Chapter 157: They Are Beginning to Protect Us-Mythical Invasion: I Slay Gods on Earth(Yellow pen)

"Mr. President..." Over the telephone, General Mike, a five-star general of the Freedom Nation, spoke with a trembling voice, trying to bargain one last time.

In any country, a soldier's primary duty is to protect and defend their homeland!

Yet at this moment... the President's order was something General Mike simply could not accept.

"This is an order!" the President of the Freedom Nation shouted loudly. "Listen to my command now: activate the eight hundred stored nuclear warheads, connect them to my secret launch button, and prepare for launch!"

"Target: indiscriminate blanket strike across a two-hundred-kilometer zone of the Western Coast!"

General Mike stood frozen in place, clutching the phone, but ultimately spoke to the military personnel nearby: "Execute the order. Deploy the eight hundred..."

"Eight hundred?"

General Mike paused midway, his voice faltering as he replied into the phone, "Mr. President, to eliminate that deity, we need at least a thousand nuclear warheads for a widespread saturation strike."

"With only eight hundred, the firepower density cannot be guaranteed, and the nuclear blast shockwave will not be enough to kill that deity. At best, it will only leave him heavily wounded..."

Before he could finish, the President of the Freedom Nation coldly interrupted, "Did I say I wanted to kill that deity?"

General Mike looked utterly bewildered. "It is our enemy. Why wouldn't we just kill it?"

As a five-star general of the Freedom Nation, Mike was exceptionally skilled in combat operations, but when it came to political maneuvering and invisible, behind-the-scenes warfare, he was far inferior to the high-ranking officials of the Freedom Nation.

The President of the Freedom Nation replied calmly, "Because we have suffered devastating losses this time. On the contrary, because Da Xia made preparations long in advance, their losses will likely be minimal."

"If we don't drag Da Xia down with us, then in the aftermath of this crisis, the Freedom Nation's international standing will very likely be threatened by Da Xia!"

"Drive that deity away, but do not kill him! Let him cross the ocean! Let him conquer the humans on the other side!"

General Mike fell silent for a long time.

Truthfully, from a soldier's standpoint, he disagreed with this approach.

After all, although Da Xia was a competitor to the Freedom Nation, Da Xia was also part of human civilization!

Now that the gods had descended, humanity should unite under a single front!

As a military general, Mike did not understand the dirty political struggles of the Freedom Nation's president; he only knew that in the face of an alien invasion by gods, all of humanity should be of one heart, and everyone was a comrade-in-arms.

But...

A soldier's primary duty is to obey orders!

"Understood!" General Mike said with a trembling voice. "The eight hundred nuclear warheads have been activated. The targets have been set. They will blanket the entire Western Coast within a five-thousand-kilometer span, specifically targeting a two-hundred-kilometer inland zone!"

He knew that this single action would cause countless civilians who still had a glimmer of hope for escape to die at the hands of their own kind.

It was an act that would rob him of sleep for the rest of his life.

It would saddle him with the torment of countless wronged souls, condemning him to the sins of hell, and after this day, his name would be nailed firmly to the pillar of shame in human history!

Yet, this was an order from the President!

"Good!"

The President of the Freedom Nation hung up the phone and opened the box on his desk, revealing a crimson button inside!

Red as blood!

Without any hesitation, the President of the Freedom Nation pressed the button: "Click!"

Deep within the secret military base in the desert...

"Boom!"

Silos built in strict secrecy began to slide open. Immediately afterward, pillars of searing fire lifted massive missiles, each a hundred meters long, propelling them straight into the sky!

These were the swords of humanity!

Swords sharp enough to slay gods!

Yet, this was also a double-edged sword!

Da Xia could actually have utilized this kind of weapon as well; they wouldn't have needed to exhaust countless resources and national strength to painstakingly construct the Four-Thousand-Li Great Steel Wall.

Why didn't Da Xia use them?

Because once this sword was unsheathed, it would mean that Da Xia was completely abandoning a portion of its territory, along with the citizens living within those lands.

Even if a large-scale nuclear blanket strike could repel a deity, or even kill one.

Still.

Once unleashed, even if that land and those people were not conquered by the deity, that territory would no longer be a place where humans could ever set foot again!

It meant willingly abandoning one's own territory and the citizens living upon that soil!

Therefore, Da Xia had chosen the most arduous and costly method—building the Great Steel Wall!

At this very moment, the President of the Freedom Nation did not hesitate, choosing the alternative method to deal with the deity!

From a certain perspective, he possessed immense decisiveness and was exceptionally clever... After all, manufacturing eight hundred nuclear warheads was far simpler than constructing a hundred-meter-tall Great Steel Wall stretching four thousand li, and it was a permanent fix.

Inside the military base, all the military personnel raised their heads to watch those eight hundred colossal missiles soar into the heavens, carving a curved trajectory across the sky as they hurtled toward the Western Coast!

"Sigh..."

Someone let out a sigh.

They all knew what this meant.

"Boom!"

The missiles, carrying power capable of destroying heaven and earth, streaked across the sky, leaving dazzling, scorching trails in their wake like shooting stars!

Accompanied by the thunderous boom of sonic booms tearing through the air, they roared toward the Western Coast where the deity resided!

Meanwhile.

Within the two-hundred-kilometer inland zone of the Western Coast, in the areas not yet submerged by the encroaching ocean, citizens were driving desperately to flee for their lives!

Although the news and videos on the internet had only flashed for a fleeting moment before signals across the entire Western Coast were jammed and related information scrubbed, they had already learned what was happening there.

A deity, cloaked in towering waves of seawater and commanding countless sea beasts, was charging relentlessly in this direction!

"Darling, get in the car! Stop dawdling!"

In a small town, a white man stood on the street, shouting at his wife who was still lingering inside the house. "What time do you think it is? We can't even get in touch with your aunt's family in New Golden City anymore. What they said on the internet is probably true!"

"Coming, coming, I couldn't find my jewelry and cash just now..." his wife shouted, running out with her bag in hand.

The small town was already in complete chaos. Countless private cars were pulling out of their garages, and every family was preparing to evacuate.

"Screech—"

A neighbor's car stopped beside the man, and a white man poked his head out. "Hey, Tom! Why aren't you leaving yet?"

"Right now, just waiting for my wife!" The man sighed.

The neighbor nodded. "This time... sigh, time is tight, but fortunately we're far enough away. As long as we drive fast, we should be able to get out."

"Still, I really didn't expect the people of Da Xia were telling the truth."

The man also looked somewhat angry. "Why couldn't our stupid President just learn from the Da Xia people and build a Great Steel Wall! If we had a Great Steel Wall like that, what would we have to fear!"

"Da Xia could prepare, why couldn't we!"

"We could have had a chance!"

The neighbor echoed his curses for a moment before saying, "All right, Tom, no time to chat, we're heading out."

"About three hundred kilometers ahead, there's a mountain. I heard there's an abandoned bomb shelter there that can be used to hide from the sea beasts. We're planning to take shelter there."

"I really miss those times when we drank beer together in the yard... When this is all over, I'll buy you a beer."

The man smiled faintly as well. "Ha, it's a deal!"

The neighbor revved his engine and drove off, and at that moment, the man's wife finally climbed into the car.

"Boom!"

The man pressed down on the gas pedal, joining the stream of traffic as they rushed eastward.

"Damn it," the man muttered, glaring at the traffic-choked streets. "What on earth are the higher-ups in our Freedom Nation doing? Why haven't they sent soldiers to help yet?"

"Darling, don't be so angry," his wife comforted him. "Trust our President. After all, this happened so suddenly; he couldn't have expected that the deity's descent that Da Xia talked about would actually turn out to be real..."

"I'm sure the President is scrambling frantically for solutions right now. The army is probably already mobilizing; we just need to get out first, and there are bound to be military troops waiting ahead to receive us."

Before she could finish.

"Rumble!"

A dull, thunderous sound rolled across the sky.

"What's that sound?" The man raised his head, looking up at the sky.

Countless glowing, scorching spots formed a straight line, roaring through the air toward them!

"It's our Freedom Nation starting its counterattack against the deity!" The woman's face lit up with excitement as she watched this sight. "Look! Those are missiles from the military. They must be attacking the deity to cover our evacuation!"

A hopeful light flickered in the man's eyes as well.

Inside every vehicle clogging the street, every single citizen of the Freedom Nation stepping on the gas to escape felt a surge of excitement!

"I knew our President wouldn't just sit by and do nothing!"

"The higher-ups would never abandon us!"

"Look! Those are missiles attacking the deity! The military has appeared, they're protecting us!"