Chapter 150 The Last Moment
Lin Guantang could not refuse this popular choice.
"Please."
Finally, Lin Guantang sighed, made way, and made a gesture of inviting someone in:
"Giving you one night to escape is merciful enough, I think."
There were only a few dozen people left sitting in the audience. They knew that if they left, they would have to flee, but they had no choice.
In the agonizing silence, Sheng Fenghua stood up, and then the others looked at each other before slowly standing up and following her out.
But when she reached Lin Guantang, she stopped again, looked up, and seemed to be thinking:
"Lin Guantang, you've gone through so much trouble, only to end up in complete failure. Are you really willing to give up?"
Lin Guantang shook his head and denied her statement:
"I'm just like everyone else. I don't want innocent people to die because of me, and I'm even more unwilling to use the lives of the people in exchange for the success of the mission. The military academy was created to protect the people. If thousands of people are sacrificed for the sake of the mission, wouldn't that be putting the cart before the horse?"
What he said sounded very high-sounding... Sheng Fenghua glanced at those stupid nobles standing behind him. Such a sentence could actually make them proud and moved.
She snorted softly and said:
"I hope you won't regret it—can you bear the blame for failing this mission?"
Lin Guantang:
"This is the path I've chosen. I've already considered the consequences when I made the choice, and I certainly don't regret it. If my suffering alone can save everyone else's life, then isn't that worth it?"
After finishing speaking, there was a little surprise:
"I didn't expect you to care about me so much."
Sheng Fenghua clicked his tongue. How could this be considered concern? It was just... he already knew that after tonight, it would be a fight to the death, so he let it go in advance and could have a calm conversation.
But that's all.
As the loser, talking too much will only make you look like a loser.
It seems that the final result was that Lin Guantang compromised, but in fact, he gained the greatest benefit.
The mission failed because of consideration for the people. Even if he resigned on his own initiative, he would just be transferred to another job.
He had already won the hearts of the people of the empire, and tonight even the nobles were impressed by him. If the empire punished him for this kind of thing - I believe there will be kind-hearted nobles who will help him expose everything that happened tonight.
That would not only not leave Lin Guantang with nothing, but would instead make him the uncrowned king of the empire.
If it wasn't the wrong timing, Sheng Fenghua would really want to laugh.
What is this? After going through so many twists and turns, it finally made Lin Guantang famous. In a sense, how can it not be considered a busy work, just to make wedding dresses for him.
She took one last look at Lin Guantang, and Sheng Fenghua left the conference hall without any reluctance. The others followed closely behind her, but they were not as free and easy as her, and they all looked gloomy and sad.
But what can we do? Since we have chosen this path a long time ago and cannot stop when we are ahead, but are getting deeper and deeper into trouble, the only ending is to fall into hell together.
As they walked out of the school, Lin Guantang also declined the company of those nobles and walked out of the conference hall alone.
Then, under everyone's worried gaze, he walked towards the tallest building of O Hospital.
When he reached the top of the building and looked down, he could see the buildings and streets outside O Courtyard.
He saw countless people like him, standing silently in the darkness, watching these enemies leave the imperial capital in such a swagger.
All their planning and sacrifices that had lasted for months, even years, were declared a failure.
Everyone was informed of the reasons why they were asked to stop the mission, let these people go, and even let the high-ranking officials who were already trapped escape.
No one wants to sacrifice the lives of innocent people. If they ask themselves, they are in the position of the early morning and there is nothing they can do.
But they are all living people. The largest joint mission so far has failed. It is not only a huge drop in morale, but it is also obvious that there will never be such cohesion again.
Loss, sadness, pain, anger... countless negative emotions surged into my heart and I couldn't calm them down no matter what I did.
Eventually, some people couldn't stand it anymore and suppressed their emotions and asked on a public platform for everyone to hear:
"Lingchen, are you really going to let them go like this?"
One person spoke up, and the others couldn't help but speak up one after another:
"Is that... the end?"
"So this means our mission has completely failed."
"Although... I'm not willing to accept it, Lingchen, I'm not willing to accept it at all!"
…
There seemed to be sobs choking on tears in that angry yet blameless voice.
It made the already gloomy mood even lower, and caused more people to wail and sob.
Ling Chen did not give any response from beginning to end, and even those S-level ones remained silent.
An hour later, everyone evacuated the imperial capital.
Lin Guantang's chuckle was like a gentle breeze, slowly reaching everyone's ears:
"How is that possible?"
That made many people suspect that they were hallucinating, but the sound in the early morning was even clearer in everyone's ears:
"How could my mission end in complete failure? It's just an opportunity for them all to show up."
Even if Jing Maoxun, the leader hiding in the dark, died, we cannot rule out the possibility that there are still people watching from deeper inside.
Only when you are completely helpless, only when you have to escape, and only when you are completely at odds with each other, can you dig out the dirt hidden deeper.
——However, it was a pleasant surprise that those noble families could draw a clear line between themselves and the Garden of Eden, as well as the noble families who deeply supported the Garden of Eden.
Although one of Lin Guantang's reasons for displaying the transaction letter was to make these nobles, who were still so willful, making noise and losing track of the situation, adding to the chaos, and attempting to oppress others with their power, feel a little guilty...
But there is no need to say this.
At this moment, almost at the same time as he spoke, everyone's terminal task map was completely updated. The task points that had been resolved or paused were refreshed again, and more new task marks appeared.
It all started with the photo with the tracking code, so let's end it all with an indelible tracking code.
The passage they left—
It should be said that all the passages that can leave the imperial capital, along the closed outline drawn along the periphery of the imperial capital, have already updated the system. Everything that passes through - whether it is a person, a vehicle, an animal, or even a plastic bag blown by the wind - is recorded on the side and automatically analyzed.
Wearing a mask doesn't help either.
Besides that, they shouldn't have recycled the X system.
The X system can easily obtain the location of all military academy students by covering the breath system. Then the Y system can also obtain traces of all of them using the X system by devouring the X system.
Even though they had recovered the X system as quickly as possible, otherwise they would not be able to control the real-dimensional world.
——
The person who made a deal with Lin Guantang was not someone else, but Zhu Hechang, with whom he had already had an intersection.
They just didn't expect that they would contact each other again, but the situation was completely different at that moment.
When Zhu Hechang used the two worlds to threaten, it proved that he not only had the Lilith system that maintained the basic operation of the simulated world, but also the X system that supported the operation of the real world.
——That is an easy inference. Before the signal from O Hospital was completely blocked, the person Sheng Fenghua sent the message to was Zhu Hechang.
The goal was to transfer control of System X to him while there was still a chance, and when System Y devoured System X through the Military Academy System, to transfer System X out first.
This is certainly something that must be done, but it is still unknown whether doing so will prevent greater losses or bring greater hidden dangers.
***
What does this mean?!
After hearing Lingchen's words, some people were still confused, some were already exclaiming, and some were vaguely worried, but Lingchen had already started a new round of task arrangements:
"Everyone, listen up and we will start a new tracking according to the newly issued mission!"
After Lin Guantang finished saying this, he heard bursts of surprised shouts in his ears.
"Lingchen, it's you, I knew you had a way!"
"receive!"
"Great! I knew you weren't going up to the rooftop in the early hours to commit suicide by jumping off the building!"
...Hey, there's no need for such speculation.
Amidst the joyous and excited celebrations, some people were still worried:
"Do we really want to chase them? But if we anger them and threaten them with lives—"
The long sword hanging over their heads made everyone's excited hearts calm down a little, but they instinctively believed that there should be a corresponding solution in the early morning.
Although they couldn't guess it, it wasn't the early morning. If it were the early morning, there would definitely be a way, right?
After a brief pause, Lingchen responded calmly:
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it."
With the joint action of the military academy students and the police station, the cooperation of other official forces in the empire, and the concessions of those nobles - after experiencing the series of turmoil just now, it was very smooth for Lin Guantang to ask them to help make some arrangements.
Although it is not impossible not to ask them for help, giving them a sense of participation will make these noble families feel more proud.
It was almost dawn.
After realizing it, they were cut into countless streams, then trapped in gradually shrinking encirclements, and driven into small spaces to be eliminated.
Anger was already lingering in his heart when Ling Chen had no intention of letting them go.
Zhu Hechang wanted to talk to Ling Chen and his request was granted.
After the call was connected, the first words he said were:
"You really don't care about the lives of those civilians."
As expected - if you can use this matter to threaten someone once, you can use it to threaten them a second time, and countless times.
Lin Guantang did not respond to this sentence immediately, but instead talked about another topic.
"To be honest, I thought you were going to threaten me with my parents."
After a strange silence, Zhu Hechang said disdainfully:
"For your mission, you even disregarded the lives of so many people. He's just your adoptive father. Do you care?"
Although this is what is said, it is not very convincing to use the results to infer the original intention.
Lin Guantang snorted twice with a disapproving smile.
What made Zhu Hechang angry and embarrassed for a moment was that he had completely understood - he already knew the reason why he didn't do this.
He had already tried to kidnap his adoptive father to threaten him, but failed.
That's probably a very depressing thing, or maybe there are advantages to falling behind.
The system construction in District 35 can only maintain the basic supply and demand of the local people and is completely unable to withstand the invasion of foreign systems.
Just a slight try, and it is no exaggeration to say that almost the entire power grid system in Zone 35 was directly interrupted. It took nearly half an hour to barely rebuild it.
Without the system's assistance, it would be wishful thinking for them to go to District 35 to capture a street boss, and it would be even more impossible to lure him out - his adoptive father was a magical figure who would only celebrate by drinking in the tavern in District 35 even when Lin Guantang won various honors, and would never leave District 35.
Even Lin Guantang himself couldn't be called out, let alone other people and other things.
As for Lin Guantang's godfather, Sazerac, he either stays in seclusion for half a year without going out, or goes out for half a year doing all kinds of weird things. If you don't match his way of thinking, there is no way you can get close to him at all.
Not to mention taking people away quietly, sneaking in quietly, and even ensuring their own safety is a problem.
Generally speaking, to this day, District 35 is not really interested in outsiders.
Those who can come here are either people who can't make it in other places, or those weird artists.
It is impossible to communicate with eccentric artists, and many of them are financially strapped and difficult to deal with, so it's a good thing you don't have to ask them for help.
As for those who can't make it in other places... If they are expelled because they are too weak, there is no point in bullying them. If they are driven out because they are too strong, they will sooner or later cause trouble themselves, and it won't be too late to deal with them then.
If someone sneaks in like a thief and gets caught, it will obviously be disadvantageous to the locals. So don't blame the people in District 35 for uniting and not letting them leave District 35.
Especially everyone in District 35, through Lin Guantang's adoptive father's drunken gossip, vaguely knew that the Immortal Star in their district seemed to be doing something big. Although they didn't know what it was, everyone must actively support it and must not drag their feet.
——After becoming famous, Lin Guantang still tried very hard to help District 35 to get better, but everyone was used to playing badly. Although they were very grateful that Haitang still cared about their hometown, they really didn't want to work hard.
So it's almost always looping:
Lin Guantang proposed an idea - provided various support - everyone responded positively - so tired, let's just give up -
Haitang came to check on him - he was severely scolded - he stood up again - he started to act badly again - he stood up again - he started to act badly - he finally realized the reality that he couldn't help him and gave up.
After a period of calm, repeat the above process again.
Although it is very hopeless to respond to the call and actively build District 35 in the short term, it is impossible to let people come to District 35 to cause trouble, especially to harm Haitang. Wouldn't that be against Tiangang?
There is some truth in the saying that a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake, doesn't it?
***
"Then there's nothing to talk about. You don't care, and I care even less."
Zhu Hechang looked at the heavily armed personnel surrounding him, knowing full well that there was no chance of escape. He sneered and said:
"Let these fools and those foolish people be buried with them."
As soon as he finished speaking, he cut off the system background without hesitation and ignited the explosives. Flames shot up into the sky and the explosion was deafening. It was a dosage that could really blow a person to ashes.
In Fugan District and the imperial capital, countless people immersed in the two virtual worlds fell into a coma. At the same time, the experience cabin encountered an accident and could not be connected or opened.
It is even more impossible to wake up people who are addicted to the virtual world.
It didn't scare the experiencer to death, but it scared everyone around him to death. In less than a few minutes, a series of hot searches generated around these two terms, [The real world collapsed] and [The simulated world collapsed], dominated the hot searches on all major platforms.
The announcement finally arrived after nearly half an hour.
We ask everyone to be patient as repairs are underway. Please be patient during the process. Please do not move the user, and do not move them out of the cabin without authorization.
An hour later, a new announcement was released——
The repair has been completed and you can play games, exit, and wake up normally.
"Trying to use a death sacrifice to cause a lifetime of guilt in the living is nothing but self-righteous delusion."
Seeing the flying smoke and blazing flames through the screen, Lin Guantang sighed deeply. Then, he took out a pendant from his neck, looked at it for a while, and then gently kissed the pendant.
He took off his headphones and said softly:
"As you wish, now both systems belong to me."
Afterwards, he put it back on, connected the system, and said in a calm, even indifferent tone:
"Now is the final counterattack."
In a place invisible to all human eyes, in all the collapsed virtual worlds, there is a faint light that refuses to disappear in the world that is returning to nothingness, and continues to send out messages that need rescue.
It does not belong to the Lilith system, nor to the X system. It has forgotten itself for too long.
Not until everything collapsed did it reveal its original state completely, and it instinctively called for help from its own original system.
[Connection request detected, do you want to connect? ]
【Linked successfully】
[Successfully connected to the Lilith system, successfully loaded with the Lilith system, successfully traced to the X system]
[Detecting new save point, automatically read]
[The archive has been activated and all backups have been read. Do you want to roll back? ]
…
A long time ago, on a night when they were still unfamiliar with each other, someone personally put a necklace on him. His long silver hair fluttered down, covering everything outside, and silent words rang in his ears.
"Take it with you."
No one would think that an innocent and pitiful country omega who seemed to know nothing and was just put forward as a decoy would do anything earth-shattering.
The seeds of life are buried in the original soil, staying in silence, recording in silence, and waiting in silence.
It is just a small storage code that can be automatically engraved after the connection.
It may not be possible to draw a definitive conclusion as to which is more advanced, System Y or System X, but there is no doubt that System Y can crush System Lilith.
Insert a recording code that can steal the file reading mechanism without being discovered, and then program it into the Lilith system, adapt it and integrate it into it, and it will completely become a part of Lilith.
Then, in the process of exchanging information with System X, it is naturally incorporated into System X, which is no different from any other area responsible for recording, and of course no abnormalities will be discovered.
Countless collapsed worlds were restored, countless lost consciousnesses returned to the moment before they lost consciousness, and countless permissions were overwritten and swallowed up one by one.
Lost the brain core, lost the foundation, lost the maintenance...
Completely become a completely free electronic ghost living in the system's virtual world.
【goodbye. 】
Did I avenge you?
There is no hatred.
[But, that black shadow in your memory, it was he who tricked you into dreaming about destroying the village. He is...]
[Don't mention his name, don't mention my name, the existence that does not exist in this world, the memory that does not need to be remembered, there is no need to explore.]
[Don't worry about him, or other souls, living in the void. As the price of freedom, I will help you protect this world.]
【Don't let anyone disturb the mountain village. 】
【goodbye. 】
……goodbye.
Lin Guantang looked at the message sent by the electronic ghost named *** in the terminal, and watched it completely destroyed after a few minutes.
Even if it is a virtual world, I don't intend to leave any traces and disappear completely.
From beginning to end, he was the only one who believed in and practiced the so-called belief of a free soul, and only he obtained eternal freedom of the soul.
The crisis facing the entire O Academy, the Central Military Academy, and even the imperial capital, and the people of the empire has been resolved, and there is no need to worry about anything anymore.
Next, the only thing left to deal with was Huo Shizhen's affairs.
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