The Last 299 Days of Humanity

Why did Yu Qing run away?
When Yu Qing opened the car door, he just stood outside pointing and gesturing without going in, but he felt the air flowing out from inside like soft silk threads wrapped around his face.

When he and Xiaoqin were inspecting a warehouse that had been sealed for many years, he overheard Xiaoqin say, "The air here is like silk floss." Yu Qing even joked that her nose was abnormal.

But Xiaoqin said, "There really is air that looks like cotton wool. There is now a kind of decoy gun that can cause certain gases in a sealed space to undergo quantum changes at a certain distance. If this degraded gas comes into contact with carbon dioxide exhaled by a person, it will slowly turn into a transparent cotton wool-like substance."

When a person inhales this air a second time, it rapidly destroys the activity of the alveoli, causing the person to suffocate and die without realizing it.

The air inside the fortress perfectly matches these characteristics!
When Yu Qing returned to his room, he was drenched in a cold sweat. If Yu Wa hadn't inadvertently stopped him today, he would be dead!

Someone is trying to kill him. Who is it?
The people of Shengtian only wanted him to be crippled; there was no reason for them to kill him now. The people of Shengdi also had no reason to kill him immediately, especially since they still owed them hundreds of billions of yen, and they had recently reached an agreement.

People from Yadu? Actually, he made sure all the people from Yadu made money in the end, and there was no enmity between them.

Could there be an unseen force plotting against him? But he had only been out of the First Paradise for less than half a year, and he didn't have such a deep-seated hatred for anyone.

This puzzled him greatly and also terrified him.

You know there's a gun pointed at you, but you don't know where the gun is; that's how he feels right now.

For him to feel safe, he must find the gun, but that's incredibly difficult. In fact, with technological advancements, everyone's safety becomes more vulnerable, ultimately requiring collective adherence to behavioral norms to achieve security.

But the person hiding in the shadows is trampling on this tacit understanding.

Yu Qing had no choice but to stop and deal with this new situation. After all, if he couldn't even save his own life, everything else was meaningless.

It's time to strike back. We need to find the person lurking in the shadows first.

To prevent Yuwa from being implicated, he had to harden his heart and sever ties with her. He privately explained to Eying that Donghao should quietly move the fortress to a simple, remote location at the westernmost end of Dongbang, where there was a warehouse, his only real estate.

He disguised himself as a humanoid woman and slipped out of the villa through the back door. He knew that if someone was truly watching him, this little trick wouldn't fool anyone. Who knew how many things with X-ray vision were watching him from above and below?

He still made a big show of it, wandering around several streets before finally entering his warehouse.

As for what he was doing in the warehouse, nobody knew. The warehouse door was tightly closed, but knocking could be heard coming from inside from time to time.

The fortress vehicle was parked outside the warehouse. Yu Qing instructed Dong Hao to cover it with a large piece of invisibility cloth.

The next morning, a thick fog blanketed the area outside, reducing visibility to less than two meters. This fog wasn't naturally formed; Donghao had created it using canned food in the latter half of the night.

This can actually contains a picometer-sized microcrystalline substance. Once opened, it quickly diffuses to the surroundings and generates a large amount of heat, vaporizing the water in the air.

Once the fog reached its peak concentration, Dong Hao had the humanoid girls remove their cloaking cloths. Then, each of the humanoid girls carried several boxes and loaded them into the fortress vehicle.

A little while later, nine humanoid beauties quickly emerged from the warehouse and climbed into the fortified vehicle. Among the nine humanoid beauties, one walked with a somewhat uncoordinated gait; that humanoid beauties were Yu Qing in disguise.

In reality, the fog and the nine humanoid figures that obstruct the view are merely deceiving the naked eye and have very limited effect under current technological conditions.

But Yu Qing had his reasons for doing this. If he did nothing, people would be even more suspicious that he had some other tricks up his sleeve. Since he hadn't "died" yesterday, people couldn't help but suspect that he had figured something out.

Since you can't shake off the suspicion, why not pretend that you have limited knowledge and do some clumsy fancy moves so that people know you're a fake?
Once everything was in place, the fortress began to take off. It flew east one moment and west the next, but this couldn't fool the tracking equipment, which could easily deduce that Yu Qing's final destination was Wengshan.

In less than an hour, the fortress flew to the vicinity of Yaoxing, not far from Wengshan. Suddenly, the fortress shook and disintegrated into hundreds of pieces, scattering in all directions before silently crashing!

Oh dear, Yu Qing is doomed now! And that's the end of the story. Actually, Yu Qing wasn't really on the fortress at that moment; he had already slipped away. Knowing someone might want his life, would he really be that foolish as to offer himself up there?

Putting aside how he shed his skin, it's more important for us to figure out who did it.

Yu Qing didn't have clairvoyance, so he naturally couldn't see the scene of the fortress's disintegration. But what he had the humanoid Shu carry into the fortress when he set off wasn't just a few simple pieces of luggage, but a sensory component of a defensive facility.

This component can detect gravitational fields or microparticle beams launching long-range, targeted attacks, as well as the activity of decoys, and accurately calculate their orientation and location. It was originally a component of the walled city defense system, but Yu Qing purchased an additional one.

It had always been stored in the fortress, but Dong Hao unloaded it when he drove the fortress to the warehouse. Inside the warehouse, Yu Qing tested the data transmission function of this component. Because he was worried that the abnormal noises during the testing would be overheard, he had dozens of humanoid girls tap and make noises around.

After the fortress was attacked, this component immediately detected the location and direction of the attack source and synchronized it to the terminal that Yu Qing was carrying.

The reason Yu Qing set the fortress's flight path to be erratic was to test who would make a move in those areas where the forces of Shengtian and Shengdi were intertwined.

Who knew the attack came from the sky! Based on its direction and distance, the source of the attack was a satellite at an altitude of 80,000 meters.

Whose satellite is this? He asked Donghao to check carefully. The result, however, shocked him. Public records showed it was simply a civilian satellite used by the Metropolitan Government to collect hydrological data.

The Asian Metropolitan Government (AMEG) authorities neither had the inclination nor the need to expend so much effort to deal with him. If they truly wanted to harm him, they wouldn't have let him leave AMEG; that doesn't make sense. This also preliminarily rules out the possibility of Shengtian and Shengdi being behind it, as they lack both the technology and the capability to operate an AMEG satellite. The satellite is most likely operated by the team that built it, as they are the most comfortable with the task.

Did I have a grudge against them? Or did I block their path? There's also the possibility that my death would bring them the greatest benefit.

If something had happened to them just now, and Operation Lutai had ultimately been activated, Shengtian's decision-makers would have known this. While the people of Shengdi might not have known this, they still secured losses of hundreds of billions of yen, which was purely a brainless act...

In fact, it could be said that if something happened to them at this point, both Shengtian and Shengdi would be victims to varying degrees! Therefore, the ones who would benefit in this situation are... their competitors!

However, he had Donghao investigate and found that the company that manufactured the satellite, Yadu, and Shengtianshengdi had no competitive relationship and no overlapping business areas. Besides, the satellite had been in orbit for several years; it was impossible for it to have pre-planned an attack on them…

The relevant authorities in Asia who manage the satellite have absolutely no connection to this. It's likely that there's a mole within the authorities who has controlled the satellite from the beginning and smuggled it in with their own agenda: installing offensive weapons.

Whose man is this mole? It's the one who wants to profit from his own death. This brings us back to our earlier analysis; he's likely a rival of Shengtian and Shengdi. Of course, there's also an even more terrifying kind of madman: those who know the secrets of the Lutai Plan and want to use it to help them destroy the Earth…

However, Donghao used the data he had to analyze and conclude that Shengtian and Shengdi in the west were each other's biggest competitors, with no third party involved.

The company in the east that manufactures the same and similar products is called Sanren, but they only sell their products in the east. So far, they have been keeping to themselves.

This confused Yu Qing even more. If he didn't find the person secretly trying to kill him, that person would also take his own life.

For now, he had no choice but to play dead. The fortress had already collapsed, so what else was there to say if the machine was destroyed and everyone was dead? However, this required good cooperation from Yao Dan and E Ying; if they genuinely believed he was dead and made things worse, that wouldn't work either.

He lied to Eying, saying he was hiding in Wengshan in a place even Yaodan didn't know about, and then lied to Yaodan, saying he was hiding in Dongbang in a place even Eying didn't know about. Then he turned off the sending function of Lingxi, only receiving messages but remaining silent.

At this moment, Yu Qing was still in that warehouse; he hadn't gone anywhere else. Indeed, some things in this world are full of unexpected coincidences.

The original owner of this warehouse was none other than that big guy from Blackstone City! He had inherited it from his ancestors and hadn't really managed it, instead entrusting it to an asset management company. Knowing that the big guy and his car had burned and exploded in the air, they sold it off.

After Yu Qing acquired this remote warehouse, he originally intended to use it only for storing goods, including some unopened humanoid beauties. That day, he and Dong Hao went over to open some of the humanoid beauties, and he inadvertently asked Dong Hao a few questions, asking her who had built such a nice warehouse but then abandoned it here.

Dong Hao discovered that the original owner of this warehouse was actually that big guy from Wushi City. Yu Qing then thought, the people there like to build underground structures, could there be some of their masterpieces hidden beneath this warehouse?

Yu Qing had twenty humanoid maidens search for two days, and they actually found the underground section! There were actually seven more floors beneath the warehouse. He discreetly placed the twenty humanoid maidens in the underground floors to prevent the news from leaking out.

That night, Yu Qing had Dong Hao move the fortress to a hidden exit in the open space outside the warehouse. Dong Hao used invisibility cloaks and artificial fog to draw attention to the fortress.

After entering the fortress, he quickly opened the emergency escape hatch at the bottom and went out, then quietly slipped back into the warehouse's underground level through a hidden entrance.

To deceive the potential depth detection of those closely monitoring the fortress, he dismantled a humanoid creature before leaving, leaving only an empty shell. He then filled the shell with materials from virtual creatures and dressed it in his own clothes.

Modern technology is too advanced; even those sitting inside the fortress can be seen from a distance, and their life signs can be accurately determined. Therefore, Yu Qing dared not be careless. He moved directly into the seventh underground level to avoid being detected.

Everything you need for daily life is here; you could easily live here for three to five years. As long as he doesn't go out, those who are watching him will most likely really believe he's no longer alive.

Because the fortress disintegrated at temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees, the bodies had already vaporized, and no one could verify their authenticity.

This may have temporarily saved his life, but objectively it still fulfilled the wish of the person who was trying to murder him. Once Shengtian's people confirm that the Lutai operation is inevitable, they will definitely go all in, and their subsequent actions will be without any scruples.

Faced with such enormous and irreparable losses, Shengdi Company, under the pressure of Shengtian, will fight to the death, and may even try to divert internal attention and cover up their financial problems by escalating the conflict.

Yu Qing is in a dilemma; he can neither hide nor reveal his true intentions.

If Shengtian and Shengdi suffer heavy losses as a result, he will also be doomed. Because at that time, both companies will need him to repay their debts to survive, and even if he takes over Shengtian, he will still be unable to repay them and can only wait for both sides to beat him up.

If Sheng Tian ultimately wins a Pyrrhic victory without any constraints, he will only be left with the prospect of becoming a vegetable or being imprisoned somewhere for life.

If Shengdi wins in the end, his fate will be even more tragic; he may be torn apart by five horses and sliced ​​into a thousand pieces.

He could not accept such an ending. So now he had to remain hidden from those who assassinated him, while also letting the people of Shengtian and Shengdi know that he was still alive.

How could he convince the people of Shengtian and Shengdi that he was still alive, while at the same time convincing the assassin that he had truly turned into a puff of smoke?

He paced back and forth in the spacious basement, thinking for an entire night, but still couldn't come up with a perfect solution.

He asked Dong Hao, "Do you have any precedents in your database where each party interprets the outcome of a matter in a way that benefits themselves, and believes it without question?"

Dong Hao remained silent for a long time before saying, "This... there are too many examples like this, but none of them apply to this situation..." (End of Chapter)