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Chapter 378 [Lightning Speed ​​Fist]

Inside a military base in Nevada.

The launch silo, which was not on duty, suddenly opened its cover. Before the soldiers on duty could arrive to check the situation, the intercontinental ballistic missile ignited on its own and soared into the sky with tremendous force.

The engine's exhaust generated a huge impact, and the jeep driven by the soldier on duty was overturned by the blast wave because it was too close, rolling several times on the ground.

The bewildered soldiers climbed out of the jeep, their faces covered in blood, and watched as the massive missile broke through the clouds and headed towards higher space.

Then the soldiers saw the second and third intercontinental ballistic missiles soar into the sky.

The goal of destroying the world is to target New York.

The sergeant leading the team asked incredulously, "This...this is carrying a nuclear weapon?"

The soldier nodded blankly.

It took the sergeant's brain several seconds to process what was happening. He frantically scrambled back into the overturned jeep, grabbed the intercom, and frantically shouted, "Warning! Red alert! Red alert!"

Sometimes things are like this: the bigger the event, the slower the transmission, because each link will repeatedly confirm the information because the event is so incredible.

When the intelligence was delivered to the White House, the secretary receiving it initially thought it was a false alarm and suppressed the information twice, only having to believe it on the third attempt.

As the president slammed his fist on the table and shouted, "This is impossible!", three intercontinental ballistic missiles were already flying over New York.

At this point, it was already destined that no warning signal would reach New York before the missiles, and everyone would have to endure this devastating triple blow.

In fact, not everyone was unaware of it.

At least two of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Tokyo University and South Korea University, have already reacted, and some have even activated their nuclear counterattack systems.

If it weren't for the fact that those three things were targeting New York City in the United States, rockets would be flying all over the place by now.

This is the real reason why the Judas went to such lengths to control this strategic weapon: to prevent their internal strife from triggering a global backlash that could destroy the world and, incidentally, kill them as well.

Although New York is their stronghold, the Chitauri bombardment destroyed the Second Wall Street in the recent battle, once again taking away their money-making tool.

In that case, there's nothing to regret about the city of New York.

In any case, in this day and age, their capital has been digitized and can flow rapidly along the internet, unlike 100 years ago when it had to be fixed in a fixed place.

They could reopen the world's financial center anytime they wanted, but only if they could bring down the United States.

The Judas haven't given up on Mili-tzu yet; they just want to eliminate the small group of Shahzo and interrupt the rapid rise of the Onsa group that he brought after becoming the banner of Onsa.

He knew that Onsa and Judah had been entangled in the same country for 80 years, and their influence on each other had already shown a tendency to merge.

When large corporations rise rapidly through electronic transactions, they tear apart the influence of traditional industrial groups, causing them immense suffering.

However, when Onsa rises even faster with the help of Shazor's super military power, it will also tear apart the Judah group and attract the less steadfast extremists to its side.

The Judas will feel a hundred times more pain because the financial groups have too much liquidity, too high a demand for confidence, and no technical barriers to prevent outsiders from participating.

Even more outrageous, Xia Zuo actually launched a lightning trading system using supercomputers, capable of completing a transaction in four-thousandths of a second.

Such transactions, occurring hundreds of times per second, can generate terrifying profits amidst market fluctuations that are imperceptible to ordinary people.

Jordan Belfort, the Wall Street wolf and loyal henchman of Shazor Dawson, used this system to earn ten times the profit in just six months without causing any market fluctuations.

This involves the operation of billions of dollars in capital.

Moreover, there's only so much money in the market. When Jordan quietly pocketed all the money, it was like letting the tide go out, forcing the Judas to expose their true colors.

Those who weren't wearing underwear were now exposed, and their confidence collapsed on the spot, leading to their sudden death.

Those who wore underwear weren't much better off. They needed profits and money to maintain confidence in capital, so they could only make money at any cost, appearing particularly ferocious and greedy.

Confidence was maintained, but the result of revealing their true colors was that they lost the support of the people.

The importance of people's hearts is no less than that of faith. Their actions are like drinking poison to quench thirst, delaying death from an immediate one to a later one, but they will die eventually anyway.

Unless one can devour a large chunk of flesh from the enemy, then use the profits to reinvent oneself and become a new tycoon, one cannot escape the sins of the past.

Therefore, they went to great lengths and broke all pretense to deal with Xia Zuo because Xia Zuo himself had become the banner of Anssa's prosperity, and had also used the Lightning Trading System to undermine their foundations. He himself was also a resource that they desperately needed.

Xia Zuo himself was unaware of all this. He knew nothing about finance; all he knew was that lightning trading could exploit bugs to make money, and make a lot of money.

He only put forward the idea, then handed it over to Skye to develop the system, then to Jordan to run it, and then never cared about it again.

So Xia Zuo was unaware that the nuclear missile from behind was from those Judas he looked down upon, who, after their very foundations were threatened, had made up their minds to tear off all pretenses and fight him to the death.

Yes, Shazo still believes that it was aimed at him, Norman, and Stark.

Therefore, when his "Mind Network" filtered out a high-speed target of Mach 30, he was completely stunned.

Xia Zuo instantly calculated the trajectory of the high-speed target, determined its attributes and final landing point, and realized that the situation was serious.

The ballistic missile was so fast that Xia Zuo had no time to explain. He immediately got into a fighting stance and clenched his fist.

Time was too tight; he didn't even have time to use the Kamehameha, but he could still use the Lightning Speed ​​Fist, which was much less powerful but definitely fast enough.

Xia Zuo's body jolted violently, and his previously unused inner universe was suddenly ignited, exploding and bursting open. Golden flames flowed out from his body, shooting in all directions and illuminating the New York sky.

The Lightning Speed ​​Fist originated from Leo Aiolia and was copied by Peacock Saint Shazo after secretly observing him with his Sharingan.

In short, with the support of Naruto's Natsume and Bleach's Natsume, Saint Seiya's Natsume is undoubtedly a genius, truly capable of "getting pregnant at first glance."

This wasn't the only Gold Saint technique that Shazam copied; he also learned Aries's "Crystal Wall of Psychic Power" and Cancer's "Sekishiki Meikai Ha".

As for the other Gold Saints' special techniques, there's nothing we can do about it.

In fact, Saint Seiya Shazam had a good chance of learning Aquarius's "Aurora's Lament" and Libra's "Rising Dragon Fist of Mount Lu", but unfortunately, these two never appeared in the Sanctuary, giving him no chance to even glance at them.

But this is enough, really.

The Saint Seiya's special moves look incredibly flashy, but their actual power is nothing special. Not to mention the Sanctuary protected by Athena's divine power, they can't even destroy the fragile little book itself.

Xia Zuo learned these skills precisely because they were fast. He wanted to unleash his full combat potential in battles that happened in the blink of an eye.

Now is the perfect time.

As the punch was thrown, the golden light spreading from Xia Zuo's body instantly receded, condensing into a tangible energy that formed a magnificent golden aura in an instant.

From the direction the fist was aimed at, golden flames burst forth, transforming into an invisible golden shockwave that shot into the sky.

【Lightning Speed ​​Fist】also known as the Light Speed ​​Fist, it is said that all Gold Saints who have awakened their Seventh Sense possess the ability to move or fight at the speed of light, and can unleash a punch at the speed of light by hundreds of millions in an instant.

The Xiazuo people, of course, scoffed at this.

What is the concept of the speed of light?

That's a top speed of 30 kilometers per second, a speed that can circle the Earth seven and a half times in just one second!

The speed of light is also a concept, involving the limit of information transmission in the universe. Anything that can exceed the speed of light can transcend the light cone of fate and transcend the current universe.

After awakening his seventh sense, Saint Seiya Shazam successfully stole Leo's special move and successfully unleashed the "Lightning Speed ​​Fist," he realized that the Lightning Speed ​​Fist was not actually the speed of light.

But his fists can indeed make the air glow and even tear folds in space.

Although it's still far from the speed of light, to the Saints it's actually almost the same as light, since no one can escape the other's attacks anyway.

In New York City in the Marvel universe, after the dazzling golden beam of light from Shazo's fist shot out thousands of meters, it suddenly burst open like fireworks, with countless gorgeous rays of light leaping out and then transforming into countless fist shadows that filled the sky and earth.

The fist shadows intertwined, converging into three golden torrents, before leaping away and disappearing into a single point.

At the edge of the atmosphere 200 kilometers above the ground, in front of three warheads cutting through the atmosphere, terrifying power and golden fist shadows erupted in an instant!

The golden fists transformed into beams of light, shimmering and intertwining at the edge of the dark blue atmosphere, weaving a vast net of golden light.

With a burst of power and the convergence of golden flashes, the high-speed projectile was struck countless times in an instant. The massive energy burst forth, breaking the sturdy projectile into molecular-level fragments.

The warhead, designed with precision and capable of withstanding a nuclear explosion 10 kilometers away, couldn't even seize the chance to self-destruct and vanished in a flash of golden light.

The second warhead was the same, but the third warhead had a problem.

Xia Zuo was using this ultra-high-speed punching technique for the first time, and the distance of the strike was more than 200 kilometers, so it was perfectly normal for him to make a mistake in controlling the situation.

This error prevented the nuclear warhead from disintegrating instantly, instead fulfilling the conditions for fusion detonation.

boom-!

At the edge of the atmosphere, intense white light flashed, a blinding brilliance suddenly bursting forth, illuminating half the world in white.

Because the air was already very thin, the plasma fireball was extremely large but also extremely dim, and even the shockwave was only average.

Therefore, light radiation became an important way to release energy, so much so that its brightness, exceeding ten times that of the sun, lasted for a full 14 seconds.

Even more problematic was that one of the six warheads in the warhead miraculously escaped Xia Zuo's devastating attack and the ensuing nuclear explosion, tumbling towards the ground propelled by the shockwave.

This tumbling motion caused the warhead's trajectory to become incredibly unpredictable, making it impossible to lock onto or even calculate its final landing point.

However, the advantage is that its speed has also decreased significantly, and the response time has increased more than tenfold.

On the ground, the bright light had already revealed the incoming nuclear missile. Skye, Norman, Abomination, and the Avengers all saw it. After the bright light went out, a blinding red dot appeared in the sky, like a shooting star pointing towards New York.

Skye asked疑惑地问道, "Boss, what's that?"

Xia Zuo replied, "I just attacked one of the nuclear warheads that had slipped through."

He paused, then emphasized, "It's a fusion bomb."

His voice wasn't loud, but it sounded like a thunderbolt to people, making their heads buzz.

Xia Zuo said regretfully, "Alas, after being attacked by me, the aerodynamic shape of this thing has been damaged, and its speed has dropped a lot. It has also become a Brownian motion projectile, and there is no longer any way to predict its trajectory for interception."

Skye asked, "What do we do now?"

Xia Zuo said helplessly, "The only way I can think of right now is to fly up, get close enough, and then intercept them again."

Skye rejected the idea without hesitation: "No way!"

"Boss, you're going to die."

"No, it won't," Xia Zuo said confidently. "I won't be killed by a nuclear bomb right now, but you can't withstand a nuclear attack."

"Intercepting it is the best solution."

Skye rejected the idea firmly again without hesitation: "No! I won't allow you to go! I don't want you to go!"

Xia Zuo suddenly laughed: "Okay, I won't go. I'll stay with you and with everyone else."

Skye's solution stirred his emotions and helped him extricate himself from the tension of the unexpected situation, thus restoring his mind to clarity.

He was being irrational and acting on emotion.

As a member of the American capitalist class, he is not a saint like Stark, and has no obligation to protect people and assets that do not belong to him.

Let the nuclear bomb explode.

Anyway, he can protect the four people around him, or even more.

Intercepting nuclear missiles at high altitudes carries a greater risk for him alone, yet no one sees it. Moreover, because no substantial damage is caused, he is easily manipulated into spreading rumors and accusations of being alarmist.

On the contrary, the landing of this last warhead, which leveled one-tenth of New York, and the fact that it protected the Shazor Army and the Avengers in the midst of the nuclear explosion in full view of everyone, would create a sensational propaganda effect.

Moreover, it can also conveniently eliminate those bastards who launched the attack, making them public enemies that everyone wants to kill.

Thinking about it this way, Xia Zuo felt that the last submunition he had unintentionally overlooked was a stroke of genius.