(Ceruno)
Bad news: Miluno had completely vanished.
Not only in the New World—even the Thought Network showed no trace of her.
But before we could figure out why, a flood of negative reports, speculation, and conspiracy theories targeting the Thought Network began appearing online.
There were even experts who had come out of nowhere, exposing the brain structure of the Earth Crystal and then linking the two through conjecture, loudly promoting the theory that the Earth Crystal was a threat.
That was utter nonsense. Not just anyone was qualified to be chosen as a "brain cell" of the Hive Consciousness. What the Earth Crystal needed were intelligent, rational, or uniquely capable conscious entities.
Clearly, I belonged to the latter.
Then another Miluno stepped forward and held a press conference.
She openly called on everyone to boycott the Thought Network and beware the Earth Crystal's thought fusion.
Overwhelming doubts and protests turned the Thought Network into a target of public criticism on the very day it was born. The mixture of truth and falsehood in the reports was also highly misleading, making it difficult to distinguish reality.
The announcement of the "Thought Network" had been far too hasty.
That haste became Mi Xue's point of counterattack. The situation we had worked so hard to turn around was reversed once more...
"That girl really isn't simple."
Sirius voiced her thoughts in the conference room formed by the Thought Network.
Then Aldebaran spoke.
"Is this really the time to admire her? Miluno used this opportunity to become the center of attention again. If we go into the captain election like this, we won't stand a chance, will we?"
"Do we still have a chance to fight back? I still don't know what exactly happened to Miluno..."
Aldebaran continued, "Miluno was probably just disconnected