Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!-Chapter 261 - 109 Rumors Abound_2

"Using a missile to blow up Jin Cheng?"

Lei Jie exclaimed:

"Isn’t that a bit too straightforward and brutal?"

"Exactly!"

Chen Jian nodded again.

"Precisely because it’s too straightforward and brutal, there’s no ’divinity’ to it."

"I need you to help me with something."

"Transform a loitering munition into a non-explosive kinetic warhead."

"Or to put it more bluntly, I need you to use a spear to pierce through Jin Cheng accurately from a height unseen by anyone."

"I want everyone to see clearly the scene of Jin Cheng subjected to ’divine punishment’, and additionally, leave it there intact like a criminal, for all to see."

"...Damn, that’s a bit... savage."

Lei Jie gasped, contemplated for a moment, then replied:

"But it can be done."

"A high-altitude drop, using lightweight aluminum-titanium alloy as the main body, modifying a loitering munition shouldn’t be too difficult, I’ll give it a try."

"But the problem is, just killing isn’t enough."

"A sudden unexplainable death can easily be seen as a malicious assassination by those religious fanatics."

"That would be very disadvantageous for our subsequent plans."

"This is what He Shuo is supposed to do."

Chen Jian smiled mysteriously and then said:

"I reckon he might already be starting to work on it...."

....

Meanwhile, within Jinling City.

Just as Chen Jian expected, once the "overturn mission" was confirmed, not a second was wasted, He Shuo immediately began his plan.

However, he did not directly find Zhang Tao to discuss the details of cooperation, instead, he chose a softer approach, allowing rumors to spread quietly.

The first thing he did was use drones to scout and determine Zhang Tao’s location within the city.

Then, under the cover of night, he dispatched unmanned combat robots to silently move all the mecha "statues" in town.

When the patrolling Guard Brigade discovered the moved statues, they were shocked to find that all the statues were facing one direction, and a few had even stepped off their pedestals, adopting a kneeling position.

This bizarre situation immediately caught the attention of the Guard Brigade, but when they tried to return the statues to their original places, they found that with the immense weight of the statues, ordinary people were actually unable to move them.

Thus, by daybreak, all the residents walking through the streets had witnessed this scene.

People curiously gathered around the statues, speculating about the truth behind their movement.

Some said it was the revival of Mecha Souls.

Some said it was the Mechanical God Sect moving them themselves.

But more people simply regarded it as a boring prank by some powerful Holy Blood.

Although the Holy Blood vehemently denied this, in reality, not many took it seriously.

After all, it’s just a few statues, and what if they vanished into thin air?

In the past few days, the residents of Jinling City had seen too many miraculous machines.

The Supreme Saint Eight One had already manifested, so nothing that happened would be too surprising, right?

The public opinion didn’t seem to develop as He Shuo anticipated, but in actuality, this was just a very small step in his multitude of plans.

He simply sat in the manor, patiently waiting for the residents of Jinling City to discover more "heavenly omens."

And by 7 AM, a second message had already arrived.

Someone discovered a strange pattern in the grassy fields outside Jinling City.

The pattern was formed by toppled withered grass, vaguely resembling fangs and flames.

No one knew what this pattern signified; everyone was more concerned about its origin.

It appeared overnight.

By manpower alone, it would be absolutely impossible to create such a massive pattern visible from the heights of Jinling City in such a short time.

For a time, the entire Jinling City was abuzz with discussion, and even some idle merchants left the city to observe the pattern up close.

Finally, their conclusion was rather ambiguous.

"This is definitely not a pattern harvested by human hands; there are no cutting marks on the grass but rather it seems to have been pressed down from above by some force."

So said a merchant.

This caused the city’s residents to finally start doubting.

Pressed down from above?

Did this come from... the sky?

So what’s in the sky?

It can only be God.

For the first time, the commoners linked the "phenomenon" with the "divine," and the atmosphere in the city began to change quietly.

However, until then, they still did not know what the phenomenon specifically indicated; the vast majority believed it was an omen of blessings yet to come, following Supreme Saint Eight One’s salvation of Jinling City.

He Shuo would not let such public opinion fester.

Before taking action, he had already anticipated the public’s response.

So at 8 AM, he detonated the third hidden thunder he’d planted in advance.

An all-frequency electromagnetic interference was activated, and all the merchants, mercenaries, and civilians attempting to eavesdrop on radio waves and communicate with the outside world heard a single indistinct voice over the radio.

"Atonement... atonement..."

The ethereal electronic sound was not something any human could produce, and the voice, repeatedly mentioning "atonement," pushed the atmosphere within Jinling City into an unprecedented extreme.

Atonement?

Atonement for what?

Who should atone?

Atonement to whom?

Feelings of suspicion, panic, and anxiety quickly spread, and everyone speculated about the source of the voice, ultimately arriving at a common and seemingly most reasonable answer.

The Mechanical Soul is awakening.

The Holy Trinity, through the mouth of the Mechanical Soul, is conveying its divine message to its people.

Thus, it became exceedingly clear.

Someone needs to atone.

So who is this person?

Who did something wrong and angered the Holy Trinity?

No one dared to say the answer to this question out loud, but through glances and private conversations, the answer spread rapidly.

Over ten Guard Brigades of the Holy Hall were lost, misunderstandings and conflicts with the "Supreme Saint Eight One" under the same God of All Mechanisms, the near-loss of Jinling City, and the powerless church towards Huadu....

Tsk.

Is this a slide one should provoke?

The people of Jinling City fell silent with fear, and by this time, only 12 hours had passed since He Shuo activated the first hidden thunder.

He would not stop there.

The emblem of the Holy Trinity, suspended high above the Mechanical God Sect’s Holy Hall, crashed down at noon, during the most intense sunlight.

The ground was struck with a huge crater, and the emblem shattered into pieces.

The residents who witnessed this scene stood in stunned silence for several minutes.

They didn’t know that this was the result of several hours of cutting using the laser close-in weapon system on Nezha’s exoskeleton, they only knew that the Holy Trinity’s emblem had fallen.

As for why...

Perhaps only the Holy Trinity itself knew.

At that moment, everyone believed in their hearts the answer they had settled upon.

Rumors spread like a storm throughout the city, and the church couldn’t even react in time.

By the time they dispatched the Holy Temple Guard to suppress the rumor-spreading civilians on the streets, it was too late.

It was time to present the most powerful setup.

That evening, when the brigade commander of the 15th Guard Brigade, Zhang Tao, personally led his team to suppress the civilians and maintain order, a beam of light suddenly descended from the sky, enveloping him.

Everyone looked up, and when the beam pierced through the clouds, it disappeared instantly.

And in the sky, there was nothing.

It seemed like a coincidence.

But someone suddenly called out the crucial clue in the crowd.

"The Holy Trinity’s armor... the direction they were kneeling... is...."

This person didn’t finish the sentence, but having said that much, it was already enough.

Zhang Tao stood there, dumbfounded.

At that moment, all eyes were on him.

He knew he couldn’t stay there any longer.

The situation had deteriorated rapidly.

And his life...

was hanging by a thread!

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