Chapter 91: The Crisis

As soon as the car stopped at the Foreign Guest Hotel, dozens of people on the street outside were waving signs frantically and shouting in Indian languages.

The soldiers guarding the hotel just watched them coldly, aiming their guns at them. Accustomed to such small protests, they let the crowd make noise as long as they didn’t storm the hotel. But if they really rushed forward in a blind rage, the soldiers wouldn’t mind using their guns to show them what true power was.

Zhou Liming was shocked, and the several experts were also confused, all looking at Sanjay.

Sanjay frowned, then smiled and said, “It’s nothing. Just some people making unreasonable trouble. It’s no big deal. As you know, some people have quite special ways of thinking.” He spoke loudly to a soldier beside him in the local language, and the soldier quickly ran over to the guarding unit.

A moment later, more than ten soldiers rushed out from the guard post, charging into the group of protesters like wolves and tigers, using the butts of their guns to knock people down repeatedly.

How could these unarmed people possibly be a match for these dozen soldiers? In an instant, seven or eight people were knocked down. With Zhou Liming’s keen eyes, he could see that two of those who fell had been hit on the head, and blood flowed out, quickly staining a large patch of the street red. It was clear that the soldiers did not treat them as human beings at all.

Under the suppression of the soldiers, the small group of protesters was quickly scattered, leaving only some injured people groaning powerlessly.

Sanjay laughed and said, “Alright, these annoying people have been driven away. I will escort you to the entrance here. If there is anything else, you can instruct the hotel staff, and I will meet your needs immediately.” He watched Team X enter the hotel lobby, then casually glanced at the few people lying on the street, got into his car, and left.

Inside the hotel, the facilities available for foreign guests were naturally five-star.

The decoration was luxurious. Walking through the lobby and looking at the chandeliers emitting soft light, Zhou Liming almost doubted whether he had walked into a palace. For Zhou Liming, who was entering such a place for the first time, a sense of nervousness arose in his heart, which made him feel like crying and laughing at the same time. He wasn’t the slightest bit nervous when facing a Level Six Fierce Beast, but he was scared by a five-star hotel. Indeed, the sugar-coated bullets were powerful.

The whole team was arranged in two adjacent Presidential Suites. Not long after settling in, the staff served lunch.

It was very luxurious. Everything was pushed up on dining carts. Each dish was prepared in a special way, featuring both Chinese and Indian cuisine. Especially the last dish, the whole roasted lamb, made Zhou Liming sigh at the high-class hospitality of the Indian government. This was no ordinary time. Having this much food far exceeded Zhou Liming’s expectations.

Yang Ran, a new member who had recently joined Team X, looked silently at the whole roasted lamb, which was still emitting a little heat, and said, “Do you know what those protesters were shouting just now?”

Zhou Liming really didn’t know; he didn’t speak the local language. Yang Ran said, “They were cursing the authorities. Basic food supplies can no longer be guaranteed, so why use such high-class treatment to entertain foreigners? Do they think foreigners are more precious than their own countrymen? It seems that the food crisis in India has reached the verge of breaking out. When that happens…”

Zhou Liming had been wondering why Yang Ran was selected before, and now he finally understood: he was proficient in the local language.

Qiao Bingsen just sneered faintly. He rudely took the knife and fork, cut off a large piece from the whole roasted lamb, weighing perhaps one or two pounds. He tore at it and chewed greedily, his mouth full of grease. After swallowing it carefully, he said calmly, “Whether they die or not has nothing to do with us. If there is food, eat it well, maintain your strength, and completing the mission is the only thing we need to care about.”

Zhou Liming originally wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, what could he say? This was not a one-sided situation, but a problem affecting the whole world. Even if he pitied them, what could he do? Could he conjure up food? Obviously, it was not possible. Since he couldn’t, why think so much?

From this point alone, Zhou Liming knew that if he didn’t change and became a bit more cold-blooded, he would never be qualified to be the team leader.

Having figured it out, Zhou Liming had no more reservations. He was even more rude than Qiao Bingsen, tearing off a lamb leg and gnawing on it. As an orphan, this kind of food that he had only seen on TV needed to be eaten properly; otherwise, wouldn’t it be wasting the goodwill of the Indian people?

After lunch, standing on the balcony, Zhou Liming was surprised to find that Sanjay had arrived here again with a group of people.

Qiao Bingsen walked over at this time, glanced faintly at the people below, and sneered, saying, “It’s the Snow Leopard Special Forces of the Polar Bear.”

Russian special forces soldiers were very tall. Wearing neat tactical camouflage uniforms, every one of them seemed to be on high alert after getting off the car. Finally getting off the car were eight people over the age of fifty. As soon as they got off, they were escorted into the hotel by the Snow Leopard team.

Zhou Liming was dumbfounded. Compared to the high alertness of the Snow Leopard Special Forces, his team, from the time they got off the plane until now, had absolutely nothing to boast about.

It seemed that Qiao Bingsen could see the reason for Zhou Liming’s dumbfounded expression. He sneered and said, “In my eyes, they are just a bunch of trash. Don’t look at their current respectable appearance; if they engage in direct combat, I am confident I can send them all back home within five minutes.” He licked his lips. “Can’t you see that they are not Genetic Modification Fierce Beast humans?”

No wonder Qiao Bingsen was so confident about killing them within five minutes; he had noticed that.

Zhou Liming was somewhat puzzled. Russia’s strength was not weak, and its geographical location was very advantageous. Although Siberia was lost, and the coastal areas along the entire Arctic direction were lost, these losses were almost negligible for them. Even the Black Sea region caused limited trauma to Russia.

They didn’t have any modified humans?

Qiao Bingsen said, “The Snow Leopard team is very excellent in the world, but that was only limited to the past. Now…” He didn’t continue, but turned away coldly, leaving the sunlight.

It could be foreseen that Russia would also stick its finger in this pie.

The situation in various European countries was very tragic. Portugal, as a whole country, had fallen. The British royal family, the prime minister, and other cabinet officials, along with the Air Force, had fled to Poland. Belgium and the Netherlands, which were almost entirely coastal countries, had become terms of history. The government officials who escaped could only receive humanitarian aid in other countries. Who knew if, as the situation worsened, the countries taking them in would still provide humanitarian aid?

But undoubtedly, some countries struggling on the edge of survival would certainly send people out to investigate the phenomenon here in India, because they also wanted to use the same method to resist the tide of Fierce Beasts. In fact, many national leaders no longer cared about such details. As long as the Fierce Beasts launched another attack, they would order a Nuclear Strike.

It can be said that the results of this investigation would have a huge impact on the world.

Every time Zhou Liming thought about all countries in the world using Nuclear Weapons against the Fierce Beasts, he realized that even if the Earth was not destroyed, the consequences of the nuclear war would definitely be worse than what it is now.

Moreover, what Zhou Liming was more worried about was: if a Nuclear Strike could not eliminate higher-level Fierce Beasts, what would be the consequences? Based on his judgment, the levels of the Fierce Beasts were not as simple as just the Sixth Stage. There would definitely be Seventh Stage ones, and even Eighth Stage ones…

Who could know that Nuclear Weapons were omnipotent?