# 752
Chapter 752: All Units Protect the Big Boss
Under the night sky,
Shen Qingzhu held a cigarette in one hand while cradling in the other a compressed fireball of nuclear-proportioned power, calmly walking toward the Insect Plague before him.
The light rings in the Insect Plague's eyes locked onto the fireball. After analyzing its terrifying power, her expression soured.
"Are you insane? This massive amount of energy would instantly vaporize all of Tokyo!" the Insect Plague roared at Shen Qingzhu.
Shen Qingzhu walked forward calmly, the fireball in his palm growing ever more scorching, yet he showed no intention of answering her.
After all, he couldn't understand a single word she was saying.
Seeing the indifference and calm in Shen Qingzhu's eyes, the Insect Plague suddenly felt a flicker of panic.
This man... seemed to have absolutely no regard for the lives of this entire city's inhabitants?
He was an absolute lunatic!
The Insect Plague's eyes flashed with calculation. After a moment of hesitation, she shot forward like an arrow toward Shen Qingzhu's body. Her two wide sleeves continuously spewed out poisonous insects, transforming into a cyan-purple ocean that instantly flooded the wide street.
To prevent that fireball from exploding, she had to directly poison and kill this madman before he could unleash its power!
Shen Qingzhu cradled the massive fireball spanning over a hundred meters in radius, gazing calmly at the incoming wave of poisonous insects, his eyes narrowing slightly.
Sweat beaded at his temples.
Though he appeared calm and relaxed on the surface, his physical condition had already reached its limit.
What he held was the entirety of the Fire Disaster's released heat—enough to destroy tens of millions of lives in Tokyo. Once this fireball exploded, not only would the Oracle Envoy be killed, but most of the other members of the Night Watch squad would likely not survive either.
This thing was like a nuclear bomb—a true indiscriminate attack.
In this process, he needed to use his Forbidden Ruins to compress that heat to its limit while simultaneously controlling the gas composition inside to keep the fireball in a stable state at all times. This massive amount of energy was simply too great a burden for him.
Holding this fireball, let alone engaging the Insect Plague in direct combat, even moving quickly was nearly impossible. One misstep and the entire city would ascend to heaven.
He still needed more time...
Shen Qingzhu's left hand holding the cigarette trembled slightly.
Jiang Er was aware of Shen Qingzhu's current physical state. Controlling the Fire Disaster, she maintained steady control of the heat in Shen Qingzhu's hand while rapidly approaching his front. The Fire Disaster had already poured all her energy into the fireball, and her frontal combat strength had plummeted. If she were to clash with the Insect Plague, she likely wouldn't hold out long—but there was no other way...
VROOOOOOM—!!!
Just then, the roar of engines came howling from the distance!
Dazzling high beams cut through the pitch-black night like swords, as vehicle after vehicle of pitch-black cars came roaring from the end of the road. The car bodies were caked in mud, showing they had rushed here nonstop from impossibly far away. Hundreds of cars had their engines pushed to the absolute limit, their combined roars creating an earth-shaking cacophony!
That terrifying fireball hovered in the center of the street, blazing like the sun, so intense it blinded. All pedestrians in the area had already fled in terror, but even so, these vehicles kept their accelerators floored, charging toward this direction without hesitation!
Fearless unto death!
That was...
Shen Qingzhu's pupils slightly contracted as he watched the incoming convoy.
In the convoy, the tinted windows rolled down one after another. From the leading sedan, Inoue Masahiro thrust half his body out through the window. The howling wind whipped his hair into a frenzy. Squinting at Shen Qingzhu standing in the distance, cradling the fireball, he burst into laughter in the wind:
"Big Boss!! The Black Kill Squad has charged into Tokyo to fight alongside you!!"
Following immediately, figure after figure thrust themselves out from the windows:
"Big Boss!! We're here to help!!"
"Big Boss!!! We're not gonna let you fight alone!"
"Coming to brawl all by yourself, Big Boss, that's too much!"
"So what if it's an Oracle Envoy? Brothers ain't scared!! Let's take him down!"
"Big Boss is so cool!!!"
"All Units Protect the Big Boss!!!"
"..."
In a chorus of Kansai dialect and rolled R's in Japanese, the hundreds of black vehicles showed no sign of slowing, racing past Shen Qingzhu's body from both sides, charging directly toward the incoming wave of poisonous insects!
Car after car roared past Shen Qingzhu, the wind kicked up by their passing whipping his flowing cloud robes into a frenzy.
Shen Qingzhu stood frozen, cradling a fireball capable of destroying Tokyo.
He had risked his life for them.
They were willing to give their lives for him.
No one knew where these people, who had once lived like rats in the shadows of the city, found the courage to laughingly drive toward that green-robed figure symbolizing supreme divine authority.
In this nation, this city, fifty million people,
the first to awaken... were the yakuza.
The so-called insignificant "evil" that wasn't even worthy of being on the Oracle Envoy's wanted list.
They were insignificant. They were base. They were despised and scorned by everyone in this country—but now, in this Human Enclosure that had bent the knee to fifty million people, they... were the only ones standing.
They stood because someone had told them they shouldn't live like this.
What that person cradled in one hand wasn't a massive fireball capable of destroying Tokyo—it was the sky called "shackles" that had once pressed down on them, leaving them unable to breathe.
Now, they were willing to give their lives for that person.
Inoue Masahiro pulled a submachine gun from inside the car and stepped out, slamming the door shut behind him.
He stood at the very front of the insect tide, tilting his head back and shouting at the sky!
"All units, open fire!!!"
RATATATATAT—!!!
Dense gunfire flashed in the night, the torrent of bullets barely holding back the surging Insect Plague, its advance stalling momentarily.
But these poisonous insects had been cultivated by the Insect Plague using technological means. The bullets' killing power was limited, able to delay them only through kinetic force. Even so, large numbers of giant insects broke through the blockade, slamming into the Black Kill Squad's defensive line and tearing into their bodies.
Every member of the Black Kill Squad was an ordinary person—even untrained street thugs. Once these poisonous insects got close, there was simply no chance of survival.
Meanwhile, the Insect Plague completely ignored the Black Kill Squad's curtain of gunfire, dashing into the crowd like a phantom and savagely harvesting the lives of Black Kill Squad members. Each wave of her hand effortlessly cut down vast swaths of lives. She was like a reaper wielding a scythe, leaving nothing but carnage in her wake.
Insect corpses and human corpses piled up on the ground, blood flowing like a stream down the street.