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Most people remained silent.
The angel beside Keisha spoke up, "Your Majesty, this is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
Keisha did not rush to give the order, her gaze still fixed on Huang Ke below.
Now that the decision has been made, we must wait for Huang Ke's response.
Just as Huang Ke was about to speak, Morgana's enormous phantom in the sky moved again.
"Oh, right, there's something I forgot to tell you. You guys surnamed Huang, I don't owe you a single penny now."
"I've done everything I promised you. Hey you, come over here and show your face!"
Morgana suddenly smiled. Although she seemed to be talking to Huang Ke, her attention was actually on Rose.
Morgana's actions instantly attracted everyone's attention.
What did Morgana promise Huang Ke?
Could it be...
The soldiers, who had originally planned to bomb the entire island nation, suddenly felt a little heavy-hearted.
Looking up at the sky again, Morgana suddenly found herself next to someone.
The Divine River Body has an Eastern appearance.
The moment Huang Ke saw this person, he immediately knew his identity.
"Come on, say hello. Queen, how much effort did I put into reviving you? All of Demon One's computing power was wasted on this trivial matter."
Morgana slapped the man hard.
The man stammered, "Thank...thank you...thank you for bringing us back to life. My name is Yu Baosheng, from Huangcun."
Yu Baosheng was afraid and dared not say anything more.
Although she felt Morgana was a bit of a pervert, killing the entire village and turning them into demons before going through all the trouble of resurrecting them all.
But having survived, Yu Baosheng, one of millions of ordinary people, had only one thought in his mind.
He didn't want to die; he just wanted to live and go home.
"Your Majesty, I keep my promise. I have repaid what I owed your Earth civilization. As for the other minor damages I caused, they were not serious. In your Earthly terms, we can round it off and call it even."
"From now on, you can do whatever you want. Anyway, I've resurrected all 4,961 people I killed on Earth."
After saying that, Morgana quietly observed Rose's eyes for a moment, then ended the projection and disappeared into the sky above the North Star.
At this moment, on the ground, Rose stood behind Huang Ke and said with some complicated feelings, "President Huang, Morgana is taking the villagers of Huang Village hostage. We can ignore the more than 40 million... but we cannot ignore the 4,961 people of Huang Village."
Rose saw through part of Morgana's thoughts: the more than four thousand villagers of Huang Village who had just been resurrected were Morgana's talisman.
And as Morgana said, although she still has some grudges with Earth civilization, the greatest blood feud seems to have been avenged.
Huang Ke nodded upon hearing what Qiangwei said.
Morgana wasn't stupid; she knew what going to the island nation meant, and she was well aware of Huang Ke's attitude.
But Morgana still took a small gamble.
He used a trip to an island nation, leveraging its population as leverage, to win over Rose's favor.
They then left behind more than 4,000 Huangcun villagers as a final backup plan.
According to Morgana's understanding, it's not just the more than four thousand villagers of Huangcun.
Even if she only controls one Chinese person, the impact is no less than using Juxia City or Tianhe City as bargaining chips.
It must be said that in order to win over Rose, Morgana has already gained a deep understanding of Huang Ke and the Chinese civilization.
He's not even inferior to Dukao, the alien who stayed in China for over a thousand years.
Huang Ke glanced around discreetly. Not only Qiangwei, but most of the warriors present, except for Dukao and Lianfeng, had subtle changes in their expressions.
Those were the lives of more than four thousand compatriots!
It's not something that over 40 million islanders can compare to!
save!
We're saved!
But since it concerns the greater good of civilization, no one has the right to speak out, and no one has the right to make this decision on behalf of Huang Ke.
Finally, it was Huang Ke who spoke: "We will not abandon any of our compatriots. The feud between angels and demons has nothing to do with Earth. The demons have not caused any substantial damage to Earth. We have no reason to use the lives of our compatriots to exchange for the opportunity to destroy Morgana."
"Even if the Angel civilization is powerful enough, it can never shake our will. We are unwilling to pay the price of our compatriots' lives to befriend the Angel civilization, the absolute hegemon of the known universe."
Huang Ke made his stance clear.
And they praised the angels.
Admittedly, angels are the dominant civilization in the universe, but you keep calling for justice and order. Do you intend to bully others and make Earth's civilization pay the price to clear obstacles for the angels?
Does such an action deserve the word "justice"?
Keisha remained expressionless; the flattery Huang Ke had given her had no effect whatsoever.
The ultimate right to interpret what is called justice belongs to the Holy Keisha, and no one is allowed to disagree.
But what Keisha really needs to consider is much longer-term, far beyond the imagination of ordinary angels and ordinary god-level beings.
When Keisha had Angel Yan give Huang Ke the gift, she had already placed a bet.
Just like betting on Enishid in the Fraser system, Keisha's foresight surpassed that of everyone else.
"This choice is not wise."
Keisha gave her judgment and announced: "Withdraw, cancel the Heavenly Blade Trial, and prepare for a new war with the Demon Legion."
Chapter 88 The Angel's Departure
The clouds rolled in, and the angels came uninvited and left without saying goodbye.
After Keisha made that announcement, not a single angel looked down at the ground. All the angels moved toward the rolling clouds, disappearing from everyone's sight.
This was a huge relief for Dukao.
As for Huang Ke, he was still pondering Keisha's intentions.
What is she after?
Just to put some pressure on Earthlings with the Heavenly Blade Judgment?
Throughout the entire process, Keisha seemed to have never paid attention to the speed of development of Earth's civilization.
“This is absolutely impossible. The fact that Tian treated Galaxy Force and Dukao in such an almost humiliating way shows that Keisha’s choices have changed.”
"She no longer uses Angel Yan to become the new Angel Queen, as was done in the original historical process, and then forcibly binds the Galactic Force, betting part of the angels' future on the Galactic Force."
"Her bet has changed. Did she choose me? No, she chose Earth."
After Keisha left, Huang Ke finally had the energy to re-examine Keisha's various actions.
It may seem that she has given herself all the choices, but in reality, she has chosen the civilization represented by Huang Ke.
Huang Ke is only a second-generation super soldier so far, and from any perspective, he can't possibly compare to Galaxy Force.
What truly made Keisha waver in her decision was the speed of Earth's civilization's growth and every choice she had made along the way, through trials and tribulations.
Huang Ke is merely the public figurehead.
"This is why Keisha didn't have much other communication with me. She believed that my existence was not necessarily the cause of this result, and that I was no different in essence from the more than four thousand scientists in the North Star Aerospace Industry Group."
"Or perhaps she believes that there is a more hidden force behind me, a force that is truly controlling everything."
"No, this still doesn't make sense. What exactly is Keisha up to? She's clearly putting on an act..."
After pondering for a long time, Huang Ke still couldn't figure out Keisha's true intentions, so he could only give up for the time being and stop thinking about the angel's actions.
Next, Huang Ke has even more important things to do.
A real period of chaos is about to begin, and this chaos is coming much faster than the original course of history, almost six months earlier than expected.
Angels and demons will wage a new holy war on Earth.
Furthermore, at Karl's suggestion, Taotie will surely make new moves.
Karl has brought all the known gods of the universe into his scheme: Morgana, Keisha, and Lena.
The more chaotic the world becomes, the more advantageous it is for Karl, who is on the outside, and the easier it is for him to find opportunities to break free from the constraints.
"Karl's goal is still Keisha. The sooner Keisha goes offline, the faster the Earth will descend into chaos."
"On the contrary, when Keisha was around, even though angels and demons used Earth as their battlefield, all wild thoughts had an upper limit."
"I can also seize this opportunity to use the Taotie and even the more half-beast civilizations that Karl is about to send to Earth as nourishment to enable Earth's technology to achieve truly rapid growth."
Finding a clear and feasible path for development amidst chaos is the limit of what Huang Ke can achieve.
As for Carl's plan?
Huang Ke is currently unable to intervene and can only hope that the actual implementation of the Carl Plan will be delayed long enough to give him more time to develop.
"The intensity of the war in the early stages of the Super God Universe was actually limited. Even the fourth-generation divine bodies showed relatively limited combat power. As long as the energy level of the weapon was high enough, reaching the level of the Heavenly Blade Judgment, it would be enough to pose a threat to the fourth-generation divine bodies."
"What truly makes the Super God Universe dangerous, creating a technological gap between civilizations as wide as an insurmountable chasm, are the Angels' sub-biological engine, Karl's Void Engine, and the Void Controller built on the foundation of the Galactic Force gene."
"Conceptual strikes, rewriting space, that's the real technological leap."
While Huang Ke was pondering, he had already boarded the vehicle returning to the North Star Aerospace Industry Group.
Huang Ke barely interacted with Ducao, only speaking to him on the phone after getting into the vehicle.
Old Huang expressed high praise for Huang Ke's performance this time: "Xiao Ke, you did very well. Since that's the case, I don't have to worry about having no successors after our older generation passes away."
Old Huang's words sounded somewhat pessimistic.
In Huang Lao's view, it seems that he does not believe that Huang Ke can achieve the true mass production of super genes in just over a decade.
After all, energy supply is only one aspect of the production of supergenes; the real challenge lies in resource control.
The Earth has too few resources available.
Huang Ke didn't discuss this much with Huang Lao, only offering a few simple words of comfort.