Eternal Night

Chapter 680 The Company Makes its Debut
In less than four seconds, the entire Third Fleet of the Blue Government of Humanity was wiped out, with no survivors!

Moreover, these four seconds include the entire process of seeing the enemy, the enemy approaching, the enemy attacking, and finally annihilating them all.

After the complete annihilation of the Third Fleet of the Earth and Moon, the First and Second Fleets, which had been heading aggressively toward Mars and patrolling the Earth-Moon defense perimeter, suddenly fell silent, as if there hadn't been a sound at all.

Similarly, the previously severed civilian network of the solar system was reopened, and the Azure Government's entire channel began broadcasting various legal lectures on anti-corruption, embezzlement, crimes against humanity, and so on.

Moreover, in each colony, all the stabilization forces were mobilized, and the powerful and wealthy were arrested and searched in fear and unease...

When Wu Pifu returned to Europa in his Dragon Rider system, the entire moon was a sea of ​​jubilation. Parades, arrests, and trials continued, with Zhi stirring things up. Wu Pifu didn't know what role Zhi was playing, but he felt that Zhi had done many very dangerous things.

"no!"

With a sincere expression, he said, "Don't wrong an innocent person. I'm a law-abiding citizen. How could I possibly do anything wrong?"

Wu Pifu was too lazy to say anything more. Anyway, he wouldn't tell the truth even if he did, and emotional perception was completely useless to him. Instead of wasting time, he might as well deal with the problem at hand.

Wu Pifu looked at the children soaking in the solution in front of him.

They all have hands, feet, and bodies, and look almost like normal people, but their expressions still retain that slightly blank smile. They look very beautiful, but they don't seem like living people, giving people a strong sense of the uncanny valley effect.

Wu Pifu looked at Zhi, who was standing beside him: "Don't blame me, their surgery was very successful. With the subsequent repairs, they can now even run and jump. But unfortunately, they are life forms created by genetic modification. Their intellectual development is only that of a one or two-year-old. Moreover, because they have been unable to move their physical bodies for a long time, they have become accustomed to not moving."

Wu Pifu knew these things.

These children are the works of art of the powerful and wealthy. While they are still in the womb, their mothers are injected with a special gene-editing agent that modifies the baby's genes. The resulting child will be very beautiful and quiet, but their intellectual development will be severely damaged. Even if they are not made into various works of art, their intelligence will only be able to develop to the level of a one- or two-year-old child at most.

This made him feel even more distressed, and at the same time, a murderous intent surged within him.

Zhi continued, "However, they are not entirely without hope. The nutrient solution they are currently soaking in contains special nano-carbon-based units that can effectively repair their genetic defects. At the same time, they need to be injected with special stem cells for brain nerve metabolism and regeneration every once in a while. With long-term rehabilitation and patient education, they may be able to recover to normal in ten or twenty years."

"...ten or twenty years?"

Wu Pifu looked at Zhi, who chuckled and looked back at him. After a few seconds, Wu Pifu said, "The people outside can come in now... So, you are company members?"

Several cloaked figures walked in from outside. The leader of the cloaked figures took off his hood, revealing a pale face covered in glasses.

This was a pale-faced young man wearing glasses. He looked very much like the 21st-century otaku youth that Wu Pifu knew, and the kind of extremely deep otaku youth who might not leave the house even once a year.

The young man nodded, forcing a stiff smile, and said, "Yes, sir, we are the company members you mentioned..."

Wu Pifu frowned. He sensed for a moment before asking, "To be honest, I don't have a good impression of your company. Even now, with the Blue Sky government acting like a scoundrel, you're still no good. So I'll give you five minutes... to convince me."

The young man looked troubled. He looked behind him, and several people behind him also took off their hoods. A handsome young man smiled professionally and said, "Sir, although we don't know how you formed your impression of the company, could you please allow us to explain our company's philosophy?"

Wu Pifu nodded slightly.

The young man, who resembled a professional manager, said, "The company was founded before World War III. Its initial purpose was not honorable. It was created for the world's richest and most powerful people to achieve longevity, immortality, or even become gods on earth. We, who inherited the company's resources, did learn about all of this from various sources."

Wu Pifu knew all this.

Whether in the Super Soldier Dream World, in the Land of Redemption, in the Human Unified Government, or from the chairman of the First Company, he repeatedly learned about the company's early days.

In the international community before World War III, the world's richest people, various Tosla oligarchs, monopoly groups, and so on joined together to form the first company.

Even the outbreak of World War III was secretly instigated by this force. Although it was also related to the inevitable conflict between East and West Universities at the time, without the company, World War III probably wouldn't have broken out so fiercely, let alone the bio-beast frenzy that almost wiped out human civilization in the later stages of World War III. The young man continued, "But the original company was completely wiped out in the bio-beast frenzy of World War III, and we, the inheritors, actually come from the original Azure Organization."

"what?"

Wu Pifu genuinely didn't know. He looked at Liao Zhi, then at the crowd in front of him. From his emotional perception, he knew that this person wasn't lying, and the emotions of the others conveyed the same message.

The young man asked, "Sir, have you ever considered why the Azure Organization wants to erase history from before World War III?"

Wu Pifu frowned and said, "Don't tell me it's just because the Azure Organization also inherited the company's power. I don't think that the great organization that saved all mankind back then would erase all of its pre-World War III history because of such a small flaw."

"of course not."

The young man shook his head and said, "Deleting history is not an instantaneous act, but a gradual process that has lasted for nearly two hundred years. The initial intention of deleting history was actually to correct mistakes, and what was deleted was only the part about us Azure branches and the part about inheriting the company's power."

"Wait a moment."

Wu Pifu frowned and asked, "Explain in detail what you mean by error correction."

The young man said, "This is precisely the purpose of our visit, sir... what you call correcting mistakes is what you are currently doing."

"The Azure Organization was born at a great moment, carrying out the greatest undertaking since the dawn of humanity. The original founders of the Azure Organization were not driven by personal power or risk to their lives; they were fearless, courageous, and united in purpose. They also benefited from the company's technological advancements, ultimately saving all of humanity, eradicating the bio-beast horde, and restoring the earth from its yellowish-brown color to its azure blue once more. At that time, the original members of the Azure Organization, the Azure Government, and their descendants became corrupt and degenerate..."

"Because they witnessed the company's fate and actions, and the perverse actions of the guilds that occupied the most resources, the strongest forces, and the most orthodox status during the bio-beast frenzy, this group of great men feared that the Azure Organization they had personally created would also become corrupt, and they feared that their descendants would also fall into depravity. So at that time, under a top-secret order, the original group of people in the Azure Organization went into hiding, claiming to be dead and erasing their information. They inherited the company's technological power and hid behind the scenes, on the one hand to be vigilant against the mastermind behind the bio-beast frenzy, and on the other hand to act as a sharp sword that could pierce through decay at any time, ready to correct the corruption and depravity of the Azure Organization."

The young man lowered his head slightly and said, "This is the origin of our company."

Wu Pifu was stunned. He never imagined that the company's true nature was like this!
The original company has long since disappeared, and the person who inherited the company's name originally intended to correct the mistakes of the Azure Organization and the Azure Government.

"and then?"

Wu Pifu asked, "Why has the Azure Government been continuously erasing the history before World War III for two hundred years?"

"Two reasons."

The young man said, "The first reason is that although the company is hidden behind the scenes, as long as it exists, it will inevitably leave its mark. Especially after the first generation of great people passed away, the Blue Organization began to degenerate and become corrupt in just a few decades. During this period, the company also intervened many times, thus leaving its mark. As the original branch of the Blue Organization, we are actually the legitimate successors of the Blue Organization. In order to cover up all this, the Blue Government has continued to delete the history of the company."

"The second reason is that during the company's continuous infiltration, we, the company members, also discovered something, so we pushed the Azure government to erase and eliminate the history before World War III, which is why the history before World War III is now almost completely covered up."

Wu Pifu immediately asked, "What's going on?"

"...The souls of the past are returning."

The young man said, “This is not a metaphor or an adjective, but a fact that is happening... Sir, you may not believe it, but as time goes on, the company has naturally begun to split, and now it has naturally split into thirteen branches, which just matches the pre-World War III company divisions that we recorded. This is not our subjective intention, but has naturally become like this over the course of more than two hundred years.”

"At the same time, the higher the position of the company's employees, the longer they have been in their positions, and the more familiar they are with pre-World War III history, myths and legends of human civilization, and information about past civilizations, the greater the degree of change they undergo. They gradually become completely different people for unknown reasons... Just like those former company executives recorded in the past, their personality, behavior, and even malice and ambition—no matter how kind a person is, they cannot escape this process of change!"

The young man said earnestly, "We are absolutely certain, incredibly certain. After repeated testing, we have arrived at an answer... There really is a mastermind behind the bio-beast frenzy. The original company truly possesses some kind of supernatural power. In the depths of that extreme darkness, there is something, or a group of things, spying on us humans. Even if the entire company is destroyed, as long as the human civilization before World War III still exists, these demons will still revive and return. In the end, the company will inevitably be re-established, and... there will be exactly thirteen companies!"

At that moment, Wu Pifu suddenly thought of thirteen companies, thirteen Singularity Technologies...

Thirteen root causes!
Thirteen origins connected to Singularity Technology!!
(End of this chapter)