novelraw Chapter 905: Screening
Chapter 905: Screening
Returning to City 10, Qing Chen even felt that breathing the air here was somehow familiar. The air of the West Continent wasn’t any sweeter.
Black Widow followed him out of the Shadow Gate. This was her first time escaping the shadow of the Roosevelt Kingdom, and she suddenly felt a sense of freedom, as if she had escaped from a suffocating family and come to a free world.
She said softly, “Can I go for a walk and take a look around?” “What do you want to see?” Qing Chen asked curiously. Black Widow spoke frankly, “I want to see if the city you govern truly allows its people to live and work in peace and contentment. Only by seeing the smiles on the residents’ faces can I judge what kind of person you really are.”
Qing Chen suddenly retorted, “Actually, you still have many informants in Storm City, right? You still have an intelligence network, and you want to choose a suitable owner for it? Then go and see. You will find the answer you seek.”
Black Widow put on her hat to cover her blonde hair, turned, and walked into the city.
The Blackleaf Plain Royal Court gradually emptied. After obtaining Qing Chen’s consent, all the giants wanted to visit the East Continent and see a human city they had never been to before.
No, some giants had been to human cities, but they were all captured by the Roosevelt Kingdom.
At this moment, with the departure of the Guardians’ Union and the giants, the Arbiters on the Storm Fortress could no longer successfully cast curses.
They contentedly put down their potions and wiped their sweat.
They had been busy from yesterday evening to this morning, working for a full 13 hours without sleep, using dark magic, and each person had successfully cursed an average of 46 people—they were almost at their limit. In this dark room, batch after batch of expensive potions were sent in, only to be reduced to ashes under their spells. However, it was all worthwhile.
Storm Duke walked in from outside and looked at the many Arbiters: “How did it go?”
A senior Arbiter smiled, “Duke, we have successfully cursed a total of 4701 people. If nothing unexpected happens, they should all be dead.”
Storm Duke nodded in satisfaction, “Good. Now that we have severely damaged the Guardians’ Union, almost killing more than half of their elite, it should be enough to dampen Joker’s arrogance and let him know that the world doesn’t allow him to act recklessly. Everyone, go eat. The restaurant has prepared exquisite dishes. Have a good rest and sleep. When you wake up, we will have already reached the Royal Capital. Afterward, you will all receive a personal commendation from the King.”
Storm Duke smiled. Things went more smoothly than he had imagined.
How difficult is it to kill the Puppeteer?
His puppets blend in with the crowd, with thousands of faces, and each one lives a normal life with their own identity and behavior patterns. The puppets don’t have labels saying, “I am a puppet.” Even under torture, they would resolutely deny it.
You can’t stand before everyone and say, “Whoever is a puppet, step forward!”
Qing Chen isn’t that stupid.
Fate Weaver can see fragments of the puppet master’s fate, but others cannot.
Previously, Qing Chen had planned to use the most ruthless and extreme method—the method Ling used to control all of humanity in the last battle:
Dump Nanobots into the water sources so everyone in the world would drink them and have Yi control these Nanobots.
Once the Nanobots connect to everyone’s Neural Links, Yi would quickly identify who among them are puppets and who are normal people.
In this way, they would be able to find more than half of the puppets.
After killing more than half of the puppets, Yi would end the control, and the Nanobots would gradually be expelled from everyone’s bodies through metabolism without any side effects.
This was what Qing Chen had discussed with Li Shentan at Prison No. 5, which ultimately led to Li Shentan’s permission.
This is also what Little Seven is leading the team to do. With the help of the Qing Family, City 10 has become completely independent in the production of Nanobots, but they have not yet been released into the water sources.
But Qing Chen suddenly thought, Ling’s method of controlling all of humanity is actually written in the history textbooks of various Conglomerates, and many people know about it.
So, does Zong Cheng know? He certainly does.
So, when using Nanobots to kill the Puppeteer is the only method currently available in the East Continent...
Did Zong Cheng deliberately provoke and enrage him to force him to use this method and then complete his plan?
This might be the scene Zong Cheng wanted to see.
But Zong Cheng doesn’t understand giants, neither the giants of the East Continent nor the West Continent. He may not have even considered that there is another group that can naturally restrain him!
Even Qing Chen hadn’t expected it!
Previously, although he knew Dingdong had telepathic abilities, it would take a very long time for just Dingdong alone to screen everyone.
Now it’s different. 631 giants, as long as the efficiency is high enough, they can screen a city in three days.
At this moment, the streets of City 10 were slowly becoming lively. The giants walked out of the Key Gate one after another and onto the streets.
They curiously looked at the human city, finding everything new and exciting. When the giants walked onto the streets, the residents of City 10 began to scream and flee. Those giants, with their black and green body paint, looked terrifying.
Some giants heard the screams and immediately retreated, a little embarrassed. They didn’t want to scare anyone.
However, the residents soon saw the Guardians’ Union members standing beside the giants. Xiao Wu smiled and explained to everyone, “Don’t worry, these giants won’t harm you. The Leader brought them from the West Continent to help.”
With the assurance of the Guardians’ Union, the residents immediately felt relieved. They slowly approached, curiously looking at the giants.
A child even approached and patted a giant’s leg, which scared his parents badly. The giant smiled simply. The humans here didn’t seem to harbor inherent malice towards them like those in the West Continent.
After all, the evil and brutality of giants were written into the textbooks by the Roosevelt Kingdom.
Qing Chen said at this time, “Let’s get down to business first. Let’s screen City 10 first. Of course, before we do this, we need to do some preparations. Lao Luo, go and gather the talents in our city! Those in municipal administration and computer science, have them gather at the municipal center.”
The news that giants had come to the city had spread quickly, but the entire city suddenly shut down its communications. For a time, all information stations and information towers were shut down, leaving only the internal local area network available.
This was the first thing Qing Chen did.
The second thing was that Qing Chen specifically redefined the administrative districts of City 10, changing the previous 19-district structure and reappointing the administrative management levels of each district, which were reorganized into six districts: Old City District, Luolong District, Xigong District, Jianxi District, Chanhe District, and Mengjin District.
These names have no meaning, simply because Qing Chen was too lazy, transporting the names of Luo City's districts. They sound familiar.
After the reconstruction of City 10, the numbered district system was still maintained. But the problem was, due to inertia of thought, people in the upper three districts would always look down on the residents of the lower six districts. Qing Chen felt that this shouldn't be the case.
People may indeed have different social statuses, but they shouldn't be classified from birth.
The city’s residents found the district divisions somewhat novel, but even now, they still didn’t know what the Guardians’ Union was about to do.
After another three hours, Qing Chen announced the third thing they did: the urgently launched Resident Code.
The Resident Code has only two types, a gold code, which shines in the phone, and a red code.
Those who have undergone telepathic detection have a gold code; those who have not have a red code.
Guardians’ Union members began to go door-to-door asking people to download the Resident Code App, repeatedly emphasizing that this was for the war and everyone must take it seriously.
People didn’t know what telepathy was or what the gold code was for, but when they heard that after undergoing the test, they could get a shiny dynamic code, some were even eager to take the initiative to be tested.
It’s a gold code!
Later, the Resident Code suddenly indicated that after receiving the gold code, they could get a free bag of rice and a can of cooking oil. Now, everyone was moved!
Because of the war, the Qing Family was to win this battle using all of the manpower, material resources, and financial resources needed to face it.
Compared with the impending war, what does this little rice and cooking oil matter? Assuming that a 10-jin bag of rice in the Federation costs 38 yuan, and there are about 60 million residents in the six cities of the Qing Family combined, one bag of rice per person is 2.28 billion yuan. Is it worth this price to kill one Puppeteer? Absolutely.
Previously, 10 jin of rice cost 230 yuan due to the Conglomerate colluding to raise prices, causing rice prices to be inflated significantly. This is because the Conglomerate hoped that residents of the lower three districts would buy protein bars, which have higher profit margins, faster manufacturing processes, and lower costs.
Now, after Qing Chen took over the Qing Family, he began to let things return to normal. He felt that the Conglomerate shouldn’t make all the money.
Moreover, 38 yuan is the purchase price for residents. In fact, the cost of mechanized production in Qing Family’s production base is even lower.
At the same time, the Resident Code also introduced a new policy: Only those holding a gold code can travel, shop, and resume production and work. Those without a gold code are not even allowed to go out. The situation in the Inner World is different; if the Puppeteer continues to live, they will face annihilation. Everyone may be killed by Zong Cheng.
Therefore, Qing Chen was exceptionally serious in handling this matter. This action is also exceptionally strict.
The fourth thing, the members of the Guardians’ Union were the first to undergo telepathic detection.
The Guardians’ Union members who had undergone the telepathic test were divided into groups of six to guard each building in the city.
And twelve members were assigned to each street. Only those with gold codes could move freely; those with red codes must be confined to their locations.
What Qing Chen is doing is not dynamic purging, but static purging.
The Puppeteer and viruses are not the same. What he needs to do is simply find all of the opponent’s puppets within these three days.
The fifth thing, the Guardians’ Union established a supervisory team led by Little Seven to check each district for any Guardians’ Union members embezzling rice, and whether any Guardians’ Union members used the gold and red codes for wrongdoing.
Once any violations or disciplinary actions are found, they will be immediately handed over to the City 10 judicial authorities. The operation began.
631 screening points were set up in City 10. Residents came out of their homes. Under the guidance of Guardians’ Union members, they walked past the giants one by one, keeping a certain distance from each other.
Once a giant sensed a puppet, he would immediately point it out, and the nearby Guardians’ Union members would immediately carry out the arrest.
However, at this moment, the giant pointed at a woman passing in front of him, “Tear!”
The Guardians’ Union members were puzzled. Was this guy Zong Cheng himself, about to tear her apart on the spot?
That would be too brutal.
But they heard Kacha translate, “This person is not a puppet, but a spy from elsewhere, with evil intentions.”
The Guardians’ Union members were shocked! This is even better!
Xiao Si looked at the middle-aged woman with a smile, “A collective third-class merit is in the bag! Grab her!”
The residents were also stunned. They looked at the giant in amazement. Could this giant see through their secrets?
But is this reliable!
The next moment, the giant pointed at a middle-aged man who had just arrived in front of him, “Tear!”
Kacha translated, “He is a murderer who has killed many people!
There are still three girls imprisoned in his basement, five meters underground. They are so pitiful.”
As he spoke, tears flowed from the giant's eyes. He even saw the scene of this pervert murdering, and the girls begging for mercy.
The middle-aged man, his secret exposed, his face immediately changed, “Don’t listen to his nonsense!”
Xiao Si and others also changed their expressions, and said sternly, “Get him down, and search his house!”
40 minutes later, the news that the Guardians’ Union rescued three girls from the basement of the perverted killer began to spread within the city’s local area network.
Many people saw Xiao Si and others escorting the pervert into the house. After a while, three thin and frightened girls were sent to a car, their faces covered by Xiao Si and others.
The evidence was irrefutable!
Xiao Si wanted to kill the scum on the spot. Even if he killed a scum during wartime, no one would say anything to him.
But Little Seven arrived in time to stop him: Although we are Metahumans, the Leader needs the rule of law. The giants’ telepathy is temporary, only order and systems can last.
Xiao Si listened to him, and stopped.
In just one hour, they hadn’t found many puppets yet, but they had found a pile of criminals and spies. In one day, City 10 solved 22 unsolved cases. Some of them even escaped to this place after a series of murders in the distant City 7, planning to carry out new murder plans.
As a result, before they could even begin, they were doomed.
As case after case was solved, the residents no longer doubted the giants. Those cases were the best proof!
At this time, someone was hiding behind the curtains in a residential building, secretly watching the giants downstairs, their expression gloomy.
The giants’ telepathy was like a fine sieve, intending to filter out all the impurities in City 10.