"It’s not all bad news," looking at the increasingly troubling state of Yawgmoth, Niyaguti had to say, "The chances are high that the tundra of the cold zones can be preserved."
The organisms of the polar regions might indeed have a chance to survive. The bacteria and fungal spores carrying the metal-based reverse transcriptase virus are unable to activate in the polar regions. After being infected with the metal-based reverse transcriptase virus, the animals would require higher environmental temperatures and would not migrate to high-latitude regions. Even if they moved erratically and without direction, they would easily be killed by the low temperatures of the high-latitude regions.
The same applies to deep-sea organisms.
However, Niyaguti knew that such matters are not absolute.
For example, whales infected with those gene modification viruses could reach the cold sea regions by relying on their enormous size. Many species of whales have a wide range of distribution themselves.
Some predators infected in the shallow seas might also transmit the virus to the deep sea.
But at this point, Yawgmoth could not afford to be further agitated.
Yawgmoth did not engage with the conversation but instead said, "Does Xiang Shan intend to call us back to the front lines... Didn’t Zhu say ’big boss’ might be on the Moon or somewhere?"
"We also need manpower here," Niyaguti said, "If they hadn’t already developed a space fleet, Xiang Shan would also be joining the efforts to rescue species."
"I see..." Yawgmoth murmured.
"Besides, over there, adding us wouldn’t make much of a difference. But here, we can research countermeasures... at least we can preserve a few more species."
Yawgmoth looked up at the sky, "I just suddenly feel like apologizing to Xiang Shan."
"Why bring this up all of a sudden?"
"I shouldn’t have hit him back then. I have to apologize for that," Yawgmoth’s tone gradually became calmer, "Back then he told me that those bureaucrats might actually be protecting the world. I got angry, so I punched him in the face. It’s been over seventy years. For more than seventy years, I never thought I was wrong. But suddenly, I feel like I didn’t understand anything back then."
Yawgmoth then rested his hand on the ship’s rail, "If at this moment, I were still the Chief Science Officer of Superman Enterprise, and Xiang Shan was still the Chairman, we could easily mobilize resources surpassing the finances of a single major nation to aid in disaster relief... No, not that. If Xiang Shan had remained Chairman, this sort of thing wouldn’t have happened at all."
Right. Xiang Shan put all the ways to evade surveillance online, practically teaching people how to rebel hand in hand.
They personally destroyed Superman Enterprise as well as various organizations and groups under the control of Superman Enterprise.
Central Asia and South Asia were already the weak regions of the world, marginal players in the international market.
Yawgmoth thought to himself.
Then, the memory scene transitioned to "if one day" to "one day."
The Moon, a secret base.
Near the Lagrange Point, Hero forces tangled with the usurpers’ fleet, replicating the naval engagements of the Age of Discovery in space.
But all of that was just a disguise.
An elite squadron launched a surprise attack on this base.
Outside the base, facing the defending army, the Heroes once again split into two groups.
Eventually, Xiang Shan and Yawgmoth reached the deepest part of the base.
And now, the twelve top prosthetic bodies controlled by the "big boss" were quickly annihilated by Xiang Shan. Yawgmoth then extracted his brain and injected a potion he carried with him.
The usurpers had invented a technology that could make people extremely honest through specific electrical signals.
This technology fundamentally interfered with the activity inside the neurons by electrical signals targeting special receptors on the surface of neurons.
This also meant that chemical methods could accomplish similar things on people without a backdoor.
It’s just that... chemical methods may not be as precise, possibly activating additional receptors accidentally, causing uncontrollable abnormal activities, even leading to brain damage.
But Yawgmoth didn’t intend to consider this person’s human rights.
If he still had a face, Yawgmoth would definitely be grinning fiercely at this moment.
But at this time, Yawgmoth noticed that Xiang Shan was standing behind him, concealing his weapons behind his back and using his body to hide their positions.
"Yawgmoth... don’t misunderstand," Xiang Shan said, "This is... you know, I just don’t want to make another mistake. Let’s go, leave this place, go somewhere with a network."
To counter Zhu Xinyu and Anatoly’s Inner Strength, the usurpers’ army had purposefully blown up the satellite station. Ingrid was probably still outside looking for a usable access point. Now this place was free from any interference.
Yawgmoth immediately realized the situation.
He was extracting the usurper’s memories. This was already agreed upon. He and Chen Feng Tao Enhai jointly developed the potion, then extracted the memory data of this big boss—most importantly, the data of those "Absolute Authority."
The developer backdoors in the many projects of Superman Enterprise, various passwords representing authority, and most critically, the backdoors inserted into human genetic information in the gene modification surgery.
Now, just the two of them had reached this disconnected zone.
His companions had confidently split forces several times to hold off the support troops.
Now this situation...
Yawgmoth discreetly activated the big boss’s prosthetic body’s wireless network interface, sharing the extracted memory data, "Understood."
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Xiang Shan obviously sighed in relief, "Okay. I’m sorry, I wasn’t doubting you. Really. Whoever takes action, this is a necessary precaution."
Yawgmoth smiled, "If we had taken these precautions back then..."
"Let’s go." Xiang Shan wanted to find more comrades.
Yawgmoth, holding the brain still outputting data, said, "Yeah. We won."
Xiang Shan, facing Yawgmoth, took steps back while solemnly saying, "It’s not over yet... We need to tell others about these backdoors... many more people."
For some reason, Yawgmoth thought about the whale corpses he had named "Nicola" and "Bart."
Oh, Yawgmoth might know "why," but he pretended not to know.
Yawgmoth said in a low voice, "More people, who might they be?"
"Haven’t thought it through yet. But at least... let me think... it can’t just be ’us’ this small group of people. It can’t be concentrated in the consciousness of one or two individuals." Xiang Shan said, "We could spend generations removing these backdoors. But before that, we must find a way to make these backdoors unable to... well, unable to exert authority."
"Two battling devils might actually be preferable to one angel," Yawgmoth nodded, "Do you think, people whose opinions are as far apart as yours and mine, could become those ’two devils’?"