Chapter 573

"How is the news spreading?"

"According to what you said, I had my subordinates disguise themselves as traveling students, using false identities to board airships and bring the materials to various places, handing them over to the people we had previously contacted."

"These people are outright lunatics!"

"But this bunch of lunatics actually seems to be trying to topple that massive entity of the Dome."

"And now......"

"Cai Mao glanced at Lao Bao beside Hua Jian Lei; Lao Bao just yawned boredly. The Strategy Group devised the plan, Hua Jian Lei is responsible for executing the plan and communicating with other forces, and there's nothing for him to do in the action."

"After all, they couldn't face the Dome with insufficient manpower; outside, the rumors spread by Hua Jian Lei would also stir up riots, and if Lao Bao went out looking for a fight, he'd likely be turned into a scapegoat and beaten to death."

"So he could only stay in this small bar and drink to drown his sorrows."

"Alright, that's about enough to prepare the next step."

"Hua Jian Lei nodded, but Cai Mao raised his head in confusion, thinking Hua Jian Lei had already finished all the work."

"Look at the cities under the Dome's jurisdiction now; because the signal towers were destroyed, they cannot know the current situation of other cities, but combining the information Hua Jian Lei previously gathered, they can guess a bit."

"Probably every city has erupted in riots."

"The Dome is a company built upon the populace, relying on new energy and providing refuge to cities the Church cannot reach, gradually winning people's hearts, and then step by step reaching its current position, even able to stand on par with the Church."

"Prior to the Aberrant Species attack, manpower was already tight; even among the city garrisons there were many newly recruited ordinary people wielding new-energy rune weapons."

"But when those evidences were made public, the Dome had already completely lost the people's hearts."

"Moreover, having lost network transmission, even if they immediately issued crisis PR, they could not convey it to the populace of other cities."

"What will the Dome do next?"

"Draw a clear line with Co-Absorption, dump all the blame onto them, then single-handedly remove themselves."

"The target for dumping the blame is also clear: as for Fang Zhiyan's this foray into the Abyss, when he'll return is not mentioned now, but when he does return he'll likely be unrecognizable, making him the perfect scapegoat."

"Moreover, many of the experimental records contain Fang Zhiyan's notes; conversely, although the Field Operations Department's involvement is clearly traceable, it does not directly point to an individual—only needing to push someone out to take the blow......"

"After all, each city's defensive weapons rely on the Dome; as long as they give a somewhat plausible reason, those people can only choose to believe."

"Now, the signal towers in all cities under the Dome should be under urgent repair, right?"

"Hua Jian Lei lit a cigarette, leisurely leaning against the bar, his gaze occasionally turning to his communicator."

"Each city's signal towers suffered different degrees of damage, so repair speeds vary greatly."

"For example, right now a city very close to Heavenly Dome City already has its signal tower restored."

"Online now it's uproarious, all discussing the news about the spread of entropy and those human experiments."

"Once becoming the target of public criticism, all previously ignored people and matters will be dug up again, and various conspiracy theories will be built upon that basis."

"【In other words, is the Dome secretly colluding with Co-Absorption to conduct human experiments? Are we really safe? How many people have already become sacrificial victims of the experiments?】"

"【Actually, no need to worry? After all, they're surely just social scum, and it could be considered rid­ding the populace of harm......】"

"【Besides, whitewashing again—haven't you seen those data? Many test subjects are just orphans from the orphanage!】"

"【I used to volunteer at an orphanage; back then a batch of kids suddenly disappeared, which seemed strange. I heard the Dome gave subsidies to families adopting orphans; now looking back, sigh.】"

"【Even with subsidies, we ourselves can barely get by in this world—who would raise a child for that little subsidy?】"

"【Who still remembers that previous worldwide livestream, just that designer and that writer's affair......】"

"【How long ago was that? Everyone still remembers—could Miss Meivis actually have become a test subject of the Dome?】"

"【That designer has no excuse! I checked the warrant issued by the Church! That 'Shepherd' is most likely him, but after the Church took him away there was no further news—he might have been secretly released.】"

"Hua Jian Lei looked while refreshing; sometimes the news he just saw would be deleted the next second by a refresh—likely the Dome's officials are managing comments."

"The Foreign Ministry staff are deleting comments so fast they might as well be chipping out sparks, right?"

"Don't rush, take it slow—they still have a big move for entropy increase waiting later......"

"Hua Jian Lei saw the posts online increasing more and more; the Foreign Ministry can barely keep up deleting them, which also indicates that more and more signal towers are being repaired."

"Destroying the signal towers was to prevent the Dome from immediately mounting a countermeasure, giving rumors and conspiracy theories time to ferment."

"And while waiting for the signal towers to recover, naturally Ying Duo had left a special big gift package for the Dome."

"Hua Jian Lei still doesn't know what's inside, but just the fact that this thing was created by Ying Duo together with Acting Life already shows its authority."

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"As Hua Jian Lei had thought, Yang Yichen over here felt his soul was about to fly out."

"He felt that back when he was in college rushing his graduation thesis, his typing speed had never been this fast......"

"Yang Yichen merely kept repeating the delete-comment operation, while beginning to curse this world's backward programming—they didn't even have a plugin that could delete dozens per minute!"

"Pure manual work!"

"Yang Yichen wore a pained expression, his hands never stopping the motion, and it didn't hinder his thoughts from gradually drifting away."

"The Dome's dark side had reached such an extent that it still exceeded his imagination; in the process of deleting comments, he inevitably saw what was inside."

"In this world's network, there's no such thing as images being unable to upload."

"Even their department head has been running around everywhere, and also has to occasionally go to various grassroots levels to give everyone psychological counseling and arrange for them to keep working."

"Ah, what did he just say?"

"Oh right, the college graduation thesis—come to think of it, the real-world college entrance exam has been ages ago, right? How long until scores come out? I also don't know which school his younger brother will apply to."

"Probably one close to home? Yang Yixie has always been thorough in giving his mother a sense of security."

"No, where did the topic go?"

"Yang Yichen shook his head, then turned to consider what impact the Dome's downfall might have on this group of Undead."

"Actually...... this should be a good thing, right?"

"At this moment Yang Yichen still doesn't know that his younger brother has turned around and left another big gift for the Dome."