Chapter 447: 446, Turmoil Ferments, Subsides_1
In major social media platforms, the demands for surrendering Su Yu and exiting the “Evolution” game garnered significant attention for a time.
The most active among these were the Surrenderists of Blue Star.
The circle of Surrenderists is quite large, they just dared not voice their thoughts online in the past.
The Blue Star United Government had decreed that any subversive comments posted online would result in law enforcement paying a visit to the speaker the next day at the latest.
Furthermore, many countries did not want to waste resources imprisoning these Surrenderists, choosing instead to execute them secretly the same day.
This series of measures resulted in the large number of Surrenderists leaving no trace of their existence online.
But now, things have changed!
The words of Manina XIII have become their most potent weapon!
Embracing a mentality of safety in numbers, the Surrenderists naturally took this opportunity to voice their opinions loudly.
In addition, they firmly believed that as long as they could assist the Skuru in conquering Blue Star, the Skuru would definitely spare their lives in acknowledgement of their contribution.
In addition to the Surrenderists, there were also some opportunistic individuals who joined in the clamor.
These individuals believed that Manina XIII, as the Emperor of the Raging Sun Empire, would keep his word.
If humans were to hand over Su Yu and destroy all the game equipment, the Skuru would surely withdraw their forces.
Isn’t it great to sacrifice one person, Su Yu, for the happiness of all mankind?
With the convergence of the Surrenderists and the Opportunistic Faction, cries for surrender resonated one after another.
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Of course, many netizens were quite rational.
They understood that Manina was merely trying to deceive humanity.
If humans were really fooled into discarding their own martial prowess and handed over Su Yu, wouldn’t the Skurus laugh even in their dreams?
After a year, the Skuru would be able to casually board their ships and exterminate all humans. Why would they let go of the meat that’s already in their mouths?
Furthermore, the idea of “signing a contract” was laughable! The Raging Sun Emperor could find at least 100 reasons to break the contract.
The two factions waged a fierce battle of words online, resulting in a tumultuous climate across the entire Blue Star internet.
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Meanwhile, Su Yu was still searching for the [Washing Sea Core] in the deep sea, diligently, like a busy little bee.
“Hmm? There’s one here!” Su Yu dispatched a sea monster group at the bottom of the sea with a fourth-level thunder spell [Crazy Thunder Sky Prison], then suddenly disappeared and unearthed from the sea floor mud a fist-sized gem radiating a sky-blue light.
The collection count of [Washing Sea Core] in his mission goal list also rose from “910” to “911”.
“With another hour of effort, this task should be completed,” thought Su Yu contentedly.
He put the stone into his necklace, and prepared for the journey to his next target location.
However, at that moment, he suddenly received several private messages.
Red-Eyed Black Dragon, Sky Dragon, Snow Leopard, A Thousand Cups Unintoxicated, and even Snow Fall, who was rarely in contact, all sent him messages that there was a major event and urged him to check the official forum at once!
Without any delay, Su Yu logged into the forum.
Upon seeing players’ heated debates in the forum as well as Manina XIII’s “impassioned” declaration, Su Yu’s expression grew gradually grim.
The Raging Sun Emperor was truly wicked!
Su Yu was well aware that even if humans truly handed him over to the Skurus and destroyed all the “Evolution” game headsets, humans and Skuru could never live in peace.
Even if Manina XIII signed the contract, he could completely break the contract seven and a half months later and eliminate all humans on Blue Star.
By that time, no one would even know about his treachery and the ordinary Skuru people might not care even if they knew the emperor had deceived humans.
The reason he said Manina was wicked was that after saying such words, whether they had any effect or not, it would definitely be a huge blow for the morale of Blue Star humans.
From the many voices demanding his surrender in the forums, it could be seen that many people had already wavered.
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Su Yu closed the forum interface and opened the chat room for guild leaders. The guild leaders were also having a passionate discussion about this matter.
However, most of the guild leaders were savvy people. Su Yu briefly scrolled through the chat log, no one had voiced opinions about handing him over.
[Red-Eyed Black Dragon]: “In my opinion, we can’t surrender! The Ukraine of the 20th century is an example. Ukraine had 1,400 nuclear weapons, hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles and the world’s most advanced bombers during the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Because of their surrenderist policy, they voluntarily destroyed these top weapons and their country ended up being a pawn for the West, controlled by puppet masters, with a dire political and economic situation.”
[Zhan Tianjian]: “You’re absolutely right, and we can’t surrender Boss Ke! We all have seen how much effort Boss Ke has put into our cause. To surrender such a hero feels like the whole nation’s spirit would collapse.”
[Royal Assassin]: “I think we can give it a try, what if the Skuru are serious? Wouldn’t we be missing such an opportunity for nothing?”
Ding! Chat room prompt: [Royal Assassin] was removed from this chat room by administrator [Shepherd in the Clouds].
[Shepherd in the Clouds]: “Ahem, saying such things at this time is completely mindless. I kicked him out, any objections?”
The others immediately chimed in with “no objection”.
Seeing the guild leaders’ understanding brought some measure of relief to Su Yu’s mind.
He commented in the chat room: “Thanks for your support. Please keep your eyes open and don’t be misled by the Skuru’s plots.”
[Shepherd in the Clouds]: “Boss Ke, we’ll always support you!”
[Red-Eyed Black Dragon]: “Me too.”
Snow Leopard, who hadn’t said anything in the chat room yet, finally spoke up: “Both Commissioner Zhang and I instantly saw through the Skuru’s scheme; rest assured, we will find a way to cope with this crisis.”
[Nemesis]: “The most crucial thing is to explain the situation to everyone so that everyone can abandon illusions and prepare for war.”
[Snow Leopard]: “Understood. Also, everyone should take some actions to prevent their subordinates from stirring up trouble.”
Every guild leader: “Alright.”
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With the guild leaders unified in their response, the following operations would be manageable.
All the guild leaders tried to restrain the ordinary members of the guild and explained the Skuru’s intentions to them in the guild chat channel;
Snow Leopard logged out to find Commissioner Zhang and provide feedback to the higher-ups of the Blue Star Government;
Su Yu was tasked with explaining the pros and cons to 500,000 players searching for the [Washing Sea Core].
Having understood that the Skurus “will inevitably deal a deadly blow to Blue Star humans”, players were no longer lost and resumed the search for materials.
The official reaction was also swift.
An hour later, at 4 in the afternoon, the Blue Star Federation Government formally issued a notice to all citizens: the government would not fall for the Skuru’s cunning, they would not hand over Su Yu, and they were determined to resist the Skuru to the end!
The notice also analyzed the Skuru’s plot in detail to prevent people from being fooled.
After the official statement, a significant number of disputes on the internet were halted, and major social media platforms gradually returned to normal after this upheaval.