Chapter 591: Infiltrating the Fallen Star Group

“I’ve always felt Meteor Group was no good! I’m with you!”

Bai Hongtu cursed Meteor Group with such venom that anyone watching would think the corporation had personally ruined his family, leaving them homeless and scattered, with him as the sole survivor.

Anyone seeing Bai Hongtu’s expression would believe he held a blood feud against Meteor Group.

Seeing Bai Hongtu’s convincing performance, Jiang Li and Yu Yin had no choice but to play along with this fool’s act and agreed to join the Truth Alliance.

“Excellent! With three new members, our Truth Alliance’s strength has quadrupled!” Kong Yi laughed heartily and declared he’d pay for their coffee.

If the trio hadn’t joined, they would have been stuck paying for their own drinks.

“Quadrupled?” Bai Hongtu keenly detected something odd about that statement.

“Since you three are willing to join our Truth Alliance, I won’t hide the truth any longer. Those protesters earlier were all hired by me. Actually, the Truth Alliance only has one member—me.” Kong Yi spoke with utmost sincerity, yet his words sounded increasingly dubious.

“……”

Bai Hongtu rarely felt this cheated.

Seeing Bai Hongtu get tricked, Jiang Li developed considerable goodwill toward Kong Yi.

“Actually, our Truth Alliance is quite large! We have members on other planets too. It’s just that on the Ninth Mother Star, I’m the only member.” Kong Yi tried hard to portray the Truth Alliance as an interstellar organization.

“Aren’t there cameras everywhere here? Won’t Meteor Group discover our conversation?” Jiang Li asked, knowing full well that in the Observer World, no secrets existed—even restrooms had surveillance.

The Observer World believed that humanity, as part of nature, followed behavioral patterns they simply hadn’t fully understood yet.

Observe enough, and you’ll figure it out.

Compared to observing patterns, what did privacy matter?

“No need to worry about that. No matter how powerful Meteor Group is, they can’t compare to the three Rulers.” Kong Yi signaled Jiang Li not to concern himself.

“Only the three Rulers can access all camera feeds.”

“The three Rulers constantly observe the void and cosmic movements, summarizing natural laws and preventing great demon invasions.”

“So you’re saying, no matter what happens in the void, the Rulers can see it?”

“Naturally.”

Learning this answer, Jiang Li revealed a faint smile.

Kong Yi continued, “Let’s strike while the iron’s hot. How about we infiltrate Meteor Group for some investigation? As a Meteor Group employee, I happen to have methods to get you inside. Plus, Meteor Group will even pay you.”

……

“Hello, these three are here to apply for janitorial positions at Meteor Group.” Kong Yi presented forged identification documents for Jiang Li’s trio.

As investigators, they certainly couldn’t reveal their true identities.

If discovered, it would be easier to escape.

“All three of you are approved.”

Clearly Kong Yi wasn’t ordinary either—otherwise, how could regular forged documents pass Meteor Group’s scanning?

Thinking about it, ordinary people wouldn’t have the energy or financial resources to run this kind of organization.

Four janitors dressed in simple blue uniforms entered Meteor Group.

“Such advanced technology still needs janitors?”

“Of course not. With our technological level, only research requires human involvement. Everything else—cleaning, construction… can be handled by robots.”

“But that would leave too many people unemployed, affecting social stability. So the government established ‘assistance positions’—basically replacing robots with humans for certain tasks to ease employment pressure.”

“As a conglomerate contributing five percent of tax revenue, Meteor Group naturally leads the response to this initiative by offering assistance positions.”

“Information about the Stellar Weapon should be on the upper floors, but we can’t go directly—that would be too obvious. We need to pretend we’re diligently cleaning, then accidentally reach the top floor.” Kong Yi patiently instructed his three members.

Bai Hongtu embraced his role with passion, polishing the floor so vigorously that everyone who passed by slipped and fell.

He also polished glass doors so thoroughly that many people walked directly into them.

Kong Yi quickly urged Bai Hongtu not to be quite so dedicated.

The four cleaned their way to the human experimentation area of the laboratories.

Walking ahead, Kong Yi warned the trio, “According to movies, these conglomerates always conduct inhuman experiments. We need to mentally prepare ourselves.”

Then the four witnessed the inhuman scene:

Several alluring women were making demands of a man, engaging in intimate activities.

Scientists nearby recorded the man’s physiological response changes.

The experiment aimed to study endurance issues in male-female interactions.

Yu Yin turned her head away, refusing to watch this experiment.

“This is absolutely outrageous! How could they conduct such cruel experiments!” Kong Yi secretly fumed with indignation. “What’s the point of this experiment? That man definitely didn’t volunteer for this!”

“But he looks pretty happy to me.” Jiang Li pointed at the man.

“That’s just physiological instinct. His mental activity and facial expressions aren’t synchronized.”

Kong Yi recorded this scene and led the trio forward, where they heard intense arguing.

“I’ve said it many times—we’re on the wrong path! Core Formation Stage doesn’t mean turning into metal! It means forming a golden pill within our bodies!”

“That’s impossible! We’ve thoroughly studied human anatomy—there’s no way a golden pill could appear! Your viewpoint is baseless, completely unsupported by data! As researchers, we need evidence for our claims!”

“Spiritual energy! That’s what we’re missing—the spiritual energy recorded in ancient texts! That’s why we can’t achieve true Core Formation Stage!”

“Spiritual energy? That stuff disappeared thousands of years ago! Don’t use long-lost concepts to prove false theories! That’s not how scientific research works!”

Jiang Li had long noticed this world completely lacked spiritual energy—not a single trace existed. It was an exceptionally rare spiritless world.

If spiritual energy truly existed, given the Observer World’s obsessive observation habits, they would likely have detected it.

“Besides, all the abilities recorded for ancient cultivators—we can achieve them too! This proves our cultivation methods are correct.”

“Ancient cultivators could read ten lines at a glance, using spiritual sense to scan and memorize book contents. We have memory chips that accomplish the same.”

“Ancient cultivators could fly through skies and earth, travel through space. So can we! In fact, if you can afford a ticket, you don’t need to cultivate to Spirit Transformation or Unity Stage to fly in space.”

“Ancient cultivators could practice grain abstinence. We can receive nutrient injections—same effect.”

“As for thousand-mile communication talismans, recording spheres—we can achieve all that now.”

“Your project won’t get approved. Stop dreaming. Management won’t agree to your research on gallstones mutating into gold to produce strange powers. It’s obviously just a funding scam.”

“Tch, they saw through me.”