Deceitful Game

Chapter 269 Corporate Resistance Organization

Seeing that Chen Bingwen had started talking and the eerie power in his eyes had subsided, Mingpo dispelled the illusion created by the Eye of the Demon.

As the sensation of steam rising from their eyes disappeared, the space they were in disintegrated and collapsed, instantly returning them to their original location.

Chen Bingwen suddenly came to his senses.

He found himself still in the food cart, standing in the same spot. Corpses, like gym punching bags, still floated around him. Ai Shiping was smiling, watching them with a probing gaze. Mingpo had closed his eyes, gently rubbing his temples. "What did you just see?"

Ai Shiping asked.

Chen Bingwen remained silent for a moment.

"An old friend," he said.

Ai Shiping didn't press further, but simply nodded. He seemed to know what kind of ability this was.

Mingpo opened her eyes. The dim yellow color in her eyes had faded, but a faint, almost imperceptible light seemed to remain deep in her pupils.

Looking at the corpses drifting around him, Chen Bingwen felt a sense of absurdity.

Did I help kill all these people?

In the instant he realized this, he couldn't even tell whether his hallucination had ended or was still ongoing. Or perhaps, he had been part of the hallucination party from the very beginning...

"Regardless of what......"

Mingpo spoke slowly, his brows furrowed: "To be executed simply for premeditated crime is outrageous."

Even someone as arrogant as Mingpo felt that this was indeed a bit excessive.

Chen Bingwen nodded slowly, suppressing his unease for the moment, and sighed helplessly: "That's right. Actually, in my opinion... if it can prevent crime, it's not necessarily a bad thing. After all, one of the purposes of the law is deterrence. And 'premature execution' means an absolute deterrent, making people not even dare to think about it."

"From the perspective of benefiting the vast majority of people, this can also be considered a form of discipline. Just as a person can call the police when they suspect they are being murdered, premeditated murder is also a crime."

"But the real problem is... the accuracy is off. No, or rather... someone is abusing the system."

"That sounds familiar."

Ai Shiping chimed in, "The Sibyl System?"

"What is that?"

Chen Bingwen paused for a moment, then shook his head: "The name of that system is 'Omniscient and Omnipotent.' It uses the information provided by the Heavenly Palace System to analyze and arrive at a priori answers in a very short time."

"This is Millennium Technology's ultimate goal, and also the company's core secret. They plan to use their research on 'Tianwen' (Heavenly Questions) and the power of the 'Time Chips' (a system of time-based intelligence) to create an ultimate intelligence capable of answering all questions in the world."

"And because omniscience is omnipotence, knowing all the answers in the world means being able to do anything one wants. Predicting crime is merely its basic outward function."

"Ah, I understand."

Ai Shiping nodded and smiled, "The overt role of the 'tree diagram designer' is still weather analysis."

Mingpo and Chen Bingwen couldn't understand Ai Shiping's words, but that didn't stop their conversation from continuing.

"The concept of an 'omniscient and omnipotent being' has been abused even before it has been completed."

Chen Bingwen spoke in a low voice, his fists clenching unconsciously, his words tinged with hatred: "Those company executives arbitrarily use the 'omniscient and omnipotent one' to output the results they want. Or rather... they directly input the results they want into the system, pretending that this is the 'future' calculated by the 'omniscient and omnipotent one'."

"They kill everyone they want, and swallow up every company. They arrest whoever they want to arrest, and imprison whoever they want to imprison. And if it's someone they don't want to kill, even if the 'omniscient and omnipotent being' foretells a crime, it will delete it. Because it is merely a non-human, sentient being, and has no right to dictate to humans."

"The executive department of the Tianji sector only knows how to follow the revelations of the 'omniscient and omnipotent one'... Many of them are fanatically worshipping the 'omniscient and omnipotent one' and even regard it as the 'prototype of a god'."

"Because some of these 'revelations' do indeed prevent crime. Or rather, they are mostly correct. But it is precisely because of this correctness that people trust them wholeheartedly and do not doubt them... I believe that this 'partial correctness' is actually the most harmful and dangerous part."

"Just like herbs that can stop pain, they themselves can be addictive and potentially harmful to organs and the brain." "Ah..."

Ai Shiping let out a meaningless sigh: "These are all such familiar themes. I feel like I've seen every single sentence somewhere before."

"But I've never met Ai Shiping."

Mingpo shook her head: "Chen Bingwen has never seen them either. Perhaps you have indeed seen these things before, but they have been erased from the world."

"Yes, I know."

Ai Shiping looked at the hanging "dried meat" (a metaphor for corrupt officials): "That's why I killed them. They were all the kind of people who would side with the company." Then, he looked at Chen Bingwen: "My judgment wasn't much different from the 'Omniscient and Omnipotent One.' You despise the 'Omniscient and Omnipotent One' so much, so would you despise me too?"

"Although I think it is 'toxic,' what I hate is never machines. The original purpose of machines is to make people's lives better."

Chen Bingwen, however, said without hesitation: "What I despise are people, those in power."

"Whether it's Tianwen, Tiangong, or an omniscient and omnipotent being... if used correctly, these are all devices that can bring blessings to people. The harmful ones, from the very beginning, are those who abuse these technologies."

"In other words... it's the company itself. To be more precise, it's the eight giants."

He slowly looked at Ai Shiping: "No matter what you think, I have already embarked on this rebellious path."

"What do you mean by that?"

Mingpo frowned slightly, her expression displeased: "Are you trying to say 'Get lost if you're scared'? If you say such stupid things again, I'll punch you."

"We are in the same boat; there is no way out."

Ai Shiping smiled and said, "In fact... our host is the same. There's a reason why we traitors are put together."

"……No wonder."

Mingpo suddenly realized.

He had felt something was off... everything was going too smoothly.

Whether it's acquiring treasures or awakening power, it's as if someone has placed him in this position, instructing him to simply move forward. The suspicious Mingpo even wondered if this was a trap.

It turns out this was the result of everyone's secret efforts.

"Those people... are not entirely trustworthy."

Mingpo said, glancing towards the back of the carriage, "Don't tell them 'the most crucial thing' yet. Let's conduct an investigation first." "You can kill them all if you want."

Ai Shiping smiled and said, "That would be safer."

"...No, for the sake of our common great cause, let's try to conserve as much strength as possible." Mingpo shook his head.

Although neither of them uttered a single word about rebelling against the company, they tacitly understood each other's intentions. They didn't say those words aloud simply to avoid potential lie detector tests, but their thoughts were in sync.

They share the same goal and walk the same path.