Only five people were seated in the spacious conference room.
Feide Huayin and the others looked at Yan Xia with grave expressions.
Now was the time to set the rules.
Yan Xia had long prepared for this; the existence of the Supreme Council was to grant these five people power they previously couldn't wield.
But this power also needed someone to keep it in check.
So, he joined the council.
Yan Xia first presented everyone with a permission notice, sent electronically.
“By signing this agreement, you will gain a higher level of permission, which will help you understand more, and more detailed, matters of the Federation.”
Feide Huayin and the others quickly looked through it.
Andrea exclaimed in surprise, “We actually had moles planted in Destiny Ring Star all this time?”
The document contained a vast amount of information, millions of characters, detailing everything down to the smallest particular.
Naturally, it also included many classified files, which weren't inherently top-secret and could be shown to these people without issue.
In fact, their previous permissions were sufficient to view them, but Ella deemed it unnecessary.
Yan Xia, however, granted this portion of the permissions to everyone and had Ella allocate a tiny bit of computing power to this task.
“Indeed, otherwise, how do you think you obtained so much information about Destiny Ring Star before?” Yan Xia retorted.
Andrea certainly had doubts.
He only had a vague guess.
And now, the truth was laid bare before him.
“Sigh, if I had known all this earlier, perhaps I could have done even more!”
Andrea sighed.
His words carried a hint of veiled dissatisfaction!
Yan Xia glanced at him, knowing he had a fiery temper. As a non-academic, Andrea’s path to promotion was very traditional, having been recommended by the previous Commander-in-Chief, Ke Mu'erduo.
Ke Mu'erduo had an even more explosive temper, which gave everyone a headache.
However, many people were happy about this; if such a person was used well, he could be an internal sword, used to accomplish things that would otherwise be opposed internally.
So, as soon as Andrea was recommended, he was elected as the new Commander-in-Chief with an absolute majority of 80% of the votes.
Over on the other side, Ya'erfeiniede suddenly let out an exclamation.
“So this is where Consciousness Warriors come from, so many virtual worlds, continuously providing consciousness accumulation.”
The others also searched and indeed found some information about Consciousness Warriors.
Consciousness Warriors originated from Ella’s very early “Hell Plan,” which contained many hells, and Huo Yier emerged from one of them.
However, that plan wasn't just about creating “Protagonists” like Huo Yier; it was also conducting other research on consciousness.
Over seventy percent of Consciousness Warrior technology came from this, then it provided a Main God Space and began to improve it.
However, Gods and ordinary people are still different, so the true improvement actually happened after the events in the Star of Death Sector, which was the first practical combat experiment.
Paying attention to this layer was equivalent to seeing the tip of the iceberg of the Federation's true secrets. Looking further down, Jiu Luo's expression also changed.
“So this is it, so this is how it is…”
He saw content about the “Protagonist Plan.”
The Hell Plan and the Protagonist Plan were two different things.
The Protagonist Plan was implemented in reality to create Protagonists of the era, allowing these Protagonists to establish Star Countries.
In the old era, Protagonists were rare. After the new era, the Protagonist Plan guided thousands of Protagonists to form Star Countries, and then these Star Countries fought each other, eventually leaving the largest one, the Twenty-Eight Star States Alliance.
“Establishing Star Countries was actually to train the Federal army.” Lan Duo'ou, as the Secretary-General, trembled internally.
The Secretary-General mostly cared about people's livelihood issues.
The war with the Twenty-Eight Star States Alliance had been fought for so many years, how many people had died?
Yet, all these casualties were caused by those at the top.
“These things can actually be understood by looking through past archives, Commander-in-Chief Andrea, wouldn't you say so?”
Andrea looked at everyone, pondered for a moment, then spoke.
“Indeed. Your tenures are short. Even if you were top-tier in the bureaucratic system before, you couldn't manage the military and knew very little about military matters.”
“I have been to the Federal Border battlefield. Although the situation on the battlefield has eased a lot now, if you are truly there, you will know that if we wanted to, we could easily deal with the Twenty-Eight Star States Alliance.”
“To impose restrictions, the orders from above were for humanitarian reasons; we couldn't indiscriminately kill the innocent, which severely tied the hands of the front lines.”
“However, even so, it would still be very easy for us to destroy any Star Country.”
This was an open secret, and the military was happy about it.
Without war, where would the merits come from?
If they were always idle, the Soldiers below couldn't earn money, the mid-level officers had no promotion channels, and the high-level officers would be nagged by the government.
So, fighting was still the best option.
Then they saw the Main God Space.
“This is a good place!”
Andrea’s eyes sparkled as he saw some of the combat power of the so-called Gods.
He looked up and asked, “Do I now have permission to mobilize these Gods?”
Yan Xia nodded.
“But it requires a joint decision.”
“The production of Gods is very low; cultivating one costs at least ten trillion energy coins to start, they are not consumables.”
The cost of Gods was indeed very high, but that referred to the mature ones.
For those who had just become Gods, the cultivation cost was only tens of billions of energy coins.
The real big expenditure came after becoming a God.
Even if their task was to create virtual worlds, they couldn't be confined to a single Star. Instead, a Starry Sky and a universe had to be created for these individuals.
And if they came to the real world, the expenses were even greater. Whether it was wormhole energy supply or consciousness transmission, both were extremely advanced technologies, and the research and development costs were calculated in hundreds of millions.
If they were highly experienced Gods, the expenses made the others wince, even making them doubt if they were worth that much money.
Andrea hesitated for a moment.
“Not that many, one or two should be fine!”
These Gods possessed extremely rich experience and incredibly profound ideological realms.
In the Main God Space, this was called “status.”
In essence, these individuals already considered themselves extraordinary and would no longer be bothered by worldly matters.
For example, some Gods, during missions, wouldn't bat an eye if others stole their wives or killed their children.
To most people, this was called “heartlessness,” but when heartlessness reached a certain degree, it was no longer heartlessness, but true closeness to God, a state of neither joy nor sorrow.
Such people were terrifying, making Andrea, the Commander-in-Chief, shiver just thinking about them.
And if such people could be used by him, then the enemy would be the one to fear.
Of course, there were no so-called enemies now. Andrea wanted these Gods merely to study them and have them conduct military experiments from their perspective.
“You can.”
Although Gods were not numerous now, they were consumables themselves. Yan Xia using “production” to refer to Gods meant that in his mind, Gods were like vegetables in a field.
This was certainly inhumane, but this was the exchange.
The vast majority of people who entered the Main God Space were those who found life meaningless, many of whom had committed suicide, or over 90% of them.
The Main God Space offered them a new life, and an incredibly exciting new life, so they also had to pay a certain price.
“And the Four-Dimensional Space plan, why haven't I heard of this plan?”
Feide Huayin asked in confusion.
In fact, by this point, Feide Huayin already understood that they were aware of most of the major plans that couldn't be hidden.
It was just that the Federation was too vast, and the matters they focused on could only cover one aspect. Many decisions weren't made by them, which led to them knowing many things but not in detail.
And the information about Four-Dimensional Space was both included and not included.
The included part was the previous Four-Dimensional action, and the not-included part was the current Four-Dimensional action.
This Four-Dimensional action was initiated from Zero Black Hole.
Zero Black Hole itself was far from the core area of the Federation, and even if its location was relatively important, fewer people cared about it.
Ella could easily conceal some things.
“The fewer people who know about the Pan-Plan, the better, and that’s a Four-Dimensional matter, can you really manage it?” Yan Xia asked.
This kind of matter required a high level of professionalism. The people present, including Yan Xia, were not very clear about such things.
Just understanding the Four-Dimensional environment was incredibly difficult, let alone issuing commands.
Without a solid foundation in space studies, trying to understand it would only cause trouble.
Even now, the provided information was only superficial.
“Do we also have such a large Star Sector in Four-Dimensional Space?” Lan Duo'ou noted that the Four-Dimensional population had already exceeded a trillion.
Compared to the Federation, it was certainly smaller.
But that was Four-Dimensional Space, and those who went there were not ordinary people.
According to the information, Human Civilization already occupied over ten thousand Four-Dimensional Stellar Systems.
This was an absolutely remarkable achievement.
And it also had alliances with two other Civilizations: a Believer Civilization and the destroyed Ge'er Civilization.
Now, after so many years, the Civilization Federation had long resurrected the Ge'er Civilization in Four-Dimensional Space. Now, the Ge'er Civilization was a vassal of the Civilization Federation and had not joined Human Civilization.
“It’s still increasing.”
“The expectation is to explore at least an area as large as Human Civilization’s current territory, whether it’s controlled or not is another matter,” Yan Xia answered his question.
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