Chapter 643 - 658: Battle Mecha

After the message that An Ning had been put into a shipping container reached Jiang Xia, he became visibly panicked.

’What? She’s being taken out of the country?’

Even though he knew An Ning was formidable and they hadn’t lost contact, Jiang Xia was still worried sick.

But at this point, Jiang Xia had no idea who he could trust.

’Go abroad?’

’Or should I stay in the country and continue relaying her messages?’ Jiang Xia was uncertain.

He was too agitated to sit still, but his reason told him that going abroad was not a wise choice.

While things were in a frenzy back in Huaxia, An Ning was being carried away inside a crate.

The journey across the sea didn’t take as long as An Ning had expected. Based on the ship’s speed, she calculated that R Country and Country H were the most likely destinations.

An Ning sent her analysis to Jiang Xia just as she was being moved from the shipping container.

With a CLANG, the entire container was loaded onto a truck and started moving.

As the truck moved, the temperature inside the container plummeted.

"Are they trying to freeze me?"

An Ning took a protective suit out of her spatial storage, changed into it quickly, and as the temperature dropped, she slowly closed her eyes.

At the same time, Jiang Xia left Huaxia.

Two hours later, An Ning sensed the truck stop. The temperature inside the container had already reached around minus ten degrees Celsius.

’These people are truly baffling. Did they go to all this trouble just to freeze me to death?’

While minus ten degrees wouldn’t necessarily kill someone, it was still very dangerous for a person who was supposedly unconscious and wearing a short-sleeved shirt.

CLANG! The container door was opened from the outside. An Ning sensed the crate she was in being moved, advancing steadily.

People were talking outside. ’A familiar language.’

The language of R Country.

’How interesting. What on earth are these people trying to do?’

An Ning sent another message to Jiang Xia. The crate she was in continued to move, and from its orientation, she felt they were going down.

After a while, the crate was finally set down. She heard voices and the sound of a door closing.

From inside the crate, An Ning sensed there was no one left outside. She was still in the crate. ’Don’t they plan on letting me out?’

The thought had just crossed her mind when the crate she was in cracked open with a BANG. Five panels separated simultaneously; four fell to the floor, while the top one was lifted away by a machine.

An Ning, inside the crate, was exposed.

At this moment, a thin layer of white frost covered her eyebrows, and her face was deathly pale from the cold. If not for the rise and fall of her breathing chest, one could easily have mistaken her for dead.

The next second, white vapor filled the sealed room, and amidst the spreading mist, the ice on the crate began to melt.

Outside, there was a barrage of chatter. An Ning understood it all perfectly.

It was indeed R Country. They had started paying attention to An Ning after the incident at the traditional Chinese medicine factory.

An Ning’s status as a patent magnate wasn’t particularly hidden and was easy to look up. This, combined with the various inventions and formulas from the medicine factory, was something they had coveted for a long time.

It was hard to say how these people’s brains were wired, or if plunder was simply etched into their genes. In any case, they believed An Ning was the key to everything.

So, they had organized this operation to kidnap An Ning, a plan two years in the making.

Min Xiaorou was just a needle they had planted in Huaxia, one they used against An Ning.

The people outside were talking freely, believing An Ning had long been unconscious.

They had conducted many secret experiments and were very confident that she had passed out.

After the thawing process was complete, four people in protective suits came in and began to drag An Ning out.

An Ning was placed on an operating table under a glaring white light. A person holding a syringe approached to inject a drug near the corner of her eye.

’If I keep pretending... I’m done for.’

The four restraints snapped at the same time.

The needle tip, only a few centimeters from An Ning’s eye, silently shattered. The fragments, controlled by her spiritual power, flew toward the people beside the operating table.

In just a second, the four people in the room collapsed, unable to get up. An Ning rolled off the bed. With a casual sweep of her hands, the glass in the operating room shattered, and the shards flew out like bullets, felling the people who were rushing in one by one.

An Ning leisurely put on her shoes and removed the monitoring equipment from her body.

"Get her!"

"How is that possible? How could she have woken up?"

"Release the gas! The poison gas!"

The people outside kept shouting, but An Ning was like a demon. Poison gas, bullets—everything was useless against her.

"Unexpected, isn’t it? A fun surprise?"

An Ning stepped over the debris and broken glass scattered on the floor and walked to the final door. Beyond it were the researchers.

Separated by a wall of glass, the people outside stared at An Ning in terror and frenzy, countless wild thoughts flashing through their minds.

’This person... she’s the perfect test subject.’

"I’ve destroyed a lab just like this one before. The spiritual power-corroding substance you’re holding now... that was developed back then, wasn’t it?"

"’As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.’ My ancestors were absolutely right."

At some point, a pair of protective gloves had appeared on An Ning’s hands. She placed one hand on the glass wall, a cruel and powerful smile on her face.

"Overwhelming strength is the only true path."

An Ning slapped her chest with her left hand. Like a classic transformation scene from a sci-fi movie, her original clothes were replaced by red.

"A combat mech. This is its first public appearance. You should feel honored."

BOOM—

The glass wall shattered on cue. An Ning’s feet left the ground as she half-flew out of the room.

What followed was a one-sided battle.

The greatest advantage of an underground laboratory is its secrecy and isolation from the outside world.

So when An Ning had destroyed everything inside, no word of it had reached the outside.

An Ning deactivated the signal jammer and descended from mid-air, her feet touching the ground.

"You probably wouldn’t understand. My greatest confidence has never come from my spiritual power, but from technology."

Interstellar technology was An Ning’s true ace in the hole.

Collecting evidence, documenting proof, taking pictures—a swarm of small robots helped An Ning get it all done.

"Biological viruses? You people really must think you aren’t dying fast enough."

"So shortsighted. Do you have any idea what the world was like after the destruction of Ancient Earth?"

An Ning couldn’t help but think of the world described in her textbooks—that ruined world.

Humanity had been on the brink of extinction several times.

Only at times like those did people reflect on their actions.

"It seems something like this isn’t something you could have pulled off alone."

In the lab, An Ning found evidence of communication between R Country and Country M. Everything was starting to become a little clearer.

There are always those who believe that if they just kill everyone else, they can dominate the planet and become world overlords. How ignorant.

When the nest is overturned, can any of the eggs remain unbroken?