29: This is a miracle! We must protect him at all costs!

“What you showed him... it couldn't be...”

As Su Qingying's voice, tinged with horror and trembling, echoed in the silent laboratory.

Lu Chen slowly turned his head.

He looked at Su Qingying's pretty face, which had turned pale as paper due to her guess, and calmly nodded.

“That's right.”

“I let him return to thirty years ago.”

“He returned to the battlefield—the place he most wanted to go back to, and also... the place he was most afraid to return to.”

“And...”

A nearly cruel curve appeared on Lu Chen's lips.

“I also gave him a perfect, unquestionable... happy ending.”

“Then...”

“Right in front of him, I personally tore it all apart.”

Boom!

This sentence was like an invisible, spiritual bomb!

It exploded loudly in the minds of everyone in the laboratory!

Even Li Zhenbang and Zhang Jingtong, these national-treasure-level Academicians who had seen countless storms!

At this moment, they couldn't help but collectively gasp in cold air!

Their backs were instantly drenched in cold sweat!

Ruthless!

That's too damn ruthless!

This was no longer an “experiment”!

This was a Lingchi of the soul, using a person's deepest obsession and most painful scar as fuel!

“You... how could you do that?!”

For the first time, fear showed in Su Qingying's cold eyes toward Lu Chen!

She couldn't imagine!

How cold must a person's heart be to devise such a cruel “experience”?!

“Why not?”

Lu Chen looked at her, his gaze as calm as a pool of millennium-old, solid ice.

“Student Su, you need to understand one thing.”

“From the moment this technology was born, it was never a ‘game’.”

“It is a weapon.”

“A kind of ultimate weapon capable of destroying a country, a civilization, without bloodshed!”

“If even a soldier with a will of steel, like Director Long, can completely succumb to it, or even... suffer a mental breakdown.”

“Then what about an ordinary person?”

“What about our enemies?”

His words were cold, yet... realistic!

Like the sharpest scalpel, it cut open the gentle “game” exterior of virtual reality technology!

Revealing the bloody, terrifying essence of war underneath, enough to make anyone shudder!

Su Qingying opened her mouth, wanting to argue.

But she sadly realized she couldn't utter a single word!

That's right... If the politicians, soldiers, and even... the people of the Western Alliance were all immersed in a false, beautiful dream where they could do whatever they wanted... then who in the real world could stop the advance of Huaxia?!

This was simply... Dimensionality Reduction Warfare!

Just as everyone felt a chill due to Lu Chen's remarks, which were full of the “dark forest” principle.

The figure who had been sitting in the chair, trembling violently, suddenly became quiet.

Long Weiguo slowly raised his head.

The tear stains on his face had dried.

All the pain and confusion in his bloodshot eyes had completely faded away!

Replaced by an unprecedented clarity, and... lingering fear!

He looked at Lu Chen, his lips moving, his voice hoarse, like two rusty iron plates grating together.

“You are... right.”

“This thing...”

“It is a devil.”

After he finished speaking, he slowly stood up from the chair!

His back, which had been slightly hunched due to emotional shock, instantly straightened like a spear!

He walked up to Lu Chen and stared at him deeply, profoundly.

Then... he performed an action that caught everyone completely off guard!

He faced Lu Chen, this young man thirty years his junior.

And gave him a standard, sacred military salute, representing a soldier's highest respect!

“I, Long Weiguo!”

“Representing all the brothers of the 'Falcon' Squad who sacrificed themselves in that battle!”

“Thank you!”

“Thank you for letting me properly say goodbye to them!”

“And thank you...”

He lowered his hand, and a complex, bitter smile appeared on his resolute face.

“Thank you for letting me completely wake up from that damned nightmare that lasted thirty years!”

After speaking, he abruptly turned around!

He strode rapidly toward the laboratory's communicator!

He pressed the red button that connected directly to the highest center of power in Huaxia!

The call was connected almost instantly!

“I am Long Weiguo!”

His voice was not loud, but it contained a terrifying resolve capable of making heaven and earth change color!

“The ‘pangu’ has encountered a major unforeseen development!”

“I demand an immediate video conference!”

He paused, took a deep breath, and then roared word by word into the microphone!

“We might have... made a colossal mistake!”

“We have personally released a Pandora's Box!”

“But!”

He suddenly turned back, his eyes burning with fierce flames, locked onto the young man who had remained calm throughout!

“We have also personally welcomed a...”

“True God!”

“This technology is a miracle! And a devil!”

“But the person who controls it...”

“Is the only hope of Huaxia!”

“I suggest!”

“No! I request!”

“From now on, Lu Chen's security level must be raised to... the highest!”

“We must, at all costs!”

“Protect him!”