Chapter 174
In the following period of time, Ye Bai completed three identity changes in the eyes of TEDA people: "a madman who came out of nowhere", "a madman with some strength", and "seemingly... not a madman".
Through the manipulation and control of her mental power, Ye Bai extracted the metal, electronic components, and sensing devices inside the building on the spot, and made them into nano-scale micro drones that were completely under her control - this was just the most basic technology in the ether laboratory of the "Black Hole".
After releasing her mental power, these micro drones turned into her outstretched hands. With the help of strong force, gravity, and magnetism, they began to rapidly transform the landmark building below her, which was used only for joint meetings of the three major consortiums.
"Have you found out?"
In the armed forces department, the person in charge, Lance, questioned the intelligence personnel.
"No." The intelligence officer scratched his head. "This person's appearance is similar to many people, but the exact same face has never appeared in any surveillance footage. It's possible that he's recently undergone biological modification, perhaps plastic surgery or a sex change."
"Can't you find the match in the purchase records of Rola's potion?" Lance frowned and asked immediately.
In order to maintain the most basic stability in TEDA society, the chaebols allow every citizen to receive a free minimum-strength Rola potion when registering their household registration as an adult. However, the probability of becoming a superpower by using that special potion is extremely small, and who will be the lucky one to awaken is basically completely under the control of the pharmaceutical company.
In order to get an upgrade, one must continue to purchase higher-quality potions. This is how the huge debts of most Terran people came about. Newborns at the lower levels may even be burdened with the genetic potion debts of the previous generation or even two generations at birth.
Therefore, no matter how small the chance is, almost no Terran will miss the first free Rola Potion.
The intelligence officer shook his head after hearing Lance's words: "That's exactly what I was saying. The first thing we compared was the purchase records of Rola, but the result was, no. I suspect... the other party has never used Rola potion at all."
"I haven't used the Rola potion..." Lance's face turned completely ugly. "Are you saying that lunatic is a natural born with superpowers? And his strength is at the Heavenly Rank?"
"That's most likely the case." The intelligence officer nodded.
Even though most Terrans need Rola's assistance in making breakthroughs in their mental power, the individual differences in each ethnic group determine that there will always be some geniuses. Of course, there are geniuses among the Terrans who are born with special abilities (mental power), such as the original chaebol ancestors, and Lance in front of him.
Because of this, Lance, who was born an ordinary person, was exempted from all debts after he was born with an earth-level talent. He was carefully trained by the income group, and within 20 years he became the head of the armed department area, and he also had a partner who was a member of a chaebol family.
"An unrecorded natural celestial rank..." Just as Lance was contemplating various conspiracy angles to guess Ye Bai's true identity, an urgent message came: "Minister, the advance team has all been killed."
Lance took a deep breath. "What's going on?! That person hasn't interrupted the live broadcast signal. Aside from the initial 887 and 932, no one else has approached the Teda Tower!"
"Yes, the advance team was killed before they even got close to the Taida Tower. They seem to be E4 weapons, no, like, that looks much more advanced... or maybe E5, which I don't know about? They've all been controlled by the enemy and are turning against us."
"How is that possible?!"
With his current identity and authority, Lance knows some inside information about the E-series weapons. This is the top-level individual assault machine manufactured by the "TEDA Armed Group", which is in charge of all weapons on TEDA Star, including nuclear weapons. It is a secret weapon used by the armed group to deal with people with special abilities.
The E4 driver key requires an extremely complex procedure to start. The fifth-generation E-series weapons are top secret of the armed group. Even Lance only knows about it and is not sure whether it has been manufactured.
But then, Lance saw the video footage sent by his men, and the expression on his face was quickly replaced by disbelief.
In the picture, E5 weapons, which look more powerful and advanced than E4 weapons, are guarding the Teda Tower like an army formation. High-energy laser beams divide the battlefield, and any enemy approaching that area will be attacked indiscriminately.
"How could it fail? How could the armed group allow these weapons to be driven by others?" If Lance still had the energy to think about Ye Bai's origins just now, he could no longer pay attention to these things now. He made an encrypted call with extremely high authority, and the other party was the real controller of the armed group.
“Sizzle…”
The communication was dead silent and no connection was made.
An ominous premonition enveloped Lance's heart, and then he received a new communication - from his partner who was born into a chaebol family.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
The moment the call was connected, a heart-wrenching scream was heard, followed by a voice of collapse:
"Dead! Grandfather, great-grandfather, second grandfather, my father, thirteenth uncle... they're all dead! It was that madman who killed them! That messenger of doom!"
Lance couldn't believe his ears. He stared blankly at the ceiling, and for a moment it seemed as if it had collapsed. It wasn't until he heard screams and questions from the other side that he finally woke up and asked:
"Where are the stand-ins? You alone have three stand-ins that I can't even tell apart. Where are their stand-ins?"
This question caused a moment of silence from the other side, and then a bewildered voice came: "I don't know, I don't know how they were found, I don't even know their specific whereabouts..."
There is no chaebol that does not pay attention to its own safety. Even if every member of the chaebol family uses the best Rola potion to become a superpower, each of them still has several substitutes that are difficult to distinguish between real and fake, which is enough to make the Terra people regard every assassination intelligence as fake news.
It can be said that even when members of a chaebol family meet each other, they may not be able to confirm whether the other person is the real person.
"There are also many voices that want them dead. I heard them."
At the same time, the live broadcast screen showed scenes of killings. The shadows that controlled the Teda Star have now become corpses.
Lance therefore confirmed that not only were the leaders of Rola Pharmaceutical Group, Energy Group and Armed Group assassinated, but it was not even by that mysterious man, but by that mysterious man who controlled the E5 weapon, accurately found the person and killed him remotely.
How could such hacking technology exist? If so... what is the current status of the armed groups' nuclear weapons?
Thinking of this, Lance suddenly shuddered all over. He now sincerely hoped that the person who knew the button was dead. Otherwise, if the button was pressed, where the nuclear bomb would finally land would not be decided by the person who pressed the button, but by the person who was broadcasting live.
Lance subconsciously looked up at the internal surveillance of the combat command center. There were two flashing red lights there. He suspected that his panic at the moment was also clearly visible to the other party.
At this moment, the countdown clock behind the other party was still ticking steadily, and there were less than thirty minutes left before the countdown began.
Lance's worries were unnecessary, because the locations of all the nuclear bombs on this planet were no longer a secret when Ye Bai just arrived, and had already been sent to Lin En as the first batch of spacecraft raw materials.
The nuclear weapons produced by the Earth-level civilization fell into Lin En's hands and could be easily disassembled and modified.
Of course, Ye Bai has done much more than what TEDA people know.
The people of TEDA are still at the earth-level civilization. Whether in terms of technology or the use of mental power, they are lagging behind interstellar technology. This gap in time is even greater than the gap between primitive people and the information age.
After returning from the divine realm, Ye Bai's strength has been greatly improved. Combined with advanced technology, the power that a high-level psychic can exert is overwhelming for the current technological level of Teda Star.
Ye Bai never left the TEDA Tower during the entire process. All the resources that the three major groups of armed forces, energy, and genes had stored on this planet since before the information age were remotely controlled by her.
A large amount of resources and energy were sent to an area that did not exist in any information equipment. It was Lin En's spaceship automated factory. The remaining small amount was left by Ye Bai under the completely transformed TEDA Tower.
Teda Tower and the headquarters of the three major groups have now become an absolute restricted area on Teda Star.
At the same time, the three major groups did not fall apart because of the collective death of the people behind the scenes. The senior and middle-level psychics in various departments of the groups took away all the manpower and resources they could take away, and Lance was one of them.
The energy and most advanced weapons that are difficult to take away are all controlled by Ye Bai. The resources these people took away are mainly Rola genetic medicine and a large amount of TEDA Star's currency standard - chromium gold.
The collapse of a system is not so easy. After the old chaebol members are eliminated, there are new chaebols... or future warlords who are eager to take the stage.
"Relax a little, dear." After thinking it over, Lance, the former Minister of Armed Forces, was the first to leave the Taida Tower with his most trusted men. He hugged his partner who looked more fragile than ever before, looking at the neon lights in the middle of the night, and an ambition that he had never had before arose in his heart.
"At least we still have weapons and money, money that won't be spent in thousands of years! These are passports to do whatever we want anywhere in Teda."
That night, while the entire Teda planet was in chaos, Lance slept exceptionally soundly.
The next day, Lance was woken by his partner's laughter, a completely insane laugh that jolted him awake in his sleep.
Lance was confused and looked hesitantly at his partner's back on the windowsill: "What's wrong?"
She smiled at him and said nothing, just motioning him to look at it himself.
Lance's heart was beating like a drum. He walked over and looked in the direction she pointed. What he saw was a dazzling blue and gold.
TEDA people like to pursue various high-rise buildings. The neon lights shining on these buildings at night create a unique urban landscape here.
Now, these steel pillars standing in the city, no matter what materials they were made of in the past, have all changed and become TEDA's hard currency precious metal chromium gold.
But now, when describing chrome gold, we need to add the adverbial phrase "once".
The reason why precious metals can become general equivalents is because of their scarcity. No civilization's currency is based on "stone" or "earth".
Amidst ambiguous laughter, Lance's partner turned on the TV. As expected, the monitor in the safe house he had reserved, which was not connected to the external network, was hijacked by the live broadcast from the Teda Tower after it was turned on.
Lance turned around at the sound of the voice and saw the mysterious man smiling on the screen. "Good morning, ambitious people who want to become the new chaebols, do you like the gift I prepared for you? Endless 'money'."
At this moment, Lance's ears were buzzing and he felt dizzy. This was a shock, or even fear, that he had not felt even yesterday when he learned that the chaebols had been collectively assassinated.
The impact of destroying individuals is only temporary. What really makes Lance feel extremely terrified at this moment is that the social system that he has always believed to be like the laws of nature is being destroyed and subverted.
...Perhaps, the messenger of doom really has descended upon our world?
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