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Chapter 170: The Line He Won't Cross
"Chief Tang, you have to fix this for me." Ethan sat perfectly straight, deadpan. "He came straight onto the academy grounds."Tang rubbed the bridge of his nose. "By your account, someone in the network department is compromised. I've already started an investigation."Ethan sat back and waited.It didn't take long. Guohua's mole in the network center had been senior—he'd been the one who leaked Ethan's file in the first place. But the moment Guohua walked out of Ethan's dorm with what he wanted, the mole ran. He was probably already back at Blood Fiend's hidden base out in the wilderness.Blood Fiend wasn't in any Walled City. It was buried out in the wilds. Finding it was a job, and it would cost soldiers.Tang waved everyone else out of the room. "What did he say to you?"The officers filed out fast. Whatever Guohua Tang had done, it was clearly not something the whole command wanted repeated in front of the room.He could see Ethan hadn't been harmed. If Guohua had made trouble,
Chapter 169: A Deal With Blood Fiend
"My terms are simple." Ethan didn't look away. "No matter what, you never stand against the Chinese Federation.""You already know what's coming. Aliens are about to hit Earth. When they do, I want you and your people on our side, holding the line. I'll supply the tempering manual, the marrow-washing liquid, and a batch of high-grade healing pills—free." He kept his eyes on Guohua, reading every flicker of a reaction.He was gambling. He bet that Guohua wasn't as rotten as he pretended. If the man also wanted Earth to survive, they could work together. What did it matter what crimes he'd committed before? In a fallen world, who kept their hands clean?"Why the hell would I agree?" Guohua sneered."You'll want what I have." Ethan pulled a porcelain bottle from his personal space and tossed it across. "See for yourself."Guohua caught it. He cracked the seal. The aroma rolled out, rich and warm, and his own blood seemed to wake under his skin. He held the bottle and said nothing."Cut y
Chapter 168: Terms for the Devil
"You know that." The man went still. "Impossible. The Tang twins were a state secret. How—? The academy couldn't possibly—" He cut himself off. His face darkened.Ethan let it sit. "Does that surprise you? Your existence is a known hazard to the Federation. The Tang family can hide you from most people, but not everyone. Someone has always known how to erase you without hurting Tang. As it happens, that person left the method at the academy." He smiled. "And I happen to read. It cost me a lot of credits, but who cares—I'm rich. I've read nearly every book in the academy library.""Guohua Tang. Did I get it right? What are you actually here for?"He watched the man across the table, steady.Guohua's face was ugly. "You know too much. So what if you have a method? You're weak. You think you can kill me?" He almost laughed. "I shouldn't have talked this much. One of my underlings keeps telling me villains die because they talk too much. I thought he was just timid. Turns out he's got a p
Chapter 167: The Red-Haired Man on His Sofa
Tang stared. That price was obviously a loss. He didn't need to know the ingredients to know a bottle couldn't cost ten thousand.But Ethan had said it like it was nothing. He wanted everyone in the Federation to afford it. He wanted the whole country to enter the age of national body-tempering.Something moved in Tang's face. He didn't say it. He just clapped Ethan's shoulder. "What you've done for the Federation, we all see it. Rest easy. No one forgets the people who carry the nation."Ethan's skin crawled. He couldn't do solemn speeches. "Don't. It's not that big a thing.""To you it isn't. To us it's everything. Survival. The difference between the nation standing and the nation ending." Tang shook his head, smiling. "I'll distribute the manual. We'll rename it—the Star Body-Tempering Method. Your name goes on it. Your name will end up in the textbooks of the Federation, Ethan. The country doesn't forget those who keep it breathing."Ethan didn't know what to say. Tang had made u
Chapter 166: The Seed Fire Plan
"Even with the full defense set, we plan for the worst." Tang's voice was heavy. "If the monster army does break through and we can't hold, we still leave a last spark for Earth. As long as something lives, there's hope. We have to save a generation of young people. We have to let hope survive.""So we built the Seed Fire Plan. If Earth truly can't be held, we send a group of the most promising young people—and a cohort of the Federation's children—off-planet ahead of time, to find somewhere new to live."His face was grave. He'd already steeled himself for the worst case.Ethan opened his mouth, then closed it. If that day came, preserving a spark was the right call.In recent years, Earth's military power had exploded. So had its technology. Scientists were a Class too, and the Federation had plenty of them—some SSS-rank. The research institutes they'd built had already produced interstellar ships. They'd run scout missions decades ago.No habitable planet had turned up in nearby sy
Chapter 165: Every Nation but Ours
"I never thought," Xiao Chang said, staring at the distant chaos, "that humanity's crisis would end up resting on a flock of chickens." His voice was complicated.After three-plus months of searching, every survivor scattered across the battlefield had been brought home.Of the theater commanders, three still breathed—Xiao Chang in the Southeast, plus the Northeast and Northwest commanders. Linqing Fu, the central commander, had been found half-dead; if the Federation's best healer hadn't been at his side, he'd have been a corpse. But his injuries were the kind a single Nine-Turn Golden Pill fixed. After one of Ethan's pills, he was moving like a young man again.Beyond the three commanders, seven deputy commanders survived. All survivors together came to roughly three point six million.The room went quiet at the number. Over fifty million soldiers had gone into that battlefield. Barely a tenth came back. For the whole Chinese Federation, it was a
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