196: Chapter 196 The Japanese People Suffer Again

Just as these newly joined warriors fully realized the brutal situation they were about to face and refocused on their high-intensity training, Yu Yang, who had been lurking for a long time, finally launched his long-premeditated plan in secret.

Taking advantage of a gap during his wife's visit to the base, Yu Yang quietly handed her a pen containing top-secret intelligence. All staff at this Ethereal Energy special training base had undergone layers of rigorous political and background checks. Family visits were one of the few humane arrangements, and security checks for visitors weren't overly harsh—after all, they were all 'their own people,' and being too aggressive would seem cold and lacking in tact.

After receiving the pen, Yu Yang's wife completed the visit with a normal expression. As soon as she returned home, she activated the preset plan and covertly passed the intelligence concerning the core trump card of the Eastern Great Power to her overseas superiors through a dead drop. Upon intercepting the intelligence, the overseas organization didn't dare delay for a second and immediately sent the news back to the USA.

When the Western Countries, led by the USA, learned that the Eastern Great Power had already taken the lead in breaking through technological barriers and systematically training Transcendent Warriors capable of directly contending with Alien Beasts, they could no longer sit still. Their long-standing technological advantage and hegemonic confidence shattered instantly in the face of this intelligence, which was enough to rewrite the future landscape of survival.

The next day, the USA, along with its Western allies like Gaul Chicken and John Bull, suddenly initiated an emergency United Nations meeting. They pointed their fingers directly at the Eastern Great Power's secret cultivation of Transcendent Warriors, using aggressive language filled with interrogation and provocation.

The moment the Eastern Great Power's representative to the United Nations heard the agenda, he knew that the core secret had been leaked. However, he remained calm. Facing the rounds of questioning from various nations, he composedly brushed them off with a few words: "unaware, no knowledge, no relevant official deployment," not letting a single word slip.

This neither soft nor hard attitude completely struck the anxiety and mania of the Western Countries. Seeing their former rival take the lead in securing a path to survival against the doomsday crisis while they were still groping in the dark without a solution, they knew they would be sitting ducks once a larger-scale Alien Beast invasion arrived. Amidst a mix of panic and jealousy, the participating nations' attitudes suddenly turned tough. They pressured the Eastern Great Power on the spot, demanding the unconditional sharing of Transcendent Warrior cultivation technology and core plans; otherwise, they wouldn't hesitate to tear off all pretenses and push the situation toward total opposition and mutual destruction.

Seeing this, the Eastern representative to the United Nations knew there was no more room for maneuvering and that he couldn't handle the joint pressure of the global nations alone. He immediately interrupted the meeting and reported this diplomatic crisis to the domestic high-level leadership as an emergency.

Upon learning of the leak and the joint coercion by the various nations, the leadership's fury was beyond words. They could face external enemies head-on, but a traitorous mole hidden within was far more sinister and hateful than any overseas enemy. The leadership immediately issued a top-secret investigation order, vowing to uproot the mole. Such traitors had to be executed to appease the public's anger.

Yu Yang thought he had acted meticulously and flawlessly, but he didn't realize that the scope of the investigation for this leak was inherently very small. There were very few core personnel who had private contact with the outside world recently. Facing the thunderous methods and professional, meticulous interrogation and evidence gathering of the national security department, Yu Yang, whose psychological defenses were already weak, eventually broke under the pressure. He confessed everything about his collusion with his wife and overseas forces to sell out the nation's core secrets. All the hopes he had gambled on—the overseas intelligence organization's promise to safely transfer his wife and children and provide wealth abroad—turned out to be a pipe dream. Those Western Countries never took their promises to him seriously; his spy wife and two children were never arranged to leave the country. Instead, they became the collateral for his treasonous acts.

In the end, this spy couple, who had betrayed their country and sold out national interests, were sentenced to death with conclusive and irrefutable evidence. They were executed by firing squad immediately, meeting a self-inflicted and infamous end.

Although the mole had been brought to justice, the crisis of technological sharing coercion initiated by the Western Countries at the United Nations remained unresolved. Just as the high-level leadership of the Eastern Great Power was consulting overnight to plan a response, a world-shaking catastrophe erupted suddenly and without warning.

And the center of this disaster was once again the already precarious Neon Country.

Ever since being ruthlessly sanctioned and heavily beaten by the USA last time, Neon Country had already fallen into a state of wailing and chaos. Foreign trade was completely cut off, overseas travel channels were blocked, and domestic livelihood materials were in extreme shortage. Prices skyrocketed, and the supply chain collapsed entirely. Although the Neon government repeatedly spoke out, calling on the people to tighten their belts and overcome the difficulties together, the survival threshold of the grassroots people had long been breached. Amidst widespread starvation, civil riots were on the verge of erupting. Crazed with hunger, people began to frantically storm supermarkets, granaries, and warehouses. Smashing, looting, and arson swept across the country, and civil order completely collapsed. The entire nation was in a state of chaos, with only a very few top-tier wealthy individuals and elites able to maintain a meagerly stable life with their hoarded supplies.

The Neon authorities still harbored a glimmer of hope, thinking that their 'backer,' the USA, was only temporarily enraged and would stop after some punishment—after all, ultimate force hadn't been used this time, which was meant to leave some room, and the heavy punishment wouldn't necessarily mean total destruction.

But things did not go as planned. Before the domestic chaos could subside, on the same day the Western Countries jointly pressured the Eastern Great Power, an unprecedented large-scale invasion of Alien Beasts suddenly broke out across all of Neon Country!

The scale of the Great Lizard swarm that descended this time was horrifying, unseen in a thousand years. Verified in real-time by the Blue Star Defense Department's global monitoring network, there were as many as thirty-eight giant landing ships that broke through the spatial barrier. Such an unprecedented scale of invasion directly meant that the leader of this Alien Beast swarm was, at the very least, a Silver Horn Grade Great Lizard with terrifying combat power.

Facing such a nation-destroying invasion, the combat strength of the Blue Star Defense Department's Neon Branch was completely vulnerable and had no power to resist. To avoid pointless sacrifices of its warriors, the Defense Department headquarters made a prompt decision and issued an emergency evacuation order to all personnel of the Neon Branch. Since things had come to this, they could only let the people of Neon Country suffer for a while.