Chapter 1369: Villain's Declaration

【Audience Expectation +3】

【Current Expectation: 24%】

Pilot: ?????

The moment he saw that face, the pilot’s heart tightened, and an unprecedented fear flooded his mind!

He instinctively wanted to pull the ejection device, but in the next second, the figure slapped and shattered the thick special glass. Amidst a burst of shattering sounds, the roaring wind in his ears almost blew him away directly.

"You... what kind of monster are you!!" the pilot shouted in terror.

Chen Ling casually threw the finished instant noodles into the wind and glanced at the expectation value that had just increased slightly. It seemed he still felt this was too slow.

It’s rare to enter an Era Archive; he must find a way to earn as much expectation value as possible. Otherwise, returning to the Abyss of Ghostly Mockery would mean having no fun at all.

After a moment of thought, a good idea appeared in his mind. He looked at the pilot, then at the open radio channel, and that hideous, terrifying face slowly leaned in front of the pilot...

A strange, chilling smile curled from the corners of his mouth.

"I am not a monster..."

"I am the King who is about to conquer this world."

【Audience Expectation +5】

【Current Expectation: 29%】

In the next second, Chen Ling’s tentacle directly pulled the ejection device. The pilot shot into the sky amidst a terrified scream, carrying his parachute pack as he was swept away into the distance by the wind...

And on the communication channel, the devil’s whisper in the whistling wind, along with the pilot’s tragic screams, undoubtedly stirred up a huge uproar!

Immediately after, the flying fighter jet exploded, turning into a blinding fireball that crashed straight into a mountain in the distance!

BOOM——!!!

The deafening roar was like thunder.

The fighter jet in the distance circled under the sky, while Chen Ling stood quietly on the spot, his bright red theatrical robe fluttering in the wind...

The corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

Of course, he knew that his words just now had spread across the entire radio channel. At this moment, the other side of the radio was probably in chaos. After all, after successive tragic monster attack incidents, humanity was already full of fear toward monsters. And now, another "monster" that could speak human language had appeared, and even threatened to conquer the entire world...

The other side of the radio was probably scared out of their wits and would use every method to lock onto his location, trying everything to eliminate him.

This is exactly what Chen Ling wanted.

The fourth rule of the Chen-style director: continuous and explosive conflict can quickly grab the audience's attention, and the conflict is best involving core requirements like life and death... If there is no conflict, turn yourself into the conflict.

Chen Ling could foresee that humanity would focus a massive amount of attention on him, and endless attack methods would follow one after another. If it were the old Chen Ling, he would still be quite wary of these thermal weapons. Let alone provoking them, in most cases, he would choose to change his face and hide...

But with Chen Ling’s current strength, in this era where nuclear weapons are almost exhausted, he can completely walk sideways.

Those once-lethal super weapons would become "props" for him to increase the audience's expectation value. And it wasn't just the audience whose expectation value increased, but Chen Ling himself as well.

"Let me see, you people of this era... just how far you can push me."

Chen Ling looked at the fighter jet groups that dared not approach for a long time, his hideous pitch-black face smiled slightly, and he stepped on the clouds, flying toward the direction of Tongzhou.

……

"A monster that can speak Chinese, and it destroyed a fighter jet with its bare hands??"

"Yes, Commander."

"Is it the type of monster with wings? Was it filmed?"

"No... At the time, Huaiying was performing a bombing mission. No one saw how it appeared on the fighter jet. We only know that the fighter's cockpit was smashed directly. After it said a few words, it blew up the fighter jet."

"What did it say?"

"It said... it will become the King who conquers this world."

On the other side of the phone, the Commander fell into silence.

"I originally thought these monsters were products of American laboratories... Now it seems they don't look like they were artificially created, but more like some kind of outsider." The Commander’s voice was extremely low.

"Have you tracked its movements?"

"The 1-13 fighter formation is tracking it. It went to the east. Judging by the direction, it might be going to Tongzhou."

"Tongzhou... Could its target be Yang Xiao?" the Commander muttered to himself.

After receiving the relevant intelligence, he hung up the phone.

"What do you all think?"

A large number of figures were moving through the central command room, and countless screens were flashing, updating information on various provinces and cities in real-time. And in the deepest round-table conference room of this "heart of war," a dozen figures were sitting together, their expressions quite heavy.

"This humanoid monster can fight a fighter jet with its bare hands. Its danger level is probably higher than the monsters encountered in the other three cities... Perhaps it is the King of these monsters."

"Why would the King of these monsters speak Chinese? Could it be that one of our secret laboratories has a problem?"

"We don't have any laboratories in this regard."

"Regardless, raise the danger level of this monster to the highest first. Dispatch three... no, five fighter formations to take a look. It's best to wipe it out directly in Tongzhou."

"Speaking of Tongzhou... what exactly is the situation with Yang Xiao?"

"The currently known intelligence is that Tongzhou suffered a second round of nuclear strikes... This round came too suddenly, and it hit the city center directly. There were heavy civilian casualties, and Yang Xiao doesn't seem to have been able to escape either.

By the time the nuclear strike ended, an aurora appeared over Tongzhou City, and it has lasted for several hours so far, with no sign of dissipating at all, completely violating the laws of nature.

After the nuclear explosion occurred, Yang Xiao walked out of the blast range alone, but his state seemed wrong. His consciousness was wavering between chaos and clarity. We haven't had time to make contact with him, and he flew toward the East Sea on his own..."

"East Sea? Why there of all places?"

"We just received news that at the same time the global nuclear strike occurred, the US fleet and fighter groups at military bases in East Asia were all moving toward the East Sea coast... They want to..."

"It would be bad if Dr. Yang Xiao fell into the hands of the Americans." Someone said decisively, "We must bring Dr. Yang Xiao back at all costs!"

"Our fleet and reconnaissance groups have already been dispatched, but we haven't found Dr. Yang Xiao's whereabouts yet..."

"I'm afraid the biggest problem right now is not the American fleet and fighter jets." The Commander suddenly spoke.

"Then what is it?"

"That humanoid monster seems to be going for Dr. Yang Xiao as well. If its goal is to eliminate Dr. Yang Xiao... can we stop it?"