Chapter 457: I Am a Blank Slate

"I require an explanation."

Blake was barely able to contain his own fury, but he still forced himself to maintain his composure as he swept a vicious gaze across everyone present.

The people before him came from similar upbringings as him and possessed similar levels of status, with massive backers behind them that could influence the lives of countless people with even the slightest of moves, yet these people were also foolish beyond belief.

Blake was unable to find the right words to address them, and after trying a few times, he decided to give up all attempts at remaining civilized as he erupted into a furious tirade.

"Which one of you fucking idiots can tell me who it was that issued such a braindead order for a high-level Lamp Keeper like Masao Yamamoto to assassinate a mayoral candidate in his own fucking estate?!"

If there had been any redeeming qualities to this operation at all, Blake wouldn't have been so furious, but the problem was that everything about it was wrong, and there was irrefutable evidence that Masao Yamamoto had committed an unforgivable crime.

"We can say that Masao Yamamoto made this mistake because he came under psychic control!" someone suggested, and his peers immediately turned to look at him as if he were mentally handicapped.

Even a three-year-old child wouldn't have believed such a lie, and trying to placate the general public with such an obviously false excuse would only further exacerbate the already terrible situation.

Blake couldn't even be bothered to respond to this idiot as his furious gaze continued to rake over his colleagues.

Unfortunately, these people were completely incapable, but they were experts at pretending to be innocent, and he wasn't able to identify any of them as displaying any abnormal reactions.

There was also another possibility, which was that one of the families behind them had issued the order, and these idiots hadn't been informed at all.

This so-called crisis group was nothing more than a way to make these otherwise useless idiots useful in the hope that they could do something about Adam, but even if they failed, it didn't matter.

As soon as this thought sprang into his mind, Blake was left feeling rather depressed.

He had a great deal of lofty ambitions, wanting to capture this opportunity to make a substantial contribution, but now that he had finally taken control over the crisis group, it appeared that the families behind them were still pulling strings behind the scenes.

Those old bastards still have the same outdated mindsets from the previous generation! They think that that they can do whatever they want as long as they have money and weapons, but what they don't know is that with the rise of adapters, the entire world is very likely to undergo a complete revolution...

Anyone who wanted to climb to the top in this day and age had to have powerful adapters under their control. Otherwise, they were destined to be left behind by the times.

Masao Yamamoto was a very good pawn, but he had been sacrificed for nothing.

Blake clenched his fists tightly as a contemplative look appeared in his eyes, trying to decide between making one final effort or just giving up altogether.

At the moment, outrage was brewing completely unchecked on the internet, while Adam's supporters had been riled up into a frenzy, infinitely sharing the footage and evidence so that everyone could see it.

Meanwhile, Commander and the other people in power in the northern congress were also fanning the flames, and they were able to place the enemy in a very unfavorable position without much effort.

Both the human organ smuggling chain and the blank slate production chain had ties to the core members of the southern congress, and at this point, the outcome of the battle was already decided, all that was left was to see how much the northern congress could benefit from this victory.

On the way back, Adam received a collaboration application from the pawn shop, with May personally conducting the negotiations, entrusted with the task of striking at the human farm in Masao Yamamoto's memories.

"That's the place where you were created. I don't want to assign this task to anyone else, so I'll see it through on my own."

May was a very reliable figure, and Adam had no reason not to agree to this proposal.

Meanwhile, Cowboy had been entrusted with the task of accompanying Shae to Golden Teeth Incorporated to take over Masao Yamamoto's shares in the company, as well as to secure the number shareholder position and absolute inheritance rights, all in one go.

"Don't hold back this time. If anyone tries to interfere with our plan, take them down right away."

Adam knew that the time was right for them to adopt some more aggressive measures. Otherwise, the enemy could easily perceive their lack of aggression as weakness.

Golden Teeth Incorporated was only going to be the beginning. After receiving support from the northern congress and more powerful figures, he was going to take down the entirety of the Guild of Immortality.

There was no point in destroying the secret supply chains associated with the Guild of Immortality as they could easily construct more human farms and obtain more blank slates.

The only permanent solution was to tackle the problem at its roots, exposing the heinous deeds of the Guild of Immortality to the world and giving them a heavy blow to tell them that there were still people in the world capable of resisting against them and posing a threat to their safety.

The general public would also get to see him step up and oppose the biggest injustice in this world.

𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

With him leading by example, more and more people would follow in his footsteps, and the resistance against the current world order would only continue to grow.

Regardless of what the world was going to become in the future, at the very least, he would be able to bring a ray of light and warmth into this current cold and filthy world.

With that in mind, Adam felt very much at peace, and he didn't even bother to assess the evolution that Scarecrow had undergone after absorbing Masao Yamamoto's anomalic power.

He now had another powerful ally, but that was the extent of it.

Following his return, he didn't even take a moment to rest before exposing the massive crime syndicate behind Masao Yamamoto to the general public, as well as revealing the truth about his own origins.

Even though everyone had already learned about his past from the restored footage from his last press conference, this time, he had revealed the process of his development in its entirety, starting from how he was a cloned infant before slowly being nurtured into a blank slate.

His body was never meant to belong to him, and it could become a vessel for someone else at any moment.

It was essentially a horror film being played out in reality, and with that, the harrowing reality of the Guild of Immortality was finally revealed.

The person who had purchased Adam's body was an elderly congressman of the southern congress. He was in such terrible health that he had to be attached to a breathing machine while attending congress meetings, and a while back, he had suddenly passed away under mysterious circumstances, and his position was passed down to an unknown new member of his family.

It was revealed that this person had no bloodline ties to him at all. Instead, it was the same congressman with his memories uploaded into another blank slate.

The evidence was irrefutable, and the only fate that awaited that congressman was impeachment and eternal condemnation.

"I am a blank slate, and I hope that I will be the last blank slate. Tragedies like this should not happen. Everyone has the right to live their own lives, and our bodies can only belong to us."

The image of Adam with his fist raised aloft on the television screen was one that became an everlasting memory in the minds of many.

"We can't allow him to stick around any longer. Otherwise, he'll eventually come after us."