Chapter 41: Mere Existence is Hope!

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Without a doubt, this outcome had exceeded everyone’s expectations.

Even Shen Yu had not anticipated it.

At that moment, he was deep in thought, constantly considering what could be done.

“If only we had been able to use it sooner...” the assistant from the Northern Alliance murmured.

“Shut up, you idiot!” The Northern Alliance representative immediately came to his senses. Although his face remained pale, he was still eager to silence the assistant.

“He really is an idiot.” Olinade shook his head. “The enemy is a living creature with its own choices, not some predetermined natural disaster. It appeared there in order to attack humanity. Even if we had been given enough time to evacuate everyone, all that would have accomplished was forcing the enemy to choose another city.”

Although they knew little about “divination,” predicting the future itself was not difficult to understand.

That was why the others quickly grasped the situation.

Even if they had discovered it earlier, there would have been little they could do. The more drastic their actions, the more likely it was that the worms would simply appear in other cities.

In fact, only one worm had appeared in the brief scene just now. No one could be certain whether the others would attack different cities at the same time.

“Olinade is right.” Qi Shichang nodded slightly. “The only preparation we can make now is offensive. Once that monster appears in the city—or once we can locate it in advance—we must eliminate it and minimize the damage it causes.”

Yes. Given the time available and the outcome they had seen, this was the only choice left to them.

Death and destruction were already difficult to avoid.

The key was to minimize the number of people who died.

If they truly allowed events to unfold as shown in the scene, the entire city would be reduced to ruins before long, resulting in the deaths of several million people.

“I’ll report this immediately!” The Northern Alliance representative rose at once, strode to the side, and picked up the emergency communications phone.

He had merely been overwhelmed by the shock for a moment; he had not truly panicked.

The others, meanwhile, were still staring at the tortoise shell.

It was meant for single use, but that did not mean it could only be viewed once. Each time they examined one of the cracks, a new scene appeared.

It was astonishingly mysterious.

“This prophetic image can pinpoint the location, but the distance is too great and the time too short. It can only show us something in the Northern Alliance,” Olinade said with a sigh. “The worst-case scenario would be to use one of the big ones and detonate the monster along with the entire city.”

Yes, that was what they could prepare within three hours and forty minutes.

At the very least, it was better than allowing the monster to appear openly, destroy the city in a matter of moments, and then leave just as brazenly.

From that perspective,

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this tortoise shell had truly played an enormous role.

As they looked at the other two shells, both Qi Shichang and Olinade wore solemn yet fervent expressions.

In this era, such an object was nothing short of a priceless treasure!

The power and wonders of the Association had opened their eyes.

By then, the Northern Alliance representative had returned with the phone in hand, staring fixedly at the tortoise shell.

“Yes, I saw a landmark building. There was a slogan on it, something like Gerard... My God, that’s Gerard City...”

After hanging up, the representative seemed visibly dazed.

“Gerard City has a population of 6.37 million!”

To the Northern Alliance, a city of that size was already a major metropolis.

It had a history spanning more than two hundred years.

Yet in barely four hours, that city and its six million inhabitants would face a catastrophe of annihilating proportions!

Was this what the apocalypse was?

“Mr. Shen!” The Northern Alliance representative suddenly turned sharply toward Shen Yu. He did not say what came next, but the plea in his eyes made everything clear.

“I’ve already sent word to the two allied members,” Shen Yu said, his expression still grave. “Regardless of whether we have a solution, we will go.”

“I’ll immediately have the people there prepare to receive you!” The Northern Alliance representative’s spirits soared.

It was as though he had suddenly seen hope.

And that was precisely what had happened.

If they relied solely on themselves, then with so little time, there seemed to be nothing they could do besides prepare a nuclear weapon.

But a nuclear weapon powerful enough to guarantee the destruction of such a massive creature could also obliterate most of the city.

And they still did not know where the other worms were.

However, if the being before them and the two allies from other worlds were willing to participate, there would be far more possibilities—perhaps even the possibility of a miracle.

At that moment, everyone present gained an exceptionally clear understanding of the significance of the Multidimensional Doomsday Civilization Mutual Aid Association.

An association like this, merely by existing—even before it had done anything—could bring hope and courage.

“Do you need us to prepare a private aircraft? If it’s a fighter jet, we should still make it in time,” Qi Shichang said immediately.

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“No need.” Shen Yu shook his head. “I’ve done business in the Northern Alliance and left behind quite a few warehouses and coordinates. I can travel there directly through a spatial passage. Once the other two members are ready, they can use me as their coordinate and arrive.”

With that, Shen Yu had Ji Mingshu send the location to the Northern Alliance representative.

The representative immediately went to make the necessary arrangements.

Olinade, however, seemed to have thought of something and spoke at once. “Mr. Shen, all your assets in the Western State will receive the strictest protection. The foolish offense that occurred before will never happen again. In addition, to express our apologies, we have prepared a generous settlement for you.”

Clearly, the moment they obtained Shen Yu’s name, they had launched an investigation.

Even the thugs from before had been tracked down.

The Western State was not always inefficient. It simply depended on whether they wanted something done—and how much profit there was to be gained from doing it.

But that was a minor matter.

Even if the “settlement” Olinade mentioned amounted to several times the total assets of the Shen Corporation, it would still be a trivial matter to Shen Yu now.

At present, Shen Yu was focused entirely on the tortoise shell. He examined it again and again while continuously using the gray mist to investigate various details.

For example, how much gray mist would be required to eliminate the monster directly.

The answer was nearly five million standard units.

He did not possess anything close to that amount.

Even if he had, he might not have chosen to act that way.

At first glance, five million standard units of gray mist in exchange for saving more than six million people might even seem like a profitable bargain.

But clearly, such a crude approach would be a tremendous waste of the gray mist—and an extremely foolish decision.

Shen Yu understood that he now possessed the power to determine the fate of countless people. He could no longer make decisions solely from the mindset and preferences of an ordinary person. He needed to view every decision from a higher perspective.

It was the same principle as the saying that compassion must not govern the military.

Put simply, if allowing several hundred thousand people to die would yield several million units of gray mist, then from the perspective of the greater whole, that would be the better decision. Those millions of units might one day save tens of millions of people in an even greater crisis.

Being a savior was never as easy as it seemed.

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