Chapter 50: Chen Xiao Is Dead
Tang Shirou's pupils constricted violently!
The Orb of Death...
It was an integrated missile network weapon designed to annihilate an entire region in a single strike!
To put it without exaggeration, its destructive power was comparable to a miniature nuclear bomb!
This was the ultimate trump card left behind by the Tang family after dominating the military armament of Huashan!
There was only one such orb in existence!
"Hmph, he forced my hand..."
"Tang Xiangui! You are no human! Aren't you afraid of divine retribution for doing this?"
The speaker was Tang Shirou, who could hardly believe that Tang Xiangui would actually resort to such a ruthless measure!
A weapon of mass destruction!
How many innocent lives would be snuffed out by this?
Tang Xiangui let out a cold, chilling laugh. "They are merely commoners. As long as the two members of the Yang family are safe, it is a blessing for humanity!"
The father and son of the Yang family laughed heartily, well-pleased with the remark. "Good, good, good! Tang Xiangui, you are a true man. My Yang family will definitely ensure your safe entry into the capital!"
That was precisely the answer Tang Xiangui wanted. Everything was for the sake of entering the capital!
Everything was for the sake of the Tang family!
He had done nothing wrong!
The ones in the wrong were Chen Xiao!
The ones in the wrong were Tang Shirou!
Even so, Tang Xiangui's heart was bleeding.
This Orb of Death was the Tang family's sole reserve!
And yet, it had to be used on Chen Xiao alone!
Most importantly, the place where Chen Xiao currently stood was right in the heart of the city!
Once deployed, half the city would suffer devastating ruin!
The once-prosperous streets and alleys would be turned into ashes in an instant, and countless innocent souls would suffer an undeserved catastrophe!
The public support and trust he had painstakingly accumulated over the years would also vanish like smoke in the wake of this holocaust!
Yet, there was no other choice!
That god of slaughter was already charging toward them. If he hesitated any longer, the ones dying tragic deaths would not be those commoners!
It would be Tang Xiangui himself, along with the father and son of the Yang family!
"Flee!"
The moment he hung up the intercom, Tang Xiangui directly commanded the two flight-type awakened ability users beneath him.
A giant goose spread its wings, instantly transforming into a streak of white light as it bolted away at top speed!
Immediately following that, the disaster descended!
"Hum—"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—"
"Hum—"
High up in the sky, a massive metallic body gleamed ominously. It resembled a sharp sword tightly gripped in the hand of the Grimhold, reflecting a merciless, frigid light under the sunlight!
The surrounding air grew suffocatingly heavy, and everyone instinctively felt an overwhelming pressure bearing down upon them.
As if by tacit agreement, everyone raised their heads.
Their gazes pierced through buildings, power lines, and trees, locking firmly onto the doomsday nuclear bomb suspended in mid-air.
"Run! It's a bomb!"
"No, no. That's not a bomb! That's the Tang family's Orb of Death!"
"Are you serious? Fuck!"
Terrified shouts erupted from the crowd. This desperate, lung-tearing warning cut through the dead silence like a razor-sharp blade.
"Old Master Tang has abandoned us! If we don't run now, it'll be too late!"
"What the absolute fuck! We are innocent!"
"In the midst of the apocalypse... there is yet another apocalypse!"
"What kind of sins have we committed in our past lives to deserve this!"
"No time left, no time left..."
"We're all going to die, everything is going to be destroyed!"
Screams echoed one after another through the streets and alleys, sounding like the cries of the defeated across a desolate plain, piercing the nerves of everyone present.
Their faces were etched with panic and helplessness, and the despair in their hearts surged like a turbulent flood.
At this moment, time and space seemed to be stretched to their absolute limits, making every single second feel agonizingly long.
The countdown to death beat frantically within the depths of every heart!
Chen Xiao had never expected the Tang family's foundation to be so utterly defying of the heavens!
Even after unleashing his trump card of [Dragon Transformation], they still had a countermeasure ready!
He lifted his head, locking eyes with the terrifying piece of high technology hurtling straight down toward him!
Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Xiao turned and fled!
Facing this Orb of Death—the ultimate product born of human wisdom—Chen Xiao knew deeply that any resistance would be pale and futile.
Although his dragon-transformed body possessed boundless baseline strength, before this absolute power, even the mightiest individual was merely a drop in the ocean!
In a fraction of a second, Chen Xiao mobilized the absolute peak power of his entire being!
Leveraging the sheer velocity of his dragon transformation, he shot across the firmament like a falling star!
Faster!
Even faster!
He had to go even faster!
Chen Xiao felt as though his speed had broken through its limits, only to shatter past those limits yet again!
This was the boundless potential of humanity!
However, the Orb of Death...
Was descending even faster!
In an instant, time and space appeared to be forcibly torn apart, plunging the entire world into an incandescent blaze of blinding white light!
The terrifying light pierced through the gloomy sky, instantly dyeing the firmament a bizarre and dazzling bright white, a thousand times more blazing than the sun.
Following closely behind, a gigantic fireball bloomed like the gates of hell opening wide, frantically devouring everything in its vicinity!
Its heat was intense enough to melt steel, let alone fragile lives and architecture.
Under the shockwave of extreme heat and high pressure, the once-prosperous city was rendered unrecognizable in the blink of an eye.
Soaring skyscrapers collapsed like blocks of children's toys, and the sturdy alloy city walls proved as brittle as sheets of paper!
Simultaneously, a massive sonic boom roared with the mighty wrath of thunder, deafening to the ears!
"Hum—"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—"
"Hum—"
The destruction continued unabated!
In its wake came a devastating wave of heat, sweeping across everything like a violent tsunami, turning all in its path to ashes.
The city's streets, parks, and plazas evaporated instantly, leaving behind nothing but scorched and ravaged earth.
Terrifying radioactive dust billowed rapidly into the upper atmosphere, coalescing into a colossal mushroom cloud driven by the winds.
The Orb of Death!
Wherever it passed, not a single soul survived!
A chilling, utter silence, with living creatures wiped completely from the face of the earth!
The aftermath of this explosion far exceeded Tang Xiangui's worst expectations.
It was not merely half the city being destroyed.
Rather, half the city was instantly obliterated into nothingness, erased completely from the map as if swallowed whole by a primordial beast.
Every single trace of life vanished into thin air, and billows of thick smoke mixed with roaring flames surged straight into the clouds, bearing testimony to the terrifying holocaust this land had endured.
The remaining half of the city was similarly mutilated beyond recognition.
The glass curtain walls of towering skyscrapers shattered and cascaded down like waterfalls, structural debris lay scattered everywhere, and the streets resembled a battle-scarred wasteland in the aftermath of an earthquake.
Of the crowds that had gathered earlier to watch the spectacle amidst the apocalypse, nothing remained save for profound silence and lamentation.
The only building left standing in the entire city was the imposing headquarters of the Tang Corporation.
Yet, Tang Xiangui felt no remorse; this was the only path to survival.
"Tang Xiangui, are you satisfied now?"
Tang Shirou knelt on a hilltop outside the city, gazing down at the devastated expanse, weeping bitterly.
She felt the crushing sensation of a shattered heart and a dead soul.
She finally understood how utterly insignificant human beings were in the face of an explosion of this magnitude.
Chen Xiao... was dead!
"Hahahaha, Old Master Tang, well done! Extremely decisive!"
"That nearly scared the wits out of me. I genuinely thought I was going to die there, which would have been such a massive loss!"
The father and son of the Yang family let out sighs of relief, breaking into a cold sweat even now at the mere memory of that god of slaughter.
He had been far too terrifying!
Fortunately, no matter how formidable one's martial arts might be, everyone feared a nuclear bomb!
In the end, he had paid the ultimate price for his arrogance!
He was dead!