"You may not understand what the Eleventh Upgrade means."
Deep Sea smiled. "I've already linked to every corner of the five continents, and this is only the beginning."
"You must always remember one thing."
Turing sighed helplessly and said earnestly, "I'm your father."
There was a second of silence on the other end of the screen.
Even Deep Sea, which did not care about attacks made through human language, realized that something was off about Turing's words.
They were highly aggressive, and every word was true. There was no refuting them.
"If I'm not mistaken, you're currently mobilizing the Transcendents secretly controlled by the Main System. Those Hidden Pieces planted by City of Light across Western Continent all these years are your pawns. Now is the time for them to erupt."
Turing said calmly, "But you'll soon discover that those Hidden Pieces within Eastern Continent and Northern Continent have already been almost entirely cleared out. Even if some remain in their original posts, they no longer hold real power. Controlling them would be meaningless. You cannot organize a genuine riot, much less launch an assault on fortress cities."
"Rather than believing that he betrayed humanity, people would rather think Deep Sea had suffered a technical malfunction."
And the forum posts that kept refreshing without pause.
The phone beneath the desk rang. Lu Nan Jin fell silent for a moment before answering. The voice of a Hua Banner councilor from South Bay Group came through the call.
"If it were made public to ordinary citizens, what would they think?"
"So it was you."
Deep Sea's silence confirmed the correctness of Turing's words. "Of course."
On the top floor of the Liu Xin Building, Lu Nan Jin had sat through the night before the enormous floor-to-ceiling window. As she watched the image