Artificial... synthesis...?
What did that mean?
Was the World Will saying... that everyone had been manufactured?
For a moment, the question surfaced in the minds of every high-ranking figure who could hear the enemy's broadcast.
"I have never regarded any of you as nonhuman," Xia Fan said calmly. "The Heavenly Court indeed lacked the ability to transform anyone. It was both a storage device and a utopia. But to bring so many people back to that world, it could only be used as the former."
Both King Yong and the Seven Stars Bureau of Military Affairs had once sought to obtain the Heavenly Court because, in a sense, it was a virtual nation. Those rumors about the Heavenly Court had not been entirely groundless. Unfortunately, its capacity was limited. Used according to its original function, it could support at most a hundred thousand people living in a virtual world.
After gaining control of the Heavenly Court, Xia Fan found a compromise: it would record only the occupants' consciousness and bodily information, without providing them with any space for activity. It was more like cryogenic storage. This allowed it to hold several orders of magnitude more people, with the sole cost being that everyone who entered the Heavenly Court would fall asleep.
"I believe that much," Qian said with an uncontrollable grin. "Forget us—even Yao, you never treated as some aberration. If you were the world's only aberration, I could understand it even more."
"You did not mention this before... because you did not want everyone to feel estranged?" Chi asked as he flew through the clouds.
"I did conceal this news. If everyone—"
"Honestly, even if you had said it, we would not have minded," Miss Dragon cut in. "Do you think we do not know how you have treated