Mecha Star Wars.

Chapter 1601 The Vanished Isolde

Conducting invasive experiments on the human brain has crossed ethical boundaries, and leaving a control backend to turn it into a puppet that can be manipulated at will is even more heinous.

Some were amazed by Shen Chong'an's methods, while others questioned whether he truly possessed the technology.

After all, no matter how high their position or how powerful they are, the Sentinel General Institute is still an armed organization, and its technological progress should not be too far ahead of the official Academy of Sciences.

“I don’t need to go into detail about this part,” Jin Sichen suddenly interjected. “It could be terrible if someone with ulterior motives overheard this.”

It sounded like he was trying to comfort them, but Lin Fan and the others knew perfectly well that Jin Sichen must have already asked them everything before they arrived, and knew that there was probably some special situation involved, so he deliberately interrupted them.

As expected, Shen Chong'an immediately fell silent.

Cen Fangyuan's camera then turned precisely to Jin Sichen.

Beautiful things always make a strong visual impact.

With her snow-white skin and bright red lips, the frail beauty bound to a prison chair instantly triggered a beauty overload in the live stream, with exclamations flooding the screen.

Many people recognized Jin Sichen as a crew member of the Noah ship and readily answered the questions of netizens who were wondering who the handsome man was.

The onlookers initially thought that the live stream was using the Noah's Ark online store's connection to try and gain traffic, but they never expected that Shen Chong'an had actually hijacked the Noah's Ark...

Seeing this, the Noah crew not only arrived in time, but also forced Shen Chong'an to confess in public, clearly demonstrating their superior strategy.

Seeing that the victim was not seriously injured, netizens' anger subsided, and they began to feel sorry for Jin Sichen who was tied up, asking why he hadn't been untied yet.

Antonio smirked as Cen Fangyuan whispered his reply, saying that this was Shen Chong'an's private residence after all, and their trespassing had already involved a diplomatic incident, so they dared not do anything more rashly lest they disturb the crime scene, and so on.

He thought no one was going to rescue the peacock, that they were all like him, wanting to take the opportunity to make the sharp-tongued fellow suffer, but it turns out they had other plans...

Jin Sichen was also unaware that he had become the focus of attention for countless netizens. He only knew that the Sersorn government would not allow Shen Chong'an to self-destruct like this, and that they were most likely on their way.

There's not much time left for an undisturbed monologue. The situation of Helian Rongjin has been largely clarified, and there's no need to delve into the trivial details here. It's time to move on to the next key point.

"What exactly happened with Isolde's betrayal of the planet? What role did you play in it?" Jin Sichen's question was actually a guiding command.

Before he could finish speaking, Shen Chong'an said again, "Isolde is innocent."

"She was too dazzling back then, and she listened to the instigation of those ambitious guide associations, who wanted to elevate the status of guides and shake the very foundation of our Sentinels' interests. Naturally, we could not sit idly by."

"At that time, she had already achieved considerable success, enjoying unparalleled status. Her identity as a 3S guide meant that ordinary charges simply couldn't bring her down. She was too pure-hearted, her mind solely focused on elevating the guide's status, unlike those sinister figures lurking behind her, plotting to use her as a pawn. Several investigations couldn't find any fault in her. So..."

The subsequent events unfolded much as Lin Fan and his group had predicted.

However, in Shen Chong'an's narrative, the Guides Association was not entirely a victim, but rather the behind-the-scenes force that pushed Isolde to the forefront.

After Isolde was convicted, her husbands' imprisonment of her was actually a protective measure under crisis.

However, being caught in the middle of it all, even the strongest personal will is hard to sway the will of the authorities. Furthermore, Isolde's complete opposition to the Sentinel faction due to her "treason" and her inability to fully trust her several high-ranking Sentinel husbands gave the authorities an opportunity to allow her to board the starship prepared for her, the one meant to solidify her treason charge…

"Isolde is truly a rare and top-tier guide, but if we allow her to continue usurping the rights of the Sentinels, the consequences would be immeasurable. Therefore, even though it is very regrettable, we have made the difficult decision to convict her of treason, a crime from which she can never recover..."

The StarNet exploded again. Many people were asking who Isolde was. Meanwhile, the live streams in the Sersorn region all went offline and went black the moment the name appeared, displaying a "sensitive word" message.

After that, they couldn't log in to the live stream anymore—the authorities intervened and blocked the live stream signal for people within the star system.

The people of Sersorn weren't fools; the more this happened, the more suspicious they became.

He heard all the details of Helian Rongjin's scandal, and now he's being banned just because of his name? That must be a huge deal.

That's human curiosity; the less we're told what to know, the more we want to know.

If you can't get into the live stream, just follow the trending topics and discussion forums to read the text-based live stream. If there are any sensitive words that can't be said, just use other words to replace them. The level of discussion is not diminished at all.

The StarNet is an interstellar network that uses the Star Hub Ring as its service base and connects various star regions.

Each star system also has its own local area network connected to the Star Network. Whether the public can directly access the Star Network depends on the policies of the authorities.

For example, residents of the Sersorn Starfield can freely access the StarNet; while on Annemo, only Starshine City can access the StarNet, the Silvermoon people's StarNet is a stripped-down version, only displaying content that Starshine City is willing to show to Silvermoon City, and the Graystone Settlement is a pure local area network, unable to access content outside of Annemo.

Isolde is a sensitive word in Sersorn, but it is not taboo in the entire interstellar network.

Moreover, the authorities of Sersorn only cleared the information within the local area network, and could not erase the old news left on the Nexus Ring server.

Therefore, countless netizens quickly dug up Isolde's glorious deeds as a 3S Guide: her extraordinary healing abilities, her rise in status, her gradual entry into the official ranks, her role in leading the rise of the Guide Association, and finally, her announcement of her defection and escape from the planet.

Combined with Shen Chong'an's words, a massive conspiracy to oppress the guides is vividly revealed.

The status of guides, which had been significantly elevated, plummeted due to Isolde's "traitorous star" status, and there was no leader to cheer for the guide community afterward.

If the persecution of Helian Rongjin and the conduct of radical genetic experiments could be attributed to Shen Chong'an's obsession with the development of civilization, he had simply gone astray.

The slander of the innocent 3S guide Isolde was a despicable act committed purely to protect the interests of his own faction.

The internet was filled with insults, and the name "Shen Chong'an" became synonymous with "evil."

The people of Sersorn eventually learned the truth and were at a loss for what to do.
The Sentinels couldn't criticize without restraint, after all, Shen Chong'an was acting in the Sentinels' best interests; the Guides were also ashamed to speak up, because Isolde had wholeheartedly sacrificed her life for them, and the Guides' Association had stood idly by during her most difficult time...

"boom"

With a deafening roar and a violent tremor, the fully armed Sentinels of Sersorn finally breached the barrier surrounding Shen Chong'an's residence and plunged underground.

Lin Fan and Antonio just in time to release the guards from the military and foreign affairs departments, and a dark mass of people swarmed in behind them.

"shut up!"

Even before the leader was at the entrance, his immense 3S mental power erupted, instantly enveloping the entire space.

Whether it was the Foreign Affairs Department sentry who had fallen to the ground or the military sentry who was standing, they were all pressed down to the ground by this oppressive aura and could not move.

Only the black-clad crew members of the Noah remained unaffected, turning around in unison and raising their energy submachine guns, aiming them at the approaching figure.