enunciating every word clearly and forcefully:

'Therefore, here, I officially state on behalf of the Dragon Kingdom government:'

'In that specific area on the Far Side of the Moon.'

'Jiang Chen's rules are the rules of our Dragon Kingdom.'

'Whoever feels unconvinced, or wants to use force to challenge these rules...'

Old Zhang smiled slightly, and in that smile, there was confidence at the level of nuclear deterrence:

'That is challenging the core interests of the Dragon Kingdom.'

'Do not say you were not warned.'

Boom—!

The whole room was in an uproar.

This was no longer just protecting one's own.

This was directly binding Jiang Chen completely to the Dragon Kingdom! This was stamping the hardest official seal on that "Moon Mayor"!

From now on, whoever dared to touch Jiang Chen would not just be facing that luan niao starship, but the entire colossal war machine of the Dragon Kingdom!

In the live broadcast room, domestic netizens were completely boiling.

'Domineering! This is what you call the responsibility of a great power!'

'My rules are the rules! The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is too tough!'

'Eagle Sauce: I want to call the police, but the police are run by them.'

'God Jiang is completely secure now, authorized to grab land, licensed to show off!'

...

Moon Base.

Jiang Chen looked at the news replay on the big screen, listening to Old Zhang's words, "Do not say you were not warned," and the corners of his mouth were almost reaching his ears.

'Impressive!'

He gave a thumbs up to the screen, 'Old Zhang is reliable, he really steps up when things happen!'

With this official endorsement, his ruling power on the Moon was considered completely stable.

In the future, whether mining or building a city, it would be legal "private property," and it wouldn't matter who came.

'Boss, shouldn't we celebrate?'

Zhao Gang was rubbing his hands nearby, looking excited, 'Steve and those captives said they found a nest of mutated Moon... uh, although I don't know what they are, they look quite plump, should we roast them?'

'Celebrate?'

Jiang Chen stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

He looked at the Earth hanging in the darkness in the distance, feeling great.

Career success, national support, and an invincible fleet in his hands.

A life winner, nothing more than this.

'It is time to celebrate.'

Jiang Chen stretched, 'But forget the barbecue, I've been having a bit of heatiness recently. Open a bottle of wine, call Academician Chen Shuyin over, let's...'

However.

Before he could finish his sentence.

'Buzz—buzz—'

The lights in the base suddenly flickered without warning.

Immediately after, the system alarm that had been in silence suddenly exploded in his mind like it had gone crazy.

That rapid frequency was more terrifying than any time before!

[Warning! Warning! Warning!]

[Detected ultra-high energy spacetime reaction!]

[Coordinates locked: Earth, Tianhai City, directly above Yunding Villa!]

[Cross-dimensional channel... collapsing!]

[No! It's opening!]

[That power is too strong! It tore the buffer layer! It slammed the two spaces... together!]

'What?!'

The smile on Jiang Chen's face froze instantly.

He threw himself in front of the console and pulled up the real-time surveillance footage of Earth.

In the night sky of Tianhai City.

The originally calm clouds were now rolling crazily like a pot of boiling water.

A huge crack, pitch-black like ink and flashing with blood-colored thunder at the edges, was slowly opening like the giant mouth of a monster.

That was not an ordinary spatial crack.

That was a scar.

A—Sky Scar—cut out by some kind of extreme violence and extreme obsession!

'Rumble—'

Even from 380,000 kilometers away, Jiang Chen could almost hear that roar that shattered the soul.

Immediately after.

A figure wearing black armor, holding a greatsword, and filled with a murderous aura, stepped out from that crack.

Silver hair dancing wildly.

Red eyes like blood.

She floated at an altitude of 10,000 meters, with the brilliant city neon below her feet and a collapsing spacetime storm above her head.

She ignored the roaring fighter jets around her, ignored the terrified crowds on the ground.

Her gaze seemed to pierce through the atmosphere, pierce through the distant vacuum, and lock tightly onto the direction of the Moon.

'Father God...'

That voice rang directly in Jiang Chen's mind through the system's soul link.

Carrying endless resentment.

Carrying monstrous jealousy.

And that kind of... yandere pleasure of finally catching you.

'I'm here.'

'That vixen...'

'Where is she?!'

The wine glass in Jiang Chen's hand dropped with a "clatter" and shattered into pieces.

He looked at Jiang Wanqiu, who was like a demon god descending to the world on the screen, and then looked back at Academician Chen Shuyin, who was organizing files nearby.

Cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

It was over.

Completely over.

Where the hell was this a celebration?

This was...

This was going to blow up the Earth!

** (End of Volume 3 · First Half) **

** (Next Episode Preview: Empress VS Academician! Mars hits Earth! Jiang Chen: Stop fighting! If you keep fighting, the Earth will be gone! The real interstellar war begins in the Shuraba!) **