Chapter Ninety-Three: At Most Half a Month!

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But before Lin Fan could finish, that voice rang out coldly: “Kneel.”

The instant those words fell, silence blanketed the venue.

Even the reporters stood there dumbly.

Silence.

Kneel.

Offer up your souls and become our faithful believers.

Your land will become our divine realm.

Not a single vulgar word marred those lines, and they even sounded refined.

Yet beneath the polished language lay boundless indifference and greed.

Souls.

Land.

Old Jin was trembling all over. “These bastards... they don’t just want our souls, they want our homeland too! The homeland our people have lived in for generations!”

A homeland lived in for generations.

For countless generations, the people of Great Xia had lived here, on a land soaked through with blood.

“They never even regarded us as enemies,” Bai Zhan said softly. “They did not show hostility, did not threaten us, did not declare war... they simply gave orders.”

The deepest contempt is indifference.

And the words of that god revealed utter, extreme indifference.

He simply disdained speaking with humans, with Great Xia.

Instead, he gave casual commands, as though everything were only natural. As if... in his eyes, humans ought to kneel from the start, ought to surrender their souls, ought to hand over their land.

Beyond that, humans were not even worthy of the right to speak with them, much less wage war against them.

At that moment, everyone knew that what Lin Fan had said was true.

Gods were never merciful.

And then, just then, Lin Fan let out a sigh and put down the dialogue draft written by Elder Chen.

He looked toward the heavens, his gaze seeming to pierce through countless barriers and fall upon a god who was cold yet exalted.

“We will not kneel.”

“Perhaps you do not know this, but I am speaking to you with a blade in hand, and Great Xia is speaking to you with a blade in hand as well!”

“If you have the guts, come.”

“I will be waiting here.”

“Great Xia will be waiting here too.”

After a brief silence from the other side, the voice suddenly laughed. “The so-called courage of foolish humans is nothing more than an excuse for refusing to admit their own stupidity. I hope that when the time comes, you will not disappoint me.”

Boom!

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Before the other side could finish, Lin Fan drew the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade and shattered the black little box with a single slash, unilaterally ending the first conversation between humanity and a god.

Roar!

Inside the venue, the sound of the blade rang out like the furious cry of an azure dragon. The Azure Dragon Crescent Blade trembled and hummed in Lin Fan’s hand, as if roaring back at that lofty existence.

“Now,”

The young man with the blade raised his head and swept his gaze across everyone in the venue, across every camera, saying each word distinctly: “Do you understand the attitude of the gods?”

That press conference, meant to mark humanity’s first exchange with the gods, ended on such an unpleasant note.

The conversation between humanity and the gods had already ended the moment it began.

A one-sided friendliness was repaid with utter indifference.

The video of Lin Fan speaking on behalf of Great Xia to the gods spread like wildfire across the internet.

Every person of Great Xia who saw it clenched their fists.

Some of them had not believed before that the gods would harbor hostility toward humanity, and had even naively imagined that those peace-loving, kindhearted gods would descend from the heavens, selflessly help humanity develop, bring new technologies, cure diseases of every kind, and help humanity put an end to all wars.

Others had simply thought it had nothing to do with them.

But now.

They all understood the gods’ attitude.

The fantasies in their hearts were shattered completely.

At this moment, Great Xia stood as the enemy of the gods.

All hearts united as one.

Every person of Great Xia felt a fire called anger burning within them.

In one online forum, posts multiplied at a furious pace.

“Damn it, they want us to hand over our souls... I don’t even know what that means, but at worst it’s death. And yet they still want our land too!”

“The land our people of Great Xia have lived on for generations, the homeland our ancestors bled for, the home countless generations built with their own hands!”

“Divine realm... I don’t know exactly what that means, but our homeland will never become their divine realm! This land has only one name, and that name is Great Xia!”

“This is invasion!”

“No, it doesn’t even count as invasion! Back then, the Turtlefield Nation at least treated us as enemies. They at least fought us properly! They declared war!”

“But those gods are simply ordering us to kneel, ordering us to surrender our land and our souls!”

“In their eyes, do we not even count as enemies? Do we not even have the power to resist them?”

“They never regarded us as enemies at all. This is... an indifference from the heart, the belief that this is only right and natural!”

Such indifference.

It was like the way people look at pigs in a pen, thinking it only natural to slaughter them for meat.

And now.

Had humanity itself become the pigs waiting to be butchered in the gods’ eyes?

“Go to war!”

“Now I finally understand why Chief Commander Lin became the chief commander. He was right, and the preparations he made were right too!”

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“Go to war! What is there for Great Xia to fear in battle!”

“Damn it, they actually see us as pigs, see Great Xia as their pigsty... I’m going to sign up and enlist, and fight the gods!”

“I’m enlisting too. I want to ask the gods face to face whether we are really pigs. I want to see if they will still be so indifferent when I put a blade to their throat!”

The whole of Great Xia was ablaze with fury.

Even the number of people signing up for military service surpassed what it had been when Lin Fan and the army had campaigned so heavily before.

The people of Great Xia did indeed enjoy comfort and, at times, liked to avoid hardship.

But when a true enemy appeared, when true danger descended,

the people of Great Xia had never lacked the courage to step forward, nor the resolve to fight for their country.

This was the inheritance of five thousand years, what this land had taught them.

In the office of the head of state, Lin Fan stood there somewhat nervously.

The head of state sat in a rosewood chair, the old man seeming a little reproachful as he said softly, “Your performance at that press conference was a little too rash...”

“Yes.” Lin Fan nodded. “I couldn’t quite control myself. In the end I directly declared war, and my tone became hard. But the words in the dialogue draft were far too soft; they could not express my anger. As for my impulsive decision to unilaterally declare war on the gods on behalf of Great Xia...”

“Heh, I wasn’t saying you did badly.” The old man smiled and slowly lifted his head. “Perhaps I really am old. I’ve become more smooth in the way I handle things, and along with that, even the national spirit of Great Xia has become gentler.”

“But when I saw you at that moment, I suddenly realized that Great Xia... still has backbone!”

“Lin Fan, you did very well!”

“Our sons of Great Xia have never lacked the courage for war! Since you have declared war on the gods, Great Xia will be your backing!”

“Then fight!”

And just then, the door was suddenly pushed open.

Chen Yan, wearing a white lab coat, looked somewhat grim as he hurried in with a thick stack of analysis reports, gasping for breath. “Head of state, Chief Commander Lin... the situation is not looking good.”

“What happened?” The head of state frowned.

Chen Yan tremblingly set the reports on the desk and, pointing at the charts and formulae, explained, “Earlier, Chief Commander Lin told me that the difference between each plane, that is, between each world, lies in the difference in fundamental frequency.”

“And because of that difference, countless planes can coexist, including the divine realm.”

“It was on the basis of that theory that I developed the instrument for communicating with the gods, converting our voices into the frequency of the divine realm so that we could speak with them.”

“Mm.” The old head of state nodded, showing that he understood.

“Lin Fan also said that in the early stages of the gods’ invasion, it was less about breaking through the plane barrier and more about invading the fundamental frequency of our Blue Star. Originally, according to our estimates and observations, they still needed two and a half months before they could complete the invasion and open the plane barrier...” Elder Chen’s face turned extremely ugly. “But because of our exchange with the gods just now, they instead sensed the fundamental frequency of our plane, and the cracks in the plane barrier widened...”

“In other words,”

“The speed at which they break through will increase drastically!”

“How much time do we have!” Lin Fan said at once.

Chen Yan’s voice was trembling. “According to our estimates... at most half a month!”