Chapter 462 - An Explosive Reaction (2/2)

But even if they strongly denied it verbally and found it difficult to accept this information.

It was an indisputable fact that the legion made up of tens of thousands of practitioners had never returned and no news had been sent back. This was an indisputable truth.

Even if they struggled with and denied the facts with their words, an endless amount of worry and fear welled up in their hearts.

After half a day had passed, through third-party logistics agencies, tens of thousands of corpses were shipped from the Chen family’s fortress back to the two major clans.

Looking at those cold bodies that were familiar yet strange.

The members of Tonghuang and Mugu clans felt as though they had fallen into an ice hole, their expressions were one of stupefaction.

Following which was a torrent of rage and fear.

“Father, brother, grandfather! Wake up!” Tonghuang Moshan’s sister, Tonghuang Feixue, an extremely beautiful woman, was crying to the point where she nearly passed out.

“The Chen family, the damned Chens! How dare you do this? How dare you?”

“Die! Everyone in the Chen family must die! We must get revenge!”

“Kill them. Organize the second batch of masters right now, they must kill everyone in the Chen family! Then extract their souls for burning and refining all day and night. We’ll let them understand the price of pissing off the Tonghuang clan!”

Shouts and screams to kill the Chen family rang out. The members of the two clans were red in their eyes and they clamored to take revenge on the Chen family immediately to leave not even a chicken alive.

But…

No matter how powerful were the screams coming from their mouths, there was not a single one who could move their feet and take action.

“Our Tonghuang clan had suffered heavy losses. The family’s interests would immediately become the target of other clans. We can no longer afford to suffer any losses, no matter how small.”

“The grudge against the Chen family has to be put aside. We have to be on guard against the other clans immediately to prevent them from taking action on my clan’s territory and interests. None of the masters from my clan can leave,” The Mugu clan held the same view.

After all, when their strategy to annihilate the Chen family had failed, the two clans had lost more than 60% of their powerful practitioners. Originally, they ranked as the top and second strongest major clans in terms of strength, but after suffering such heavy losses, their rankings would have fallen by at least a dozen places.

They couldn’t guard the huge interests and profits that they possessed.

With the Protoss’ traditional culture of “only the strong are respected,” the probability that other clans would not kick them when they were down was essentially zero.

Therefore, “holding onto the clan interests” became their priority ahead of “revenge.”

Even so, the two clans still did not want to let the Chen family have an easy time.

Hence, they also published a lot of articles in the media that frantically attacked the Chen family.Read more chapter on novelhall.com

“The Chen family is treacherous and wicked, they are subservient on the surface, but in fact, they had the intention to rebel against the Protoss for a long time.”

“Everyone, look at the Chen family’s fortress, with those sorts of additions to their military equipment, are they not guarding against the Protoss? Their surrender is superficial and false, their conspiracy to oppose us is true.

“Nonsense! The Chen family claim to be paying 60% of their profits, but there are no books to check whether the sum paid was more or less. In reality, it is far less than 60%. It is because we knew the deception that we had to take punitive action using our military strength.”

“The Chen family is lying. Their losses did not number in the millions at all. The photos of the bodies were all composites. On the contrary, most of the masters from our clans who had died were cut down in one stroke. Traces of struggle were rare…The wicked Chen family must have developed some kind of powerful weapon.”

“We are the Protoss. How can we be deceived and bewitched by mere humans? Regardless of how the Chen family explains it, slaughtering the Protoss is a heinous crime! The Chen family must die!”

“The Chen family has inflicted serious damage on the Tonghuang and Mugu clans today. The next time, they will be inflicting serious damages on the entire Protoss race. To all my compatriots, please take off your rose-colored lenses and see the true face of the Chen family. We cannot allow any more deception from this sort of cunning humans. Our only option is to kill every last one of them.”

Towards the latter part of the public opinion war, the Tonghuang and Mugu clans were very clever in putting their focus on the conflict on the racial tensions between the Protoss and humans.

In reality, after years of fermentation, the tensions and cracks in the relations between the Protoss and humans had grown increasingly severe.

More and more, they had become a thorn in each other’s side.

The Protoss thought that human beings were timid, small, and weak, but they were also cunning and exceptionally shrewd. They often had many schemes, and their behaviors were erratic and all over the place. Moreover, the Protoss just could not seem to exterminate every single one of them.

In the eyes of the humans, the Protoss were even more unbearable. They were barbaric, brutal, totally unreasonable, and had no morals… They were simply a scourge in the solar system.

The conflicts between the two sides were rapidly increasing with each passing year.

And now the Chen family had taken away the lives of tens of thousands of Protoss in a day, including many strong practitioners of the Shenguang order.

This caused many Protoss to frown in resentment.

“How could we let the Chen family freely take away the noble lives of the Protoss?”

“Chens, how did you kill the ancestors from the Shenguang order? Have you developed a weapon with great destructive powers? Hand it over now or die!”

“How dare the Chen family resist when the Protoss wanted to destroy them! Why don’t you stay down obediently and wait for death? Are you looking down on the Protoss? Had you been thinking about rebelling for a long time? This Chen family really can’t be left alive, we must remove them!”

“That’s right! You’re despicable and wretched human beings. Killing you will be a reward bestowed by the Protoss. You should just die with a grateful heart. How dare you resist! Perhaps, you dare to go against the natural order of things?”

“It is better to eliminate the Chen family. This cancer can not be left alone anymore, otherwise, there will be hidden dangers!”

“On this earth, everything is determined by the Protoss. The Chen family and the rest of the human beings have no right to resist. Anyone who resists must die!”

“…..”

After a few days of fermentation.

In the public’s opinion, voices calling for the Chen family to be killed increased. Many conspiracy theories emerged, targeting and describing the family as harboring malicious intentions; accusing them of terrifying schemes. In any case, the Chen family had to be destroyed.

It was to the extent that public opinion had turned against them. The number of Protoss who sympathized with the Chen family or took a neutral stance was getting smaller and smaller.

…

In the villa, sweat beaded on Chen Junfeng’s forehead. He had no idea why the public opinion turned out like this. How did the voices calling for the demise of the Chen family increase practically overnight? This opinion had become mainstream.

“This is normal and has nothing to do with morality. It’s just like humans fighting with wild boars. Although human beings are the hunters and want to kill the boars, the boars win in the end and the humans are killed. Then, other humans will not sympathize with the wild boars that they struggled so they could survive. Instead, the humans would feel that wild boars are dangerous and should be removed.”

Chen Jin shook his head and smiled, “Compared to racism, it is even easier for this kind of matter to lead to factionalism. After all, the Protoss and humans are not the same species.”

Even if both species had high intelligence and could communicate.

The existence of other ethnic groups besides one’s own would always be perceived as the wild boars.”

“Then… what should I do? Grandpa, since public opinion does not side with reason, there will be some clans who are gunning for us next.

They could even join efforts to encircle and attack us. No matter how powerful we are, there is no way that we can stop a never-ending wave of attacks.”

“No need to worry about it~”

Chen Jin smiled at him, “The second step of our plans can be implemented. The secret weapon that the Chen family has been developing for decades – the naga bio-mecha that can surpass the ranks of practitioners to strike them down can be released to the public. Elaborate on the reasons behind our victory and signal that the naga bio-mecha can be sold externally. Interested parties can apply to purchase!”

To release a new model of weapon.

To sell the naga bio-mecha?

Chen Junfeng’s eyes brightened. This was a brilliant move. Although this would be another bomb for the public opinion, there was hope that it could turn the current unfavorable situation around.