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Chapter 437: Do You Love Your Country, and Does Your Country Love You?
Chapter 437: Do You Love Your Country, and Does Your Country Love You?
"Your cooperation isn't necessary," Su Yu said with a smile. "Tina and I will attack the Skrull base. Once we've taken it, you just need to handle the aftermath, like capturing prisoners and collecting spoils."
"However, be cautious once you enter the Skrull base. Try to minimize casualties among our troops for such a minor operation."
"Understood," Commander Zhao responded immediately.
Su Yu nodded and, with Tina by his side, quickly flew toward the mountain, arriving at the perimeter of the Skrull base.
This base was almost identical to the Yunlu Mountain base he had previously captured.
At the very top was a dark spatial rift, under which stood three core structures: the "Psionic Collector," the "Psionic Storage Facility," and the "Monster Factory."
Fourteen 50-meter-long, brown-gray ships were parked around the perimeter, protecting the three core buildings.
Upon detecting Su Yu's arrival, the base erupted into a flurry of activity.
A grayish energy shield rapidly activated around the base, and the high-energy weapons on the ships glowed with either yellow or white light, ready to fire, locking onto Su Yu and Tina.
The Skrull forces within the base were on high alert, prepared to open fire the moment Su Yu and Tina crossed the warning line.
However, Su Yu didn't take them seriously. A small psionic spring was nothing to worry about; there was no need to overestimate them.
After scanning the base below, Su Yu loudly called out in Skrull, "Listen up, everyone in the base: Surrender now, and I'll give you a chance to live. Otherwise, death awaits you!"
Su Yu took out the "Legendary Mage Khadgar's Grimoire" and waved it, casting a "Powerful Arcane Insight" on himself and Tina, boosting their intelligence by 10%.
Tina's aura flared with a faint golden light, her golden hair dancing in the wind. She drew a golden longsword from the void, ready for battle.
But then, a voice came from the Skrull base: "Forget it, scum. You killed our great Councilor Kas, and we'll die before we surrender! Everyone, prepare to fight to the death with him!"
"Understood, sir," the surrounding Skrull soldiers and officers responded, their morale soaring as they prepared to face Su Yu in a final stand.
Only then did Su Yu realize that the "Yan-1" base was part of the Runkte Alliance.
He laughed, "Your words amuse me."
"A while ago, Kas activated the Trenam Tower, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. Is such a despicable politician worth your loyalty?"
The Skrull army below hesitated.
The Skrull commander, however, stubbornly replied, "Councilor Kas had to sacrifice those civilians to kill you."
"Then tell me," Su Yu interrupted, "with so many Seventh-Rank Legendaries and the God-tier Stime in Trenam City, why did he have to sacrifice so many innocent lives?"
"From what I understand, Kas did all this purely because the slums weren't part of his party's voter base but belonged to the opposition. He just wanted the votes! Perhaps he thought he could kill me and eliminate these 'lesser beings' in one fell swoop!"
As Su Yu spoke, the Skrull army below fell into complete silence.
In reality, anyone with a clear head knew why Kas had acted. Politicians, after all, have only one thing on their minds: votes.
For votes, politicians selling out national interests is all too common, let alone the lives of "lesser beings."
Now, with their wounds so openly exposed by an alien, the Skrulls present felt a deep sense of humiliation.
Su Yu continued, "If the Lankte government, led by Kas, could sell out the lives of over a hundred thousand of their own people without a second thought, what's to stop them from selling you out next? You may love this country, but does this country love you back?"
"So, I say this: surrender if you must. The road ahead is long, and there's no need to die here. Your life is the most precious thing you have. There's no point in being a pawn that these despicable politicians can discard at will."
"And I assure you, we will treat our captives well. We won't subject you to any inhumane experiments. As long as your country is willing to pay the ransom, we'll release you. That's far better than dying here."
Su Yu swiped his phone and contacted Xue Wenli, who sent some videos of Skrull prisoners living healthy, normal lives, which he then enlarged for everyone to see.
With this series of moves, Su Yu brought the Skrull army's morale to an all-time low.
The alien had a point; there was no reason to die for those shameless politicians.
Many Skrull soldiers began to reconsider their stance, thinking about how to surrender.
...
But at that moment, the Skrull commander in the base still resisted, shouting, "Don't be fooled by this alien! He specializes in mind control spells. Once you're under his control, you'll be his servant for life!"
But the soldiers around him paid no heed to the commander's words. Being a servant was better than dying without any value.
Su Yu didn't say anything more. He turned to Tiana and said, "Move! But don't use your full strength."
"Got it!"
Tiana's anger boiled over, almost tangible. In the next second, she transformed into a golden blur, flashing beside the force field. Her longsword, enveloped in a torrent of rage, struck the force field with immense force.
Crack!
The force field immediately showed a network of cracks.
Tiana increased the flow of rage into her weapon, and the force field groaned under the strain, finally shattering with a loud boom into countless fragments.
The attack triggered the "standby" weapons on the 14 Skrull ships, and over twenty laser beams shot towards Tiana, almost locking down her escape routes.
Tiana didn't try to dodge. Instead, she drew a "cross" in front of her with her longsword.
This was the Cross Slash she had learned from Aganze.
The cross-shaped sword aura collided with the laser beams, slicing them apart like cutting through tofu. She remained unharmed in the middle.
As Tiana shattered the force field, Su Yu activated [Bolt of Thunder] + [Thunder Armor] and rushed into the base at incredible speed, reaching the position of the Skrull commander.
"[Frozen Tomb]!"
Crack!
A massive block of ice encased the fifth-stage Skrull commander, freezing him into a solid ice sculpture.
"[Phoenix's Descent]!"
Su Yu cast another spell, summoning a fiery red phoenix from the teleportation array. The phoenix soared towards the Skrull commander's position.
Boom!
Several officers stood beside the Skrull commander. With a single high-damage, wide-area spell from Su Yu, they were all wiped out.
The Skrull commander died without any resistance under Su Yu's spells.
Su Yu lifted the Skrull commander's corpse and flew high into the air, shouting to the surrounding Skrull soldiers, "Your commander is dead. The offer stands: surrender and live, resist and die!"
(End of Chapter)
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