Chapter 207: Pressure on Cross Family

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Chapter 207: Pressure on Cross Family

After the autopsy ended, Quinn and her father had left. They were there to warn Mercer and see if they could learn anything about the alien. But Unity started to get heated slowly. Some influential news stations started a smear campaign against Cross Family. They claimed that aliens could be captured alive but killed because it asked for a glorious death, and its AI had been destroyed because of one of the Cross.

They couldnt outright slander with mutiny, but they could still influence public opinion.

At the same time, the president of Unity, Mikhael Orril held a press conference and verified the existence of aliens attacking humans in the competition. The footage published all over Unity lacked authentication code because they were recorded in Portal World, but with the president himself vouching, no one could refute the fact anymore.

As it happened, the news about the newly mutated walking dead started to spread everywhere, and families started to pressure the Cross family to take action. As one of the generals, and one of the biggest factions, the Cross family needed to defend the walls and execute the walking dead.

In Parliament, Capital

The political system of Unity was a lot different than before the invasion. Although there was a basic democratic system where humans could elect the president, only capable people could become generals of the army, and still had a say in the parliament. So although Mikhael Orril was elected, he was sitting with three generals and the council of ministers. And in the middle, a floating giant hologram ball was present to oversee the meeting and give her insights if needed. After all, she had seen a civilization from its middle eras to its end and knew a thing or two about politics.

As all of you know by now, the alien had been taken away by the Cross Family without getting approval of the council nor three generals. Merlin Cross, Miles Cross, and Helez Alwan schemed masterfully to take the body to Cross Mansion without even checking if it was carrying a dangerous virus that could endanger Unity! One of the ministers said. He was older than most in the room and talked slowly with a lot of breath breaks.

Are you saying Adam Aurora, Evelyn Cross, and Roger Hulin had failed to see the virus and endangered people? Mercer looked at the old minister without any emotion on his face.

The old minister looked flustered. The three names mentioned by Mercer were best of the best in their fields and were in Cross-Faction.

My grandson has a theory for this. Mercer started.

Oh, what is it? I would like to hear your grandsons theory. Mother AI looked at Mercer and said.

The AI that race possesses is the one Hill had mentioned before. The same AI used to live where we are occupying in Portal World right now and Oracle was running the Graders Arenas we were using for the last couple of decades. Is it correct? Mercer looked at the Mother AI.

Yes. Oracle and Athena Race were the masters of the Graders Arenas. Mother AI approved.

So what if the alien's initial goal wasnt coming there to declare war but the arena. My grandson thinks that aliens were there to remove the weapons from the armory to strengthen its race after they learned more about the Portal World. Mercer looked at the floating ball.

That is a highly feasible notion. There is only one problem though, even Oracle couldnt control the arena and open the armory. None of the 6 races in Portal World created the arena. Athena Race and Oracle just took over it and could only use them a little. Mother AI said.

Everyone in the room looked at Mother AI weirdly. You mean there were other races before the 6 races you mentioned?

That is something I already shared with you, so why are you surprised? She answered.

Exactly. Oracle must have thought after all this time the security in the arena must have been torn down and weapons were there to be picked. But as the alien approached, he noticed humans and changed his plans. He joined the Graders Competition and declared war while trying to hack into the system controlling the arena. Seeing it had failed and its race was still away, it blocked the arena instead. So it is safe to say that the alien race is far from humans in Portal World and that is why the battlefield will be Earth.