Cutting-edge Technology: I Provide the Brains, the State Provides Everything

305: Revealing the truth about the universe: a new goal for human civilization!”What did you say?!”

In the conference room of the Supreme Command, Wang Peng (Fatty) sprang up from his chair with a ”whoosh,” his flesh trembling as the limited-edition nutrition paste in his hand fell to the floor.

”Brother Chen, you’re going to tell everyone that ’the universe is a fishbowl’?!”

Not just him, even the usually fearless Ye Qingcang showed a grave expression.

”Little Lu, this is no joking matter.”

Ye Qingcang said in a deep voice, ”Once this is announced, 99% of people’s worldviews will collapse on the spot. Panic, riots, the breakdown of faith... the entire Federation will be paralyzed instantly!”

”I object.”

A high-ranking civil official in charge of people’s livelihoods pushed up his glasses and said in a serious tone, ”We should keep the truth sealed at the top level, just as we have in the past. The people only need to enjoy the fruits of victory; they don’t need to bear this heavy burden.”

Arguments erupted throughout the conference room.

Only Lu Chen sat quietly in the main seat, his fingers rhythmically tapping the tabletop.

”Tap, tap, tap.”

The sound wasn’t loud, yet it was like a heavy hammer that instantly silenced the entire room.

Lu Chen slowly stood up, his gaze sweeping over everyone present.

There wasn’t a hint of hesitation in those chaotic-colored eyes, only steel-like resolve.

”Everyone, let me ask you a question.”

”When a flock of sheep discovers they’ve been living in a pen all along, with a slaughterhouse ahead and a pack of hungry wolves behind, what should they do?”

”Should they keep their heads down and graze, pretending they know nothing while waiting to be slaughtered?”

”Or should they show their horns and follow the lead ram to ram a hole through this damn pen?!”

Lu Chen’s voice grew louder, rolling like thunder and making everyone’s eardrums ring!

”The right to know!”

Lu Chen slammed his palm on the table. ”Everyone has the right to know where they are and what they are fighting for!”

”What I need is not a flock of sheep kept in the dark.”

”But an army that dares to swing its blades at the gods!”

”I trust them.”

”Just as they trust me unconditionally.”

Lu Chen turned around and ordered the air, ”heavenly craft, connect to a global... no, a galaxy-wide broadcast.”

”I want to speak to them personally.”

...Ten minutes later.

Earth, Mars, the mines in the Asteroid Belt, and the affiliated civilization planets at the other end of the Milky Way Galaxy... Every intelligent being, whether piloting a spaceship or eating hot pot, had the same image forcibly pop up before their eyes.

Lu Chen.

Still wearing that simple black trench coat, he stood on the bridge of the spaceship name, with the deep starry sky as his backdrop.

There was no impassioned prologue, no flowery rhetoric.

He just looked quietly into the camera, as if looking into everyone’s eyes.

”I am Lu Chen.”

”I know many of you have just finished an unprecedented celebration. We won; we are safe.”

”But I’m sorry, I have to tell you some bad news.”

”News that is... ten thousand times worse than ’the cleaners’.”

Lu Chen paused, giving everyone time to digest this.

Countless people held their breath.

”The universe we live in is fake.”

Boom!!!

These words were like a mental atomic bomb, exploding in the minds of tens of billions of people!

”We are like goldfish in a fishbowl, or lab rats in a laboratory.”

”There is a group of higher-dimensional beings calling themselves ’Supervisor’ watching us from ’outside’.”

”They set the rules, they trigger disasters, and they treat our survival as a boring game.”

Dead silence.

The entire Milky Way Galaxy fell into a deathly silence.

Panic?

Confusion?

Despair?

Yes.

But it only lasted for three seconds.

Because Lu Chen’s next words were like a fire that ignited the bloody nature in everyone’s bones!

”So what?”

Lu Chen suddenly laughed, laughing with incomparable arrogance and wildness.

”What of it?!”

”They are gods? They are creators?”

”Pah!”

Lu Chen pointed at the camera and roared word by word:

”Only we can decide our own fate!”

”They have their rules, and we have our fists!”

”They want to watch a show? Then we’ll put on a big one for them!”

”An annual blockbuster titled ’Overturning the Chessboard and Beating the Player’!”

Lu Chen spread his arms as if to embrace the entire universe.

Those chaotic-colored eyes burned with a flame sufficient to incinerate the heavens!