Chapter 458: Adam Eradication Plan

The subject of how to take out Mayoral Candidate Adam without stirring up excessive controversy had become an extremely important problem in the eyes of many prominent figures.

They had only ever taken world-scale events seriously, and never had they even considered that an insignificant rogue blank slate would ever pose a serious threat to them.

Right now, that insignificant little pawn had promoted into a queen and become a formidable force to be reckoned with, completely throwing all of their plans into disarray.

"Is there really no way to take him out of the picture? In other words, is this group of yours so worthless that we'll have to turn to someone else to address this matter?"

At this moment, Blake was standing before an official member of the Guild of Immortality. They had the same youthful appearance, but Blake knew that he was standing in front of someone who was most definitely over 100 years of age.

Immortality was such an enviable thing, allowing one to enjoy the pleasure of controlling the entire world and countless other pleasures for the rest of eternity.

Blake didn't even dare to look directly at the person before him as he replied in a respectful voice, "If I'm given sufficient authority, as in absolute authority over the crisis group's decision-making and allocation of personnel and resources..."

The member of the Guild of Immortality didn't even wait for him to finish before giving a dismissive wave of his hand and promptly departing.

Despite the fact that Blake was overstepping the boundaries of his authority, the member of the Guild of Immortality instructed, "Give him whatever he wants, all I want to see are results, and I want to see them as soon as possible."

"Yes, sir."

There was naturally someone to relay his instructions in greater detail, laying out exactly what rights and privileges Blake was going to be entitled to in the crisis group from this point onward.

An empire of power was never one that was built solely on money and status. Instead, its foundation laid in its control over inner mechanisms that dictated the operation of the entire human world.

They had monopolized everything, and they had to ensure that nothing could disrupt the normal operation of their empire. This was a very complex system, and it was something that Blake had never come into contact with before.

However, he had been granted this opportunity now, and he had Adam to thank for reaching a position that would've otherwise taken him over a decade of toil to get to.

Blake maintained a calm facade, but as soon as he returned to the crisis group, his demeanor completely changed.

He resembled the alpha wolf of the pack as he expelled several idiots out of the group, then injected a large volume of resources while also connecting with many powerful external organizations. Most importantly, he changed the group's name to the Adam Eradication Group and also established the first plan.

On the third day after Adam revealed his own identity as a blank slate, a voter question and answer session was held at the election center, and among the many questions asked, one of them was as follows:

"Mr. Adam, you've already fulfilled your earlier promises and shown us hope and a glimpse into a better future, but there's still yet more darkness in our world. Will you continue to fight for us?"

Everyone knew that the election was nothing more than a game to the elite upper class of society. The mayor of Sandrise City was comparable in status to the president, but even they still had to abide by the wishes of the powerful figures behind the scenes and their financial backers.

For a mayoral candidate who had come from a humble background like Adam, being elected as mayor would catapult him straight into the ranks of the elite upper class. He had already done so much for the people that even if he were to completely stop after being elected, the voters wouldn't have been able to do anything to him.

Adam understood these concerns, and he replied in an earnest manner, "Regardless of whether I am elected or not, I will continue to fight for the people, doing everything in my power to uphold what is fair and just. That is something that will never change."

"Thank you so much, Mr. Adam."

The voter who had raised the question was so moved by this response they almost burst into tears, and they latched onto his hand for a long while, unwilling to let go.

This entire process was live streamed on the internet, and it had won Adam a great deal of praise.

Meanwhile, at the Adam Eradication Group, Blake nodded to himself with a pleased expression before issuing a new order.

After no more than an hour, an anonymous message was sent to the election center's email. Of course, it was among countless messages sent by voters, but this one contained a? great deal of content, as well as a very large attachment.

Due to the filters that Adam had set in place, this email was quickly pushed to the front of the queue, and it was marked red, so his team of secretaries immediately spotted it, then presented it to him after a manual evaluation.

"The sender of the message specifically requested for you to see it, and the attachment has been downloaded and confirmed to not be carrying any viruses, but..."

The secretary's voice trailed off here, but their concerns were very apparent. The content of the message was definitely not going to be innocuous, and it could negatively impact the entire election.

"Let me take a look," Adam said with a calm smile, then immediately opened the email and began to read through it without any hesitation.

The email contained data that a voter had copied from an internal database at the risk of their life, and it concerned another mega corporation in the form of the Gaia Organization.

I can already guess what information this data contains.

Just as he expected, the attachment contained a bunch of scattered information regarding the Metaverse and its immortality feature. The core of the attachment consisted of a report that had been submitted by a certain technical director to their superior, stating that the immortality project had already run out of storage space, and a request was being made for more.

The response from the superior was extremely cold and callous: "Raise the compression ratio and only retain the basic logic data and dynamic expression. Connect all of the memory bodies to the central artificial intelligence material library and randomly generate their responses in real time using the cloud network. Limit the number of times family members can visit their deceased relatives in the Metaverse. Tally the frequency of their visits and raise the data storage and interaction fees."

In summary, not only were they further compressing these cyberliches to minimize storage demands, they were also raising the prices for people to visit their deceased relatives in the Metaverse, thereby further extorting the people who were already working themselves to the bone.

This was the exact same situation as the one that Adam had seen in Liu Shouyi's memories.

Was this coincidence or was there really an invisible, omnipotent hand controlling everything from the shadows? In any case, given the contents of this message and the declaration that he had just made, he now had no choice but to target the Gaia Organization.

"So this is the trap they've set for me," Adam chuckled to himself.

To someone else, perhaps this would've truly been quite a devious trap.

If he were to take action, then he would have to make an enemy out of the Gaia Organization, which was the biggest corporation in the entire world. He had only just become a target of the Guild of Immortality, and the Gaia Organization was going to be no less formidable a foe.

However, if he were to back down, then he would be going against every promise that he had made up to this point, thereby undoing all of his prior efforts. Hence, he had no choice but to forge ahead.

Adam forwarded the email to Cowboy and May, then also sent a secret message to Raven through the dark web. May was in the process of tackling the blank slate production chain, and she was far from pleased with this development.

"Why are you so insistent on getting yourself killed as soon as possible?"

As for Cowboy, he replied to Adam's message with a statement of approval on Wax Figure's behalf, giving him full freedom to do as he saw fit. They were already too deeply invested in Adam at this point to turn back.

Raven's message arrived a little later, but it was still before the deadline laid out by Adam, and it was a very concise response: "As you wish."

Thus, on the same afternoon, no more than two hours after the email was read, Adam revealed the contents of the email to the entire internet, while also declaring that he was officially going to be launching an investigation into the Gaia Organization and all of its subsidiary branches in Sandrise City.

The internet was stirred up into a frenzy once again.