Chapter 917 - 917
Chapter 917: The Truth Revealed by the Truth Protection Association
"......To thank Stardust and Moonlight for their heroic protection, the residents of the Star-Moon Kingdom built a glorious monument for them, inscribed with: 'With the brilliance of stars and the wisdom of moonlight, protecting our peace and hope.' And after saving..."
"Eh? Sister Little Han, tell us quickly And then? What happened to the heroes who saved the Star-Moon Kingdom?"
"From then on Stardust and Moonlight continued to protect the Star-Moon Kingdom. Their story was sung from generation to generation, becoming a symbol of courage, unity, and love."
I spaced out for a moment, and the Fool's Dreams couldn't wait to know what happened next.
Because I had ample time to squander, for a moment I didn't even know what to do.
So... I started telling some small stories to the Fool's Dreams.
Although the Fool's Dreams willing to follow me accepted a lot of knowledge indoctrination at once and could even help me with experiments, in my eyes, they were like little cuties who never grew up.
I squeezed my brain spanning two lifetimes, almost forgetting what children liked because... I rarely experienced the feeling of being cared for.
What I remembered not much of seemed to be only some fairy tales and fables.
But these weren't what I heard when I was young.
Instead, I read them myself after growing up, only... I ultimately couldn't experience the feeling of the past.
These stories could let children understand more things in a more beautiful way, but when I realized those concepts, I had long been taught by the colder reality.
So much so that seeing these "childish" contents again, I would subconsciously avoid them, because that innocence would sting me so much I couldn't bear to look straight at it.
Optimistic children encountering setbacks thought of beautiful and positive fairy tales, which taught them to face life optimistically and positively.
While pessimistic children thought of not just reality, but the life they personally experienced, and the coldness they couldn't escape for a lifetime.
This is the disparity between people.
It is also the establishment of a person's world view, and education that completely affects a person's life.
Perhaps looking at these stories with my current gaze, fairy tales would seem brainless, and fables would feel childish.
Then why not look at the beauty of fairy tales and the thinking taught by fables?
So... for these Fool's Dreams, I discarded those realities and superfluous thoughts, picking up my past ignorance again.
Moreover, the Fool's Dreams liked them very much... Even Fool's Star, who had watched in the Primal Dream State for unknown how long, liked these things.
Only... the reason I paused just now was because I felt a throb.
That was a very distant call.
Even further than that Small World back then.
Just this bit of information, I understood what exactly this was.
From the distant Game World, an invitation letter was finally handed to me at this moment.
Although this deviated quite a bit from the time agreed with that Anti-Witch, it was within my acceptance range.
It's just that the power coming from the summons was becoming increasingly powerful, which surprised me greatly.
What exactly did the other side do to be able to activate the summoning rune on such a large scale?
Maybe not just the summoning rune, but even additional ritual architecture augmentation!
"Sister Little Han What are you going to tell next? I want to hear fables!"
"Mm Sister Little Han will tell you right away."
I turned sideways and looked at Yue who had come to my side.
In the next moment, a summoning spell formation rose under her feet, the complex ritual architecture flashing with dazzling light.
When everything dispersed, only I remained here again.
"This time Sister Little Han will tell you a story about a group of small animals living in the forest, bravely facing unknown things. The story happened in..."
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The chaotic Game World at this moment.
Holders of Banned Accounts deployed comprehensive combat platforms, docked with personal combat auxiliary systems, directly opened full firepower mode, and let the autonomous combat system take over the output.
This was a glorious moment that an account only had once in a lifetime!
Before long, his account would activate the anti-detection program, truly buying them the last time.
Until a beam of energy light piercing the sky shot through the sky in the distance, everyone was shocked by this scene.
Banned Account holders, Vanguard Team members, Truth Protection Association members, and... all ordinary people fleeing under firepower...
They all looked in that direction coincidentally.
The massive energy spewing out constantly outlined special ritual patterns in the sky.
Terrifying energy fluctuations instantly swept away those clouds.
The dark energy reflected the dark clouds too late to disperse in the sky.
"What is that?"
At this moment, Vanguard Team members looked at the ritual rune constantly outlined in their vision, faces full of confusion.
These were somewhat similar to the magic circles used by the magic worlds they had invaded, but... how could anyone in this world know magic?
And just as they hesitated, a supreme directive mandatory mission suddenly popped up before their eyes!
Crimson warning signs filled their vision, accompanied by ear-piercing warning sounds, constantly stimulating their nerves.
"Damn it... what is this doing? This is our own home world... how could it trigger the Supreme Alert?"
At this moment, for their Vanguard Team, nothing was important anymore.
As for protecting those idiots?
In front of this mandatory mission, the so-called life and death of these guys were not worth mentioning! Just cut off all relations!
"Go destroy that ritual, even if blowing up that wireless perpetuum mobile energy transfer station doesn't matter, must destroy that!"
Vanguard Team members didn't even have time to care about the cause of the matter.
Those high-and-mighty Game Architects were actually so afraid of this scene.
But the mission had been issued, they must execute it!
This was a Supreme Directive!
Even death didn't matter.
After all, what died was just a game character.
The Supreme Council wouldn't treat players who sacrificed accounts for the Supreme Directive unfairly.
So while shocked, they were also extremely pleasantly surprised.
This was a good opportunity hard to come by!
Of course, the premise was that the Supreme Directive must be completed, otherwise... no reward.
Although this was said to be a game, when talking about benefits, it was also extremely real.
"Want to leave? Did you ask us!"
"Damn Banned Accounts! Why haven't you exploded yet!"
Vanguard Team members cursed somewhat embarrassedly.
After a Banned Account was banned, the character would directly self-destruct and die.
And that pain of death would be truly fed back to the controllers of those accounts.
In severe cases, it could directly make a normal person endure pain instantly, even making a person fall into shock or even death under this pain!
So Banned Account players must detach from the account before banning, and cut off the game empathy system at the first moment.
And just as the Vanguard Team and Banned Accounts were entangled, the central system and urban infrastructure that this city had lost control of were temporarily activated again.
Between towering high-rises and buildings, on large advertising screens or display projections outside simple buildings, after some flickering, a figure appeared.
Huge changes and noisy broadcast loudspeakers, etc., instantly quieted the entire city down.
Because standing on that screen was a middle-aged man.
Perhaps some people had no impression of him, but most people still remembered his appearance.
He was the President of the Truth Protection Association!
Once fearlessly exposing the darkness behind the Infinite Group Myriad Worlds Terminal headquarters, publicly challenging authority, hitting the group's sore spot hard, he was a symbol of revealing the truth in this world, and also one of the spiritual leaders of the Truth Protection Association.
Perhaps looking at these alone felt like nothing, but his most legendary point was... he lived until now!
Some time ago, it was rumored that this Mr. Monroe had been arrested, but looking now, he "lived" again!
And this time, he was going to start his show again.
"Everyone... good evening, I am Monroe, the President of the Truth Protection Association."
A simple opening remark, but such an appearance instantly attracted everyone's attention.
"Meeting everyone in this way this time is also a last resort, because... we have no choice. We have been kept in the dark for too long, unable to see the truth. Many people mock us, target us, accuse us, think we are crazy, but these don't matter."
"I won't say you are ignorant because you don't work hard enough like the group. I won't blame you. The truth will eventually be presented equally before everyone, and facts will also change your concepts. You are not stupid, just someone blinded your eyes."
"And I! Am the one taking you to see the truth! The light first seen will indeed be slightly dazzling, but that is the labor pain one must experience to witness the truth with one's own eyes..."
Monroe's speech echoed over the city.
Compared to the sharp edge revealed when everyone first saw Monroe, Monroe at this moment became somewhat restrained, but when targeting those people of the group, he was still very sharp.
"......Infinite Group Myriad Worlds Terminal headquarters covered up the numerous crimes they committed. They bound everyone's life with games, they consumed your life with online duration! They dismissed your life with some virtual petty profits!"
"And those high-and-mighty Game Architects, lying on top of all your heads, used the labor extracted from you to commit inhumane aggression and slaughter against worlds outside of us one by one!"
"The wastelands and doomsdays you once treated as games and walked through happily, that was the sorrowful cry and wailing of a world! That wasn't any game at all! That were worlds that were once alive one by one!"
"Remember the first person you killed with your own hands? The warmth of blood splattering on the skin... remember those censored texts? The experience of complaining about game text design cutting corners... remember the bugs you got stuck in and the accounts warned and banned! Those are the truths those people never let you know..."
"I said so much not to condemn you. You were just utilized. The ones who should truly be condemned by me should be the culprits who created all these tragedies!"
While Monroe was giving a crazy speech here, people from the Vanguard Team were also destroying those public projection equipment along the way while rushing over to execute the Supreme Directive.
But obviously, they couldn't stop all this.
The Truth Protection Association obviously came prepared.
Facing such an emergency, a team of vanguard personnel was definitely not enough.
After all, no one expected things to develop like this.
They just thought it was just a city parade turning into a conflict.
And the Vanguard Team also suffered pursuit from the rear, plus the pincer attack of Banned Accounts rushing from the Energy Transfer Station side, caught in a dilemma.
It could be said this success was a victory of information asymmetry.
But the pressure on the Truth Protection Association wasn't small either.
After all, their Banned Accounts were about to exit.
The anti-check program had warned multiple times to conduct a safe exit quickly, but they still wanted to strive for more opportunities and time.
"I know you must all be very curious about what relationship my words have with all this happening over the Igsuo ground city. That is, I want you to see the facts I said with your own eyes."
"Let a character who appeared in the game come to our world! Pierce the lies woven by the group! Completely overthrow the rotten old world of our world! Then build a world without oppression, without concealment and deception..."
Accompanying Monroe's highly inflammatory words echoing constantly, over this Igsuo ground city, that huge and mysterious ritual rune was also outlined completely.
At this moment, that rune seemed to come alive.
The nearest Vanguard Team couldn't stop this scene from happening at this moment either.
And at the same time, Vanguard Teams stationed in other cities also rushed over at the first moment.
Since it couldn't be stopped, they would use all power currently mobilizable to strangle all these in the cradle!
And those people who walked onto the streets expressed disbelief after hearing Monroe's words.
After all... this was too shocking to the world!
But some people were extremely excited!
This was like someone saying to ACG fans: The anime you watch, the games you play, the characters inside really exist! And they will use all means to bring one of them to reality to prove it to you.
How could this not make them excited?
There were also some who viewed all this rationally, thinking this was inviting a wolf into the house.
But more were excitement and expectation!
"I want to see Philomena! Please tell me you summoned Philomena! She should be remembered by us forever! Philo-men!"
"Philomena is already dead! Recognize reality! You pushed the main storyline yourselves... you killed that saintess standing on the ruins yourselves!"
"Shut up! Who let you say this!"
"If what Monroe said is true, then her death is destined. Save it!"
"You guys really believed it? I think this is a drama directed and acted by the Truth Protection Association themselves. Summoning, magic? You believe these? Really played games until obsessed, can't distinguish reality and games, right!"
"Aren't there people from the Infinite Group over there! Go interrogate them! They definitely know some intelligence we don't know!"
With this reminder, many people instantly opened their minds.
Mobility and execution were also maxed out instantly.
But arguing voices still constantly issued from the crowd.
However, no matter what they said, they couldn't change the fact that it is happening.
Over the Igsuo ground city, that summoning ritual... was thoroughly activated.