Someone Behind Her
The meeting ended, and the way it was dismissed was similar to before: those who needed to continue their arduous work went about their business, while those who needed to travel to other places for their arduous work took their vehicles.
They rarely get a break, because if you don't do it, someone else will.
The oldest National Guardian Mage, stood at the door. Instead of disappearing as usual, he walked slowly down the corridor, the sound of his staff tapping the ground echoing in the empty space.
The military representative stopped him, greeted him, and then asked, "... Do you know how long it will take for His Majesty to wake up? Without 000 and 001, Tracing Light will ultimately lack some confidence when facing other civilizations."
The National Guardian Mage glanced at him calmly, then looked up at the moon and said, "I recently visited the Sleeping Place. His Majesty's awakening is still a long way off, and the situation remains unclear."
"So... is there any news from the Scholars?"
"No, the old man has lived all these years and has never seen Him."
The military representatives left, National Guardian Mage continued walking leisurely along the road.
After a long while, he began to call out to Mu Ri in his heart.
How well have you recovered your strength?
"Good."
National Guardian Mage quickly recounted the events of the meeting: the military's attitude, diplomatic concerns, the anomalies of the Silent Civilization, and the whereabouts of the Gate of Aberrants.
Finally, I mainly discussed my own speculations, since the information mentioned earlier is readily available Mu Ri.
"Understood," Mu Ri said. "Continue to observe, and do not act rashly."
Lying on the moon, Mu Ri first checked on his fully recovered body before contemplating the current situation.
He had been awake for several years. The Scholars used up their remaining reserves of Power of Faith to awaken him, ensuring that the "Humanity Above All" buff was still active, and then left him alone to do other things.
As Mu Ri repaired his body, he watched as spies and agents from other civilizations came to Tracing Light and pulled all sorts of crazy stunts.
Mu Ri actually really wants to create some spy-within-a-spy plots to give people from other civilizations more false information.
However, because of the high level of cohesion in Tracing Light past, it is almost a hundred times more difficult to plant spies than other civilizations, and spies are always exposed for various bizarre reasons, so the spy-within-a-spy schemes always end inconclusively.
Some spies, with nothing better to do, write novels. Because the details are so realistic, and they contain real information that hasn't been leaked by the official authorities of various civilizations, they are arrested on the spot.
Some spies surrendered themselves to prison because their civilization had been destroyed.
Some spies who came to Tracing Light discovered that they were geniuses in Mana cultivation, and immediately abandoned their evil ways, expressing their willingness to Tracing Light wholeheartedly.
I'm Mu Ri. It feels like the cohesion of most civilizations is frighteningly low.
In the end, only a small number of spies remained, most of whom were double agents.
It is worth mentioning that most of these spies came from the Silent Civilization, and even the higher-ups had spies from the Silent Civilization.
The opponent's placement was extremely precise, after all, they were a time-based Survivor. Su Luo had already mentioned this to Mu Ri.
In the meeting just now, the most hawkish military representative was actually a silent spy. The diplomatic officials were also spies, but within spies.
"Regardless of the enemy's objectives, this war must not be fought."
Mu Ri muttered to himself.
The opponent's goal is definitely to achieve the highest possible ranking when the Continued Battle ends, in other words, to avoid the extinction of their civilization.
If Tracing Light were to wage war against the Silent Civilization now, from the perspective of the opposing Survivors, the Silent Civilization would absolutely not die—if they could die, that time-manipulating Survivor would have already escaped.
Then this war would be meaningless.
The fact that a powerful ruler could engage in a prolonged battle with an unknown nobody, only to find the nobody growing stronger with each fight, can only mean that the powerful ruler is about to fall.
The Scholar had told him about the world he came from, how that country, which loved to seize oil, had repeatedly suffered defeats in its struggles with smaller nations after its decline.
While the Tracing Light has not declined and is still thriving, other countries are also thriving, which offers some reference value.
When everyone is making progress, progress itself is no longer an advantage. If you run fast, but others run even faster, then you are actually regressing. This principle is not complicated.
We must enter the late Information Age as quickly as possible to reap the benefits of the technological boom.
"Speaking of the opponent's time -Prophecy ability, just how far can they see? What moves have they actually made?"
Mu Ri am genuinely somewhat doubtful and confused.
With such powerful Tracing Light and the manipulation of Scholars, what will the opposing side's response be?
I feel like I haven't done anything... Can Scholars really become passive recipients of easy money?
Yun Xiaoxiao's exam questions were uploaded to her Dreamscape, and after Su Luo completed them, she directly ascended to become First Rank citizen of the Mechanical Civilization.
The exam lasted for several days, covering dozens of fields from basic mathematics to cutting-edge physics. After Su Luo finished, she left Yun Xiaoxiao behind, telling her to fill in the score she wanted herself.
After becoming a first-class citizen, almost the entire knowledge base of the civilization was made available, something Yun Xiaoxiao herself hadn't expected.
Aside from cutting-edge technologies and those that might be immature or flawed, knowledge of Mechanical Civilization is almost entirely open to first-class citizens.
Those research materials accumulated over hundreds of years, the experimental data obtained at great expense, and the core theories locked under restrictions were stripped bare almost immediately. To first-class citizens, these technologies were nothing more than public transportation.
Like a mouse entering a granary, Yun Xiaoxiao quietly began stealing technology and tried to improve her social status among first-class citizens.
Only after becoming a high-ranking citizen did she truly understand the social structure within the Mechanical Civilization. The six-class division she had previously thought of was merely a simplified version for the lower-ranking citizens. At the top, there was an even more refined division of responsibilities.
The duties of second-class citizens are divided as follows: supervisor, director, manager, Domain Lord, and governor.
Supervisors oversee smaller regions, while general administrators oversee resource allocation. Managers manage a region, Domain Lord a star system, and governors manage the entire civilization. Each level has its own hierarchy, with clear division of responsibilities and authority.
The duties of first-class citizens are divided as follows: technical assistant, specialized engineer, Researcher, leading Scholar, and chief Scholar.
Technical assistants are the lowest rank, mainly responsible for assisting with experiments and compiling literature; specialized engineers are responsible for tackling technical challenges in specific projects; Researchers independently undertake research projects; leading Scholars lead a research direction, dominate the construction of theoretical systems and the Laboratory of a discipline; chief Scholars are the highest peak in the entire scientific research system of the civilization, and there is only one such person.
At that time, Yun Xiaoxiao was just an ordinary technical assistant with only exam scores. Apart from being able to access most technologies and knowledge, and ordering the corresponding technical assistants among the second-class citizens to help access social resources and research materials, she had no other power.
But she has powerful backers!