Chapter 400: Time of Reckoning

The atmosphere became a little awkward when the unscrupulous reporter made such a fuss, so Charles took the initiative to change the subject: "Mr. Schenkov, the guests are all hungry, let everyone eat."

Schenkov responded and signaled to the waiter.

One after another, luxuriously decorated dining cars were slowly pushed in. The food on them was covered with lids, retaining a sense of mystery. No one knew what kind of delicacies were inside before the lids were lifted.

Fat people tend to have a strong metabolism and get hungry easily.

Charles had already eaten a business meal on the plane. At this time, his stomach was clean and hungry. He put his nose forward and took a sniff, and said with interest: "Well~ I know a lot about all kinds of food. But I can't smell it at this time. "What's in it?"

Schenkov said with a smile: "It's a surprise, I hope you will like it."

For those who taste various delicacies, the favorite thing is surprise. Charles holds a silver knife and fork in his hand, and his index finger keeps shaking, as if urging.

Soon, as the waiter opened the lid of the meal, the "delicious food" was presented to everyone.

This is a business banquet, and everyone has had many ideas before, such as delicacies made from rare ingredients, or delicious dishes made by famous chefs.

But I didn't expect it to be like this.

a piece of bread.

The cut surface of a piece was full of holes, and it looked like low-quality bread synthesized in a factory, and it was even moldy.

Everyone was stunned, and the entire venue fell silent.

Everyone looked at each other, you looked at me, I looked at you, no one knew what was going on.

Charles was also at a loss. He didn't think much about it at first. He smiled and helped Schenkov make amends: "It seems that the kitchen made some stupid mistakes and took the wrong things."

"No, I got it wrong." Schenkov slowly stood up from his seat. The smile on his face disappeared, as if the long-term disguise was finally removed, leaving only coldness.

"This is what people in Crescent City eat most now, a piece of bread, a piece of moldy bread."

"It's not even free. The world government stopped the supply of wartime supplies half a year ago. Everything has to be bought by people themselves."

"For those at the bottom, just such a piece of bread requires them to work hard all day. Many people don't even have a job, and they live in the dark and hungry."

Charles was immediately furious. He slapped the table and stood up, pointing at Schenkov's nose and yelling: "This is during the war. Going to court has its own way of going to court."

"As the Crescent City Speaker, how dare you openly question the World Government's policies? This is a serious violation of discipline!"

"Come here! Capture Schenkov!"

The court guard behind Charles immediately stepped forward.

The leader is the guard captain "Nick". When he was young, he was the number one cadet in his class of military academy. He did not neglect training after completing the full-body prosthesis.

No matter what kind of promotion he received, he always set the strictest requirements for himself. Only then did he become captain at a young age and was fortunate enough to be assigned to such an important court official as Charles.

For these professionally trained people, the order was absolute. Nick didn't think about the situation at all, and he went straight to capture Schenkov without thinking.

However, as he approached Schenkov, a waiter suddenly came over from the corner.

"Huh?!" The lightning speed surprised Nick. He didn't expect that there was a master hidden in the restaurant.

"Boom -" When the two collided, a dull impact sounded, and both sides took a few steps back at the same time.

Nick frowned and looked at the "waiter" in front of him. He compared the indifferent face in his memory bank and quickly revealed the other person's identity: "Anti-riot captain Ivan?!"

Ivan's appearance caused exclamations on the scene. Charles and other important court officials were also dumbfounded. They did not expect that a violent conflict would occur on such an occasion.

The Fourth Anti-Violence Section is an agency under the Public Security Bureau and is an out-and-out government department.

As the Crescent City Speaker, Schenkov suddenly made some violent remarks just now. This is already a very serious incident.

Charles ordered someone to take it down, but the captain of the Fourth Anti-Violence Section ran out to stop him.

What are the Crescent City authorities doing? !

Charles shouted sharply: "Ivan! What are you doing?! Schenkov publicly made inappropriate remarks, and I took him back for interrogation in accordance with the law. Are you doing this to fight against going to court?!"

Ivan: "What if?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he struck again.

Charles was so frightened that he hid in a corner and shouted: "This man is crazy! Stop him!"

The soldiers of the Shangting Guards rushed forward and tried to stop them, but Ivan's power was extremely domineering. He was like a humanoid tank running at full power. Anyone who was hit was immediately seriously injured. Several soldiers flew out and smashed against the wall, splashing. Open a bloodstain.

The scene suddenly fell into chaos. Reporters were screaming for their lives. Those who were close to the door rushed out directly, while those who were far away hid in corners and shivered.

Ivan shuttled through the crowd and caught a Guardsman soldier like lightning. The prosthetic blade stabbed out from his palm and penetrated straight through the opponent's heart.

He didn't stop after killing one person, and took advantage of the opportunity to cross over the other person's body, and hit the other soldier with his prosthetic-strengthened elbow, directly cracking his Tianling Cap and causing blood to gush out.

This soldier was very tenacious and his skull was almost shattered by Ivan. He stood up despite the serious injury and wanted to fight again.

Ivan was not polite, picked him up by the waist and smashed him to the ground in a standard throwing posture.

With a "bang", a hideous blood flower splashed on the ground. The blood vessels on the soldier's body burst under the heavy pressure, and the splashing blood covered a scarlet carpet on the ground for several meters.

Seeing that his subordinates were no match at all, Nick had to go into battle himself.

Nick was a recipient of a full-body replacement of the "Vanguard Level 3" prosthesis, and his strength had initially reached the fifth stage of the extraordinary system.

He was tall and sturdy, and both arms were implanted with high-strength alloy blades, which flashed a cold light when unsheathed.

The pair of mechanical prosthetic eyes were also turned on at full power, capturing all of Ivan's movements. When he rushed forward with the blade, each strike was accompanied by a sharp sound of breaking the wind.

Ivan used his body movements to dodge skillfully. He avoided the cold light that was unfolding in front of him, and his arm switched to a laser cannon, firing a series of high-energy beams.

Nick waved the blade to draw afterimages and shattered all the beams, but the residual flames of the energy explosion made his steps a little confused for a while.

Ivan immediately seized this opportunity and launched a fierce attack, condensing energy into a high-energy laser beam for close combat, and waving it to cast a dazzling curtain of light.

The weapons of both sides collided back and forth, the blades and lasers intertwined, and each collision produced hot sparks, and the clanging sound was as dense as a storm.

Nick was more and more frightened as he fought, and he found that he could not suppress Ivan.

According to intelligence, the prosthesis of Ivan, the captain of the Crescent City Anti-riot Team, should be the fourth stage "Fearless Level 1", which is a certain gap from himself.

But according to these rounds of fighting, whether it is Ivan's strength, speed, or the power of his prosthetic weapons, they are very powerful and are on par with himself.

"Is your prosthesis also a pioneer level?" Nick's eyes showed astonishment, "How is it possible?!"

Giant companies have a special management system for high-level extraordinary people.

Take the Iron Blood Union as an example, they will give prostheses of the fearless level and below according to the situation, and they are not stingy.

But starting from the fifth stage, the three types of prostheses, namely, the vanguard level, the high-risk level, and the apocalypse level, are strictly controlled.

If you have talent and really want to change to these advanced prostheses, it is not impossible, but there are requirements.

First, you can only work for Iron Blood in the future.

Second, voluntarily accept the ultimate insurance.

Nick's vanguard level 3 prosthesis has the ultimate insurance. There is a backdoor program in the prosthesis, and if you don't obey, your life will be terminated.

He never cares about this. After all, Iron Blood is not a madman. He will not blow people up for no reason. As long as you do your job obediently, it's fine.

But Ivan's situation is very strange. His prosthesis is definitely the vanguard level in terms of performance.

Let's not talk about when he changed to this advanced prosthesis. He actually dared to go against the court? !

Does he want to die? Isn't he afraid of being blown to ashes by Iron Blood? !

Or is it that his prosthesis has no backdoor program, so he is unscrupulous?

But how is this possible? !

Iron Blood simply cannot allow such a situation to happen!

Especially after the battle of the Tower of Babel three years ago, giant companies attach more importance to the ultimate insurance. Now many extraordinary people are required to wear the ultimate insurance when they reach the fourth stage.

Where did Ivan get this "clean" advanced prosthesis? !

Nick was distracted by fear, and the exposed flaw was instantly caught by Ivan.

Ivan broke through the defense gap and approached at high speed. His arms burst into a blue light of high-voltage current and hit Nick's heart fiercely.

Strong current rushed into Nick's body, and he was trembling all over. The built-in prosthesis information interface was full of warning items, and a large number of prosthesis components were in failure.

Nick roared unwillingly, started the power engine and knocked Ivan away, entering the second gear overload state, trying to make a final struggle.

However, Ivan's talent in prosthesis is no less than Nick. He also started the second gear overload state, and the explosive airflow shook the glass in the restaurant inch by inch.

The two attacked each other again, but the result was no longer suspenseful.

Nick had just been hit hard, and his energy core was already unstable, while Ivan was in full strength.

"Bang——"

Ivan relied on his subcutaneous prosthetic armor to take a blow, and while injured, he used the war blade to break Nick's vitals.

Nick fell heavily to the ground, and many parts of his prosthetics were broken.

He tried to stand up again, but Ivan didn't give him the chance.

Ivan stepped forward and pierced his heart with the war blade, directly destroying the energy core and nailing him to the ground.

After the noise settled, the people hiding in the corner looked in horror, only to see that Nick's whole body was bursting with sparks of prosthetic failure, and he was dead.

Charles had been sitting too far from the door before, and there was no way to run. Now he was still hiding behind the table, and he screamed: "Stop him! Cover me to evacuate!"

It must be said that the Upper Court Guards are well-trained. Even though the captain was dead, the remaining people did not retreat and immediately attacked Ivan.

"Bang!"

At this time, the door of the restaurant was suddenly opened, and more than 20 soldiers with skull logos on their uniforms rushed in.

A reporter screamed: "It's the Alpha Squad!"

The ones who rushed in were none other than the most elite armed forces of the Crescent City authorities, the Alpha Squad of the Anti-Violence Section 4. They directly rushed towards the Upper Court Guards with the momentum of counter-encirclement and started a confrontation with them.

This was a short battle without suspense.

Nick, the captain, was already dead, and the opponent was the entire Alpha Squad led by Ivan. Even if the remnants of the Upper Court Guards resisted tenaciously, they were quickly defeated.

In just a few dozen seconds, the entire restaurant was under the control of the Alpha Squad.

Charles was surrounded, looked back in panic, and asked in a trembling voice: "Schenkov! What do you want to do?!"

Schenkov walked out from behind the bunker and glared at him angrily. His eyes seemed to burst out with flames: "Three years, I tolerated you bastards for three whole years!"

"Three years ago, my best brother came to talk to me and said that he was going to do something earth-shattering."

"I was really scared at the time, and I tried my best to persuade him that the world government might have all kinds of problems, but it was never to the point of overturning the table."

"So I have been waiting, waiting for after that tragedy, after that tragedy again and again, you will change your past and truly care about the people underneath."

He grabbed the piece of moldy bread that fell on the ground and said through gritted teeth, "But this is what I was waiting for in the end!"

"After the war broke out, you repeatedly put pressure on the bottom. How many people struggled to death and lost their dignity. They stole, robbed, and knelt in front of the store just for a bite to eat."

"And what about you? You are having fun every night. No matter how tense the front line is, no matter how squeezed you are below, it will not affect your continued enjoyment."

"I'm disappointed in you. I'm really disappointed. So I've been enduring it until today. I've endured it until now, and finally I don't have to endure it anymore!"

Seeing the killing intent in Schenkov's eyes, Charles panicked and sweatdropped, and quickly comforted him: "Schenkov! Listen to me! If you lead the crowd to rebel just for a little food, it's not worth it!"

"You want to improve the living standards in Crescent City, right? No problem, we can sit down and talk. You don't need to ask your superiors for instructions. I can make the decision directly!"

"From today on, all taxes in Crescent City will be halved, and all living supplies will be supplied with high priority. I will help everyone live a better life, how about that?"

Schenkov sneered briefly, seeming to be mocking Charles' naivety.

He put the bread in his hand into his mouth and ate it hard, his eyes burning with determination to fight.

"It's too late. I have given up hope on you, and the vast majority of fellow human beings have given up hope on you."

"When you chose to execute the Wolf King, when you massacred civilians for your own selfish interests, or earlier, when the Upper Tribunal Council became a puppet, when the three-headed monsters interfered with the sacred mission of the World Government, even It was in Dawn 29, when the concept of giant enterprises first appeared. All this was already doomed.”

"No negotiation, no concession, no compromise, the time has come for you to pay for your sins!" (End of Chapter)