Chapter 943 - 223: The Storm Sweeping the World, The Collapse of Barriers (Part 1)

Bang!

The civilian factory lines were converted into military production lines, and the entire industrial zone’s software was completely replaced. The Worker’s Union network, which used to circulate only within the workers, was now empowered by the controlled European Barrier, directly connecting all the rebellious workers in the European Union to the network!

In contrast, the network supervision and Interpol, which once enjoyed supreme access to the European Barrier, suddenly lost these capabilities. Bureaucrats without top-notch skills were caught off guard on the spot, and police stations most affected have completely ceased operations!

The network supervision has lost absolute control over the European Barrier, but they aren’t amateurs. The current European Barrier, a super network housing hundreds of millions of people, has been turned into a massive crime network by the out-of-control Illuminati and Lille working together!

With the loss of the European Barrier, the speed of decision-making by those in power and the speed of decision transmission has become incredibly slow. This thinking process put them at a complete disadvantage.

[Illuminati: At my suggestion, the European Union adopted cumbersome bureaucratic procedures for management. Now the bureaucratic system has collapsed.]

[Illuminati: This means that the absolutely loyal and still combat-capable company security, company army, network supervision, and Interpol, totaling 230,430 people, must suppress 86.3 million European Union workers by force.]

[Illuminati: Except for the troops that must protect company facilities and borders, I estimate that approximately 110,000 resistance forces must be dispersed across the 17 countries of the European Union. The rebellious workers currently connected to the network number 991,113, meaning that each lapdog of the European Union has to deal with more than 9 workers on pure data level.]

[Illuminati: According to the latest record, I expect the absolutely loyal and combat-capable company security, company army, network supervision, and Interpol, totaling 230,430 people, whereas the European Union workers total 86.3 million.]

[Illuminati: According to my prediction, the number of resistance forces will eventually be slightly lower than the registered data, while the number of workers will continue to rise, relying solely on your follow-up handling.]

[Illuminati: That is to say, each lapdog will have to deal with more than 40 workers as the battle continues, and we will ultimately achieve victory.]

[Illuminati: I still want to know, how did you just pull something out of... air?]

Lille couldn’t bring himself to answer the Illuminati’s question and instead shifted his gaze to his "system."

Just moments ago, the number of people using cross-dimensional production functions surpassed one million.

[Cross-dimensional Production Scale Upgraded.]

[Current Cross-dimensional Production Scale: Third Level]

[Connected Biomass in Cyberpunk World: One Million]

[Connected Biomass in Marvel World: 150,000]

[New Ability Acquired: You can now directly replicate energy required for production across cross-dimensional production lines, macroscopically reducing production energy consumption by 1%]

[New Ability Acquired: You can now directly allocate energy to two worlds.]

[New Ability Acquired: The two worlds are closely linked, allowing you to transmit matter at 90% of the normal point cost.]

[New Ability Acquired: Your individual energy consumption will be reduced by 10%.]

[Quantum Resonance Ability Upgraded, now directly reducing defect rate.]

[Current Energy Consumption Reduced: 1.001%]

[Current Defect Rate Reduced: 50%]

[Material Transmission Costs Technology Points: 90%]

[Note: It seems your Latovia citizens are struggling to adapt to the rapidly growing production scale, squander any excess energy.]

Through the network, he could see that in countless factories, Interpol, network supervision, and company armies had already launched attacks.

The workers hid in the factories, working overtime, strapping weapons to engineering robots one after another, as worker after worker filled with fervor donned exoskeletons and engineering mechs—

Most people knew they were likely to die, but who would reject participating in such an honorable and... extremely exhilarating rebellion?!

The company first tried to use traditional means to shut down the workers’ prosthetics, but could only be directly countered by the network—

For hackers of the local network era, Lille and the Illuminati’s amalgamation was the most terrifying cyber entity they had ever encountered!

Most hackers were unable to inflict true damage to the network and could only physically destroy it by blowing up servers in various areas...

Ironically, after repeated weighing, they discovered they couldn’t directly bomb industrial zones on a large scale—

In the European Union’s upper echelons, it’s like a body with cancer. Of course, they want to do everything possible to remove the cancer cells, but who wants to die?!

It was these industrial zones that forged the company’s and European Union’s splendor, bombing them was equivalent to bombing the European Union itself!

Their first action was to blow up government buildings, blow up the iron rice bowl in workers’ eyes from the old days!

From the very beginning, even as the workers picked up weapons, the European Union’s primary demand was still to destroy all the equipment and servers providing them with communication support!

These government buildings had extremely strong protective measures, and they would automatically eject when out of control, requiring powerful ground-penetrating bombs to break through—

Boom!

In Foxstone, Bruges, Bremen, Munich, Paris...

The government buildings were directly penetrated by ground-penetrating bombs, and the massive government buildings were completely engulfed in flames during the explosion!

But amusingly, due to the European Union’s excessive caution in the construction of these structures, a single ground-penetrating bomb couldn’t even completely destroy the servers!

The commander looked at the still-standing government building that could still send signals and gritted his teeth:

No training ever taught them how to deal with this situation—bombing government buildings!

"Fire another one! Fire another one!"

Evidently, the European Union’s ability to progress to today, the decisiveness of the Illuminati has already far surpassed the human brain, and now the entire European Union has the feeling of crossing the river by feeling the stones.

[Illuminati: ...Without me, they are worthless.]

[Illuminati: But you defeated me.]

[Illuminati: Whether on a micro level or a macro level, whether in terms of the number of participating rebellious population or the quality of the population, we are bound to win.]

...

A worker panted nervously on the production line as he had just welded an industrial laser on the Jilafa Type 3.

At that moment, he saw the distant government building being bombarded.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Tonight was a night of madness: the workers were exposed to truths they had never known, cannibalistic executive members, usurping Golden Son, and corruption reports that could be listed in the thousands.

From merely supporting Sevens in small-scale confrontations to defending against a company’s large-scale deployment of riot squads, and finally to confronting the beliefs ingrained in their minds for decades, they were indeed on the path of rebellion.

But seeing the office building, which once represented iron rice bowl in their minds, being blown up, that feeling became profound:

This isn’t a minor skirmish, not a small-scale rebellion...

This is like the revolutions in all the official historical propaganda, carrying all the victories usurped and altered by the Golden Son, crossing tens or hundreds of years of lies, the baton of generations that had to pick up weapons.

They began to feel fear:

Afraid of having no future, just like people from the past.

After all, they initially just wanted justice, but why has it turned into a life-or-death war?

A network can indeed provide enough organizational capacity for defense against attacks, but not for offense.

For offense, someone must give orders.

Someone must take the responsibility, a person symbolizing the future, to promise, encourage them, and tell them why they are undertaking this.

At that moment, that person appeared in their visual systems.

[Lille: The time for rebellion has matured.]