Chapter 946 - 223: The Storm Sweeping the World, the Collapse of Barriers (Part 3)_2

"If revealing the truth doesn’t punish the enemy, then what’s the point of revealing it?"

Lille was piecing together components while instructing Matt to drag the engine that landed in good condition.

"This is the price of revealing the truth. I’ve just learned to accept reality..."

Through the broken walls, looking down at the city through the burning flames, there was no fluctuation in Lille’s eyes—

He indeed recalled many things, but his heart didn’t experience much disturbance...

As he said, all of this is just reality.

"...A person like me—a person like me will cause such things... I too took a long time to accept this reality:

I am the messenger of war, the war itself. As long as I keep moving forward, those who stand in front of me will always grow in number, more and more...

But the people behind me will also grow in number, more and more—until it becomes what it is now."

Will "innocents" die in the chaos? Will those who don’t deserve death sacrifice because of this? Will beautiful families be broken...

So many thoughts, the answer is: Of course.

This is the cruelest truth:

"Countless deaths are bound to happen, just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, naturally so—as long as I keep moving forward, the world will inevitably pay the price for my desires, yield for the future I want, and change...

I have no other thoughts on this; I just accept it gladly and continue."

But no world has ever stopped him from moving forward.

Deep down, Lille never explained his actions as being for a better future, for everyone, or for some other reason...

He just wanted to do it, had to do it, and eventually just did it.

Just as the Golden Son wants to see others unconditionally surrender to their power, Lille wants to see technology act upon the world this way, change the world this way—

He wants to see a boundless future belonging to everyone willing to strive for it.

[Johnny: So... you think like a philosopher, and in some ways, you’re like the Golden Son?]

"To put it bluntly, I will win, and they will lose; this alone makes us two completely different entities—they might have a period of stability through scheming, but they’ll eventually be beaten miserably by us.

They have always been struggling to survive, but they are too short-sighted to realize it."

Johnny chuckled, but also felt a bit melancholic:

[Johnny: This world is really complicated. I think you’re a good person and a hero, but you seem to reject me thinking so... Justice is a bitch, so damn changeable.]

"She’s not a bitch." Lille also laughed, "She’s always on my side."

[Johnny: Lunatic—I’ve met many lunatics, but I’ve always felt they’re not up to par with me; you’re an exception.]

Whoosh—

Above the platform, a Mackinaw Floating Shadow slowly arrived, it was the core of the evacuation.

The top speed of the Mackinaw Floating Shadow is around 280 miles per hour, but the endurance doesn’t support this floating car for transcontinental flight, even with Lille using the ark reactor for power, the efficiency is very low, so modifications are needed.

It needs to be converted into a supersonic glider.

After removing the fuel tank and power room, this floating car only has a sturdy shell and a powerful ion thruster. With the materials projected up, Lille will implant a magnetohydrodynamic control shell, using the control of the particle flow in high-speed flight to achieve gliding control, replacing the glider wings.

In this way, energy consumption will be greatly reduced, and the extreme speed may also break through the sound barrier.

However, with on-site assembly and modifications, the reliability of this vehicle is obviously insufficient—

This concern of Munemasa disappeared as Lille placed his hand on the vehicle:

Blue light appeared in Lille’s hand, and the energy seeped directly into the metal. With just a little spark source energy, the loosely packed atomic parts were fully fused...

This is the unique "Spark Energy Welding Technology" of a Cybertron-like life form like Lille.

"We’ll evacuate with this car."

"We’re staying."

As soon as Lille finished speaking, Sevens and Blais raised their hands, clearly, they had already discussed.

Blais continued: "This is my home, this rebellion can’t be completed overnight, I have to stay here."

Sevens nodded as well: "Me too."

Sevens had avenged his great enmity, and now he has new friends and new goals to strive for. Blais originally came back to overthrow the Golden Son.

A rebellion can’t be settled overnight, especially in a large place like the European Union.

Overall, unless the European Union is determined to nuke all the factory facilities into oblivion, this chaos will continue for some time in a peculiar way—

During this time, the European Union will repeatedly issue new orders, but because there aren’t enough troops to maintain order, it will be difficult to keep a high degree of organization after losing the European Barrier, allowing the Worker’s Union to function normally within the city.

And nuking is almost an impossible option; it’s more likely that the European Union will start hiring security companies and deploy their military forces for prolonged urban warfare with the workers in the cities...

If it weren’t for the network support provided by Lille, in the long urban warfare, both sides would eventually compromise due to their respective shortcomings, resulting in some logistical transactions and other communications.

For a long time, Europe will become a place similar to the Night City until continuous compromises and trades between the two sides form a new stable order.