That's what they thought in their hearts, but they verified each of the verification routes Jiang Tian gave them one by one, and the more they verified, the more disheartened they became, and the less they could deceive themselves.
When Jiang Tian came back to the channel two days later, everyone was ready. They did have selfish motives and bad intentions, but they believed in value exchange and energy conservation. Why should they work hard to make the world a better place?
Has anyone truly paid attention to their ideas and treated them as genuine collaborators?
If we don't let them see the truth, are we supposed to serve this world until we die, thinking it's because we haven't accumulated enough points?
Ultimately, all they want is to go home...
The truth was so absurd that it made them extremely angry.
Don't they have any rights at all? What's the point of living like this?
Many people who were chosen by the system believed they were the chosen ones, but now they can no longer think that way.
The truth is that perhaps they were chosen simply because their energy fluctuations aligned with this advanced world, which is why they were here.
No wonder some people with mediocre abilities and some who are cunning and deceitful still manage to survive here.
It turns out they were just people randomly selected.
Because they were randomly selected, they were treated arbitrarily.
The truth is always painful, but pain can unleash a person's potential.
Their pain evolved into another kind of anger—the anger born of being deceived for so long.
This anger caused their favorability towards Jiang Tian to soar to its peak.
They firmly believed that the big boss would not abandon them—since the big boss took the initiative to open a channel to contact them, there must be a way to rescue them.
After realizing that everything was true, everyone consciously avoided mentioning what they had heard before, and even continued to carry out their mission. However, they had already made up their minds: at this moment, they could only follow Jiang Tian and take a gamble, hoping to win. If they didn't gamble, they would only lose completely.
Forget about fulfilling wishes or making up for regrets; even living requires charity.
To be honest, they really didn't want to lose too badly.
After all, they have received education from childhood and have developed a complete understanding of the world. Who would want to be treated as a puppet?
They knew Jiang Tian must have a way; if she wasn't confident, she wouldn't have revealed the truth to all the hosts.
So now it seems that all they have to do is follow this person.
She will lead them toward the light.
"It seems everyone is prepared. I can sense the anger you're all feeling, and the reasons are self-evident. Now, let me first share what I've learned during this period—"
“We’ve all learned the principle of mutual generation and restraint among all things, and we’ll apply that principle now. Just do as I say, and you’ll reap the benefits you deserve. We can’t keep doing useless work for others; that would be too unfair to us.”
When Jiang Tian's voice fell over the encrypted channel, there was a deathly silence at first, followed by a burst of static. Some cried, some cursed, and most asked with trembling voices, "Is what you said true? Going home is all a scam? Are you sure?"
To facilitate communication, Jiang Tian opened a voice communication channel, enabled bullet comments, and even opened private messages in the background.
At this time, many people used this to contact her.
She stared at the hundreds of private messages flashing on her screen and said only one sentence: "Are you all going to continue deceiving yourselves?"
In an instant, many people were unable to say anything else.
Jiang Tian continued to comfort them.
Suddenly, the main god prompted her: "They have detected an abnormal channel. In order to avoid being tracked, we need to hurry."
"good."
“I know you’re all confused right now, and you still don’t believe it,” Jiang Tian said in a very calm voice. “But think about it—who has ever seen someone accumulate enough points to go home? So many mission takers, one after another, why can’t we see a single one going home? Every time the mission ends and the energy is drained, don’t you feel a moment of emptiness in your consciousness? Stop lying to yourselves. This isn’t normal cooperation; it’s blood-draining exploitation.”
She pulled up some data: "I think everyone is curious whether there are people who have accumulated enough points. Actually, there are—I accumulated enough points. The data has been released, and you can see for yourselves. I accumulated enough points a long time ago. But did you see me leave? No, I stayed here. I was reassigned to another department, and all the points I had were deducted from my account under some pretext. If I hadn't found the loophole, they would have made me disappear completely."
The channel was filled with noise, clearly indicating that everyone's emotions were running high.
Jiang Tian knew that by using herself as an example, she had reignited the fighting spirit of this group.
She pressed her advantage and continued explaining her plan: "Now, I have a plan that's not perfect and requires our joint efforts. You should be able to vaguely sense that the weakness of intelligent agents is that they can't live without us. As they say, without a host, they can't even complete a single task. In a sense, they are parasites."
"Therefore, I suggest that starting tomorrow, all hosts should deliberately fail at the last step when doing tasks—for example, when trying to win over the male lead, accidentally lower his affection level, and then completely destroy the key item when you should get it. In short, don't make it too obvious, so that they think it's a normal fluctuation in the task."
Why do this?
Many people raised this question immediately.
Jiang Tian curled the corners of her lips: "They live by harvesting energy. Each mission card consumes energy that was previously used up by their cheat codes, and that energy is irretrievable. When they realize that they are expending more and more energy while harvesting less and less, they will sense something is wrong—they have already squeezed the value of each of us to the extreme. Every bit of energy is useful. Although there was an element of luck in our selection, now that we have joined this system, they have to consider our losses. The reason they haven't completely eliminated me is because they know that I can bring them extraordinary energy gains."
"So, your mission failure rate has increased. On the surface, it may just be individual mistakes, but in reality, it's creating an energy gap for them. Don't worry, I've already had someone modify the algorithm, and your mistakes won't be detected. Do this for now, and I'll keep you informed of the next steps. Of course, if you don't want to do it, I won't force you. Time's up, I'll turn off the channel now."
The channel suddenly cut off, and before everyone could react, they were back in reality, causing their emotions to fluctuate wildly.
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