Chapter 108: Initiative, Yan Xia's Sword

In the dark, square space, a naked man curled up, with steel wires extending from his body to support the space around him.

The naked man slowly opened his eyes.

"I should have been captured by now."

"But Chu won't kill me. Instead, he'llsection me in a place, because what he truly wants is not just Star City, nor just the Silk Civilization, but also the Civilization Federation."

This is the fundamental reason why Chu sent messengers to contact the Civilization Federation.

The Olive Branch Civilization is undeniably powerful.

But the Olive Branch Civilization is also very fragile, because its structure is so simple that it's appalling. There are only two consciousnesses in Star City, the manager and the others.

As an individual outside the shared consciousness cluster, Chu is well aware of the shortcomings of the shared consciousness cluster, or the shortcomings of Gauss's Glory.

Gauss's Glory has indeed created a civilization that is almost free from internal strife. Even the so-called internal strife initiated by Yan Xia over the past few thousand years has not resulted in a single death in the Olive Branch Civilization. Gauss's Glory is successful.

But it has created a problem, and this problem is the reason for the existence of the manager.

This is one of the messages Yan Xia conveyed to the Changer.

- Solidification.

The Olive Branch Civilization is too easily solidified and lacks diversity.

The formation of Star City is almost like a process of stacking building blocks, and the strength of the Olive Branch Civilization comes from the first leader. Today, the life form of the Olive Branch Civilization was established at that time.

Yan Xia doesn't know how many years ago that was, but it must have been at least tens of thousands of years ago.

In other words, the Olive Branch Civilization has been living off its past glory for tens of thousands of years.

This living off past glory doesn't mean they've been stagnant all this time. If that were the case, they should have identified the problem and started correcting it long ago. The real problem is that they've been too stable, always walking.

Walking is good, but it limits their ability to run.

One of the core changes the Changer wants to make is to rotate different managers to achieve civilized contradiction, which will destroy the integrity of the shared consciousness cluster but will indeed lead the Olive Branch Civilization to run.

This is one of the reasons why the Changer never discovered Yan Xia, because this change has indeed allowed the Olive Branch Civilization to achieve a certain degree of progress, or liberation.

So they never guessed that Yan Xia was working against them.

Chu, too, is a Changer who wants to change, and the reason he stepped forward is simply because he is the Changer's primary target, and the other is a problem that only he, as the manager, can see clearly after this change is completed.

If the Changer leader remains in the shared consciousness cluster, the Olive Branch Civilization will regress from 2 to 1.

If the Changer leader doesn't remain in the shared consciousness cluster, will the Changer leader who has tasted "freedom" really want to return to the shared consciousness cluster?

At least he doesn't want to, he finds it disgusting.

Regardless of the outcome, although the ending will be very beautiful, the Olive Branch Civilization is trying to run again, but the process is unsteady and unstable, and this instability will give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage.

The tentacles of the Civilization Federation have already reached a place just 8 light-years away from Star City along the so-called Cosmic Silk Road, and the Civilization Federation is waiting for this moment.

This is Yan Xia's plan.

From the very beginning, Chu has been very clear about these plans, and what Yan Xia sees is what he sees.

Solidification has caused the Olive Branch Civilization to decline, and it needs external influence to change the internal workings of Star City.

So he formulated a series of plans.

Yan Xia's arrival in Star City will inevitably cause unrest, and even if Yan Xia can endure it, Chu will make him go and cause internal strife, completing the changes he wants.

And after taking control of Star City, Chu will take control of the Civilization Federation.

Everything Chu has done so far is just to expand his power, and the Olive Branch Civilization or the Civilization Federation's 2 is still 2. In reality, there has been no change within the civilization, only the power has shifted from a solidified group to a solidified individual.

To break this stalemate, the Olive Branch Civilization must seize the running Civilization Federation.

Compared to the Olive Branch Civilization, the Civilization Federation is like a wild horse running freely on the prairie after shedding its limbs. If the Olive Branch Civilization integrates into the Civilization Federation, or to use a more violent term, rules the Civilization Federation, then it can ride this wild horse and accelerate.

And the one who makes the Olive Branch Civilization run again will become the third leader of the Olive Branch Civilization.

This plan is almost perfect, because the Civilization Federation has no power to fight back against the Olive Branch Civilization, and Yan Xia is just a tool.

However, unexpectedly, what made Chu very angry was the Holy Grail Plan.

The emergence of the Holy Grail Plan made Chu have to consider whether this plan exists, and he couldn't prove it, he could only determine the existence of the Holy Grail Plan based on the existing evidence, the Quick Child Communication.

And the core of the Holy Grail Plan is not just the Silk Civilization, but also the powerful civilization in the Silver Heart.

That powerful civilization doesn't need a super powerful follower that can threaten them, it just needs a weak follower, so it chose the Civilization Federation and the Silk Civilization, not the Olive Branch Civilization.

The Holy Grail Plan, combined with the Civilization Federation's eagerness to launch a war against the Silk Civilization, made Chu have to make a choice.

This choice is naturally not to follow one side and become a follower, after all, the Olive Branch Civilization is too strong.

So as a powerful civilization, they actually only have one choice, which is to take the technology of the Civilization Federation and the Silk Civilization and develop themselves, so that they can at least resist or escape when the Silver Heart civilization "cleans up" the galaxy.

This is why Chu agreed to launch the war, and when Yan Xia was discussing it, he used this as bait.

The formation of the three-party relationship made Chu unable to target the Civilization Federation at any time, not just because of the Holy Grail Plan, but also to delay, and to deal with the Civilization Federation together with the more powerful Silk Civilization, and then to find a way to solve the Civilization Federation.

This is the purpose of the Holy Grail Plan that Yan Xia formulated at the beginning.

'The purpose of this plan is not to get the other party to really participate, but to disrupt their rhythm and take back the initiative.' Yan Xia still remembers this sentence from thousands of years ago, when Ella first talked about the Holy Grail Plan.

And now, he has undoubtedly accomplished it.

The initiative that has been fought for over thousands of years is just this.

Chu doesn't kill him, which is a manifestation of his control over this initiative.

"I should take action now, there is a difference between the clone and the main body."

"Chu has mastered the Olive Branch Civilization, this is progress, and it is Chu's first step in making Star City run."

"But if you walk for a long time, you will get used to running and you will fall."

"Compared to the shared consciousness cluster that can optimize itself, the manager is more prone to making mistakes and being misled."

"Chu, because of his power, will cover up the mistakes he makes, but now every mistake he makes will have a fatal impact on Star City."

In fact, there is no difference between the current situation and Yan Xia's previous imagination of the Star City class model, but the previous Yan Xia, in his passivity, only affected the Changer, and now he has become the active party.

Yan Xia decided to truly raise his long sword and pierce the fragile body of the Olive Branch Civilization.