Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!-Chapter 565 - 289: The Open Conspiracy

On the other side, Mountain City.

Chen Jian had just received a report from Huang Meng.

The news of "wiping out a gang of slave traders" didn’t stir any emotions in him, as the one thing abundant in this Wasteland World was people trading.

Especially with monsters cutting off transportation between towns, the population trade became more frequent.

Sometimes you even have to admit that this kind of trade, to some extent, enhances the exchange on the wasteland, allowing large towns to develop faster.

And this also lends greater assistance to human survival.

----Of course, this is not the reason for the existence of the population trade.

It’s merely a "despicable" choice made under compulsion by humans.

Chen Jian had no intention of condemning such behavior, he coldly ordered its destruction.

But, likewise, the event in Yaxi Town also showed him a new trend.

"The Mechanical God Sect is losing control over the towns."

Chen Jian opened his mouth to tell He Shuo:

"Especially in the core areas of the Beast Tide impact and major transit zones."

"Just like previous Liangxi City, most of the forces of the Mechanical God Sect deployed in various areas chose to retreat at the first instance."

"They merged into other large cities but abandoned the small towns which are essentially the foundation of their existence."

"This is our opportunity."

"If this trend is eventually confirmed, we can even acquire a large number of people without causing fierce conflict."

"And population is precisely what we need the most right now."

"Avoid conflict, gain population."

"Then reverse influence through people."

"How do you feel about this route, can it be feasible?"

"Of course."

He Shuo nodded without hesitation.

"But the premise is that the information passed on by Huang Meng is accurate."

"And honestly, we need to wait."

"We need to wait for these people to be converted into slaves----only the people converted into slaves are the ones we truly need."

"Their beliefs and ideologies will be cleansed, which will greatly reduce our educational difficulties."

"But of course, doing so will also have risks----mainly the risk of population loss."

At this point, Chen Jian also understood what He Shuo meant.

After thinking for a moment, he said:

"So, let it be."

"Don’t deliberately guide or magnify this trend."

"In fact, we should curb such trends whenever necessary."

"Understood."

He Shuo nodded solemnly, while Chen Jian turned to ask:

"Any new discoveries on Fu Xi’s decoding of Mountain City’s database?"

In recent days, he had been busy dealing with personnel reception, urban construction, and subsequent technological development in Mountain City. In theory, the most important "information decoding" work had been temporarily set aside.

But of course, this work never actually stopped.

It was just that he hadn’t paid attention to it temporarily.

Upon hearing his words, Fu Xi’s voice immediately echoed in the operations command room.

"Decoding is 30% complete."

"As previously reported, we have gained control over some telemetry satellites, but have yet to obtain control over navigation satellites."

"Current information suggests Mountain City did use navigation satellites before."

"But within three years, possibly due to satellite aging, that navigation satellite has lost contact."

"If we want to restore it, we might need to launch a rocket to repair the navigation satellite."

"... Then forget about it."

Chen Jian shook his head helplessly.

Rocket?

Come off it.

Any rocket launch is a significant systemic project, not a simple task, even during humanity’s peak period.

Now?

When we can’t even produce fuel, launch?

What, really burn water to wash coal?

Thinking of this, he continued to ask:

"Any other discoveries?"

"Yes. I have retrieved the historical monitoring images from Mountain City’s telemetry satellites."

"The images indicate that Mountain City once conducted global satellite reconnaissance, focusing on major cities in other countries."

"Telemetry images show signs of human activity in most cities."

"This matches our earlier predictions; it’s impossible for only us to have survived in the world."

That is natural. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Chen Jian said to himself in his heart.

Three hundred years ago, that apocalypse equally destroyed the world’s civilization, while equally leaving seeds for civilizations.

These seeds will eventually carry on, a unique resilience of humanity.

----But, the problem arises.

"Is the civilizational development level of other areas similar to ours?"

"I mean, is the degree of civilizational destruction related to physical location?"

Once the words fell, Fu Xi’s voice sounded.

"According to telemetry images, the influence and destructive power of the great cataclysm are unrelated to physical location."

"It has no directionality, nor does it distinguish orientation."

"Understood..."

No directionality----this actually already counts as a key clue.

With this key clue, the possibility of "cosmic rays" being an answer can be completely ruled out.

"What about the degree of civilization recovery?"

Chen Jian continued to ask:

"Is there any civilization that has recovered to a relatively large, advanced level?"

"No."

Fu Xi replied: