Resurrection Empire-Chapter 941 - 363: Victory Will Ultimately Be Ours (Part 2)
"Now I must rearticulate my understanding to let you see the full scope of my thoughts. First, watch the documentary. This film records everything I’ve seen and heard in the past month and my thoughts at the time."
Two hours later, the documentary titled "Hell on Earth" concluded, and the office fell silent.
Everyone was dumbfounded, incredulous.
Ren Zhong tapped the table lightly, "According to my investigation, in fact, many towns were already like this before they lost the network, and it’s been maintained for many years. Are you surprised, confused? The information was so developed when the ’net’ existed. We could clearly access any data from hibernation spaces, use holographic projection to immerse ourselves in any town, but we never saw this."
"The reason is simple, the ’net’ concealed this information. Under its strict control, we only ever saw what it was willing to show us. It has constantly manipulated everyone’s cognition through information control, shaping everyone’s thoughts. People in these towns don’t find their behavior problematic; in their eyes, humanity should be like this." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
"However, this is clearly not the case in the eyes of Starfire Town’s residents. Different regions, different people have been given different worldviews by the ’net’ in a targeted manner."
"Moreover, now you also know Source Star has two layers of history. The first is the Source Star Origin Theory in the wilderness people’s cognition, and the second is the ten-thousand-year history in the eyes of citizens. So which history is true? We don’t know."
"The past is already past; what’s truly important is the present and the future. Now we’ve recognized this phenomenon; we must understand why this happens. Otherwise, it’s impossible to change the future."
"As I’ve said before, under the control of ’net’, people have ceased to be human, or humans no longer see their kind as their kind, so naturally, everything follows."
"Then, continuing to expand the issue. You know how to live is to live, and have seen that the wilderness people under our rule are not truly worthless. But do those who have sunk to the bottom have any chance to change their fate and genuinely live like a human? I’ve changed the lives of people in Yangsheng City, Jianghao City, and Zhan Sha County. But I am powerless further afield."
"Moving time back. If the ’net’ still existed, could wilderness people change their fate? No. I’ve achieved this, but I was the only newly promoted citizen in the past decade in Starfire Town, and the only wilderness person to rise to Fifth Level Citizen in Yangsheng City in the past decade. Globally, how many are like me?"
"An invisible shackle envelopes everything, controlling everything, suppressing everything; it cuts off the ladder for those at the bottom to move up. It uses the Association as its claw, establishing the unbreakable Pyramid system. It is ’net.’ So is this right? What can these rules create?"
"I’ll give an example with Yujin and Zheng Tian. You two have proven to have good talent, capable of undertaking important tasks. You also possess strong self-discipline and learning ability. Given the chance, you can showcase your talent, and within the structure of my Ren Group, make contributions worth a hundred or even a thousandfold."
"Now, every day new trainees graduate from our academy with excellent grades, stepping into one position after another. Among these people, there are citizens, temporary wilderness people, and even outdoor wilderness people. These individuals can create more resources for my Ren Group."
"However, without my presence, Zheng Tian, you would have died tragically at Lin Wang’s hands, and Yujin, you would have perished from poverty or the fist of some unknown semi-professional scavenger. There are many more like you out there, whose work ability, talent, and drive—representing productive capacity—is being extravagantly wasted. It’s like a giant tap pouring water underground in a water-scarce desert city."
"But do people on Source Star really not lack water?"
"They do!"
"Sun Miao, as an experienced researcher, you know how many years Source Star’s technological level hasn’t advanced. All so-called researchers, including those in the nine major corporations, are essentially just translation clerks for the technological products provided by the Empire. How then do people of Source Star have any capital to enter the interstellar era?"
"Even if we high-level citizens, myself included, really went to the starry skies, what is the meaning of our existence? We would just be a group of mindless, valueless flesh pigs."
"Indeed, we are flesh pigs, producing brains. Otherwise, Source Star people’s sexual concepts would not be so open, contraception wouldn’t be listed as a prohibition, and birth rates wouldn’t be so high!"
"I’ve also discovered that the behavior patterns of Ruined Beast changed after the ’net’ disappeared. Undoubtedly, Ruined Beast is not a naturally occurring creature; it is also manipulated by the ’net.’ This is a large-scale dual breeding, harvesting both human brains and the Level Nine Ruined Beast that should exist but we’ve almost never seen!"
"Now, let me tell you what true Contribution Points, cosmic constants, cosmic hash values are..."
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"Folks, humans of Source Star never truly had a future. The other side of the great migration, the depths of the starry sky is endless enslavement."
"What must we do to break free from this enslavement?"
"Restore civilization to its true form! Within limited time, ensure that everyone with potential receives sufficient education, steps into appropriate roles, and achieves the greatest accomplishment his talent can support!"
"Only by ensuring everyone receives adequate knowledge and can dominate his destiny as much as possible can we truly unleash civilization’s potential! Only by spreading Ren Group’s rules over every inch of the Source Star System can this decaying Source Star civilization become a truly capable war machine to vie for the future. Otherwise, even with human freezing or time travel, the journey’s end will still be annihilation."
"Everyone, we must change this era. And we will inevitably succeed because everyone inherently desires a better life; our ideology can gain recognition from the vast majority of people below Fifth Level Citizen. Our comrades will only increase, and victory will ultimately belong to us."
