"Brother, bad news! America is planning to create a maritime disaster, kill all over a thousand scientists being sent here, and then pin the blame on us."
Jing Mingqiu shrugged, spreading his hands. "As expected. America has always been like this; if they can't have it, they'll destroy it."
"Boss, you and Yue'er discuss the specifics. I'll make a trip first."
With that, Jing Mingqiu flipped his wrist, and a long sword sprang forth. Accompanied by a dazzling aurora, Jing Mingqiu rode the sword, turning into a rainbow as he left.
In the center of the Pacific Ocean, a massive luxury liner was sinking at a speed visible to the naked eye. The surrounding waters were littered with the wreckage of over twenty lifeboats, completely extinguishing any hope of survival.
A streak of light flashed, and Jing Mingqiu arrived above the liner. The moment he stopped flying and revealed his true form, a soldier with a bitter expression rushed over, holding a projection device.
*Click!*
As the soldier pressed the switch, countless light points scattered, and a projection of Saloyan Primo appeared before Jing Mingqiu.
"Jing Mingqiu, you certainly came fast. However, the bottom of the entire ship has already been blown up, all watertight compartments are scrapped, and the lifeboats have been reduced to fragments, rendered unusable."
"With just you and your two hands, how many people can you save? Over a thousand scientists are going to die here, and I'd like to see how you explain that to everyone else."
Facing Saloyan Primo's provocation, Jing Mingqiu raised an eyebrow. "Explain? You dare to spew such nonsense in front of me now. Aren't you the best answer?"
"Heh heh," Saloyan Primo sneered. "Only if someone believes it. I'm just a projection appearing before you; you have no way to prove this is real, and not something you fabricated to shirk responsibility."
Jing Mingqiu's expression remained calm. "I see, so the calculation is quite ruthless. However, it's useless. It's just a luxury liner; I can lift it up directly with a flip of my hand."
With that, Jing Mingqiu wasted no more time with Saloyan Primo, crushing the remote projection device before flying directly to the ship's engine room.
*Snap!*
Upon reaching the engine room, Jing Mingqiu snapped his fingers. The nanite mecha on his body transformed, extending hundreds of mechanical arms. In the blink of an eye, the massive ship's engine was dismantled into a pile of parts.
Subsequently, Jing Mingqiu operated these parts, beginning to assemble an anti-gravity device. During this process, many scientists who had already despaired saw hope of survival and came over to help.
With just these parts, it was impossible to build an anti-gravity device. Jing Mingqiu also didn't want to expose his system space to others. Thus, he flipped his wrist, pretending to place his nanite mecha inside the machine as the core of the anti-gravity device.
More than ten minutes later, just as the liner was about to completely sink, the anti-gravity generator was completed, and Jing Mingqiu's mecha disappeared completely, leaving only a layer of ordinary clothes.
*Hummm!*
With a low humming sound, an invisible force field rapidly spread, enveloping the entire cruise ship.
Following this, the cruise ship began to shake violently, causing many people to lose their balance and fall. Fortunately, the ship was already mostly submerged, and no one was injured.
*Splash, splash!*
Accompanied by the sound of rushing water, the seawater that had flooded the cabins began to recede rapidly. The cruise ship, which had already completely sunk, slowly rose, gradually breaking free from the water's surface.
The crowd cheered, celebrating their escape from death. Just then, the soldier who had first met Jing Mingqiu suddenly appeared. The moment he showed up, he was immediately recognized, and people pointed at him and yelled in anger.
"How dare you show your face here again? If you hadn't detonated the explosives and sunk the compartments, how would we have gotten into this mess?"
The soldier's face was filled with bitterness. "Everyone, I didn't want to! But Saloyan Primo held my wife and children hostage. I didn't want them to die, so I had to comply with his demands and destroy this luxury liner."
"As you can see, I destroyed all the lifeboats. If Professor Jing hadn't intervened, you would have surely died. But I can't live on like this either."
The crowd thought about it and realized the logic, their anger towards him subsiding considerably.
But the thought of almost losing their lives because of him still made many very angry.
"You were indeed forced, but undeniably, because of you, we almost perished. You stay aside. When we reach Dragon Country, we will give you a chance to be a witness."
"I'm sorry! I am truly sorry!" the soldier apologized while carefully walking towards Jing Mingqiu. "Professor Jing, I have evidence here that can directly nail that fellow Saloyan Primo."
Jing Mingqiu noticed the subtle movements of his hands but didn't expose him directly. Instead, he feigned interest. "Oh? What is it? Let me see!"
"Yes, Professor Jing."
The soldier took small steps towards Jing Mingqiu, leaning in with a fawning smile. He carefully reached into his pocket, making a gesture as if to retrieve something.
Suddenly, his expression changed dramatically, and he roared with an extremely ferocious expression, "Jing Mingqiu, you bastard, die!"
*Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!*
The soldier pulled the trigger to the end, unleashing a barrage of bullets, intending to riddle Jing Mingqiu with holes.
"Tsk tsk!"
Jing Mingqiu did not dodge. He took over a dozen shots, looking with disdain at the pistol bullets flattened into copper discs on his clothes. "Is that all? Did you really think I only had a layer of nanite mecha on me?"
Seeing his sneak attack fail, the American soldier did not show despair. Instead, he became even more frantic.
"Do you think that's all our capabilities? What's wrong with flying up forcefully? Can you withstand a nuclear explosion? Now, a giant nuclear bomb has been launched via submarine and will arrive any moment to blast everything to smithereens!"
"Nuclear bomb?" Jing Mingqiu's lips curved into a subtle smile. "Among all modern weapons, nuclear bombs are what I fear the least right now."
With that, Jing Mingqiu turned into a rainbow, bursting out of the ship, and found the giant nuclear bomb that had already arrived near the cruise liner and was about to detonate.
Without a word, Jing Mingqiu directly took out the particle solidification fluid he had specially prepared not long ago to suppress the American nuclear power plant accident from his system space. He tore open the nuclear warhead and poured it all inside.
The nuclear fusion, which was accelerating exponentially inside the warhead, encountered the solidification fluid and behaved like mischievous children facing a disciplinarian – they instantly became obedient.
After resolving the nuclear crisis, Jing Mingqiu returned to the cruise ship, interrogated the soldier, and waited for the space-air battleship.
While waiting, an Asian scientist, prompted by others, came before Jing Mingqiu. After considerable hesitation, he spoke cautiously.
"Professor Jing, may I ask how you plan to accommodate us once we reach Dragon Country?"