Before Yan Jue could even open his mouth, Zhou Taotao slapped him in the face with the tablet in his hand.
Looking closely, he saw that the screen was actually a live broadcast from abroad. The foreign language comments in the lower left corner kept scrolling, but he had no intention of reading the large amount of repetitive remarks. His eyes were fixed on the center of the screen, where a long-haired woman in a black cloak was holding a transparent crystal ball in her hand.
Let's call her a witch for now.
The witch closed her eyes, holding the crystal ball in front of her chest with one hand. With the other, she fumbled with the ball diagonally above it, her mouth moving incessantly as she muttered something. As she mumbled these incomprehensible movements, a visibly large amount of light gray mist drifted out of the crystal ball, disappearing around her.
Yan Jue widened his eyes, wanting to confirm whether this was a recorded broadcast, whether it was a man-made special effect rather than a live broadcast room!
"We've been keeping an eye on the latest developments online. Just now, footage of this woman casting a spell suddenly appeared on the most popular livestreaming platform abroad, from many different angles."
Zhou Taotao shattered Yan Jue's self-consolation: "As you can see, the comments in the live broadcast room are already abuzz, but we can't be so foolish as to think that this is a special effect. Of course, the reason why these people set up the live broadcast room is not important right now. What is important is that although we have a firewall connecting us to the outside world, there are still many people who frequently go over it to play."
"It's not just for fun. There are also many bloggers who share news from the outside world. They have already discovered this live broadcast and are syncing it."
The authorities are well aware that some people are climbing over the firewall to watch the video on the Internet. They usually turn a blind eye to it and only manage it strictly during important holidays or special occasions.
So as soon as this live broadcast appeared, the authorities began to screen the intranet, and indeed found many people who were moving the live broadcast.
Yan Jue subconsciously asked, "Don't the higher-ups care?"
"Whatever. The news of the spiritual energy revival was bound to be announced sooner or later. Now, letting some people speculate online is like a precaution." Zhou Taotao sighed and smiled bitterly. "Besides, this matter is not ours to initiate right now. Who could have imagined that something like this would happen overseas?"
Broadcasting live must be to achieve some purpose. He didn't believe that the witch was just showing off. Then he thought about what he had learned from An Jin's father's uncle not long ago, about the events before and after Abner's disappearance...
"Even if we ban all the accounts that are reposting the content, completely preventing anyone from circumventing the Great Firewall, there are still many international students who will inevitably share this information with their friends in China. Banning is impossible, so the higher-ups have decisively decided to proceed with the current situation."
Yan Jue understood after a moment's thought.
The revival of spiritual energy must be announced, and it always needs an appropriate and appropriate time. When everything is peaceful in China and everyone is living a normal scientific life, the country suddenly announces that the spiritual energy in our world has been revived, and everyone can become a cultivator with the ability to fly and hide, and prolong their life. Are the people happy?
No way. They're absolutely bewildered and think their country is being invaded by mysterious forces. What's wrong with that? And foreign countries have been eyeing us covetously for a long time, so who knows what they might be up to with this opportunity?
The situation is different now. A good show has been staged abroad first.
How far this drama will go and what its ending will be all related to their subsequent domestic arrangements.
"Change it, change it!"
Yan Jue came back to his senses and looked at the tablet.
The live broadcast finally stopped focusing solely on the witch. After the camera zoomed out, they discovered that the witch was standing on a platform as high as a person, surrounded by a large group of people.
The light gray mist emanating from the witch's crystal ball didn't dissipate. Instead, it dispersed and condensed around the venue, forming a square, light gray "cage" that isolated the world. The mist wasn't entirely provided by the witch; dozens of men and women, also holding crystal balls, performed the same operation on all four sides of the venue.
Obviously, these people together are the real reason for the formation of the stubborn fog wall, and the witch on the platform alone cannot do it.
Apart from those tools, there were many people standing there waiting for orders. Their expressions were either enthusiastic, happy, or expressionless, but it was undeniable that their momentum was like that of wild beasts about to be released, with a kind of hysterical pleasure and excitement.
Yan Jue frowned and looked at Zhou Taotao, both of them had the same worry on their faces.
The footage continued, with the live camera fixed at a high position where the entire audience could be seen. Almost the next second after it was fixed, a thin blond man in a black suit with a red rose on his chest walked towards the edge of the camera.
When this unusually pale man appeared, Yan Jue's first reaction was: What a pretentious guy.
What happened next was just as he had expected. The pale man walked over the heads of everyone present to the witch's side, took out a rose from his chest pocket and performed a very exaggerated aristocratic salute. Then he held the rose bud in his hand horizontally and stretched it towards the camera. After showing a smile, the rose turned into pieces without any warning in the next second.
Zhou Taotao: “…”
Thank you, I didn’t realize that I had already dug out a castle with my toes.
He suppressed his embarrassment and stubbornly analyzed, "This person must be a vampire. His dress and behavior are very similar to the images described in foreign literature."
Or it is very similar to the glorified vampires in the public's perception.
Yan Jue also resisted the urge to complain and replied, "Of course. And this person has a high status in this group, and he may even be the leader."
Otherwise, if he walked on other people's heads, he would have been pulled down and beaten up long ago, instead of the people in the audience looking up at him with admiration.
However, when he shifted his gaze to the corner and caught a glimpse of the many heart emojis in the barrage, he realized that it seemed that many people were willing to fall for this.
"Hello, gentlemen and ladies."
The pale man spoke, and Yan Jue and Zhou Taotao listened attentively. After a while, their serious expressions turned into silence. This man talked too much nonsense and used too many modifiers, and he spoke in a pretentious tone.
There was no way, they still had to listen and find the key points of his words among the pile of nonsense.
To sum up, his name is Willy, and he is a real vampire. The woman and the one holding the crystal ball are also real witches. Then he introduced the names and occupations of the people in the audience one by one.
Witches, vampires, werewolves, priests, people with special abilities (those with super powers)... there were all kinds of them. Willy even made a werewolf turn into a wolf on the spot, and the people with special abilities used their special abilities.
After the introduction, he finally talked about the purpose of this live broadcast.
"Power exists around everyone. If you want, you can join us and become a unique super-new human! Everyone is equal, everyone has a chance, this is our right to freedom."
"However, those hateful politicians are trying to deprive us of our rights and want to send us to the laboratory to deprive us of our power! Yes, the politicians have known about the existence of power for a long time, but they are unwilling to tell the truth to the people. Instead, they are trying their best to conceal it. They even killed people who already had power and are still continuing to do so!" Show a series of evidence.
“This isn’t just happening in our country…”
"And we are the survivors of the siege. We have built a base that belongs to us alone. The future will belong to us, the new humans!"
"If you have awakened, do not be afraid. Please do your best to hide. We will return to pick you up soon. Finally, welcome the new humans to join our big family."
Willy's speech ended and the live broadcast also came to an end.
Yan Jue was speechless for a long time after hearing this. After a while, he hesitated and said, "For those awakened people abroad, the price of awakening is to fill some brain grooves?"
That’s awesome. He started a live broadcast and directly confronted the country.
"Obviously, they think they have the upper hand." Zhou Taotao's mouth twitched. "Their live broadcast remained intact from beginning to end, uninterrupted and unbanned, and even without any outages in certain regions abroad. This not only proves they have computer talent, but also proves that the light gray mist can isolate them and obscure the perception of ordinary people."
And the number of people they organized is more than just those shown in the live broadcast.
This is a planned and premeditated live broadcast. On the surface, its purpose is to enable the new humans abroad to fight for their rights, expose the darkness of the government and the persecution they have suffered, and win over ordinary people and awakened people who are carefully hiding themselves and dare not expose themselves, painting a rosy picture for them of a loving family where everyone can become strong, and then go against the government.
If they are bolder, their demands are definitely not as simple as fighting for rights. With super powers, their ambitions will naturally grow.
"But what is certain is that there are indeed people abroad who are violently suppressing those who have awakened."
It is not credible to listen to the one-sided statement of Vampire Willy as to what will be done to the awakened people after they are captured, but generally speaking, their guess that foreign countries are trying to maintain the superficial peace and stability in their own countries is definitely not wrong.
Yan Jue: "I understand the logic, but they are so brazen in exposing their appearance. How are they going to live in the future?"
Their monks haven't even started fasting yet, so could the awakened ones abroad already be surviving on air, abandoning food, drinking, and excrement? Just how superstitious are they about superpowers, thinking they can actually fight technology?
“Awesome!”
What could Yan Jue say? He could only respect and bless him!
"By the way, did you pay attention to the comments just now? It seems like a lot of people believed it."
"Whether it's true or not, some amateur tech experts will be checking it out soon after the livestream ends. And look," Zhou Taotao said to Yan Jue, opening the trending searches on Weibo. "It's number one, and the same is true for other platforms in the screenshots. Searches for countries that haven't been banned are all at the top of the list."
Yan Jue was curious: "What should we do next?"
Zhou Taotao stood up and walked out: "I'll tell you this when I get back from the meeting."
Without Zhou Taotao's notification, Yan Jue also received a text message about the meeting.
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