Ling Cage: I come from Hisakawa

Chapter 244 Three Days
“Jeg told me to kill you.”

"And while I'm at it, I'll try to get the location of the ASH data hub out of you." Gray sat down in front of Bai Jingyu.

He watched the fireworks with Bai Jingyu, a faint smile on his face.

Idiot Jagger!
You made a crappy 24-hour program to fool me, and you expect me to be grateful to you?
If I really kill Bai Jingyu, I'll lose all my value, and this program will probably only last for 24 hours forever.

Bai Jingyu asked, "Now that you've told me all this, how are you going to kill me? Aren't you afraid I'll arrest you?"

"Mayor Bai has a sense of humor? Nirvana should write a paper about it," Gray said slowly.

Bai Jingyu smiled.

He replied, "I was quite humorous when I was running for mayor."

Gray remained expressionless.

He was quite humorous even if that incident hadn't happened.

The fireworks display overhead continued, each point of light in the night sky both expensive and deadly.

The war has lasted for a little over an hour now, and it has already wiped out the entire GDP of some small countries for a year. The debris from the Hela Empire's drones is scattered evenly across the streets of Jiuchuan.

If you're not afraid of death, crawl out of the shelter now and scavenge for scrap metal; you could create countless millionaires overnight.

Hisakawa's defenses remained rock solid.

In conventional warfare without weapons of mass destruction, ASH can serve as a teacher to SITA.

At this very moment, SITA's database is being refreshed at an alarming rate; in human parlance, it's "growing up."

After a long pause, Gray spoke up: "What are your plans next?"

"Three days?"

After ending his video call with Jag, Gray drove to find Bai Jingyu and told him everything they had talked about.

If we can hold out for three more days, the Hela Empire will withdraw from Jiuchuan, and the war will be over.

The units deployed by Hisakawa were all inanimate machines, and the total loss was only a sum of money, with no casualties.

In his view, this was the best possible outcome.

Bai Jingyu shook his head.

"We'll take it down within three days."

His eyes were extremely determined.

Gray was slightly taken aback.

it--

Could you be referring to Loki?

“If you’re talking about Loki, I see no hope.” Grey frowned deeply.

ASH's power is undeniable, but the Hela Empire is no pushover either.

"Although you shot down two spaceships, there are still ten on Loki, and the nearby Hela space force can provide support at any time. What do you have to take down Loki?"

"You have a secret weapon?"

"Or do you mean you've also deployed those incredibly powerful laser cannons in space?"

He looked at Bai Jingyu with a puzzled expression.

The laser weapon that was just shown was already terrifying enough. Could Bai Jingyu have something even more powerful?
Is ASH really that powerful?

On the surface, they have broken through the problem of immortality that has plagued humanity for thousands of years; behind the scenes, they have mastered the transmission of consciousness; and now they even have super military products comparable to Hella?
No wonder the Hela Empire is so greedy for ASH.

Anyone would be tempted.

"No." Bai Jingyu shook his head.

Gray hesitated, "No—then how will you destroy Loki?"

"I don't know, but we have to destroy it, otherwise Helu will use it to launch neutron plumes at Jiuchuan." Bai Jingyu's expression turned serious. People always encounter situations where they are uncertain but have no choice but to succeed. Whenever such a situation arises, no matter how unsure one is, one can only grit one's teeth and push forward.

Gray was shocked: "What did you say?"

Before Bai Jingyu cracked down on illegal immigrants, Jiuchuan already had more than 200,000 unregistered people.

Even though most of the undocumented immigrants have been driven away, Jiuchuan still has over a million permanent residents and more than 100,000 foreigners with legal documents.

Only a madman would use Neutron Feather Stream on Hisakawa!

"I'm not joking," Bai Jingyu sighed softly.

In another timeline, Loki launched a neutron plume toward Hisakawa.

He was already dead at that time, and ASH was paralyzed.

The number of infected people in Hisakawa surged and the situation spiraled out of control. Subsequently, the Hela Empire launched a neutron nuclear plume under the pretext of eliminating the infected, killing both the infected and the uninfected, including hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths.

This time, Jiuchuan Mingpai's immortality technology.

Driven by self-interest, the member states of the Coastal Alliance have reached a consensus that the process could be completed in as little as three days, forcing the Hela Empire to withdraw its troops.

After this withdrawal, unless the Hela Empire launches a real world war, it will be difficult for them to send troops to Jiuchuan again.

If Helu still wants to get ASH, now is the best time.

What will Hlu do?

If we take into account the fact that Hela disregarded the fact that hundreds of thousands of healthy citizens in Jiuchuan used neutron plumes, the answer becomes obvious.

Launching a neutron plume, a desperate gamble.

Neutron plumes are not only extremely lethal to living organisms, but also extremely destructive to equipment.

A single neutron plume could instantly disable the laser weapons on the surface of Hisakawa, creating conditions for a ground landing on Loki.

Although ASH is powerful, the Hela Empire can restrict ASH's activities through various means, such as cutting off its energy supply, and eventually forcibly control ASH.

It would be even better if the neutron nucleus plume didn't kill Bai Jingyu.

Both humans and machines were captured!

Ultimately, Jiuchuan is too small in area and has no strategic depth whatsoever.

At any time, Loki could use neutron plumes to cover the entire city of Hisakawa, instantly ending the war. The only thing sacrificed would be the nation's reputation, which would soon be worthless on the eve of the apocalypse.

Helu did not do so immediately, but felt there was still a chance of winning.

And Gray.

“I want to thank you,” Bai Jingyu said solemnly. “If it weren’t for you, Helu thinks it might have been possible to end the war with your help, and the neutron plume from Loki would probably have already come down.”

"Me?" Gray looked puzzled.

Jiuchuan is small in area and has scarce local resources.

For decades, the Coastal Alliance has been concerned about a potential omnipotent crisis in Hisakawa and has imposed strict embargoes on all goods entering Hisakawa.

Once the war devolves into ground warfare, moving beyond technological competition and becoming a pure war of attrition, Hisakawa's ASH would be no match for the Hela Empire, which occupies vast territories.

Laser weapons are key to Hisakawa's ability to hold his ground; removing them would allow the Hela Empire to achieve victory.

The Hela Empire has two possible paths to achieving this.

The first type is a laser weapon that fires neutron plumes to paralyze the ground in Hisakawa.

The second option is that, since high-powered laser weapons are electrical black holes, Gray can kill the laser weapon first, and then, with the help of Vice Mayor Camilla, who has long since sided with Hela, they can disable the laser weapon by cutting off its energy source.

Afterwards, Hela's army landed at Jiuchuan, dug deep into the ground and found ASH's data center, ending the war.

The end of the world has not yet come completely, and every day that order is maintained is of great benefit to everyone.

The Hela Empire still needs to save face in order to better maintain its position in the power structure of the order, so it tends to use the latter method to solve the problem.

(End of this chapter)