Chapter 313: Ideological Liberation (Two in One)
The Suns went through a period of time when the atmosphere was quite tense and oppressive.
It's as if someone wants this city to never be at peace. Every time it's about to enter a period of stability and peace, a new crisis will come, forcing everyone to put their heads on their belts again and continue to fight for survival.
But now, they may not even have a chance to fight.
The central government did not conceal the actions it would take next against the East Region. Ever since the workers in Yu Guang launched the war for freedom and survival, the thing they were most worried about and feared was finally about to happen.
The biggest threat to them has never been in Sun, the resource city located on the edge of the Eastern Region. Even if the central government sent two people at random, like the three second-level scientists from the Science and Technology Institute who came here before, it would be enough to bring hundreds of thousands of workers into a catastrophe!
Fengzi's arrival brought the workers into a brief period of victory and celebration. Even for Zhu Long and others, the Chosen One was just a legend that existed in concepts.
Before that, in college, they were not even qualified to know this word because of their status.
And now one of the world's top scientists has come to them and stands with them. What is there to be afraid of?
As a result, this idea only lasted for less than three days before the news that the central government was preparing to quell the rebellion in the East Region reached Taiyang.
From the very beginning when the workers started this war, they arranged for some people to secretly enter the central government. Before the central government strengthened its management of household registration, they settled down there and constantly transmitted some intelligence back.
Now, they played their best role and brought back news that was enough to destroy the city.
After learning from Fengzi that the central government had sixty or seventy scientists like her who could easily destroy a city, the leaders of the laborers such as Li Ming and the special recruits who escaped from the academy such as Zhu Long were almost in despair.
All the efforts and sacrifices they had made before seemed like a joke!
It's like children playing house and the adults around them don't care at all. But when the adults feel bored and impatient, they just need to kick the children casually to make everything they think they have created disappear into thin air.
But to have come this far, their resilience has been tested. Even if they can only be as insignificant as ants, they will try their best to survive!
At Fengzi's suggestion, the labor union decided to launch a super-large-scale mass transfer to the central government.
Since the central government intends to use force to quell the rebellion in the entire East Region, they will flee collectively to the West Region!
From the atlas, Fengzi helped them choose a city, which was located at the outermost edge of human underground control. The city was large enough, but the population was not large. And because of the relatively scarce resources, the lord who controlled the city was only a third-level scientist, not a chosen one.
As long as they can move to this place, they can first liberate the city, then gain a foothold here and further develop and grow!
But such a large-scale, long-distance migration is by no means an easy task. Fortunately, it takes a month from the time the central government makes the decision to the time personnel are deployed, and the fastest train ride from the central government to Sun City takes at least one and a half months.
After the workers received the news, they still had two and a half months to prepare.
Therefore, the Labor Union made all the plans as quickly as possible to transfer all the workers who participated in the war in the entire sun, nearly 50 people, out of this city. First of all, they needed a large number of trains!
Because of the need to load and transport minerals, the number of trains controlled by the Sun is not small, but it is far from enough to transport so many people at once.
They can only try to rent from other nearby cities by spending money or exchanging.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of people will have to stay on the train for at least two months, and the various supplies needed are enormous!
Fortunately, after capturing Yaoguang, the workers obtained huge amounts of money and a considerable amount of high-value materials such as gold, silver and treasures.
To the rich and powerful, these are treasures that demonstrate their taste and capital, but to the workers, they are worthless if they cannot be exchanged for the necessities of life.
So, during this month, the entire sun was preparing for the transfer. Those who were willing to leave left together, and those who were unwilling to leave and wanted to live and die with the city stayed.
And just as they were making intensive preparations, today, it was as if God had played a joke on all of them.
The supreme emperor who sat on the throne in the center is dead!
He was killed by someone!
He was killed during a live broadcast in front of the whole city!
This news was transmitted to Sun via inter-city communication ten minutes after An Hong's death. Everything happened so suddenly that Li Ming reacted quickly and organized all the senior leaders of the labor union to discuss the impact of this incident.
Feng Zi is more familiar with the central situation than anyone else, so her analysis becomes particularly important under such circumstances.
"With the emperor dead, their plan to suppress the rebellion will definitely fail."
Although Fengzi's tone was calm when she stated this conclusion, everyone could hear the decisiveness in it.
This made Zhu Long ask questions.
"Why would it be abolished? Doesn't the emperor have administrative power?"
“The emperor has no executive power, but those who have executive power are fighting over the imperial family.”
Although Fengzi doesn't like interpersonal communication, she is in Tian'en, especially being used as a tool for marriage by her family, so she is quite clear about the political situation in the central government.
"Whether it's scientists, dignitaries or big capital in the central government, they can basically be divided into imperialism and anti-imperialism. The contradictions between them are irreconcilable and it's a life-and-death struggle. The death of the emperor is not the end, but just the beginning of the struggle for the core political power of the central government. Before they can decide the outcome, they will not have the energy to care about the current situation in the East Region."
At this point, she gave some serious advice.
"But I don't suggest stopping the transfer plan. The emperor's death can only buy us more time, but it doesn't mean that the problem has been solved directly."
Her words made everyone present nod their heads, and the sense of urgency that had been weighing heavily on everyone's hearts finally made them feel a little relieved at this moment.
Li Ming looked up at the last photo of An Hong being beheaded by a pig, which was sent to him by the intelligence officer in the central government. He looked at the priest in a robe and holding a knife in one hand with emotion.
"Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he helped us!"
The others also looked at the figure wielding the knife, with mixed feelings.
They are unfortunate. From the beginning to now, almost every crisis they have encountered has involved life and death.
But they are lucky, because every time, there is always someone who helps them through such moments.
Feng Zi also looked at the blood-stained figure in the photo and whispered softly in a voice that only she could hear.
"He helped a lot." After confirming that there would be more time in the future, the meeting ended here.
Everyone else returned to their original posts. Everyone had a lot of things to do, but Fengzi was the only one who seemed to have a lot of free time.
She was not directly assigned any work, because everyone knew that when she was needed to do something, it meant that everyone else could stop what they were doing and start praying.
But in fact, Fengzi has always had her own mission since coming to the Sun.
Fengzi was particularly curious about Jian San, whom the three scientists from the Central Government who were from the Institute of Science and Technology wanted to take away.
She had observed and studied this mentally challenged teenager for a long time, but had never seen any similar cases in any documents or materials from the central government.
This force does not belong to any of the five major disciplines, but it is just like the rules controlled by scientists and can change and apply a certain rule.
This obviously goes against the common sense that Fengzi has been exposed to since childhood, and is completely inconsistent with normal scientific concepts!
Zhu Long was also extremely curious about the strange phenomenon that occurred on Jian San. In his spare time, he would come to watch Feng Zi conduct various inspections and tests on Jian San.
"Could this be a special case caused by becoming a scientist and no longer needing a key?"
Facing Zhu Long's question, Feng Zi shook her head.
"No, if this was a special case that occurred after the destruction of the academy, the central government would not have acted so quickly. Before the three second-level members of the Discipline and Discipline Institute came to the central government, they had already found and killed more than a dozen people like Jian San in other cities. They called them "Thinkers of Release"."
"Those three people don't understand what [Thinking Releaser] is?"
"I don't understand. They just received such an order. The Institute of Discipline and Rehabilitation gave them the detection method and the basis for judgment, but did not tell them why they had to kill these people, and how these people appeared."
Having said that, Feng Zi frowned her slender brows.
"According to their description, the person who issued this order to them should be the director of the Discipline and Rehabilitation Institute himself, which is not in compliance with normal management regulations. Moreover, the situation in the East District is already like this, and the central government has not even sent anyone to deal with it. Instead, there is such a secret team that roams around in various cities to kill these so-called "Thinkers of Release"."
Such things made Fengzi feel strange.
Judging from the results of her interrogation of the three second-level people, these people had been dispatched from the central government as early as the time when the academy first encountered problems. However, from the beginning to the end, there was no news about this matter in the central government!
This is obviously not in line with common sense. As a violent law enforcement agency at the scientific level, the Science and Technology Rehabilitation Institute would never send a team out of the central government without the joint approval of the cabinet and the Supreme Ethics Committee.
And once it requires approval from the cabinet and the committee, there will be no news at all.
But this is exactly the situation now.
Feng Zi felt that the problem with Jian San was very critical, so critical that it was beyond her imagination!
She gently picked up a pebble that was chosen by Jian San as the one that could enter the twilight, and uttered to herself, "This is the pebble that's emitting light."
"It's very special and unusual. But if it's just this level, why would it be worth sending someone to kill him?"
"Yes! He is just a baby with a strong consciousness, and his thinking and memory are completely blank! Why should he be destroyed? Even if 626's consciousness is one of his 367 million genes, and it came from the humans on the ground thousands of years ago, so what?"
"An ancient person was resurrected in a new form in this underground society? Why do you feel threatened? You immediately stopped all your previous plans as if you were facing a formidable enemy, and even risked angering Le Mingxin by depriving Le Yue of her chosen power?"
After Zhao Mingda came to his senses, he asked such an incredible question. He couldn't understand it. Even if 626 awakened something from the past, what would it matter?
The people who jointly planned this experiment even proposed the idea of [creating a god]. They were even ready to control the gods, but they were frightened by an ancient consciousness?
The director of the rehabilitation center did not answer immediately. His face was solemn, more solemn than ever before.
He tapped the backs of his hands nervously with his crossed fingers, took a deep breath and spoke.
"To answer this question, I have to explain another taboo to you. You have probably never heard of such a name. All the information about it has been well hidden. There is no paper document, no electronic archive, and it does not even exist in the database of the Shadow Prime Minister. The relevant matters have always been passed on by word of mouth when the new and old directors of the Five Major Institutes and the Science and Discipline Institute take over, in rooms like the one we are in now, which is not subject to any surveillance or monitoring."
"[Thought Liberator], or we can also call it by its full name at the beginning - [Thought Liberator]."
Zhao Mingda frowned.
"Liberation of thought? Do you mean followers like the Blood Party before, who want to pursue equality and liberate everyone?"
"No, they are a group of idealists. Their ideals are grand, but they are not what I mean by ideological liberation."
The director of the rehabilitation center lowered his eyes and spoke in a low and gloomy voice.
"The world we live in now is a world where the natural rules are broken. The reason why the underground human cities still have a satisfactory living environment is because we, the people who have mastered the rules, have restored the original rules of the world. This is a sentence that everyone who has received basic education knows, and it is also a sentence that everyone absolutely believes and never doubts."
"But the rules have not been broken. Humans were still on earth thousands of years ago. Who can be sure now that we have truly restored the original natural rules? Rather than maintaining this world according to another set of rules and theorems that were determined by some people at the beginning and made us think that they were the normal world?"
His words sounded a bit confusing, but Zhao Mingda couldn't help but open his mouth, and his pupils shrank into a dot!
"Geology, atmosphere, chemistry, biology, and physics. Are the rules of the world really divided into just these five categories? The laws and rules we have learned obviously no longer exist, and there is no way to verify whether they have really been operating in this way since ancient times. It is just that our predecessors taught us this, and we have awakened the ability to master them in accordance with these laws through the key, and then maintained and improved this world."
"But if you have never been exposed to those laws before, and someone has emphasized to you from the beginning that there is no such thing as gravity in this world, and the reason why apples fall from trees is only because there is a unique traction between apples and the soil, then you who have always adhered to this theory have been injected with the key and gained the ability to control the rules."
The director of the rehabilitation center's voice sounded like the devil's whisper, ringing in Zhao Mingda's ears.
"So, what kind of rules do you think you will control? Will it still be gravity?"
It is more appropriate to publish these two chapters together
(End of this chapter)
