Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 528 - 460 Black Intelligence

Chapter 528: Chapter 460 Black Intelligence

Lila issued countless orders in the dark office, controlling the growing military might of Nestor Corporation and the intricate internal and external situations.

"No matter what happens, keep fighting, Lila, don’t look back."

This was Xu Yang’s message, which Lila had received long before the war began.

Xu Yang knew he would be deeply surrounded in the Helis Sea, and he knew Lila would be in immense pain because of it, so he left the message to urge her to overcome this concern, forcing her to move forward, leaving the pain behind.

How could Lila ignore Xu Yang’s role in this war! She should have stopped her steps and gone back to take care of him.

She was the one with the most reason to go back, Lila was but a minor servant to her master, regardless of status and rank, this would never change.

The war was being fought at the cost of the master’s safety, health, and even life, yet she still had to carry on; she could not look back.

Until complete victory.

Occupying the Xisheng Shrine was a significant milestone, and the second public speech was about to commence, Lila silently organized her thoughts, first and foremost, the subsequent battles still had to rely on Nestor Corporation alone.

Some things were obvious—citizens were hard to mobilize.

The Northern Archipelago had the highest rate of urbanization in the world, a staggering 97%, and the urban culture here was extremely prosperous.

The corporations concentrated the most powerful forces, transforming people into tools and consumables, citizens were disadvantaged like sacrificial offerings, working to death like slaves and livestock, extremely impoverished, enduring the lack of housing and medical care, suffering from pervasive surveillance and information control, with difficult access to higher education and inclusive services.

Logically, such oppressive conditions should lead to large-scale rebellion, but automation had long since replaced the dense and united manual labor, now scattered throughout the cities were service industry workers and intellectual laborers reliant on corporations.

These citizens were more likely to sympathize with the corporations, as they provided them with jobs, goods, and highly diversified entertainment services, naturally becoming defenders of corporatism, advocating a free and prosperous urban life, and always remaining in a state of disunity.

The differentiation in income and deliberately designed pyramid hierarchy further compelled them to climb upwards, comparing incomes and academic qualifications, self-centered, profit-driven, power-hungry, lacking in ambition, tormented by the pressures of life to the point of losing room for free thought, and further falling into atomized isolation from each other.

Moreover, there were many "escape routes," those who couldn’t survive in Shangjing could go to Anjiu City, those who couldn’t find work in Anjiu City could go to Aizu City, and if Aizu City wasn’t livable, there were tin houses in the suburbs, getting nutrient paste at wholesale prices, theoretically living on 100 a month, and as long as one wasn’t starving, there wouldn’t be thoughts of stirring up trouble.

Thus, a weak mindset took deep root in the hearts of the citizens, and now, challenging the powerful propaganda machinery of corporatism was unrealistic, what the citizens were most looking forward to was stability and order, not actively joining chaos.

At this stage, to eliminate the troubles brought by the corporations, it was essential to establish an economic form equivalent to theirs, constructing a huge organization that spanned multiple fields, bringing together experts, technicians, soldiers, and witches who were originally fragmented and hostile towards each other tightly on one front, and that’s how Nestor Corporation had come into being.

Lila sorted through files; the Xisheng Shrine contained many materials that could be used against themselves.

"...Nestor Corporation has occupied Xisheng Shrine," Lila announced from the high-end private office within the Shrine, "but the armed conflict will continue because New Xisheng refuses to formally surrender."

She sat in an expensive high-backed chair, dressed in a new suit of pitch-black formal wear.

Everything complemented each other as if the entire office had been tailor-made for her—the office was originally known as the "Heden," often used by the main heirs of Honma Noriko, the last person to sit here and give orders was Kurokawa Kana.

Kurokawa Kana held an important position, leading Xisheng’s sons and daughters in resistance. After the death of Yuan Chaozong, the position of the chief director of New Xisheng automatically transferred to her, allowing her to continue her rule in the Britannia Region of Taixi Continent.

"From the archives of Xisheng Shrine," Lila disclosed, "we have confirmed that the so-called ’Xisheng’ group has, for a long time, used the Century Pure Land System to conduct mass surveillance of citizens, buying and storing all citizens’ chat logs, personal data, social relationship status, voice communications, genetic information files, and public network document transfer logs indiscriminately, selling them to consumer goods companies and data analysis companies to obtain better targeted marketing strategies. At the same time, Xisheng used it to carry out a large number of secret executions, arresting, imprisoning, and eliminating dissidents, slaughtering rebels, wantonly taking lives, the lawless acts making citizens live in fear of violent threats."

The largest-scale company archive declassification was unfolding, naturally drawing citizens’ attention.

"What?"

"There were such things!"

"That’s terrifying..."

"Pretending to be from out of town, huh."

The citizens listening to the news murmured amongst themselves, sharing what they heard. The grievances accumulated over the years were coalescing into a different kind of power.

Kurokawa Kana, located in Lundinium, frowned in her room as she watched the corporate secrets disclosed by Lila.

"This is meaningless," the consciousness backup of Yuan Chaozong explained from the terminal beside her.

He had been defeated and killed, but like them, high-level business people had backups all over the world, and now even their common mother, Honma Noriko, after regaining her youth, had undergone surgery, uploading her consciousness to achieve a similar immortal state, becoming an eternal corporate deity and forming an undying collective.