The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2931

Chapter 2931: Erupting Madness

"I can’t believe your stupid idea is actually working, sir."

Ves comfortably leaned back on his chair as he observed the projection over his desk. Lucky, who laid close by, curiously looked up in order to see how many rats the pied piper had caught.

The counter displayed a figure of over 700 biomechs.

It appeared that the ultralifers had deployed all of their functional biomechs, including the ones that bore obvious signs of damage!

For over two hours, the four organic bots made by Ves marched forward at a steady pace. Their angelic wings flapped in the wind but did not help with speeding up their movements.

Ves wasn’t in a hurry. He didn’t want to startle the ultralifers or cause them to entertain doubts. The best way to do that was to avoid making too many abnormal changes.

He was essentially boiling them like frogs.

In order to reduce their vigilance even further, Ves controlled the four statues to take a circuitous route to their intended destination. The statues took random turns and even circled back the way they came before correcting their path and heading into the distance.

The ultralifers didn’t want the statues of Lufa to go. They attempted to block or pull them back several times. Each time they did so, Ves cut off the glow of the statue in question. He only returned them to their old condition when the object in question was able to move forward without obstruction!

Through these simple, wordless reactions, Ves trained the ultralifers to let the statues move where they wished.

Of course, they couldn’t possibly let these impressive treasures walk out of their reach!

If they couldn’t stop the statues from leaving, then the next best decision they could make was to accompany it and see where it led!

Slowly but surely, the four statues moved towards a location that was very familiar to the ultralifers.

Plenty of them began to figure out where the fascinating organic statues were taking them, and that caused them to become increasingly concerned.

While Ves wasn’t able to monitor their communications, he could see that the ultralifers had finally decided to pull the trigger and forcibly take one of his statues back to their underground base.

He immediately cut off the glow to all four statues in response.

This was out of the expectation of the ultralifers! If the statues exhibited the same pattern as before, then only the organic statue that was being affected by their actions should have cut off its effect.

The leaders among them evidently concluded that this was an acceptable price to pay. If they had need of it again, they could always bring it out and let it restore its special function.

Yet Ves didn’t intend to let them exploit him like that. He shut down the entire game and only resumed when the ultralifers recognized their fault.

As a consequence, Ves effectively managed to subvert this dangerous and powerful extremist organization!

While he couldn’t show up in the flesh and issue orders to his supposed enemies, he could continually make use of the control he had over his work to manipulate the ultralifers in doing his bidding!

It was quite amazing to see how much they submitted to a couple of random organic statues that showed outside their doorstep out of the blue.

Even if they possessed a mechanical core, even if they possessed glows that were similar to that of Ves’ mechs, even if the statues were leading them straight towards one of their enemies, the ultralifers did not show any sign of quitting!

When Ves invited his mech commanders over, they both needed a lot of time to accept the fact that the ultralifers were this gullible.

"To be fair, they are not as stupid as they look right now." Ves defended the behavior of the ultralifers. "It’s just that I have employed a very manipulative strategy to lower their vigilance and increase their propensity to obey. I trained them for several days before I even thought about luring them away from their underground base."

"Even so, the fact that none of them are trying to stop what is happening is a feat in itself!" Commander Casella exclaimed. "I feel like you can lead them right into a black hole without making any of them suspect that you are deliberately driving them to their deaths?"

"What can I say?" Ves smirked. "This is what the Bright Republic has warned us all the time. Superstition and fanaticism directly reduces someone’s judgement to the point where they become susceptible to orders that go against their own interests. They developed this fatal character flaw of theirs in order to increase their control over the beliefs and actions of their own people. They shouldn’t blame me for taking advantage of an exploit they already created themselves."

It was like taking advantage of a backdoor that the developer of a product secretly inserted in their own work.

While they may have implemented a backdoor with good intentions in mind, as long as one of their enemies gained access to it, the damage could potentially be massive!

"I feel ashamed of my birth state." Commander Rivington palmed his face. "Many Lifers aren’t like this. They are decent, normal people who just happen to grow up with biotechnology. I don’t know any friends or acquaintances that feel so strongly about our state that they are so gullible to being led around."

Ves smiled back. "You don’t have to feel bad about this situation. The ultralifers aren’t representative of the rest of the citizens of the LRA. They are just outliers. I’m sure that the rest of the locals are smarter and possess better judgement."

Okay, he lied at the end, but that wasn’t important. He just felt that the Lifers were deeply flawed as a people. This was why he hated them and why he felt eager to leave this planet.

Yet before he left, he wanted to make sure he could gain the most out of this situation!

"You’re bringing the organic statues to the warehouse complex of the paramilitaries, right?" Commander Casella asked.

Ves nodded. "Yup."

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