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Chapter 357 The Future 'Traitor'

Some 'outliers' have infiltrated the Starry Sky Ladder Ranking Tournament. This was information that Tiandao knew after reading the original plot of the third season.

However, in the third season of Stellaris, the production team only vaguely revealed information about an "outlier".

The girl who will soon enter the Yellow-level training base with Chen Kong—An Qin.

Although she was human from beginning to end, her upbringing and unique living environment made her mind and mentality completely side with the star beasts, like a time bomb buried in the human camp.

He is a true traitor.

The reason for this situation is that it only appeared briefly in the first three seasons, but its setting was not explained in detail—the occupied zone.

The so-called 'occupied areas' refer to those regions in the New Federation that have been completely occupied by star beasts and are not easily accessible to humans.

Those like Tiandao and Chenxing, who were lucky enough to survive after the Star Beasts breached the city, are known as 'survivors of the occupied zone'.

Since Tiandao and the others were able to be taken away by a non-New Federation official organization like 'Ember',

The other survivors from the occupied territories could also be taken away by unofficial organizations other than 'Ember'.

For example, the intelligent species of star beasts in the occupied territories.

Unlike the relatively humane education at the Ember Base.

Although the Star Beasts are intelligent species, they are still essentially following the law of survival of the fittest.

Those who have no use will be discarded; this is the belief that is instilled in those children from a young age and is ingrained in their bones.

The best among them were sent back to the New Federation by the Star Beast Intelligence Species to secretly infiltrate.

Yes, it's not just humans who are studying the alien beasts.

The Star Beasts are also secretly infiltrating the human world through these "traitors," like a group of parasites lurking in the shadows.

For certain special reasons, the new Federation is currently maintaining a delicate balance with the Star Beasts and has not yet seen a large-scale war break out.

But Heaven knows very well that this balance will soon be broken.

And this time point happens to be the period when this Starry Sky Ladder ranking competition ends.

Why is the most important city in the New Federation the Floating City?
The answer to this question not only encompasses the past of the rise of the new federation, but also hints at its future.

There is only one city that can float and move freely.

Only in this way can we evacuate people immediately after a disaster strikes, avoid potential dangers, and preserve the flame of civilization for humanity.

The reason why Heaven wanted Mi Yao to gather so many people together and force them to play this 'battle royale' game with him was because...

The goal was to see who among these people was different, except for Anqin, the main character who would inevitably betray them and clear her name later.

Who are the remaining 'traitors'?

"Heavenly Dao, 7 o'clock position, black-haired male, star energy fluctuations deviate from database records by 27%."

Caroline's voice interrupted Tiandao's thoughts, and two holographic projections of human figures popped up on her tactical tablet.

"At four o'clock, a blue-haired woman is using a technique outside the known star energy system. Her current strength has increased by 34% compared to six months ago, exceeding her original normal growth curve."

Tiandao looked in the direction Caroline pointed.

The black-haired man dodged the attack with an eerie arc, his fingertips glowing with pale green star energy, the color of which resembled the luster of a star beast's bodily fluids.

The blue-haired woman drew a transparent energy blade amidst the chaos, its trajectory unpredictable and completely defying the combat logic of human star envoys.

"interesting."

A cold smile curled at the corner of Tiandao's mouth, and a glint of light flashed in his azure eyes beneath the black eyeband.

His strength increased dramatically in a short period of time, his personality changed drastically, and he began using unknown techniques.

These coincidences, which seem to be explainable by 'sudden enlightenment' or 'serendipity', become quite abnormal when they occur together in a group of people.

In the original storyline of the third season, these "traitors" perfectly concealed their abnormalities by smoothly progressing through the assessment process. After successfully advancing, they obtained a large amount of cultivation resources from the New Federation and completely integrated into the human camp. But now, as the Heavenly Dao forcibly drags them into the stage of "Battle Royale".

In order to secure their advancement, they had to reveal some of their true strength.

Do you really think that Miyola's allies' methods are arbitrary?

Heaven deliberately sent him to find lone groups or groups of only two or three people.

That's the best way to catch the 'fish'.

After learning of the existence of these two individuals, Tiandao drew a pale silver vector trajectory in the void with his fingertip, marking the location of the two aberrant individuals on Caroline's tablet.

"Anything else?"

Caroline quickly swiped the screen, bringing up three more figures.

"A trace amount of residual star beast aura was detected in the star energy fluctuations of these three, raising questions about their identities."

"Five already?"

Tiandao stood up and looked down at the crowd still fighting on the floating island.

"Caroline, write down the information on these people. We don't need to do anything to them for now."

"After all, you can only catch big fish by casting a long line."

The voice of Heaven carried an undeniable certainty.

Exposing these people now would only alert them and let the Star Beasts know that their infiltration has been exposed.

But once we know the identities of these people, we can follow them to find the entire intelligence network that the Star Beasts have laid out in the New Federation.

That's his real purpose in organizing this 'battle royale'.

As for his own identity as a member of the 'Hidden Star Society,' it has nothing to do with the current group of 'traitors.'

After all, the Hidden Star Society may seem like an organization, but it is more like a high-level salon for intelligent star beast species.

The top-level advanced star beast intelligent species are all on equal footing, and they don't need to tell the other intelligent species what they want to do.

Therefore, the Heavenly Dao estimated that this group of traitors was probably the work of a certain 'advanced star beast intelligent species'.

What he needed to do was find out who was behind this plan.

After listening to Tiandao's arrangements, Caroline nodded, and the tactical tablet automatically encrypted and archived the data of the five people, placing it in the "Star Beast Infiltrator" folder.

Once it gets what it wants, Heaven doesn't care what the outcome of this game is.

He raised his hand, and an invisible vector force field emanated from his palm.

The next second, the fifty-odd Star Tears he had collected were casually tossed into the floating island like a pile of useless trash.

The blue crystal arced through the air and landed amidst the chaotic crowd, instantly sparking an even fiercer scramble for it.

The chaotic battle on the floating island continues, with contestants fighting tooth and nail for those fifty-odd Star Tears.

Tiandao, along with Caroline, landed back on the vast grassland below.

No one knew that this 'survival game' was a scam from the very beginning.

Even more unknown to anyone was that there were actually Star Beast spies hidden among them.

The seemingly playful silver-haired boy had already laid a vast net spanning the Federation and the occupied territories, just waiting for his prey to walk right into it.

PS: That concludes today's update. Five chapters need to be added now.

My goal for this month is to not take any leave and to add more chapters for all the extra chapters.

(End of this chapter)