Chapter 1392: Chapter 1387: Collateral Damage (Part 2)

Or rather, some people had awakened special abilities and suddenly become powerful?

What about themselves?

Would they?

Plenty of people went home that night and, following the套路 from web novels, started testing their own talents.

It was just that none of them felt they’d gained any abilities.

Or sensed Spiritual Qi and started cultivating.

But they also didn’t suspect that what they’d seen earlier was fake.

For example, they had just found some videos circulating online.

Those videos instantly got tens of thousands of clicks and comments.

There were all kinds of theories.

Like, it’s a movie shoot!

Like, Spiritual Qi revival or whatever?

Like, some kind of special effects...

....

Anyway, there were people saying all sorts of things, letting their imaginations run wild.

Those videos and related topics instantly took over the headlines on Weibo and all the major media platforms.

But before they could keep fermenting—

They were already deleted!

And the authorities put out an announcement saying it was just special effects from a movie shoot or something.

Obviously, the relevant departments had stepped in to control things.

Still, there were a few gutsy folks commenting below that what they’d seen with their own eyes was definitely not a movie shoot or post-production effects.

That comment hadn’t even gotten many replies or likes before it was immediately deleted.

At the same time, the person who’d posted it never commented again.

The guy just seemed to vanish.

This made several people who’d been on-site that night all shut their mouths.

It was pretty obvious that guy had been directly taken in.

If they stepped forward too—

Who knew, they might end up like that netizen and get... something done to them...

But precisely because of that, they became even more convinced that what they’d seen tonight was real!

It was just that before they could talk in private or go investigate anything—

People from the relevant departments were already knocking on their doors.

On the surface it was all gentle persuasion, but they weren’t stupid; they could clearly see the warning behind those smiles.

So they immediately nodded, saying it was absolutely just them who knew, and that they hadn’t seen anything at all tonight, it was just an ordinary car accident scene.

Only then did those people leave at ease.

As for Lin Xi and Shangguan Nishang, no one had contacted them.

Of course, no one dared to.

One of them had unfathomable strength.

The other came from a family with four Innates, currently the number one family in Chuzhou City.

Even if Gu Long came, he wouldn’t come looking to pick a fight.

Of course, when it came to what happened tonight, Gu Long really didn’t know whether he should thank Lin Xi or not.

He’d basically finished his investigation.

Turned out those people from the Ten Great Families had been injured by Lin Xi.

On their way back, they were discovered by a group of Foreigners, who wanted to weaken Huaxia’s strength and struck without hesitation.

But then the people from the Ten Great Families were saved by Lin Xi.

And that group of Foreigners—more than half of them were dead or wounded.

The ones who didn’t die were almost all grievously injured, to a downright frightening Degree.

An old man at Gu Long’s side even believed these people were completely crippled.

Even the people from the Ten Great Families were all crippled.

In one stroke, he really didn’t know whether he should thank Lin Xi or not.

If the Ten Great Families’ Innates had only been heavily injured but not crippled, he would definitely have gone personally to thank Lin Xi for crippling the Foreigners’ five Innates.

Crippling them—

Meant the Foreigners’ strength had been cut down.

But now, Huaxia’s Ten Great Families had suffered an even heavier loss.

Ten of them!

And he knew the Ten Great Families far better than Lin Xi.

He knew their foundations.

So he understood just how serious this matter was.

It was terrifying how soon an even greater conflict might erupt.

The thought alone gave him a headache.

His feelings toward Lin Xi were love and hate both!

Of course, it wasn’t the romantic kind.

Because in the end, this consumed Huaxia’s overall strength.

You had to know, the international situation wasn’t nearly as calm as it looked on the surface, especially between the major powers.

In the dark, there was no shortage of struggles.

And the power of Innates determined a huge part of that.

Don’t be fooled by how badass the Dragon King looked, with that aura of suppressing everything, making all the monsters at home and abroad behave themselves.

Only he knew how much pressure the Dragon King was under.

In fact, for so many years, the Dragon King had hardly ever left the capital.

It wasn’t that the Dragon King didn’t want to leave.

Now that Huaxia had had so many Innates crippled, didn’t that mean the Dragon King’s burden had become even heavier?

Thinking of this, he immediately called the Dragon King and reported the situation.

Right away, he could feel the Dragon King on the other end of the line fall silent.

And the sound of his breathing deepened noticeably.

You could easily imagine what kind of expression the Dragon King had on his face right now.

In his whole life, Gu Long had only seen the Dragon King like this a handful of times.

What could he do—ten Innates!

Across all of Huaxia, how many Innates were there?

It was just that this matter really couldn’t be pinned on Lin Xi.

If anyone was to blame, it was those people from the Ten Great Families for going too far.

They just hadn’t expected to kick an iron plate.

Not only did they gain nothing, they ended up covered in injuries instead.

Gu Long then relayed his earlier analysis to the Dragon King.

For example, that the Ten Great Families would never let this go.

Which meant the coming retaliation would be even more terrifying.

By then, regardless of whether Lin Xi made it through, with his terrifying strength he was definitely going to stir up a huge mess.

And a lot of people would surely die.

When that happened, wouldn’t Huaxia’s strength take another hit?

No matter whether it was Lin Xi’s side that lost or the Ten Great Families’ side that lost, it wasn’t going to be good for Huaxia.

There was also the fact that he had always underestimated Lin Xi’s strength.

It wasn’t until a few days ago that he realized just how insanely strong Lin Xi was.

Fifteen Innates plus ten Kings of Soldiers had all been taken out by him alone.

With that level of strength, he suspected that across all of Huaxia, only the Dragon King could do the same.

As for whether Lin Xi might actually be stronger than the Dragon King?

He didn’t think so!

The Dragon King was the strongest in his heart.

A young man this powerful—it was almost beyond belief how he’d grown to this point.

And among the Ten Great Families, he knew there were at least six or seven Innate mid-stage experts.

If these people all went after Lin Xi for revenge, then, honestly, he felt Lin Xi would definitely lose.

Because even the Dragon King would probably have to step aside.

"What should we do?" He finished laying out all his thoughts and asked the Dragon King.

But the answer he heard was, "Don’t interfere!"

"Let them do as they please!"

Of course, the Dragon King also said that absolutely no harm was allowed to come to other ordinary people.

If large numbers of civilians were injured, he would personally step in and not spare a single one of them.

At this, Gu Long was stunned for a long while.

It wasn’t because the Dragon King would personally act!

It was because the Dragon King wasn’t going to interfere in this?

He was going to let both sides go all-out?

Then one side was definitely going to be crippled!

If that happened—

Huaxia’s strength would suffer a huge loss!

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