NOVEL NEXT Chapter 75 - Metamorphosis (2)
The trembling I witnessed was the slow erosion coming from the outside that was slowly permeating in. It was a phenomenon fundamentally different from simply suppressing it with the output of the circuit and the force of control strength. If I had to express it, it was closer to the concept of slowly unraveling and neutralizing. Because the phenomenon was progressing so slowly and delicately, I was only able to grasp it when I turned my back on the priestess and moved away. I was able to capture the faint ripples occurring at the very edge of the insignificant magical field.
I thought this ripple, this “neutralization” was the effect of the magic the mycelium used.
‘I need to observe something different.’
Looking at my reduced magical field with no changes, and my subordinates being the same, this erosion only seemed to take effect when the engraving in the soul was below a certain level. It seemed anyone decently capable was unaffected.
However, just realizing this did not immediately lead to any progress. The tangled thread of code embraced by the Mycelium Kingdom was still complex and abstruse.
This abstruseness was reminiscent of the Golden Age techniques that were still difficult to use even with the considerable optimization of my circuit. The techniques that even the Round Table masters could only grasp the effect of but not understand the principle. They weren’t even sure if it was a complete technique.
The telekinesis and ignition and such techniques I often used were only extracts of parts of those codes of wisdom.
How much time and effort did the Mycelium Kingdom spend on dismantling and analyzing these codes? Suyeon’s voice pulled my consciousness back to reality.
“Hyungnim.”
He immediately lowered his head as I looked at him.
“I’m sorry. You told me not to disturb you but…”
“No, it’s fine.”
It must have been an important matter for her to disregard my order.
“Go ahead.”
“It’s a report from Executive Manager Park Miju who’s in Guangzhou. She’s identified three security bureau executives suitable for the operation, but they all seem close to losing their heads soon.”
“Purge?”
“Yes, for now, but the probability of them being killed by the Black Children’s Party before being purged also seems high. All three are executives commanding the suppression and apprehending operations against the Black Children’s Party, and the Black Children’s Party’s assassinations and terrorism targeting these kinds of executives have been increasing exponentially. In addition, the number of people supporting the Black Children’s Party is exponentially increasing, leaving the military and security in dire straits.”
“Support from the people… Looks like they’re putting out quite a bit of money huh.”
“Yes. They’re strengthening their image of righteous outlaws by distributing funds and supplies and seducing the masses by selling Mao Zedong’s name. They’re disguising their own terrorism as a revolutionary struggle for the liberation of the people.”
“That’s a bit unexpected.”
Perhaps the Black Children’s Party leadership were true Mao Zedong followers. This was a new possibility I had failed to consider previously. It was because the true Maoist factions in Chinese politics had withered away long ago.
“Has any connection with the ‘Mao Gong’ been confirmed?”
Mao Gong is an abbreviation for the Maoist Communist Party. Despite revering Mao Zedong, the national father, they were branded as a splinter faction by the Chinese government for simple reasons. Mao Gong denounced the current Chinese Communist Party as a fake communist party and an evil imperialist fascist group. The core of the denunciation was that the party had divided the people who should be equal into classes, creating a reactionary state where the minority exploits the majority.
While the exploitation of the people was true, and they carried the national father on their backs ideologically, the only choice left for the Chinese Communist Party was to suppress them by force and bury them with propaganda. This was because from the Chinese Communist Party’s domestic standpoint, there was foreign power behind the Black Children’s Party.
Even a broken clock shows the right time twice a day.
Suyeon partially affirmed my question.
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