Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 837 "The Paradox of Reversal"

After the New Order Federation officially declared war on the Enterprise Alliance, both sides continuously mobilized and deployed their military forces. If we look at the entire territory, then conflicts could break out at any moment.

In the rear, far from the front lines, though not particularly far, there are countless beyond-visual-range strike and delivery technologies available today. No political entity can guarantee that it can intercept and prevent all beyond-visual-range strikes from landing on its own territory.

However, compared to the rapidly escalating intensity of the fires on the front lines, the rear still appears quite safe.

With the total war at this point, even the most oblivious and indifferent person could sense the danger. Even a toad will reluctantly move when poked, let alone a human.
Therefore, people under the New Order Federation and the Corporate Alliance are all doing their part, to varying degrees.

"To express my contempt for the New Order Federation—no, for these traitors! National separatists! for their aggression and inhumane rule! And in response to the call of the nation, I, on behalf of Chengnan Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., hereby announce formal sanctions against the New Order Federation!"

In the company's official live stream, the pregnant boss was in high spirits, speaking loudly and clearly.

"Chaklo Vaughn, Song Shi, Paddy Morse, and 127 others will be permanently banned from employment by our Chengnan Optoelectronics Co., Ltd."

"By the way, our Chengnan Optoelectronics business scope includes the production and sales of computers and their components, LED-related products and their components, and intelligent lighting products and their components. We are currently recruiting talented individuals. The positions are open to both men and women, the food is good, the pay is high, and those who can accept shift work and cleanroom attire should apply quickly!"

New Order Federation.

"I want to join the army! I want to beat up the company dogs too!"

At the recruitment office, someone was shouting loudly.

The recruiting officer glanced at the man's head, then at the pop-up profile window next to it: "Uh, it's all-out war now, and we welcome your enthusiasm for joining, but your profile shows your credit rating is extremely risky."

"Do you think I'm an untrustworthy person?" Upon hearing this, the other person immediately gritted their teeth: "I just wanted to find a factory job and earn a salary! But those bastards cheated me! They clearly said that after training, passing the exam, and getting the qualification certificate, I could easily earn a high salary!"

"As a result, I'm going to be in debt for five hundred years because of all those miscellaneous tuition fees! I finally got a job at the factory, but after less than a month, they kicked me out for some random excuse! The training course and the company are clearly in cahoots, just trying to drain my credit points!"

"I'm going to kill the company dog! I'm going to avenge my reputation!"

"Good brother, you've been hired!" The recruitment officer's face instantly changed to a beaming smile.

"It's my duty!" The other person's eyes welled up with tears as he grabbed the recruitment officer's arm with both hands: "Oh, by the way, what do you need me to do? Strap on explosives and become a human bomb, or use me as a sacrifice to cast a spell on those company dogs?"

"To be honest, I came in such a rush that I forgot to write my will. Could you please give me a little more time?"

The recruitment officer was speechless, choked with embarrassment: "What nonsense are you spouting!"

"Huh?" The other person was taken aback, confused: "You mean?"

"Human bomb? Curse?" The officer laughed in anger: "I'm legally recruiting soldiers! Is this what you're here to do?!"

The other party was shocked: "What! You don't say that at all! I saw everyone else saying the same thing! You're not pure extremists!"

Just as the recruitment officer was about to explain the training process for professional soldiers to the other party, he suddenly looked up.

A tiny, almost invisible black dot appeared in the sky, rising from the horizon, hovering briefly, and then climbing upwards—

—The light of day has been separated!
Compared to the boundless expanse of the sky, a single black dot is like a firefly compared to the sun. Someone indoors might even mistake it for dust on a windowpane at first glance.

Yet this tiny black dot, this speck of dust, unleashed an aura that could not be ignored! An indescribable pressure spread out, only to recede in the blink of an eye; this expansion and contraction stirred up surging waves across the heavens and earth.

Since the outbreak of war, many people have become accustomed to this scene; it's just another high-ranking psionicist jumping out to show off their power and prepare to pull off some earth-shattering operation. Frankly speaking, the number of cities recently reduced to whitewashes by psionic clashes has already exceeded double digits; what's so surprising about that?

That's how it should be.

But this time, the "it" that is shining brightly is more magnificent and grand than any appearance people have ever seen before.

It was not like the immeasurable vastness of imperial power, nor like the vastness of the sky overlooking all things, nor the overwhelming power that looked down upon all living beings.

This is something that carries and supports, as vast as the thick earth!

You won't feel thrilled or tremble with fear. When this overwhelming momentum reaches your mind and body, you'll only feel an instinctive sense of security, like stepping onto solid, heavy ground.

Finally, someone recognized him and couldn't help but call out.

"That's... Chaklo Vaughn!"

Warm layer —

This place is more than 100 kilometers above the Earth's surface.

Chakro is standing right here.

The man stared at his feet, where the undulations of the terrain had been minimized to the minimum, leaving only linear outlines, as if pieces of color had been pieced together.

He was born at the height of the company's power, where the established order was unbreakable, as solid as a mountain. No, far more solid than that. Thousands of tons of explosives could blast a mountain apart, but even millions or tens of millions of tons of explosives could not shake this giant corporation in the slightest.

The anti-corporate movement, spearheaded by the Enlightened Ones, has just suffered a heavy blow and fallen into a trough. Many anti-corporate organizations have disintegrated, either retreating in despair or being crushed by the violent machinery of corporations.

This shouldn't be the case. Chaklo Vaughn thought to himself. He had witnessed so many inhumane things, and occasionally he wondered if the social landscape of the pre-corporation era, as described in the records, truly existed.

That era where companies can't run rampant and trample on the law and human rights at will, that era where people can live with their own hands and at least look like human beings.

Perhaps people have this inertia, a tendency to excessively romanticize and glorify past eras. Chakro clearly understood this principle.

But this also means that people have a full and firm understanding of what kind of life they want to live and what kind of era they want to experience.

"What I want to reverse is never the past."

In the empty sky, Chakro Vaughn raised his fist.

"Humans should never stop moving forward."

True Spirit, Third Stage.

—"The Paradox of Reversal".

This achievement.

(End of this chapter)