Thrown Away with Their Own Hands

A secret that should never have been known to the public was exposed. The entire Beihan civilization was like water poured into sulfuric acid—it boiled over as a whole. Public opinion exploded online, and government web platforms crashed one after another as massive numbers of users flooded in within a short time.

Government offices everywhere were packed with citizens seeking the truth, forcing the authorities to deploy the military to maintain local order.

Whether it was true or not, the social impact was enormous. Beihans looking to fish in troubled waters fanned the flames. This period was their carnival; under all kinds of banners of justice, they smashed, looted, burned, and destroyed, knowing that even if they were pursued afterward, no blame would fall upon them.

The chaos was quickly brought under control. Governments across the Beihan civilization publicly and unequivocally stated that no such thing had happened, that it was merely the baseless delusion of a madman. They produced all kinds of evidence, including the mental illness records of the person who had exposed the secret.

Thanks to the government's credibility, the social unrest soon subsided. The Beihan who had revealed the secret was swiftly apprehended by special forces and, after being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, suffered a "relapse" and committed suicide.

But the public already knew everything. The massive project underway was real, and so was the preparation to transport supplies into space. To keep Beihan society from connecting these things with the exposed secret, they needed a "real truth" the public would believe.

The elite class of the Beihan civilization decided to tell their parent civilization a monstrous lie, passing off falsehood as truth. They publicly declared that the massive project was actually prompted by the arrival of the Amoeba civilization, which heralded the Beihans' future