224: Chapter 224 The package was signed for by Lin Yuan.

A-rank [Dimensional Space] opened.

This time, it wasn't to collect rice, flour, grain, or oil.

It wasn't munitions.

Nor was it any warehouse.

It was a tactical nuclear missile that had entered its terminal sequence.

The edges of the space vibrated wildly.

Lin Yuan pressed down with his Mental Energy.

He forcefully carved out an independent dead zone within the Dimensional Space.

The missile body sank inch by inch into the darkness.

The countdown froze.

It didn't reach zero.

It didn't explode.

The nuclear missile vanished.

Time resumed.

The clouds were empty.

The wind slammed back down onto the city.

Yu Qingyi could no longer hold on, grabbing the two of them as she plummeted.

Wang Ya raised her hand.

A curtain of water rose, catching the three of them.

Thud.

The three of them landed.

Yu Qingyi lay on the ground, panting heavily, her fingertips digging into the mud.

The demeanor of a Shanghai socialite was completely gone.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen knelt on one knee, blood from her nose dripping onto the snow.

She no longer cared about the image of an Ancient Martial Arts Grandmaster.

But this madness gave her a strange, budding affection for the man before her.

One must know, three months ago, she was still his mother-in-law.

Lin Yuan stood there.

A ring of frost remained on his palm, and his skin was abraded with fine, bloody cuts from the spatial oscillation.

Liu Qing's voice came through the communicator.

"The missile signal is gone..."

"Master... you've received the package."

Zhongshan Park.

Upon hearing the result, the survivors were silent at first.

Someone began to sob.

The crying was like a spark falling into dry grass.

Soon, people were crying throughout the entire underground settlement.

Captain Han Xue looked up at the distant sky.

She finally understood.

The rules of the old world couldn't save anyone.

The one who could save them was the person who never played by the old rules.

Zhao Dingshan stared at the radar screen.

Where the red dot had vanished, a ring of blank space remained.

He had been a soldier for half his life.

He believed in orders, in unit designations, in rank insignia, and in that ingrained obedience etched into his bones.

But just now, the highest command had intended to wipe them out along with it.

No explanation.

No evacuation.

Not even a "thank you for your hard work."

Zhao Dingshan looked down at his military cap, crumpled in his palm.

The fabric was a wrinkled mess.

Just like the faith he had held for half his life.

He suddenly recalled Lin Yuan's words from just a moment ago.

"Whoever dares to throw something at me, I will throw it back."

Zhao Dingshan's throat moved.

For the first time, he didn't think these words were arrogant.

He only felt.

This was how a living person should speak.

Lin Yuan looked down at his palm.

Deep within the Dimensional Space.

A tactical nuclear missile was forcibly sealed in an independent zone.

The countdown hadn't disappeared.

It was simply frozen by the space.

Lin Yuan raised his eyes and looked toward the capital.

His voice was very soft.

"Now."

"It's my turn to have a nuclear missile."

Tiangong No. 1.

The third-floor command room.

The scissors in Su Xiaonuan's hand clattered to the floor.

She crouched down, covering her face with both hands, her shoulders shaking violently, yet she didn't let a single sob escape.

Jiang Xiaowan sat nearby, holding her belly, still putting on a brave front.

"That bastard really knows how to scare people."

She fished out a woman's cigarette from somewhere, her fingertips shaking so badly she couldn't even hold the cigarette case steady.

Su Muxue snatched it away and pointed at her belly.

Jiang Xiaowan's lips moved, but she ultimately said nothing.

Su Muxue put the cigarette in her mouth without lighting it and turned to walk out.

Tang Qiqi slumped in her chair, her face pale.

"That scared the living daylights out of me..."

She hugged the back of the chair, muttering to herself.

"Stupid Great Demon King, stupid Great Demon King..."

The pencil in Xia Qingqiu's hand snapped in two with a crack.

She looked down to pick it up and happened to catch sight of Liu Qing standing in front of the screen.

Still that poker face.

But her toes were digging firmly into the floor.

The communicator lit up.

Lin Yuan said only one sentence.

"I'm not dead."

Su Xiaonuan stood up immediately and wiped away her tears.

When she spoke again, it was in the tone of a housekeeper.

"Boss Lin, all nodes of Tiangong No. 1 are stable."

Lin Yuan said, "Well done."

Su Xiaonuan gripped her tablet tightly.

"Yes."

Jiang Xiaowan clicked her tongue softly.

"The little secretary almost cried herself to pieces just now."

Su Xiaonuan didn't refute this.

She said in a low voice, "If Boss Lin hadn't caught it, I hadn't planned on living either."

The channel went quiet for a moment.

Who hadn't?

Lin Yuan's tone turned cold.

"Don't say such stupid things in the future."

"My people are not allowed to die without my orders."

A tear fell from Su Xiaonuan's eye.

She nodded immediately.

"Yes."

Jiang Xiaowan turned her face away and took a soft breath.

"I must have eaten too much chili at lunch, that's definitely it."

Beside her, Xia Qingqiu held her glasses in one hand and wiped her tears with the other.

"Have you ever seen a pregnancy meal with chili in it?"

"Can't a Sichuanese person like me have some?!"

Hongqiao Command Center.

The staff officers' gazes toward him had changed.

That nuclear missile just now wasn't just meant to blow up Lin Yuan.

It was meant to blow them up too.

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Zheng slammed his fist onto the table.

"Zhao Dingshan!"

"What they were trying to bomb just now was Shanghai!"

"It was our own people!"

"The people we were just fighting monsters with!"

Zhao Dingshan's hand holding his cap trembled slightly.

"Military orders are like mountains."

"Hongqiao Command Center is just the execution end."

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Zheng sneered.

"So you're executing while inside the blast zone too?"

"Would it be fine if your wife and children were blown to bits too?"

Zhao Dingshan didn't speak.

Director Xu Changfeng stood in the corner, his expression unchanged.

Those who have survived until now are all accustomed to life and death.

Zhongshan Park temporary position.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen wiped away the blood from her nose and walked to Lin Yuan's side.

"The truly terrifying thing in the capital isn't Director Xu Changfeng, nor Officer Wei Zheng."

Lin Yuan looked at her.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen said, "There is an SSS-rank player in the core zone."

"Codename: Adam."

Qin Yumo's hand gripping her sword moved slightly.

Captain Han Xue's expression changed.

Yu Qingyi stood nearby, not daring to interject.

These people spoke in riddles; she didn't understand them.

But she knew that the man in front of her had just 'received' a nuclear missile—a very big nuclear missile.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen continued, "The inner ring of the capital still maintains operations from before the apocalypse."

"Electricity, water purification, hospitals, research institutes, defense systems."

"None of them have collapsed."

Saying this, even she, an Ancient Martial Arts Grandmaster, lowered her voice.

"The three million survivors in the capital, the first thing they do when they wake up every day is thank Adam for still being willing to let the sun rise."

Lin Yuan only asked, "Will they bomb Jiangcheng?"

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen looked at him.

"No."

"In their eyes, the child in Jiang Xiaowan's belly is the key to ending the apocalypse."

This sentence was transmitted simultaneously to the Cloud Top Palace channel.

After hearing this, Jiang Xiaowan froze at first.

Then she sneered.

"So I'm a life-saving talisman now?"

Su Xiaonuan didn't respond to this.

She issued orders directly.

"Raise the security clearance of Jiang Xiaowan's area to the highest level."

"Teacher Xia, re-formulate the pregnancy medical plan."

"Don't put any chili in her food from now on."

"Dr. Su, stop smoking; secondhand smoke is also harmful to health."

Xia Qingqiu: "I... received."

Su Xiaonuan certainly knew that Jiang Xiaowan was just being tsundere, but since her status was now a 'life-saving talisman,' she had to give her a way to save face.

Everything else could wait until Boss Lin returned.

Su Muxue: "Understood, I'll take a shower first in a moment."

The capital, third underground floor, tactical control center.

Dead silence filled the entire hall like cold water.

On the big screen, the red dot representing destruction abruptly extinguished at an altitude of 180 meters above the ground.

A green scanning circle swept over the empty grid again and again, and a row of glaring red characters pulsed in the feedback column: [Signal Lost].

"This is impossible..."