120: Chapter 120 Empowerment? Slaughter!

Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, the sea area ahead is confirmed safe.

Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, the area five hundred meters below the sea surface is confirmed safe.

Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, the airspace ahead is completely empty.

Three consecutive reports were transmitted back, and in the command room, everyone exclaimed:

Impossible, how could such a large ship just disappear into thin air?

But the reconnaissance results from the sea, land, and air forces confirm that there is no one ahead.

It must be some kind of trick!

The Commander-in-Chief's face was grim, staring fixedly at that sea area.

Some guesses surfaced in his mind.

Accelerate the empowerment.

The calm voice interrupted the argument among the high-ranking officials.

Zhou Tao was stunned for a moment and exclaimed: "Commander-in-Chief, if we accelerate, the whole city..."

Enough!

The Commander-in-Chief barked angrily, "General Zhou, this is an order."

Zhou Tao gritted his teeth and said in a trembling voice: "You cannot disregard the lives of all the city's residents, Commander-in-Chief."

"Zhou Tao, I think you've grown senile. If the city is breached, do you think these outcasts could survive?"

Looking at the Commander-in-Chief's cold, grim face, Zhou Tao's breath hitched, and his teeth began to chatter.

"Out... outcasts?"

The Commander-in-Chief's gaze was icy as he scanned the room:

"I hereby announce that Zhou Tao is temporarily stripped of his authority. The Air Force Department will be temporarily under the command of Army General, meeting adjourned."

The sound of footsteps gradually faded, and the Commander-in-Chief disappeared at the end of the office.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Zhou Tao, sighed, shook their heads, and left.

"Yo, our General Zhou, have you been dismissed?"

Army General said with a face full of mockery and a sarcastic tone.

Zhou Tao gave him a cold glance and ignored him.

"Still acting arrogant even after being dismissed? Someone, take him to the confinement room and let him reflect properly."

Two soldiers walked up, whispered "pardon us," and dragged Zhou Tao away.

From beginning to end, Zhou Tao did not say a word.

His eyes were cast down, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Passing through a dark path, waves of rotting, sour stench drifted from afar.

Zhou Tao finally regained some focus and looked up numbly.

Not far away was the direction of the slums.

At this moment, several teams of people wearing matching uniforms were constantly kicking open dilapidated, rotting doors and forcibly dragging people out of the houses.

These people were sallow and emaciated, and many were even disabled.

After being brought out, they were tossed into transport vehicles like garbage.

"Stop!"

Zhou Tao roared and was about to rush up to stop them.

The two soldiers on his left and right were prepared and pressed him to the ground.

"General Zhou, it is futile for you to go there, please do not make things difficult for us."

"You little brats, let me go, or I will execute you the moment I'm reinstated."

Zhou Tao's pupils turned red, and his tone was incomparably cold.

"I only know that if we let you go today, we will be executed immediately. General Zhou, pardon us!"

The two looked at each other, reached out, and struck Zhou Tao hard on the back of his neck.

"Ugh—"

Everything went black before Zhou Tao's eyes, and his consciousness gradually blurred.

Before his eyes closed, he saw a disabled mother clutching her child tightly.

The soldier at the door roughly threw them both onto the transport vehicle.

A tear flowed from the corner of Zhou Tao's eye.

The two let out a long sigh and looked at a certain direction with complex expressions.

There, plumes of thick smoke were rising.

In the air, it seemed as if the screams and wails of countless people were echoing.

...

"I ask, you answer. Say one wrong word and you die. Understand?"

Chen Fan's eyes were cold as he looked down at the five people lying on the deck.

They were the soldiers from the helicopter that Chen Fan had captured.

Cold seawater splashed them awake.

The five were trembling with fear and nodded repeatedly.

Chen Fan was very satisfied with their reaction and said coldly:

"How many aircraft carriers and destroyers do you have?"

Hearing this, the four subconsciously turned their heads to look at one of them.

Feeling the cold gaze, the man's scalp tingled.

"Reporting to the officer, we only have one aircraft carrier and destroyer."

Chen Fan nodded slightly; this answer was not unexpected.

If they had more, they would have brought them out long ago; there would be no need to wait until now.

"How many soldiers and aircraft does your city have?"

"Reporting to the officer, a total of over thirty thousand people. Ten thousand for each of the sea, land, and air forces. More than sixty fighter jets and over twenty helicopters."

Chen Fan nodded, took out the super energy chip and super energy nova, and threw them on the ground.

"Do you recognize this stuff?"

The five stared at it and were immediately scared out of their wits.

Their hands shook as if they had Parkinson's, and they tremblingly covered their eyes.

"I didn't see anything, don't kill me, don't kill me..."

This reaction left Chen Fan stunned.

"You recognize them?"

"No... I don't recognize them, I don't know anything. I beg you, spare me."

The five were so scared their limbs went weak, and they knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically.

The deck made clanging sounds as they kowtowed; no matter what Chen Fan asked, they seemed to have lost their minds and only knew how to kowtow.

After a long time, the five's foreheads were covered in blood, yet they still dared not stop.

Chen Fan frowned slightly and gave Kuka a look.

Kuka understood immediately, drew his big blade, and held it against one person's neck.

"Answer the question honestly, or I will chop you right now!"

"Sir... I really don't know anything, please spare me, I beg you."

"Still not being honest?"

Kuka fumed and swung his blade, intending to strike.

"No!!!"

The soldier exclaimed, trembling all over, and a foul stench of urine emanated from beneath him.

A sound of wind breaking passed, and the big blade stopped right in front of his neck.

The sharp blade tip sliced his skin, and lines of blood dripped down.

"Last chance, if you don't talk, you die!"

Kuka's voice was low, and his gaze was cold as he stared at him.

Under the threat of death, the soldier regained a bit of consciousness.

He turned to look at the four who were still kowtowing and gritted his teeth hard:

"Sir... I have indeed seen this thing, but I've only seen it once."

As soon as he finished speaking, the four soldiers stopped abruptly, looking at him with terror in their eyes.

"You..."

Chen Fan's eyes lit up, and before the four could speak, he waved his hand.

Several Crew Members approached and pulled the four to different locations.

"Speak. If you behave well, I can spare your life."

Hearing this, a glimmer flashed in the soldier's eyes, and he slowly climbed up.

After the interrogation just now, he understood that the young man in front of him was the leader of this group.

"Sir, in our city, we call this stuff God-Given Energy. The two are separately called super energy chip and super energy nova."

Chen Fan nodded, signaling him to continue.

The soldier swallowed his saliva, "As for the source..."

The soldier recounted the details.

The more Chen Fan listened, the more shocked he became, and by the end, his eyes were filled with rage.

He kicked the soldier to the ground and shouted angrily:

"Is this how you treat your fellow countrymen?"

It turned out that they could not produce these superpower supplies.

The reason they could possess them was mainly because there was a giant divine beast in the city's forbidden area.

The city's high-ranking officials revered the divine beast as a god.

The super energy chip was exactly the scales shed by the divine beast.

And the super energy nova was the inner core spat out by the divine beast.

Every once in a while, the divine beast would produce a certain amount of supplies.

In exchange, they had to feed the divine beast.

As for the food.

It was the people in the city...