Chapter 356

Amoeba worm instance world, day four, 1:21 PM.

Kanbura military base Safe Zone.

Inside the sixth‑level underground Meeting Room, thirty‑six senior officers stared fixedly at the image on the projector.

The researcher standing beside the projector began to explain with a solemn expression:

"Gentlemen, this is a video recording jointly sent yesterday by the Bolaka Safe Zone and the Troy Safe Zone."

"The man shown on the screen, carrying a long sword on his back, is their new ruler."

"They call him the Judgment."

"From the footage we can see that this man possesses incredible superhuman power."

"Roughly summarized, his abilities are as follows:"

"1. Flight in mid‑air."

"2. Telekinesis (controlling objects in the void)."

"3. An invisible yet substance‑like high‑burst shockwave, similar to an air burst."

"4. Near‑sonic movement; preliminary calculation puts his speed at up to 0.7 Mach."

"5. Unknown energy‑control ability."

"6. Spatial folding technique, allowing him to snatch objects out of thin air."

"7. Unknown diffusion ability, with sound carrying special effects over an extremely wide range."

As each ability was listed and speculated, the officers present could only feel astonished.

Seated at the head, the square‑jawed senior officer's face grew grave as he asked in a low voice:

"Are you certain this video came from their Safe Zone?"

"Can you tell whether these are special effects or artificially fabricated?"

After hearing this, the researcher hesitated a moment and gave a wry smile:

"We can confirm the video's source is that both major Safe Zones sent it simultaneously."

"But we cannot determine how genuine or fake the video is."

"As you know, since the catastrophe our communication channels have low bandwidth, so the received footage is not clear."

"Therefore, after analyzing it all night yesterday, we still cannot judge whether the video is real or fake."

"But..."

The researcher let out a sigh and paused a moment:

"Even if it's fake, the forged recording"

"but this technology is still highly sophisticated, far surpassing the movie special effects of the pre‑catastrophe era."

"We conducted a force analysis and even consulted special‑effects engineers for their opinion."

"Their unanimous conclusion was:"

"If the video were fabricated special effects, Bolaka would have had to mobilize over three thousand VFX artists, using high‑performance computers to render for about half a year, to achieve such a realistic result."

"Look."

The researcher, with a complex expression, rewound the footage.

On the screen: Lin An stands in mid‑air, right hand loosely clenched; under telekinetic control he destroys the billboard of Heaven's City in one sweep.

"Take this scene as an example."

"Whether it's the angle, the force analysis, or the way the billboard shatters, it's far too realistic!"

"The flying debris, the metal deformation on impact, the smoke, and everyone's expressions."

"If this scene were truly a special‑effects creation, its difficulty would be beyond imagination."

The leading senior officer stared intently at the looping footage, trying to find any flaw.

After a while, he let out a long sigh.

"So, so what is your final conclusion?"

The researcher's face showed struggle; eventually, still hesitating, he spoke the answer:

"In our assessment, the likelihood that the video is genuine exceeds sixty percent!"

"Although it's indeed hard to accept..."

As soon as he said that, the whole room fell silent.

A younger officer could not help but slam the table and stand up:

"What kind of joke is this?!"

"If it's real, what difference is there between the man on the screen and the legendary deities?!"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

He laughed angrily and directly addressed the Safe Zone Leader:

"Lord Kains! You wouldn't believe there are deities in this world, would you?"

"What era is this?! Such superstitious, ignorant remarks—I can hardly imagine they'd come from our researcher's mouth!"

Having said that, he strode a few steps to the researcher and, face full of anger, grabbed his collar:

"Speak! Were you bribed by the Bolaka Safe Zone?!"

"After Bolaka sent the video they demanded our unconditional surrender! Now you say the video is real and we can't stop it—did you already collude with Bolaka?!"

"What the hell kind of joke is this! What bullshit Judgment!"

"For thousands of years no divine signs have appeared; that sort of thing is nothing but trash swept into the toilet!"

"If such beings exist, why have they only shown up now? Where were they before?!"

"General Bolun! Release the researcher!"

Safe Zone Leader Kai En Si let out an angry shout, stopping his subordinates.

To be honest, he also, from the bottom of his heart, didn't really want to believe everything on the screen.

It's really too exaggerated.

In a world where the supernatural had never appeared, the emergence of Awakened Ones was no less than ancient people seeing a spaceship.

Especially Bolaka's 'arrogant' declaration.

Unconditional surrender, abandoning all military forces and joining them within three days.

How is that possible!?

On the other hand, Kai En Si also didn't really believe his researcher would be bribed, and he had also watched the footage dozens of times.

That footage was too real, really like something that happened yesterday, like a cameraman filming on-site.

After separating the two, Kai En Si looked at his most trusted researcher with a complex expression, holding onto a sliver of hope as he asked:

"Is there any other evidence?"

"A 60% probability isn't actually that high, right?"

"For example, that mid-air flight was done with wires, and the destruction of the signboard was achieved by pre-planted explosives."

The researcher glanced at his boss, somewhat embarrassed, tidying up his disheveled shirt.

He secretly sighed and couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh:

"Leader Kai En Si, you can look here."

Saying that, he adjusted the footage to the scene of Bolaka's million-strong crowd shouting like a tidal wave.

On the screen, a sea of black heads filled the entire frame.

With forty camera angles capturing and editing, every person's expression was quickly swept over.

The excited man fainted on the ground, the child cluelessly riding on his parents' heads, the slave weeping bitterly, the woman tearing off the chain around her neck...

The fervor and shock on every person's face did not seem feigned.

Even though they were in an underground meeting room, the frantic shouts from the speakers were still heart-shaking.

"Lin An!! Lin An!!"

During the filming, even the picture began to shake.

That was the cameraman, unable to control his trembling body from the frenzy's infection, shouting along loudly.

The researcher gave a somewhat dejected laugh:

"Esteemed generals,"

"Even if special effects could be faked, how would you explain Bolaka's nearly million people plunged into frenzy?"

Although he had watched the footage many times, each time after viewing, the researcher felt deeply shaken.

He let out a long sigh, and a hint of confusion flashed in his eyes.

A 60% degree of reality...

It was merely to avoid overly stimulating these senior officers.

Actually, the transmitted footage, in their estimation, had a reality level of over 90%!

After a long silence, only wave after wave of shouts like a mountain‑sea tsunami echoed in the quiet meeting room.