Next, Lao Bao, restrained by machinery, was silently transferred to a vehicle waiting outside the isolation point.
During that time, the investigators said that the vagrant who had worked with him in the subway passageway had been under surveillance for a long time. Next came the arrest, followed by extensive identification work. By this point, the intelligence network of the resistance organization Lao Bao belonged to in East 725 District had effectively collapsed in large part, and more losses would follow.
In this era, once someone fell into another's hands, there was no such thing as gritting one's teeth, keeping one's mouth shut, and holding fast to secrets.
Human free will was terribly fragile, so fragile it seemed like nothing more than an illusion.
With such a completely imbalanced disparity in power, just as Chang Xin had said, there was no hope in sight.
The underlying tone of the world "outside" was bleak.
This Earth fully demonstrated just how devastating the malicious arrangements of a suddenly arrived colonial force from an advanced civilization could be to a native civilization.
In a sense, it possessed a production system even more advanced than the Local Time-Space beneath the Cloak, yet it had no buffer like the Centennial Sequence. This created an enormous fault line in knowledge and capability. The people of this planet had plunged headfirst into the "abyss" torn open by that fault line, becoming useless people with meaning only as biological... or sociological research specimens.
In fact, this society had basically lost any value for closer observation. It was merely a stagnant pool, a specimen of social development deliberately frozen by those advanced-civilization colonizers. Like an anthill filled with molten aluminum, it existed only for display and amusement.
It had to be said that Earth's native inhabitants "outside" had encountered