When people think of Germany's industrial regions, the first thing that comes to mind is the Ruhr industrial region, which is the most important industrial region in Germany and one of the largest in the world.

However, what people do not know is that in the southeast of Germany, there is also a total industrial area, it is called Dresden, which means people of the riverside forest, the capital of the free state of Saxony in Germany, and an important cultural, political and economic center in eastern Germany.

It is located in the southeast of Germany, in the Elbe Valley, only 30 kilometers south of the Czech border, 150 kilometers from the Czech capital Prague, 200 kilometers from the German capital Berlin to the north, and 100 kilometers from Leipzig, another large city in the northwestern state of Saxony.

Before the World War, Dresden was also the center of German camera, watchmaking and high-end food production, and was one of the most developed industrial and commercial cities.

But at this moment, fighter jets flew over the city, and countless leaflets fell on them, gradually covering the city.

Behind him were the German fighters.

Gallant was dressed in a very ordinary gentleman's attire, with a hat, leather boots, and a walking stick, and he was no change from the past.

How old he is, Gallant doesn't remember anymore, time doesn't mean anything to him, so there's no need to deliberately remember.

Silently, he picked up a leaflet from the ground, written in red paint.

[We will bomb this town in the afternoon, please leave quickly!] 】

It doesn't write a specific time, and it writes very little information, but it's normal.

Whether the flyer is real or fake, no one knows.

But now that it's a time of war, everyone's sensitive, so whether it's true or not, a lot of people are ready to pack up and get out of here for a while.

But with the departure of some people, it will inevitably take the rest with them, and if the whole city moves away, then the city's industry will come to a standstill, and the war on the front line will also be affected.

So this also attracted the troops stationed in the city, who fired their mechs to prevent them from escaping, and turned on loudspeakers to proclaim that "this is the enemy's conspiracy", saying that the Imperial army would protect the city's skies.

Gallant frowned slightly as he stared at everything in front of him, but he still stood still, speechless, or rather, speechless.

He belonged to an invisible man in Germany, and no one knew his identity.

Even if he had rushed back to Berlin from here to inform Wilhelm II of what had happened here, there would not be enough time.

So, he could only watch it all.

At this time, he seemed to feel something, and slowly turned around.

Beside him stood a man, dressed in a black trench coat and leather boots, with silver-white hair haphazardly tied around the back of his head.

"You didn't fulfill the last fifty-year-old promise." Char said.

"I was busy with some things during that time." Gallant said, "By the time I get to the tavern, you're gone." ”

"I'm not one to wait."

"I'm sorry." Gallant said apologetically.

Char didn't continue the topic, just continued to look at the city, "Over the years, you have brought a lot of changes to this country, and in just a few years, this place has directly become a top power in the world." ”

"I don't know if it's the right thing for me to do." Gallant whispered, "The current Germany is not at all the country I want to become. ”

"Do you know that there are two parties in Germany now, the radicals and the conservatives, the radicals are radical, and the conservatives think the radicals are too conservative."

Char fell silent.

"There was an air of madness throughout Germany.

The country is no longer directed by the will of one person, but by a crazy group of wills constantly stepping on the accelerator, and now, it takes one person to put the brakes on it"

Gallant slowly raised his head and looked into the distance, the airship named Leviathan was heading this way, the airship was flying high, and some fighters around him wanted to knock the airship down.

But the airship was surrounded by many fighter jets, and the two sides began to fight in the air, and the buzzing roar resounded in the sky, and people hid in their houses in terror, afraid of being shot down by stray bullets in the sky.

In fact, they did not just distribute leaflets in this place, in the rest of the several large industrial areas, they all distributed similar leaflets.

This is why the German soldiers felt that this was their conspiracy.

Of course, the Germans knew they were going to bomb one of their cities, so they prepared in advance.

However, they could not guarantee which places the West Francis would bomb, so they could only speculate that they had set up heavy defenses in the Ruhr Park and even mobilized a lot of air force.

But what they obviously didn't expect was that the place they were preparing to bomb was this southeastern city.

The number of fighters in the sky is clearly not enough to beat the escort aircraft.

Soon, the airship flew over the town, and then, its tail bomb bay slowly opened, and a huge cannonball fell from the sky, slamming heavily into the ground with a loud bang.

However, it did not explode.

After dropping this shell, the airboat immediately left at full power, and the wind direction at the time of the bombing was also chosen by them.

So the airboat was running at full speed, and with the help of the wind, they were able to leave the city quickly.

Seeing that the cannonball did not explode, Gallant looked at Char on the side,

"Is it a dud?"

"It's that they're going to run farther." Char muttered softly.

Hearing this, Gallant frowned slightly, but after some time, he felt a huge amount of energy surging towards this direction from the direction of the cannonball.

At this moment, a bright light 10,000 times that of the sun suddenly erupted.

At this moment when everyone in the whole city lost their minds, everyone's eyes were all covered with dazzling light.

Brush brush brush

The buildings, streets, factories, and people at the point of contact, mechas, and fighter planes are all equal individuals at this moment.

At about the same moment, all of them were scorched in an instant and then shattered by the shock wave.

Gallant was the closest to the shell, so he bore the brunt of the fire, which instantly carbonized and turned into powder.

At this moment, the people of the city, which was dozens of kilometers away from the city, felt the tremors of the earth, and they all tried to turn their heads to look at the source of the tremors.

But at this moment, it was as if the light was tearing apart in front of them, and nothing else could be seen in front of them, and the tingling made them close their eyes.

But even so, the bright light still stinged their eyes through their eyelids, and they felt that their skin exposed to the air was extremely hot, and even made a sizzling sound.

The immeasurable light finally passed, and everyone tried to open their eyes, which were stinging through their eyelids.

Trembling, completely uncontrollable trembling, it has nothing to do with being strong or not, it has nothing to do with whether you have courage or not, it is a kind of living being's shock to absolute power.

Everyone who could see the explosion in the vicinity of it trembled.

After the light and fire passed, huge mushroom clouds rose in the distance.

Whoa, whoa, whoa

Woo woo woo ~ The hurricane of the shock wave caused the trembling bodies of the surrounding creatures to shake continuously.

The rumbling and ubiquitous earthquake made them numb under their feet and unsteady on their feet.

Fear? No, at this moment, they can't rise to such thoughts, or at all, they can't raise any ideas, all they have in their minds is a blank space!

At the moment of the Katyusha explosion, the whole world was almost left with only one color.

The whole world is only a pale in the ultimate light, and its own sense of insignificance has never been so strong as it is at this time.

At a long enough distance, even if the eyes are closed, most people's eyes show a tingling sensation, and the fluid in the eye sockets secretes wildly.

The speed of the shock wave is much, much faster than the speed of sound, but fortunately, there are natural mountains around the town to block these shock waves.

So there is a reason why Joan of Arc chose this location, most of which are military factories, and the main attack is also the Prussian military power and the militarists.

The shockwave gradually decreases in power as it becomes less powerful.

It wasn't long after the blazing light turned into a fiery fireball and then into a mushroom cloud that the blast blast rang out as the aftermath of the shock wave swept through with the wind, and the nearby people who saw the dazzling light actually heard the loud explosion loudly.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Just a few seconds later, a real nuclear blast shock wave arrived after the shock of the peripheral air pressure.

Compressing a huge amount of air, the power of the envelope, in the form of terrifying ripples, the terrifying waves rolled in the direction of the nearby towns.

Woohoo!

The earth-shattering sensation shook through the city, and glass rained down on the ground.

Brush brush brush

The boundless gray-black color is like a wave crashing on the island, with a terrifying visual sense, and it rushes towards the "island embankment".

"Hold on to the handrails !!"

Although the airship that had flown dozens of kilometers was still affected by the shock wave, the airship shook violently, as if the entire airship was about to turn over.

Joan of Arc shouted loudly, for fear that everyone would be swept away by the "rolling waves" and fall into the air.

"Squeaky Squeak"

The rumbling ground felt more and more intense, as if the whole earth was shaking, so that they couldn't help but worry that the earth would fall apart and expose themselves to the terrifying waves.

The hustle and bustle of the end of the world obscures the sky!

After the airboat was swept out of dozens of kilometers by this huge air wave, it barely stabilized its body in the air.

Soon, Joan of Arc rubbed her tear-filled eyes, which had been stimulated by the bright light just now, and tried to open her eyes to look at the mushroom cloud slowly rising in the distance.

Looking at the clouds that had not yet dissipated, she and the rest of the airship's brains were blank, and they didn't even know how to speak.

Although Tesla had just repeatedly told them about the power of the weapon, it was still a little hard to imagine when they actually saw it.

Their souls were trembling, and they couldn't believe that there was such a powerful weapon in this world.

"This is Katyusha?" Raman muttered softly as he looked at Tesla, "Isn't this really it, God's Punishment?" ”

"My teacher once told me that science is the process of human beings replacing the gods." Tesla said.

Raman raised his eyebrows, he looked at Joan of Arc to the side, he knew, Joan of Arc was a devout believer, and he was worried that Joan of Arc would not be happy when he heard this.

However, she obviously didn't hear Tesla's words, but still looked at the distant town in distraction, and then slowly closed her eyes with a trembling voice.

I don't know if it was because of the dazzling light just now or because hundreds of thousands of people had just disappeared under their dropped weapons in an instant, tears sliding down the corners of her eyes.

"Actually, initially, my plan was to build a larger Tesla cannon, but the final calculations showed that even if it was expanded by a hundred times, it would not be able to meet my request."

Tesla said quietly.

"Until I happened to see an equation written by a man: E=mc^2."

"What's that?" Raman asked curiously.

"The Mass-Energy Transformation Equation." Tesla said, "The equation that converts mass into energy was written by a theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein, with whom I corresponded from time to time. ”

He looked up at the sun hanging high in the sky.

"Theoretically, our sun is also something formed by this principle."

"So just now, was it a sun that exploded in front of our eyes?" Raman muttered softly.

"It's a little bit inappropriate, but that's okay if you understand it that way."

A smile appeared on Rahman's face, and he looked at the people around him, "Everyone, I think this war is coming to an end!" ”

As his words fell, the entire airship erupted in cheers one after another, people shouted excitedly, and some even took out a bottle of champagne to celebrate.

However, Tesla is not the same as these people, and the weapons he made have just killed hundreds of thousands of people.

No matter how hard the reasons may be, this is not the time to rejoice.

He slowly turned his head to look at Joan of Arc, who was still staring at the clouds in the distance, her head down, her hands on her heart.

Amid the cheers, he heard her faint voice of prayer.

"Almighty and merciful God, the death and resurrection of your Son bring the hope of eternal life to mankind.

Be merciful to these innocent people who have passed away, and forgive them for their sins in thought, word, and deed.

Send angels to protect and guide him from the devil, and bring them to your stage, and let them rest in your bosom.

Let us cherish the gift of life and strive to do good deeds, so that we may meet them in heaven in the coming day.

Amen."

In their faith, the deceased cannot go to heaven without confession.

She was the one who gave the order to determine the place, and she also gave the order to drop the explosives eventually.

Her words were decisive and there was no hesitation.

Because she knew what the explosives could bring and what they could save.

Actually, both Joan of Arc and Tesla know a little bit.

It was not the weapon that killed these people in the real sense, but the ambition and greed of the madmen who lived in Berlin.

But the heart of a loving person does not feel good about it.

She calmly accepted this guilt, and also calmly gave the order to put it on, choosing to face hell and bear the sin to save the world.

Therefore, whether it is Joan of Arc or Tesla, there is actually no emotion of "regret".

Because, this is a "necessary evil".

All the enlightenment has been done before it comes.

There is never hope on the battlefield, there is only outright despair, whether you win or lose, it is a sin piled up with countless pains.

The dust from the explosion did not completely disperse until the next morning, and the sky was gray and dusty everywhere.

Anyone who arrives here will subconsciously hold their breath when they see the dust in the sky.

Of course, the radiation here alone is not something that the average person can bear.

A day ago, the weather was clear and the city streets were bustling with people, a scene of prosperity. But in just one day, this place became a no-man's purgatory, and countless people turned into smoke and dust floating in the air in an instant.

Looking down from above, it was devastated, charred and even steaming.

A huge crater appeared in the ground, and the buildings for several kilometers around the explosion point all dissipated into nothingness, but as the explosion point spread outward, some ruins could still be seen.

However, a concrete building can leave some frames, and the wooden or stone buildings are all in ruins.

And in the corner of this pothole, countless rubble bulged up, and then flowed to the sides, and a naked man climbed up from inside, gasping for breath, it was Gallant.

"If you receive a nuclear explosion head-on and don't die in the human race, there should be only you in this world."

Hearing this familiar voice, Gallant slowly raised his head, and saw Char still standing by his side, not even his clothes were destroyed, just quietly watching him.

Gallant looked at his intact body, and just now, he could clearly feel the process of his body being instantly carbonized, and then being blasted into powder by the shockwave.

The powder turned into his body was thrown thousands of meters high, and then fell all over the city.

But during this time, his consciousness was even clear.

It can be said that he never thought that he would have such an experience in his life.

Gallant looked at Char, "What should really be sighed should be your great power." ”

Gallant even thought that his immortality had been broken, but he didn't expect that he was still resurrected.

This ability is beyond his cognition.

Char had no words.

"Do you want to die?" Char asked.

"Not really." Gallant muttered in a low voice, "But just now, I didn't really want to live. ”

He looked at the scene around him with deep eyes.

"Wilhelm II wants me to make a weapon that can match this weapon."

"You don't want to?" Char said.

"It's complicated." Gallant muttered in a low voice, "William II is my godson, and I don't want him to end badly in the future." And the people of this country, it is obviously those careerists who start the war, and those who get benefits are also those careerists. ”

He looked around, "And these people, they don't know anything, they are the ones who are sent to the front line as cannon fodder, and if they are defeated in the future, they are the ones who are responsible for paying huge reparations."

They did not get the dividends of the war, but the bitter fruits of the war must be borne by them in the end.

What I have made can at least give this country a decent end. ”

"Aren't these all reasons?" Char said.

"But. I am also worried about whether what I create in the future will lead to the demise of the entire human civilization.

You know, in my recent sleep, I've often had nightmares about that scene, and I saw that the whole world was a wasteland covered with snow, and I saw a blood-colored sea, and I wished that it was all just a dream."

Char smiled, "Then I guess the other guy is more flustered than you, and he is still indirectly involved in the production of this weapon." ”

"Who?"

"His name was Albert Einstein, and he was originally from Germany." Char said, "His creation of the mass-energy conversion equation was one of the keys to this weapon, and of course, he himself believed that it was impossible for people in this period to convert matter into energy." He's on his mind, like you. ”

Gallant whispered the name, "I have heard of him, opposed to the war, warned by those below, and finally chose to leave Prussian Germany. ”

He sighed, "Maybe it's fate." ”

He looked around, "But. . . Then again, it was a bit difficult for me to create such a weapon. And it seems that the time is a little too late now. ”

"You don't need to create such a weapon." Char said, "You can make an approximate explosion"

Gallant's eyes flickered, "I see. Indeed, my purpose is only to protect the people of this country."

He looked at Char, "I thought you would be on Joan of Arc's side. ”

"Why do you think so?" Char laughed.

"Intuition." "After a hundred years old, my instincts are accurate, and Joan of Arc is a special name, and I don't think there's any coincidence, so she should have something to do with you," Gallant said. ”

"Your instincts are sharp." Char laughed.

He looked around, at the ruins, and muttered softly.

"But I'm never on the side of a certain force, I'm only on the side of humanity."

(End of chapter)