Chapter 900: Joint Declaration, The Most Desperate Alliance! |
Nie Jiu Tian leaned back in his chair, feeling the threads of the world, and the world within his own heart seemed to freeze in that moment.
The Dragon Group members around him understood what was happening with him, so one by one, they acted as if he didn't exist, continuing with the work at hand.
The clatter of keyboards, the sounds of quarrels, the noisy rustling of documents piled up like a tide, and everything around seemed to have hit the fast-forward button, rapidly passing by.
Invisible, formless ripples centered on those nodes washed over the world again and again, silently influencing the thoughts and emotions of all of humanity.
No more propaganda or specific announcements were needed. People across the globe had unknowingly already accepted the fact that the gods were about to descend.
They would lead this world into a brand new phase.
For a time, people's hearts were unsettled. All kinds of emotions and thoughts were stirred up by the divine might spreading layer by layer. Once chaos and madness began, they only grew more intense.
On the first day, people were frantically discussing what was happening in the game, what the game would become, and what the world would become.
On the second day, all kinds of rumors about the gods and the game had already spread across the entire globe, with a dizzying variety.
Listening to the voices of the world, Nie Jiu Tian could clearly sense what They were planning.
You think that this way, before you even have to come, this world will already be finished, don't you...
"All kinds of terrorist attacks are becoming more and more frequent. We can't effectively reinforce them. The governance and order of society are on the verge of collapse."
"Foreign nations believe our organizational system is well-established and keep sending us requests for help, but the truth is, we're about to collapse too!"
The Dragon Group members bickered and argued around him. No one had any experience with this kind of civil unrest that affected all of humanity.
"Then let it collapse!"
Suddenly, a voice like a great bell exploded in the room.
Nie Jiu Tian woke up!
His hands gripped the armrests of the chair, and his body slowly straightened up. Whether it was an illusion or not, his frame at this moment seemed unusually tall and straight, as if beneath the black robe was a sturdy, young body.
His voice also lost some of its aged and feeble feeling, becoming instead full of domineering authority and robust energy.
"The barriers and protective mechanisms of society have been shattered. If a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes still refuses to grow up now, then it can only die in the cruel natural selection."
"Grand Elder..." Looking at the Grand Elder who had suddenly stood up and spoken, the surrounding Dragon Group members couldn't help but lose their voices for a moment.
They had always heard that among the Dragon Group elders, this Grand Elder was the strongest.
But every time he wanted to enter his peak state, what he consumed was his own lifespan...
Nie Jiu Tian waved his hand, signaling that they didn't need to worry about him.
"But... are we just going to do nothing?" a Dragon Group member asked, his voice trembling slightly.
"Of course not!" Nie Jiu Tian's words were now firm and resolute.
"But in fact, in this world, even knowing the true nature of the game and the real faces of the gods, those who firmly want to resist and those who firmly want to surrender are both very few."
"They are all minorities, maybe less than one-tenth of all humanity. The remaining nine-tenths of humanity have no real stance of their own."
"They don't think they should have a stance, they have no faith, and they don't think they should make a choice. They willingly put on the hat of 'ordinary people' and stay in a vague, intermediate state."
"Perhaps they've always thought that whoever wins will be their savior, and they can just naturally gravitate toward them."
"But now, there's no such opportunity. This isn't the era of feudal emperors, where swapping a ruler still leaves the common people as common people."
"They must make a choice between surrender and resistance. If they don't choose, the world will force them to."
Yes, because if they don't choose, they will die just the same.
The surrender faction wants to use their heads as sacrifices offered to the gods, while those who resist simply have no time to protect them.
As for the gods, it's even simpler. The gods themselves need them to increase their power.
The entire Dragon Group fell silent. No one spoke. They all put down the work in their hands.
"But..." someone finally spoke up, "before this, we've always hidden the truth about CHOSEN'S PARADISE! from the people."
"Isn't it because, if they knew the truth, facing that kind of irresistible divine power, everyone might become the surrender faction..."
Yes, ordinary people, looking at superhumans, already felt like they were a different species.
Superhumans, looking at people like "Sin," felt like they were gazing up at the vast sky, and "Sin" himself had little power to resist before the gods.
"But by now, they should be able to know what the real outcome of being ruled by the gods is." Nie Jiu Tian said calmly.
Humanity would become like those NPCs in the game, tortured, toyed with, thrown from one scenario to another, to satisfy the gods' need for energy.
Then die and be reborn, reborn and die, in an endless cycle, becoming true nourishment.
"If they all choose to surrender, then that is... humanity's choice!"
After he finished speaking, he turned and walked toward the door, saying to the Dragon Group members behind him:
"Contact the entire globe! Begin the announcement and declaration!"
The Dragon Group members heard these words, and their bodies all shuddered in unison. Their eyes held a mix of complexity and melancholy.
Has it come to this? The final hour of humanity.
...
Modern civilization had already entered an era of chaos. In every corner of the world, there was hardly a single true sanctuary.
Suddenly, at a certain point in time, all electronic devices capable of connecting to electromagnetic frequency signals turned on simultaneously!
Those with screens lit up automatically, and those without screens had their speakers emit sounds.
On a large network screen, dozens or even hundreds of frequency band boxes flickered, as if an online meeting was being held, except that all participants had turned on screen sharing.
Anyone within China could clearly see that on one of the largest screens in the middle, the person was wearing the black robe with golden patterns of the Dragon Group's Council of Elders!
That person was none other than Nie Jiu Tian!
The whole world was stunned. People still hadn't understood what this meant.
Then, a voice rang out from the screens, as if everyone was speaking at the same time:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are all the official superhuman organizations from every region around the globe. You may have heard of us, or you may have only thought of us as a legend."