Chapter 1509 - 491: What Should We Do? Only the King of the Great West

Chapter 1509: Chapter 491: What Should We Do? Only the King of the Great West

It was a video, seemingly captured by someone using a prosthetic eye or a drone-like device, with the time displayed at the top right corner.

[May 11, 2067, 23:57]

Since the video was shot late at night, the footage was very dark, but with the light from the torches, it was still possible to make out a group of people in red robes gathered around a statue, chanting something, although the surrounding loud hymns made it hard to hear clearly.

The statue was the giant owl that Brother Ni and his team had seen, the scene was exactly the same.

Halfway through the video, the prayers finally ended, and the leading robed figure raised the torch in his hand and threw it into the altar stone plate, igniting a raging fire, with a huge cheer erupting from the people around.

If it was just this, it wouldn’t mean much, it looked just like a regular religious stage play.

But everyone heard it, amid the cheer was a piercing scream, if you listen carefully you can hear it, players are more than familiar with human screams, this wasn’t a scream from torture or murder, but a painful wail being engulfed by flames.

But the people around seemed unaware, or perhaps they already knew, which is why they cheered loudly, even using this collective will to counteract the guilt from live human sacrifice.

"Damn it..."

Ruzuo gasped.

"I’m begging you, indulge in some feudalism, what does indulging in slavery-era live sacrifices mean?"

"Wake up, my dear friend, Tokyo University officially and privately rid itself of human sacrifices during the Qing Dynasty. Before that, there was a period in the Ming Dynasty where palace maid sacrifices happened, so guess when the West truly abolished human sacrifices."

New Dynasty Elegance sneered.

"In Genesis Chapter 22, God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, born in his hundredth year. Abraham faced this divine command without a moment of hesitation, he placed his son on the altar to be killed with a knife. Of course, God eventually stopped Abraham, but this was not because human sacrifice was immoral, it was to prove Abraham’s unconditional loyalty to God, so God mercifully spared this sacrifice."

Whether religion exists or not, good people will do good, and bad people will do evil.

But how do you make good people do evil?

By using religion.

Don’t think, just believe, believe in me and live, don’t believe in me and die.

If you’re told to sacrifice, you sacrifice, even if it’s your own son, you sacrifice. Don’t think of anything else, now is the time to prove your loyalty to God.

Reward?

Is there a reward better than loyalty?

Officially, in the East human sacrifice was banned during the Han Dynasty, and in the West, it was banned with late Christian Rome.

But remember, after the Han Dynasty, the East experienced the cannibalism rampant during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the West underwent a long dark medieval period.

So human sacrifices never truly disappeared, continuing in various underground ways in the folk. The difference is that in the East, the upper class genuinely wouldn’t entertain human sacrifices, unlike the brief palace maid sacrifices in the Ming Dynasty, which were quickly forcibly prohibited by everyone. You might despise the timid Confucians of Ming and Qing, but don’t dismiss their resistance to the sacrificial practices.

This group truly would sacrifice themselves in protest over such matters, colliding with pillars in the halls to death, which among Confucians was absolute political correctness. And if the upper classes engaged in such actions, the lower classes would genuinely flip the table and kill their entire family, only areas in the plateaus and mountains, where rulers are far, might escape their control.

While the Western upper class was in collusion, every recorded peasant uprising was dissipated by them in various ways.

Victoria’s selection of white-feathered people was just a joke on you.

Now you know why Europe and America and the baldy folks hit it off so well upon meeting?

It’s because they’re peers. If only they’d said so earlier!

So come, let’s perform rituals and chant scriptures together, counter this evil Old Zhong, defeat this vile Slave Empire, let the world belong to us merchants!

Besides this video, Jackal continued to gather more and more data fragments from around the data fortress by making inquiries.

There was surveillance footage, personnel registry records, and conversation recordings.

These things seemed ordinary enough, but just the identities of the people in the videos and recordings showing up there was already a big issue.

"If this is leaked, it might rival the APST case in scope."

Brother Ni couldn’t help but curse.

"Westerners are really a bunch of unimaginably naive new-borns."

Realizing he had perhaps inadvertently insulted a comrade, he quickly apologized to Li De.

"Sorry, I didn’t mean you."

"No problem, it’s understandable."

Despite his words, Li De’s face darkened, there were simply too many familiar faces, from the current Intelligence Bureau director to Military Science CEO Lucas, enough people for Comrade Mustache to use for a purge list.

Even Elizabeth Cress, viewed as the pillar of New America, and former tough guy President Donald Rendi were among them.

However... business is business, private virtue is private virtue, it’s understandable but not acceptable!

The key is, with all these people involved, can Miles really escape?

Just thinking about how many people are entangled in this has Li De’s hands and feet going cold, even considering stopping and quitting this investigation.

"It’s definitely bigger than the Epstein case."

Ruzuo chimed in.

"After all, in 2025, the United States was still the world’s number one, plenty of places to divert topics and hotspots, at worst take out some small country’s president again, but what can New American Federation do?"

Before the Cuba War, New America was seated with Mexico and Thailand at the children’s table.

Even though they won against Europe’s expeditionary army in the Cuba War, that was Horizon Corporation’s doing, how much did it have to do with you pests?

So what can they do to redirect the public’s focus?

This is no longer the problem of a few individuals, the entire New America has been completely torn apart by this incident.

Especially now with Europe and America completely falling out, who will come to cover for these people?

Even players can foresee this.

"Who cares, it’s got nothing to do with us."

Brother Ni snorted coldly.

"For every cause, there will be an effect, this is your retribution, bear the consequences of your actions yourself, why should the common people suffer for the nonsense of ’considering the bigger picture’?"

"Why should they?

If it really is for the bigger picture it’s fine, but whose bigger picture is it? Is it the bigger picture of these wealthy New Americans or the bigger picture of all Americans? Hidden away, they’ll only keep singing and dancing without restraint."

He mimicked drawing a knife, swinging vigorously.

"How to handle it? Only by killing! Kill the people on the island, kill those going to the island, kill until brightness and clarity reign! Kill until the seas and rivers are calm!"

Li De: "...."

He was convinced.

What was said wasn’t wrong, why should New American citizens bear the bigger picture for these rich people’s sake?

Yes, revealing this incident will evoke a national upheaval, even inflicting a second rupture on the newly stitched New American Federation. Li De used to hypnotize himself with this thought, but now he’s also seeing hope for renewal in this country.

Only by completely disintegrating the entire nation, clearing the remaining poison from every corner, can we exchange tranquility for every individual in this new world.

As for external threats from other countries, with Horizon Corporation’s reputation for decisively defeating Europe, they won’t act recklessly for the time being, now is actually the best time to resolve this matter.

Therefore.... use explosive fists against them.

Li De tried to control the hardware, collaborated with Jackal to drill a discreet loophole bug in the data fortress’s firewall, then stealthily replaced the data.

"Your identities are ready, using the identities of some Washington State legislators, categorized as secondary members in the archives, I’ll send you the information immediately, but this will only pass electronic scans, won’t work with people who know you, so avoid personal contact as much as possible."

The few players long hidden in the woods were waiting for Li De’s words before daring to head down the mountain.