Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

Chapter 382 Auspicious Chapter

The emergence of this powerful weapon, the "ideological imprint," was something no one had anticipated.

The group, who were at a disadvantage just a moment ago, suddenly reversed the situation, with a large number of mechanical Earth soldiers turning against them and advancing towards the city center.

The city was already in chaos after the mayor's departure, and the city defense forces that came to suppress the unrest were the biggest bargaining chip that Revelation III could offer.

Now, before a single shot has been fired, Lin Xuan has wiped them all out. When the remaining government officials learned of this, they were completely dumbfounded.

They never dreamed that a civilian organization born on the native planet of Mechanical Earth, barely established with the support of the former Gene Earth, could one day actually threaten the safety of a planet, even if that planet was just one of the most insignificant peripheral planets of Mechanical Earth. This was enough to shock them.

Regarding the Spark Organization, all three Earths share the same consensus: their existence is like a piece of toilet paper—used when needed and discarded once it's gone.

Gene Earth needs the Spark Organization to promote its communist ideology, Mind Earth needs the Spark Organization to carry out smuggling and other commercial trade, and Mechanical Earth can use the Spark Organization to satisfy its political needs.

Therefore, this has led to the phenomenon that the Spark Organization has four leaders, which is essentially the result of a power struggle among four forces.

WALL-E was only interested in making money because he knew that a true revolution could never succeed on its own. Rather than that, he thought it was better to use the opportunity of the revolution to amass wealth, whether it was to improve his own life or to make life better for the ordinary people who joined the revolution.

Simothers, on the other hand, was a pure idealist. He was one of the first to join the Starfire organization and had experienced the initial help that Gene Earth provided to the organization. Therefore, he firmly believed that Gene Earth would help them and help the planet's government break free from the control of the three giant corporations.

Hope and Felix's motives were even simpler: one wanted to be granted amnesty, and the other simply wanted to take revenge on society. Coincidentally, what they did was in line with the interests of the mechanical Earth.

How can anyone not be shocked to learn that such a mixed and eccentric organization, with completely contradictory goals, has now shattered the regular army of a planet and occupied it?

This is why, when Lin Xuan claimed that he had destroyed the aircraft carrier, the outside world only regarded his words as a stand-up comedy routine.

Because it is so outrageous, even if it were written in historical records, it would be regarded as an unofficial historical record.

The resistance did not last long; just 15 hours later, the city's garrison surrendered.

But Lin Xuan felt that this final resistance was just giving those government officials time to escape, so he didn't let the troops push too hard. Instead, he waited until all the irrelevant people had run far away before leading the main force across the municipal district's defenses.

As Simothers and Lin Xuan walked through the deserted city hall, he felt as if he were in a dream.

"We... really won like this?"

He muttered to himself, then looked around like a child who had discovered a new toy, as if he wanted to search every corner of the area.

This building was once the most sacred and inviolable place for the proletarians at the bottom of society. It housed government officials and the financial tycoons of the three major corporations. Let alone going in, even taking a peek from afar would result in being driven away by the security guards on duty.

And now, they are standing in this building.

Just as Lin Xuan had expected, the government officials burned all the evidence of their crimes during the evacuation. However, the evidence of crimes of some people who did not have time to escape, or officials who were not in the government building at the time for other reasons, was still preserved in the government building.

"Alright, stop standing there like an idiot. Tell Felix to bring everyone on this list to me. If nothing unexpected happens, they shouldn't have had time to leave yet."

Lin Xuan quickly compiled the list from the remaining documents and handed it to Simothers, but then waved her hand, thinking of Felix and his gang's way of doing things.

"Fine, you take your men and handle this. Tell Felix to stay put and not allow anyone to enter the municipal district without my orders."

Given Felix and his group's resentment towards the rich, if they were really allowed to arrest people, very few would likely survive to reach them.

Simothers quickly complied, and the officials, being quite sensible, formed a neat square formation in front of the city hall within an hour, escorted by members of the Spark organization.

These people have varying ranks, ranging from the head of the planet's finance department to a newly selected civil servant, but they all have one thing in common.

greedy!

Or rather, the greedy ones whom Lin Xuan caught with evidence against were all abandoned during the evacuation of this planet. Their purpose in being left here was probably to be killed by Lin Xuan.

These people seemed to already know what fate awaited them. When Simothers led his men to capture them, some chose to surrender, some chose to fight to the death, and some even committed suicide by shooting themselves.

If Felix had been in charge of handling this, the number of people kneeling in front of the building would probably be at least half of what it used to be.

Lin Xuan slowly walked onto the stage after everyone had arrived.

Below, a group of officials, their hands and feet bound, stared at Lin Xuan's face, a face that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

Just a few days ago, some of them were still living in the villa, watching Lin Xuan's speech in the beer hall, laughing at the young man for overestimating himself and trying to get those self-serving scoundrels to unite against the mechanical Earth.

But now, when they see that face again, he is already standing right in front of them.

"You... your name is Bai Bing, right?"

Among the crowd was an older official who looked at Lin Xuan on the stage. Lin Xuan only glanced at him before recognizing him from the information in her mind.

Jiang, one of the municipal ministers on Planet Revelation III, is mainly responsible for people's livelihood. In order to make money, he previously set up a medical donation foundation, which was mainly responsible for raising funds to purchase some imported drugs from Gene Earth.

However, only one-tenth of the money collected was used for official business; the remaining nine-tenths were pocketed or used to bribe other officials.

While prosthetic modifications are very common on Mechanical Earth, biomedicine has always been a technological weakness. He imported some of Gene Earth's drug technologies at high prices and then used patent projects as a pretext for money laundering.

Strangely, the outside world has always praised this official's conduct. He is probably just one link in this chain. The real person who received benefits behind the scenes has already run away. Leaving him here and letting Lin Xuan kill him would be a way to completely clean up the mess.

"Bai Bing, we've already investigated you. You're not actually from Mechanical Earth at all, are you?"

As he spoke, he looked at the Spark members on both sides, who were armed to the teeth.

"You've all been deceived by him. This guy isn't here to help you at all; he's using you, do you understand? The Spark Organization's current actions are treason!"

"You're nothing but a bunch of bandits, worse than bandits!"

"You think that just because you've occupied the municipal district, we'll have to obey you? Bah! Let me tell you, the Space Force is coming to reinforce us soon, and the cyber surveillance department is on its way. If you know what's good for you, you'll obediently retreat to the civilian area, and we'll all pretend that nothing happened today. Once the Space Force lands, I will do everything in my power to protect you. I assure you this as your minister."

Several soldiers from the Spark Organization couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to go up and slap the noisy old man, but Lin Xuan stopped them by waving her hand.

"You're the first person who can be so arrogant while kneeling before me. Since you're so arrogant, why didn't you just take your own life when you were being arrested?"

The other person was speechless after Lin Xuan's words.

To be honest, those who are kneeling here are all afraid of death, but because of their status, they can't really kneel down and kowtow to beg for mercy, so they can only remain in this stalemate.

Seemingly sensing what everyone was thinking, Lin Xuan smiled.

"Everyone, do you want to live?"

Upon hearing this, the officials below immediately brightened up. Since the other party said so, it meant that there was still room for negotiation on this matter.

"What do you want? To make us recognize the legitimacy of you terrorists? Absolutely not!"

Lin Xuan shook her head.

"No, no, no, that kind of thing is meaningless. You bunch of parasites on the country, you always spout nonsense. No one would believe you'd acknowledge our legitimacy."

Upon hearing this, all the officials present turned pale, but upon closer examination, they realized that what the other party said was indeed the truth.

The credibility of the government of Mechanical Earth is worse than toilet paper; sometimes their press conferences are treated as a joke.

But as long as the army is still in their hands, what does it matter if people curse a little?

"I'm asking you for a favor, to do some publicity, but... not to promote our Spark Organization, but to portray this revolution as a military operation orchestrated by Gene Earth."

"what?"

The crowd was puzzled and didn't quite understand Lin Xuan's intentions.

Logically speaking, successfully capturing Revelation III should be a major event that the Starfire Organization should be celebrating.

This marks the first time that the Spark Organization has won a war of revolutionary resistance without the aid of any external forces.

Logically, such propaganda celebrating a war victory should greatly boost morale and even attract more people to join the Spark Organization, thus strengthening its power.

However, if this is portrayed as being orchestrated by an external force like Gene Earth, then the whole meaning changes completely.

This is no longer a simple revolution, but treason!

The entire Spark Organization could even be branded as a lackey of Earth, which would be extremely detrimental to subsequent political propaganda efforts.

To put it another way, just like the old man just accused Lin Xuan, no matter how much our own family members fight, that's our own family's business. If outsiders interfere, that's an invasion!

This is absolutely unacceptable and must be resisted; it is blatant treason.

But Lin Xuan not only didn't shy away from this issue, she even took the initiative to ask them to smear the Spark Organization, which was quite puzzling.

Seeing this, Himothers wanted to step forward and dissuade him, but after spending so much time together, he also knew that this Mr. Bai Bing was an extremely intelligent genius.

What you can think of, the other party should also be able to think of.

Since that's the case, it's best not to ask any more questions.

Himothers used to love expressing his opinions, but after meeting Lin Xuan, he chose to remain silent.

And those officials, naturally, would not resist this kind of propaganda that actively smears the Spark Organization.

In their words, this is the first time in my life I've heard someone make such a strange request.

"As long as you all handle things satisfactorily, then these things..."

As Lin Xuan spoke, she set the evidence of the officials' crimes on fire in front of everyone.

"This……"

A series of shock notifications rang in their minds. No one expected that Lin Xuan, who had so much dirt on the officials and could have used it to control them, would just burn it so carelessly.

"Alright, go do what you were doing. Remember what I said: after you get home, record a video and post it anywhere you can think of. As long as you can pin this on Gene Earth, I'll reinstate you to your original positions!"

After everyone had left, Simothers couldn't wait to come to Lin Xuan's side.

"Captain White, what are you up to now?"

Lin Xuan raised an eyebrow and said with a smile.

Have you ever heard of thanking someone first and then receiving a gift?

"What do you mean?"

Simothers was still somewhat puzzled; he couldn't figure out the connection between the two.

“In my hometown, when receiving red envelopes during Chinese New Year, we always say auspicious words first, and then take the red envelope. This is because if we say auspicious words, the other person will feel embarrassed not to give us money.”

Simothers paused, then seemed to realize something.

"Are you planning to... make this a reality, and then get another round of aid from Gene Earth?"

If that's the case, Simothers doesn't think it's a problem. Although Lin Xuan provided some of Starfire's current weapons, they still lack heavy firepower. Let alone dealing with the Space Force, even if they were to fight ground troops, they would collapse at the first contact.

The few weapons they possess were left behind when Gene Earth provided them with aid years ago.

Later, GeneEarth felt that Spark had no future and stopped providing assistance, which led to Spark's situation deteriorating day by day.

If we publicize it like Lin Xuan does, we can get support from Gene Earth. After all, I've already told everyone you're my older brother, so even if you care about face, you should at least give me some help.

On the other hand, the upcoming Space Force is indeed a big problem.

Simothers is not so confident that they can compete with the space force of the mechanical Earth with their small number of people.

If that's the case, it might be able to distract some of the mechanical Earth's attention and alleviate some of their resistance pressure.

“However… those officials, Captain Bai, are you really going to let them go like this? Although I know that those people are not the masterminds behind the exploitation of the lower classes, they were involved after all. If you burn all the evidence with a single fire, we will have no grounds to hold them accountable later.”

Himothers was actually trying to say something else entirely: Felix harbored extreme hatred for these corrupt officials, and if he knew this, it might cause some misunderstandings between him and Bai Bing.

Lin Xuan smiled.

“I was just teasing them. What era are we living in? Why are they still trying to win people’s hearts like Cao Cao? All the evidence of their crimes I kept was in electronic form and is stored in the database.”

Upon hearing this, Simothers couldn't help but give Lin Xuan a thumbs up.

"I knew you were a cunning little devil, but who is Cao Cao?"