Chapter 375: Reactions from All Sides
His long-planned revenge scheme, meticulously prepared over many years, and his readiness to stake everything to eliminate his enemy, suddenly felt moot as his mortal enemy was killed by a single finger from a madman who appeared out of nowhere. Li Bi Da slumped to the ground, momentarily unsure of what to do.
He had prepared for every contingency, from the Huaxia Federation potentially turning against him to his opponent possibly holding some trump cards—he had a countermeasure for everything. Yet, he had never imagined such an outcome was even possible.
But no one cared about the distraught Li Bi Da at this moment; Bai Mo's shocking declaration had already detonated the entire world!
A madman isn't terrifying; you can just tie them up and send them to a mental hospital. What's terrifying is a madman with peerless power, who wants to turn the entire Earth into a mental hospital.
“The world he describes doesn’t sound so bad. Food, clothing, housing, and transportation are all taken care of by the system. As long as you’re an obedient citizen, you can live a decent life...”
“It’s better than now. We work ourselves to death every day, doing endless, thankless tasks, and live such hard lives, constantly bowing to others.”
“Enough talk. I have to get up early for work tomorrow. The matters of the big shots, let the big shots handle them. I just hope I can get an extra two hundred high-temperature subsidies next month. This sun is absolutely killing me.”
“I really hope he becomes emperor, and then gives each of us a system. All those protagonists I read about in novels, after getting a system, they all become incredibly awesome, slapping faces left and right—how cool would that be!”
“You must have gone crazy from staring at your phone, kid. There’s no such good thing in this world. Stop daydreaming.”
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Little people had their own thoughts, while bosses from all walks of life had a completely different mindset.
“That lunatic who wants to confiscate our assets!”
“This is the foundation I built by struggling my whole life. How could I let him take it all with just a few airy words?”
“What rubbish about surplus capital only being used for speculation? He clearly just wants to steal our money!”
According to the program Bai Mo proposed, all assets valued at over one million Huaxia coins would be confiscated. This was an unacceptable proposition for most business owners; even a company or factory of modest size would exceed this limit, making it a completely ruinous strategy.
“Fight? With what? Those guys who regularly extort tributes from us, after hearing this news, they all cowered faster than anyone. Our own strength, bought with money, isn’t even enough to stick in a tooth gap.”
“He was the one who invented the Xuanhuang Fruit and gave us abilities. Now he’s the one who wants to take everything away. This world really is...”
“I heard a rumor. A super-expeditionary force from our Huaxia Federation is already prepared. Now it’s up to the big shots above to see if they can kill this equalization-obsessed lunatic.”
“The government will definitely win. Otherwise, we can only sell everything and flee with the money to seek refuge in other countries.”
“Who wouldn’t think of that? Do you think you can just sell whenever you want now? There are too many people selling their factories on the market. Even if they drop the prices to next to nothing, they still can’t find anyone willing to take over. If you want to run, you’ll have to abandon everything else and only take your valuables.”
“I’m not reconciled! Why should those underlings benefit—those who just think about slacking off all day and refuse to work overtime?”
“Don’t worry too much. When the sky falls, taller people will hold it up. There are plenty of big bosses more anxious than us. It’s not our turn, with our small factory of only a few dozen employees, to worry. This lunatic wants to eliminate all the rich people and officials in society in one go. He definitely won’t come to a good end.”
The worried owner of the frozen food processing plant, after forcing a smile to see off his friend who ran a clothing factory, also began to worry about his own future.
As for the workers below him, who had little motivation left for work after hearing the declaration, he no longer wanted to bother with them.
The era of allocated resources was about to begin. Why should they still toil for the vampires above them? This was the thought of most laborers. They were the ones who most hoped Bai Mo would persevere to the end.
Yet, engrossed in the promises, with food, clothing, housing, and transportation all allocated, they hadn't yet realized how cruel a world completely dominated by a system would be.
Frankfurt, United Nations Provisional Conference Center. Nearly all superhumans of the Five Tiers and above had sent their avatars to attend the meeting.
“That lunatic is challenging the order of the entire world. He must die!”
“How many fingers can you block?” someone immediately challenged.
Everyone present in the Ta Ke Desert at the time saw it clearly. In less than a second, Zhao Fei Yan teleported eight times, and that finger followed him eight times, then killed him—who presumably still had many trump cards hidden—with a single poke.
“Then we’ll exhaust him with avatars! There are nearly three hundred people here. I refuse to believe there’s a monster that can’t be exhausted to death. Also, don’t tell me you haven’t stockpiled dozens of Primal Force Collapse Bombs. Use them all on him, and he’ll definitely die!”
The European Union, which considered private property sacred and inviolable, was extremely repulsed by Bai Mo’s proposed allocation system. They believed he was a destroyer of the entire world order, and thus immediately suggested using the secret death squads cultivated by various nations, based on Ning Yan Huo’s example.
“The Daoization Tribulation catalyst can at most be used to expend some of his power. It’s impossible to kill him with just this.” Chen Bo considered his own situation, and then came to this conclusion.
“Reason?”
“Even if twenty Fourth Tier perfect catalysts self-destructed simultaneously, they would barely be able to injure me, far from killing me, let alone hoping to kill him.” He directly used himself as a reference, refuting the other party’s statement.
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“Where’s Teach? Why didn’t he come?” Joseph, sitting in the first row of the meeting, was asked this question by Shi Hua Chong, who sat opposite him.
“He thinks we’re just wasting time. He went directly to the Australian continent.” Facing Shi Hua Chong, who appeared significantly stronger than himself, Joseph didn’t put on his usual disdainful face towards people of color; he answered the other party’s question quite patiently.
Of course, the fundamental issue was that Joseph had not yet reached the Six Tiers. He was still merely a Five Tiers ability user. Any likes, dislikes, or preferences had to step aside in the face of power.
“You’ve arrived?” Standing on Uluru, the landmark of the Australian continent, Bai Mo looked at the man who had arrived on foot.
“Why did I fail? Is it merely because I wasn’t strong enough?” After disappearing from the man-made nation of Ji Si Ti Si for over a year, a haggard Hou Zi arrived in Australia, asking Bai Mo for what he believed to be the answer.
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