Chapter 608

Warlord chaos?

Will civilization constantly regress, or even appear slavery?

Will someone monopolize "Containment-3699" in order to obtain more powerful power?

After all, the only reason mutants can unite is to overthrow the Foundation.

And when this unified goal disappears, a civilization without a common vision will inevitably become fragmented.

A few months later, even if the sky outside was cloudless, the O5 Council was still shrouded in dark clouds, without a trace of warmth.

Thirteen O5 councilors, through equipment independently developed by the Foundation, connected their consciousness into a top-secret network to hold meetings with other O5s.

However, even the O5 Council, which should have been filled with active thinking, was silent.

Finally, O5-4 broke the silence with a gentle voice.

"... What did you say?"

The O5 Council was silent because of the situation they had just heard.

"I said, there is no hope."

O5-10 made a collapsing gesture.

"You are the person I least want to hear say this, Ten."

"Look at the data. The orange area has shrunk by 2%. Just last month, we lost two sites..."

Before O5-10 could continue to say anything, O5-11 pulled up a huge light screen, showing the actions of that group of restless mutants.

"And lost two other Mobile Task Forces, Eta-5 and Phi-2."

O5-11 said.

"Dead?" someone asked.

"Eta-5 suffered catastrophic losses while confronting a living mountain with 3396 energy, no further details obtained."

"What about Phi-2?"

O5-11 hesitated, silent for a moment, then finally sighed helplessly:

"One member died, the rest defected."

"Damn it."

O5-2 made the same gesture:

"We need to enhance 'Alabaster.' As long as this method is feasible, every drop of resources can be invested in containment or neutralization."

O5-3 opposed:

"I don't like this idea."

"This is no longer just our business. Placing most humans in camps and laboratories is an overreach."

O5-2's face had no changes, except for fatigue, just fatigue:

"... You had unnecessary worries when it really wasn't the time, Three."

"This is just containing anomalies. This is what we do, this is what we have always been doing."

"Nothing has changed except for scale and budget. If we don't do our work, and start from right now, then we cannot continue the existence of humanity."

The entire virtual space fell into silence again.

Until O5-4 pushed the process to the final step:

"Then let's start the formal vote."

"Support or oppose increasing the scope of the 'Alabaster' project, and making the containment and neutralization of 3396 the primary Foundation directive."

Silence.

A few voices said "In favor" one after another.

Three, Four, Eight voted against.

Before O5-1 could announce the voting result, O5-10, the promoter of Alpha-9, raised her hand.

"According to my memory, the Foundation has a person responsible for picking up the phone at the last moment; do you remember him?"

O5-1 frowned, raised his hand to rub his temples, seemingly having some effect in the virtual space.

He kept shaking his legs, appearing very uneasy.

"I... I seem to have such an impression, but I always feel that this memory is like being separated by a layer of frosted glass... you know, that feeling."

He wouldn't question O5-10's ability, at least she had noticed the anomaly of the "Zero Point Event."

The other O5 councilors heard the conversation between the two and also tried to recall such a figure, but no matter how they tried, there were no traces.

"Administrator?"

By some strange coincidence, O5-13 said a term that everyone was both familiar with and strange to, slowly raising his head to look at O5-10.

"I have no impression at all."

"Does the Foundation have an Administrator?"

"Sounds like high-level management above O5? Shouldn't be, right?"

They pondered for a while, and after pulling out all their memories to wash, dry, and examine them one by one under the light, what they got was disappointment.

In these days of confronting mutants, the O5 Council hadn't had good news for a long time.

Reality benders chose mutants as compatriots, divinities chose to stand by, and some agents chose to embrace glorious evolution.

Even the people protected by the Foundation didn't appreciate it, thinking the Foundation was afraid of them obtaining power and overthrowing the Foundation's rule.

After learning of the existence of this "big shot," the O5 councilors also subconsciously...

"Yes, he is the founder of the Foundation; when humans were still living in caves resisting wild beasts, treating light and darkness as gods and demons, he had already started confronting anomalies."

O5-10 said calmly after everyone returned to silence.

The conference room fell into silence for a while, leaving only the sound of O5-1 constantly shaking his legs.

At this time, O5-7, who had been silent, suddenly raised his hand:

"Since this one has disappeared from our memory, is there only one possibility..."

Everyone looked at O5-10.

She, who still has a complete memory of the Administrator, is the backbone of the entire council.

"Supreme Divinity, but not our universe's Administrator ascending to Supreme Divinity..."

"Otherwise we couldn't have forgotten him."

"That is a realm we cannot imagine."

O5-10 shrugged and said no more.

"Or should we escape to the universe? Using the Foundation's existing resources and reality benders, we might still be able to build a few 'Noah's Arks'."

"Take a gamble using the 'Red Sea Object'? We go to a parallel world to find a new settlement?"

"Escaping to space is possible, Six, but the biggest possibility of using the 'Red Sea Object' is turning us all into 'Unclean Ones'; 'Unclean Ones', mutants, or genocide, which one do you think is better?"

"..."

The many councilors in the conference room suddenly became active, throwing out various plans that were impossible to mention in the past, just to let humanity continue to exist.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

"Silence!"

O5-1 kept knocking on the floor with his cane.

"Since you all have new ideas, let's discuss the plan again and vote."

"When a god bleeds, he becomes a man; when the Foundation fails, our past warnings all become jokes!"

"This time, humanity and the Foundation have no time left."