Chapter 477: Can't Cut It, Absolutely Can't Cut It

People from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs poured out of their offices; some still clutched phones they hadn't managed to hang up, some shouted "Where are the tech department people?", and others loudly asked "Who can quickly cut off the live broadcast?".

Yang Yichen blended into the crowd, momentarily at a loss, but fortunately someone beside him gave him a pull and dragged him over to the comment‑control station.

The main door was suddenly kicked open, and a man in a black suit rushed in, shouting at the technicians typing away inside, "What on earth is happening?!".

The person sitting in the very center didn't even lift his head, his fingers flying over the keyboard so fast it seemed he might scrape his own scalp.

"No way, someone interfered with the Dome's signal‑jamming device; we can't force the live broadcast off!"

Bai Mu Yun's face was crystal clear on the screen, the spiral ram horns taking up most of the frame.

Soon they received word that someone had gone and smashed the signal towers transmitting the feed, making it impossible to shut down the broadcast.

"Can't cut it, can't cut it at all!"

The network once controlled by the Dome to sway public opinion now seemed completely beyond their grasp.

In such a short span, public opinion had already begun to ferment, especially on a topic tied to Co‑Absorption!

Everyone knew that a lunatic had publicly declared war on the Dome today; Co‑Absorption was already in the spotlight, and the live broadcast even grabbed an eye‑catching title, spreading from one to ten to a hundred, and people rushed in en masse.

They had already lost control of the internet, yet the live‑stream picture remained so clear.

"Control the comments! Control them first!"

The man in the black suit could only shout, "But how exactly are we supposed to control them?"

Bai Mu Yun, already quite famous as a human, now had his inhuman side fully exposed to the public, sparking massive panic.

Unlike before when they voluntarily announced the existence of Undead, now they needed to mobilize the masses and wield them, with every development of public opinion under their control.

But the situation was now vastly different; at least Bai Mu Yun was absolutely unprotectable!

"First issue a notice to soothe the people, then urge the Field Operations Department folks to set off quickly!"

All they could hope for was that the Field Operations Department would arrive promptly and cut off the broadcast source.

The entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs entered a high‑speed mode; Yang Yichen's task was the most straightforward—simply deleting negative comments—but he couldn't delete them as quickly as they were posted.

He glanced at the colleague beside him, whose fingers were almost sparking fire, and he sped up a bit, though without standing out.

He also made sure to glance at the live content; the picture was a veritable chaos of demons.

Fortunately, he didn't see a jarring splash of Ying Guang Lu.

Since it has nothing to do with Xiao Xie, I'll just goof off for now......

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Hua Jian Lei leaned against the bar, a semi‑transparent floating screen before him. The screen was playing a close‑up of Bai Mu Yun's face—spiral ram horns, golden horizontal pupils, and half of Xie Jingyan's face illuminated by his sword's light.

"Can you hold out?"

"No problem. Although I've only seen my partner try this skill a few times and can't strike people along the network cable like him, a slight interference with the energy transmission path is still fine."

Xi Ren Sheng was also doing this for the first time, but the feeling was oddly similar to coding in reality, except the game world is far less bound by logic.

He could completely turn himself into a signal relay, receiving the live feed and, in place of the Dome's signal towers, transmitting the picture to every NPC.

The frame happened to cut to a close‑up of Mei Wei Si; after all, another corpse was almost entirely covered by frost, and Mei Wei Si's Mutation Feature was especially conspicuous.

The camera lingered on her face for a few seconds; Hua Jian Lei stared steadily for a while, then let out a soft sigh.

Not the slightest surprise.

Hua Jian Lei wouldn't be surprised by this outcome; once the strategy team makes a decision, almost no one can change its mind.

Oh, that also includes that one time they tackled a game's hardest raid, stubbornly giving them a bunch of junk characters and gear, claiming that as long as they didn't make a mistake and followed his steps, they could definitely kill.

Because of his "definitely can kill" line, they all slogged through the raid for a full eight hours before finally achieving a "zero error" run.

Looking back, the four of them forcing that thing through sheer stamina was just the inevitable path of kindred spirits.

Hmm, stubborn kind.

When Bai Mu Yun recalled the past, the live‑stream audience kept rising, the barrage of comments scrolling too fast to read, with only occasional comments that slipped past the Ministry's deletions managing to appear.

"Is that Mei Wei Si? The young lady from the Wen Sha family?"

"Is she already dead?"

"Oh my god, look at her! Is she really human?"

"Aberrant Species can actually disguise themselves as humans! Could there be other Aberrant Species lurking around us?"

"Is our world doomed? With both Aberrant Species and Undead, are there any living people left in this world?"

Hua Jian Lei barely glanced at the last comment before it was deleted by the Ministry's comment‑control staff.

Hua Jian Lei pulled a cigarette case that Xi Ren Sheng had brought back from his pocket, took out a cigarette, held it in his mouth, and a flash of fire lit his face.

He inhaled, exhaled a puff of white smoke, which drifted slowly into the air.

He didn't know whether he even had the right to retrieve Miss Wen Sha's corpse.

But given the chaos on that battlefield, it was probably never his turn.

"Xi Ren Sheng, any way to get in touch with him?"

Hua Jian Lei could only hope that Xi Ren Sheng's clinginess would have some odd effect; fortunately, Xi Ren Sheng never let him down.

"Sure, what do you want to tell your partner? It's already too late to beg mercy for your little lover~"

Xi Ren Sheng's gaze shifted, but in fact they all knew Hua Jian Lei's temperament; if he truly negotiated with the strategy team on behalf of a woman, Xi would have done it long ago.

Yang Yixie had given him a chance, but Hua Jian Lei didn't take it, meaning Mei Wei Si hadn't become that important to him yet.

"Can't help it, you lot have no gentlemanly bearing at all. Though the situation forces Mei Wei Si's death to be inevitable, girls always prefer to go out beautifully, right?"

"Wow, you're really hypocritical."

Xi Ren Sheng sneered mercilessly, "The Hua Jian Lei I know is exactly that kind of person."

He puts on a lovestruck façade for anyone, can close the distance at breakneck speed, and when he finally discards them, he's the most ruthless.