Resurrection Empire

Chapter 781 293: I Am Not Alone, "Disconnected" from the Internet_2

But this researcher gained nothing.

He was on the verge of achieving social ascension, but after proposing that the production of the Anti-aging Potion should not be controlled and that every Citizen of Source Star should afford it, he was brutally murdered. His body was made into a specimen, placed at the headquarters of the Mengdu Group, and a beautiful story of his sacrifice in an experimental accident was concocted for future generations to admire.

This lie persisted for over six hundred years until one day, a group of "fallen aristocrats" who had been stripped of their citizenship arrived at the Nameless City, where one of them revealed this secret.

This person's ancestor was once a rival of that researcher and, feeling a pang of guilt, decided to pass down the truth as a family secret through generations, finally bringing it to light in the Nameless City.

Because of this, the decision-makers of the Nameless City saw through the bloodthirsty nature of the families behind the Nine Major Groups and began to contemplate economic factors.

They deeply realized that even if one worked hard for the Nine Major Groups and created earth-shattering outcomes, unless they were part of those families, there was still no hope of changing one's fate.

The so-called path to citizen ascension was nothing but a deceptive facade.

The crowd continued forward in the darkness.

When the strong light lit up again, the tentacle-clad monster was no longer beside the people.

It hadn't disappeared but transformed into a towering colossal creature, looking down at the crowd, sometimes launching its now gigantic tentacles, casually snatching a person or two from the crowd and tossing them into its mouth.

More and more people were torn apart, devoured, and drained of flesh and blood for various reasons.

Someone cried out on their deathbed, "The so-called historical relics are lies! Source Star never had a history!"

Others only whispered a word to their companions before being dragged into the ground by monstrous claws emerging suddenly.

The whispered phrase was, "Everyone on Source Star is a slave to the nine frozen Elders, including the Citizens."

Someone else screamed, "We have committed no crime, why are we being exiled," and suddenly, he and his relatives and friends were massacred by Black Armored Warriors descending from the sky.

Others did nothing but calmly search for food in the ground, yet their bodies were inexplicably torn apart by mysterious forces from the Void.

Tragedies occurred repeatedly; people did not reach the dreamed shore, but the giant creatures in the sky grew in number.

Finally, light suddenly descended, and the crowd seemed to have reached a valley filled with birdsong and flowers.

But before people could cheer, boundless darkness fell from the sky.

Everyone was engulfed by this darkness.

Sun Ai's consciousness also dissipated.

Nobody knows how much time passed before a rift tore open in the dark sky, and a beam of light descended into the valley, which had turned to scorched earth.

An aged-faced infant was sitting there.

She blankly looked up.

At the end of the light, a man was looking at her with a smile.

He slowly extended his hand, seemingly guiding her to move forward.

The infant shook her head slightly, then focused again.

The light didn't seem to emanate from the sky's rift behind the man but from the man himself as the source.

His body was composed of warm orange-yellow light.

The light shining on her was so warm.

"Come over here. I've been waiting for you," the man spoke.

The infant slowly stood up, floated over, until she disappeared into the light.

"This is the original color of sunlight," the man said again.

The infant nodded as if she understood, then fell into a deep sleep.

A long time later, the infant awoke.

Sun Ai blankly looked at Ren Zhong, who was holding her, "You knew all this from the beginning, didn't you?"

Ren Zhong's eyes seemed a bit moist.

What had just happened was not merely a dream within a dream for Sun Ai.

Ren Zhong had also "seen" it.

He nodded, "Yes."

"It's unreasonable."

Ren Zhong: "Just like how this system is unreasonable. But existence itself implies reason. Of course, even the seemingly reasonable must be replaced by even more reasonable things."

Sun Ai: "Our ancestors, with centuries of summary and countless sacrifices, finally identified the flaws of the system. At first, we dared not hope to change it; our attempt was to establish a true civilization of our own outside its framework. Of course, we tragically failed. You are only twenty-four, never exposed to all this. I don't understand why someone would be born knowing."