Chapter 1171
Cui Ming: No, don't underestimate my connections.
"Wait, wait, wait! You two, stop this already!!!" Misato couldn't hold back any longer. She sat bolt upright, hands on her hips, and yelled at Naoko Akagi and Ritsuko Akagi, her voice filled with exasperation and helplessness. "Do you even realize you're talking about such outrageous things in front of your real wife?!"
As the roar subsided, Naoko Akagi and Ritsuko Akagi, who had been arguing about "sharing" Cui Ming, turned around in unison and glanced at Misato indifferently, their eyes devoid of any emotion, as if Misato were merely uttering some irrelevant nonsense.
The next second, the two tacitly looked away and turned back to each other, completely ignoring the furious Misato beside them, as if she didn't exist at all—more concerned about who "belonged" to Choi Myung than Misato's protest.
"You two!!!" Misato trembled with rage, pointing at the mother and daughter, but unable to utter a rebuttal for a long time. Finally, she could only turn to Choi Myung in the driver's seat, her tone tinged with grievance and pleading, "Choi, look at them! They've gone too far!"
Cui Ming stared straight ahead, his hands firmly gripping the steering wheel, his tone flat and without a trace of emotion, without even turning his head to look at her: "Wait a moment, take the rocket launcher out of the back seat first."
"Oh," Misato's anger was instantly extinguished. She subconsciously responded, pouted aggrievedly, turned around, reached into the storage compartment of the back seat, and laboriously dragged out a heavy rocket launcher. Holding it in her arms, she muttered to herself, "Honestly, couldn't they have done something about them first?"
Cui Ming ignored her grumbling and, taking advantage of the red light, turned to take the rocket launcher from Miri's arms. He then extended the rocket launcher out of the car window with one hand and aimed it at the distance behind them—several black sedans were in hot pursuit, with unfamiliar markings on their bodies, clearly indicating that they were pursuers coming for them.
boom!!!!
Without the slightest hesitation, Cui Ming pulled the trigger, and a rocket roared out, accompanied by a blazing fire, accurately striking the black sedan at the front of the road behind him. The deafening explosion sent flames soaring into the sky, and the black sedan was instantly blown apart, debris flying everywhere and thick smoke billowing out. Several cars behind it were unable to brake in time and crashed together, completely paralyzed on the side of the road, unable to move forward any further.
Cui Ming slowly retracted the rocket launcher and handed it to Miri beside him, his tone still calm: "Put it back." After saying that, he took out a black communicator from his pocket, pressed the answer button, and put it to his ear.
"Hello, it's me." Cui Ming's tone was concise and to the point, without any unnecessary formalities. "Those lunatics have started to move, so you can start moving now. Also, be careful, there are more monsters lately, so be careful to avoid them when you're on the move, and contact me anytime. That's all."
After finishing speaking, he hung up the communicator, stuffed it back into his pocket, then turned his head to glance at the three bewildered people in the car, and said in a calm tone, "Ask whatever you want."
A few seconds of silence filled the car before Naoko Akagi was the first to react. She frowned, a hint of doubt in her voice, and asked softly, "Um...who were you contacting? And what did you mean by 'those lunatics' earlier?"
“The other four besides the United States.” Cui Ming’s words were concise and to the point, without much explanation, but enough for the group to understand that he was contacting the relevant forces of several other major powers.
Naoko Akagi and Ritsuko Akagi fell silent simultaneously, exchanging a knowing glance. They both knew that only a few top-tier nations could be addressed in such a manner by Choi Ming and be compared to the United States. As for "those lunatics," they were most likely the forces that had previously coveted the MAGI system.
"I understand, I completely understand." After a moment of silence, Ritsuko Akagi hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't help asking, "Um, may I ask why the United States isn't included? They're quite powerful too. If we joined forces, it would be safer, right?"
“Because they are so stupid I can’t even describe it to you.” Cui Ming’s tone carried a hint of barely perceptible disdain. He paused, then added, “And those guys are a bit inhuman. They’re ruthless and unscrupulous. Cooperating with them will only bring more trouble. It’s the same in Japan. The higher-ups only care about their own interests and don’t care about the lives of ordinary people at all.”
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Naoko Akagi and Ritsuko Akagi fell silent again, their faces showing no sign of rebuttal—what Choi Ming said was indeed true. Whether it was the domineering stupidity of the United States or the selfishness of the Japanese high command, they had witnessed it all, and even if they were unwilling to admit it, they could not refute it.
Cui Ming glanced at the three silent men, his tone still flat, with a hint of reluctance to elaborate: "Anyway, believe me, you don't want to know how I knew why these two sides were idiots."
He withdrew his gaze, refocusing on the road ahead, his hands firmly gripping the steering wheel. The Black Panther continued speeding down the street, the engine's hum masking the brief silence inside the car. No one asked any more questions, but the curiosity in their eyes remained undiminished—for Cui Ming to offer such a assessment, and to be unwilling to elaborate, meant that what he had experienced must have been quite extraordinary.
Cui Ming's thoughts drifted back to his time in America. He hadn't intended to cause much trouble there, but he ended up doing many things beyond his expectations and killing quite a few people.
There was really no other way. The main problem was that on a remote island in America, he discovered a group of strange people—their diet was extremely bizarre, something no normal person would eat, ridiculously outrageous. Cui Ming's first thought was that aliens had invaded, taken over human bodies, and were posing as normal people to infiltrate the island.
He was always decisive. Once he determined that those things were abnormal, he had no intention of showing any mercy. Without any unnecessary probing or hesitation, he took action and killed every single one of the abnormal things on the island, leaving none alive.
It wasn't until later that he vaguely realized that those people might not be aliens, but rather the product of a secret experiment by the American high command. But since things had come to this, he was too lazy to turn back and make amends—after all, they were a bunch of abnormal things, so killing them wouldn't be a loss.
"When you went to America, you killed a lot of people?" Naoko Akagi broke the silence first, her tone filled with surprise. Although she knew that Cui Ming was powerful and ruthless, she did not expect that he had done such a thing in America.
Cui Ming gave a soft "hmm," his tone calm and unperturbed: "They were just a bunch of abnormal people. If we hadn't taken action back then, and it really had been an alien invasion, the trouble would have been even greater if it had spread. If you insist on dwelling on it, just consider it as me eliminating a potential threat in advance."
Ritsuko Akagi and Misato exchanged a glance, both seeing shock in each other's eyes, but neither of them pressed for more information—they could probably guess that those so-called "abnormal things" were definitely not that simple, and that Choi Myung would never do anything meaningless.
Silence fell again in the car, but this time, no one was dwelling on the matter of the American and Japanese high-ranking officials. Everyone's thoughts were more or less on Cui Ming's experience in America, and only one thought remained in their minds: Sure enough, Cui Ming's past was even more outrageous than they had imagined. (End of Chapter)