The Spider Tide

"What's the meaning?"

"Didn't we come as a group to capture Steelham and Clark?"

Why did they suddenly become so obedient?

"Silva, who usually seems so loyal, is actually a rebel leader?"

"Where did this Grean come from? How did he become the Grand Council Speaker?"

What does his declaration mean?

The surviving rebel leaders still wielded immense local power, and information was disseminated through television broadcasts, text messages, and online push notifications in a deluge.

Ren Yisheng and his team forcibly apprehended the person according to the provided location and target; the capture was a simple and pleasant operation.

The information provided by Zhang Xuezhou and others was very detailed, even including various safe ways to enter and exit, which allowed them to travel almost smoothly.

When the task was completed relatively easily, many people also received push notifications and watched the parliamentary declaration, which was broadcast continuously throughout the day.

The Grand Council Speaker's rambling and nonsensical declarations, coupled with the enthusiastic applause of council members who clapped for unanimous approval, were a situation that many high- Sequence Holder of the Scarlet Alliance State couldn't comprehend.

Ren Yisheng's heart stirred, realizing that Zhang Xuezhou had played a significant role in the matter.

"Luckily, he has the Aomeijia Alliance to cause him trouble; if he had used the Scarlet Alliance State for testing, the problems would have been enormous!"

The Aomeijia Alliance has clearly become a testing ground, with the government promising whatever the people want. However, there is no chance of success for any of these efforts, and no country can afford the costs involved at this stage.

Unrealistic fantasies are doomed to failure; such utopian ideals could never be proposed and put into practice by these seasoned veterans of powerful Aristocratic Clan.

If one were to pinpoint the origin of this declaration, Ren Yisheng would be even more certain that Zhang Xuezhou and others were behind it.

"Old Ren, how long do you think it will Aomeijia Alliance to collapse?" Li Yingbo, who was accompanying them, asked.

"That depends on when Badun is ready to take back power and at what opportune moment he's going to make his move," Ren Yisheng said.

"Why do I have a feeling that this new Aomeijia Alliance will be even more chaotic than during the Civil War?" Wang Haoran asked.

"Let's take it one year at a time!"

Ren Yisheng responded with a sound.

Policy declarations and actual implementation are two different things; Grien's declaration to become the Grand Council Speaker is impossible to realize.

As long as these thoughtless policies are not actually implemented, or are only implemented on a small scale, the impact will not be too great.

We can delay it one day at a time, one month at a time, or even one year at a time.

At least for now, many unrealistic ideas can largely quell the chaos of the civil war, thus allowing social order to barely return to normal.

But such illusory promises will inevitably be shattered sooner or later, and what the situation will be then is another matter entirely.

"National development cannot be grandiose or unrealistic; it can only be steady and pragmatic," Li Yingbo shook his head and said, "Taking too big a step is absolutely unacceptable!"

"We've made a lot of big strides over the years, but we're likely to face a lot of trouble in the future," Wang Haoran said.

"Our troubles are at least somewhat predictable," Li Yingbo said. "The current conflicts are nothing more than a matter of advancing or retreating. Our Scarlet Alliance State ships are big enough to hold many more people, and our group is relatively reasonable; we won't create a hereditary monopoly, and there's a mechanism for withdrawal!"

Maintaining this exit mechanism requires considerable effort!

Wang Haoran emphasized this point, and Li Yingbo could only shrug.

The future is uncertain, but their generation has no problem maintaining the exit mechanism.

As long as Ren Yisheng remains standing, everything will return to normal.

Li Yingbo watched with great interest as the parliamentary speeches began to be broadcast repeatedly, and also read the forcibly pushed communications, feeling that their power to maintain order was constantly increasing.

The fact that the Montes Lineage and the rebels could share a room was clearly not because these people were kind, but because they had reasons that forced them to come together.

Interests may be a bond, but the greater reason must lie in violence.

"With Old Ren in front and An Ran behind, our Scarlet Alliance State be stable for fifty years without any problem," Li Yingbo said.

"An Ran is somewhat lacking!"

Those within the same group know each other's capabilities. Li Yingbo's focus was on Ren Anran, who had entered the Seventh Sequence, while Ren Yisheng's thoughts were on Zhang Xuezhou.

"No one can keep up with her pace; she might even get ahead of you someday," Li Yingbo said.

"You don't understand the Eighth Sequence," Ren Yisheng waved his hand and said, "An Ran is still quite far from that level!"

Although the Eighth Sequence is not much stronger than the Seventh Sequence, control is the entry point to the realm of cohesion, and this level is enough to weed out too many self-important people.

Currently, the Scarlet Alliance State seems to have Seventh Sequence nations, but in the future, only a handful will be able to reach the Eighth Sequence; it would be considered quite remarkable if even one or two such individuals were to emerge.

Ren Anran wants to push forward further, which will be a rather long process.

If there are any special circumstances involved, Ren Yisheng believes it is highly likely to be related to Zhang Xuezhou.

"I'm still pushing towards the Seventh Sequence of resistance; control is a completely foreign concept to me!"

Li Yingbo gave a wry smile.

Most of the current Seventh Sequence individuals remain in the first generation. Only a handful of second-generation individuals can enter the Seventh Sequence, and only Ren Anran is from the third generation.

Li Yingbo entered the Sixth Sequence, but the beast extract that belonged to him was not a match. He was also slightly inferior in terms of sequence locks and Realm Technique. He could only linger at the Sixth Sequence level, and many things that relied on the strength of the sequence needed the support of Ren Yisheng and others.

Even Ren Anran, whom Li Yingbo considered a prodigy, received this evaluation, leading Li Yingbo to believe that he would be very far from reaching the Eighth Sequence in his lifetime.

Of course, Li Yingbo must say that he is living in the best of times.

The previously unattainable Seventh Sequence now has a correctly guided path. As long as one trains and cultivates according to the rules, or receives Zhang Xuezhou's help to quickly unlock the sequence lock, everything can be accomplished almost effortlessly.

"Concepts are all man-made standards," Ren Yisheng said earnestly. "If you want to reach the Eighth Sequence, you'll have to rely more on the Xuezhou. Who knows, we might even have Ninth Sequence in the future, or even higher!"

"Will Xuezhou and Luo Burang join forces to alter the Gene Sequence again?" Li Yingbo asked.

"Perhaps!"

Ren Yisheng did not give a definite response, but his tone undoubtedly contained a hint of anticipation.

As one of the three great Eighth Sequence users in the world today, it would seem unreliable to outsiders that he would place his hopes on a junior, but Li Yingbo nodded seriously.

The amount of genetic resources negotiated with Ganghao increased tenfold, and the agreement even secured spot goods. The Aomeijia Alliance has also been manipulated into this surreal situation. Li Yingbo felt it was normal for things to be even more outrageous.

The Ninth Sequence, which is currently in theoretical research, may not be a dream; the tenth sequence, which represents perfect evolution, may one day be achieved as well.

"Old Ren, I can't get in touch with Committee Member Zhang. There's a problem here, a really big problem. A spider swarm has erupted! The spiders are piled up so thickly they've submerged the flag. I don't know where all these spiders came from; it feels like a tidal wave. These things can even fly with the wind. I think the affected area might be quite wide!"

Ren Yisheng and Li Yingbo talked about the future.

When Ren Yisheng's communicator vibrated, Cai Guoli's intermittent voice came through the communicator, and Ren Yisheng's expression became more solemn.

What Cai Guoli and others saw as a massive catastrophe arising from the reproduction of a single organism was, Ren Yisheng knew very well, likely related to Qin Meng; otherwise, the Void Furnace wouldn't have been involved. Zhang Xuezhou also had his own speculations about this.

The Qinmeng Empire's destruction serves as a precedent, and a biological disaster also erupted in the Tuer region of the Thousand Islands Alliance.

The organized Thousand Islands Alliance suffered heavy casualties, Aomeijia Alliance, which had just barely ended its civil war, was likely to fare even worse.

Damn it!

Ren Yisheng cursed under his breath.

This group of people came to the Aomeijia Alliance to freeload, not to provide assistance.

Zhang Xuezhou was testing several flags, and he certainly didn't want the country to be destroyed. If they were really invaded by some kind of fire meteor creature, they might actually have to help.