Ruins of the past

Looking at Qiao Zhi and the others in front of her, Jiaojiao said in surprise: "Huh? Shouldn't you be in the Aberration Empire? Why are you back in the Federation?"

Qiao Zhi snorted and said: "Of course it's because there is an extremely important task that I need to complete. This matter is related to the safety of all realms and the balance of the universe, which is much more important than your side."

Ignoring Jiaojiao's curious expression, Qiao Zhi continued: "Originally, I didn't intend to care about you, but who told you that you guys are stuck on that planet and can't get out. Alas, for the sake of the same big man Come on, I'll let Lao Qian come forward and fish you out."

Li Yaofeng explained on the side: "Actually, the main reason is to use your saint clone. When we found that you were being held there, we asked Qian Wangsun to arrange for you to come out."

Qiao Zhi couldn't help but said: "Li Yaofeng! Didn't I tell you not to reveal the contents of the mission to them?"

Zidian Tianjun couldn't help but said: "But what about the federal isolation policy? The location information and testing information of each of us should be recorded in the database. If you arrange for us to come out like this, won't the federation respond?"

Qian Wangsun glanced at the other party and said calmly: "You don't have to worry about this. I have the permission to modify the database. Now if someone queries your location, they will find that you are still there."

Zidian Tianjun frowned and said: "Wouldn't it be a violation of the federal policy for you to do this? With the technical strength of the federation, wouldn't it be possible to detect traces of you modifying the data? What if our actions were discovered by the federal integrity department? , isn’t it going to be on the federal blacklist?”

Hearing this, Qian Wangsun was slightly startled, and Jiaojiao on the side smiled and said: "This is a staunch supporter of the federal system. I don't believe you can operate in such violation of regulations within the federation."

Qian Wangsun nodded, a glimmer of understanding seemed to flash in his eyes, and he explained calmly: "Those who dare to check me have no authority to check me. Those who have permission to check me will not touch me yet."

This explanation obviously did not satisfy Zidian Tianjun, but without giving her time to continue asking questions, Qian Wangsun had already led a group of people to areas deep in the Federation.

Along the way, they followed Qian Wangsun and passed all the checkpoints, feeling like they were in a deserted place among the stars.

At the same time, they also learned a lot of information about the known universe through the federal intranet that Qian Wangsun was connected to.

"The long-term federal blockade in Tianshu Civilization has caused prices to skyrocket..."

"The Sandong Sect lacked supplies due to the long-term federal blockade. People broke through the barriers many times, causing the further spread of demon dye..."

"On many border planets in the Federation, incoming people gather in unreasonable groups, the magic dye detection fails, and the source of the spread is still unknown..."

"Major federal companies have begun massive layoffs due to supply chain disruptions due to the impact of the blockade, and a large number of materials have been auctioned at low prices..."

"Many federal monitoring points in the Silver Star Civilization were exposed for fraudulent testing, and normal mortals and aberrants were imprisoned together..."

"A large number of aberrations were released by unknown forces, and a new round of void disaster broke out in more than twenty civilizations..."

"In order to suppress the spread of the void disaster in all the worlds, the Federation has entered a new round of strict control and announced the suspension of blockade management mode for 12,422 civilizations, countries, sects, and regions..."

Seeing the shocking news one by one, everyone felt a sense of shock. Now the speed of the spread of demon dye in the world is far beyond their expectations.

Under federal management, the current situation in each place shocked them even more.

Difficulties in material supply, sky-high food prices, chaotic testing, multiple blockades ineffective, inability to maintain order in all realms, large-scale aberrations and mortals gathering, and all means of faster-than-light transportation being disconnected...

There was also the long-term lack of response from the top of the federation. As the federation’s highest combat power and the federation’s strongest means of intervening in the material universe, the Twelve Immortal Yuxu still failed to take action to quell the disaster...

Various phenomena triggered the outbreak of various conflicts, leaving everyone stunned.

"How is this possible..." Zidian Tianjun looked at the messages in these internal networks and said in disbelief: "Are these messages absolutely true? Why can't I see any relevant information in the usual quantum network?"

Qian Wangsun said calmly: "These real information have been deleted and can only be seen on the intranet, because the Supreme Council believes that these information are not conducive to the Federation's current leadership position in the heavens."

Zidian Tianjun frowned and said: "This kind of thing... is impossible. All affairs in the federation must be decided by referendum. Why is there no news about such a big matter as the intranet and blocking information?"

"Furthermore, all high-level officials in the federation have undergone consciousness transformation. They are all people of noble character and selfless dedication. Why did they make such a decision?"

Qian Wangsun chuckled, glanced at her, and said slowly: "Do you think a civilized leader must be good if he has high moral character, no character flaws, and no evil in his heart? "

He shook his head and sighed: "The Federation is not as good as you think. Even the top leaders of the Federation have had huge problems and conflicts. This is why I travel around the world to find solutions."

"How is it possible..." Zidian Tianjun looked at the messages that kept popping up on the intranet, and fell into deep doubts in his heart.

In the following months, during their journey to the depths of the Federation, the group of people avoided all federal surveillance under the arrangement of Qian Wangsun, while continuing to observe the situation in the world on the intranet. .

In Xuyuan, Taishang Tianzun gradually gained the upper hand in the battle with the Taoist ancestors.

Two Taoist ancestors were killed on the spot one after another, and their bodies and spirits were destroyed. Three more Taoist ancestors were suppressed one after another and sealed in the Luotian Realm of Taishang Tianzun.

However, the war is still going on, and the remaining Dao Ancestors have begun to resist desperately. The entire Xuyuan has also seen a surge in demon stains and chaos in time and space due to the increasing intensity of the fighting between the two sides.

At the same time, the heaven was out of order, and the immortals and gods were working on their own. In this chaotic period, they desperately squeezed wealth and fled, causing chaos in all the major worlds under the rule of Xudao Palace.

In the Aberration Empire, the inflation originally caused by the issuance of large amounts of currency was temporarily alleviated by the debt, and Wuji's reputation in the Aberration Empire skyrocketed again.

However, because the demon-contaminated disasters in the world have become more and more serious, many civilizations led by the Federation have begun to impose blockades and even sanctions on the Aberrant Empire. The relationship that the All-Heaven Alliance had originally eased between the Aberrant Empire and many civilizations has become tense again. .

At the same time, with the continuous development of individualized thinking and the deepening of individual desires within the aberration empire, a variety of different trends of thought began to appear in the thinking network.

Some people advocate that aberrations should be respected, believing that aberrations are the most superior race in the universe, and that all intelligent life in the universe should be transformed into aberrations.

There are also those who advocate that the aberrations should be integrated into the universe and make the aberrations more secular.

Even the most extreme and minority ones advocate that the aberrant empire should be disbanded and that life would be better if the country is handed over to federal rule...

However, as the situation outside the world gradually became tense and the spread of demonic contamination raged, the hostility of the people in major civilizations towards aberrations increased day by day, and the hostility towards major civilizations within the aberration empire also continued to grow.

Multiple civilizations sent troops to guard the border of the Abnormal Empire, and even three of the Federation's Yuxu Immortal Heads appeared to block the border between the Federation and the Abnormal Empire, confronting hundreds of Abnormal Gods from the Empire. The situation seemed to have changed. Got to become more and more nervous.

But compared to the possible war between the Aberrant Empire and the Federation, what will affect the world more is the further raging of demon dye and the various chaos under the management of the Federation. This chaos has even reached the point where the information control of the quantum network has become increasingly complicated. It becomes increasingly difficult to suppress.

Alien officials who resell controlled materials...

The colonial fleet that treated the indigenous people as aberrations and launched a mass murder...

Actively releasing aberrations and taking over other countries' advanced civilizations in the name of preventing demon contamination...

With the fight between Chu Qiguang and Ji Wufan, the three major forces including the Xu Dao Palace, the Aberration Empire, and the Federation were in disorder one after another. With the high spread of demon dye under the operation of Heavenly Dao, the entire known universe seemed to be gradually falling into chaos. In the midst of the storm...

At this moment, on Qian Wangsun's spaceship, Zidian Tianjun looked at the various bad situations displayed on the intranet and sighed softly:

"Even the Federation has become so rotten..."

As the force with the largest territory, the largest population, and the most subordinate civilizations among the three major forces, the Federation's chaos and various inactions in the face of the spread of demon dye directly led to the chaos of a large number of subordinate civilizations, and then triggered the known events. More chaos on a cosmic scale.

But what makes Zidian Tianjun even more unacceptable is that according to various intelligence she saw on the intranet, there are people at the top of the federation who are deliberately spreading demon contamination, concealing test results, harvesting wealth, invading other worlds... and concealing the truth. The truth, fooling the people, and killing loyal people.

This was so different from the Federation she knew in the past. The nearly perfect civilized system that she had originally thought collapsed within a few months.

Although Jiaojiao also knew that there was definitely some kind of problem within the federation, the past few months had opened her eyes. She didn't expect that the federation's problems were so serious.

She shook her head and sighed: "Looking at it these days, the problems exposed by the Federation are similar to those of most intelligent civilizations in the universe."

She turned her head to look at Qian Wangsun and asked curiously: "But why did the Federation become like this after having such a system? What went wrong?"

Qian Wangsun said casually: "There are no perfect people in this world, let alone a perfect system. The same is true for the Federation."

"Consciousness transformation, so that all middle and high-level people have noble moral qualities and excellent characters, may sound good, but it has major flaws."

"Just like foreign wars. Do you think that when fighting a war, kindness, compassion, honesty, keeping promises...these are the qualities that are considered 'good' in public perception. Are they really good?"

"Some qualities that are considered excellent by the public can sometimes become a huge flaw, even leading to huge losses in war."

"And cruelty, cold-bloodedness, selfishness...many of the characters that are considered 'evil' are not without merit, and we cannot live without them as a race."

"In order to solve this problem, someone revised the requirements of the consciousness algorithm and added some controllable additions in the direction of killing, violence, intimidation, cold-bloodedness, cruelty, etc."

"Then there are foreign trade, financial investment, diplomatic means, and various policies towards alien immigrants..."

"In the development of civilization, too many fields require methods other than truth, goodness and beauty. As the transformation of consciousness algorithms relaxes in this regard, a secret organization called the Humanity Faction was born among the top leaders of the Federation."

"Most of the members of this organization originate from management who relaxed some of the dark sides of human nature due to work needs during their consciousness transformation."

"They believe that the federation's consciousness transformation is too single. Human beings who lack the dark side can no longer be called complete human beings. It is an evolutionary failure and will gradually lose their competitiveness in the universe."

"So they began to secretly pry the foundation of the consciousness algorithm bit by bit, penetrate higher-level governance, and cultivate more members with the dark side of human nature."

"In order to continue the legacy of the Humanity Faction, they gradually added more lies, self-protection, and concealment into their consciousness algorithms..."

"As the consciousness transformation continues to deepen, they will naturally become less and less different from the people in the past. Even because of the consciousness transformation they secretly carried out, some of them have become more serious about the dark side of human nature than before."

"For hundreds of years, they have been growing silently in secret, and the superficial system of the Federation has become their best cover. When this problem was discovered, how many members of the Humanity Faction were there among the middle and senior levels of the Federation? It’s already hard to estimate…”

"You can probably guess what happens next."

"When the dark sides of human nature return to the hearts of management one after another, greed, selfishness, hypocrisy, cunning...all kinds of traits also gradually come back."

"Then there are those stories that are the same and that humans can't come up with after endless rounds."

"In the bureaucracy, from top to bottom, hard-working activists will always fall due to failure. The longer time goes by, the smaller their number will be. On the contrary, the bastards who do not seek merit but seek no faults will always fall over time. More and more time passes, and as time goes by... the whole system will fall into a kind of inertia..."

“With the top-down control of the entire civilization from top to bottom, officials are able to use their jurisdiction and the ambiguity of the law to harm people reasonably and lawfully, bankrupting their families or imprisoning them for ten or eight years... …”

"The corruption within the Federation is nothing more than this..."

Qian Wangsun smiled bitterly: "Human beings are like this. As long as they don't seek change, they will always get worse and worse as time goes by."

Listening to Qian Wangsun's explanation, Qiao Zhi wondered: "But... the Federation is not an ordinary advanced civilization. The Federation has the support of that saint, how could it let the situation get so bad?"

Everyone knows that what Qiao Zhi is talking about is Yuanshi Tianzun, the man who is also called Zhou Bai by those who are familiar with him. Together with Chu Qiguang and Taishang Tianzun, he is known as the Three Saints of the Heavens and has now established the Alliance of the Heavens. of high-level existence.

Qian Wangsun sighed again, his eyes revealing endless vicissitudes: "For a long time, we lost contact with Him, so I have been trying to find His traces, hoping that He can return The Federation is back in charge."

"Even now, although He has come back, he has only come back to a small part, and there are more than one."

As he spoke, Qian Wangsun spread his fingers and a large number of projections appeared in front of everyone. This was further secret information from within the Federation: "The current chaos in the Federation is not only due to the evil deeds of the Humanity Faction."

"It is also because of the Humanity Faction and Him (Zhou Bai) behind them, as well as the high-level officials I represent and Him (Zhou Bai) behind them, and your saint (Chu Qiguang), there has been an ongoing dispute between the two of us. A complex struggle for control of the federation."

Jiaojiao, Qiao Zhi and others suddenly understood that the current federation was composed of the Humanity Faction and Qian Wangsun... There was the shadow of Yuanshi Tianzun behind both sides, and then Ji Wufan and Chu Qiguang intervened. It's strange that this isn't messy.

"The reason why the intranet can continue to reveal this information is that someone is constantly cleaning them up."

"And as long as 'His' true identity is found and 'He' comes back to take charge of the overall situation, it will definitely be able to completely change the situation of the Federation."

Zidian Tianjun sighed: "So what if it is changed? There have been so many intelligent civilizations throughout the ages, even if they are like the Federation, haven't they been completely ruined in the end?"

"Even three saints cannot create a truly perfect civilization..."

Jiaojiao said: "Okay, don't act like a fool who is completely disappointed with human nature. You, the Heavenly Lord, have really stayed in the heaven for too long and become unpopular. The perfect civilization in your imagination does not exist in the first place. "

“Intelligent civilization is originally a process of tossing and struggling, maintaining diversity and possibility before being forced to keep moving forward.”

"There will always be people who want to destroy things, and there will always be people who want to reform. This is the real world..."

While several people were discussing, Qian Wangsun's spaceship shook slightly. He took a deep breath and said, "We're here."

At the same time, the smaller doll in Jiaojiao's arms suddenly opened its eyes, and the light in its eyes flashed away, and a sacred idea had awakened in it.

Jiaojiao said in surprise: "Brother! Are you here?"

Everyone also looked over, with either surprise, nervousness, or reverence in their eyes...

Chu Qiguang said slowly: "Hurry up and start. This guy has been absent from work for so long that I have been working for him for the past two years. He is really the best person in the universe... I want to see what he is doing." playing what."