Chapter 141 - 141: 140: The Purple Orchid Star Region Shakes! (Thank you to the helmsman who quickly updated, Tangerine Cat for the rewarding gift, domineering!)

Chapter 141 - 141: 140: The Purple Orchid Star Region Shakes! (Thank you to the helmsman who quickly updated, Tangerine Cat for the rewarding gift, domineering!)

Translator: 549690339

The Wasteland Star Region.

“The Moka Star has been destroyed!!!”

“The Purple Orchid Company’s base in the Wasteland Star region has been thoroughly devastated...”

The destructive circumstances of Moka Star have inevitably spread.

Everyone was unsure of what had happened. As voices rose on the internet, all forces began to brace themselves, quietly waiting for investigations from the other three tri-tier forces.

Outside Moka Star, the Cosmic Civilization Protection Association, the Purple Orchid Space Bank, and the Earth Alliance – representatives from these three tri-tier powers have all arrived.

Such a significant event brought with it their most powerful members.

Hu Xiang arrived representing the Cosmic Civilization Protection Association.

Although a hundred years had passed, his appearance hadn’t changed much. Beside him was Wei Yan, the president of the Purple Orchid Space Bank, and then there was Chu Zixuan, representing the Earth Alliance.

The three of them frowned at the sight of the several- thousand -kilometer-long fissure on Moka Star.

“What on earth happened here?”

“Could it have been a planetary collision? That couldn’t be the case, right? If another planet had run into Moka Star, the Purple Orchid Company’s employees should have noticed in advance!”

“Yet it’s impossible for a mere meteorite or comet to create this magnitude of impact either.”

Suddenly, Hu Xiang spoke up: “Wait, what’s that over there?”

With this, he pointed towards a section of inner planetary land.

The other two followed his gaze immediately.

The expression on Chu Zixuan’s face worsened as time passed. As he looked, he sent out a mental scan.

It seemed to be a giant footprint, one that was several kilometers long. Besides Du Gang, he couldn’t think of anyone else capable of leaving such a mark.

Wei Yan exclaimed in surprise, “Is that the footprint of a giant?!!”

After he said that, both he and Hu Xiang turned to look at Chu Zixuan, and said simultaneously: “Has Du Gang come out of seclusion?”

Under their gaze, Chu Zixuan paused, before nodding and confirming, “Yes, he’s out.”

After deliberating for a moment, Hu Xiang said, “This is the territory of the Purple Orchid Company. Their newest leader in the Wasteland Star region is named Tuoba Yu, a descendant from the Tuoba family – comet-level... ” “Tuoba Yu, he has a grudge against you, doesn’t he, Chu Zixuan?”

His eyes narrowed as he watched Chu Zixuan, continuing, “If I recall, Tuoba Yu formed a Human Rights Union, seemingly targeting you, Chu Zixuan, and your Earth Alliance...”

“After Du Gang wakes, did you ask him to come here and destroy them?”

On the other side, Wei Yan was also looking at Chu Zixuan in surprise, waiting for his response.

Given the wreckage and the thorough destruction of the stars, Chu Zixuan wanted to deny it, but the evidence was there.

In a low voice, he said, “Du Gang did come out of seclusion. I did indeed send him to the Human Rights Union... ”

“However, before he departed, he promised me that he was just going to scare the other powers and make them back down. He pledged that he was not going to kill anyone!”

Listening to Chu Zixuan’s words, Hu Xiang and Wei Yan fell silent

Du Gang’s, power had grown even more formidable!

At this moment, they didn’t know just how strong he had become, but they knew that all life on Moka Star had been eradicated.

A satellite-level power, perhaps?

Hu Xiang and Wei Yan exchanged a glance, then spoke, “If it truly was him who did this, then your Earth Alliance must be mindful. His actions are bound to antagonise the Purple Orchid Empire. We still don’t know if Tuoba Yu is dead or alive, but the Tuoba family will inevitably come here...”

Wei Yan asked, “Has Du Gang returned to the Earth Alliance?”

Chu Zixuan shook his head, “He mentioned that once he had dealt with things here, he would directly go to the Purple Orchid Star region.”

“Let’s wait and see. The tech team is already working on restoring the satellite’s footage...”

Before he could finish, someone arrived to report, “The footage from the Moka Star has been restored. You should all come see...’

Quickly, all three of them headed to the largest spaceship.

At the moment, a bunch of technicians were gathered around the big screen, saying, “What we’ve found, apart from some ground surveillance, is the monitoring equipment in the satellite base...”

With that, they began to play the footage.

Chu Zixuan held up a hand, halting the words of the abundant workers, and everyone began to watch quietly.

The first video was shot from within the planet and displayed the Human Rights Union’s base on Moka Star.

A few seconds hadn’t even passed when suddenly a giant foot appeared on the screen.

Chu Zixuan and the others shared a look. As they sighed internally, surprised to see that all this had genuinely been done by Du Gang.

The first video quickly ended.

The second video provided a farther viewpoint, allowing them to see the giant’s entire figure.

Indeed, it turned out to be Du Gang!

“Isn’t there sound?”

“Audio recovery is quite strenuous, they’re still working on it...”

“Alright!”

Chu Zixuan felt somewhat dismayed. He hadn’t expected that one hundred years later, Du Gang would have changed.

Could it be that because he had accepted the heritage of a giant, his personality had drastically changed, and he no longer cared about humans living or dying?

While he was deep in thought, the video abruptly changed again.

A massive net suddenly appeared, and the moment it showed on screen, it started to cover Du Gang.

“What’s that?!”

In the surprised exclamations of everyone, several exceptionally large spaceships appeared.

Seeing the leading spaceship that was ten thousand meters long, Chu Zixuan said in shock, “A ship of this class...”

Hu Xiang had also recognised it at this moment and said solemnly, “That’s a five-star E class spaceship, ten thousand meters long. There aren’t any ships of this kind in our Wasteland Star region...”

“Even in the Purple Orchid Star region, not many people have this kind of spaceship! ”

“The Purple Orchid Royal Family definitely has one, then there are the four Duke families. Only they possess such class of spaceships...”

Wei Yan nodded and said, “The insignia on the spaceship indicates it belongs to the Purple Orchid Company. It’s the Tuoba family’s spaceship!”

He didn’t finish his sentence because in the video, Du Gang had already taken off.

“Does he intend to escape?

What surprised everyone next was that the net actually withstood Du Gang’s impact, and not only that, it pulled back the giant who was about to fly out of Moka Star.

“This...”

At this moment, let alone Chu Zixuan, even Hu Xiang and Wei Yan were shocked.

Chu Zixuan frowned and asked, “Does this type of net exist in your Purple Orchid star field?”

The two men looked at each other, pursed their lips and shook their heads simultaneously.

“As for a net of this level, let alone having one, I haven’t even heard of it!”

“Yes, although I’ve hidden away from power disputes and taken refuge in the Wasteland star field, I still have sources of information about the Purple Orchid star field. If something of this level were to appear, it would be impossible for me not to know about it!”

What happened next was the appearance of a new video image.

This time, it was a satellite base filming from a tilted angle.

At this instant, even in outer space, the video could still clearly capture Du Gang’s giant body.

Just as everyone was speculating who Du Gang was fighting against, Du Gang’s Spear of the Ancient God suddenly appeared.

“That’s his weapon!”

Three people recognized instantly that this was Du Gang’s weapon. The next second, the Spear of the Ancient God began to grow.

“This...

The growth was rapid, and people were so astonished that they couldn’t even be bothered to close their mouths. They saw in the video that the Spear of the Ancient God had instantly pierced the atmosphere, and continued to grow into space.

Then, when the Spear of the Ancient God grew to more than a hundred kilometers high, they saw it falling towards the interior of the planet.

The sight at that moment was so shocking that the three of them could not utter a word.

Just as the three of them were tensely watching the video, trying to see the reaction provoked by the collision of this ancient god-like pillar against the planet, the video suddenly went dark.

“No trade, no harm!”

This snippet was sent by Chu Zixuan to Marquis Merlin to be released.

Arriving back at the Earth Alliance, Chu Zixuan felt something was not quite right.

Looking back at his past years, he suddenly realized.

Upon deeper analysis, he found that he may have become a mere pawn in someone else’s game.

Du Gang himself didn’t even know what the Human Rights Alliance was and had no intersection with the Purple Orchid Trade Association. Logically, he would never set foot on Moka Star.

But because of Chu Zixuan himself, Du Gang ended up going to Moka Star!

However, even if this was the case, there wouldn’t be a problem.

The real issue was that Moka Star had long been rigged with a trap. The people of the Tuoba family, along with Du Gang, had already waited there. Their target didn’t seem to be anybody else, but the giant, Du Gang.

Thinking about it this way, how could he not understand? He had been set up. The Tuoba family had used his relationship with Du Gang to lure him into the trap.

“Sigh, I underestimated the people of the world!”

Chu Zixuan sighed.

He had been too smooth in recent years, thinking that his intelligence and strategy could at least see through all conspiracies, if not be the best in the world.

The fact proved that none of these long-surviving families were simple!

“Is this a hundred-year plan?”

Chu Zixuan had to admit, these families, which had existed for tens to hundreds of millions of years, had taught him a lesson.

Prior to this, he had never thought that someone would spend decades or even a hundred years setting up such a trap.

After careful analysis, he sighed and said, “Shadow, go to the Shadowless

Bureau and ask them to send someone to Watchman City, there is a rat among

the Well Explorers!”

At this stage, if he was unaware of the possible enemy infiltrators within his ranks, that would make him utterly foolish.

Suddenly, a shadow split from beneath his feet and disappeared instantly.

This was the former Shadow King who switched from visible to invisible, becoming Chu Zixuan’s shadow.

He had even concealed this from Du Gang; the Earth Alliance actually had not two, but three meteorite-level individuals!

The Shadow King was the third meteorite-level figure!

“It seems that decades ago, some of those who chose me to assume the leadership position were also problematic...”

He had initially thought it was too smooth, being elected as the leader through overwhelming votes.

But he had attributed it to his relationship with Du Gang, and the fact that his wife hailed from the Marquis Merlin family of the Purple Orchid Kingdom.

These factors led the elders to cast their votes for him.

It seems that a purge of the higher-ups is now necessary...

The moment the video titled “Without trade, there would be no harm!” was posted, there was an uproar across the web.

Everyone online was shocked.

Just a while ago, everyone was condemning the Giants one-sidedly.

And then, the truth was revealed.

“So it turns out that the Tuoba family captured a giant, which provoked them to retaliate?!!”

“Hmm, the Tuoba family sure has a crafty plan, making us clean up the mess they made themselves!”

“Exactly, we were even considering lending the Tuoba family a hand, thinking they had suffered a great loss...”

“I spit, they got what they deserved!”

At that moment, everyone felt like their intelligence had been dragged through the mud as they felt ashamed of the hasty decisions they had previously made.

The next thing that came was, naturally, anger out of embarrassment.

Consequently, internet users started venting their frustration. Their earlier unanimous condemnation of the Giants was now replaced by unanimous criticism of the disgraceful Tuoba family.

Moreover, when both the Cosmic Civilization Protection Association and the Purple Orchid Spacial Bank issued a joint statement that “the Giant is the leader of a third-level civilization from the Wasteland Star Zone” everyone who was still on the fence, afraid of the Giant losing his sanity, could no longer stay quiet.

If the Giant is sentient, then it is a person, and this incident is nothing to do with a monster attacking people, or an alien race assaulting mankind.

This also proves that the Tuoba family is utterly shameless!

They distorted the truth to manipulate people to work for them. How could the majority of internet users accept this?

“Come on!”

For a moment, the entire Purple Orchid Star Zone internet was filled with discussions criticizing the Tuoba family.

Eve more so, many other families were fanning the flames behind the scenes.

The grudge between the Tuoba family and the Giants doesn’t concern them.

For them, they would direct public opinion in whichever way benefits them the most.

The Tuoba family, commanding about twenty percent of the whole Purple Orchid Star Zone’s trade, was indeed a behemoth.

If they fall, a large market share would be freed up, enough for all families to take a piece of the pie.

The Giants, however, were just people from the Wasteland Star Zone. In the Purple Orchid Star Zone, they had no power or influence. Even if they won, they would ultimately just return to their own Wasteland Star Zone, which would not impact everyone else.

Therefore, after carefully weighing the pros and cons, any power that wanted to carve out a piece of the Tuoba family’s interest started to voice their opinions openly!

At the same time, they hired a large number of internet trolls to steer public opinion and attack the Tuoba family.

What’s right and wrong doesn’t concern them.

In the world of adults, there are only interests!

In an instant, the already controversial Tuoba family fell even further from grace, becoming a deranged family.

Because on the internet, professional instigators had begun to post content that was a mix of truth and fiction.

For example, the Wasteland Giant, who originally lived happily with his family in the Wasteland Star Zone. But then the Tuoba family came along. They brutally murdered the Giant’s elderly mother, raped the Giant’s wife, killed the Giant’s children, and eventually the Giant fled, resulting in the destruction and retribution of Tuoba Xing.

“Raping the Giant’s wife? Wow, what a good one, just unbelievable!”

“What nonsense, aren’t you afraid of being laughed at?”

“You might have thought too highly of him...”

The instigators knew there were flaws in the article, but it was intentional.

Only in this way could the rate of spread be accelerated and become popular.

As expected, as soon as various media outlets saw this, their eyes lit up. Like sharks smelling blood, they all swarmed in, copied and pasted, changed the title, declared it original, processed it, and then posted it again.

“Shocking: The returning War God finds his wife has been XX...”

The most speechless part was that these self-media operators indeed took flights and ran to the Earth: the Giants’ old home.

Then, after some inquiries, they learned from the simple Earth natives that the Giant’s title really was the War God!

All these coincidences mixed together, all these elements put together.

It was over, the ‘Return of the War God’ series was completely viral!

Self-media creators had long summarized a theory for virality. [If it can stir up people’s emotions and desires, it can go viral]

[Viral means traffic, traffic represents money]

They took advantage of the inherent human weaknesses of vanity, jealousy, wrath, sloth, greed, lust, and pride to achieve virality.

The human weakness of pride: ridiculous funny videos, such as Master Ma, easily go viral because watching these foolish videos lets you feel smarter, nobler, and that even celebrities are willing to lower themselves for our entertainment.

For example, using people’s wrath: against social injustices, like privileged officials oppressing commoners, will stir up public anger. Punishing them at this time would make positive-energy videos go viral overnight.

The plot design of ‘Return of the War God’ perfectly fits into the human weaknesses in the minds of the instigators. Thus, it becoming viral is a totally normal phenomenon.

However, while lots of forces were condemning the Tuoba family, they were only attacking them online. As for getting involved, no way!

As for this situation, Tuoba Hong was already too exhausted to struggle. Even if he wanted to send internet trolls, it was already impossible. He couldn’t suppress it anymore. This had already grown into a national frenzy. So, he could only grit his teeth and keep chasing in the direction where Du Gang was fleeing.

Regardless of everything else, for him, capturing Du Gang and killing hi

would settle all me problems.

Regardless of how fierce the public opinion grew, as long as he remained alive, the Tuoba family would not perish!