Chapter 101: The Bloody Truth

She made her choice. The mainframe’s defenses were extremely high, so she forcibly overdrew all of her life force, pushing Electronic Insight beyond its limits. Single-handedly, she altered the mainframe’s underlying logic and forcibly opened all the air defense gates!

She chose. The mainframe’s code security had long reached the highest level, and ordinary methods couldn’t break through. So she didn’t hesitate to forcibly overdraft all her life force, driving Electronic Insight beyond its limits. Alone, she rewrote the mainframe’s underlying logic and forced open every gate.

The gates opened. Civilians flooded into the underground shelters. They survived.

Qin Lan opened her eyes and looked at Hua Mu’ai.

But Wanning… died in battle.

She was ultimately caught in the aftermath of the Heavenly Fire. Not even a complete body was left.

Silence fell on the balcony. Hua Mu’ai was grief-stricken.

“Wanning, you fool! Why did you have to bear everything alone? If only I had been by your side then!”

“She saved people.” Hua Mu’ai’s eyes were bloodshot. “Then why is her name carved on a pillar of shame? Why is she treated as a traitor to humanity?!”

Qin Lan inhaled a deep breath of cold air, trying to suppress the nausea in her stomach.

“Because those three high-ranking officials were afraid. Even if Wanning was dead, the truth might still leak. They had to nail this down. They had to make Su Wanning a complete criminal. They controlled the official media and manipulated the military court. They pinned three fabricated charges on a hero who died saving others!”

“So what were the charges?” Hua Mu’ai asked coldly.

The trial of Su Wanning was secret.

To the public, they only claimed she was mentally unstable, disrupted evacuation orders, and attacked the evacuation network, so she was dealt with. But the specific charges and details were known only within the Inspectorate.

Hua Mu’ai had waited eleven years. Today, she would finally hear the whole truth.

“First charge: mental breakdown, spreading panic.”

“Bullshit!”

Hua Mu’ai punched the railing in fury.

“A magical girl’s star power naturally counters Void Beasts’ pollution! She was Lieyangxing! How could she be infected!”

“Right. Everyone knows it’s impossible.” Qin Lan gritted her teeth. “But the Star Track faction bribed GSA’s chief medical officer at the time.”

“That corrupt bastard produced a fake evaluation report.”

“The report claimed that Su Wanning, due to being too close to the Heavenly Fire core, was an extremely low-probability magical girl infection case.”

“Do you know how vicious this tactic is?” Qin Lan looked at Hua Mu’ai, her eyes filled with grief and anger.

“With that report, Wanning’s act of breaking into the communication channel before her death to question the high-ranking officials’ escape had a perfect explanation.”

“The higher-ups could blatantly announce: Su Wanning was driven mad by radiation, suffering from severe paranoia and hallucinations. She was raving, slandering the command for fleeing.”

“That way, the information Wanning left behind would all be labeled as the ravings of a madwoman. Who would believe a lunatic?”

“Go on,” Hua Mu’ai said coldly.

“Next, the second charge.” Qin Lan took a deep breath. “Defying orders in wartime and illegally invading the military network.”

“The higher-ups cut communications and fled, causing total paralysis of frontline command. But they pinned the blame on Wanning.”

“They accused the command of urgently deploying the AI mainframe to open evacuation channels at that time.”

“But the insane Su Wanning, to satisfy her hallucinations, maliciously invaded and paralyzed the military’s highest communication network, causing temporary command failure and delaying the battle.”

“And they shamelessly claimed that the military finally eliminated Su Wanning’s interference, repaired the gates, and saved the civilians.”

“Nice one, ‘delaying the battle,'” Hua Mu’ai laughed angrily. “What about the third? Did they blame the people she couldn’t save on her too?”

“You guessed it. Third charge: disrupting evacuation order, causing heavy civilian casualties.”

“Many people died on the streets because the mainframe locked the gates. That casualty number was too big, the responsibility too heavy. Someone had to take the fall.”

“The higher-ups couldn’t admit they never authorized the opening.”

“They said that it was precisely because Su Wanning’s illegal invasion after her mental collapse severely interfered with the AI mainframe’s normal judgment logic that the deadlock program was forced to trigger.”

“They splattered the blood of those victims onto a girl who died saving them, a girl who could no longer speak to defend herself!”

The mystery that had troubled Hua Mu’ai for eleven years was finally laid bare in that moment.

The bloody truth was so cruel it made one nauseous.

The hero who exhausted her life to save the situation, under the shameless machinations of the Star Track faction, was turned into a monster driven mad by radiation, a traitor who ultimately caused civilian deaths. She received no flowers or glory as a martyr. GSA not only erased her name from the list of heroes but also nailed it forever to humanity’s pillar of shame.

Hua Mu’ai remembered that year.

While she was fighting on the front lines, when she learned of Su Wanning’s death, she only received a cold verdict from GSA.

Violent star power erupted with Hua Mu’ai at the center.

A blinding white light illuminated the entire room. Hua Mu’ai actually broke through her limits and forcibly activated Yuena’s heart energy to transform into Tian Lanxing.

In the living room, Gu Qianqian and Lin Xiaolu, who had been asleep, instantly woke up.

They exchanged glances, their eyes full of shock.

“What’s happened to Captain?!” Gu Qianqian didn’t even bother with shoes; she rushed barefoot toward the balcony. Lin Xiaolu followed closely.

“Don’t come over!”

A furious shout came from the balcony.

Then, a cerulean barrier rose, directly sealing the glass door to the balcony.

Gu Qianqian slammed into the barrier and was bounced back two steps. She stared wide-eyed at the balcony.

At that moment, Tian Lanxing had her back to them.

Her chest heaved violently, and her eyes were tightly shut. The space around her cracked due to the rampant star power within her body.

Fortunately, she hadn’t issued an attack command, so the spatial cracks didn’t release any suction force.

She was struggling with all her might to suppress the destructive urge that was nearly erupting.

She absolutely couldn’t let Qianqian know about this!

If Qianqian found out that the mother she had always admired was killed like this by the higher-ups, that stubborn girl would go mad! She would fight to the death!

A full two minutes passed. The world-destroying star power slowly subsided, and the spatial cracks gradually healed.

Tian Lanxing turned around. The soundproof barrier she had erected still existed, so those outside couldn’t hear a thing from inside.

Her face bore a terrifying calm.

“Qin Lan, are those three high-ranking officials still alive?”

Qin Lan swallowed, facing a god emanating tangible killing intent.

“Alive.” Qin Lan nodded. “Not only alive, they are still core power holders of the Star Track faction at GSA headquarters.”

“Good.” Tian Lanxing sneered.

Her beautiful face was now filled with brutality.

“The longer they live, the better. I will definitely go to headquarters and, in front of everyone, shatter their bones piece by piece!”

“Don’t act impulsively!” Qin Lan grabbed Tian Lanxing’s wrist. “What I just told you isn’t enough to bring them down! They have destroyed all the physical evidence from back then!”

“If you go kill them now, you’ll only confirm Wanning’s guilt. You’ll become a public enemy of humanity!”

“To overturn the verdict, we must get ironclad evidence, evidence that can shut the mouths of the whole world!”

Tian Lanxing’s blue eyes stared coldly at her.

“Since you’re telling me all this, does that mean you’ve already found ironclad evidence?”

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