Dawn of a New Era-Chapter 444 - 418

In the evening, Chen Shouyi still practiced all night.

But it was all in vain.

The limits of the human body are obviously not easily shaken.

On the second day of order rebuilding, a few soldiers came to his door.

...

Seven or eight trucks, carrying a large number of civilian martial artists, slowly drove toward the old city district.

Chen Shouyi sat in his seat, closing his eyes to rest.

According to information obtained from the military, large groups of Barbarians had begun to withdraw towards Pingzhou these days, but there were still quite a few Barbarians, wandering in every corner of Hedong.

The possible reasons were laughable.

Poor communication and... they got lost!

The city was too big, even modern people, arriving in a strange city, could not find their direction, let alone Barbarians who had never seen such a huge and complex modern city.

The towering buildings blocking the view.

Countless roads.

Simply like an incomprehensibly complex maze.

Lost within, just walking a bit further, one could be completely unaware of their location.

...

The truck was silent, everyone was like a cicada in winter, no one spoke.

The presence of Chen Shouyi was like a low pressure, making the atmosphere here oppressive, especially when he closed his eyes to rest, no one dared to make a sound to disturb him.

To the martial artists here, the presence of a Martial Artist was almost god-like, inspiring awe.

Chen Shouyi hadn’t slept for two full days and nights.

Yet, with his constitution, he didn’t feel much fatigue, closing his eyes just because he was too lazy to speak.

The martial artists here, most of them were newly promoted.

Chen Shouyi didn’t recognize any of them, and rather than awkwardly making eye contact without anything to say, it was better to keep his eyes closed.

The truck drove smoothly for half an hour.

He opened his eyes, and in the distance, he could already hear sporadic gunfire.

He looked out the window; the ground was a mess, abandoned luggage, clothes, and some corpses frozen by snow and ice in various horrific and strange poses were everywhere, including civilians, Barbarians, and more soldiers.

He glanced around, with little ripple in his heart.

These days, he had seen too much of this scene!

Seen so much he’s numbed!

Got so used to it!

Even in the Safe Zone, had they not cleared out the corpses in the past few days, it would have been even more shocking.

War is always accompanied by death.

Human lives become like weeds!

The truck continued for another ten minutes and finally stopped.

A colonel stepped forward to conduct the handover, all martial artists were assigned to the encirclement and suppression team.

This time the military was very cautious, not the slightest reckless battle, even not dispatching many ordinary soldiers, but concentrated military martial artists and civilian martial artists to search and clear block by block!

If it were a year ago, relying on martial artists to slowly advance like this, wanting to retake the whole city would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

At that time, both the military and civilian martial artists were pitifully few.

In the city of Hedong, with a population of ten million, the total number of civilian and military martial artists was only about a thousand, a ratio of one in ten thousand.

This is the provincial capital, and on average in the whole of Great Xia Country, only one in thirty thousand.

But now, with a year since the new edition of Thirty-Six Body Refinements was issued, the number of martial artists had exploded over tenfold, enough to form an entire army composed of martial artists.

Of course, a Martial Artist like Chen Shouyi naturally wouldn’t be used like ordinary martial artists; he had other places to be.

Accompanied by an officer.

Chen Shouyi and Qin Liuyuan, who was in another vehicle, walked to the rooftop of a building.

A tent was set up on top, and beside it were three helicopters.

Chen Shouyi noticed that the helicopters had already started warming up, with pilots seated inside, obviously ready to take off at any time and fly to various points for aid.

Chen Shouyi walked to the tent and found someone already inside.

It was a middle-aged man in combat uniform, with the rank of Major General.

"Chief, let me introduce you, this is President Chen Shouyi, and this is General Manager Qin Liuyuan, both are civilian martial artists from Jiangnan Province." The accompanying officer introduced.

This middle-aged soldier immediately stood up, laughing warmly: "Hello, gentlemen, let me introduce myself, I’m Feng Hansong."

Chen Shouyi stepped forward to shake hands with him: "Hello, Major General Feng!"

"Just call me Lao Feng!" Feng Hansong said with a smile, not putting on any airs, for the rank of Major General held no significance to martial artists.

"Your name sounds a little familiar to me, I’m sure I’ve heard it somewhere before?"

Before Chen Shouyi could respond, Qin Liuyuan said with a smile: "President Chen has been on Everyone’s Daily!"

"Everyone’s Daily?" Feng Hansong puzzled, then remembered something, his expression stiffened, smiling wryly: "No wonder, turns out I couldn’t recognize Mount Tai, you are the second recipient of the Godslayer Medal!"

I said why you seemed familiar, didn’t realize such a big figure was hiding here!

Chen Shouyi felt a bit embarrassed: "Not at all, it was just luck."

Unexpected that his fame had become so great.

Ah, it seems maintaining a low profile will be impossible in the future!

"President Chen is too modest!" Feng Hansong said politely, instinctively also following Qin Liuyuan’s form of address: "Everyone, don’t just stand, please sit!"

Soon, orderlies brought up some tea.

After the orderlies left, Chen Shouyi asked: "How is the war going now?"

"Still stalemated, the war has mainly shifted to the Pingzhou region, the God of Hunting has been lurking near the spatial passage, never venturing out, with His power greatly amplified there. Several attempts to nuke were stopped when He used Divine Power to destroy the bombers along with the nuclear bombs!" Feng Hansong said gravely.

Chen Shouyi’s expression turned slightly grim.

Near the spatial passage was where Earth’s Original Force was most concentrated.

Before the mutation, as soon as he approached the spatial passage, his dormant talents started to awaken.

With the spatial passage, the God of Hunting obviously became even more terrifying.

Feng Hansong said: "Fortunately, the other side no longer dares to come out, and now occasionally we use nuclear artillery to deplete His power!"

"Nuclear artillery?" Chen Shouyi asked in surprise.

"A weapon we’ve developed recently, basically a nuclear bomb made into artillery shells, but still with considerable power, each shell has a yield of fifteen kilotons," Feng Hansong explained.

In fact, the Great Xia Country had always had nuclear cannons, but those were steam-launched for use in other worlds, such as the nuclear bombs on nuclear strategic airships. But a genuine gunpowder-fired nuclear cannon had never been developed.

This type of nuclear weapon platform, which was popular during the US-Soviet rivalry of the 50s and 60s, had long been not the direction of development for humans before the mutation. Missiles with longer range, more precision, faster speed, and automatic tracking were the mainstream of human development.

Until after the mutation, the impact of the Original Force and the downfall of civilization led to a renewed focus on artillery.

Having nothing else to do, Feng Hansong took a sip of water and continued chatting: "To speak of, the reason this war has gone so smoothly is really due to the death of that demigod giant bird!"

Qin Liuyuan listened, puzzled: "Demigod? Which one?"

He then looked at Chen Shouyi, seemingly seeking verification.

He knew about a terrifying giant bird, and had heard Chen Shouyi say it was killed by him, but he didn’t know if Feng Hansong was referring to the one Chen Shouyi killed!

If true, it’s too unbelievable!

Chen Shouyi took a sip of tea to hide his face.

Ah, it’s just a hollow reputation!

Feng Hansong looked at the two hesitantly, confused: "Are there a lot of giant birds? I’m not talking about the slow-moving black warbirds, just the one, the colorful one!"

"That giant bird was a demigod?" Qin Liuyuan asked, shocked.

"Yes, in the morning, a transport plane flew over Hedong to send the demigod’s body back to the Capital City!" Feng Hansong said, puzzled, wondering what was so worth asking about; of course, he knew if it was a demigod or not, he had even gone over to see it in the morning.

Chen Shouyi thought to himself, looks like Ye Zong and Luo Jingwen reported it as soon as they got back!

"President Chen, did you really kill that demigod?" Qin Liuyuan looked again at Chen Shouyi, couldn’t help but ask directly.

At this moment Feng Hansong picked up his teacup ready to drink, when he heard Qin Liuyuan’s question, he was dumbfounded, letting the boiling tea pour out from the cup, but still oblivious.

Chen Shouyi showed a hint of embarrassment, modestly said: "Just luck! Just luck!"

Then looked at Feng Hansong and kindly reminded: "Your water is spilling."

With a "pop".

The teacup shattered.

Feng Hansong immediately stood up, wiping the water stains on his crotch non-stop, his old face turning slightly red.

PS: Sorry, there’s only one Chapter today.