Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 856 - 697 Anti-Witch Project_2

Chapter 856: Chapter 697 Anti-Witch Project_2

"...You are really strange."

"It’s not strange at all, it’s normal. If you saw so many humans with weapons appearing in front of you, you would also be annoyed. Yes, you can kill them, but after their death, more people will become angry, more will join the ’Anti-Witch faction,’ buying more advanced weapons, definitely looking to defeat you!" Xu Yang said calmly.

"Getting entangled in a war with ants as vast as the ocean..." Farosa thought of this with some disgust.

"This is the greatest wealth that Nestor Corporation has brought to the Northern Archipelago. We are not afraid of their gathering; we fear their apathy. If people do not dare to gather and confront you, they would continue to live their lives as they did under the tight control of Kyoto Infinity, obediently and without fighting spirit, even if a bomb crater was blasted at their front door, they would remain like walking corpses... that would mean Nestor Corporation came here for nothing! We would have labored in vain!" Xu Yang said with a tone of finality.

Farosa recalled that scenario.

In her eyes, a large crowd of common people gathered, standing on the terrifying brink of the Eclipse of the Star, demanding concessions from Nestor Corporation.

What a group of angry sheep! They also had some edges.

In the past, people were extremely numb, but now they have gained the intention and ability to fight.

But... but...

"They are opposing Nestor Corporation!" Farosa emphasized, "Don’t you see them as our enemies?"

"Among 50 million Shangjing City residents, only 3300 appeared at the event, the proportion is still very uneven, actually no need to be too anxious, the impact is not as big as you think, it’s just special in nature," Xu Yang shook his head.

"But they are very determined."

"Yes, their vigorous opposition indicates that Nestor Corporation has done something wrong, something not well enough. Why should we be afraid of them speaking? They have raised many valid insights. Nestor Corporation itself is not flawless, nor are we all saints. The recent events have exposed our shortcomings; we should continue to optimize measures, rectify the system, instead of figuring out how to erase these voices," Xu Yang said decisively.

"Hmm..." Farosa pondered.

"Just like after this incident, Nestor Corporation will also adjust its strategy, Seeking Shadow has given me a pile of strategies on how to improve the whole society’s resistance. And our intelligence department and public relations department, realizing the complexity of the situation, will treat this ’Anti-Witch faction gathering’ as a case study and a lesson, consider countermeasures, and in future, we won’t always send Aledy with a war-tank. Do not fear contradictions, it is through them that we can develop," Xu Yang told Farosa.

Hearing Xu Yang’s words, though Farosa knew he was mostly right, she still insisted on her own reasoning.

"So—even if Nestor Corporation gets eliminated by others later, it doesn’t matter? If those angry people overthrow Nestor Corporation, wouldn’t you be in a worse situation?"

"If exterminated by external forces, it means we were too weak; if eliminated by the angry people, it signifies that Nestor Corporation deserved to die. Eventually, I didn’t plan to stay in Nestor Corporation forever! I am always ready to start a new venture!" Xu Yang said earnestly.

"You..." Farosa was shocked.

Farosa, upon hearing Xu Yang’s words, felt it was all very dreamlike!

She felt as if she was meeting this man for the first time.

He was prepared to abandon everything and start anew; how could he... how could he be so heartless, so resolute? After all the development of Nestor Corporation, Xu Yang was ready to throw it away!

In his vision, the so-called "Nestor Corporation" was just a transitional tool!

Its existence was to improve people’s livelihoods and fighting spirit.

A faction of "Anti-Witch" emerging among the people, actually aligned with Xu Yang’s wishes, because he believed people should have such a strong spirit of resistance.

If there were issues with Nestor Corporation, then it was for the people to fight and overthrow it.

If in the future Nestor Corporation was not perfect, it deserved to be eliminated, abandoned, ultimately giving way to more vigorous new entities.

The audacity of Xu Yang truly surprised Farosa.

Even Farosa now relies deeply on Nestor Corporation and refuses to leave it.

But Xu Yang really is like a bird with no home; if Nestor Corporation’s actions are despised, he would let it burn to ashes and start anew.

Farosa’s gaze upon Xu Yang grew even more fervent.

"You’re a madman, madman, madman! So you are also a madman, crazier than me!" Farosa shouted, "You like people becoming like you... those daring to risk it all as rebels and innovators, you’re sending them to their deaths, fostering these people intentionally or unintentionally, growing their courage and anger... making them dare to confront me."

"Trust me, it’s all worth it," Xu Yang calmly said.

"Is this the passion only a madman could possess?" Farosa sneered with disdain, "Okay, if one day Nestor Corporation falls, I’ll start over with you, after all, it was just you and me in the beginning."

From the beginning... it was only Xu Yang and Farosa, starting from scratch.

Xu Yang kissed Farosa.

"However, don’t worry about Nestor Corporation, we are far from being utterly corrupted," Xu Yang explained.

"Indeed..." Farosa nodded.

Right now, the tiny "anti-Witch faction" is merely a superficial issue, hardly making a splash, and many people have quickly forgotten about it.

"Anyway, we talked too much; we shouldn’t overthink. Actually, behind this ’anti-Witch faction’, there indeed are people manipulating things," Xu Yang helped Farosa access the New World Mechanism page.

New World Mechanism is an anonymous forum made up of numerous untraceable subsets and groups, a part of the deep anonymous network, and has become globally popular with over 100 million active users.

Among them is an "anti-Witch" discussion group, where tens of thousands continually discuss eliminating and purging Witches.

"Some people are very special extremists, intentionally causing a stir with the Eclipse of the Star incident. Nestor Corporation had already issued a statement, and everyone understood that the Eclipse of the Star existed to prevent Suzukawa Kiyo from devouring Shangjing, but these people deliberately steered the conversation towards the Ancient Witch," Xu Yang showed Farosa these message entries.

They systematically discuss how to fight Witches with mortal bodies, members coming from all over the world, from the Northern Archipelago, Xia, Taixi Continent to New Taixi State... this "anti-Witch" sentiment exists globally, intent on purifying the entire human society.

"Witch babies are appearing at an increasing rate among newborns..." Farosa observed their discussions.

"Yes, Kanako’s first child was a Witch, isn’t that odd? She dreamed of stars falling into her belly, she hasn’t shared more, but what she actually dreamed of was a meteor shower falling into the bellies of millions of mothers," Xu Yang shook his head.

Witches are infertile, and some fear that the entire race will only produce Witches in the future, turning the world into a Witch world, so they accept the anti-Witch faction’s ideology.

"There are also foreign forces... this ’Shimizu Research Company’ provides them with Funds, enabling them to buy drones and robots to bolster their presence, and this company is likely a member of the Seven Seals," Xu Yang continued exploring in New World Mechanism.

This matter is indeed not so simple, just those passionate citizens alone couldn’t be so fierce... Farosa pondered.

She continued to watch New World Mechanism.

The anonymous forum "New World Mechanism" grows ever more popular for its convenient features and powerful effects, initially a private ground for network engineers and hackers to communicate, but later joined by people from various fields.

"Why can you roam freely in this network?" Farosa felt that New World Mechanism was quite advanced, with encryption challenges that were extremely secure.

As a cross-platform communication software, people all around the world use this hub to share secret information and convey discussions that are inconvenient to hold publicly.

But Xu Yang could take Farosa browsing everywhere, seemingly unhindered.

"...Because this forum was established by me, I am the only one qualified to archive information as the super-administrator. Its servers are in my workspace; I began setting up this network after the global hackers’ conference as a follow-up plan to the deep anonymous network," Xu Yang explained.

"You’ve truly become a Phantom wandering the digital world, you specter, you monster," Farosa said upon hearing this, showing a wicked smile, "I thought you and I were a rational man and a mad woman... wrong, we are two madmen, two madmen aiming to reshape the world, now kiss me, kiss me hard!"