Chapter 203 - 202: Heaven’s Cycle, Karmic Retribution

Chapter 203: Chapter 202: Heaven’s Cycle, Karmic Retribution

"Accept foreign aid?"

Rian Sinclair repeated the female streamer’s words, letting out a disdainful scoff. "You think Veridia’s success is due to foreign aid?"

The female streamer shot back, "Is it not? The students who return from studying abroad, didn’t they learn foreign high-tech? They come back to build Veridia."

Rian chuckled upon hearing this. She couldn’t understand why a country’s success would be mistaken for foreign aid. Foreign countries couldn’t wait to suppress them; why would they turn around and help?

"Then I truly worry about your meager IQ and mourn for your teacher. It is her misfortune to have taught a student like you.

"Veridia’s success was entirely achieved through Veridia’s own gradual struggles. Veridia actively embraced high technology, encouraged domestic talent to innovate, proactively approached the masses, and understood the people’s difficulties and needs.

"The people of the entire nation united as one, which is how we built such a beautiful Veridia. Now, you stand on Veridian soil, sheltered by Veridia, yet your actions... are you being deliberately instructed by someone? Or are you a walking half-million bounty?"

Rian’s words drained the color from the female streamer’s face.

The viewers in the livestream naturally knew what "a walking half-million" meant. Veridia had established an organization where, if someone reported a spy and their identity was successfully verified, the informant would receive a reward of 500,000.

[WTF, this girl is so right! Looking back at her previous videos, she basically praised other countries while stepping on Veridia in all of them. So she’s a spy... that’s terrifying when you think about it!]

[Now that you mention it, her previous videos actually bordered on trashing Veridia.]

[I actually followed a spy streamer for so long?]

[I always felt something was off about this creator, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Hearing what this girl just said, it feels like my brain suddenly clicked into place.]

[We were being led by the nose before. Someone finally stepped up to cut the rope. Now that the filter is gone, I suddenly feel like this female streamer looks exactly like a Sakuran idiot.]

The female streamer’s assistant frantically signaled her with his eyes because the barrage of comments in the livestream was becoming impossible to suppress.

Catching her assistant’s pleading gaze, the female streamer suddenly remembered a certain incident from before and slapped on another smile.

"You really love to joke, miss. There was someone known as Miss Innocent before. I wonder if you know of her?"

Hearing the moniker "Miss Innocent," Rian paused for a moment, her gaze filling with scrutiny as she looked at the female streamer.

After all, to her, this felt exactly like someone asking Mark Twain if he knew Samuel Clemens. She hadn’t expected this female streamer to know about Miss Innocent. But didn’t she think Rian looked a bit like this "Miss Innocent"?

"I do. What about it?"

The female streamer’s lips curled up slightly upon hearing this. It seemed someone had taken the bait. She continued, "Miss Innocent is famous for tipping male streamers, and throwing around immense wealth is practically her trademark. But would someone really be willing to spend hundreds of millions on strangers?"

Hearing the streamer’s question, Rian coughed lightly and didn’t reply. Back then, she had purely been in it for the cashback rewards—of course, the higher the tips, the better.

As she acquired more businesses later on, she hadn’t gone on such crazy tipping sprees, though she still tipped. It was just that her target demographic shifted from handsome men to girls she had a good impression of.

Because of this, Rian’s actions left everyone utterly bewildered. They had initially thought Miss Innocent was just a woman who loved looking at handsome men, never expecting her to be interested in beautiful women as well.

Later, after Rian acquired shares in Sharkstream, a portion of the money she tipped would be converted into dividends and return to her own pockets. Her appearances gradually decreased.

But the female streamer’s focus clearly wasn’t on this. She pressed on.

"Later on, Miss Innocent built a company. Then, to help fans perfectly realize their star-chasing dreams, she launched a talent-show variety program completely free of corporate backing. It undoubtedly became a massive hit, but was there truly no corporate intervention?"

Rian felt genuinely helpless. What was this female streamer trying to do? The person standing in front of her seemed to lack a few brain cells.

Whether there was corporate intervention or not was something the spectating fans definitely knew. After all, the person who debuted in the center position came from an impoverished background and was voted to the top purely by fans grinding the leaderboards every single day.

There were many others like him, so Rian wasn’t about to explain too much. However, seeing that the female streamer’s main point wasn’t this either, what was the purpose behind all this buildup?

Was she holding back her Ultimate? Did she want to stun her with those previous questions, then unleash an Ultimate to finish Rian off?

Rian was very smart, and that was exactly the female streamer’s intention.

She watched as the streamer slowly delivered her final Ultimate.

"Not long ago, however, Miss Innocent went to the Sakuran Nation and privately bombed their shrine. This excessively aggressive act caused misunderstandings among some foreign countries.

"But does one person really have the ability to fight against a nation? Numerous Sakuran reporters have been demanding a reason. Miss Innocent’s actions have also led to the Sakurans refusing to export high technology to us. Will this be misunderstood by outsiders?"

Hearing this, Rian scrutinized the female streamer, whose face was adorned with a radiant, exceedingly polite smile. What a pretentious act. Rian’s lips curled up slightly.

So this was the Ultimate she had been holding back.

"Did it? Caused misunderstandings? What misunderstandings?"

Rian fired off three consecutive questions, throwing the issue right back in the female streamer’s face.

The female streamer did have professional competence; it was just applied in the wrong place. She had definitely thought of a fallback when saying this.

"Miss Innocent bringing people to dynamite a symbolic Sakuran landmark for no reason—doesn’t that look like she’s looking down on the Sakurans in the eyes of outsiders?

"As a Veridian, isn’t Miss Innocent harming Veridia’s ongoing development?"

Quite a few people had gathered around Rian and the female streamer, and they now focused their attention on the two women.

Rian smiled faintly. "If the shrine bombing was truly without reason, then the Sakurans definitely would have intervened to stop it. But they didn’t, which means the Sakurans allowed it to happen. Therefore, it doesn’t represent a call to war. It’s nothing more than a private grudge.

"Furthermore, the way I see this incident, I can only say Miss Innocent did a beautiful job. If you really want a reason, it boils down to one sentence.

"What goes around comes around; it’s simply karmic retribution."

Rian’s eyes burned brightly. Her speech prompted the crowd to applaud in admiration, and the livestream comments exploded with praises of how badass she was!

The female streamer never expected her to speak with such finality, but she knew she couldn’t back down. With this response recorded, the Sakurans would definitely give her the utmost respect!

Her brain working in overdrive, the female streamer continued, "Weren’t these misunderstandings caused because Miss Innocent made the wrong move first?"

Listening to the female streamer’s words and looking at the walking half-million bounty standing right in front of her, Rian was genuinely tempted.

"If you think that way, it means you only have a one-sided understanding. You don’t know the cause and effect, and you’re unilaterally assuming that Miss Innocent’s actions caused these adverse effects."