Resurrection Empire

Chapter 782 293 I am not alone, "Disconnected" Internet_3

Ren Zhong sighed.

He did not speak the truth, but only thought about it in his heart.

In his era, there was a civilization that took five thousand years to walk this long road.

It wasn't until the last hundred years that a group of extraordinarily talented and sacrificial people completed the theoretical summary, sparked the Age of Awakening, and spent another hundred years practicing the truth to truly explore a path for the advancement of civilization.

It was still not perfect, but it could lead to perfection.

Earthlings took thousands of years, through the exploration of countless generations, to step onto this path from ignorance.

That was more than half the road of civilization!

But the people on Source Star, living in such a place like Source Star, faced such a dark social atmosphere, and the cost and price of acquiring knowledge was so high, yet the oppressive power they faced was pervasive and strong. Still, the kind flames in people's hearts that fought for others' destinies never truly extinguished.

Many who died tragically along the path of groping in the darkness could have avoided such an end if they had bowed to the times with open hearts.

But they did not.

They chose to die standing rather than live kneeling.

The Business Association exerted great effort to erase the traces of their existence.

Even the Nameless City might not have been the first such city.

However, amid countless coincidences, there will surely be one inevitability.

Ren Zhong even suspected that the cunning and elusiveness of the Descending Demon Baby were precisely the resistance of these wills in the dark.

Demon Infant—Sun Ai's "past life"—died at his hands not because it had nowhere to flee, but because it had been quietly observing Starfire Town and understood him.

It placed its hope on me!

As for why so many wills of resistance would converge within the small Nameless City, Ren Zhong believed it was not a coincidence, nor an accident, but an inevitability.

Because there were so many sufferers on Source Star, and history has never lacked ambitious individuals in the long river of human civilization.

They have always been failing but always striving.

These people fought for ideals and were erased from existence, but their will always rekindled like smoldering ashes.

Even if these people had not left marks of resistance in the Nameless City, even if the Nameless City did not exist, there would inevitably be others elsewhere leaving similar marks of resistance.

Since coming to Source Star, Ren Zhong had been nearly overwhelmed by the strong sense of loneliness.

He struggled and clung on with a single obsession in his heart.

But after experiencing the secrets deep in Sun Ai's memory from another angle, this loneliness disappeared.

Ren Zhong thought to himself, I have always had comrades.

In the past, now, and in the future.

I am not alone.

"Sun Ai, humanity should not be like this. If mankind were truly a free civilization, productivity would determine production relations. With the way humans think, it would be impossible to form such a twisted system. On Source Star, there must be a powerful force beyond human resistance controlling everything. The road we must travel is long, but we must start with the first step."

Sun Ai nodded, "Yes, we are already enlightened. In our recent failure, we deduced new economic laws but lost due to our impatience. The approach you are now taking is correct; only by integrating into it can we break it."

Ren Zhong: "But as you previously mentioned, this integration is also very dangerous. So, can you tell me your method now?"

Sun Ai's tone suddenly became heavy, "We want to fight once more with you, for the last time."

"After it's done, you'll die?"

"We've already died."

"Is it that your consciousness will completely disappear?"

"Yes. But we think it's worth it, if the future remains the same, then we don't yearn for such a world. If the future can become what we hope to see, even if we can no longer see it, we will still 'live' in the smile on every face in the world we created with our own hands."

Ren Zhong slowly nodded, "Hmm."

"Uncle, our method is... to destroy 'the Net'. We can do it."

Ren Zhong suddenly stood up, "Destroy the Net? This..."

The idea of "disconnecting the Net" had always been a fantasy for him.

But he could never find an entry point.

He felt his status was insignificant, his strength inadequate, only intending to consider how to deal with the true "rulers" of Source Star after climbing all the way up to possibly becoming something huge like the Nine Major Groups.

But the truth proved that the shackles the existence of "the Net" imposed on him were unbreakable.

The higher his status and the more resources he grasped, the stronger the scrutiny from "the Net" would be, and the possibility of complete exposure would become greater.

If he continued attempting to plant the seeds of revolution and influence others, the likelihood of exposure was one hundred percent.

With the strength of "the Net", there was no way Ren Zhong could climb to the top of the Pyramid before truly integrating.

But once he chose genuine integration, he himself and the forces he created would certainly become a part of the system.

By that time, it would be futile even if he barely maintained his revolutionary beliefs alone.

As Sun Ai previously mentioned, "Humans are social beings."

Everyone he forged deep bonds with, whether family or friends, would become his obstacles, forming a wall of sighs he could never break through.

This was simply an unsolvable deadlock.

But now, Sun Ai gave him a great surprise.