The top of Scarlet Eye Tower is the place closest to the sky and closest to the perspective of God.
Uchiha Xuan is like an eternal statue, standing quietly in front of the huge holographic light curtain.
Above the light curtain, the data flow representing the belief status of the people of the empire flows slowly like a bright star river. Everything seems orderly and breathtakingly perfect.
Since the S-class experimental subject Scarlet Eye Academy, codenamed "Ling", was promoted to the altar of "Mother Goddess", the spiritual network of the entire empire has stabilized with unprecedented efficiency.
Her existence is like an extremely precise needle that penetrates the restless ocean of people's hearts.
The "prophetic broadcasts" she publishes every day, covering everything from weather changes to the Border Patrol's material rationing recommendations, have an astonishing accuracy rate of 99.7 percent.
More importantly, under the guidance of "Dream Gospel", the number of new "Dream Believers" added every day has increased steadily.
Their worship of the "Mother Goddess" is gradually transforming into the most solid spiritual foundation for the rule of the empire.
Everything is within the script of Uchiha Xuan.
However, tonight, the self-proclaimed chess master discovered a chess piece on the chessboard that was trying to jump out of the chessboard.
"System, call up the complete brain wave spectrum of Executive Officer 'Ling' in the past seventy-two hours, and adjust the accuracy to the millisecond level." Xuan's voice was calm, but deep in the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, there was a trace of extremely aggressive scrutiny.
As soon as the order is issued, the huge data is extracted and reconstructed instantly.
An extremely complicated brain wave activity map unfolded in front of Xuan. Alpha waves, beta waves, theta waves... countless curves representing the activities of consciousness intertwined and undulated, composing a strictly arranged "song of obedience".
But at a specific time coordinate - midnight midnight, 0:00:00 - an anomaly that was so weak that it was almost negligible, like a slender ice needle pierced into perfect silk, suddenly appeared.
The alpha wave, which represents calmness and relaxation, mysteriously disappeared at that moment.
Instead, it is an extremely low-frequency pulse signal with a frequency of only 0.7 Hz.
This is a frequency that has never been recorded in modern Shinobi World and it does not belong to any known emotional model or spiritual occult.
However, when Myriad Phenomena Devouring System compared it with the oldest gene bank data of the Uchiha Clan, a dusty annotation popped up.
[Signal feature matching: Heartbeat resonance frequency in a state of deep grief.]
That is the most instinctive and heaviest beating rhythm of the heart when life is enduring unspeakable sorrow.
Uchiha Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly.
What interested him even more was the emission pattern of this signal.
It is not a continuous whine, but appears periodically with a very rhythmic rhythm.
Three short pulses, followed by one long pulse.
Three are short and one is long.
"It's interesting." Xuan's lips curved in a playful way.
He was very familiar with this rhythm.
In his Warring States Era, this was once the last resort used by the Uchiha Clan to send a message to his blood relatives when he was in a desperate situation and unable to issue a warning - by adjusting the rhythm of his breathing and changing the weak fluctuations of his own chakra and life magnetic field to send out a signal for help.
It has a sad and ancient name: "Rescue Breath".
A five-year-old girl, whose memory has been formatted and shaped into the "Mother Goddess", is sending her silent cries to the whole world using an ancient secret language that has long been forgotten.
"System, name the signal [Silent Lament candidate], start reverse tracking, and analyze its propagation path and scope of influence."
Xuan didn't have any anger at all, and he had no intention of immediately extinguishing the flame of resistance.
He was like an interested biologist who discovered a brand-new species that had never been seen before. He wanted to see what kind of flowers this fragile and stubborn soul could bloom.
Three days later, the analysis report was presented to him.
The result was beyond his expectation, but within reason.
In the past seven days, in the empire, a total of eight Scarlet Eye Academy children who had completed "Phantom Overwrite Protocol" and were implanted with the absolute obedience code fell into a brief coma lasting no more than thirty seconds at midnight.
After they woke up, they all showed an extremely morbid attachment to the concept of "mother".
Some children will hug their pillows and whisper "Mom" all night long, while others will start biting their arms crazily, as if they want to "find" a forgotten name in their flesh and blood.
The onset time of all cases, and the bell's "Silent Lament" pulse signal output window, are accurate to the millisecond level.
"So that's it." Xuan looked at the data flow, his eyes as deep as the abyss. "She has not been formatted, but all the resistance and sadness have been compressed and encoded into physiological frequencies that cannot be recognized by the existing monitoring system. The empathy network established by using the identity of the 'Mother Goddess' has become the best channel for her to spread this 'spiritual plague'."
She is not playing mother goddess.
She is using the mask of the Mother Goddess to continuously send the same secret message for help to all the imprisoned "children": I am here, I am in pain, who will save us?
How innocent and tragic.
Uchiha Xuan not only did not feel threatened, but instead felt an unprecedented desire for control.
He decided to add another fire to this silent drama.
"System, modify the filtering threshold of 'Voiceprint Prison' and temporarily remove the suppression of signals in the 0.7 Hz frequency band. Expand its propagation range to a radius of one hundred miles."
He wanted this cry to spread farther.
He wanted to see what kind of waves it would create when the screams gathered into a river.
On the fifth day, the waves came.
An urgent piece of information was personally delivered to the top level of Xuan Tower by Chiyo Saori.
The information came from a remote village on the border of Land of Wind that had just been included in the empire's territory.
An old midwife in the village almost went crazy and reported a strange incident to the imperial garrison that could overturn her decades of midwifery experience.
In the past two days, she has personally assisted in the delivery of six newborn babies, all of which were born aphasic.
They cannot cry or laugh, as if they have been deprived of the ability to speak since they were born.
But the strangest thing is that the heartbeats of these six mute babies are not chaotic.
When they are put together, the weak heartbeats will spontaneously form a uniform and strange rhythm like an ensemble!
The rhythm is distant, quiet, and carries an indescribable sadness, like a lullaby without lyrics that has been spread in the ancient wasteland.
Chiyo Saori brought back the "Heartbeat Lullaby" audio recorded with the highest precision instrument.
The results of system analysis pop up instantly.
[Audio beat structure, consistency with 'Silent Lament' signal: 94.1%.]
Uchiha Xuan stared at the bright red numbers and finally nodded slowly.
He understands.
The evolution of Ling has gone beyond the spiritual level.
She is imprinting her will on "life" itself.
She uses her own sorrow as a seed, and makes every newborn born under this sorrow become a resonance container and amplifier of her will.
She is using her life itself to weave a big web against him.
"What an amazing answer." Xuan praised softly. In his pair of Eternal Mangekyō, cold murderous intent and fiery appreciation intertwined and flickered. "In this case, it's time for me to give you my feedback."
He didn't choose to suppress it, it was too rough and boring.
What he wants to do is pollute.
That night, Uchiha Xuan personally modified the underlying feedback mechanism of "Voiceprint Prison".
It is no longer simply suppression and confinement.
From tonight, it will become a "Emotion Reversal Device".
Whenever it captures that 0.7 Hz "Silent Lament", instead of filtering it out, the system captures it in its entirety and then... does a phase inversion.
At the same time, Xuan peeled off a subtle, special mental wave belonging to Eternal Mangekyō from the origin of his pupil power, and mixed it into the reversed signal.
A brand new energy, which he named "Reverse Soothing Wave", was born.
This wave will be released at regular intervals every day through the empathy network, accurately affecting all coded people in the empire.
Its mechanism of action is simple and cruel - whenever their subconscious receives the "sorrow" from the bell, this "Reverse Soothing Wave" will immediately trigger the pleasure center deep in their brains, releasing a huge amount of intoxicating endorphins.
Sadness will be forcibly transformed into joy.
The pain of missing my mother will be twisted into the ecstasy of worshiping King Xuan.
The cry will become the prelude to the hymn.
On the seventh day, the latest monitoring data was compiled.
The abnormal behavior of children caused by "Silent Lament" dropped by 88%.
Instead, the "spontaneous kneeling rate" among people throughout the empire during a specific period of time (i. e., the "Reverse Soothing Wave" release window period) soared to a record high.
In that moment of bliss, countless people shed tears and chanted the title of "King Xuan" over and over again, worshiping him as the only true god who gave them supreme joy.
Uchiha Xuan stood on the top of the tower, looking down through the one-way glazed window at the tall white tower like an altar with a bell mounted on it.
The night wind blew his black robe, making a hunting sound.
He suddenly raised his hand, as if to touch the distant starry sky, and whispered in a voice that only he could hear:
"Do you think you are crying secretly?"
"No..."
"I made the sound of your crying become the reason for them to love me."
The moment the words fell, the petite figure on the top floor of the white altar, who had always been sitting quietly like a stone sculpture, trembled suddenly!
Ling suddenly raised her head and looked in the direction of Xuan Tower. Those eyes that should have been pure Muku were filled with bloodshot eyes and unyielding madness.
A wisp of black blood slowly overflowed from the corner of her mouth and dripped onto the pure white robe, like a blooming flower of death.
She was bitten back.
Every time she tries to convey sadness, she will give her enemy the warmest praise.
However, she smiled slowly.
It was a smile mixed with endless pain, resentment and determination.
Her lips opened and closed silently, and she used all her strength to spit out three words.
"Just wait and see."
No one knows that at this moment, in the deepest underground crack of Scarlet Eye Tower, which even Uchiha Xuan's perception has not touched, a new vine that mutated from the wreckage of Divine Tree is gently wrapping around a baby's skull wrapped in soil, swaying gently and rhythmically.
Like a loving mother, humming ancient songs and rocking the cradle carrying the hope of revenge.
On the high tower, Uchiha Xuan withdrew his gaze. The trace of amusement in his eyes had dissipated, replaced by a bottomless indifference.
This battle of wills with a five-year-old girl has already resulted in a staged victory.
It's time to set our sights on bigger goals.
He turned around, faced the main console, and issued a new supreme order covering the entire empire.
"Inform all executive officers that in seven days, the first... grand ceremony since the founding of the People's Republic of China will be held at the square in front of Scarlet Eye Tower."
He paused and decided on a cold and solemn name for this upcoming ceremony aimed at completely burying the old world.
"The name of the ceremony is called 'Burning Books'."