Devil Fruit Ability

Colum wasn't worried at all that his behavior would be discovered.

Although Xindi Island was very important to the Soviet Union in the past, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, both the former Soviet Union countries and Russia, which inherited most of the Soviet Union's wealth, were extremely short of funds, that is, money...

Although Russia has breathed a sigh of relief because of the rise in oil prices, it is only a breath of relief.

It is also because of this relationship that Japan even thought about using economic aid to exchange the four northern islands from Russia. Of course, this is basically impossible.In fact, Russia also considered returning the Heba Mai Islands and Shikotan Islands among the four northern islands to Japan, but they were rejected by Japan.

The reason is very simple, not because Japan wants to take back all the four islands, but because the Hebamayi Islands and Shikotan Island belong to the smaller ones among the four northern islands, and the entire area only accounts for 7% of the disputed territory. [-]%...

Even the Japanese themselves said it. "It's not a matter of returning half of the four islands. The area of ​​these two islands only accounts for 7% of the total area of ​​the South Thousand Islands. If the remaining 93% is not returned, it will not be fair."

It's only 7%, no wonder the Japanese don't want it, even if they want it, they want the remaining 93%, but if that's the case, the Russians probably don't want it either.

It is precisely because Russia is short of money that when the Soviet Union just disintegrated in the early years, Cologne purchased many uninhabited islands from the Russians and other former Soviet Union countries.

The base near Xindi Island is one of them.

What is Colum's identity?It's the Merchant of Death.He is a legendary arms dealer. No matter what he does, he can't use his real identity to do it. In fact, in terms of identity alone, he has at least a dozen of them, each with a different name.

Originally, such things as buying and selling islands would be carefully investigated no matter which country they were in, but the Russians were so poor. Faced with a large amount of cash, these Russians naturally did not seriously investigate, even if someone did.It's ok to bribe.

As for those missiles?

When Russia disintegrated.There are many such things, let alone missiles, there are even nuclear bombs, and even armed helicopters are sold as civilians.The method is also very simple.Sell ​​the gunships and missiles separately.It's not considered arms smuggling...

And this is exactly a loophole in the law of the United Nations at the end of the Cold War.

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inside the base.When the person in charge gave the order to launch, all the missiles in the base were fired out of the silo in unison.And after giving the order, they directly evacuated the base in a submarine ————————As a former powerful country, Russia has a fairly complete security system. In the case of the United States, it was also deployed on the border of Russia because of the previous eastward plan. There are many radars. In other words, the missiles have been discovered by these two countries when they are launched. If you choose to take a plane or a boat at this time, you are basically sitting there waiting to be caught.

So the safest is naturally the submarine.

On the other hand, just as Colum and the person in charge of the base thought, the world government had already noticed this when the missile was launched.

It's just that Keren seems to have forgotten a little bit...

Although the Cold War has passed for many years, Russia is no longer the polar bear it once was—the polar bear is now starved and skinny.

But even so, Russia still has an extremely large nuclear arsenal, and in order to ensure the security of its own country, the Russians have been working hard to maintain it.This is also a helpless thing. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, if you fight for conventional military power, it is impossible to beat the United States.

In 2013, Russia’s military spending reached 907 billion U.S. dollars, while that of the United States was 6820 billion U.S. dollars. Russia’s military spending was even less than one-seventh of that of the United States. Only more than 2011 billion, ranking fifth, below Britain and France, even only more than 500 billion more than Japan, and more than 30 billion more than Saudi Arabia.

It is precisely because the conventional military cannot compete that Russia pays so much attention to nuclear arsenals.

And what the United States is most afraid of is precisely the nuclear arsenal of the Russians. If this were not the case, the Americans would not take measures to move eastward and press harder and harder.

It is also for this reason that when Russia and the United States discovered the dozens of missiles at the same time, Cologne's actions almost immediately turned the situation of the entire world back to the most critical moment since the end of the Cold War.

In fact, this is also Kelun's aura, if not, Kelun would not have issued such an order.

If it was during the Cold War, seeing Russia doing this, I am afraid that the United States has already launched a counterattack. This cannot be blamed on the Americans. Who said that the launch site of the missile is near Xindi Island, and everyone knows that there are Russians there. The place.

But it's not the Cold War anymore...

As for blocking...

Although the Americans have conducted many interception tests, in fact these experiments have no practical significance at all, because each interception only intercepts one target, that is, only one missile is intercepted, and there is no such thing as multiple missiles. Experiments were conducted, and in actual combat, it is clear that no country will ever fire just one missile...

If dozens of missiles are fired in salvo, even the Americans can't guarantee that they can intercept them.

And now is the era of devil fruits after all. Because of the relationship between devil fruits, all military teams have shifted their attention to how to deal with ability users and alien beasts. Although they attach importance to the war of regular troops, they are not as good as before. As for intercepting ballistics Missiles and the like have long been left behind...

Fortunately, it is not the Cold War period, and the relationship between Russia and the United States is not as tense as it was during the Cold War, so after the warning appeared, the Americans did not blindly counterattack, but directly contacted the Russians———————————— A special connection was needed because at this moment the Russian was sitting across from him, of course, the screen.

On the screen, the Russians also looked panic-stricken.Because he couldn't imagine why so many missiles suddenly appeared in his own country.

Moreover, it’s fine if it’s the known ones, but the ones that popped up this time are all unknown, that is to say, there are so many missiles that I don’t know about in the territory under my jurisdiction in the past...

Well, of course, this does not seem to be a strange thing.After all, Russia is so big.And the population is still so sparse, especially in Siberia, there is nothing surprising, who knows what was hidden there after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

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on the other hand.When the Americans noticed the expression of the Russians.He also quickly understood.

"This matter. Even you don't know!!!"

"That's right..." After all, they had experienced many storms, and after panicking for a while, the Russian regained his composure. "In the past. I didn't even know there were so many missiles in the territory under my jurisdiction..."

Hearing what he said, the Americans also believed it, because there is no reason for Russia to do this now, and there will be no benefits. Most importantly, not long ago, the Pentagon just sent news that those missiles were not It is coming towards the United States, but in another direction, and the ballistic trajectory is very concentrated. I believe the target is also a place.

If the Russians really wanted to play a nuclear war, it would be impossible to do so, not to mention dozens of them, and it would be impossible to destroy the United States.

When the Russians and Americans were talking, the three people next to them were also very nervous. After all, if one is not careful, it will turn into the end of the world.

On the other hand, they are also quietly waiting for the news, wanting to know where the final destination of those missiles is...

As for the interception, there is no need to think about it. The hope of intercepting all of them is very slim, so there is only one thing they can pray for now, and that is that the warhead of the missile is a conventional warhead.

"If I found out who did it..."

The Russian said fiercely. After all, this incident happened in Russia. As the president of Russia, he didn't even know that someone in his own country had hidden so many missiles. If this incident spread, the whole of Russia would be ashamed.

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Seeing the door being opened, Yan Shao, Sefilia and others also became nervous.

What they are most worried about now is that a lot of demons suddenly appear from the door, if that is the case...

"By the way, try the [Thunder Cloud] that you just mastered..."

Touching the two wrist armors, Yan Shao said silently in his heart.

With the help of the wrist armor, he can generate [Thundercloud] much faster, even if it is the kind that can cover the entire base, it will take less than an hour.

In the face of the power of [Thunder Cloud], even a demon of the first level of doomsday guard may not be able to survive, only the level of the abyss lord is still possible.

However, just as Yan Shao and the others were concentrating and preparing to deal with possible situations, the commander of the base not far away suddenly changed his expression. After a member of the base whispered in his ear, .

"what happened?"

Looking at the commander's appearance, Spinak was a little confused.

Gritting his teeth, the commander spoke.

"Just now there is news from above that many missiles have been launched from Russia, and it is now certain that the target of these missiles is here..."

Although the trajectory of the missiles is not impossible to change, at least now these missiles have no intention of changing the trajectory. In contrast, the world government can easily obtain the targets of these missiles.

The Gate of Time and Space…

"impossible!"

Hearing what the commander said, Minov snapped.

"It is absolutely impossible for our government to do such a thing!"

Although the Russians have always been famous for their unreasonable image, Minov believes that unless the top bosses in Russia are crazy, otherwise, it is absolutely impossible for them to do such a thing.

What's more, Russia has also invested a lot in the Gate of Time and Space this time, so it is even more impossible to do such things that harm others and benefit oneself.

After all, to do so is to become a public enemy of the world.

Hearing what Minov said, the commander shook his head and said.

"It's not your government that did this, but..."

"Rather?"

"It's an unknown force. In fact, even the government of your country didn't know that there were so many missiles hidden in your country beforehand."

When he said this, the commander also felt a certain contempt for the Russian government in his heart.

After all, no matter which country, it is impossible to allow other forces to hide so many things in their own country. After all, these are not guns or anything, but weapons of mass destruction with huge lethality.

But he also knew that now was not the time to reveal this, at least not when Minov was still on the scene, so he didn't reveal anything on the surface.

"Then what should we do now?"

"I do not know either…"

The commander smiled wryly.

Intercepting ballistic missiles is a very difficult task for any country.if not like this.Countries around the world don't conduct experiments very often either.After all, it is life-saving, but from another perspective, when nuclear weapons lose their effectiveness, then unless there is another thing that can replace nuclear weapons.otherwise.World War is not far away.

After all human peace.Basically, they are protected by nuclear weapons that humans hate.

Only under the mutual destruction of terror can it always be guaranteed that no direct conflict breaks out between the several great powers.

Mutual assured destruction strategy is a kind of US nuclear strategy and a component of flexible response strategy.It refers to both the United States and the Soviet Union having credible second-strike nuclear capabilities.That is to say, after the other party first implements a nuclear strike, one's own side can still survive and have the nuclear retaliation capability to completely destroy the other party.Therefore, any party launching a nuclear attack will definitely be met with retaliatory strikes.As long as this "stable peace of terror" is maintained, both sides can be deterred from launching strategic nuclear attacks and a nuclear war can be avoided. Otherwise, the United States and the Soviet Union may perish together.

The core idea of ​​mutual assured destruction strategy is to establish nuclear deterrence.The strategy was proposed in 1964 by US Secretary of Defense rs McNamara.In terms of nuclear strike targets, he advocated focusing on striking urban targets, and destroying all the cities of the opponent in the retaliatory strike, threatening with this, so that the opponent would not dare to launch a nuclear attack on the United States.In terms of the scale of nuclear power, he believes that as long as the United States has the nuclear power to wipe out one-fourth to one-third of the population of the Soviet Union and destroy one-half to two-thirds of its industrial production capacity, it can achieve guaranteed destruction. requirements.

According to the population distribution and industrial layout of the United States and the Soviet Union, McNamara proposed that a nuclear explosive force of 40 gigatons is the peak to meet this requirement.Accordingly, he designed a "Trinity" strategic nuclear force for the United States, which includes: 1000 "Minuteman" ballistic missiles, 54 "Hercules" II ballistic missiles, 656 submarine-launched missiles and 534 B-52 strategic bomber.In the United States, the strategy not only played a role in the 60s, but also remained one of the nuclear strategic theories that played a practical role until the end of the US-Soviet Cold War relationship.

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Although all countries have the means to intercept ballistic missiles, they are not very mature, at least not very effective in the face of large-scale attacks.

Then, even if it is mature, Greenland is obviously not a key target, and the interception equipment will naturally not be placed here. Even in the stage of base construction, the world government never thought that someone would use ballistic missiles to attack here. .

In other words, facing the incoming missile swarm, at least the world government has nothing to do.

"Then what should we do now, should we just wait for them to fly down and land on our heads?"

Perhaps because of the disfigurement, Minov's mood seemed a little irritable.

Is he really worried about his safety? There are dozens of missiles. Unless they are nuclear warheads, he really doesn't care.

On the other side, Sefilia spoke.

"Don't you have any interception equipment here?"

"I'm sorry, there really isn't…"

Hearing what Sefilia said, the commander smiled wryly.

But at this moment, Yan Shao stood up.

"Lend you something, no problem..."

As he said that, without waiting for the commander to answer, he had already magnetically absorbed a lot of metal from the base.

But after a while, a metal hill appeared in front of everyone.

Walking quickly to the front of the mountain, Yan Shao pressed his palm on it.With the help of Lei Metallurgy, the metals were quickly melted away, and a huge metal tray with a width of tens of meters was gradually formed.

Under Yan Shao's control, the metal disk quickly floated in mid-air.

After jumping onto the metal plate, Yan Shao spoke to the group of people who were still standing below.

"Is there anyone going up with me to have a look?"

Hearing Yan Shao's words, Elaine was the first to jump up, followed by Katerina and Lesa, then Sephilia, and Lin.cough.Although the reaction is not slow, it is a bit slow.

Not long after, Spinak and his partner also got on the frisbee, and then Minov and others.

I saw Yan Shao and others come forward.Although others are still a little confused.But somewhat relieved.

After all, in everyone's habits.These ability users are all monsters, maybe they can really create miracles.

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After almost all the high-level ability users present came up, Yan Shao controlled the Frisbee to fly into the air.He doesn't need to worry about not knowing the location of the missile, because the command on the ground will naturally tell him.

Sure enough, not long after he took off, Spinak had already pulled out a tablet, which was showing their positions, and then the positions of those missiles.

It seems that the missiles there are not far away, which is not surprising. The speed of ballistic missiles has always been very fast. The speed dives down, making defense more difficult.For example, if a missile with a range of 3000 kilometers is used to attack a target of 500 kilometers, it can reach the target at a height of 1200 kilometers, which is about the same as an ICBM. Rush towards the target at a speed of 6 kilometers per second.This speed is about 17 to 18 times the speed of sound, making it almost impossible to defend against.

17 or 8 times the speed of sound, even Lesa, who is the fastest in the field, cannot reach this speed.

"Speaking of which, I thought you would sit by and watch the gate of time and space be destroyed, but I didn't expect you to actually help?"

Beside Yan Shao, Yujia was sitting on the edge of the frisbee dangling his legs, regardless of the fact that they had risen to a height of several hundred meters, if they fell from this height, even a person with A-level abilities would probably be too weak. was hit hard.

"Yeah, I mean I'll do that too."

Hearing what Yuga said, Yan Shao also smiled.

He already had a good impression of the little girl Yuga, and to a certain extent, Yuga had saved his life, so he naturally wouldn't have any bad feelings for her.

"Actually, I really hope that door is destroyed, but!!!"

With a slight smile, Yan Shao continued while controlling the frisbee.

"That must not be done in my presence..."

If Yan Shao was in another place, watching the gate of time and space being smashed into pieces on the screen, it would definitely be an unparalleled audio-visual feast, but if it was done in his presence, then , it's a naked slap in the face...

After all, he was invited this time to ensure the safety of the gate of time and space.

And he would be invited to come, which is more or less a commitment to this matter.

"Sure enough, I knew..."

Hearing what Yan Shao said, Elaine curled her lips. Based on her understanding of Yan Shao, there was only one possibility that Yan Shao would make a move.

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The speed of the ballistic missile is undoubtedly very fast. In a short time, Yan Shao and others have seen dozens of rockets falling from the sky, and the target is naturally the gate of time and space on the ground.

"Really, if I knew it earlier, I should ask the world government for more appearance fees."

Saying so, a ball of lightning appeared in Yan Shao's hand.

"Don't worry, as long as you can destroy all these missiles, the people above will never be stingy with rewards."

His hearing is quite good, after hearing Yan Shao's words, Spinak on the side replied with a smile.

He did not lie, if Yan Shao is really capable of turning the tide, the world government will definitely not be stingy with rewards. After all, if someone destroys the gate of time and space, the world government will definitely lose face. Everything will definitely be in vain, and this result is absolutely unacceptable to the world government.

Just when a group of people were talking there, in the blink of an eye.Those missiles are already in sight.

Lin was the first to strike. After opening her eyes, two blood lights shot out from them. After sweeping across the air, at least four or five missiles were swept away.

And beside Lin, Elaine also took the target.

Although the power of Lu's arrows is not as powerful as Lin's blood light, these pink arrows can petrify everything they shoot, everything...

It's just that the speed of those missiles is astonishingly fast, so even though Eleanor shot a large rain of arrows.But in the end, only two missiles were hit.

In the eyes of everyone.The two missiles that were shot turned into a mass of rocks—or stone sculptures, at least ordinary artists, it is impossible to carve such lifelike stone sculptures.

After Lin and Elaine made their moves, others also made their moves one after another.For example, Katarina's [Ominous Blade].And Sephilia's fireball.Even Spinak rode his little friend off the frisbee, and only Yujia and Delinger stood or sat on the frisbee.There is no intention of going to war at all.

When other people saw this scene, they didn't want to blame at all.

Because it is actually a very normal thing for them not to shoot. For example, Yujia's ability must be close to cause damage to the target.Of course, there is no problem with long-distance, such as spitting out fireballs, or raising the surrounding temperature, but the speed of fireballs is obviously impossible to be faster than missiles, and she is not specialized in this. As for raising the surrounding temperature, this may be a little bit effect, but only if her speed can keep up with the missile, and then, most importantly...

Her companion must be able to endure the high temperature of thousands of degrees for a long time. This is not something ordinary people can endure...

Also because of this relationship, even though they are just sitting here, no one wants to force them to help. After all, if they want to help, let them jump out of the frisbee. In that case, it is actually no different from murder , because even if it is a high-level ability user, jumping from such a high height will kill him.

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Although a few of them were watching the show, at least most of them were still working hard, so after a while, there were not many missiles left in the air.

And the last few were all wiped out under Yan Shao's lightning.

Of the dozens of missiles that struck this time, at least half of them were destroyed by Yan Shao.

This doesn't mean that he is stronger than all the others combined, not to mention, at least for Lin, he is definitely not an opponent.

The real reason is that his abilities are best suited to do so.

No matter how fast those missiles are, they cannot be faster than lightning. This is common sense. As a [Thunder Fruit] capable user, it is naturally easy to deal with those missiles.

On the other hand, after being violently attacked, those missiles that exploded violently also made many people breathe a sigh of relief.

Because if it was a nuclear bomb, the power of the explosion would not be so small.

In fact, if the nuclear bomb is not detonated in a special way, it is impossible to explode, even if it is set on fire. , are normal...

When the last missile exploded, cheers erupted from the base.

The cheers of nearly ten thousand people, even Yan Shao and others who were slowly descending from high altitude could hear clearly.

On the other hand, while breathing a sigh of relief, the world government is also ordering its subordinates to find out the criminal who may have caused this incident as soon as possible, and then punish them...

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"So, is the gate of time and space safe..."

In the twisting void, an abyss lord was muttering.

"Yes."

Another senior demon nodded.

"According to the report from the succubus, it seems that the ability users of that world took action and finally ensured the safety of the door."

"That's good…"

The abyss lord nodded.

"As long as the door is still there, there will be a solution, but it's not enough, maybe there will be some detours this time..." the abyss lord said with a sinister smile.

"It may not be considered a detour. After all, that is the world we were planning to conquer. Now, it's just that the time has been advanced a little bit." The senior demon also smiled. He looked like the abyss lord's confidant, so he said something. Not very scruples either.

He also smiled, and after the laugh, the abyss lord retreated as if the demon, and then went to Sargeras' residence with the news.

Although the last plan had completely failed, the demons did not give up. In terms of perseverance and patience, they are much stronger than humans, after all, it is lifespan.They are also much stronger than humans.

So after the last plan failed.They have restarted another plan, this plan is simpler than the last one, and there is only one core content, which is to detour...

"Since humans want to go to the [New World], let them go. But until then. We will also conquer the [New World], and it will be fine."

This is how the demons do it.

In fact.The demons have already grasped the coordinates of the [New World] that humans call. From a certain point of view, the distance between that world and the Twisting Void is much closer than the earth.

It is only because the human world has many things that attract demons that the Twisting Nether chooses the human world as its first target.

Now, now that the dream of invasion has been shattered, the demons can only resort to detours.

Anyway, humans want to enter the [New World], so the demons should also invade the human world from the [New World].

Of course, in order to obtain specific information about human beings, they also planted many spies among human beings, the most famous of which is probably the succubus.

In fact, it is difficult to have a more powerful spy than Succubus in this world.

After all, their methods of seducing the opposite sex are more powerful than any demons.

As for how to send the succubus there, they don't even need to send it, because many succubi were already captured when they were in New York.

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The number of demons captured in New York is not particularly large, but there are hundreds of them, and more than 100 of them are succubi. Of course, there are succubi among them who are stronger, more clever, and better understand the reason for acting according to circumstances. Inside, but more importantly, when they appeared in front of humans, the images projected were all seductive beauties——————————————————— Most of the time, they were the ones without clothes.

Although these demons were the main culprits that caused the destruction of New York, facing such charming demons, even a hard-hearted demon would find it difficult to kill them, let alone ordinary soldiers and ability users.

So although many captured demons ended up dying in the hands of soldiers and ability users, none of the succubi died—of course, they were not completely safe, at least after being captured. , there are often soldiers who can't help but want to torture them...

As for how to torture, please use your imagination...

While the vast majority of demons are imprisoned in special prisons and special laboratories, and subject to special experiments such as slicing, the succubus eat well, wear well, and enjoy first-class treatment. Their remuneration is high, even higher than that of some ability users.

Of course, they also have work to do, for example, they need to tell the world government everything they know, and at this time, one or more senior officials of the world government will come over, and the succubus in a In the room, listen to their reports in detail.

Every time after waiting for the end, those high-ranking officials looked contented with their hands and feet softened, while those succubi got better treatment.

It seems that their service is really good...

Although many people have warned the World Government that these succubi may even be more terrifying demons than the abyss lords, and even the remnants of the Evil Moon Sect have warned the same, but the temptation of succubi still attracts many people. Like a moth to a flame...

By the time the world government found out about this and took strong measures to stop it, no one knew how many people had been seduced by the succubus and fell into depravity.

And these people who have been controlled by the succubus have become the inside line of the twisting void in the human world.

Of course, on the surface they are playing with the succubus, but in fact, they have become the succubus' toys.

And the person responsible for contacting these succubi is an abyss lord who is deeply trusted by Sargeras—of course, this kind of trust is only relative, after all, it is too much for demons to talk about trust. Stupid some.

As for why Sargeras didn't come to listen in person...

In any case, Sargeras is also a demon king after all, it is impossible for him to listen to his low-class succubi, how to lure humans and sleep with them, and play various shameful games...

Naturally, this kind of matter can only be handled by the subordinates...

On the other hand, after destroying all the missiles, Yan Shao and others finally fell back to the ground. They were greeted by cheering crowds and, of course, the commander who was about to cry.

"The equipment that was destroyed just now is worth at least tens of millions of dollars..."

Looking at the Frisbee under the feet of Yan Shao and the others, the commander wanted to cry without tears...

If he didn't feel bad at the beginning, then now, he really does.After all, that's tens of millions of dollars. Even if the dollar has depreciated, it's still a fortune...

But in any case, since the gate of time and space has been preserved, it is a good thing after all, isn't it... (To be continued. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)