dkrc Chapter 82 The Rule of Heaven
Chapter 82 The Rule of Heaven
Tokyo, underground facilities.
The leader in the black suit, the head of the Fourth Section of the Special Higher Police.
Shinsuke Kitahara's hand, holding the phone, trembled uncontrollably.
On the other end of the phone, the subordinate's screams sounded like they were coming from hell.
"...The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei index triggered a circuit breaker within three minutes! All servers crashed due to overload!"
"...Throughout the country, precision instruments, from hospital MRI machines to semiconductor production lines, are experiencing large-scale, unpredictable malfunctions!"
"...The emergency lines to the Prime Minister's residence have just been struck by lightning, and communications have been interrupted!"
"Chief! The Meteorological Agency's supercomputer has simulated all scenarios, and that meteorite... it's divine retribution, we can't stop it! It will 100% hit Tokyo Bay, with an error margin of no more than five kilometers! It's expected to hit in thirty minutes..."
Kitahara Shinsuke's face was paler than a dead man's.
Divine retribution?
What a "divine retribution"!
He suddenly looked up, his gaze piercing through the one-way glass, locking onto the blindfolded young man in the interrogation room.
coincidence?
There aren't that many coincidences in this world!
The moment they brought this Chinese doctor in, it was as if an invisible hand had instantly drained the entire country of its luck!
"Baka!"
Shinsuke Kitahara let out a roar that sounded inhuman and kicked open the interrogation room door.
The room was a complete mess.
One researcher was unconscious, and the other was foaming at the mouth; a glaring red alarm was flashing on the instruments.
Although Li Lin was blindfolded and tied to a chair, he could still hear the chaos outside.
He didn't know what was happening, but he could feel that the suffocating malice around him was being replaced by an overwhelming panic.
"Untie him! Now!"
Shinsuke Kitahara roared at his few remaining men.
His men rushed forward in a flurry, trying to untie the restraints on Li Lin's body, their movements clumsy with fear.
Kitahara Shinsuke's private phone rang again; the caller ID showed it was his highest-ranking superior.
Head of the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office.
He took a deep breath and answered the phone.
"Kitahara! You idiot! What have you done?!"
The roar from the other end of the phone almost pierced his eardrums: "Have you offended the gods?!"
"Room Leader..."
Kitahara Shinsuke's voice was extremely hoarse, "It's that Chinese man... Li Lin... I suspect..."
"I don't care what you suspect!"
The head of the department's voice was choked with sobs and utter despair. "Five minutes ago, the Chinese embassy sent us... an ultimatum!"
"An ultimatum?"
"That wasn't an ultimatum! That was a divine decree!"
The chief roared hysterically, "They only said one thing! Release the people of the dragon, or Tokyo will disappear from the map!"
boom!
Shinsuke Kitahara's mind went blank.
proved.
Everything has been confirmed!
They did not kidnap a scholar.
They are... devotees who have blasphemed a god!
"I see……"
Shinsuke Kitahara muttered to himself, his eyes instantly turning ashen, the last shred of rationality and pride that belonged to an agent being utterly crushed.
He hung up the phone and walked step by step to Li Lin, who had just been freed from his restraints.
To the astonishment of Li Lin and all his subordinates, the head of the Special Higher Police, known for his ruthlessness, suddenly collapsed to his knees with a thud.
He slammed his forehead heavily against the cold floor.
"We... know our guilt."
……
Kunlun Base.
On the giant holographic screen, the gray current representing the fate of Japan is visibly ceasing to flow away.
The command stream representing "misfortune" also dimmed.
"Report! The 'stripping' command for Array No. 3 has been automatically aborted!"
"Report! Dr. Li Lin's vital signs are stable within the target area, and his mental energy field is rapidly recovering!"
"Report! The chain reaction caused by the doom order is subsiding! The Japanese stock market has stopped falling, and the nationwide equipment failure rate is declining!"
Qian Youmin listened calmly to each report, but his gaze remained fixed on the highest point of the holographic projection of the Earth.
There, a red dot symbolizing destruction continues to fall toward Tokyo at an alarming speed.
"Dragon Lord..."
Sun Mingde's voice was tense, "The misfortune has stopped, but this meteorite... its physical trajectory has already formed, and it's too late to stop it now..."
This is a purely physics problem.
A celestial body with a diameter of fifty meters and a mass of hundreds of thousands of tons is hurtling toward Earth at a speed of tens of kilometers per second.
This is no longer a problem that luck can solve.
This is... a certain death.
However, on the control panel, Li Chen's voice remained indifferent, without the slightest ripple.
"The trial is not over yet."
"Punishment is meant to make them aware of their guilt."
"And what follows is to instill... awe in them."
The voice just fell.
Li Chen's voice, through the highest level of authority at the Kunlun base, directly issued new instructions.
"Yi Wood Array, switch command."
"Compiling...the rules of 'life'."
"Target: The 'Divine Retribution' meteorite."
"Command... Upload!"
hum-
The withered gray-black color of the No. 3 reactor core instantly faded away, replaced by a rich, vibrant emerald green that seemed to drip with water!
A torrent of rules, a hundred times more powerful than the previous "stripping" command, surged into the sky, ignoring space and distance, and instantly descended upon that death star!
……
Tokyo Bay.
The night sky has been completely torn apart.
A burning sun is descending from the sky.
The terrifying heat caused the waters of Tokyo Bay to boil. The shadow of the apocalypse loomed over everyone's heart.
The sirens, screams, and cries mingled together, creating a symphony of despair.
Kitahara Shinsuke and his men had already brought Li Lin to the ground. Like countless others, they collapsed to the ground, gazing at the sky, awaiting their death.
Just as the meteorite was about to enter the stratosphere and bring about catastrophic destruction.
An unexpected change occurred!
An indescribable emerald green light appeared out of thin air and gently enveloped the entire meteorite.
There was no violent explosion, no blinding light.
To everyone around the world watching this scene via satellite, and to all the desperate people in Tokyo.
That meteorite, a symbol of destruction and death...
It has sprouted.
Yes, it has sprouted.
Cracks appeared on the hard rock surface. Countless emerald green vines grew wildly, defying all the laws of physics, and intertwined, instantly enveloping the entire meteorite into a giant green sphere.
Then, millions of golden flowers bloomed on the green vines.
Those flowers bloom in the wind, only to wither away in an instant.
The burning Death Star went through a cycle of birth, peak, and annihilation in just three seconds.
Ultimately, it disintegrated silently in mid-air.
Instead of turning into fatal fragments, it transformed into billions of golden and green dust particles, like blessings sprinkled by the gods, fluttering down.
What should have been an apocalyptic catastrophe that destroyed a city turned into a...sacred rain of light that covered the entire Kanto Plain.
The sunlight fell on me, carrying the fragrance of grass and trees and a warm sense of life.
At this moment, all of everyone's pain and illness seemed to be washed away.
The boiling waters of Tokyo Bay gradually calmed down.
The piercing alarms in the city had stopped sometime ago.
Dead silence.
The whole world was deathly silent.
Everyone looked up, mouths agape, staring at the dreamlike rain of light, their minds blank.
Standing in the crowd, bathed in the light and rain, Li Lin could feel a warm power repairing his body, which had been damaged by the mental struggle.
He watched the fading light in the sky, and the crowd around him who went from despair to ecstasy, and finally to a state of stunned silence.
He finally understood.
This is not a national weapon.
This is not the power of science.
This is... a miracle.
It was that golden dragon that circled above the capital that bestowed this miracle upon him, a mere believer!
Just then.
At the same time, all the screens around the world that were lit up—televisions, computers, mobile phones, outdoor billboards… had their images forcibly switched.
On the screen, there were no images, only a solemn and dignified black background.
Lines of golden characters, forged from blood and flames, slowly emerged and were simultaneously translated into all the world's major languages.
By the mandate of Heaven, the Divine Dragon decrees:
[Article One of the Heavenly Laws: All those whose hearts are set on China and who respond to the call to return, regardless of their location, will be protected by the divine dragon's fortune, turning misfortune into good fortune and calamity into auspiciousness.]
[Those who intentionally harm or obstruct the journey home will have their fortune stripped away, along with that of their clan and their nation, and will be punished with a harbinger of misfortune.]
[Take Japan today as an example.]
[So be it.]