Chapter 62: No Amount of Executioners Can Compare to a Single Ji Ling

Right now.

Inside the military broadcast studio.

Ji Yun’s gaze was burning with intense fever, staring fixedly at the Annihilator drone whose program had been tampered with. No one knew the truth better than he did, because it was he who had implanted the Trojan horse program into that very Annihilator.

Now, it had been activated!

It was executing the commands given to it by the Trojan horse!

Kill Ji Ling!

Kill Ji Ling at all costs!

Just as Ji Yun had imagined in his heart!

At this moment, Ji Yun could already vividly see the scene where the death-ray—capable of inflicting fatal damage on bizarre creatures—pierced straight through Ji Ling’s body, watching Ji Ling’s corpse fall powerlessly down the cliff!

As long as Ji Ling died, he would never have to worry about any of his secrets being exposed anymore!

And with Ji Ling dead, the Yinglong bound to him would once again become a masterless deity!

Given the Ji family’s methods, coupled with the societal convention of a younger brother inheriting his deceased elder brother's legacy, this Yinglong would become his as well!

No one could snatch it away!

Everything Ji Ling had done in his lifetime would ultimately serve as wedding garments for him!

"What is going on?! Why did the Annihilator drone go out of control?! Why is it starting to attack its own people?!"

"What own people! The Annihilator is attacking Ji Ling, well done!"

"That's right! Even the Annihilator drone can't stand Ji Ling anymore! Crush him to death!"

"Once he dies, I won't have to feel sick looking at his face every single day!"

"Go for it, Annihilator!"

Watching the audience in the live stream comments all wishing for Ji Ling to die, Ji Yun’s twisted psyche felt even more gratified, as if Ji Ling truly were some heinous villain who deserved to die ten thousand times over, completely forgetting that the audience held such animosity solely due to the frame-ups orchestrated by him and Ji Tianxing.

Meanwhile, on the battlefield.

The death-ray beams kept blasting continuously. The current Annihilator would only faithfully execute the commands of the Trojan program to achieve the absolute physical eradication of Ji Ling; it would never cease its attack until this objective was met!

Beam after beam of lethal death-rays shot out toward Ji Ling. Fortunately, Ji Ling’s footwork was swift enough that he managed to narrowly dodge the deadly rays time and time again!

While dodging the death-rays, Ji Ling was also communicating continuously through the radio!

"General Lin! What on earth is going on?!"

"Can someone give me an explanation?!"

Over the radio, General Lin’s voice was filled with anxiety. "I don't know what's happening! The technicians are troubleshooting! But right now it's out of control! You must be extremely careful!"

"The moment a death-ray touches you—no matter which part of your body—that area will instantly necrose, with zero possibility of recovery! You must not let it touch you even for a second!"

General Lin’s words were definitely not alarmist. Even bizarre creatures, which were non-carbon-based lifeforms, could be killed by the death-rays. For carbon-based lifeforms like humans, once touched even slightly by a death-ray, they would likely be burned to ashes!

The carbonization process was entirely irreversible.

Ji Ling gritted his teeth hard and spoke into the radio, "But my physical stamina is reaching its limit...!"

General Lin also knew that Ji Ling was not joking. During the previous battle with the bizarre giant wolf, Ji Ling had unleashed Thunderous Nine Heavens twice, both times practically at full power. Furthermore, Ji Ling's divine contract level was still not very high; summoning Thunderous Nine Heavens twice at such high intensity and drawing upon the power of Yinglong twice meant Ji Ling's body simply couldn't endure it!

On top of that, he now had to maneuver while flying on light-feathered wings summoned through Yinglong’s power, dodging simultaneously—this placed an enormous drain on both Ji Ling’s physical strength and mental focus.

Moreover, Ji Ling had a long wound running from his left shoulder to his right abdomen, with the flesh torn open and blood gushing freely.

Under these circumstances, Ji Ling definitely could not hold on much longer.

Once his stamina was exhausted, even if he managed to dodge the death-rays, given his current flight altitude, the fall alone would be enough to kill him.

Thinking of this, General Lin immediately looked at the operator and asked anxiously, "How much longer until we regain control?!"

However, the operator was panicking fiercely as well and blurted out, "General! Our console lacks backend permissions; we simply cannot do anything from our end!"

"Unless we capture that out-of-control Annihilator, open its programming interface, and overwrite it with a higher-level command!"

"Capture it?!" General Lin turned his head, watching the out-of-control Annihilator drone perched on the distant peak pouring out death-rays like a torrential rain.

Everyone knew very well.

That was an utterly impossible task.

Before they could even manage to capture it, countless people would die beneath its uncontrolled death-rays.

"Then we have no choice!" General Xu beside him gritted his teeth and ordered, "Everyone, immediately take aim at that Annihilator drone!"

General Lin immediately looked at General Xu and asked, "What are you trying to do?!"

"What am I trying to do?! Destroy it! What else!" General Xu snapped immediately.

"But the manufacturing cost of a single Annihilator is worth..." General Lin tried to say something more, but was directly interrupted by General Xu.

"I don't give a damn about how much it costs! If we don't destroy that piece-of-crap drone, Ji Ling's life won't be saved!" General Xu shouted sternly, "No number of Annihilators is more important than Ji Ling's life!"

"After the war is over, whether it's the Military Control Commission or the War Preparedness Bureau looking to place blame, I, Xu Guangrong, will take full responsibility! The order was given by me alone! It has nothing to do with you!"

With that, General Xu shoved General Lin aside and shouted his command into the radio, "Everyone! Open fire immediately!!!"

Following General Xu's command, the soldiers hiding in the forest immediately unleashed tongues of angry fire. Amidst a hail of bullets, the posture of the Annihilator drone began to sway unsteadily.

However, the outer shell of the Annihilator drone was forged from a mixture of nanomaterials and super-metals, boasting a strength even more outrageous than diamond.

Ordinary bullets could interfere with its flight path, but trying to destroy it was clearly far from enough!

"What are you guys standing around for in a daze? Did you not hear me order you to open fire?!" General Xu turned his head and glared at the twenty-nine Annihilator drone operators standing beside him.

Only then did the twenty-nine Annihilator drone operators snap out of their daze and hurriedly prepare to activate their death-ray weapons.

"Wait!" General Lin suddenly spoke up.

General Xu glared at General Lin and snapped furiously, "Old Lin! Are you trying to stop me again? What is wrong with you! Being so indecisive, are you even a man? When did you start getting so timid and overly cautious?"

"I'm not trying to stop you!" General Lin said urgently, "I wanted to say that although death-ray weapons have formidable lethality, their precision is slightly lacking. An Annihilator is such a small target—if the rest of the Annihilators start firing wildly together and miss that rogue drone while accidentally hitting Ji Ling instead, what then? Besides, Nangong Lingyue is still up there on that mountain peak!"