Chapter 250: Chu's Decision

/Star City.

Finney was still the official in charge here, and his appointment seemed to have lasted too long compared to his original life limit.

This was due to a federal law that during wartime, the lifespan of all federal citizens participating in the war would be frozen and not subject to federal lifespan regulations.

In other words, if you could live for 300 years, and at the age of 100, you participated in a war that lasted for 1,000 years, and if you didn't die in battle during this time, then when the war ended, you would still have 200 years of life left.

This was one of the federal incentive systems.

If you were lucky, you could live a few hundred or even a few thousand years longer. Some were old folks whose lifespan was about to end.

If it were in a lower civilization, they would definitely not accept these old men, but now the federal technology could keep the life in a youthful state before death, so there was no need to worry about the problem of old horses returning to the stable.

So even if you were about to die in a year, the Federation would still accept you.

In fact, they were more than willing to accept you.

Because as long as they promised some lifespan rewards on the battlefield, those who were about to die within a year after the war would definitely fight for it.

Compared to ordinary soldiers, officials' increased lifespan was much more meaningful. For example, Finney could use this time to do a lot of things, and the benefits he gained were also unequal to those of ordinary soldiers.

"Star City is now completely closed, and we can't get in."

"But through a series of actions, we can tell that Chu is going to counterattack."

A group of federal officials and scholars sat together in a cramped kilometer-class spaceship, each deep in thought, pondering what Star City would do next.

A large number of detection devices had already been set up hundreds of years ago, and every move of Star City could not escape their eyes, but it could not escape these detection devices.

"I think they might use Glory, to fight fire with fire."

The independent Glory could allow the Olive Branch civilization to break free from the grasp of the Gaius Glory. Then, if the Olive Branch civilization in other Star Cities were bathed in the light of the independent Glory, what would happen? Everyone present was very interested in this.

Oppepe was a sociologist and a woman. She thought this would be very difficult to achieve.

"The invasion of the Gaius Glory relied on the secret key and the socialist spirit of the Star City citizens, but the independent Glory does not have these."

"The reason why the independent Glory was able to influence the Gaius Glory in the past was entirely due to the forced nature of the simulated reality. If the independent Glory is used as a weapon, it can only indirectly and silently influence the Olive Branch civilization. This influence is insignificant compared to the deeply rooted Gaius Glory."

If Chu could think of this, then it would definitely not use the Glory weapon.

If the Glory weapon is ruled out, then no one could think of what Chu would use.

Star City still revealed too little to the Federation.

...

At this moment, inside Star City.

Chu was thinking about something new.

This idea came from the first federal life he encountered tens of thousands of years ago, a human named Yan Xia.

After Yan Xia left, Chu had been pondering over and over again how he had lost.

In the end, he discovered something very important.

Weakness can sometimes be strength, and strength can sometimes be weakness. In other words, sometimes you need to know how to soften up and not clench your fists when facing a strong opponent.

So during these years, Chu had only been doing one thing.

Betray the Federation!

It's not really a betrayal of the Federation, as the Federation itself is one of its threats, and it is the most unstable factor in its own civilization at this time.

What it needs to do is to make the first leader of the First Empire realize the threat of the Federation and start an attack on the Federation.

"Only then will I have a chance."

Chu felt that he could choose to retreat appropriately, and he looked at the independent tower, thinking about the plan.

After that, he called on all the citizens of Star City to once again enter the state of the Gaius Glory, and unlike the previous time when they were influenced, this time the state was more like the one from tens of thousands of years ago.

And Chu also became a part of it.

"Only in this way can the First Empire's leader truly be convinced that we have truly returned to normal."

When he said "normal," Chu let out a cold laugh.

He had come into contact with some virtual games in the Federation, which quoted some historical and cultural elements. He admired a guy named Han Xin, who was full of knowledge and strength, yet he could endure the humiliation of being under someone else for the sake of his long-term ambitions. He could even enter the shared consciousness cluster.

Yan Xia could guess that the First Empire's leader would send a new Manager to take office, so how could Chu not think of it?

So all these preparations were for the new Manager.

The waiting time would not be too long, just a few hundred years.

In fact, some time had already passed, and the next few hundred years could be used for the integration of the shared consciousness cluster.

The rule of the Olive Branch civilization was not that the Manager managed the shared consciousness cluster, but that the Manager corrected the shared consciousness cluster. So, fundamentally, the shared consciousness cluster was still the core.

With the independent tower, they could "wake up" at any time, which was the core guarantee of the plan.

370 years later.

A spaceship only 200 meters long arrived at Star City from deep space. It landed on the surface of Star City, and an Olive Branch civilization life form stepped out.

At this moment, she showed her identity.

"I am 8672804, your new Manager."

"How terrible."

8672804 was a string of numbers, and Chu's original name was also a string of numbers, 1932773. The Olive Branch civilization itself had no concept of names, and every Olive Branch civilization life form had a similar string of numbers, but it was not 7 digits, but 48 digits.

Looking at the remnants of the federal architecture on the surface of Star City, the new Manager was filled with disgust.

"This is a blatant invasion. As the report said, this Star City did not rebel on its own, but was polluted."

"Fortunately, the Gaius Glory corrected it, otherwise this pollution would have caused a new internal strife within the civilization."

"And the source of all this is... the Civilized Federation."

8672804 did not wait, and there was no preparation to declare Star City in a state of war.

"We will destroy the so-called Civilized Federation."

At this moment, a message came from the shared consciousness cluster: "The Civilized Federation is a civilization with a history of hundreds of thousands of years, and its civilization level is equivalent to ours. If we launch an attack on the Civilized Federation alone, it is very likely to lead to the destruction of Star City."

The Manager is a corrector, and she is not responsible for information gathering, so the information provided by the shared consciousness cluster is all she has.

8672804 was stunned by this information, "It seems I know too little about the Civilized Federation."

"But it's true that a civilization that can invade a Star City is definitely not a weak one."

"It seems we need to ask for support from other Star Cities. Such a strong civilization in our vicinity will surely become a cancer for the entire civilization and must be eliminated!"

A new war began.