The Flying Shuttle was far more efficient than bumping along mountain roads. In just over half an hour, Long Qi and his group reached the airspace above the mountains, a stone's throw from their destination.
Even then, the loudspeaker broadcast from Lake City and its surrounding Satellite Cities still seemed to echo in his ears. It had played over and over, an assault on the brain.
Long Qi could already recite parts of it, especially the more unhinged lines:
"This isn't a dream. This is true awakening. Only here can we see the truth buried deep within the walls!
"To hell with those phony Awakened! Soon we'll tear off their ridiculous, selfish masks!
"Take off your hats to Mr. Ronan. He is a rebel of the Inner World. He smashed through that invisible wall and used an absurd Dreamscape to reflect our pitiful reality.
"Charge through the breach in the Fortress wall! Charge! The truth they hide behind those walls, and the resources that go with it, will fuel our complete transformation of the world..."
Long Qi had plenty of time to study the open letter during the trip, but he barely made it through twice before its relentless emotion and wild conjecture defeated him.
He reached only one conclusion. "Definitely not his style."
Yuan Wuwei replied lazily, "I thought you'd have figured that out before we boarded the Flying Shuttle."
Long Qi shot him a glare. "I'm profiling whoever wrote it."
"An Inner World Marginalized Person. Extraordinary Power budding but not yet awakened. An IT background, a habit of trolling online, and enough initiative to hack a city's air-raid warning system to broadcast this open letter. Probably practiced and tried things out regularly...
"Or it's a persona someone arranged to muddy the waters."
Yuan Wuwei rattled it off at