Free Web NovelChapter 793: Chapter 702: New Nara City Speedrun Record (4)
Meme pollution.
Almost immediately, Xu Xiaoyou linked this keyword.
Polluted knowledge, fear mutation, collective consciousness spread through the veil.
Army ants... death spiral... missing task force members, the brain in the subway station, Solomon.
Memories from many years ago surfaced in Xu Xiaoyou’s mind; she noticed these anomalies in the initial simulation drill.
At first, she thought it was a system error causing the Insect Race to show symptoms of ’disorder’. Bai Youyou hadn’t noticed anything abnormal; after a fruitless deep investigation, she no longer focused on it.
Chichu Chun mentioned the subway brain to her, but until the High Sky Battle broke out, the enemy never revealed any moves related to that brain.
A terrifying conjecture formed in Xu Xiaoyou’s mind.
’Family concept’ is precisely spread through the veil network.
For a moment, Xu Xiaoyou’s thinking became clearer. That’s why the process of spreading could be so covert, large enough to cover a city with a million population.
Logically, Chichu Chun, as the network surrogate of the Insect Race, should be able to feel connections in such large-scale meme pollution.
Unless, those infected Insect Race, like Chichu Chun, are independent of the original Insect Race network.
——The third network.
Or rather, they are simply not under ’higher will’ control.
Xu Xiaoyou caught the breakthrough point.
Her intuition told her,
It’s all related to that brain.
If that’s the case... that’s the worst outcome.
Xu Xiaoyou directly called her own house:
"Get our people to surround the New Sharp TV Tower."
"Miss Xu..." a young man’s slightly hesitant voice came from the other side.
"Immediately have the troops stationed around the city lock down this city, as quickly as possible!" Xu Xiaoyou emphasized loudly.
Seemingly never having seen the girl in such a strong tone, Chichu Qiu responded after a moment of silence.
"Understood, the overall situation is in your hands before then, Sister Xu Xiaoyou."
"Don’t just stand there." Xu Xiaoyou looked at the stunned gang members in the meeting room.
"Get your people moving, I want the city streets cleared in thirty minutes; without my order, citizens must not go out, the ban will last until I decide to lift it!"
"Then, have your private armed forces surround the TV Tower, don’t let them leave, search the entire city for all registered employees of the TV Tower, I don’t want to see any negligence."
The gang leaders were still shocked at Xu Xiaoyou’s ability to command her house’s troops with just a verbal instruction; the previously casual, mild-mannered blonde girl now seemed like a completely different person, swift and authoritarian.
"Didn’t you hear?"
Xu Xiaoyou’s face turned cold and stern,
"If there’s any mishap today, without needing my house, I won’t let any of you off."
The girl’s full aura made it hard to breathe, until Longban Saburo came to his senses first, turned to his subordinates, and shouted orders.
"What are you waiting for, get to it!"
In an instant, the gang members in the conference room collectively snapped to action, issuing orders and moving out.
Across the entire city’s perspective, orderly convoys surged forth, heavily modified motorcycles burst out from underground garages, gang members with painted faces shouted as they revved up, violently driving away lingering citizens, and on the streets, gang members rode in parallel.
This would be a carnival of violence and indulgence. Suppressed for so long, the gang members cheered and vented, looking crazed, their power reaching a peak at this moment, as they received orders to spare no means!
"You, this..." Chichu Chun momentarily looked at the familiar blond face, feeling somewhat estranged.
Xu Xiaoyou stood at the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the chaotic streets below. Sirens, shouts. People looking frightened, biker gangs like predators locking onto sheep, driving the clueless into pens. Under the haze-covered sky, people scattered, fled, like the tide ebbing and flowing, traffic began losing control, everything transitioned from orderly to chaotic, then back to orderly under violence and suppression.
Her reflection gradually emerged, strikingly noticeable were her emotionless golden eyes.
"I can’t miss any more chances..." Xu Xiaoyou murmured softly.
In a daze, Chichu Chun returned to the cinema from years ago, the silhouette of the blonde girl in front of him gradually coinciding with the Secretary-General in his memory from United Day.
Fate twisting its art, absurd trajectories proving one by one, witnessing everything.
The other party is no longer the familiar Xu Xiaoyou he knew; she has stood at the peak of the world’s power.
Half an hour later, at three in the afternoon, city streets had been cleared, gun-wielding thugs had occupied every district, masked thugs stood atop cars, firing celebratory shots into the air, celebrating this sudden carnival. Burning vehicles lay scrapped at intersections, hospitals became refuges. Citizens hadn’t realized what happened before being driven into homes, signals and networks were cut off, and gun-wielding, stern-talking gang members stationed in corridors.
As military vehicles gradually entered the city, order reformed at the fastest rate after the collapse, looking at the provocative gazes of gang members on both sides of the street, a soldier’s face was full of indignation, wanting to fire a few shots, but was stopped by soldiers beside him who shook their heads.
"Shit, does that Dark Gold Rose really think she’s the Secretary-General?" a soldier cursed angrily.
"Creating this farce today, I want to see how she ends it; the whole world will laugh at us!"
"Anybody would think Chichu Heaven is her backyard, total disdain for humanity!"
"I bet that lunatic will end up dying on the trial stand, before the eyes of her beloved, people will cheer loudly!"
"Say no more, the house’s stance is very clear, the current goal is to lock down, avoid conflicts with those gangs, settle accounts later."
Military vehicles reached their destination, and the imposing TV tower came into view, soldiers disembarked quickly, taking over the lockdown work.
Under the TV Tower, after-work employees stood dazed, some white-collar workers stepped forward to confront soldiers righteously, only to be knocked down by a rifle butt and retreated in anger and shame.
"What’s going on, why did suddenly locked down?"
"I don’t know, finally got off work, what’s going on, I just booked yoga..."
"Kevin, help me cancel the restaurant reservation, something happened."
"Wait, you said the city is locked down, but my wife and kids..."
"Just do your job." A soldier shrugged, kicked open the barricade, and jumped off the vehicle holding a gun.
Several soldiers on the vehicle followed suit, helicopters flew overhead, the engine’s roar circled above.
"Dark Gold Rose." Chichu Qiu’s voice came through the communication channel, sharper than usual.
"You should be very aware of the negative impact this will have; let’s hope you can account for it to the public after it’s over."
Xu Xiaoyou stood under the TV Tower, her presence here meant the lock had formed on the TV Tower.
She took a deep breath and slowly closed her eyes.
She could hear the restraint and patience in the other’s words; presumably, the young man’s chest held back anger at this moment.
But she didn’t have time to argue much further.
It wasn’t yet clear the specific scope of the ’family concept’ spread via radio; if it had already reached considerable scale, violently locking down the city was the best response.
She must minimize potential dangers, for this she could bear infamy, spare no means.
