This change was completely beyond the comprehension of every member of the temple. No matter what they did, they couldn't understand what was going on. They knew that even ordinary divine light could destroy almost all life force, yet this person had not only survived an attack by ordinary divine light, but was now moving freely under the most powerful destructive divine light of the main temple. So... could this person still be an ordinary human?
"The Divine Child... he must be the real Divine Child!"
Although many people dared not show any reaction to Zhou Ziwei, who might be the reincarnation of the Divine Child, due to the Grand Elder's authority, they had already begun to believe it when Zhou Ziwei displayed his divine power earlier. Now, seeing another miracle happening to Zhou Ziwei, those who had doubts were even more certain. In an instant, more than half of the hundreds of temple members knelt down and kowtowed to Zhou Ziwei.
The Grand Elder's face turned ashen with rage, his withered hands trembling. Just as he was about to loudly order the temple guards to obey and kill Zhou Ziwei at all costs, he heard Zhou Ziwei, who was suspended outside the pillar of light high in the sky, suddenly speak loudly in the pure language of the Great Xia Dynasty: "This divine son is about to return, but before I leave, you old bastard, die!"
After Zhou Ziwei finished speaking as quickly as possible, he suddenly opened his mouth and roared, "Die!" Then, without looking back, he turned around and flew into the huge white pillar of light.
Whoosh—just three seconds after Zhou Ziwei entered the white pillar of light, the entire pillar shook violently, and then the three people trapped inside suddenly vanished without a trace, while the enormous white pillar of light also dissipated into nothingness…
"He...the Divine Child, has he left...or is he already dead?" All the temple disciples were completely bewildered by this sudden change.
Many of those who had just knelt on the ground began to regret their actions.
They reasoned that regardless of whether this divine child was truly sent by the gods, he must have already left this world, or been killed by the divine light of destruction, or, as he said, returned to the world he came from. In any case, the divine child should no longer affect this world or this temple, and they would still have to live under the rule of the temple's Grand Elder.
However... their admission and kneeling before the Divine Child have already been seen by the Grand Elder. If the Grand Elder investigates further, they will naturally not get away with it.
"Elder, are you alright?" Right next to the Elder, an elder who was one of the thirteen elders of the main temple and had just knelt before Zhou Ziwei, came to his senses and hurriedly ran to the Elder in a somewhat obsequious manner, trying to make up for the bad impression he had left on the Elder.
However, they suddenly noticed that the Grand Elder seemed to be acting strangely. Although he was still standing motionless with his cane, his face had turned deathly pale and his eyes were bulging out, like the eyes of a goldfish.
"Elder... rest if you're tired!" Another elder rushed over to support the trembling elder, but suddenly a "pfft" was heard, and the elder opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of thick blood. Then, blood flowed from his mouth, nose, eyes, ears, and the seven orifices on his head, instantly staining his robes crimson...
A sharp gunshot rang out, and Zhou Ziwei and his two companions, whose minds had been somewhat dazed from traversing through a void, suddenly snapped back to reality. They found themselves in a lush forest, and not far ahead of them, a soldier wearing camouflage and carrying a pistol and assault rifle had blown the head off a man dressed in Arab clothing. The soldier then stared at the three of them, dumbfounded, as if he had seen a ghost.
"Wow... Old M's Arab soldiers... Uh... We're back? Have we returned to Earth?"
Zhou Ziwei paused for a moment, then grabbed Wang Xuewei next to him and roared excitedly.
Wang Xuewei paused for a moment, then said with a joyful expression, "Yes...we should be back. This is Earth...we're home."
Chu Qiutang also shouted excitedly twice, then looked at the soldier opposite them who was pointing his assault rifle at them, nudged Zhou Ziwei with her elbow, and whispered, "Hey... that guy doesn't seem very friendly to us... uh... his gun seems quite powerful, the bulletproof function of our combat uniforms might not be enough to stop the bullets from this kind of gun!"
Zhou Ziwei snapped out of his excitement and nodded. He had been a little careless. With his physical strength and his superhuman alloy suit, he naturally wouldn't be afraid of such a gun attack.
So he didn't take that old M soldier seriously at all. However... although he wasn't afraid, he had two women with him. At such close range, if that soldier suddenly opened fire on Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang, he might not be able to block it in time...
"You... put down that shotgun of yours... I'm in a good mood today, so I won't bother you."
At this moment, the 400,000 units of soul power in Zhou Ziwei's sea of souls had not been completely purified, and a heavy amount of resentment was still hidden in his heart. However, he had just returned to Earth from that maddening artificial pilot plane, which put Zhou Ziwei in a great mood. Otherwise, Zhou Ziwei would probably have killed the soldier who dared to point a gun at him without saying a word.
However, after Zhou Ziwei finished speaking, he realized that he had forgotten to communicate with the old M soldier in English. He didn't know if the guy could understand him. Just as he was about to repeat himself in English, he heard the soldier open his mouth and stammer in broken Chinese, "You... are... Chinese?"
“Yes…we are Chinese…so what?” Zhou Ziwei frowned slightly and said, “I told you to put down your gun, did you hear me?”
"Chinese...how did you...get here? Why...did you all just suddenly appear in front of me?" The old M soldier completely ignored Zhou Ziwei's request to put down his gun, still pointing it at Zhou Ziwei's head, and demanded sharply, "Tell me...who are you people? Are you remnants of the Divine Dragon Mercenary Group..."
"I... you remnant my foot!" Zhou Ziwei was finally provoked by the old M soldier and slapped him across the face.
"Bang—" When the old soldier saw Zhou Ziwei make a move, he immediately and decisively pulled the trigger. However, it seemed that he wanted to capture him alive. When he fired, he moved the muzzle angle downwards and aimed at Zhou Ziwei's shoulder. Moreover, he used a three-round burst attack.
Zhou Ziwei's superhuman eyesight clearly saw the trajectory of the bullet, so he no longer cared about it. With the protective capabilities of his alloy suit, even artillery shells probably couldn't penetrate it, so he naturally wasn't worried that a few bullets would pierce it. Besides, he also possessed the divine power source that could devour almost any metallic substance, and since the bullet was also made of metal, it was naturally within the range of the divine power source's devouring power.
So Zhou Ziwei didn't change his movements at all. With a swift motion, he slapped the guy across the face.
"Bang bang..." The three bullets hit Zhou Ziwei's shoulder first. To Zhou Ziwei's surprise, the divine power that should have emerged to devour the metal was silenced this time and did not appear to swallow the three bullets.
Could it be that they think the three seeds are too small to be worth swallowing?
Zhou Ziwei was quite suspicious and puzzled, but had nowhere to verify it.
Fortunately, although the source of divine power did not appear, the protective ability of the alloy suit was not weakened in the slightest. These few bullets were not worth the alloy suit activating its scorching rays to decompose them. It simply withstood them. The bullets hit the silver suit, which seemed to be made of a special fabric, and only splashed a few sparks. They did not leave any mark on the alloy suit at all before being bounced off and falling to the ground.
Before the old soldier could even see if Zhou Ziwei had been shot, he was slapped hard across the face, making him see stars and numbing half of his face.
Zhou Ziwei's hand didn't stop for a moment. He turned around and slapped the soldier on the other cheek, finally making the guy scream and fall to the ground.
Zhou Ziwei was worried that the guy was still not giving up and might accidentally shoot Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang again, so he grabbed the assault rifle from the guy's hand.
Then he stepped forward, stomped on the soldier's chest, and coldly asked in fluent American English, "Tell me... where is this place? What are you doing here? Why did you kill this person?"
The old soldier, M, did have some backbone. Although his cheeks were burning with pain and he had dropped his gun, he showed no sign of weakness. He stared at Zhou Ziwei with his blue eyes and said, "Who are you? Why should I tell you?"
Zhou Ziwei shook his head angrily, snorted coldly, and said, "If you won't listen to reason, then you'll have to drink the penalty cup. Since you won't answer me properly, then I'll make you open your mouth obediently!"
After Zhou Ziwei finished speaking, he unhesitatingly unleashed a wisp of soul power, which invaded the soldier's mind in a strange way. A moment later, the soldier's arrogant and unruly demeanor vanished, replaced by a blank and dazed expression.
Zhou Ziwei withdrew his foot from the man's chest and asked with a relaxed expression, "Speak! Where is this place? Where did you come from? What's your name? What are you doing here? And... what's this 'Divine Dragon Mercenary Group' you mentioned earlier? Tell me everything honestly!"
This time, the soldier didn't hesitate at all. Upon hearing Zhou Ziwei's question, he immediately replied, "This is AFH. I'm Ryan, a counter-terrorism special forces soldier from the US. I'm here on a counter-terrorism mission to eliminate the remnants of Al-Qaeda… Because this mission is quite tricky, the remaining members we need to eliminate may be hiding in their underground base. Therefore, we specially hired the Shenlong Mercenary Group, skilled in underground warfare, to jointly carry out this mission… The mission was successfully completed, however… while cleaning up the underground battlefield, we unexpectedly discovered a large amount of weaponry and some valuables left behind by this terrorist organization in their underground lair. Our major said… these things belong to the US, but those Shenlong mercenaries insist on taking half, so…"
"So you bunch of American devils wanted to cross the river and then burn the bridge, so you wiped out that Dragon Mercenary Group, am I right?" Zhou Ziwei's eyes suddenly blazed with a fierce red light as he spoke...
Volume 2: The Assassin's Nightmare, Chapter 416: The Underground Base
Faced with Zhou Ziwei's palpable, ferocious killing intent, the American soldier named Ryan, despite being hypnotized, still trembled involuntarily, nodding repeatedly and saying, "Yes... the major said all this money and goods are ours, and we can't give a single copper coin to those despicable Eastern pigs. But according to custom, mercenaries can take away anything they capture during a mission, so we have no choice but to..."
"Wait a minute..." Zhou Ziwei interrupted Ryan in a cold voice, asking, "Who are these people from the Divine Dragon Mercenary Group you mentioned?"
Ryan replied, "The main members of the Dragon Mercenary Group are mostly Chinese or other East Asians, with a small number of Western whites and blacks as well..."
Zhou Ziwei nodded, then asked, "Where are your accomplices? Are any of the Shenlong Mercenaries still alive?"
Ryan said, "Our people are mostly still in that underground base, clearing out the organization's assets. We've only sent out two small teams to hunt down the escaped members of the Dragon Mercenary Group. Most of the Dragon Mercenary Group members have been killed; only a handful escaped. The one I just shot was actually from the Dragon Mercenary Group. He was white, but not Arab; he was disguised..."
After listening, Zhou Ziwei nodded slightly and then asked in detail about the approximate location of the underground base, how far it was from the Chinese border, how to determine the location, and so on. After the unfortunate American soldier had answered all the questions, Zhou Ziwei nodded indifferently and said, "Very good, you answered well. Now... you can die in peace."
After saying that, Zhou Ziwei immediately turned the gun around and pulled the trigger without hesitation, aiming it at Ryan's head.
A phantom shadow slowly rose from the corpse. Before the scorching sunlight could harm the newly formed soul, Zhou Ziwei immediately stretched out his large hand and clenched it tightly in the void. Instantly, a powerful and boundless soul force was released, and in just a moment, it directly refined the soul body formed after Ryan's death into a small soul bead.
With 400,000 units of soul power as a backing, the process was countless times faster than before. However, Zhou Ziwei felt that the soul power he consumed when condensing this soul bead seemed to be slightly more than the energy contained in the soul bead, which made him feel that it was not worth the effort.
Fortunately, this Soul Bead can replenish the soul power of oneself and others, and it can also be detonated and used as a bomb, so the value of this Soul Bead cannot be judged based on this alone.
Zhou Ziwei currently has no Soul Pearls in reserve, so he naturally has to keep this one.
After putting away the soul bead that had been condensed in an instant, Zhou Ziwei immediately turned to Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang and said, "You two find a safe place to hide for a while. I have to go and see... Those American soldiers are really arrogant. If they were harming mercenaries from other countries, that would be one thing, but since they are killing Chinese people, I will definitely not let them get away with it."
Wang Xuewei naturally had no objection to Zhou Ziwei's words. Moreover, having just experienced the bloodshed in that pilot plane, Wang Xuewei was still somewhat unprepared for the situation and didn't feel much when she heard that Zhou Ziwei was going to kill people.
There seems to be a sense of entitlement that since those American soldiers are bullying Chinese people, then they deserve to die.
However, Chu Qiutang, being a former soldier, considered things from a different perspective than ordinary people. Hearing this, she couldn't help but say with some concern, "Director Zhou, this... since it's an anti-terrorism operation by the US, if... if you get involved, I'm afraid it might not be good! It could easily cause international disputes... If that Shenlong Mercenary Group were an official organization or military unit of our country, then you could act however you wanted, but... if I heard correctly, this organization doesn't belong to our country. In that case, Director Zhou, you'd be acting without a legitimate reason, and it would be easy for others to find fault with you..."
Zhou Ziwei completely disregarded Chu Qiutang's words, merely snorting and saying, "What's wrong with that? If you're afraid of trouble, I'll just kill all those bastards..."
After saying that, Zhou Ziwei casually stripped Ryan's camouflage uniform off and put it on himself. Then, with a swift movement, he left a blurry afterimage in front of the two women like a streak of light before disappearing without a trace...
A burning rage inexplicably raged within Zhou Ziwei's heart. He had not yet completely expelled the malevolent energy from his soul power, making it difficult for him to control his emotions. However, even under these circumstances, Zhou Ziwei did not act rashly. He left ladybugs and a few mosquitoes around Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang. With these insects protecting them, he figured that even a platoon of soldiers might not be able to do anything to the two women.
Zhou Ziwei immediately dispatched all the remaining Kunchong he had to search for his target.
Although he possessed the ability to fly at high speed, Zhou Ziwei had not lost his mind. He knew that there must be Old M's satellites monitoring this sensitive area in real time. If he used his flying ability here, it would quickly attract Old M's attention and even cause a sensation in the world.
Zhou Ziwei didn't want to show off under the current circumstances.
Fortunately, Ryan had provided Zhou Ziwei with quite detailed information beforehand, and the dozen or so Kun pets in Zhou Ziwei's hands were also quite effective. In just a short while, Zhou Ziwei had almost grasped the movements of everyone within a radius of more than ten kilometers.
This is a mountainous forest area on the edge of the desert, while the underground base that Ryan mentioned is deep in the desert. At this moment, six members of the Divine Dragon Mercenary Group have escaped from that underground base and are being chased by twenty Old M soldiers.
Of the six members of the Dragon Mercenary Group, two had just been killed by Ryan, and the remaining three were hiding at the edge of the forest, but it seemed they were now surrounded by a special forces unit from Old M.
Without any hesitation, Zhou Ziwei, having obtained these clues, immediately took off running in that direction at an extremely fast speed. Because he was running in the forest with trees overhead providing cover, Zhou Ziwei wasn't afraid of being photographed by satellites, so his speed increased to almost flying. He covered a distance of about five or six kilometers in less than two minutes.
"Bang bang!" As soon as Zhou Ziwei approached the area, he heard bursts of gunfire, indicating that the two sides had begun close combat.
Zhou Ziwei quickened his pace, disregarding the need to conceal his presence, and immediately and forcefully inserted himself into the area where the two sides were exchanging fire, abruptly appearing in front of the three members of the Divine Dragon Mercenary Group, blocking their view...
"Don't point a gun at me..." Although Zhou Ziwei had his back to the three members of the Divine Dragon Mercenary Group, it was as if he had eyes in the back of his head. He sensed that a black man was raising a gun and pointing it at his head. He immediately raised a hand and said coldly, "I'm here to help you... but you're pointing a gun at me. Be careful, or I'll kill you first, you idiot."
After saying that, Zhou Ziwei ignored the three men's reactions and immediately raised his assault rifle, switched to burst fire mode, and began firing continuously at a forest in front of him.
"Bang—bang—" Zhou Ziwei fired his gun as if he didn't need to aim at all. The muzzle moved extremely fast, and every time he pulled the trigger, the muzzle never came to a complete stop. It was as if it was always in a state of high-speed shaking.
Is it possible to hit the target like this?
The three members of the Divine Dragon Mercenary Group behind him still had doubts about whether the person in front of them dressed as an American soldier was really there to help them. However, the black man stopped pointing his gun at Zhou Ziwei because he had noticed two American soldiers on the other side aiming in their direction. So he immediately turned his gun around, ready to aim before firing.
However, just as he locked his gun on the American soldier opposite him, before he could pull the trigger, he saw the man suddenly fall from the tree. He could even clearly see through the scope that the American soldier had a bloody bullet hole on his forehead.
This situation spread like a plague in the opposite forest, and one after another, fully armed American soldiers were quickly turned into corpses by the continuous fire of the assault rifle in Zhou Ziwei's hands.
The whole process was like boiling dumplings. The three members of the Divine Dragon Mercenary Group saw Zhou Ziwei constantly pulling the trigger, and corpses kept falling from the woods opposite. Many of the American soldiers had been hiding very well beforehand, and the three of them couldn't see where they were hiding at all. But no matter how well they hid, they still fell into pools of blood under Zhou Ziwei's bursts of fire.
When Zhou Ziwei finally stopped shooting, sixteen bodies lay dead in the bushes opposite him, and Zhou Ziwei had only fired sixteen shots in the entire process.
A sharpshooter who never misses a shot!
The three members of the Divine Dragon Mercenary Group were all speechless with astonishment. They had seen people with good marksmanship, but they had never seen anyone with such abnormal skill. It was not like shooting, but like a rehearsed play. Perhaps such terrifying marksmanship only appeared in a fantasy movie!
"Sir, thank you for your help. We are...we are from the Divine Dragon Mercenary Group. May I ask who you are...?"
A delicate, sweet voice came from behind a person dressed entirely in white robes. Judging from the voice, the person was a woman, but not an Arab woman.
Zhou Ziwei didn't turn around, but just snorted and said, "You don't need to know who I am, just leave here immediately!"
Having said that, he moved swiftly forward and disappeared completely into the dense forest in the blink of an eye.
After Zhou Ziwei finished off the other three American soldiers at the edge of the desert and condensed their souls into soul beads, he then headed at a moderate pace toward the direction Ryan had indicated.
The desert sun was scorching, but this heat was far more comfortable than the dry, fiery ball in the pilot dimension. Zhou Ziwei opened every pore of his body, greedily absorbing the heat particles from the air, quickly converting them into pure, attribute-free energy, and then replenishing his middle dantian thread by thread…
This world feels so welcoming... In that awful place, everything felt so fake. It turns out... it was a man-made world. It's truly unbelievable...
Zhou Ziwei sighed inwardly, feeling a little regretful that the 006 robot hadn't given him any time to learn more about that world. Otherwise, if he had had the opportunity to study the specific information about that pilot plane or the relics left by the prehistoric civilization, he would surely have achieved a groundbreaking result!
If humanity could master such incredible technology in the pilot dimension, that would be wonderful. Then there would be no need for family planning to address overpopulation. What's the big deal about having too many people? Just create a new dimension, throw the excess people in, and develop it.
Lost in thought, Zhou Ziwei quickly arrived at the entrance to the underground base, which appeared to be a completely flat sandy area. Using his soul power, Zhou Ziwei saw through the disguised sand layer and clearly saw everything in the underground base.
Zhou Ziwei can now use his soul power to see through all distances within 120 meters. Although the underground base was built on a considerable scale, it was only a few dozen meters deep, so it could not escape Zhou Ziwei's all-pervasive scanning ability.
Zhou Ziwei quickly found the entrance to the underground base. Too lazy to search for the mechanism to open the secret entrance, he simply stomped on it, instantly snapping the steel plate covered in sand in two. His body then plummeted downwards along with the broken plate...
Trapped in the pitch-black cave entrance, a burst of gunfire suddenly erupted from both sides of the entrance. Zhou Ziwei flicked his fingers, deflecting several bullets that flew towards him, instantly killing the men who were hiding nearby and trying to ambush him. The remaining bullets that struck Zhou Ziwei's body only produced a few sparks.
The alloy suit's powerful defensive capabilities distribute the impact of each bullet across the entire surface of the garment, so Zhou Ziwei barely felt anything, as if he were only hit by a few raindrops.
Ahead was a fully enclosed elevator, the only passage to and from the entire underground base. However, Zhou Ziwei wouldn't be foolish enough to take the elevator down at this moment, as he could easily be ambushed.
Zhou Ziwei immediately collected the newly formed souls of the people he had just killed, condensed them into a soul bead, and then simply threw it at the elevator, turning it into a pile of fine powder. A huge deep hole was then revealed behind the elevator.