Chapter 526: You are Just a Poor Guy That’s Afraid of Death (Part One)
Xu Cheng looked at Hawking and said, “Now, you are basically free to leave the M Nation and directly go back to the UK. I told you, I won’t force you.”
Then, he turned around and walked away.
There was no hesitation at all. Li Wei followed him, and the two of them just left.
Hawking just watched as they left, feeling that this man was so difficult to read.
When they reached the door, Hawking suddenly shouted, “Shouldn’t we talk a bit? I feel like if you want to ask me to join, you should at least act like you want me to do you a favor. Your subordinate told me that we can’t live our lives in vain.”
Xu Cheng stopped in his tracks, turned around, and slowly walked over. As he walked, he said, “If you are talking about the person behind me, then you got it wrong. He’s not my henchman, he’s my bro. I wouldn’t leave my back open to my subordinate.”
Li Wei felt very touched upon hearing this. This was also why he was willing to leave the Dragon Division with Luo Yi to follow Xu Cheng wherever he went.
“You are a soldier?” seeing Xu Cheng walking back over, Hawking asked.
“I was, but not anymore.” Xu Cheng sat down in front of Hawking and said frankly, “I’m now fighting for myself.”
“Mercenary?” Hawking frowned.
Xu Cheng nodded. “You can say that. But, we aren’t mercenaries trying to make a living. We are different.”
Hawking asked, “What’s the difference.”
Xu Cheng: “In comparison to traditional mercenaries, we are more ambitious.”
Hawking laughed out. “What is your ambition? What your brother told me earlier indeed made me think a bit. I’m not young anymore, but to be honest, I might’ve been infected by the madness of you youngsters. Unfortunately, old people like me can’t just go nuts and crazily chase after some dream anymore. I can work together with you guys, but I want you to convince me. If you are just mercenaries who want to cause terror and make me build weapons for you guys to disrupt this peaceful world, then I won’t cooperate with you guys.”
“Peaceful world?” Xu Cheng sneered. “Didn’t I just hear about the U.K. voting to leave Europe? Is that peace too?”
Hawking awkwardly smiled bitterly.
Xu Cheng said solemnly, “We want to create a home!”
Hawking: “You don’t have one already?”
Xu Cheng: “And this home’s place is called the Land of Mercenaries.”
Hawking’s eyes immediately narrowed. “You guys want to unify that land into a nation?!”
Xu Cheng nodded. “Do you think it’s possible?”
Hawking looked at Xu Cheng, and then he looked at Li Wei. Then, he snorted, “Just with you guys?”
Xu Cheng: “More and more people will join us in the future. I hope you can also join us, and help us develop quantum weapons. It won’t be for other reasons, but just when we unify the Land of Mercenaries, we can announce to the world, that we aren’t afraid of nukes because we have quantum weapons that are no less powerful than atomic bombs!”
Hawking laughed. He laughed with ridicule. He stood up as he kept on shaking his head in disappointment. “I thought you guys just wanted to make a little fuss and at most get me to develop some weapons for you, but I didn’t expect you to want me to develop something to rival nuclear technology. You guys are too naive. This level of technology cannot be controlled in the hands of you guys. Both of you combined together aren’t even older than me, do you guys know what a nuclear weapon is? Have you seen how merciless it is? Let me tell you, not to mention successfully developing it, even if you are in the process of developing it and testing it, it would be detected by satellites. You guys can’t hide it at all. By then, I will become the common enemy of the world and have a bounty on my head. Who’s going to protect me then? At this point, I rather trust the British government, because in front of actual nations, you guys are really nothing.”
Chapter 526: You are Just a Poor Guy That’s Afraid of Death (Part Two)
Xu Cheng mocked his att.i.tude and refusal and said, “To be blunt, you are just scared that your own safety can’t be guaranteed. For you, experiments are not as important as your life, right? This is why you rather live like a vegetable on a wheelchair then kill yourself because, in fact, you are scared of death! People say you are a great scientist, but in comparison to the actual madmen that love science, you are nothing. G.o.d gave you a great brain, yet you would rather let it go to waste instead of bringing great change to this world. You understand too little of us. We are madmen, but not the brainless type. As the saying goes, there’s only one thin line separating geniuses from madmen, and that is common sense. And you are a pseudo-genius because you aren’t crazy enough to chase after a dream when you have what it takes. If I were you, since I discovered quantum physics, then I will perfect it!”
Hawking looked at Xu Cheng furiously. “Have you said enough? I didn’t change the world? Then why do people compare me to Einstein? My greatness doesn’t need you to comment on it. If a person can’t even guarantee his own safety, then what dream can he chase after? You consistently mention ambition and dream, but in comparison to those organizations that dare to stand up against the M Nation, you guys are just rookies. Yet, those organizations all met their tragic ends, and you guys want to talk about dreams and accomplish what they couldn’t? Besides, are you the King of Mercenaries – Kush? If he were to come and find me to talk about this, then I might sit down and consider it. But, you are not! For the vast land that is the Land of Mercenaries, unifying it is even more difficult than bombing the White House to the ground! And to rule over it, it would be even harder than destroying the entire M Nation! Due to its geopolitical situation and oil reserves, this land has great strategic importance to all nations in the world, do you know that? Why doesn’t the entire world want this place to be unified? Because they can’t allow this place to become one and side with any country in the world!”
Hawking pointed at his brain and then looked at Xu Cheng. He sighed. “The brain is a good thing, I hope you guys have one and will treasure it. If you guys simply want the technology, I can teach you quantum physics. But, as for your grand blueprint, I’m sorry that I cannot daydream about this, nor do I dare to.”
Xu Cheng directly took out a gun from Li Wei’s waist.
“Big Brother Cheng, what are you doing?” He thought Xu Cheng was going to kill Hawking.
But, Xu Cheng wasn’t doing that.
He looked at Hawking and said, “In your eyes, what’s impossible? What’s daydreaming? In this world, there’s nothing impossible. I can even cure cancer, and you think I can’t achieve my grand dream? Then, do you think a person’s capable of catching a bullet?”
Hawking felt that this guy was going crazy. “The reason the gun is so feared by the ma.s.ses, is that no one can resist against it.”
Xu Cheng nodded. Then, he raised the gun and pointed it at the side of his head as he said to Hawking, “Then you should watch carefully.”
Then, he pulled the trigger.
Hawking’s eyes almost fell out and he felt his heart stop.
He thought that the bullet would penetrate Xu Cheng’s brain. He couldn’t accept that a living person would do something so crazy and terrifying for his so-called dream.
But!
At the instant the bullet popped out of the gun, Xu Cheng’s other hand flashed before the side of his head, so fast that it arrived before the bullet could reach his head. Then, upon impact, he caught the bullet.
He tossed the bullet to Hawking and mockingly said to him, “Maybe one day, guns would fall out of popularity. Say, if other people all end up becoming like me, wouldn’t we be able to not ban guns anymore?”
Hawking looked at him dumbfoundedly, his breathing became so heavy that his chest began going up and down.
That wasn’t enough. Xu Cheng then pointed the gun at his forehead.
In front of Hawking, he suddenly pulled the trigger.
Following the loud bam, his tortoisesh.e.l.l patterns appeared, directly repelling the bullet away as it fell in front of Hawking.