Chapter 458 Korok's Current Situation

Chapter 458 Korok's Current Situation

Take down.

After hearing what the female reporter said, Leon couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth secretly, and then continued to maintain a sad expression, and asked in a cold voice:

"Then let me ask you, why did Director Aquarius break into Joshua's dream a few nights ago? What did he want to do?"

"He wants to protect the capital."

Oh, so you want to destroy... huh?

"it is true."

Seeing Leon's somewhat stunned expression, the female reporter couldn't help but say:

“Before the Nightmare King descended, the director asked me to take the Dream Lantern and collect 300,000 dreams about the capital, creating a dream capital that was so realistic that it was indistinguishable from the real thing.

If you really can't stop the Nightmare King and let it descend successfully, then the Director will smash the [Dream Lantern] and let the dream about the royal capital inside run out in one breath.

In this case, even if the Nightmare King descends, he will be trapped in those 300,000 dreams and will never reach the real capital. When Blood-haired Princess is free, she can enter the dream capital and kill the Nightmare King directly."

"..."

It's actually true...

After taking a look at the female reporter's soul state and finding that she was not lying, Leon couldn't help but frowned, feeling that something seemed to be wrong.

Apart from anything else, if Aquarius had not spread the false news and transferred the people from the Virgin Branch, resulting in the failure to clear out the stronghold of the Nightmare Black Cult in time, the Fallen Soul Black Abyss would not have been able to descend at all, and the Nightmare King would have been out of the question to enter reality.

Therefore, it can be said that the Nightmare King's arrival was caused by Director Aquarius, but why did he help the Nightmare King to arrive on the one hand, and help the Virgin Branch to protect the capital on the other? Could it be that...

"Is there any conflict between Director Aquarius and the Nightmare King?"

"right……"

Seeing that Leon had guessed some of the truth after just a little thought, the female reporter couldn't help but look at him in surprise, then nodded and admitted:
"In order to recover to the best condition, the director directly released his soul and allowed the Nightmare King to plant a mark in it. So if the Nightmare King is not killed, he can be directly controlled or even enslaved."

No wonder……

After listening to the female reporter's words, Leon's eyes couldn't help but flash across a look of understanding.

Rather than saying that Director Aquarius wants to protect the royal capital, it would be more accurate to say that he wants the Nightmare King to die.

After all, even if the Nightmare King succeeds in arriving, he will most likely not be able to kill the director, but he will be enslaved by the Nightmare King. In this comparison, for Director Aquarius, it is definitely more important to kill the Nightmare King.

"Hehe, then even if he wants to protect the capital."

Hearing from the female reporter's words, she still defended Director Aquarius, but Leon didn't really have any blood feud with Director Aquarius, so he didn't dwell on it, but continued to ask:
"I just heard you call him Director, so please continue to tell me what the current situation of the Gemini Branch is like? What about the Kingdom of Korok?"

"The Twin Branch...has basically come to a standstill."

After looking up at Leon, the female reporter said hesitantly:
"Many years ago, the Kingdom of Korok created a machine that could think. However, that machine, called Atifi 01, was not very smart and could only perform some basic tasks. However, it was far superior to humans in basic tasks.

So the scholars of the Kingdom of Korok transformed the kingdom's factories and public facilities and connected Atifi 01 to them to replace low-end manual work, allowing more people to be freed from basic labor and invest in the research and development of new technologies.

At the beginning, it was just some basic production work such as planting and manufacturing. Later, travel, construction, defense, auditing and other tasks were gradually handed over to Atifi 01 to do... "There is no rush to talk about these."

Having learned about the outbreak of the Omnic Crisis in the Kingdom of Korok from the Atifi 128 seized from the airship, Leon interrupted the female reporter and said:

"I want to know more about the situation of the twin branches of the Cleanup Bureau and what happened to the people of the Korok Kingdom."

"The Gemini Branch has been controlled. All cleaners have undergone implant surgery and must obey the orders of Atifi 01."

The female reporter bit her lower lip and said:

"After Atifi 01 gained control of some key facilities, it completely blocked those places and began to purge those who had the authority to shut it down. Then, when the Gemini Branch realized something was wrong and was about to destroy it, it sank it underground and buried it in advance."

"Sunk into the ground?"

"Um……"

The female reporter explained:

"The buildings in the core area of ​​the Korok Kingdom are all separate honeycomb-shaped blocks that can be connected to each other through slides and docking rails, and can also be moved up and down to a certain extent by adjusting the number of floating crystals at the bottom.

Atifi 01 seemed to know about the existence of the Cleanup Bureau, and had renovated several nearby blocks in advance under the pretext of repairing components and replacing mechanisms, so the Twin Branch was sunk and sealed before it even started.

"Then can't you fight your way out?"

"No one who can fight back is here."

The female reporter said helplessly:
"Atiphi 01 has no soul, and does not rely on the soul to store memories. The [Illusion Drum] that can modify memories is ineffective against it, so its records probably contain the information of most of the cleaners in the Gemini Branch.

As for the cleaners who had outstanding destructive power and could break the blockade, they were transferred away with the "abnormal intelligence" compiled by it in advance and went out to clean up the abnormal objects. The ones left behind were the cleaners with weak destructive power.

It cannot be said that the people who stayed behind were weak, but they were only good at dealing with flesh and blood creatures, or soul memories and the like. Faced with a solid wall that was more than 20 meters thick from top to bottom and left to right, they really had no way to deal with it.

Although the director had the ability to solve the problem, he only talked to Atifi 01 once, and in the end he did not take action. Instead, he went back to the bureau to get some things, and then took me away from the Kingdom of Korok. "

"..."

The enemy is in the dark while I am in the light, and Aquarius has ulterior motives, so it is not unfair that you lose.

After keeping the situation of the Gemini Branch in mind and preparing to report to the director later, Leon continued to ask:

"What about ordinary people? How are the people of Korok Kingdom doing after being taken over by Atifi 01?"

"They...are pretty good?"

The female reporter hesitated for a moment, then said uncertainly:
"I went back last year. Everything there is now controlled by Atifi 01. It is actually better than when it was controlled by humans. Food is free, and even the poor and beggars are being taken care of.

Except for the scholars who were forcibly conscripted, and the common people who were almost out of work and needed to undergo some tests regularly, most people seemed to be living much better than before. "

"..."

(End of this chapter)