novelraw Chapter 780 293: I am Not Alone, "Disconnect" from the Internet
Chapter 780 293: I am Not Alone, "Disconnect" from the Internet
Sun Ai was stunned.
According to her original plan, although Ren Zhong already had the budding thoughts of rebellion born out of sympathy in his heart, and his behavior basically followed this logic, it would still take years of gradual digestion for him to understand the reasons behind it, to understand what he was rebelling for and against, and to summarize it into a complete theory sufficient to support his and others' lives.
As a result, here he is, at full level right at the start.
This is evidently not in line with common sense.
Ren Zhong quietly looked at Sun Ai, whose face was full of astonishment.
He knew that what he astonished was not "one person" but a hundred thousand people.
Besides that, he also sensed a clear emotional fluctuation from the chair beneath him.
The will attached to the chair, although unable to read his thoughts, had sensed his determination, and even more, his confidence.
As the controller of this dreamscape, the will within the chair was originally a part of Sun Ai, connecting their consciousnesses.
She closed her eyes, quietly feeling the qualities of Ren Zhong that the leader's chair had sensed.
Suddenly, her consciousness suddenly sank.
Sun Ai entered a new layer of dream.
This was a deeper dream within a dream, the materialization of her subconscious.
In this dream, she and her countless companions stumbled through a pitch-black iron forest where they couldn't see their hands.
They did not know where they came from nor where they were going.
They only knew that the dark forest suffocated them and their comrades.
They only knew they desperately wanted to escape this situation, to reach a world without such cruel oppression, where the air was not so chilling, where breathing wouldn't cause stinging.
However, the road was covered with thorns, and fierce beasts appeared from time to time.
Periodically, some companions were taken away one by one.
Most of the victims died silently.
Until one of the victims was different.
He let out a heart-wrenching howl before dying, followed by a resolute shout.
His shout was not loud, even somewhat hoarse.
He shouted, "We are as smart as those people, we work just as hard, we have created so much value, our lives should not be like this! Keep moving forward, my friends!"
This was a shout from a lowly miner nine hundred years ago, before the Nine Major Groups unified everything and the citizen system first took shape.
Despite his humble status and difficult situation, he had a smart brain and an upright heart.
However, his intelligence did not support him in completing a class transition.
He only quietly left behind half of a work—an unfinished "On Fairness", and then unfortunately perished in the mouth of a Ruined Beast during a subterranean mining excavation.
His half-finished work was brought to the Nameless City by a descendant of his colleague one hundred thirty-three years ago.
A companion fell, and the crowd continued to move forward slowly in the darkness.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, striking the center of the crowd.
The bright light appeared abruptly.
The people walking hand in hand suddenly discovered that a hideous beast with countless long arms had somehow appeared in the crowd.
The beast quickly scanned the surroundings, memorizing the faces of the people nearby.
As the lightning's glow dimmed and everything fell back into darkness, the beast began to continuously grab people around and stuff them into its mouth.
The sound of human bones being crushed was extremely unnerving.
But the crowd didn't even dare to rush forward because on the left of this path was a cliff, and on the right were blades and spears that could easily cut through human bodies.
The people could only bear listening to the beast continuously chewing human bodies, praying silently that it would one day eat its fill and stop attacking others.
One person, when grabbed, angrily shouted, "You stole our labor results, and now you devour our flesh and blood!"
This was the roar of a grassroots researcher from the predecessor of Mengdu Group, Mengdu Biopharmaceuticals, more than seven hundred years ago, before the Nine Major Groups' unification.
This exceptionally talented grassroots researcher was the first warrior to challenge the mystery of longevity.
He did not reach the depth of Sun Miao but accidentally developed the first-generation Anti-aging Potion.
At the time, Mengdu Biopharmaceuticals was already a giant. After obtaining the Anti-aging Potion formula, it grew even stronger, rapidly developing and consolidating its dominance over the biopharmaceutical industry on Source Star.