Chapter 446: Chapter 446: Short Videos Are Not Official Announcements (Part 5)
The pain had been felt, the food had been eaten, a mix of stick and carrot, only then could the wizards be tamed into obedience.
And the reduction in sentence they could hope for was to teach the spiritual power Awakeners in the army various spells, as well as skills in alchemy, Creation, and Witch Doctor fields.
After watching this short clip, netizens were no longer worried about the captives’ diet.
[As long as useful captives can be fed, it’s fine as long as they don’t eat our food.]
[Rest assured, these senior captives with status are war criminals. We need to distinguish and prosecute them, not only to account for the Blue Star people alive and dead but also to explain to the Otherworldly, informing their populace why our military would massively enter their planet, thus saving our occupation costs.]
[It’s occupation, right? The one upstairs meant occupation, right? No hiding it anymore?!]
[What is your identity, upstairs? Seriously planning to occupy the Otherworld?]
[What’s the nature of this occupation? Colonization or territory expansion?]
[A planet conquered by our nation’s power can’t be just colonization.]
[So it’s territory expansion? Traveling through the Transmission Port? Amazing, secret missions really live up to their name!]
[Doesn’t that mean there will be vast job opportunities?]
[Whoa, seriously? Am I seeing things?]
[Even if it’s colonization, as long as infrastructure is developed in the Otherworld, it’s a huge investment, and the economic and employment growth will be astronomical.]
[This speculation makes sense, infrastructure must be developed.]
[If there’s work and money to be made, I wouldn’t mind having a few children. There’s no fear they won’t have jobs when grown, given how vast the planet is and how our nation’s current population is far from enough.]
[Yes, if you want to have children, do it quickly. We need people for post-war reconstruction and for Otherworld infrastructure.]
[This doesn’t even consider if the entire Blue Star needs rebuilding. If it does, the amount of people needed would be enormous.]
[My eldest is four and already in kindergarten. I think it’s time to consider having a second child.]
[I can’t have any more. The future belongs to you young people. Keep at it.]
When netizens realized that upcoming job opportunities would be countless, their enthusiasm for having children was ignited.
In past years, it had always been the state giving money to the populace to maintain the current population numbers, opposed to the expected survival crisis that could stimulate birth rates.
Land and mines were occupied and polluted by a vast number of dangerous zones nationwide, and resources from surviving mines were prioritized for military production, with the remainder for civilian use.
Under such conditions, job opportunities were naturally scarce. Without jobs, there was no money, leading some to continuously have children for subsidies, while others avoided relationships, dating, and marriage, enduring hardships themselves and not wanting to bring new life into this broken world.
However, at that moment, those who were prepared for loneliness had a change of heart. Having one or two children to see the new post-war world didn’t seem so bad.
Yet, online statements and real-life actions are always two different things. What someone claims they’ll do online might just be a temporary boast.
The impulse to have children sparked by all the heated news dissipated when returning to real life, as if entering Wise Time, with no more impulses.
Ye Nai, a phone-addicted girl with a bit of leisure, naturally saw the latest online news, and without hesitation, she definitely belonged to the Permanent Sage group.
She was too familiar with everything involved in raising a newborn to adulthood safely and was already tired of it. Even the emperor couldn’t persuade her to have children.
The official releases a new short video daily to update the public on the current situation, and Ye Nai also received a new mission.
She was to travel nationwide, visiting all the dangerous zones and Secret Realms, accelerating the decomposition and digestion of waste in the dangerous zones while retrieving the Transmission Platforms from all Secret Realms but leaving one behind.
After obtaining the map of dangerous zones and Secret Realms, Ye Nai began working at her own pace.
She trained at the training ground as usual during the day, and at night, she used the few hours before sleep to open Transmission Ports to various dangerous zones, scattering spores to aid in quick decomposition and digestion of garbage.
The dangerous zones were vast, so Ye Nai used the map for fuzzy teleportation. A slight deviation didn’t matter, as no one would see in the dark, but she had to drive to nearby Secret Realms.
Fortunately, she had many security team members, and driving three off-road vehicles to pose as a Hunter convoy entering the Secret Realm wouldn’t draw attention.
Once inside the Secret Realm and entering the boundless wilderness, Ye Nai released a large number of superpower spores, letting them search for hidden underground Transmission Platforms.
In her vision, the familiar golden light reappeared, with each light point representing a deeply buried Transmission Platform.
Ye Nai had two Advanced Heart Cores in her pocket, so the spores had ample energy, making it quick to find the Transmission Platforms. The three off-road vehicles seemed to be aimlessly wandering the wilderness, but only Ye Nai knew they were following a certain pattern.
As they traveled further, the number of Transmission Platforms collected in the Space increased. When Ye Nai heard a loud noise in her mind, she knew she had collected half of the Transmission Platforms and had established a connection with the Secret Realm. She then stopped the car to head back, opening a Transmission Port to return to the apartment.
The next morning, she continued training. During lunch, as it was midnight in the Secret Realm, Ye Nai took her security team, used the connection established the previous day, returned to the Secret Realm to finish the mission, leaving just one for later processing.
Then, after nightfall, she headed to the next city’s dangerous zone and Secret Realm.
Thus, trip after trip, although she could be seen at the canteen for every meal, the outside world affairs were never concealed.
She not only traveled nationwide but also dealt with threats abroad when reaching the border.
The official short video release pace was no longer as frequent as at the beginning, shifting to one every few days, with content covering segments from Blue Star and the Otherworld.
Ye Nai watched, instantly recognizing that these were edited from her video footage.
Because she hadn’t opened up Transmission Ports for the program team to those places.
However, with the broadcast of these short videos, public opinion was well controlled. Netizens now believed that although the official hadn’t explicitly mentioned a counterattack on the Otherworld, every short video revealed such intentions.
In the blink of an eye, it was mid to late September, and Ye Nai’s mission was finally completely finished.
The official short video had a big reveal.
It edited Ye Nai’s recordings at sea into a clip, showing ocean-floating cargo ships and heavy platforms, rusted after fifty years. The faded markings revealed they were ones from Dahua Country with company logos and ship numbers.