Trading Cosmic Battleship From The Start

Shen Shi half-closed his eyes.

"Initiate the Standing Member vote," he said. "Reject the application for legal coverage of special circumstances, and simultaneously push for law enforcement."

At present, the Supreme Council had not yet officially convened. Emperor Ji and others were merely in the role of ordinary members. Theoretically, during this period, with Shen Shi's reputation among the Standing Members, he could accomplish anything he wanted.

There was no need to heed the opinions of ordinary members.

However, contrary to his expectations, the Standing Member vote also ended in failure.

"I see." Shen Shi understood, sighing lightly in his heart, "The consciousness of the Standing Members has been influenced."

Among the current Standing Members of Future Line 2, two were absolutely loyal to him, plus himself, theoretically making a failed vote impossible, yet it happened.

This only meant that these guys used Primordial Energy Technology to influence the other Standing Members.

It's not Gong Chu, it should be another one.

No, the other two, although having some ideological differences with him, were still aligned in the main direction and could not possibly negate this government order.

The opposition directly influenced three of them.

This is the plight of the weak.

Although becoming a human member requires a strong mastery of Primordial Energy to prevent such an important position from being influenced by enemies or potential existences, especially a Standing Member whose strongest Primordial Energy power doesn't necessarily hold the highest status, the highest status certainly implies the highest level of Primordial Energy power.

However, this "highest" is still clearly weak in front of the "highest" of various civilizations led by Emperor Ji.

"Initiate the Standing Members' self-awareness audit program," Shen Shi spoke again. "Freeze all permissions."

When he suspected that the other Standing Members could no longer maintain their self-awareness, he could initiate the audit program to freeze all their permissions. This was why Emperor Ji and others, even though they controlled three Standing Members, had not done anything with their identities.

But Shen Shi knew he had already fallen behind in this battle of permissions.

Because Emperor Ji's goal had been achieved.

That is, to convene the Supreme Council as soon as possible and take the current chaotic situation to the Supreme Council for analysis and discussion.

Otherwise, it would be easy for Shen Shi to procrastinate for decades or even a century.

Combining with what Emperor Ji had said before.

It was evident that the opposition had fully prepared to directly obtain the status of a Standing Member at this Supreme Council, using the current chaotic situation as a breakthrough. Now, it was obvious that the power of the "human" outsiders was far stronger than that of the Primitive Humans, and if uncontrolled, the situation might increasingly spiral out of control. If Emperor Ji used this as a bargaining chip, even if Shen Shi opposed it, the opposition might still win some members' compromise.

Not to mention, if even Standing Members' consciousness can be influenced by Primordial Energy, let alone ordinary members?

If the audit program for ordinary members is initiated again, it will cause the supreme management system of all humanity to collapse beyond the dangerous line, subsequently automatically launching the highest level of doomsday alert program, making the situation even more chaotic. In such a chaotic situation, those with strong power and advanced technology, the outsiders, would undoubtedly hold the advantage.

After all, the so-called doomsday alert program is meant to help the strongest individual or force re-establish order when order is uncontrollable.

It can only be said, worthy of a powerful civilization's ruling class, familiarizing themselves with all the high-level human systems in such a short time and executing such a step-by-step action gives Shen Shi almost no room for choice.

However, despite the situation looking dire to a certain extent, Shen Shi still believed he had fallen behind, not yet lost.

The reason is simple.

The opposition's core aim—to become a Standing Member—had not yet been achieved, and Shen Shi still had the opportunity to prevent it.

"Although I participated in the establishment of the system, being in a near-Emperor-like leadership position for thousands of years, it's normal not to compete in systematic tactics." Shen Shi murmured in his heart, "It seems I can only return to my old expertise."

What was Shen Shi's old expertise?

Of course, it was exploiting loopholes.

Even having led human civilization's development for thousands of years, Shen Shi still clearly recognized that his strength could not be separated from exploiting loopholes.

Although unable to use the Time Crystal in Future Line, after lengthy modifications, Shen Shi himself could now utilize part of the power of time.

At this moment, he slightly squinted his eyes.

An indescribable power obeyed his will and emerged from his body.

If there were a top-secret detection device, even within these three A-level Civilizations, aimed at Shen Shi, it might discover some traces, a mysterious power based on Primordial Energy yet seemingly surpassing it.

But evidently.

Facing Shen Shi, with his profound mastery of Primordial Energy, Emperor Ji and others wouldn't conduct unconfident surveillance.

Even if they did monitor.

For the "True Prophet" Shen Shi at this moment, discovering it would be easy.

This was a feeling entirely different from the "False Prophet" shaped by Future Line, and Shen Shi felt his consciousness trudging in another time dimension only he could explore, as streams of information emerged from the dimension full of branching paths. It was a terrifying information flow comprised of numerous future possibilities, including fragmented sounds, incomplete images, and countless complex signals...

What Shen Shi had to do was arduously summarize and organize the information to find what he needed in the fixed Future Line he explored.

Currently, he could only explore not even a few years into the future.

Beyond that, all the information was fragmented.

Fortunately, under Emperor Ji and others' push, the Supreme Council might convene soon, just in the time range Shen Shi could closely observe.

"I see, so this is their plan... indeed, they have controlled many people... indeed, high-level confrontation ultimately returns to an information battle..."

Under the grandeur of time, Shen Shi gradually came to know everything.

When he opened his eyes again, the confidence from exploiting loopholes filled his heart.

Just like countless times in the past.

This time, he would also give humanity's enemies a big surprise.

The Supreme Council convened normally according to the procedure.

It was still within the consciousness link.

When disconnected from external appearances, deep within the interactions of the consciousness link, it was impossible to discern the addition of a dozen aliens. Originally, the strong individuals from various civilizations who came to the Solar System had already altered their consciousness worlds, cultural identities, to possess Holy Land personal terminals. At this point, the thought logic displayed in the transmission of consciousness seemed to have no difference from that of human consciousness.

However, everyone present knew.

The stance of these people was by no means purely aligned with humans, though they might temporarily align due to the allure of the Relic Civilization, if the situation changed one day, they would also unhesitatingly alter their current stance.

Therefore, the emotions of many members inevitably showed concern.

Yet according to the original provisions of the Supreme Council, all members' emotions must be open to a certain degree, making such worries uncontrollable. Perhaps no one could imagine the day when aliens would enter this meeting that represented humanity's highest mission and honor.

Even if this might benefit humanity, it remained a hard-to-describe insult for the members present.

"Everyone is present, so the meeting begins now!" Shen Shi's consciousness resounded at this moment.

As dispassionate as in the past, carrying unwavering emotions.

In that instant, the worries in the hall quickly dissipated.

Because the members realized that the one hailed as the Sage Saint seemed unchanged in the slightest.