The Hunter Association initially dismissed the legend, treating it like the myriad of urban myths found online – mere fabrications.
It should be noted here that the vast majority of urban legends discoverable on the Federal network are false.
Regardless of what abilities they might possess, if countless such monsters emerged, it would be impossible to completely conceal them from public view!
Their numbers are also unknown. If their numbers are sufficient, then the Hunter Association's long-standing policy of concealment from ordinary people would utterly fail. The world would plunge into panic, and monsters would proliferate.
Most importantly, the Hunter Association could not intervene in the Silent Abyss and could only await the inevitable.
The Truth Society's gambit was perfectly aimed at the Hunter Association's Achilles' heel; if the monsters were indeed as speculated, the collapse of world order was a certainty.
If this were in the past, the Truth Society would have had virtually no chance of failure.
But now, the Hunter Association had a solution: the re-initiation of the New Human Project!
This meant no longer concealing the world's truth from ordinary people, allowing them to know the real world.
Once transformed into New Humans, ordinary people would not create powerful monsters out of panic even when confronted with the super-powered world.
At that point, the Hunter Association would not need to consider the feelings of ordinary people and could focus entirely on dealing with their enemies.
As Srikesin had mentioned before, the Hunter Association had once used a prophecy-type supreme containment to predict the outcome of this war.
That outcome was highly unfavorable to the Hunter Association, and only the New Human Project represented their sole chance of turning the tide. It seemed that prophecy was now manifesting here.
While the New Human Project and the monsters in the Silent Abyss were matters of great concern for the Hunter Association, Wen Wen's primary focus now was on strengthening the Foundation's defenses.
The Alliance of Secret Organizations would target the Foundation first. If Wen Wen did not want his efforts over this long period to be in vain, he had to arm the Foundation.
The choice of location for the Foundation's headquarters was excellent, with no ordinary residential areas nearby, allowing for large-scale modifications.
The main structure of the headquarters was encased in a metal shell, its defensive capabilities already sufficient to withstand attacks from disaster-level monsters. However, in Wen Wen's view, it was far from enough, as their impending enemies could be terrifyingly powerful.
Therefore, Wen Wen spared no expense, using the faith power he had previously obtained to directly carve countless defensive runes onto the Foundation's metal exterior.
With all the faith power consumed, the headquarters became impregnable. Even super-powered individuals of True Order level would require considerable effort to cause damage.
Such extravagant use of faith power might cause some faith-deficient deities to faint from anger, but Wen Wen felt no regret. Keeping such power on himself would only be troublesome.
However, strong defense alone was insufficient. Wen Wen also planted special plants outside the headquarters and deployed super bombs obtained from the Knight of the Night.
He treated the area around the Foundation as a battlefield, a deployment that seemed borderline insane even to his own people.
Furthermore, Wen Wen intended to recall all the containment personnel from around the world to defend the Foundation's headquarters.
Wen Wen wanted to let the world know that the Foundation was not to be trifled with; anyone who dared to attack would be prepared to lose a tooth.
Additionally, the Association would provide corresponding aid. Thousands of Colossal Soldiers were hidden within Qianhe City, along with a large number of super-powered individuals. The monstrous beast Qilin and Vanguard 60 were also concealed within the city.
Now, Wen Wen actually felt a hint of anticipation for the Alliance of Secret Organizations' attack. The net was cast, and he was waiting for them to walk into it.
While waiting, Wen Wen was not idle. He summoned Chu Wei, who was currently training in the Sakura District, and assigned him a solo mission.
The mission was for Chu Wei to travel to the Golden Eagle District, find the headquarters of the thirteen bloodline clans, and attempt to subvert them.
He was to tell them forcefully, in no uncertain terms, not to aid evildoers and make an enemy of the Hunter Association, as it was a path to death. Repent and you shall find salvation, and so forth…
Upon hearing the mission requirements, Chu Wei looked at Wen Wen as if he were an idiot, believing Wen Wen was joking.
However, under Wen Wen's insistence, Chu Wei finally departed, taking his "mouth-smelly pills" with him.
Wen Wen was not acting recklessly; his calculations were precise.
Hidden within Chu Wei's body was the progenitor of the thirteen bloodline clans, the Blood Emperor Vlad.
Perhaps at that moment, Chu Wei would tremble, and the thirteen bloodline clans would immediately defect and become tool users under Chu Wei's command.
A tool user of a tool user is still a tool user of Wen Wen, so Wen Wen was looking forward to it.
Even if the vampires did not acknowledge their ancestor, they would be provoked by Chu Wei and pursue him, which was fine because it would allow Chu Wei to grow stronger rapidly.
Sending Chu Wei out was a speculative move by Wen Wen; if it succeeded, the gains would be substantial, and if it failed, Wen Wen would suffer no loss.
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After Wen Wen provided the meeting minutes, the Hunter Association immediately sprang into action.
The New Human Project was implemented throughout the Federation. Due to the urgency, the strategy was simple and brutal.
First, they generated hype by claiming a deadly virus was spreading. This virus was highly contagious, causing festering sores, bleeding from all seven orifices, infertility, and ugliness in women and shrinkage in men…
In short, it was horrific in every way except for causing death, a virus so evil it made one's scalp tingle just from the description, truly the most wicked virus since the dawn of humanity.
Then, under the guise of the virus, they forcibly administered a vaccine to everyone in the Federation.
This so-called vaccine was actually a seed of Qi. These seeds only needed five to seven days to take root and sprout, transforming ordinary people into New Humans.
With the Hunter Association's full effort and the Federation's strong cooperation, it took only five days to inoculate the vast majority of people in the entire Federation with Qi seeds.
This demonstrates that the Hunter Association was actually prepared for widespread adoption of the New Human Project.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible to prepare tens of billions of seed injections in just five days.
After the injection, people were surprised to find that certain topics, previously considered taboo, were no longer so, and their bodies also underwent subtle changes.