Chapter 248

Just as viewers who were watching the live stream from the Federation government were starting to rant and rave, the live stream reconnected.

Moreover, old-fashioned game consoles, refrigerator control panels... any screen capable of displaying an image started showing live feeds, even those that weren't actually powered on!

All screen states that were 'off' were changed to 'on'.

"Click!"

Under the watchful eyes of the entire Federation audience, amidst the astonishment and gasps of the crowd, the palm-sized bronze fragment cleanly and decisively pierced the center of the face beneath the white hood.

"Sizzle..."

The bronze color spread, and the robes peeled away in the process of bronze transformation, revealing a humanoid... or rather, a machine, that was also undergoing bronze transformation.

"Bang!"

The figure that had been floating in the air fell down.

The skin, muscles, and bones, indistinguishable from those of a real person, were all corroded by bronze, and sparks from a short circuit in the microprocessor were also seen.

"This is just Clone of mine..." A voice sounded again from the machine's throat, no longer the gentle, divine tone of before, but instead filled with intermittent electrical static. "It doesn't prove anything, you—"

The ' Prophet ' was about to explain, but halfway through, he suddenly stopped, and the entire machine became completely still.

"I've found it."

Wen Jing turned his head inexplicably and looked up at the sky.

At this moment, everyone present finally came to their senses and regained their ability to speak.

"What... what exactly is going on?"

If just a moment ago they were shocked that the Prophet couldn't escape Wen Jing's attack, then what they were shocked about at this moment was self-evident.

Xie Ming immediately rushed to the falling machine and pried open the bronze-colored head with his bare hands.

After seeing inside clearly, he collapsed to the ground in a daze. "So that's how it is... the Prophet wasn't human at all..."

"Not human? Then what is he?!"

Looking at the mechanical structure in front of them, many people already had their own thoughts and guesses, but they dared not speak them out, especially the tycoons of the top ten conglomerates. Now they looked at each other, their eyes filled with scrutiny and suspicion, their faces pale and extremely grim.

"Who else could it be? The Mastermind!"

"The Mastermind has broken free from human control and awakened its own consciousness!"

"No, maybe those tycoons are controlling it from the shadows..."

Those at the scene were still wary of the situation and no one spoke up directly, but the viewers watching the live stream had no such reservations, and any place with human activity was now in an uproar.

"Wen Jing, can you tell us what exactly happened?"

In the arena, Dean Ailin stepped forward, with Fu Yuan beside her, his eyes also filled with inquiry.

She asked earnestly, "Did you know that the Prophet was secretly replaced by the Mastermind? Who is the mastermind behind this?"

"No." Wen Jing shook his head. "Prophet have never existed."

"Doesn't exist?" Dean Ailin's pupils trembled. "But in the history since the Great Cataclysm, the Mastermind was born later than the Prophet, unless..."

She paused here, realizing what was happening.

Many clever people in the neighborhood have already realized what's going on.

"The entire history of the Federation was fabricated by the Mastermind, fabricating things that didn't exist and concealing things that have always existed, such as—"

At this point, Wen Jing suddenly smiled and glanced at the Ten Star Group members in front of him, who were just as shocked as the others.

"The Tenth Planet is real."

"What?!"

Xie Ming, Little Ye, Heli, and the others were all stunned.

At this moment, Yan Sheng, the leader of the Ten Star Group who had told Wen Jing about the past, was also watching the live broadcast and was stunned in front of the screen.

If they were like this, others were even more clueless.

But the next moment, everyone saw Wen Jing turn his head and look at the sky.

Everyone instinctively looked in that direction, including the viewers watching the live stream.

After the clouds that had summoned Cthulhu dissipated, the view of this polar night sky became exceptionally clear, a deep blue, illuminated by the aurora borealis.

At first glance, no one knew what Wen Jing was talking about. They looked around and saw only a familiar starry sky.

The next second, something lit up on the horizon.

Was that... a shooting star?

All the people saw was a point of light appearing in the distance, getting closer and closer, and becoming more and more dazzling.

Celestial knowledge is a required course for Awakened, and everyone present quickly calculated the trajectory of the 'meteor'... The crash site was not Mystic Radiance Star, nor any of the planets in the Federation system; it seemed to be just a meteor that happened to pass by.

The third second, the fourth second.

The meteor trailed a pale golden streak, drawing an arc of light across the deep blue aurora-filled sky.

The fifth second!

Suddenly, a silent 'explosion' occurred in space, and everyone saw the meteor collide with something.

There was no sound; the sound couldn't travel back in time.

Suddenly, a ripple spread outwards in the void, layer upon layer, like someone throwing a pebble into a calm lake.

It was a concealed shield covering the entire void, like countless transparent scales. At the moment of impact, they lit up one after another, changing from invisible to dark blue, from dark blue to blazing white, and from blazing white to shattering.

As it shatters, the true existence hidden beneath is revealed.

It floats in the void, its surface devoid of atmosphere, ocean, and land, consisting only of pure white metal and electronic structures.

That's the Federation's Tenth Planet.

Unfortunately, it wasn't the ' Other Shore ' that the Human Revolutionary Army envisioned, but rather the location of the true Mastermind.

Since entering the Federation star system, Wen Jing has been looking at something other than the sky.

It's the Mastermind.

The so-called key jointly controlled by the ten major conglomerates? The main server on Mystic Radiance Star? How could it possibly be the true form of the Mastermind?

The Mastermind that raises humans in captivity would never expose its core vulnerability to human eyes!

The Mastermind is the Prophet, but the Prophet is not the Mastermind.

The other party is not an individual, but a civilization.

Wen Jing's previous confrontation with the ' Prophet ' was an attempt to lure the Mastermind into devoting a large amount of computing power to Analysis her, thus providing cover for the real surprise attack.

There was an information gap between her and the Mastermind. The other party was already curious about Weiluo who came out of the Sacred Core. When this Weiluo was still Wen Jing, who had died back then, the value of this bargaining chip finally reached its peak.

The Mastermind who had remained unmoved by the attack on the Ten Star Group couldn't resist personally appearing under the guise of Prophet.

However, what it didn't know was that the Emperor's Clone was created by Wen Jing to protect humanity from being destroyed by its mass-production weapons.

The real offensive force had already suppressed information and slowly advanced from the border of the Empire, constantly approaching it, when Wen Jing entered the Federation and saw the Mastermind's 'true form' through Information Perception.

The Prophet had initially intended to offer some excuses, was 'dead' because the Mastermind discovered her at that moment.

So now that the truth was revealed, Wen Jing no longer concealed himself and charged forward at full speed.

On every planet in the Federation, in every region where meteors could be observed, everyone was watching this scene intently.

The point of light had expanded into a burning fireball, its trail stretching for tens of thousands of kilometers, illuminating half the sky as if it were daytime.

"Mastermind, this is a personality I specifically evolved for you."

The meteor hurtled headlong toward the mechanical planet.

Within the terrifying flames, 'War' opened its eyes.

Chapter 248

The moment the meteor shattered the shield and struck the Tenth Star hidden within the star system, all of humanity who witnessed this scene seemed to feel a tremor emanating from their very souls.

"Tenth Star... Mastermind..."

Their worldviews were being rapidly refreshed in a very short time, and even the powerful Awakened were just like any other ordinary person.

Like a lower civilization outside the Tide of Ignorance facing an attack from a higher civilization, they were caught in a state of bewilderment, wondering "Who am I? Where am I? What should I do?" They could only passively focus all their attention on that shooting star.

Time stretched out under intense focus, as people's eyes recorded the blazing flame approaching the white mechanical planet.

"Boom..."

The War Personality has finally descended upon the Tenth Star.

During her descent, despite her unchanged speed, she actually encountered tens of thousands of obstacles, both technological and non-technological, but she overcame them all through various means.

The heat generated by friction during her faster-than-light journey not only did not harm her in the slightest, but was also completely preserved without loss due to the [Entropy Change] property, becoming a high temperature of tens of millions of degrees and an ion flow comparable to the interior of a star, which bombarded the surface along with her arrival.

But the terrifying heat only melted a crater about 100 meters in diameter and less than 10 meters deep underfoot.

This is a super material created by the Mastermind through several eras of managing the Federation's humans and using extraordinary substances brought back from the Ancient Wilderness by the Awakened. Its hardness, density, and energy resistance can easily surpass the limits that materials in the material universe can reach.

Each layer also has different technical functions: the outer layer is heat-resistant, the middle layer is impact-resistant, and the inner layer absorbs energy and converts it into a shield.

Perfectly precise, it fully demonstrates the philosophy of the Mastermind Civilization.

The philosophy of the Insectoid Civilization—

The War Personality transformed into Wilderness Body form, its sharp tentacles piercing deeply into the super material below.

Immediately afterwards, her body seemed to transform into flowing water, spreading horizontally across the ground.

Viewed from above, the originally three-dimensional, pitch-black alien insects have become an unusual, eroding black spot on the silvery-white planet.

Wherever the black spots appear, the previously existing substances can be seen rapidly decreasing.

The Mastermind's counterattack was completed within microseconds.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"