Chapter 101
As March had just begun, a major news story broke in the Chenxing Empire.
Boom!
It was as if an atomic bomb had been dropped over the Chenxing Empire, with the terrifying shockwave hitting everyone. As Silver Capital TV Station’s noon news broadcast aired, the Chenxing Empire exploded.
#TrueNatureOfTranscendenceProject#, #EmpireScandalsExposed#, #EvilBehindTheLight#, #UnethicalHumanExperiments#, #VioletMedal:HonorOrBribery#… In the blink of an eye, these related topics shot to the top ten trending searches. The explosion of public opinion and the intense outrage of the masses were so severe that even if the empire’s upper echelons wanted to forcefully control the comments, they had to think twice.
The Shadow Council, silently manipulating everything, had merely tossed a small pebble, yet it had caused a tidal wave!
The live broadcast from Silver Capital TV Station wasn’t a pre-recorded video that could be explained away with excuses of photo manipulation. What appeared on screen was the interior of a research facility that looked highly advanced, security personnel engaging in a real armed arrest operation… If so much manpower and military resources were mobilized just to put on a show for the whole world, to frame the Transcendence Project and the empire’s higher-ups behind it, wouldn’t that require an enormous amount of energy?
At this point, even the most foolish person would find it difficult to be deceived by the lies fabricated by the empire.
Moreover, many of the people who appeared on camera were familiar faces who occasionally showed up on TV and in newspapers. Their faces were not unfamiliar to the people of the Chenxing Empire.
After all, even the lowest-ranking researchers involved in the Transcendence Project were likely top-tier figures in the scientific community of the Chenxing Empire. In this era of advanced internet, even if some of their research needed to be kept confidential, their personal identities were still public. Anyone who cared to search online could find a host of renowned scientists, scholars, or promising young talents.