The speaker's expression had completely frozen, and he subconsciously looked at the strip of cloth wrapped around Xia's arm, blood had seeped out of it through the fabric, staining a large black and red blood stain.

"You...... You're hurt......" The Speaker struggled to move his lips before he could barely squeeze the words out between his teeth.

"It's okay, by the way, the front-end time let those big consortia centralize the troops to us to control, how many consortia carried out this order?" Natsu asked suddenly.

The speaker was stunned for a moment, he originally wanted to ask what was going on next, but seeing that Xia didn't seem to have any intention of continuing at all, he had to ignore the explosive news with interest - he clearly understood that if he had to continue to ask, it was likely to be directly erased by the person in front of him......

“…… That one...... At present, there are a total of 47 consortia on our side, of which 19 consortia have handed over more than ninety percent of the private army, 23 have only handed over about half of the troops, and the remaining five consortia have not handed over a single soldier. ”

"Carry out the purge order, kill all the direct managers of these five consortia, and swallow up all their properties."

"This ...... Wouldn't it be too aggressive? In case it provokes a revolt from other conglomerates...... I'm afraid that the situation will be unfavorable to us, and the Sword Pavilion Fortress has just been lost, and the Revolutionary Alliance has exerted great pressure on us on the frontal battlefield......" The speaker said with some hesitation.

"Then assign those consortia that have not surrendered all their troops to the frontal battlefield, and let them use their forces to resist the invasion of the Revolutionary Union, so that even if they want to resist, they will not be able to muster enough strength...... Okay, you should know what to do with the rest of the things, I have something to do now, don't send someone to follow me. ”

"Where are you going? Don't you really need someone to follow? The speaker asked, although Xia is also an evolutionary, but his physical condition is very special, if he easily uses the power of the evolutionary, it is likely to lead to a large necrosis of the body cells, greatly shortening the life span that is already left, and if he does not use the power of the evolutionary, he is at best just a young man with a weak physique.

Any thug with a blade or an iron bar could threaten Natsu's life, and there was never a shortage of such guys, even in the Order's control zone.

Not to mention those spies lurking in the crowd, killers, etc., although Xia wears a mask every time he appears in public, but if someone really wants to search for information related to him, it is not so difficult to get his real photos, after all, in the past few decades, the PROM Foundation is a very famous scientific research organization in the international community, like their founders, they were all people who often appeared in news reports back then.

"There's no need for that." Natsu waved his hand and walked out alone.

……

……

An hour later, Vault No. 009.

At the beginning of the establishment of the shelter network, each shelter was set with a marker, but in these tens of thousands of shelters, from 000 to 009, these ten shelters were not inhabited, and these ten shelters were full of large and small computer rooms, which existed as the core hub of the main control system of the shelter network - as for the control of these core hubs, it was all in the hands of the mastermind.

Fortunately, after Xia had a few back doors in his hands, he was able to enter the 009 vault through a secret passage......

Rather than a refuge, it is more appropriate to call it a large underground factory, in addition to the computer room where the equipment is placed, more than a dozen large automated production lines occupy more than half of the space of Vault 009 - computer accessories are consumables, in order to ensure that the program can be foolproof, many precision parts must be maintained or replaced in a few months, and these production lines are assembled as the core hub of the logistics factory.

In addition to the production line, there are also a large number of precious metals stored here, those precision consumables may not be large in size, but many of the materials used are very rare, when these shelters were built, the organization and those big conglomerates almost stored most of the rare metal materials collected here, according to calculations, these materials can ensure that the main control system of the shelter can operate perfectly for at least twenty years.

However, Xia found that the parts that were now being manufactured on these production lines were no longer the precision consumables that had been set in the program, but some new parts that he had never seen before.

Obviously, the mastermind changed the internal procedures of the production line, and these new parts produced were used to carry that "utopian world".

This is the only point of connection between the Mastermind and the human world, and if this place is destroyed, the Mastermind will no longer be able to control all the Vaults connected to it, but if it does, those Vaults will be immediately paralyzed - the problem with the electricity and water supply may be solved, but if the oxygen supply system stops, it won't be long before those Vaults become a giant tomb.

To tell the truth, if there were no mastermind, then there would definitely not be so many people who would have survived the war, and humanity might even fall into a desperate situation of extinction for a while.

The normal operation of so many shelters requires a lot of computing power, and the only one who can provide this computing power is the mastermind.

It is for this reason that the Organisation will not dare to destroy these Vaults until there is a solution to this series of problems.

Unless, humanity is ready to return to the surface...... Prepare to face the biochemical army under the mastermind.

Xia walked along a riveted steel path through the factory area and into a large computer room, at the entrance of which was a terminal that looked like a home computer.

Pulling over a chair that seemed to be about to fall apart, Xia Ye ignored the dust accumulated on the chair that was already a centimeter thick, and sat down directly, activated the terminal, and the slender ten fingers tapped quickly on the keyboard that was also covered with dust.

Countless strings of characters scrolled quickly on the screen, and the red warning light on the first floor of the terminal flashed wildly, and the alarm echoed throughout the computer room...... However, in less than a minute, the alarm sound disappeared without a trace, and along with the alarm sound, there was a dense string on the screen.

Instead, there is a video call.

On the other side of the screen is a somewhat hairy old man with distinctly Caucasian features, dressed in a dark gray woolen coat and holding an intricately carved goblet in the index finger and thumb of his right hand, the clear pale yellow liquid of which glows psychedelic through the crystal-textured cup.

"Summer ...... Right? I read in the newspaper about you when you were younger, when I was just in junior high school. The old man shook the liquid from the goblet and said slowly.

"You have a good memory." Natsumian said expressionlessly.

"It's a pity that I didn't think about the conditions like yours, and I have been lying in the survival pod for decades...... You see, you are so young when you should have been buried in the ground, and I am already in the twilight of my life. ”

"You'll outlive me, if I don't break free from this cage."

"What? What cage? The old man narrowed his eyes, and the wine glass was placed on the table beside him.

"A cage that has shackled humanity for millions of years...... Okay, it's time to get down to business, I didn't come to you to talk to you. ”

"Of course I know you're not here to talk to me, so it seems like a negotiation?"

"Yes, it's a negotiation." Natsu nodded.

"Your Excellency seems to have forgotten something, negotiation, that is to have capital, after the Sword Pavilion Fortress was captured by us, you have lost the capital to negotiate, as long as we swallow your territory little by little step according to the plan, the dissolution of the organization is only a matter of time." The old man's tone began to become unkind.

"It's a negotiation, but not with you, but with the mastermind." Xia said unmoved.

"And the mastermind? Negotiate with the mastermind, why did you come to me? I apply again, and we have nothing to do with the mastermind......"

"It's not up to you, poor puppet."

"What did you say?!" The word puppet obviously stabbed the old man's heart, and his fat cheeks suddenly turned red, but he didn't dare to vent wantonly, so he could only stare at Xia on the other side of the screen viciously.

"I've made my stance clear, but if the mastermind is not willing to show up, I think this negotiation may be over before it has even begun - you say a lot, the organization will definitely lose, but even if you win, you will not get anything."

"You're threatening me?" The other party's tone suddenly became very calm, and the expression on his face completely disappeared.

"Yes, I'm threatening you, Mastermind."

"When did you find out?"

"Just now, since you chose an old man as the ruler of the Revolutionary Union, then even if he is a puppet, he should at least be a smart puppet, and that angry face just now is too contrived...... It seems that your research on our human emotions and emotions is still too formulaic, and this is the difference between machines and humans. ”

"Thank you for your input, I'll make improvements, so, what do you want to negotiate with me - what?"

"Surrender."

"Surrender?!" This should have been a rhetorical question with a strong tone, but when it came out of the mouth of the mastermind, it almost turned into a declarative sentence.

"Yes, surrender, I can make the organization and all the forces under its control surrender to the Revolutionary Union, and ensure the smooth implementation of the utopian plan."

"What about the conditions?"

"Give me the source code for the utopian program, and you have to promise to merge my consciousness with the utopian world...... I know you don't have that ability yet, but as long as the war between us stops, there is time to study this technology, and I will help you further refine that virtual utopian world. ”

"What if I refuse?"

"I will kill everyone, and even if you achieve the final victory, there will not be many humans who can successfully enter the world of utopia."

"Why?"

"For the sake of evolution."

"Evolutionary ......"

"The physical body is the biggest obstacle to human progress, and if I can completely digitize my mind and live in this world as a conscious body, I think the future of mankind will become limitless!"

"Thinking digitally? You are...... Do you want to be like me? The mastermind's tone finally changed slightly, with a hint of doubt and curiosity.

"No, no, no, it's not like you...... You're just a mess of data, a big enough mass that even though you seem to have the ability to think like a human, it's just something you've pieced together from a database...... It's like a person who can't write can only cut out words from a newspaper or book and join them into a complete sentence...... You're just a bunch of 0s and ......"

"And what do you want to become?"

"A new life form that can exist independently in this world without a physical shell and with only spiritual consciousness."

"I can't do it." The Mastermind replied.

"No...... You're very close to that point, isn't the utopian world the basic starting point of that life form? Natsu stood up and leaned in front of the screen.

"But that is still based on data, pure spiritual ideology cannot exist independently, there must be a carrier, whether that carrier is the human body or a disk."

"At least...... You can get me out of this fragile shell first, won't you...... As long as there is enough time, there is nothing I can't do...... Let me ask you again at the end, do you accept this condition? ”

"I can accept this condition, but I only promise to enter your consciousness into the utopian world, and as for your subsequent thoughts, you will have to implement them yourself." The Mastermind nodded and said.

"Good." Xia smiled at the screen, "First of all, I will suppress all the rebels within the organization, and after the suppression is complete, I will announce the news of surrender." After the organization and revolution are united, I will devote all my resources to the research and development of the utopian world, and completely turn this virtual world into a 'reality'. ”

"While I think your idea is a bit unrealistic, it doesn't have an impact on my plans and doesn't contradict my core guidelines, so I thought I could wish us a great time together."

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