My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 407: Emergency Meeting
“When people get old, their ears don’t work so well. Young man, what did you just say?”
The elderly person’s expression visibly stiffened. Upon closer observation, one could notice his lips trembling unnaturally.
“Mm.”
Lu Bai repeated, “I destroyed a Mona person’s starship.”
The elderly person’s head jerked back suddenly, and the medical team members standing behind him surged forward again.
Skipping the vital signs detection process, they directly began first aid on the elderly person.
The medical personnel each attended to their duties, occasionally uttering professional terms that left Lu Bai stunned.
The One-Eyed Dragon also anxiously stepped forward several paces, preparing to immediately take the elderly person to the intensive care unit if the situation became serious.
Lu Bai also wanted to step forward for a look, but the fully armed soldiers around him all raised their muzzles at him. Even the hidden sentries, in this sudden situation, couldn’t afford to hide themselves and panicked into view.
It was obvious that this elderly person held a pivotal position in Shelter No. 9.
Lu Bai was originally in a state of awaiting judgment after committing a crime. If his words caused the elderly person to die, it would probably be impossible to resolve amicably.
Fortunately, after nearly ten minutes of emergency first aid, the elderly person finally recovered.
He raised his hand to wave away the medical personnel blocking him and looked at Lu Bai with a very complex gaze.
After looking for a long time, he sighed faintly and said, “Young man, could you trouble yourself to detail everything that happened after you left the shelter? Don’t omit anything; this is very important.”
Lu Bai thought for a moment and did not refuse.
He had originally planned to explain the situation in detail anyway.
This would make it easier to decide his next action based on the other’s reaction.
“When I first contacted the humans in the settlement, I discovered they had an unfriendly impression of the shelter…”
……
“…The door of the Escape Elevator opened, I walked out of the elevator, and you should know what happened after that.”
The elderly person patiently listened to Lu Bai’s account and slowly nodded his head, clearly weighing something in his mind.
Finally, the elderly person made a decision and turned to the One-Eyed Dragon beside him, saying, “I need you to immediately notify Shelter No. 9 Safety Defense Department Minister Zhu Taihong and send him the recording of this conversation. He will know what to do.
At the same time, contact the on-duty City Association Standing Committee Member to expand the notification to the city councilors. All levels of functional personnel need to respond swiftly.”
The elderly person said so much in one breath that he had to pause to catch his breath.
But without recovering for long, he immediately added, “Also notify Underground City No. 9 Science Research Institute Dean Huai Ruhe to come and explain the specific gap in our technological level compared to the Mona people.”
“All the personnel mentioned above are required to arrive at the conference venue within one hour. As for the conference content, it is preliminarily set as—contingency plan for a possible full-scale invasion by the Mo Na Civilization.”
Lu Bai’s expression shifted slightly.
From the conference content, it seemed this elderly person had no intention of surrendering directly.
The elderly person looked toward Lu Bai: “Let’s go. You definitely have to attend this meeting too. We’ll head over first.”
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Sizzle~
Tires screeched against the ground as a bulletproof car stopped in front of a heavily guarded building.
The car door opened quickly, and a suit-clad councilor got out and hurried toward the building.
On the way, he saw quite a few familiar faces, but from the news he received, the situation was urgent, and now was clearly not the time for pleasantries.
The councilor quickly passed through the identity verification at the entrance and entered this massive conference hall.
Over half the seats in the conference hall were already filled, with more than a hundred people, all big shots from various fields in the underground city.
If a single missile struck and took them out, it could almost completely replace the leadership of Shelter No. 9 on a physical level.
Lu Bai sat in the first row of seats, convenient for him to go on stage and explain later.
The elderly person sat beside him, eyes closed in rest.
This ordeal was indeed a bit taxing for elderly people.
Lu Bai had stayed with the elderly person the whole time and knew he had already privately communicated with the main persons in charge of relevant departments, exchanging opinions. This meeting was more for notification.
The City Association Standing Committee Member on duty this month was still looking down at the documents in his hand, waiting for the attendees to mostly arrive before he would take the stage to host the meeting.
Soon it was time for the meeting to start, and the signal jammers in the conference hall activated.
The thick gate of the conference hall slammed shut.
A team of staff walked to the entrance and assumed at-ease stances. Outside, more fully armed soldiers were conducting security work.
The City Association Standing Committee Member walked to the podium, coughed symbolically twice, causing the noisy discussion in the venue to quickly disappear. All attendees looked toward him, waiting for him to speak.
“The situation is urgent. Please everyone check the equipment in front of you for a preliminary understanding of the situation.”
The equipment in front of the seats played the process of Lu Bai’s conversation with the elderly person, of course, the version edited to remove the first aid content.
It was worth noting that a considerable portion of the attendees actually had no prior authority to know the truth about the shelter, let alone the existence of the Mona people.
To that end, before playing Lu Bai’s conversation with the elderly person, intelligence on this aspect was also provided.
As the video played, the discussion voices that had disappeared reemerged. No one could remain calm about such a thing.
Suddenly discovering one day that they had always lived under the domestication of an extraterrestrial civilization was hard for anyone to believe, no matter what.
Such a matter had to be treated with caution. Receiving so much information at once, many attendees didn’t even know where to begin.
The truth from four hundred years ago was laid bare, already proving that cooperation and win-win between humanity and the Mona people was impossible from political and diplomacy angles.
From the Mona people’s attitude, it was easy to judge that they did not regard humanity as an existence on the same level as themselves.
Estimating the video had finished playing, the City Association Standing Committee Member scanned the room and tapped the podium with his knuckles.
“Now, discussion on the Lu Bai Mo Na Civilization contact incident.”
A military spokesperson stood up and inquired, “How does the Mona people’s technological level compare to ours?”
The City Association Standing Committee Member flipped through the documents and calmly stated the cruel fact: “In Dean Huai’s judgment, it is a crushing trend.”
“Allow me to explain next.”
Dean Huai Ruhe leaned slightly forward toward the microphone in front of him and added, “Our technological path is similar to the Mo Na Civilization’s, with a gap of about three generations or less, but the materials foundation gap is too large. Once war breaks out, it will be one-sided suppression.”
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