212: Chapter 212 Kill the chicken to scare the monkey!

Inside the underground secret intelligence centers of the world's major powers, the piercing red alarms were practically screaming through the ceilings!

Countless intelligence personnel, their eyes glued to satellite feeds, had faces as pale as paper, with beads of cold sweat rolling frantically down their foreheads.

"My God..."

A blonde intelligence officer clutched his head tightly, his pupils trembling violently.

He stared at the stretch of empty sea on the screen where not even a scrap of debris remained, looking as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

They weren't just shocked that Xia Country had actually built such war behemoths that only existed in science fiction movies.

What terrified them even more was Xia Country's iron-blooded decisiveness—opening fire to erase their targets without a moment's hesitation or a single word of nonsense!

After a brief mental freeze, the global intelligence network descended into unprecedented madness.

"Quick! Connect to Supreme Command!"

"Red secure line! Report immediately!"

"Xia Country has opened fire! This is not a drill! Repeat, this is not a drill!"

Sharp roars echoed across various intelligence centers as countless intelligence directors stumbled toward secure telephones, frantically reporting this earth-shattering development to their superiors.

...

Meanwhile, at Xishan Base.

On the massive display wall, the scene in the Southern Sea Area had returned to tranquility, leaving only those eight hundred steel behemoths quietly hovering above the sea surface.

The command room was deathly silent for a few seconds before a sudden explosion of wild cheering and thunderous applause erupted, enough to lift the roof!

"Long live!!!"

Yang Tongan stood before the main control console, his hands clenched into tight fists, his face flushed with excitement, and his chest heaving violently.

Today, Xia Country had finally used its hardest fist and most overbearing firepower to announce the complete awakening of the Eastern Dragon to the entire world!

Amidst the cheers, a young weapons researcher haphazardly wiped the tears from his face.

He looked at the eight hundred steel behemoths hovering over the sea on the screen and couldn't help but laughingly comment.

"It was solved that easily?"

"If I'd known, we could have sent mechas yesterday. Just a hundred—no, ten would have been more than enough. Why wait until today?"

"Taking out a full complement of eight hundred in formation is really like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut!"

Hearing the young researcher's words, Shen Changhe, who was standing nearby, laughed heartily.

He strode forward and heavily patted the young man's shoulder with his broad hand.

"Young man, your vision is still too narrow!"

Shen Changhe shook his head, his eyes flashing with the insight of a man who understood the world.

"To deal with those jumping monkeys, let alone ten, a single Chengying sweeping through would have been enough."

"But you must remember, the focus of our move this time was never about killing the chicken!"

He emphasized his tone, speaking one word at a time.

"It was to warn the monkey!"

Lin Yuan stood to the side and nodded with a smile upon hearing this.

His hands hung naturally at his sides as his gaze pierced through the screen, looking at that forest of steel composed of faint blue halos.

"Chief Engineer Shen is right."

"A full formation of eight hundred mechas was never meant for those few broken ships to see."

"It's for those The Other Side of the Ocean, and for the whole world to see!"

Lin Yuan tilted his chin up slightly, a flash of pride in his eyes.

"Strike with one punch to prevent a hundred from coming!"

"Only by smashing these eight hundred 'truths' right in front of their eyes will the people The Other Side of the Ocean truly weigh things carefully."

"Just how much weight the current Xia Country carries!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the command room understood the meaning.

Yang Tongan turned his head to look at Lin Yuan and nodded heavily, then burst into a delighted laugh.

The laughter echoed in the command room—the extreme confidence belonging to the rise of a great power.

...

At the same time.

The Other Side of the Ocean, in a spacious and luxurious office of a certain white building.

The big shot who had just been comfortably sinking into his leather sofa, waiting to see Xia Country become a laughingstock, was now completely drained of strength, frozen in place.

*Click.*

The expensive Cuban cigar held between his fingertips fell silently.

The glowing ember of the cigar landed on the precious handmade carpet, quickly burning a charred hole and sending up a wisp of pungent smoke.

Yet, the big shot was completely oblivious.

He stared fixedly at the encrypted footage that had just been transmitted.

On the screen, satellite footage of the Xia Country mechas vaporizing the fleet played on a loop.

The big shot's entire body couldn't stop shaking violently, his eyes filled with unbelievable horror.

"This is impossible..."

A hoarse, dry voice squeezed out of his throat.

"How could Xia Country?!"

"How dare they?!"

The big shot couldn't believe it, then he suddenly stood up from the sofa and paced back and forth in the office, his chest heaving.

He forced himself to calm down, his mind frantically calculating.

After a brief moment of panic and frustration, the big shot's gaze turned cold again.

He stopped pacing, walked to his desk, and pressed the highest-level red communicator.

"Activate the backup plan immediately!"

"Utilize Xia Country's use of force to aggressively play up the 'Xia Country Hegemony Threat Theory' globally!"

He braced his hands firmly on the desk.

"Tell all the media, tell all the allies!"

"Xia Country has shown its fangs. They are not a country of peaceful development; they will swallow everything around them at any time!"

The big shot's scheme was extremely malicious.

Since they couldn't form a deterrent through force, they would exploit the world's fear of unknown power.

Force all countries to stand in opposition to Xia Country!

Use international isolation and economic blockades to forcibly lock down this awakened Eastern Dragon!

...

In just half a day.

Under the secret authorization and promotion from The Other Side of the Ocean.

Monkey Country, as the "victim" of this conflict, quickly jumped out.

They immediately held a global international press conference.

At the press conference, Monkey Country's diplomatic spokesperson stood before the cameras, eyes red and tears streaming down his face.

Facing the cameras, he began his "performance" with an extremely trembling tone of deliberately crafted grief and indignation.

"Today is the darkest day in our country's history!"

"Thousands of young soldiers were ruthlessly slaughtered by Xia Country without having committed any act of aggression!"

The spokesperson's voice suddenly rose, and tears slid down his cheeks, clearly visible under the flashbulbs.

"We hereby express our strongest and most severe condemnation of Xia Country's bottomless slaughter and barbaric bullying in the Southern Sea Area!"

He suddenly looked up, staring dead into the camera with a hysterical sob in his voice.

"We call upon all peace-loving countries in the world to unite!"

"Sanction Xia Country! Contain Xia Country!"

"Otherwise, the tragedy that happened to us today will fall upon your heads tomorrow!"

Countless flashbulbs flashed frantically.

The global live broadcast pushed this carefully planned "victim show" to every corner of the world.