Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

The Starlight Hourglass was placed in the corner of the corridor on the underground floor of Secret Research Institute No. 23, and no one touched it.

At the same time, in the President’s Mansion, an identical Starlight Hourglass was placed in the center of the President’s desk.

The Xia Country Alliance Government was also holding a special and important meeting with 114 participants.

These 114 individuals were all important members from the four continents of Xia Country and various departments of the Xia Country Alliance Government. The Xiahou Family, Jiang Family, Su Family from Beijiang Continent, the Fifth Family from Nanyu Continent...

The representatives of Xia Country high officials were all present here.

Even the Huo Family, which had long since retreated to Divine Concealment Island and no longer meddled in national affairs, made a rare appearance.

The new Huo Family Leader, Huo Wen’an, sat alongside the President of the Xia Country Alliance in the front row of the conference room, watching the woman standing on the podium, switching slides as she reported to them.

The woman had a graceful figure, wearing a white blouse with a cross collar, a black umbrella skirt, and her curly hair was casually tied with a black ribbon. Her face was clean, her features exquisite, each part perfectly proportioned, more beautiful and outstanding than the top female stars in the entertainment industry.

But at this moment, she stood on the podium, eloquently discussing the relationship between the Annihilation Sect and the Divine Martial Realm.

”...A few days ago, I, along with the Huo Family Leader, discovered an abandoned experimental base beneath the mental asylum in Cangshan Town.” Xu Xingguang tapped on the touchpad of her notebook, and a file named ’Mortal World Purge Plan’ appeared on the giant screen behind her.

She opened the folder, and a series of shocking, horrifying candid photos filled the participants’ view.

Staring at the photos of those bizarre creatures that had been starved to death, dried to death, and tortured to death, the participants involuntarily got goosebumps.

The scene was utterly silent, as if a huge, heavy iron ore was hidden in the air, pressing down on them and making it hard to breathe.

”This...”

Jin Yunhai’s eyes shook, disbelief swept over him that such evil could exist in this world.

Xu Xingguang enlarged each photo so everyone could clearly see the tragic state of the experimental subjects inside the glass chambers. ”The leader of the Annihilation Sect, coded Christopher, was originally from the Divine Martial Realm. She was banished to the Mortal World for her serious crimes, and in order to return with merit to the Divine Martial Realm, she decided to help complete the Mortal World Purge Plan.”

”In the abandoned underground experimental base in Cangshan Town, there are tens of thousands of discarded experimental subjects, and these subjects...” At this point, Xu Xingguang felt a pang of pain in her heart and paused before saying, ”They are all human.”

”What!” When those words registered with the representatives of the noble families, their stomachs twisted with nausea.

Meanwhile, Jin Yunhai and the military representatives behind him were full of rage, wishing they could draw their guns and kill those bastards immediately. ”Those bastards from the Divine Martial Realm don’t see us as humans!”

”In their eyes, we are just trash occupying their territory and resources.”

”Though born of the same root, why so ruthless?” Mr. Jin sighed, ”The Divine Martial Realm betrayed us first, and now that resources are tight, they want to make a comeback? It doesn’t make sense!”

”Based on Zhang Zhiyi’s viewpoint, I infer that the Divine Martial Realm is complex and its factions numerous, not everyone wants to eliminate the Mortal World. Let’s temporarily call the faction that wants to occupy and exterminate the Mortal World the War Faction.”

”I think the War Faction hasn’t attacked us yet due to moral constraints. After all, we are family, being of the same lineage.”

”Thus, Zhang Zhiyi wants to mutate the people of the Mortal World into beasts. Once we all mutate into beasts, we’ll become ’monsters’ and not their kin. At that point, without moral constraints, the War Faction could invade us at any time.”

Xu Xingguang switched to another document, within which were children from Secret Research Institute No. 23. ”Ladies and gentlemen, please look at the photos. The children in these photos have been injected with the Annihilation Sect’s vaccine. The drug has already started to take effect, and they are showing signs of mutation.”

In those photos, some children had grown tails, others had beast-like hair sprouting from their arms, and some had fish-scale-like skin...

The photos were neatly arranged together, densely packed, causing a sense of dread.

But this was not a screenshot from a horror movie; it was a reality happening in their present world, a reality they had to face.