223: The wall of Aegis fell silently!

Above the high walls, the pale blue energy shield, stretching for hundreds of miles, vanished in that instant like morning mist illuminated by the sun, silently annihilated.

Immediately after, the incredibly precise energy conduction lines within rows of menacing electromagnetic railgun turrets were instantly incinerated by an incomprehensible force at the same moment.

The indicator lights on the turrets extinguished one after another, and within a mere three seconds, this steel behemoth was completely reduced to a pile of cold, useless scrap metal.

The entire defense line was completely paralyzed.

“What’s going on? Report the situation!”

The highest commander stationed there, General Wang Haifeng, a decorated veteran Grandmaster, felt that deadly silence the moment the energy shield disappeared.

His roar echoed through the communication channel, but he only received a buzzing static.

Without the slightest hesitation, his figure blurred into an afterimage, leaping directly from the hundred-meter-tall command tower, plummeting like a cannonball towards the central energy hub.

The thick door, crafted from special alloy and capable of withstanding a direct missile hit, had now melted like a candle, twisted and deformed by the intense heat.

Wang Haifeng kicked it open, and a strange smell, a mix of char and blood, assailed him.

When he saw the scene inside, this old general, who had never so much as frowned in mountains of corpses and seas of blood, felt his pupils suddenly constrict.

Inside the hub, all the guards and engineers lay on the ground, bleeding from their seven orifices, long since lifeless.

And before the completely destroyed energy core, still emitting black smoke, a man stood quietly.

It was his adjutant, Zhang Yuan.

A man who had followed him for fifteen years, blocked three fatal attacks for him, and whom he regarded as a son or nephew.

At Zhang Yuan’s feet, a distorted symbol of a giant eye was drawn with some strange concoction of blood and energy powder.

“Zhang Yuan!”

“What have you done?”

Zhang Yuan slowly turned around, still smiling eerily.

“General, I haven’t done anything.”

“I merely cleared away some insignificant obstacles, hindering the footsteps of the gods, for the coming Great Purification.”

“What in the hell is this purification you speak of?”

Wang Haifeng’s Protective Aura erupted uncontrollably, and the remnants of the entire hub trembled under his wrath.

“You will see very soon, General.”

Zhang Yuan spread his arms: “When the God of the Abyss opens Its eyes, Its wrath will cleanse all the filth in this world.”

“All struggles, all resistance, are merely prolonging our suffering as mistakes.”

“Only by embracing oblivion and returning to nothingness is our sole and ultimate salvation.”

As his words fell, his body began to shrivel rapidly in an unnatural way.

Finally, he transformed into a mummified corpse tightly wrapped around a skeleton, collapsing to the ground with a thud.

On his face, that eerie smile still remained.

Wang Haifeng stood stunned, a chill more biting than facing an Abyssal Demon Whale shot from the deepest part of his spine straight to the top of his head.

This terrified him more than any powerful enemy.

Because this power came from within.

Almost simultaneously, similar suicidal sacrificial attacks, initiated by internal key personnel, occurred in dozens of important military facilities, top-tier scientific research institutions, and strategic material warehouses within the Federation’s borders... In Xinghui City, at the Supreme Council Hall.

Only twelve hours had passed since the meeting that would determine humanity’s fate.

But the atmosphere in the Council Hall was even more oppressive than last time, so oppressive it felt as if poison could drip from the air.

On the huge holographic screen, reports of attacks from various locations were playing in a loop.

Destroyed defensive positions, blazing armories, the Shennong Gene Seed Bank—a symbol of humanity’s agricultural future—burned to ashes; each image was like a heavy punch, striking everyone’s faces.

“According to preliminary statistics, in the past twelve hours, the energy Systems of seventeen of our coastal core defense bases were physically destroyed, three large armories experienced Chain explosion, and strategic reserve material losses exceeded twenty percent.”

Lin Qianqian stood before the massive Federation sandbox, personally and ruthlessly removing pieces from the map that had just represented the Federation’s solid strength.

“All attackers were military officers, engineers, or scientific researchers who had served within the Federation for more than five years.”

“Without exception, after successfully completing their actions, they self-sacrificed their lives in an extremely bizarre manner.”

“At every attack site, we found the same symbol.”

She waved her hand, and the strange symbol, like a giant deep-sea eye, transmitted by Wang Haifeng via his field recorder, was enlarged to the center of the light screen.

Its twisted lines seemed to carry a kind of mental pollution; merely looking at it caused irritation and unease.

“We used the Heavenly Eye System and all intelligence forces to trace the origin of this symbol.”

“It points to a secret sect that has been hidden for an unknown period, one we never even detected the existence of. They call themselves the Forgotten Ones.”

“The Forgotten Ones Sect?”

Chen Xuan’s brow furrowed into a deep frown.

“Yes.”

Xiao Yuwei took over, another alarming report floating before her, “They worship the Abyssal Demon Whale, seeing It as the Lord of Divine Punishment sent to cleanse this erroneous world.”

“Their core doctrine is to abandon all resistance, embrace the so-called Great Purification, and allow the entire civilization to return to the eternal void before its birth.”

“A bunch of utter lunatics!”

Zhao Wufeng’s fists clenched, cracking audibly.

“If they were just lunatics, it wouldn’t be so terrifying.”

Xiao Yuwei adjusted her glasses: “What’s more terrifying is that they are not just a disorganized mob.”

“At the same time as the attacks, the Federation’s network firewall suffered an unprecedentedly fierce assault.”

“Our Sky Shield System was breached seventeen times in three minutes.”

“Countless rumors about the apocalypse descending spread wildly on people’s personal terminals.”

“Although we have emergency cutoffs, it has already caused localized social panic in at least seven cities.”

“Their network technology is even on par with our Academy of Sciences’ top white-hat hacker team. What does this indicate?”

Xiao Yuwei’s gaze slowly swept across the face of everyone present.

“This indicates that members of this sect have already infiltrated every level and every Domain of the Federation, like cancer cells.”

“Perhaps even among some of the people sitting in this very council hall.”

As soon as these words were spoken, the air in the entire council hall instantly dropped to freezing point.

Everyone’s heart tightened.

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