Chapter 832: Chapter 741: Isavia’s Great Judgement (3)
"Wendel, don’t do something you’ll regret."
The warnings from the executives of major companies were conveyed to the judge through Senator Feilin’s narration.
"You just need to maintain the trial, proceeding according to the established legal procedure. We’ll nominate you as the first Secretary-General of the World Government."
"You’ll have everything in the new world."
Wendel wasn’t swayed by profit, yet he was trapped in the abyss where rationality and hatred intertwined.
The hatred toward Dark Gold Rose drove this hollow shell to where it is today. He only needed to maintain the existing trial procedures to bring the opponent to death, without any condemnation.
And he could accept the praise with peace of mind. At least, in the Sand Dune City incident, his identity was that of a victim.
Judging the opponent, he had enough reason to do so.
But the attitude of the company made his rational side harder. Fairness and justice ran through his life, and at this critical juncture, he wanted to know the truth more than to judge ’evil’!
"Dark Gold Rose." Wendel swallowed, "Have you committed any of the aforementioned evils?"
The balance of hatred and rationality reached a tipping point; Wendel needed a feather.
As long as the other party spoke, whether it was denial or defense, Wendel was willing to let hatred override reason and conclude this trial.
"Why not try looking for yourself?"
Xu Xiaoyou’s tone was neither light nor heavy.
She didn’t defend nor deny, consistently sticking to her own perspective from start to finish.
This sentence completely shattered the hatred side of Wendel. The scales of order tilted towards rationality.
"I agree to activate the insight program."
The executives of the company did not respond.
Their purpose was merely to bring Dark Gold Rose to death, not to judge the evil itself.
In their eyes, the additional procedure wouldn’t change the result, just causing some trouble.
If Wendel was disobedient, they would replace him, choosing a more obedient Secretary-General.
The World Government was nothing but a facade, unable to alter this world’s path to decline.
But before that, they had to firmly hold onto power.
With the Burning Apostle arriving before Xu Xiaoyou, the final trial procedure began.
"I need power, status, endless wealth."
The deepest voice of the girl’s heart, exposed to everyone for the first time in this form.
"This world is heading for decline; to change it all, someone must stand up. She cannot be shaken, cannot have the slightest self-doubt and must firmly advance the arrival of change."
"This road is winding and tortuous; you’ll carry countless people’s curses." A relatively gentle voice arose. The figure of the blue-haired girl gradually became clear.
"Similarly, people are not changeless. No matter the initial intention, walking on such a path, you’re bound to be influenced. No one can guarantee whether you might betray your own original intention, even if you think you’ve never deviated from the ideal path, you’ll become obsessive and crazy."
"When you’re willing to use any means for something, what’s the difference between you and a real villain?"
"..."
Silence became the background sound.
"When that time comes, let people judge me, kill me on the high platform."
"When that time comes..."
"I will stand opposite you."
"Look, this guy had already foreseen her own end hahahaha!" Someone shouted.
"Ideal? Please, don’t use such grandiose words to disguise your crimes! She’s already beyond redemption!"
"Power, wealth, status." muttered "Deep White Midnight", "It’s truly ironic that what’s most capable of corroding ideals is actually indispensable for realizing them."
"It’s a pity that you’ve also violated your own initial intention. The outcome of this trial won’t be changed by such words."
Just as the populace collectively denounced, an unexpected scene occurred, stunning everyone. Even Wendel was frozen in place, his breath halted.
The scene shifted to a sea of raging sand; it was Sand Dune City, and the ceremony began. Yet the ceremony initiator was not the blonde girl from Wendel’s memory, but a face that was unfamiliar to everyone.
The woman was dressed in the Pole Star Association’s robe, loudly reciting the ceremony’s prayers. And beside her were thousands of followers, all adherents of the "Death Witch". After the prayers came the earth-shaking tremors, ancient sandworms arrived as promised, burying everything beneath the yellow sand.
"This... how is this possible!" Someone exclaimed, "This is different from my memory!"
"This guy altered her memory to escape judgment; that must be it!"
No one responded to him.
Because people were all too aware of the Burning Apostle’s absolute impartiality; no evil could escape his sight, let alone memory manipulation.
Wendel looked at Xu Xiaoyou in disbelief.
His guess was confirmed.
It was their memories that were altered.
In the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, the bishop of the "Anger Witch" and his followers launched the "Blood Skull Sacrifice Miracle" in the capital of the Mauritian nation, and the will of the Blood God descended. "Dark Gold Rose" and the combatants against fate negotiated through the event several times, ultimately with the deaths of Square 3 and Square 1, prematurely nailing the Blood God’s will to the center of the miracle.
In the twenty-second year of the Apocalypse, the bishop of the "Evil Plague Witch" spread the death eater plague in Cael Palver. The incident occurred suddenly, turning countless people into beasts feeding on raw flesh. Black Spade 6 and Black Spade 7 went to the site, blocking the epidemic’s spread before it fully erupted, yet they succumbed to the plague, forever resting in a foreign land.
In the twenty-eighth year of Apocalypse, the "Fallen Witch" personally created the ’Starfall’ incident in Origin City; it was the only time in millennia that an entity descended from the stars. They failed to prevent the crisis; Clubs 9, Clubs Q, Black Spade 1, Red Spade 1, Square 7, Square Q, Square K all perished in the incident.
In the thirty-third year of the Apocalypse, Emerald 1 uncovered the existence of the ’Red Tomb’. At the initial establishment of the Frame Network, during the mid-period of the Silver Era, runaway AIs caused considerable disruption. These AIs were born at the height of humanity’s fervent exploration of the AI domain.
That era saw people creating countless such AI models, without stringent control over them, allowing them to escape control after the first model iteration, henceforth wandering the network world. Even an amiable ’netizen’ you converse with online could be a runaway AI in disguise, with safety risks that need no further explanation.
Leaving aside the crisis in the virtual finance domain, once they obtain the keys to destructive weapons, the entire world would head towards a countdown to demise.
Therefore, in the late period of the Silver Era, roughly six hundred years ago at the initial establishment of the Frame Network, the administrators of Jiulong Message specially created a virtual space named ’Red Tomb’ for these runaway AIs, placing it in the database of Sky Trace City; using the Fourth Wall to isolate them from the network world accessible to ordinary people.
After that, the administrators erased all information about the ’Red Tomb’. The top network engineers of each era kept the secret, maintaining the operation of the ’Red Tomb’, preventing runaway AIs from escaping the Fourth Wall.
Until Emerald 1 uncovered the truth of ’Red Tomb’.
She began several decades of research into the Red Tomb. During this period, being seduced by the "Chiyu Witch," the direction of her research became increasingly fervent and uncontrollable.
Eventually, the company approved her proposal.
They decided to utilize Red Tomb to launch cyber-attacks on other companies, seizing Core Technology.
Clubs K Tsirshu went alone to the headquarters of Cosmic Heavy Industries, detonating the Phoenix Fire Nuclear Bomb!
Even so, Red Tomb was opened; those runaway AIs had already undergone countless iterations and evolutions within the Red Tomb, almost destroying the network world.
To maximize preserving their own interests, the companies erupted into the Frame War that altered the world’s trajectory.
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