Free Web NovelChapter 1298: Chapter 499: Chu Yan (Part 2)
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Soft footsteps sounded, and from the darkness of the corner, a tall and sharp figure slowly emerged.
Chu Yan’s face was indifferent, as if devoid of any emotional color. She walked to stand in front of Hua Xiaoling and calmly said, "Aren’t you worried that I’ll disrupt your plan?"
Hua Xiaoling smiled slightly, speaking unhurriedly, "What plan? Is it to protect Lin Xian’s safety? To accelerate negotiations with the Phoenix Society? Or is it the plan to strive to preserve a spark of human civilization?"
She slowly got up and calmly walked to the side, pouring herself a cup of water, speaking without turning her head,
"The duller a person is, the more they need a stance, need emotions, need class opposition. Throughout history, leaders who change dynasties have all utilized this. When our enemy is no longer human, no longer a force our civilization can contend with, emotions, stances, classes, religions become meaningless."
Hua Xiaoling turned, took a sip of water, and looked at Chu Yan blandly, "Only science."
Seeing Chu Yan silent, she asked back,
"You should be grateful for losing the perception of pain. Although it still troubles us, now you should more easily understand our direction."
Chu Yan sneered, "Yes, seeking survival through submission is indeed a survival strategy."
Upon hearing this, Hua Xiaoling showed no emotion but responded blandly, "Know cats? They share some characteristics with humans: sensitive, insecure, self-assuming intelligence. Under certain circumstances, cats are indeed high-level hunters, but curiously, those agile, quick-reacting, self-thinking clever cats are the most often killed by cars on the road. In contrast, dogs won’t be; they see a huge car and know to evade, because dogs know they cannot defeat a car, and cars are just passing by..."
Chu Yan looked up at her, "Seems you’re quite confident that the Tower People will ’spare’ us?"
Hua Xiaoling shook her head at this, "You’re wrong. Blue Star is merely a sanctuary for the Tower People to catch their breath and stage a comeback. They don’t care whether humanity becomes extinct or Blue Star is destroyed."
She turned, "Do you know why so many scientists join and recognize us? Because the Civilization Preview Ball separates their pain, and pain causes people to lose reason. Now, absolute reason allows them to perceive directly: resistance is pointless. On the contrary, recognizing the Master or recognizing the big picture from a scientific civilization’s perspective can preserve more of human civilization. If you hadn’t resisted madly, the tragedies of Colorado and Hakko wouldn’t have happened, regardless of whether humanity chooses ideology or Angel Fusion; for our civilization, it’s a huge leap forward. The whole Blue Star is elevating dimensionally; only intelligent species can continue; and intelligent species know we... have no other option."
"So what you need is for me to reconnect Lin Xian, or help you find him, and cut off his pain?" Chu Yan asked sternly.
Hua Xiaoling replied, "Did you notice? We won’t harm him. What we want is just to make him more rational, able to see more truths. Is that a bad thing, or does the Phoenix Society not want survivors to see the truth?"
"Last question." Chu Yan looked at her, "Why Lin Xian?"
Chu Yan stared at Hua Xiaoling, seeming to try to find a trace of subtlety in her eyes.
Hua Xiaoling lowered her gaze, smiled, and pondered for a moment before saying, "I won’t lie to you, nor am I obliged to disclose more detailed information, since you are still part of the Phoenix Society. However... I can very clearly tell you, the power within Lin Xian doesn’t belong to the High Tower Civilization, nor to human civilization. It might be a gamble of higher civilizations, but no matter what... never consider yourself a player, much less a pawn!"
She raised her head, her expression turning cold, "So Lin Xian’s life or death isn’t important. What we’re stopping..."
"Is his whimsical thoughts!"
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"From a human perspective?"
In the empty conference room, Lin Xian murmured to himself. It was unclear how long it had been, but Shi Weidong and others still stood by. Seeing him awaken, they all became alert.
"Is it over?" KIKI looked at Lin Xian, whose expression was both confused and complex, and was the first to ask.
Lin Xian looked at the Rehearsal Ball in his hand, his eyes somewhat vacant.
"How long did I watch?" Lin Xian asked.
"Four hours," Song Wei said, "Your state seems a bit off, maybe you should rest."
Lin Xian looked outside the conference room. In the bunker hall, the lights were busy, and at the passage, wounded were still being transported in. Meanwhile, affected by the scarlet, the power system here seemed unstable, with lights flickering occasionally, filling the air with extreme oppression.
"The main purpose of Post 374 is to investigate the Hakko Battlefield and Noah. Finding you is also part of the task," Shi Weidong said at this moment, "If you want, I can arrange a team at any time to escort you south. Just pass through the Amazon Jungle and Pampas Plateau, and Ushuaia has our interstellar army’s million soldiers stationed; you’ll be safe there."
"Are you sure you can escape the scarlet?" Lin Xian asked.
Raymond cleared his throat and said seriously, "Certainly not entirely confident; there’s all sorts of strange things in the scarlet. Let alone the Abnormal Body, even those mutated scarlet zombies have deadly power beyond what we’ve previously encountered. And there’s also the Hunting Body... that thing in the scarlet is like a Hunter, coming and going without a trace; Superpower Users with Spirit Vibration Value below twenty thousand will die almost definitely upon encounter; teamwork’s needed. But more lethal is... resource scarcity!"
Lin Xian suddenly nodded, "If it weren’t for this Tongshi Device with dark frequency powered by Blood Essence, everything else would rot; even water would be undrinkable."
"That’s right." Shi Weidong nodded, "Everyone’s facing this issue nowadays. More survivors are heading to polar areas to seek refuge; water resources are relatively fine in Kunlun City, but polar areas are originally lacking food supplies, and it’s freezing cold. Our Phoenix Society’s farming bases must build energy-supply greenhouses, but no matter how many greenhouses, they cannot support millions." freewebnoveℓ.com
Lin Xian slightly furrowed his brow, "The Descent Faction knows this too, so both ocean transport Noah and land transport train group got ambushed?"
"Yes, even now, Holy City Army’s still interfering with our search for Noah’s remaining resources." Raymond relit a cigarette, and through swirling smoke, he spat fiercely, "Those bastards, can’t survive themselves, yet try every means to block our survival paths. Good people helping damn aliens, goddammit!"
KIKI saw his mood improve slightly, and then tilted her head slightly, returning to the main topic, "And this game, have you finished watching it?"
Lin Xian nodded, "High Tower Civilization... speaking of which, that floating giant corpse?"
"Should be the [Angel], deceased," KIKI said.
"Deceased?"
KIKI shrugged and said, "Director Ding mentioned to me before she left that she suspected Abnormal Bodies might be High Tower Civilization utilizing Angel genes, then combining biological proteins from deceased humans or animals to ’manufacture’ a predatory army. Remember when leaving Akse, she collected many Abnormal Body tissues, finding they were all materials compressed from human tissue?"
"Then the Giant Ocean God we encountered at Sea Rock is probably also related to the [Angel] remains," Lin Xian caught his breath, "No wonder the Foundation named it Uniga 1..."
"How’s it feel, watching it all—brainwashed by High Level Civilization, or even more hopeless about our future?" KIKI asked, looking at Lin Xian.
Upon these words, everyone’s gaze in the conference room fell peculiarly on Lin Xian.
Seeing their eyes, Lin Xian immediately asked, "This game isn’t watched by everyone, right?"
