The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 442 - 435 Worse Than a Traitor

Chapter 442: Chapter 435 Worse Than a Traitor

Things hadn’t gone completely out of control yet, for the aliens hadn’t arrived, which meant it wasn’t the worst of times.

"Ralph is right," Gao Yuan conceded, "While the enemy has yet to arrive, we must consider evacuation now, for the enemy will be upon us soon."

Of course, an evacuation couldn’t be a headlong rush, it had to be a retreat covered by others, an orderly withdrawal.

But at this critical moment, Xinghe once again expressed a different opinion.

"No, I strongly suggest you launch anything that can fly to an altitude of 6000 meters immediately, anything! As far as I know, you have rockets, planes, even anti-aircraft shells, or hot air balloons. I don’t care what it is, you had better launch them into the sky right now."

Xinghe’s suggestion baffled everyone, prompting Gao Yuan to ask incredulously, "Why? Why must we experiment now? Just to test if the Serpent People haven’t noticed the Sanitation Worker’s plane, or if they’re just ignoring it?"

Xinghe replied coolly, "This is very important!"

Ralph looked at Xinghe doubtfully, then glanced at Gao Yuan, and in a low voice, he said, "Is there something I don’t know? Something none of us know? I feel that at this time, perhaps we should be a bit more forthcoming, shouldn’t we?"

Gao Yuan was truly exasperated. Xinghe, who had always been reluctant to speak much, now was insistent. He knew she must be aware of something very important but inconvenient to reveal, a suspicion evident from her recent words.

Xinghe looked up at the sky again with a serious face and said, "Six thousand meters isn’t about whether the aliens can spot it or not. It’s about the altitude they are compelled to respond to. That is to say, at any time, if there is a flying object exceeding six thousand meters in altitude, the aliens must come to verify and destroy it."

Xinghe pointed to the recent battlefield and said with gravity, "Test it out. If there is a flying object exceeding six thousand meters and the aliens still don’t show up, then there are only two possibilities. One is that the aliens have completely left, and the other is that the aliens have reached some agreement with the humans here. Consequently, the aliens consider this place as an area that can be temporarily abandoned. Given that currently there’s no necessity for the aliens to reach any agreement with humanity, I have reason to believe..."

Xinghe looked impassively at the group, then added in a detached tone, "There’s a collaborator among humans working for the aliens, do you understand? It’s not that they reached an agreement or surrendered after the aliens attacked. Instead, even before the formal invasion by the aliens, there have been people collaborating with them."

Gao Yuan and the others were all dumbfounded, at a loss for words.

Klaus’s first reaction was that the Sanitation Workers had betrayed humanity. Now it seemed that while the guess was wrong it wasn’t entirely off the mark; it’s just that what the Sanitation Workers did was even more despicable than traitors. Traitors surrender after the aliens attack, but if the Sanitation Workers were the Serpent People’s internal collaborators, actively cooperating with them and even leading to the attack, that would be the ultimate... the most thorough and despicable kind of betrayal.

In a low voice, Klaus said, "As a white man, I now feel ashamed for these white people..."

In a quiet tone, Gao Yuan responded, "It’s only speculation."

Xinghe shook her head and said, "Not entirely speculation, because of their vaccine. You said not a single Sanitation Worker was infected because they were all vaccinated. However, the issue is, even though they have medical pods, creating a vaccine based on a viral sample takes time. And while vaccines made by medical pods could indeed be 100% effective, the problem is the medical pods can only produce samples, and those samples can only be used by one person at most. Do you see what I mean?"

Without hesitation, Gao Yuan said, "I understand. The initial vaccine might have been 100% effective against the virus, but there were too few samples; it was ultimately necessary for humans to replicate the vaccine samples themselves, and the vaccines produced by human replication could not possibly be as effective."

Xinghe nodded and then calmly stated, "Based on my knowledge of... my understanding, the best Earth could do right now is about 98%, achieving 90% is not an issue, but mass-produced vaccines being 100% effective, I don’t believe that. Coupled with the fact that the aliens haven’t attacked any large-scale action by the Sanitation Workers, I suspect the Sanitation Workers have been collaborating with the aliens for a long time, they’ve just hidden it well."

Gao Yuan let out a gentle sigh, then he turned to Klaus and said, "Did you all hear that? Remember it? So no matter who ends up meeting with the Solar System Company’s people, you must pass on this message."

After speaking, Gao Yuan turned to Xinghe and said, "We want to test, but we can’t right now, we don’t have anything that can hit six thousand meters high. But this test will be conducted soon."

Ralph pointed at Xinghe with his thumb, a befuddled look on his face, "Why does she understand all this?"

Gao Yuan pulled Xinghe over and said, "She is our country’s best scientist, the most professional researcher of aliens, our hope."

After finishing, Gao Yuan said to Klaus, "I’m not trying to be a hero, nor do I want to show off, it’s just that...I really can’t work with you guys."

Klaus frowned and said, "What are you going to do?"

"You take the wounded who have received first aid and start the evacuation now. Take those who haven’t been operated on yet, too. Those who can be saved, no need to say anything, and those who can’t... also no need to say anything."

Once Gao Yuan finished speaking, he pulled out the knives and maces inserted behind his back, planted them into the ground with a reverse grip, then turned his head and shouted at Lizhizi, "Taoist Priest, the flagpole!"

Lizhizi came over with two trimmed wooden sticks and whispered, "What do you want to do?"

Gao Yuan reached out his hand, took the sticks, and said, "I’m not going out to die, nor am I trying to be a hero, but there are things I must do."

Klaus’s brow furrowed, then he suddenly shouted angrily, "Are you sick?"

Gao Yuan smiled and said, "I told you, we really can’t work together, so I have to do things my way. Both of us know that if we retreat like this, none of us can escape, so I must buy you some time."

Ralph grabbed Gao Yuan’s clothes, his voice grave, "You won’t be able to buy any time, you’ll be turned into a sieve by the enemy’s volley!"

"No, I can!"

Feeling that the sticks were a bit long, Gao Yuan used his knife to chop off one-third of a stick, then took out a flag from his chest and carefully slipped his company’s standard onto the stick.

After threading both flags onto the stick, Gao Yuan raised his hand, expertly inserting the flagpole into the slots originally meant for the knives and maces.

The two red flags, one on the left and one on the right, draped over Gao Yuan’s shoulders, making him look like an operatic martial artist with protective flags on his back.

Klaus, wide-eyed, said in astonishment, "I know what you’re going to do now, fuck, have you lost your mind?"

Gao Yuan swayed from side to side, then he smiled and said, "I’m not crazy, because the enemy will definitely try to capture me alive, especially once I really show my capabilities. I even suspect that their constant assault here is to catch me, but they won’t be able to. So...you guys retreat fast, I’m going up!"