Proliferative Alienation

  "tact the Rose Army, attack Abyss Humanitarian, annou to the world."

  Li Aozi repeated Jane Neria's words, each goal sounding somewhat ironic.

  "tact the Rose Army, not to mention if we even reach them, or if they will send troops—how long will it take just for them to arrive?"

  "Attag Abyss Humanitarian is even more absurd—it's clear that doing so would stir iional opinion and bring nation. Would the Rose Army ignore such a reputation?"

  "Announg it to the world is pure nonsehe Rose Army 't even trol its own social media and public opinion. Do you expect people to believe the words of rebels?"

  "This is not rebellion, this is reform."

  Jane Neria said calmly:

  "This shelter holds extraordinary value and assist our cause against the Four Nations."

  "If you simply kill everyohout occupying and managing it, Frost-Pted Republi still support a new Abyss. But if the Rose Army occupies this pce, we turn it into a bridgehead towards Frost-Pted."

  "I uand your s—don't worry about your is. As someone who severely damaged Frost-Pted's ckeys, the Rose Army won't be stingy with rewards."

  "No, you don't uand."

  Li Aozi waved his hand, shouting:

  "Do you think this is about splitting the spoils? It's not. I don't care about the Rose Army, and I don't care about Abyss' assets. As for Frost-Pted—it's bound to be destroyed, but I don't want them to get off easily."

  "Then acc to your meaning, the Red Arrow people—"

  "It has nothing to do with Red Arrow." Li Aozi disliked Jane Neria's tohis kind of rational ess and self-righteousness was a characteristic of the Rose Army and the fual reason for their failure.

  "I said, Nomi was our panion, not you, aainly not the Rose Army. Cooperation is possible, but you o show trust."

  Jane Neria's personality couldn't be iated with subtly. Otherwise, she'd lead you astray. However, Li Aozi's high 【Charisma】 attribute was advantageous, making his words hard to ignore.

  "Trust?"

  "I don't romises; I want something tangible."

  Li Aozi gestured with his thumb behind him:

  "If you he long-wave radio to notify the Rose Army—it's in the unications room over there. That's fine, no problem. But you must follow us first, kill all of Abyss, and then whatever happens, I don't care. It's not my i, giving it to the Rose Army is fine."

  Not only is it fine, if the Rose Army push through and take Abyss, it would save Li Aozi a lot of infrastructure renovation costs. Given Frost-Pted's lousy enviro, pyers would o move to the ions.

  When pyers arrive, the well-equipped, self-tained Abyss Humanitariaer would naturally bee the first choice.

  At that time, with his promotion aation, moizing traffic would be easy.

  Li Aozi was always a realist. Aside from some bottom-line issues, everything else could be discussed calmly.

  Nomi was already dead—but her body had revived as Jane Neria.

  From a retionship standpoint, Li Aozi saved Nomi, but Jane Neria was the one revived, iing the gratitude and life-saving favor from Li Aozi and Qiu Ran.

  Using gratitude for leverage, f deals, were oactics.

  He olite to Nomi because she had shielded him, and they had fought together from Abyss Humanitarian to the ions, battled Law IV, aur was a life-ah retionship.

  Without Nomi, Li Aozi immediately reverted to his pyer mi.

  "Don't talk about those lofty revolutioals. I don't care. Whether Frost-Pted people die, or the p explodes, I might just watch the show. Frankly, I'm very double-standard. As long as it doesn't happen in front of me, with blood spttering on me, what does it have to do with me?"

  Li Aozi never denied his double standards. Instead, he embraced it, believing it made him happier.

  Nomi's death weighed heavily on his heart, but when he moved, he felt even more urained.

  —Now, the priority was to gather all strength to elimihe remaining Abyss Humanitarian members and deal with the uping issues.

  Besides, Li Aozi needed 2 million Derby to put a bounty (promotion) on himself.

  His goals became clearer, his thoughts smooth, returning to his pyer mi.

  Looking at Jane Neria again, his gaze turned indifferent.

  Jane Neria stared at him, about to speak, but Li Aozi saw through her thoughts:

  "You want to use my impersonation of the Rose Army against me?"

  "This is not a big deal. The Rose Army doesn't care about ins for those with ambitions..."

  He smiled:

  "Right? Bard Lumon, Chu Haosheng, and Rome Costa—the three moderate Rose Army members who were purged by Orvin and Wang Geliang. You specifically mentioheir mert and wyer backgrounds."

  Jane's expression ged: "I don't know what you're talking about—"

  "Let me tell you a fact. The Rose Army's internal disputes are meaningless. The era is as it is. People trapped by gravity on the ground will never look up to the sky."

  Li Aozi sneered.

  In his past life, pyers didn't have a good impression of the Rose Army, far less than their impression of the Metro Brotherhood.

  The reason was simple. The Rose Army had internal strife evehey had the rgest scale and support from six ion warlords.

  The flict arose because the radicals led by Orvin Duly and Wang Geliang accused the moderates of being too weak. They believed strict eis should be imposed on those trading with Frost-Pted because each trade deal resulted in severe blows to frontline soldiers.

  The moderates argued that such as were social regression. Frost-Pted already had extreme moral and legal standards. As reformers, the Rose Army couldn't adopt the same approach. Otherwise, they would lose the public's support.

  Ultimately, the moderate leaders were secretly dealt with and assassinated during a vacation by the radicals, causing an uproar within the Rose Army. Some young officers, uo accept internal strife, led their soldiers to the mountains to fight guerril warfare.

  Pyers hated this kind of meaningless internal drama.

  At that time, pyers weren't familiar with the nuances of the game world. Acc to their usual rigid game impressions, there was no spiracy or scheming.

  It was just a matter of not being strong enough!

  Still not strong enough? Then you must get stronger!

  Already at the universe's limit? No problem, move to the yer of the universe, explore the limits of individual strength!

  With such thoughts, most people went silent during their veo the Abyss.

  Li Aozi valued the Rose Army for attrag pyers to spend their money on accessories and the 【Mutant】 path.

  But he wouldn't ioo much, knowing that historically, the Rose Army's bat effectiveness, without the iional camp's strong men and women, was questionable against Frost-Pted and bound for destru.

  Acc to his memory, the current president of Frost-Pted was busy with territorial disputes with Tianhuan, with Dai Weilin's fa eyeing internally. Historically, agent Yavanna likely died in the president's purges.

  Ohe president had free hands, the Rose Army would be easily dealt with.

  Overall, the Rose Army wasn't much better than Frost-Pted.

  Especially with the shadow and disruption of impostors, the Rose Army's internal chaos was like a pot of mixed grain pe.

  Li Aozi's barrage of blows left Jane Neria feeling pressured.

  Using gratitude for leverage, though morally coercive, was effective with the reputation-scious Rose Army.

  Justified as were crucial, especially since Abyss Humanitarian was an iional humanitarian anization. No matter how much the ion people cursed—who iernational unity cared about them?

  The Four Nations would only self-gratute, rallying in anger, and have a reason to unch rge-scale reprisals against the Rose Army.

  They might expand trol over the ioablish more transit cities for military logistics, and provide a series of services for anti-terrorist soldiers—this was normal, as soldiers needed food, drink, aertai.

  They might also relocate the unemployed popution, solving unemployment and stabilizing society. The public would be satisfied, the iional unity pleased, and political risk minimized.

  As for the dissatisfied ion people, let them remain unhappy.

  Li Aozi stared at Neria.

  Despite her poker face, her eyes showed heaviness.

  The sdals Li Aozi revealed were hard fuerril team member like her to accept.

  Moreover, ah a brain would uand the Rose Army's predit.

  After attag Abyss Humanitarian, Li Aozi could move to the ions, spend some money, a a fake identity, entering Tianhuan openly.

  The Rose Army couldn't; they were te to run.

  They could fight Abyss

  Humanitarian but couldn't bloodily massacre a humanitarian anization like Li Aozi—this was why Jane Neria wao retreat and wait for the Rose Army's main force.

  Even if Frost-Pted's troops arrived, fighting the regur army was a justified military a.

  Li Aozi's goal was to massacre Abyss Humanitarian, flig with Neria's: she wao win ly and take the shelter facilities.

  If she didn't cooperate with Li Aozi, moral issues aside, she knew Li Aozi's strength iing the ibal, sughtering Abyss Humanitarian, and the White Fang Gang.

  If she wao leave easily, Li Aozi probably wouldn't let her go.

  So, after some iation, they reached an agreement.

  "I 't participate in this unjust battle."

  Jane admitted, extending her hand:

  "But I hope to exge this Omega energy for my departure and to send the location of Abyss Humanitarian."

  "Deal."

  Profit.

  Having someone else develop and renovate Abyss Humanitarian's facilities wasn't a small project.

  And if impns reappeared—he'd blow up Abyss Humanitarian's reactor.

  The key was retrieving Nomi's Omega energy. With that, Li Aozi could search for her body and wandering soul with two 【Domination】 knowledge points.

  Reviving people wasn't on, especially those long dead. Months were enough for a body to rot, but Li Aozi felt he should try.

  Li Aozi grasped her hand, sending neural tendrils into her. Jane Neria's brow furrowed, groaning, as her pupils fshed red and bck, and blood vessels bulged like roots.

  FAL