CHAPTER 386: CHAPTER 386: WHICH CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?

Da Zhen Imperial City · [Yanhuang Armory]

In the underground of ancient-style buildings, a futuristic hall is brightly lit.

It resembles the command center of a starship, with a giant curved screen covering the dome, projecting the scenes from thousands of miles away in exquisite detail.

From a bird’s eye view, a majestic pass is like open arms, blocking the road leading to the hinterland of [Da Zhen].

As the perspective moves forward, a brutal mountain of corpses and sea of blood comes into view, and the originally dry yellow earth suddenly changes color, presenting a disturbing sticky dark red.

"Hiss~"

A gasp was heard, and everyone in the hall seemed to be able to smell the strong stench of blood through the screen.

"How many people died here?"

"At least several tens of thousands, right?"

"Be confident, at least 100,000 plus!"

"I finally understand where Brother’s joke about Hell with only a billion people comes from..."

"What a sin, even though death in the Illusion Realm isn’t real death, you can’t do this, right?"

......

The whispers and discussions filled the ears, as Zhu Haomiao sat on the command table, propping his chin with one hand, his eyes wandering over the huge screen, he smiled with great interest.

"Originally, I thought that our side was invincible only on the [Mysterious Side], but it turns out the [Technology Side] is also quite powerful."

Hearing this, Huai Xu, standing beside him, shook his head indifferently.

"On the [Mysterious Side], we are recognized as number one globally, but on the [Technology Side], we are only slightly inferior to the Ugly Country, with both sides having different emphases."

"Oh? What’s the difference?"

"Our [Extraordinary Technology] focuses more on support, with a relatively cautious development, whereas theirs... Emmm..."

Finding it hard to summarize in words, Huai Xu pursed his lips for a moment before sighing.

"Their approach, to put it nicely, is called flourishing variety; to put it bluntly, it’s without limits."

"Once, in order to study a virus weapon, they infected all the creatures in an entire Illusion Realm, turning them into zombies, leading directly to a doomsday-level disaster."

"At that time, it made quite a stir, but because they controlled the media, it faded away afterward."

"But I heard that they continued secretly with the research later, resulting in a virus leak that destroyed a small city in reality..."

Listening to Huai Xu’s narration, Zhu Haomiao crossed his fingers against his nose, falling silent.

This plot... I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere...

Could that small city be called Raccoon City?

Thinking of Li Cang’s familiar Golden Sacred Armor, Zhu Haomiao closed his eyes hazily.

Is it the illusionary works of past lives becoming reality?

Or was it because a ’story’ happened that it was created into a work?

Which came first, the chicken?

Or the egg?

The chaotic cause-and-effect logic made Zhu Haomiao’s head hurt, so he shook his head to clear away these thoughts.

Now is not the time to ponder such distant things; attention must be focused on the present!

With his eyes narrowing, Zhu Haomiao looked at the large screen and resolutely ordered.

"Drones, close in on the battlefield."

"Roger!"

"[Winged Dragon] descending, altitude 2000."

"Activating Extraordinary Situational Awareness."

......

As the altitude decreased, the details on the ground gradually magnified, and countless ant-sized black dots came into view, crawling at an almost imperceptible speed.

Optical lenses captured and magnified them, and people with tattered clothes, flushed faces, and brown-black skin brandishing crude weapons, charged high-spiritedly towards the Heroic Pass.

Yet not long after, leaving behind hundreds of corpses, they retreated like the tide, replaced by the next wave of people rushing forward with loud cries.

From the high-altitude view, they looked like waves coming one after another, seemingly endless.

"Situational awareness radar has detected a dense energy reaction. Should we activate active probing?"

At this moment, a subordinate asked, and Zhu Haomiao nodded without hesitation.

"Yes."

"As ordered, activating active probing!"

Beep beep beep~

In an instant, countless small dots appeared on the vast land on the screen, each showing different spirit light.

And at the end of sight, countless small spirit light dots gathered, forming a patch, creating a dazzling glare on the screen.

"What is that?"

"Adjusting the camera."

Soon, the optical zoom camera zoomed in on the distant scenes, showing a group of people on a small hill, gazing into the distance, watching the battlefield.

At the forefront, a tall and burly centaur, with knotted muscles, stood like a hill with its mighty presence.

However, just as the camera on the drone locked onto the centaur, it seemed to sense something, suddenly lifting its eyes, its sharp gaze sweeping through the sky.

"Beep beep beep! Enemy tracking! Enemy tracking!"

A sharp alarm rang out instantly, and before the operator could react, the centaur focused its gaze, its hawk-eyed pupils capturing the drone from afar.

The high-definition optical equipment clearly captured the chilling light in its eyes, with its oppressing gaze piercing through the screen, as if seeing the people controlling it from thousands of miles away.

"Beep beep beep! Enemy locked! Enemy locked!"

"Huh?!"

Like a gaze crossing time and space, there was a tremor of low exclamations in the hall.

The next second, the gigantic centaur picked up a longbow, its entire body exuding a golden fine lightning glow, raising its hand and shooting instantly.

"Emergency roll!"

As the centaur shot the arrow, the operator finally reacted, maneuvering the drone into a rapid roll dive in an attempt to dodge the attack.

However, a golden streak of light rapidly magnified on the screen, drawing an elegant arc that precisely tracked the drone’s lens.

Sizzle~

After a faint electric current sound, the giant screen turned completely black.

A few seconds later, a mechanical voice echoed in the hall.

"[Winged Dragon] has lost signal."

Pausing for a few seconds, Zhu Haomiao softly commanded.

"Rewind to the last few seconds."

"Yes."

Soon, the screen replayed the scene of the centaur drawing a bow and shooting an arrow.

"What was the distance at that time?"

"3800."

"What was the flight time of the arrow?"

"Less than a second, speed exceeding Mach 12!"

"......"

What kind of hypersonic missile is this?!

And it even had a homing capability!

Watching the trajectory that clearly drew an arc, Zhu Haomiao rubbed his chin with great interest.

"Who is this guy?"

"Comparing with the database now."

"Got it, Hong Jila, the fourth son of the current Great Khan, the fourth heir to the Nomadic Empire, suspected Child of Destiny."

"Now, you can remove the ’suspected’ part."

Judging solely by that arrow, an ordinary first-grade master cannot compete; only a Supreme Grandmaster can achieve such a feat.

And a Supreme Grandmaster is almost synonymous with the Child of Destiny.

If they can take a step further, entering the [Extraordinary to Saint] mode, it would undoubtedly define them as the Heavenly Destiny Main Character!