Chapter 620: The Invaders
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Sheila knew how dangerous this dark-haired young man who looked harmless in front of her was, so she said in a hurry in a whisper, “Things are not as simple as you think, Lisheng, let’s talk upstairs.”
“Looks like I won’t be able to get through your mind for the time being.” Zhang Lisheng shrugged and smiled. “But it’s alright. It’s just a group of nasty ‘bugs’ only anyway. It doesn’t matter whether I crush them or not if they know how to walk away from me.”
Zhang Lisheng walked up to Sheila and followed her to the stairs hidden behind the column in the bar.
At a distance of more than ten steps, the young men and women in the room who did not even realize that they had escaped from their death glared and made fierce expressions towards Zhang Lisheng, but no one dared to block Sheila’s path.
Just like this, the two walked up to the second floor of the bar along the manor-style solid wood stairs and stepped on the uneven cracked floor as they turned right in the corridor illuminated by only two dim ceiling lights, before walking into a fairly clean room.
This should be the largest and most luxurious private room in the bar. A circle of leather sofas that could fit 20 to 30 people without being crowded were lined against the wall while the silver projection screen opposite the sofas almost occupied the entire wall, leaving only one small s.p.a.ce in the corner that was used to place a huge refrigerator dedicated to storing alcohols.
Shelia turned on the bright beige crystal lamp on the ceiling, and walked up to the refrigerator as she asked, “What do you want to drink? tea, coffee, cocoa? I have everything here except for c.o.ke.”
“Give me a gla.s.s of ice water if there’s no c.o.ke.” Zhang Lisheng went to the sofa and sat down. He looked at the duvet piled in the corner of the semi-square sofa and asked in astonishment, “Sheila, do you live here?”
“Yeah, this is my temporary residence.” The girl walked up to the young man with half a gla.s.s of cold mineral water. After handing it to him, she suddenly looked into his eyes and asked, “Lisheng do you hate me?”
“Huh?” Zhang Lisheng was startled. After a period of silence, he replied with a bitter smile, “Sheila, when we come down to that matter, it’s me who’s at wrong. I have no reason to blame you.”
“But I told Tina what happened between you and Trish in a spur of emotions and caused an irreversible result. Do you know? Because of this, Uncle Douglin was so mad that he almost had a stroke. When the foreign world army invaded the world and the key profitable industry of your LS Group, the slaughterhouses built in the top ten cities of the nation, continued to lose money, he actually maliciously sold the group’s stock in dump… I-I’ve underestimated the impulse of a father. Uncle Douglin used to be so meticulous in every decision-making but I can’t believe that he would actually be willing to lose billions of dollars to drag LS into h.e.l.l even if he earned himself infamy…”
The reason the slaughterhouse that Zhang Lisheng started from scratch could develop into a large-scale commercial group with a daily income of million dollars in just a few years was because of the unique dietary habits of Westerners and the strict environmental protection laws of the federal government.
After the Earth had fallen into a global war, food became scarce. The internal organs and blood that were regarded as inedible and were supposed to be discarded by most of the US citizens suddenly became rare and delicious food. The government’s attention had also completely turned to the military field and so it was entirely conceivable for the slaughter industry to decline.
In this case, if the operator had been conservative and laid off the slaughterhouse’s staffs in a timely manner, LS Group might still have been able to rely on the funds acc.u.mulated in previous years and the safety of the workshop in Noah World to survive the crisis, despite a significant drop in the revenue. However, the group was ambitiously expanding at this moment and had made a huge initial investment in the comprehensive entertainment industry so it was still at the stage of debt management. The bad chain reaction caused by the malicious dumping of the company’s stock by the second largest shareholder at such a delicate time would naturally go without saying.
However, to the Wizard Li G.o.d who had already occupied half of the foreign world, the property he had in the mother world was no longer important. He casually interrupted Sheila’s words, “Sheila, I’ve said long ago that my foundation is no longer on Earth. Even though the LS Group is still useful to me, it is not a big deal for me if I lose it too. What’s more important is, how is Tina now?”
“Ever since I’ve told Tina about your affair with Trish over a year ago, there’s no more news from her. According to Uncle Douglin, she suffered a great deal of psychological impact and is living in seclusion now, completely refusing to see everyone!” Sheila was stunned for a while before answering with great difficulty.
“Affair? No, Trish and I are…” Zhang Lisheng became defensive angrily but found out that he could not refute it at all. After a long moment of silence, he shook his head and replied bitterly, “You can say however you like. I deserve it no matter how unpleasant it is. I deserve it…”
The young man’s voice became lower and lower and finally turned into a melancholic sigh. After that, the room fell into a solemn silence and about seven to eight minutes later, Sheila finally said with difficulty, “I’m also to be blamed for this matter. I became completely crazy those few days. Lisheng, perhaps you should meet Uncle Douglin and asked him where is Tina living now.”
“Me meeting Tina’s father?” Zhang Lisheng shook his head with a wry smile. “What reason should I say then? ‘I’m sorry I’ve hurt your most cherished daughter and turned a happy girl into a woman living as a recluse, and now I wish to see her again to apologize to her?’ Do you think he would see me like this?”
“Of course he won’t if you put it in that way…” Sheila thought for a while and her eyes suddenly lit up. “Even though the LS Group is in a very difficult situation now, it still persists on and is not bankrupt yet. You can use your business as an excuse to meet Uncle Douglin! Once you meet him face to face, there’d be room for relaxing the tension already…”
Just as how Zhang Lisheng was cruel and sly when he was in the face of the enemy, he was indecisive too when it came to this love matter between men and women. From the bottom of his heart, he did not know how to face Tina at all; nor how to make a decision when Trish was inevitably mentioned if he managed to see his girlfriend. For this reason, he subconsciously felt that it would be better to just let things run its course naturally like this.
A disagreeing expression unwittingly appeared on his face.
Realizing that the young man did not take her suggestion to heart at all, Sheila who kept jabbering on felt her words became stuck on her throat at once with a loss of interest. At once, solemn silence was restored in the room.
“Ah f*ck it! I’m not gonna be involved in those messy matters of you guys! And I don’t want to be involved too! Just let it be! I just hope that Tina, Trish, and I will one day reconnect and reconcile, and remain best friends and s-sisters…” After a long while, Sheila complained incoherently in agitation but her voice gradually became softer. In the end, she even started to choke on her sobs and wept.
Zhang Lisheng could not understand the girl’s inexplicable out-of-control emotions so he could only keep silent. A few minutes later, Sheila finally stopped crying and asked, “Alright, Lisheng, didn’t you say you have somethings to ask me just now? Just ask away.”
The young man was slightly taken aback by the girl’s sudden change of topic. After snapping back to his senses, he asked, “Sheila, I left the Earth last Fall so can you tell me directly what happened on Earth this time for more than one year?”
“I’ll start from the beginning. Before Christmas last December, an unknown guy on the Internet nicknamed, ‘The All-Knowing One’ suddenly sent a several megabytes file claiming that he had developed a unique formula and had calculated that the foreign world civilization was about to launch a powerful attack on Earth. At that time, this post did not raise too much attention and those who occasionally saw it merely thought it was a joke. Of course, there were people who were bored on the internet so they decided to download this file. In the end, they actually found that it was indeed a file with thousands of pages of complicated formulas and instructions. The content that can be understood is like this, the average land area of the 1000 foreign worlds was calculated out based on the area of the Earth and the area of more than 150 different worlds that have been probed, and the ratio of each ‘world’ ocean. Then, based on the description of the 1000 foreign world civilizations published by the Atlanteans on the Internet, he deduced the scope of activities of the living creatures, especially intelligent creatures, in the world and the possible att.i.tudes they had on Earth. Finally, by combining the size and geographical location of the gates of foreign worlds, he inferred that from January this year, the Earth would be constantly attacked by civilizations of other foreign worlds, and there would be an upward trend on the invading civilizations, before reaching its peak five years later. If Earth civilization is not destroyed by then, then it will gradually stabilize … ”
“What the h.e.l.l? I really don’t believe there can be such a guy on Earth who can predict the future based on just imagination and formulas…” Now that the situation of the Earthlings had become so bad, Zhang Lisheng knew that the inference made by ‘The All-Knowing One’ must have come true, so he could not help but blurt out in shock.
“Everyone had the same thought as you a year ago and didn’t believe that there would be such a guy in this world. The last sentence left by ‘The All-Knowing One’ on that post —’All of the mysteries in the universe is hidden behind the bold a.s.sumptions of mathematics and humans’—were regarded as a pretense joke.” Sheila continued in a hoa.r.s.e voice. “However, 23 days later, the G.o.ds of Shrimp World No. 1 suddenly crossed the world’s borders and destroyed all satellites in Earth orbit, turning each of the military base into an isolated island, turning the most advanced fighters and wars.h.i.+ps on Earth into mute and blind, and caused the Earth to lose more than 80% of her most advanced armed forces at once. At the same time, the countries in Shrimp World No. 1 also launched a fierce offensive against the federally occupied territories, taking only two days’ time to drive the forces from Earth out of their own world, before finally invading the Earth on a large scale…
“What about the Atlanteans? Did they do nothing at that time?”
“They rejected the federal request for help and watched the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Earth fighters and civilians stationed and migrated in the foreign world while doing nothing with the reason that they had also suffered a devastating blow from the destruction of the ‘light satellite system’ they deployed in Earth orbit. At the end, when the Tuen invaded in February, these aliens suffered retribution and their entire fleet guarding the s.p.a.ce door was annihilated…” Sheila replied fiercely.
“One in January and two in another month’s time? How many civilizations from the foreign worlds have invaded the Earth now?” Zhang Lisheng asked with a frown.
“Only four. Other than the Tuen people, the other three are our ‘old friends’. The monster civilization Equila that has once captured the entire j.a.pan, the Karlado who forced the South African government to compromise last time, and the mythical civilization of the Shrimp World No. 1…”