414 Rage (2/2)

Zhang Yapin patted Jiang Chen on the shoulder as he didn't know how to comfort him. He left the flowers on the chair before turning around.

”Execute,” Jiang Chen said apathetically.

Zhang Yapin stopped, turned around, and looked at him in disbelief.

”Died of fire, 41 captives all died.”

”Are you insane!”

”The circuit board is outdated, the fire equipment lacked maintenance, and there were security disturbances at Xin that day. Just release the statement and send your condolences.”

”That's impossible! It's too much of a coincidence! I know you are sad, but we don't have evidence to prove that country F did this. Even if they if they did, we can't seek revenge by executing the prisoners of war. We are a civil society! The international image we finally managed to create-”

”You do it.” Jiang Chen tilted his head and ordered a soldier.

”Yes.” The soldier nodded and left.

Zhang Yapin blankly stared at the soldier leaving, he opened his mouth wanting to say something, but he knew the soldier would not listen to him.

[This lunatic, what would killing a few prisoners of war do? The international society would all stand with country F. 41 lives! Captives without any weapons! The despicable crimes against humanity! Even if they started a war, people would think it would be with a cause.]

Or rather, if Xin did execute the prisoners, it would be the exact response country F was looking.

”Wait,” Jiang Chen said.

The soldier stopped and turned around.

”Commander?”

After deliberating for a moment, Jiang Chen slowly closed his eyes, ”Just wait a bit.”

”Yes, commander.”

Zhang Yapin let out a sigh of relief. He felt as if he was about to collapse.

”Thank god, you finally regained your rationality.”

Jiang Chen glared at him and didn't say anything.

[Is that so?]

He suddenly felt that it was not only too low to execute the prisoners of war, but it was also too easy of a punishment for them.

A curvature appeared on his lips, and his eyes flashed with coldness and apathy.

Zhang Yapin watched the silent Jiang Chen as he felt a chill down his spine.

…

A video filmed by tourists appeared on Youtube.

The video shook violently, but a helicopter dragging ”Ironman” could still be barely made out.” People on the helicopter fired at the ”Ironman” with the machine guns, but it didn't manage to do any damage.

The video stopped after the helicopter dragged the armor away from Coro Island. It didn't manage to capture the iron armor from being pulled out of the water nor where the helicopter headed. People were speculating about the identity of the ”Ironman”, the cause, and the ending.

No one knew the ending, but the cause could be traced.

People connected it to the gunfights at the city of Coro that day. A lot of the media believed the two were connected.

But because of the gunfight, the government of Xin tightly controlled the information. They only revealed it was two groups of criminals attempting to rob a bank to divert the public opinion from the truth. Although there were a lot of skeptical information, people had to accept this as the truth and build off of the facts by using their imagination.

Because the fight between the iron armor and the machine gunner was very Hollywood-esque, the truth behind the story was completely hidden and mysterious. Also, the government's lack of disclosure to the event caused the view of the video on Youtube to be extremely high, and it became a hot topic on the web. Even the actor of Ironman, Robert Downy Jr. wrote a joking status on Facebook.

Burp, I was drunk last time, who saw my armor?