Chapter 381: The Network
"Judge everyone? You must be insane, do you even know how many people were involved in the Red Radiance Rebellion?! Do you know how many have violated laws in the past ten years?! If society suddenly loses so many of its working population, it will absolutely collapse!"
Regardless of the reason, Cheng Mu felt it necessary to continue debating with Bai Mo. He didn't want this nation, which he had dedicated his life's efforts to, to be played with like a toy until it collapsed. Power was one thing; Huaxia was also the motherland he had lived in his entire life.
"You still don't understand. Once the Destiny System begins operating, it will replace the vast majority of social relationships, becoming the network hub connecting everyone. Individual entities are merely external devices that can be plugged and unplugged at will; their addition or removal will not affect the network itself."
"Like the internet as a whole, whether one terminal computer is missing, or a hundred million are missing, what difference does it make? You can use a wall to isolate a billion people from the internet, but the internet will still be as lively as ever."
Upon hearing this, everyone present felt a chill run down their spine. To be treated as a mobile terminal that could be plugged and unplugged at will, even if a large one, was certainly not a pleasant sensation.
"You have never considered humanity to be your kin?"
"You yourselves, by a myriad of standards like region, custom, skin color, bloodline, race, and political views, have carved out countless small circles, but nearly all conflicts arise from this. I find it too troublesome, so I've left only one core classification—myself, and everything else."
"What's more, who among you has ever truly treated those below you equally? You merely classify them into various grades based on closeness and distance. At least I treat them all equally; they are all 'external devices.'"
An internet without a self is already capable of "binding" countless people to it through various devices, causing them to indulge in it daily. Now, an "internet" that possesses a self and overwhelming power—to what extent it can go is an unimaginable matter.
He had only entered the Fifth Tier less than two years ago, and his life as a superior being at the apex of the pyramid was far from fully enjoyed. Suddenly, a madman appeared, claiming that because everyone must be equal, they should all become system slaves together. How could he tolerate that?!
"It seems someone hasn't recognized the disparity."
Facing this almost suicidal burst attack, Bai Mo merely extended a finger. White light erupted furiously from his fingertip, instantly enveloping the five fire dragons that were still baring their fangs and claws as they charged. Then, little by little, he forced them back into the opponent's body.
He then used the same method as when he dealt with Zhao Feiyan: a single finger, ignoring all defenses, struck directly into the forehead, then unleashed an information storm, directly obliterating the self-identity of the enemy who dared to attack. A brand new living dead person was thus created.
This Spirit Art, named "The Absolute Dissolution Art" by Bai Mo, was built upon his terrifying application of psionics. At the molecular level, through psionic interference with a series of forces like Van der Waals forces, hydrogen bonds, and ionic bonds between molecules, it tore matter into individual molecules.
Except for certain ultra-high-energy substances, this Spirit Art could, on a macroscopic scale, reduce nearly all solids existing on Earth into molecular-sized particles.
"You're using a technique I devised against me? And you didn't even bother to change it." Bai Mo recognized at a glance that this was a Spirit Art he had conceived three years ago. Believing he wouldn't have many opportunities to use it, he had casually stored it in the research facility's database.
Then, the Youth Alliance, which had fully taken over the Tianqing research facility, began rapidly arming themselves with the contents of the database, preparing for their struggle for power.
"You planted contingencies in everything?!" Seeing one of his top generals instantly killed, Wei Wuya, who had temporarily been promoted to leader, asked in shock.
Because Zhao Feiyan, who had been instantly killed earlier, was also a member of the alliance, it couldn't help but make him suspect there were backdoors. Nearly every high-ranking member of the alliance had absorbed more or less from the database. If Bai Mo had truly left hidden passages in everything, that would be a terrifying prospect.
"Weak is weak; there are no secret passages to speak of."
At the time, the attack by the Red Radiance cultists came too abruptly. Bai Mo only had time to activate the Dark Spirit Rice as a contingency, leaving himself a final escape route if necessary. As for other arrangements, he simply had no time to make them.
"If there are no further issues, then I shall end this farce early." He cast a meaningful glance at Chen Bo.
After the three and a half entities who could truly be considered enemies chose to temporarily withdraw, the so-called challenge to the entire world became a performance with an already predetermined outcome.
Whether it was the Red Radiance cultists, who suppressed and toyed with the entire world by themselves, or Gaia, who silently controlled destiny from behind the scenes, their powers were beyond anything Earth's lifeforms could resist.
Even Bai Mo, powerful enough at the time to confront dozens of Fifth Tiers simultaneously, could actually only last less than ten hours. In the end, it was only by relying on the Soul Crystal left behind by the luminous figure from a parallel world that he barely managed to find a way to turn the tables.
Of course, had it not been for the twists and turns before the Golden Apple's birth, he would have long since embarked on the path of devouring all of humanity, becoming a super-lifeform like Ying Huo. However, that is a story from another parallel world.
At this moment, Chen Bo was still struggling internally, debating whether to reveal his final trump card, to unleash the super-construct built with the might of an entire nation, a super-construct capable of concentrating half the power of nearly half of the nation's Third Tier and above superhumans...
"Don't even think about it. That thing can only be used for ten minutes; it definitely won't be enough." "So what if it's ten minutes? We absolutely cannot tolerate such a madman!" "It's only five years. Just bear with it. He hasn't pushed us to the brink." "This is boiling a frog in warm water. Five years from now, do you think anything will be able to escape his grasp?"
Chen Bo, caught in an internal struggle, had countless thoughts swirling in his mind. At this moment, there was simply too much for him to consider. Various interests, his own plans for the future, the world's future trajectory—all of these flashed rapidly through his thoughts.
All those behind him who were privy to the situation silently awaited the final decision: to fight, or to surrender.
"Are you wondering whether or not to use that colossal construct made of mithril?" Bai Mo smiled, voicing the greatest secret in everyone's hearts.
"How could you know?!" Though they didn't voice it directly, the astonishment in their eyes betrayed their inner thoughts.
"In this world, there's very little I want to know for which I cannot find an answer. The Jingshi Shengmie Jinlian... its original name should be the Jingshi Shengmie Titan, shouldn't it?" He continued, speaking of what he had observed through the Sky Net.
"Is it you?" Bai Mo muttered to himself. He was over eighty percent certain that behind the prototype design of this thing lay the support of the most mysterious Creator.
"Impossible! This is a design our institute completed entirely independently; there's no such thing as an original name for it; it only has this one name!" As the new director of the Spirit Energy Research Institute, Long Chaoqing vehemently denied Bai Mo's absurd claims.
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