67: Chapter 67 The Oil Crash: The Last Madness of the Old Era's Overlords

New York, Wall Street.

The morning sun shone on the Charging Bull, symbolizing the pinnacle of capital, but the prosperity of the past had vanished completely.

Outside the exchange's main entrance, crowds of elites in wrinkled suits stared hollow-eyed at the scraps of paper in their hands.

These were once-valuable oil futures contracts, but now, they were cheaper than toilet paper.

"The market's open! The market's open!"

Following a scream, the numbers on the giant electronic screen cascaded downward like a waterfall.

Crude oil price: negative 30 dollars... negative 50 dollars... negative 100 dollars!

Because the Dragon Kingdom had already achieved infinite energy and efficient storage, oil was no longer the lifeblood of industry.

It had become toxic chemical waste that was extremely expensive to process.

Those financial tycoons who had controlled the petrodollar for decades were now climbing onto the rooftops of the skyscrapers on Wall Street.

"Lin Yun! You devil! You have destroyed the order of humanity!"

A white-haired tycoon roared desperately toward the east before jumping off.

The only response to him was the shrill siren of an ambulance and the cheers of people all over the world.

Meanwhile, in the underground bunker of The White House, the once infinitely glorious president was roaring at a pile of reports.

"Our aircraft carriers are rusting in port because we have no money for maintenance!"

"Those Saudi and Kuwaiti tycoons are actually doing some 'Desert Forest Project' on Lin Yun's suggestion?"

"They won't even answer my calls anymore!"

The president slammed the gold pen in his hand onto the ground, his eyes filled with hysterical madness.

Standing before him was a middle-aged man wearing a monocle, his face as gloomy as a shadow.

"Mr. President, conventional sanctions are now meaningless."

"Lin Yun is not just one person; he is now the god of the entire Dragon Kingdom, the savior of all mankind."

The middle-aged man took a black file out of his briefcase, stamped with the emblem of a skull and a sun.

"Since we are going to sink, let us drag the whole world to hell with us."

"I have initiated the 'Ragnarök' plan."

The president looked up, a glimmer of hope in his eyes, "You mean... the one discovered on the far side of the moon..."

The middle-aged man made a shushing gesture, his tone terrifyingly cold.

"Lin Yun has an almost obsessive madness regarding procreating life; this is his only weakness."

"Princess Anna, that traitor, is carrying his seed."

"That is his sixth hope, and it will be the first pit to bury him."

The scene shifts back to the Dragon Kingdom.

Lin Yun was not carried away by the external flattery.

He was wearing a simple white lab coat, adjusting a set of peculiar lenses in the laboratory.

These were prepared for future large-scale wireless energy transmission.

"Comrade Lin Yun, that Princess Anna... her reactions over the past two days have been very strange."

Qin Zihan walked up to him, her tone carrying a hint of a scientist's rigor, as well as a trace of imperceptible jealousy.

"Her body temperature has consistently remained at thirty-nine degrees, yet she herself feels no discomfort at all; on the contrary, she is in surprisingly high spirits."

Lin Yun put down the tools in his hands, his brows furrowing slightly.

"That is the system performing genetic remodeling; do not worry."

"Take me to see her."

When the two arrived at the special care ward, Princess Anna was sitting by the window, studying a copy of the Dragon Kingdom's "Tao Te Ching".

Her skin surface was faintly glowing with a pale blue fluorescence.

That was a bioelectric phenomenon caused by high-energy reactions within her body.

Seeing Lin Yun enter, Princess Anna stood up, her eyes filled with attachment.

"Lin, I just felt the child in my womb speaking to me."

"He told me that he needs more energy; he said that the sunlight... is not enough."

Lin Yun was startled, and the system panel instantly popped up.

[Warning! The sixth S-rank offspring, due to excessively high potential, is forcibly absorbing free energy from around the mother!]

[Host, please provide high-purity energy to the mother as soon as possible, otherwise it will lead to failure of the gestation!]

Lin Yun took a deep breath; he knew that this step had finally arrived.

Although the previous children also had strange phenomena, they had never been as aggressive as this.

"Xiao Zhang! Immediately activate the emergency power transmission slot in the base and divert a separate line of energy from the Artificial Sun to here!"

Lin Yun roared the order.

The lights of the entire building instantly brightened to the extreme, as if it had turned into a lighthouse of light.

But the very moment the energy was connected, the red warning lights of the entire building suddenly flashed frantically!

"Warning! Large numbers of unidentified biological signals detected intruding!"

"The opponent used high-dimensional frequency shielding; our intelligent monitoring... has been paralyzed!"

Lin Yun turned his head sharply; in the night outside the window, several black shadows were climbing rapidly along the outer wall like geckos.

Their movements were not like humans, but more like some kind of enhanced biochemical monster.

"They're here."

Lin Yun snorted coldly, his hand already quietly gripping a small black cube.

That was a black-tech countermeasure weapon he had long prepared to protect the mother and child.

But the opponents were clearly well-prepared; with a violent explosion, the tempered glass of the ward was instantly shattered!

A man covered entirely in silver alloy armor landed in the room, the electromagnetic sword in his hand flashing with a cold glint.

"Lin Yun, please come with us."

"Or, watch this woman and the freak in her belly die before your eyes."

The man's voice was as hoarse as sandpaper grinding on the ground; he was an "Ultimate Soldier" that the US had spent a fortune to create.

Lin Yun shielded Princess Anna, the murderous intent in his eyes no longer containable.

"You remnants of the old era, you couldn't even break through my defense net; who gave you the courage?"

Just as Lin Yun was about to act, Princess Anna suddenly let out a painful scream.

A dazzling, intense light erupted from her abdomen; it was the child... about to be born!

At the same time, the sound of intense gunfire came from the corridor outside; Nightingale had arrived with her people!