"Who is he?"
"The game is over? What do you mean? What game is it exactly?"
"Hey, hey, hey. Are you a worker on the bridge? Did the meteoroid shower break through the shell of the starship? Send someone to repair it now. We need to continue the celebration!"
The people who had been caught in confusion and panic a moment ago regained their innocence when they saw that somebody was' responsible 'for them. They started yelling like spoiled children.
The flowers that grew up in the sterile rooms had never experienced the darkness and ugliness of the outside world. They could not imagine what evil looked like at all and what people such as Lu Qingchen, the King of Puppets, thought when evil was bred.
In the middle of the skyscrapers, in the middle of the hundreds of giant flashing walls, the fat man with the weird black spot at the center of his eyebrow had deep pity in his eyes, too.
He seemed to be feeling sad and angry for his ignorant compatriots, for their misfortune, and for their incompetence.
"I'm sorry. There will be no celebration, no flowers, no food, and no wine. There will be no workers to help you restore order. Your so-called order and your beautiful life will be gone forever."
The black spot at the center of the fat man's eyebrow gradually extended toward his eyebrows, making his round eyes look even deeper, like two black swirls. "It's because I've just blown up your 'circulator'. Yes. The perfect magical equipment that claimed to provide energy and assets incessantly was completely blown up a minute ago."
The picture flashed. A corner of the shell of Eternal Brightness appeared on dozens of giant light beams.
It could be seen that a shocking hole had been blown through the starship. Countless scraps, fuel, and broken limbs of the crew members congregated into a fountain of steel and blood that spurted into the dark vacuum, only to be frozen, shattered, and obliterated very soon.
"Look. There's nothing left."
The fat man smiled and opened his hands, speaking in the most casual way.
Silence. The crowd that had been noisy and agitated a moment ago seemed to have been mired in an enormous nightmare the next moment. It was even more silent than a grave.
All the residents of Light City were dumbfounded. Their hearts were frozen, and they almost forgot to breathe.
For them, the 'circulator' was like a sky that would never collapse and a sun that would never die out. Their beautiful life, even the tiny happiness of survival, depended on the functioning of the 'circulator'. Nobody had ever thought about what they should do if the 'circulator' broke down. Everybody told each other that the 'circulator' was absolutely reliable and would never break down.
But what they saw right now was ten thousand times worse than a breakdown.
The 'circulator' — the 'circulator' had been blown up by the lunatic!
The entire city of Guangming City fell into a dead silence. Everyone was so despondent that they forgot to react. After a full minute, someone finally burst into tears. Soon, the sound of crying joined together. When a spoiled child was faced with a problem that he could not solve, bawling was his only reaction.
"Why are you so sad? Even if the 'circulator' has been running at a super high speed, it is just a camouflage to deceive you. It cannot provide a single grain of food, a single screw, or a single crystal the size of a fingernail."
The fat man in the picture said peacefully, "It's been three hundred years. For three hundred years, you and your ancestors have been mired in a big lie and ended up as ignorant experiment subjects without knowing it. There was no 'war that involved the entire universe' at all. The world outside was not polluted or destroyed. No. You are not the 'last human beings'. You are just monkeys in an iron cage in a zoo.
"Somebody locked you in this goddamn starship and fed you until you were fat just to harvest your souls, observe your reactions, and test the methods that can turn the proud human beings who are full of self-will into … a cluster of moving rotten meat in the fastest, most stable, and most efficient way.
"You don't believe me? With everything coming to this point, are you still going to deceive yourself and ignore the suspicious points that can be seen everywhere around the city? Open your eyes wide and take a good look at this! "
Shua! Shua!
Shua! The picture changed again to the scene when the Eternal Light was just built hundreds of years ago.
Tremendous ideas and implementation details of the Eternal Light Project were falling from the walls of the skyscrapers like a waterfall of data.
It included the pictures where a lot of human beings were struggling in the metal cocoons and being sent to the City of Light after being brainwashed.
Simple brainwashing was not enough to build firm beliefs. At first, many people did not believe that the outside world had been completely destroyed. Some of them even thought that they would try their best to rebuild the world even if it was destroyed.
Those people were all filtered out and sent out of the Eternal Light to be 'processed'.
The only people left behind were those whose willpower was weak, who were content with the status quo, and who hated risks. Generation after generation, they lived and reproduced in this place, becoming more and more carefree and heartless. Eventually, they became what they were today.
"That — that — that's impossible!"
The faces of the residents of the City of Light were still stained by the traces of the battle on the cake just now, but the fat below the cake was already shivering crazily. Tears were flowing out of their eyes uncontrollably because of shock and fear. Like pigs that had not realized that they had come to a slaughterhouse until they were tied up on a conveyor belt, they could not help but exclaim, "Impossible! This is impossible!"
"I understand your shock. Your head must be blank right now. So, I'll allow you to be dumbfounded for ten seconds. But remember, your time is very precious. Survival is a race against time. You have ten seconds at most. Cherish your right of survival."
The pattern at the center of the flawless fatty's eyebrows changed again. He seemed to be using the black spot to replace the regular gestures. Very soon, he retrieved hundreds of other pictures, all of which were about the current situation of the Imperium and the Holy League.
The gray fog, the cold space, the complicated and rusty pipes, and the "soldier bees" and "worker bees" in raincoats or chemical suits.
The gathering, clashes, explosions, and destruction of thousands of starships. The experts stomped on the sea of stars and shattered the vacuum with their Colossi. The fluttering flags of a hundred thousand square kilometers ignited the fire in everybody's heart.
On the splendid Empyreal Terminus Sector, countless cities were connected and swallowed the mountains and basins. Even ten thousand meters below the ground, the splendid traces of human beings could still be found. The population was ten thousand times more than the population on the Eternal Brightness!
The shocking pictures congregated into a destructive torrent, blowing everything that the residents of the City of Light believed in into pieces.
"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! "
Their faces were full of confusion. Their mouths were opened to the maximum, and they could only scream crazily, not knowing where to go at all.
"Do you see? This is the real world. Although it is dark, cruel, bloody, and filled with crazy flames of war, it is only in such a way that the greatest strength of mankind can be unleashed in the most intense collisions, the most painful sufferings, and the most blissful moments. It is indescribable and cannot be measured by any super crystal processor. It is the power of feelings and the great power of humanity!"
The black spot between the fatty's eyebrows turned into an enormous exclamation mark.
Then, he bowed to the residents of the City of Light who were extremely confused and overwhelmed. "I almost forgot to introduce myself. You may call me 'King of Puppets'. I am your compatriot. I am a warrior who is unwilling to yield to any power or be bound by any restraint. I swear that I will explore the greatest strength of humanity at any cost and push the pride of mankind to the limits. I will go against the entire universe all by myself!
"I want to save you. I want to shatter the goddamn cage and the laboratory. I want you to recover the appearance of real human beings so that you can live on proudly and fight to the end!
"However …
"The great name 'human' is not something that you are born with, and it is not something that can be tarnished by any walking dead. We are not born with the qualification to be the 'soul of all things'. Can you really become real human beings? Are you really worth my efforts to save? Hehe. That will depend on your performance in the future.
"Fight. For yourselves, for the pride of the great human beings, fight with your instincts!
"This is the rule. Listen carefully. I will only repeat it once.
"The 'circulator' has been shattered by me. Of course, even when it was intact, it could not provide any resources. All the resources that you have squandered in the past hundreds of years were imported from the outside world. They are like bananas that are fed to monkeys.
"However, now that I have caused such large-scale damage on Eternal Light, I believe that the 'Eternal Light Project' will come to an end soon. You will probably end up as common 'worker bees' and be sent to the mines or the bottom floor of the starship to work until you die, right?
"Right. Judging from your fat and osteoporosis, you do not seem to be capable of high-intensity work. In order to avoid wasting resources, perhaps you will be directly 'disposed' of? Well, that is very likely. It is like cleaning the petri dishes after an experiment.
"All in all, you are basically dead meat.
"Do you want to live? Do you want to … really live? There is only one way.
"Look, this is the structural design of Eternal Light. This is the route to the bridge and the key cabins. I've already hacked into the bridge. I can open all the gates on the way to the bridge at will. Charge into the bridge, seize the starship, and seize all the escape capsules while I'm at it!
"I know that you don't know the first thing about starships. It doesn't matter. I will monitor the whole process and help you.
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