Published: March 2, 2025
“Fran, it's up to you!”
As Lin Haifeng was entangled with the Sea King and Skyry, he kicked them away and shouted to Fran.
In an instant, Lin Haifeng's figure flickered and he appeared behind Fran.
Having observed the battle for over ten minutes, Fran had sorted out her thoughts. Seeing Lin Haifeng shake off the Sea King and Skyry, she drew a delicate handgun from her Spatial Ring and asked Lin Haifeng,
“Is there trouble in Beijing?”
“Tang Haofei has emerged and is currently altering the control permissions of the Eternal Sky City.”
This simple sentence sent shivers down Fran's spine.
“Tang Haofei…”
It wasn't an exaggeration to say that once Tang Haofei awoke, there would be no means to re-seal him—Fran wasn’t clear if Wen Yu could defeat Tang Haofei, but she was certain that Tang Haofei, who had already been sealed once, wouldn’t have lost all his intelligence. He could still escape, right? And if Tang Haofei wanted to run, who could stop him?
“Moreover, the Eternal Sky City is the key…”
Lin Haifeng sat down on the ground, his right hand on his chest. With a surge of golden light, at that moment he could clearly sense the backup he had left in the Eternal Sky City.
As Lin Haifeng reminded her, Fran also realized the gravity of the situation. Looking at the Sea King and Skyry charging at her, she froze their time, turning them into immovable wooden lumps, while simultaneously firing her gun.
“Under no circumstances can we lose the Eternal Sky City. With this thing, Wen Yu can act to protect Beijing.”
Lin Haifeng nodded gravely. Fran understood, and Lin Haifeng naturally understood even more the significance of the Eternal Sky City to Beijing.
The Eternal Sky City was fully functional, and by now, it was no longer just a flying city—it was not only a residence but also the strongest weapon of Beijing and a transit station for the entire world. Even various high-tech research bases and cutting-edge military manufacturing sites of the human race had been arranged in the Eternal Sky City by Lin Haifeng.
This was one aspect. More importantly, it was about Wen Yu himself—only with the teleportation channels of the Eternal Sky City could Wen Yu rapidly harvest the world's resources and become stronger. In a sense, the Eternal Sky City was the connective link between the gathering place of Beijing and Wen Yu. As long as the Eternal Sky City remained in Lin Haifeng's hands, Wen Yu would never allow Beijing to be attacked or destroyed. However, once the control of the Eternal Sky City changed hands, Wen Yu wouldn't care who Lin Haifeng was. Even for Wen Yu, without the Eternal Sky City, Beijing would lose all value...
At that time, I wouldn’t care whether you thrive or perish!
For Lin Haifeng, the problem lay here—though over the past five years he had indeed wanted to solve the cost problem of Tang Haofei's power and was eager to awaken Tang Yi, the progress was not optimistic. Currently, Lin Haifeng had no certainty if it would be Tang Yi or Tang Er who awoke. In Lin Haifeng’s view, the likelihood of Tang Er awakening was much greater.
Considering that they had already offended Tang Haofei, there was no way they could let Wen Yu escape. In a situation of conflict between two powerful forces, Beijing might still have a chance to survive in the cracks. However, if Beijing became dispensable to Wen Yu, then Tang Haofei would have no reason to show mercy when seeking revenge on Lin Haifeng; Wen Yu would no longer have any necessity to care.
To put it more terrifyingly, once Tang Haofei regained control of the Eternal Sky City, Tang Er could completely negotiate with Wen Yu, reopening the teleportation channel of the Eternal Sky City and inviting Wen Yu to destroy Beijing together and eliminate Lin Haifeng. In such a scenario, Lin Haifeng could easily imagine what Wen Yu would do.
Beijing was not synonymous with the human race, nor was it the center of the world. Perhaps to ordinary people, Beijing seemed very important, but in the eyes of monsters like Tang Haofei and Wen Yu, what was Beijing?