Chapter 363: Abnormalities
"Has the conflict escalated to this extent? Out of twenty thousand people, over a thousand are clearly displaying hostility."
Chen Bo glanced at the images transmitted by his subordinates. Among the nearly twenty thousand spectators at the scene, there were three hundred and seventy-six dense deep red dots and one thousand one hundred and twenty-seven light red dots. Five of these, marked by blue circles, were the subjects found to be abnormal.
"What's wrong?" Shi Hua Chong asked, frowning slightly, even as he continued fighting.
Their battle was merely a performative one; multitasking was not an issue at all. Their purpose was to unleash the power within their bodies in the most dazzling manner possible, putting on a show for the political figures.
"There are people below who intend to cause trouble in the venue." Through mental fluctuations, he received this message from Chen Bo.
"Such a minor matter, can't the garrison handle it?"
"These few individuals carry something far from simple, easily bypassing all inspections. They were only discovered because one of them, in a moment of panic, revealed a slight tell, so the decision was made to report it."
"Then let them die. They're just a bunch of outsiders." Utilizing his exceedingly formidable Martial Will, Shi Hua Chong immediately spotted the anomaly as he specifically looked towards the five individuals.
After entering a new tier, the information he could perceive became increasingly vast. He even forcibly read parts of the conversations held by a few individuals attempting to launch an attack, despite being protected by the Divine Power Network.
"Divine Oracle! We've been discovered, launch the attack immediately!" Ramdo, who was once of the six-tier level, though most of his power had dissipated and he couldn't prevent the intrusion, could still easily detect someone breaching the communication network he provided to his followers.
"Too slow." Both Chen Bo and Shi Hua Chong, watching the One-Wheel Cult devotees on the ground who had received the warning and were about to pull out scrolls from their bodies, could only offer this single evaluation.
Moving at nearly ten times the speed of sound, they descended from the battlefield thousands of meters high to the ground within two seconds. However, the storm they unleashed, under their marvelous and peerless control over qi, miraculously canceled each other out, minimizing the impact on the surroundings.
Nevertheless, almost all spectators within a twenty-meter radius, centered on the two of them, were still thrown far away by the immense kinetic energy.
"Trash is trash!" Before the few cult members could even open their scrolls, Teach's voice came from within them, and then several enormous masses of darkness began to spread, centered around the scrolls.
The first to be engulfed by the darkness were naturally the One-Wheel Cult members at the core. In death, their eyes still held shock and confusion; they had never imagined they were merely transporters, and that the scrolls' owner had never trusted them.
Or perhaps, it was the extremely arrogant Teach, who disdained to hand over his power to these stray dogs, and thus had merely attached a sliver of his will to them.
In Teach's eyes, the One-Wheel Cult, having lost Ramdo, was only fit to be his transport team.
Another second later, overwhelming power surged from both Chen Bo and Shi Hua Chong. The spectators who had already been thrown back were blasted even further away.
Naturally, this was also the two of them attempting to protect more civilians, trying their best to ensure they survived the aftermath.
Chen Bo, a former soldier, instinctively maintained a protective attitude towards the citizens of his country. On the other side, Shi Hua Chong could not turn a blind eye to his fellow Huaxians.
Facing this true enemy, who was very likely a powerhouse of the same tier, they unleashed their full strength. No one wanted to capsize due to carelessness by underestimating their opponent.
"Consider this a greeting." Two seconds after the world-shattering collision of power, the continuously expanding darkness abruptly vanished, leaving behind nothing but mangled, distorted balls of flesh on the ground.
Teach's darkness ability represented extreme compression. In those two seconds, he had used his power to compress nearly a hundred people covered by the darkness into fist-sized balls of flesh.
Once the immense external pressure was removed, these balls of flesh began to expand again, reverting into scattered flesh and bone, turning the area into a living hell.
"What is the reason for Teach, the King of Darkness, being here?" Chen Bo once again fell into contemplation.
Almost every powerhouse in this world, in the major countries, had detailed files on them. Teach, this formidable figure lurking in the United States, was naturally no exception.
Anyone who could bear the title "King of Darkness" would naturally not have a good personality. Extremely cruel, arrogant, racist, lacking a big-picture perspective... this series of evaluations could commonly be found in various files.
Not long after awakening his ability, he began massacring the surrounding minority ethnic groups without any reason. At that time, the United States, which had not yet begun its Color Revolution, had repeatedly attempted to kill him, but he had always escaped.
Eventually, the matter alarmed then-President Joseph Lee. Perhaps it was a resonance between two chauvinists, or perhaps it was due to other exchanges of interest. After Joseph Lee and the group behind him spent a huge price, found a scapegoat, and smoothed over all the incidents, Teach was secretly brought into the fold, becoming an important ally of Joseph Lee.
During the American civil war ten years ago, Chen Bo, who led a guerrilla regime fighting across various regions, had encountered Teach multiple times, leaving a huge scar that diagonally traversed his entire face.
Recalling the evaluations of this individual, Chen Bo began to fret again.
He was unsure whether this was a threatening warning from the United States to the increasingly powerful Huaxia Federation, or purely Teach's personal fit of madness, a provocative act in his home territory.
The former could lead to extremely severe consequences; no one wanted to see an internal war between humanity's two strongest powers unless it was the very last resort. As for the latter... the consequences were relatively less severe. After all, it was merely one person's madness and did not represent the will of the entire nation.
Power amplified the danger of every personality flaw in a powerful individual. Originally, things like regional discrimination and racial discrimination were something most people would have to some degree, but they would generally not react excessively, simply keeping such feelings to themselves.
But for a monster like Teach, making ordinary people into meat paste was no harder than crushing an ant. Over time, for him, killing a few people of other races felt no different from crushing a few ants.
In any case, in his eyes, whether they were Zergs or Huaxians, they were all abnormalities.
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