Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 197: Prejudice is hard to shake

At the X-WORD company headquarters in the Linghu Building, Linghu Guang paced back and forth in his sister Linghu Ying's office, constantly trying to call Zhou Yuan on his cell phone, but the phone was switched off.

"Brother, can you sit down for a while? You're making me dizzy from walking around like this."

"Hey sis, what's going on? Zhou Yuan's cell phone is off, and I can't get through to his landline either, it's always busy."

"Why don't we go and take a look? Zhou Yuan, I miss him so much."

“Don’t you know how congested the roads are outside the city? We need to borrow a helicopter from Dad.”

"That's pretty much it."

"Little sister, why don't you call Dad and ask him to lend you the helicopter? Just say you have something important to do outside the city." Linghu Guang knew that his father wouldn't lend him the helicopter. His father doted on his sister, and as long as Linghu Ying asked, his father would basically agree.

Linghu Ying hesitated for a moment, then said, "Brother, I want to go with you to find Zhou Yuan, otherwise I won't make the call."

"Okay, okay, sister, please make the call quickly, I'm begging you."

Linghu Ying chuckled, took out her phone, and dialed a number.

"Brother, it's all set. The helicopter will be here in twenty minutes. Uncle Luo will fly it over himself."

"Uncle Luo came in person?"

"Ah."

Uncle Luo was my father's old subordinate. My father had saved Uncle Luo's life on the battlefield, and after retiring from the army, Uncle Luo stayed with my father. My father used his connections with his comrades and superiors to run military businesses. Uncle Luo and his wife had no children. My father was very busy, so Linghu Guang and his sister were basically raised by Uncle Luo and his wife. Uncle Luo and his wife had a deep affection for Linghu Guang and his sister, treating them as their own children. Of course, my father was also very good to Uncle Luo. He had previously entrusted him with an important position in the company, but Uncle Luo later felt he was getting old and relinquished his position to younger people. In his spare time, he would fly the helicopter for my father, and spend the rest of his time traveling with his wife, living a happy life.

"Hey sis, how's your foot?"

"That's almost done. It's a small matter. What will I do if I can't see Zhou Yuan?"

"Sis, you're not really...?"

"What do you mean by real or fake? This time I'm determined to win him over."

"Little sister, you're amazing."

The brother and sister chatted for a while, and time passed quickly.

Uncle Luo called Linghu Guang to say the helicopter had arrived. Linghu Guang and Linghu Ying boarded the helicopter and greeted Uncle Luo. The helicopter took off and flew towards the location of GenAI Company.

On the road out of the city, vehicles were lined up one after another, still moving slowly. Linghu Guang looked down at the long line of cars from the helicopter, filled with mixed emotions.

Linghu Guang and Linghu Ying suddenly swayed as the helicopter made a sharp turn. "Uncle Luo, what's wrong?"

"Young master, look ahead."

Linghu Guang and Linghu Ying looked ahead, and what they saw terrified them.

Ahead of the helicopter, the sky seemed to have been ripped open, the hole growing larger and larger until it plunged into complete darkness. This dark area expanded further, and to the side, black and white lines intersected, forming a curved black line that was slowly moving. Linghu Guang looked down at the ground, where a massive shadow loomed. This was clearly a gigantic object.

"Dude, an alien warship?"

"Why didn't we hear that booming thunder when the warships appeared?"

"Young Master, what should we do? Should we still go?"

"go."

The helicopter continued flying forward.

On the ground, the crowd was in chaos. The long line of cars that had just caused the traffic jam was now broken up as people got out of their vehicles and fled into the city through the gaps between the cars. Linghu Guang could hear sharp screams and car horns.

A tall building could be vaguely seen in front of the helicopter. Linghu Guang knew that the tall building was the GenAI company building, and he was overjoyed.

Linghu Guang could no longer see the white sky; the ground was shrouded in shadow.

Suddenly, a blinding beam of light shot straight down from ahead, and the GenAI company building exploded instantly, emitting a huge burst of flames that illuminated the sky ahead.

Linghu Guang and Linghu Ying were stunned.

The two realized what had happened, and Linghu Ying suddenly covered her mouth, unable to believe it.

The helicopter made an arc and began to fly back.

Linghu Guang and Linghu Ying were terrified once again. Dozens of laser beams rained down from the sky in front of the helicopter, directly destroying buildings on the ground. Relying on his sense of direction and the surrounding landmarks, Linghu Guang realized that these destroyed buildings were all home to high-tech companies. The Linghu Building was also engulfed in flames. The capital city was already in complete chaos.

Fighter jets and armed helicopters in the sky fell to the ground like kites with broken strings, crashing into buildings or the ground and exploding violently, billowing thick smoke.

The helicopter was also teetering on the brink of collapse, so Uncle Luo simply turned off the helicopter's electronic equipment.

Linghu Guang took out his phone and made calls. He dialed several numbers, but all he heard was a buzzing or crackling sound.

The helicopter was falling faster and faster. "Young master, young lady, quickly use the rope ladder. There's a building ahead. Use the rope ladder to jump to the top of the building. Make sure you roll when you jump. Hurry."

Linghu Guang and Linghu Ying quickly lowered the rope ladder. Linghu Ying held on tightly and slowly descended the ladder, while Linghu Guang followed behind her. The rope ladder carried the two of them as the helicopter began to tilt, getting lower and lower, and getting closer and closer to a building.

Uncle Luo had already arrived at the main cabin. He opened the helicopter door, saw that the rope ladder wasn't far from the top of the building, and shouted to the two of them, "Jump!"

Linghu Ying and Linghu Guang jumped down one after the other, using the momentum to roll over. After the two jumped down, Uncle Luo quickly went down the ladder, then jumped down, using the momentum to roll over as well. The rope ladder grazed Uncle Luo's body as the helicopter flew over the building and crashed violently to the other side, disappearing from sight. Then a loud bang was heard.

Linghu Guang took out his phone and dialed several times, but there was no signal. Linghu Guang looked up at the sky, where the dark, giant warship had covered the entire sky. Dozens of points on the warship's hull were firing intense laser beams, simultaneously destroying many targets on the ground.

Uncle Luo stood up and walked over to Linghu Guang and Linghu Ying. Linghu Ying's foot seemed to have flared up from an old injury. Linghu Guang was still dialing his cell phone, but there was no signal, and the same thing happened with Linghu Ying's phone.

"Young Master, there's no need to make any more calls. Communications are down, and the satellites in the sky have probably all been destroyed." Uncle Luo, being a veteran, knew about electronic warfare tactics.

If the satellite is destroyed, how will those missiles locate their targets? They'll be completely blind. Furthermore, the aliens used some kind of electromagnetic weapon, causing all human electronic devices to malfunction. No wonder this giant warship didn't encounter a single decent counterattack when it appeared.

The three looked around. The city was like a living hell, with fires and smoke everywhere, and air raid sirens blaring through the sky and throughout the city.

"Young master, young lady, let's hurry downstairs," Uncle Luo urged.

Linghu Guang helped Linghu Ying and followed behind Uncle Luo into the building. They went down one floor, and Uncle Luo had already pressed the elevator button, but the elevator just wouldn't come up. In this high-rise building, everyone wanted to escape, and the elevator was already full and crowded. Even on the stairs, the noisy thumping footsteps could be heard.

Uncle Luo glanced at Linghu Guang and Linghu Ying, "Young Master, we probably can't count on the elevator. This building has 58 floors. Let's walk downstairs."

Linghu Guang nodded, and Uncle Luo came over, put his arm around Linghu Ying's shoulder, and the two of them carefully helped Linghu Ying down the stairs.

The three walked and rested intermittently. When they reached the lower floors, the staircase became increasingly crowded. Because the two men had to make way, they couldn't simultaneously support Linghu Ying on either side, so Uncle Luo carried her on his back. Linghu Guang, watching Uncle Luo's hunched posture, couldn't help but feel tears welling up in his eyes.

When Uncle Luo carried Linghu Ying to the lobby on the first floor, he was drenched in sweat. Linghu Ying took a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from Uncle Luo's face.

The entire building seemed to have been emptied of people. Horns blared from the street, and many people ran towards the sound. Uncle Luo peeked out and saw six or seven armored vehicles and forty or fifty armed soldiers managing the frightened crowd some distance ahead.

Uncle Luo and Linghu Guang helped Linghu Ying out of the building and followed the crowd toward the armed soldiers.

The entire street was filled with panicked people, their faces etched with fear as they stared at the sky.

In the sky, a large number of round, saucer-shaped aircraft flew out from the warship mothership. Accompanying these saucers was a dark mass of black mechanical scorpions pouring out from another part of the mothership. After the mechanical scorpions came many robots, and after the robots, two-legged mechs landed. The two arms of those mechs were machine guns and cannons.

The flying saucers and mechanical scorpions began to scatter in batches towards the capital city, while the bipedal mechs opened fire immediately upon landing.

Missiles launched from several mechs streaked across the sky, heading towards the six or seven armored vehicles and soldiers. People scrambled to turn around and flee for their lives, but the crowd was too large, and everyone pushed and shoved each other as they moved forward. When Uncle Luo saw the mechs land, he knew the situation was dire and had already turned around with Linghu Guang and his sister. The three of them returned to the building and ran towards the basement.

There were already eleven or twelve people in the basement of the building. They appeared to be three families. Two young girls helped Linghu Ying sit down.

A middle-aged man carrying a first-aid kit helped Linghu Ying bandage her wounds.

Suddenly, a woman covered her mouth with her finger and hissed, and everyone's heart sank, falling completely silent. Sure enough, above them came a series of heavy "footsteps" as if metal were hitting the ground, and everyone held their breath, not daring to make a sound.

Three or four minutes later, the "footsteps" of these metal impacts on the ground grew closer and closer, and everyone's heart was pounding. They could now hear the footsteps of the mechs descending the steps.

Seeing that the three men's hands were trembling slightly as they held the iron rods, Uncle Luo pulled Linghu Guang in front of them to block them. The two of them also held iron rods and assumed a fighting stance.

The footsteps of the mechs grew louder and louder, and the three mothers told their five children to close their eyes.

Suddenly, several bursts of heavy machine gun fire came from not far away, followed by the sound of metal hitting the ground, then two more metal impacts, and finally silence.

With a whoosh, everyone was startled when a figure flashed before their eyes, and the three men took a step back. Uncle Luo reacted quickly, swinging his iron rod, but the rod missed. The figure was already behind Uncle Luo, whose hands were now tied behind his back. Uncle Luo felt that this person was incredibly strong, and no matter how much he struggled, he couldn't break free. His legs were also pinned down by the other person's legs.

"Gentlemen, I apologize for the offense." The man released Uncle Luo and retreated to the wall. He was young but rather thin.

"Who are you?" Linghu Guang looked at him in surprise.

"Hello everyone, my name is Dorley."

What happened outside just now?

"I took down the two robots and the mech outside."

"Huh?" Everyone exclaimed in surprise. Uncle Luo looked Dore up and down. "You are...you are a superhuman?"

"Yes."

The five children quickly snuggled into their mothers' arms.

"Children, don't be afraid, I won't hurt you. Everyone, you should already know that the superhumans and you have joined forces to fight against the Martians. We are partners now." Dore looked completely innocent, trying his best not to face the children.

Although the Gust government announced cooperation between superhumans and humans, the deep-seated fear and prejudice of ordinary people towards superhumans will not disappear so easily.