You Say You Believe in Science, But You Fly on a Sword - Chapter 105
Chapter 105: System, Are You Selling Heavenly Tribulations Or Not?
The West is ablaze with fighting, and the battle on the East Sea shows no sign of weakening.
The launch towers’ guns and cannons continue to shake, having been cooled countless times. Even so, the guns and cannons are still frighteningly hot. Looking out at the sea, the wreckage of the Ghost Race’s warships is already floating everywhere.
However, the nearly hour-and-a-half bombardment wasn’t without effect; at least, constantly rippling waves have appeared on the plasma shields, and the nuclear fusion launch tower’s output power has increased by more than a degree.
Everything indicates that China’s sustained, fierce attacks against the Ghost Race are not so easy to handle.
And it was precisely the appearance of these ripples, symbolizing the instability of the shields, that gave the Ghost Commander immense encouragement.
The troops on the East Sea side are merely a feint; no matter how fierce the fighting, it’s only to draw attention away from the West.
The Western army is the main attacker.
“Notify everyone, the Western troops have launched their attack! ”
Watching the East Sea troops steadily disappear, the Ghost Commander took a deep breath and said, “Let them hurry! ”
For this feint attack, he deployed sixty thousand troops to the East Sea, and specifically prepared many high-powered plasma shields, all because of the tenet of “going all out for the performance”.
In the West, with the arrival of the cultivator army, Su Qin’an and others immediately felt the pressure lessen.
Although the average cultivation base of the cultivator army might be lower, together with Su Qin’an and his hundred-odd people, it’s enough to contend with the genetically modified troops.
“The wounded retreat; let the newcomers take their place! ”
Xie Yingqing commanded calmly, “Don’t hit them too hard, don’t kill them all; leave some prisoners of war. ”
“Ten will do! ”
Su Qin’an was afraid that these hardened fighters, who fight and kill all day, would misunderstand the word “few,” so he quickly added, “You can take the rest home to play with yourselves! ”
Ghost Race soldiers:???
Although they don’t quite understand human language, they’re not completely clueless.
The human with a sword at his waist and an RPG on his shoulder seemed to have verbally insulted them?
As everyone present fought fiercely, an incendiary bomb suddenly fell from the sky, landing in the crowd, causing some cultivators with low cultivation bases and insufficient spiritual energy to resist the bomb’s power to be bloodied on the spot, while others were covered in dust and grime.
Flames were everywhere on the ground, making a sizzling sound, but this didn’t affect the cultivators much.
“Damn! Where did that bomb come from! ”
“Quick, dodge! ”
“No, it doesn’t seem to be hurting me…”
After their initial shock, they tacitly looked at Su Qin’an.
There was no other way; among the many people present, only what he held in his hands looked like something that could launch such shells.
“What are you all looking at me for? Fight! ”
Su Qin’an shouted, “I didn’t launch the incendiary bomb! ”
“Someone’s coming! ”
Xie Yingqing looked at the mass of transport vehicles in the distance and said, “It should be the enemy’s reinforcements. ”
The cultivators’ expressions were not good.
Their several thousand people had no problem against the eight thousand genetically modified troops, but if they added an endless number of troops with unknown weapons, the situation would be dire.
“Everyone, rest assured; we have reinforcements too! ”
Su Qin’an shouted, “The nation’s troops are arriving immediately, at most ten minutes! ”
Mechs fly quickly, and pilot training has long been incorporated into the schedule. If Zhang Keqiang thought it through thoroughly, he should have also asked the Western Theater Command to send people.
Su Qin’an suddenly regretted it; he had created lithography machines, nuclear fusion, and even mechs, but why had he forgotten to create some new guns and cannons?
The distant rumbling grew closer.
The mass of transport vehicles, tanks, and airplanes entered everyone’s line of sight.
“Ah, if only there were a Heavenly Tribulation! ”
Su Qin’an suddenly had this thought, “With so many people, if they were struck by lightning together, the scene…”
Unfortunately, this idea was impossible.
Because Heavenly Tribulation seems to have always been something netizens and cultivators have imagined. In nearly ten million years and with so many cultivators, no one has ever summoned a Heavenly Tribulation.
If it weren’t for the Daojian Sect and other historically significant sects having records of their ancestors’ Ascension Tribulations from unknown eras, the Cultivation World might really think that Heavenly Tribulations only existed in fantasy.
Thinking of this, Su Qin’an suddenly had an idea: “System, are you selling Heavenly Tribulations? ”
The System didn’t answer immediately, nor did it make a “beep beep beep~” sound; it was probably electrocuted crispy by the Heavenly Tribulation in Su Qin’an’s imagination.
…
At this moment, the Solar System Frontier.
“General, he wants to sell the package service we idly listed before! ”
The Squad Leader looked at Su Qin’an’s appearance on the holographic projection: “Should we sell it? ”
“Nonsense, of course, we should sell it! ”
General Meng glared, “If we don’t sell it, wouldn’t it seem like we have nothing? How would he view us ten years from now? ”
“But we don’t have this thing! ”
The Squad Leader said incomprehensibly, “If Heavenly Tribulation is something the Xi Huang created System could provide back then, we would have sold it…but the problem is, we don’t have any Heavenly Tribulation energy supply now, we can’t provide it! ”
“It’s not important! ”
General Meng cleared his throat, “His Majesty heard something about Heavenly Tribulation when he chatted with Xi Huang. Isn’t it just lightning? A mere Heavenly Tribulation, although we’ve never seen a real one, it’s only a lightning storm, what’s so difficult? I’ll leave this to you! ”
“Brilliant, General! ”
The Squad Leader immediately said, “Then we’ll set the price…”
“Set it low, three hundred thousand! ”
…
“System? System? ”
Looking at the transport vehicles gathering in the distance, then at the cultivators battling fiercely around him, and then back at the empty rear, trying to see the reinforcements that might arrive at some unknown time, Su Qin’an couldn’t help but call out: “Can you do it or not? Give me an answer! ”
“Yes, of course! ”
The always emotionless System seemed to suddenly develop emotions: “Three hundred thousand experience points! ”
“I’ll take it! ”
The next moment, Su Qin’an’s account was suddenly reduced by three hundred thousand experience points, making Su Qin’an feel a pang of regret.
But that’s nothing, anyway, experience points can be earned again.
The next moment, a loud boom echoed through the air, unknown clouds obscured the sky, two bolts of lightning tore through the heavens, illuminating the dark sky for a moment.
The boom was so loud that the entire China could hear it; even the spectators in the East looked questioningly towards the West, then turned their heads back after seeing nothing, focusing on the show.
“What was that? ”
“Whose Thunder Summoning Spell? Why was the sound so loud? ”
All the cultivators present turned their gaze towards a cultivator dressed as a scholar in green robes.
He was the cultivator with the highest cultivation base among all the thunder-attribute cultivators present, and his performance just now was also commendable. If anyone could really use such a powerful Thunder Summoning Spell, it could only be him.
The scholar was stunned: “Why are you looking at me? It wasn’t me! Even if I had reached the Great Ascension Realm, I couldn’t create such a commotion! ”
Who was it then?
While fighting, the cultivators looked at other thunder-attribute cultivators and other high-cultivation cultivators of other attributes, trying to find some clues, but found nothing.
“Stop looking, we’re at war! ”
Xie Yingqing shouted, “If anyone is injured or killed, don’t blame me for not reminding you! ”
After hearing this, the cultivators came to their senses and continued fighting.
…
Daojian Sect, Yin Wanshan looked at the darkening sky in the distance and frowned.
“A Heavenly Tribulation? ”
He looked puzzledly through the secret scrolls in the Scripture Depository: “Vanished for countless ages, how did it reappear? ”
As a cultivator in the Great Ascension Realm, he saw more deeply.
The scholar’s words were correct; even if a thunder-attribute cultivator in the Great Ascension Realm used a Thunder Summoning Spell with all their might, they couldn’t create such a commotion.
But how was that possible?
Didn’t Heavenly Tribulations disappear?