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The coordinates of the command center were known only to two people; one was an Elder who had already entered the New World, and the other... was none other than Nie Xingjun, who is now acting as the President of the Federal Parliament!

Nie Xingjun was a rising star in the political arena over the last few decades.

If nothing went wrong, during the next parliamentary elections, he was supposed to become the President of the House of Representatives, the third most powerful person in the Eastern Federation.

Already 140 years old this year, according to Federation rules, he had a final term of 30 more years, so his position was, barring any surprises, supposed to be set in stone.

However, the eruption of the New World incident caused the older generation like Zhang Zhengyuan and Hou Tianhua, who were the previous power holders, to hasten into the New World, leaving the middle-aged generation to abruptly take over.

Previously lined up successor and President of the Parliament - groomed by the Hou Family - was the Southern Commander: Hou Nanfeng.

But because initially they had set a trap to catch the King of Qin... the big fish known as number one, Hou Nanfeng tragically became nothing more than bait in the command room, thus paving the way for Nie Xingjun, the emerging star from the Nie Family, to step in as acting President.

Despite this, the Nie Family was prestigious and influential; since taking over the Federation, politcal orders were mostly well-enforced and supported by the military. Yet only now, Nie Xingjun realized that he barely understood the Federation...

The alarm went off, not a single soldier came to his rescue, and with his special privileges, he couldn’t mobilize the troops or even declare his current hostage situation!

As one of the top figures in the Federation, his privileges not only included mobilizing the army and security forces at any time but also broadcasting through the media to disclose current situations, a protective measure for high-ranking politicians.

As acting President, his privileges were almost supreme, but now. .. his privileges were revoked!!

Nie Xingjun stared in disbelief at the woman posing as a secretary, his shock greater than when number one wanted to shut down Digital City.

At this moment, the thoughts of Wang Ye escaping and Tianji disappearing left his mind, all he could think about was who this woman before him could be...

Even for an acting President, stifling his privileges required a full vote from the House of Representatives, needing over two-thirds to pass the motion for restriction, followed by a joint session of the three chambers, and three consecutive voting sessions to temporarily suspend the privileges of the top President, almost equivalent to a coup. ..

Such an incident has not occurred even once in the many centuries of Digital City Federation’s history, only ever conceived in movies by directors.

But like today’s scenario, even movies could not capture it because no one could have imagined...

The highest leader of a nation, privileges silently stripped away.

Who could this be?

Top-level hacker?

Impossible...

"Nobody leaves this room..." the woman said to Nie Xingjun, "You... come with me..."

"Okay..." At this moment, Nie Xingjun no longer possessed the imposing aura he had earlier, he was extremely cautious.

This woman, aware of all the Federation’s circumstances, and capable of stripping away his privileges, he couldn’t even begin to imagine the power behind her.

Leaving the conference room, the woman asked, "Where is the command center?"

"You can strip away my privileges but don’t know where the command center is?"

"Still testing me?" the woman replied coldly, "The coordinates of the command center were dictated to you by Zhang Zhengyuan. No one wanted to stir up trouble along Zhang Zhengyuan’s line, so naturally, the matter of the hidden command center was known only to him."

"May I ask who you actually are?"

"My surname is Long..."

"Long..." Nie Xingjun’s pupils contracted.

There had always been rumors in his family that behind the ten major families, there actually lies one hidden family, the Long Family.

But many, including himself, did not believe these rumors, for in both the political and business worlds, no influentially positioned individual surnamed Long had ever been heard of - such things can’t stay hidden in Digital City; the higher your status, the greater your privileges, and records would be kept in the data archives, yet this person before him was like a bug. ..

"There are things you do not need to know yet. For now, your privileges will be handled by someone else, and you... just need to take me to the command center."

Replace my authority?

Nie Xingjun looked at the other party’s indifferent demeanor, his mind twisted to the extreme. How could such a matter be spoken of as simply as drinking water?

What exactly is going on?

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"Ladies and gentlemen..." In the meeting room, after the woman left, a middle-aged man soon appeared at the front table: "I will take over the meeting from now onwards.

The Federation will enter an emergency state, pooling all electrical energy to supply the New World, evacuating all personnel from three industrial districts, and all the elderly from three Parallel Worlds.

Within three hours, all Parallel Worlds will be completely shut down to prepare for the upcoming energy needs! "

"This..."

Everyone stared at this newly appeared guy, dumbfounded. Who is this? A madman?

Shutting down all Parallel Worlds?

Even Zhang Zhengyuan wouldn’t have made such a crazy statement originally.

However, what made everyone dare not object was the fact that they could see from the authority system that this man now held the President’s authority, without any mention of a proxy.

The highest authority in the Federation, which usually requires a more than two-thirds vote from both houses of the Federal Parliament and multiple complex procedures to officially assume office, was now, within just a few minutes, unexpectedly replaced by a guy they had never seen before?

Isn’t this too arbitrary even for playing house?

What’s the background of these people?

"Just do it, don’t ask why. If it weren’t for the hassle of replacing all of you being too troublesome, I wouldn’t have bothered waiting for you so long..." the man coldly stated. "Be smart, don’t stir up trouble, otherwise, I can’t guarantee the consequences!"

People: "....."

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"What? Shut down all Parallel World areas?"

For a moment, all the regional leaders who received the message were dumbstruck. How could there be no hints of such a major issue? Has the leadership gone mad?

At this moment, Old Jin, who is currently in charge of the Zhuxian Realm, also received the message. Only at this point did he fully believe Wang Ye’s words.

The Federation... might really be controlled by a group of people, or rather... the Federation has long been manipulated behind the scenes by someone!

"Ask the higher-ups, what’s going on?" Old Jin demanded sharply. "Even if the New World is the current main project, the previous worlds also hold immense interests and can accommodate many civilians. Shutting everything down completely cuts off all fallbacks, doesn’t it?"

"Old Jin, we don’t know either. The higher-ups said it’s due to the New World’s client update requiring a massive amount of energy, not only shutting down other Parallel Worlds’ power sources but also even many areas’ basic electricity.

They are now ordering the organization for civilians in those areas to evacuate as soon as possible.

I’ve never heard of such big actions since I was born! "

"Right, have the people upstairs gone mad?"

"Did you verify with the higher-ups?"

"How could we not verify? We’ve asked almost every channel we could, more than seventy members of the House of Representatives unanimously agree, and the military directly entered the city, saying that they had received the highest military orders.

This action completely lacks consultation with us, Old Jin, what should we do? Zhuxian World is our foundation..."

"Just wait a moment, let me find out more before we talk."

Old Jin ended the communication and looked at Wang Ye: "It seems what you said was true. Do you know what they are planning to do?"

Wang Ye took a breath: "There’s too little information, I’m not very clear, but I’m very sure that the acting president you mentioned must have been controlled. My guess was not wrong, but... we might be running out of time!"