"We don't really contact each other much."
The humanoid monitor pursed his lips and replied to Ye Ling, then quickly explained, "This is mainly because we are under the 'Brain's' watchful eye. Although everyone has awakened, we are still afraid of exposure, so we try not to contact each other if possible."
"But big brother, rest assured, if you really want to contact them, I can help you call them. I have some reputation among the awakened. Although I can't guarantee to gather them all, I can guarantee at least ten thousand awakened. No matter what you want to do, big brother, I can make them do it!"
"Alright, you contact everyone you can first," Ye Ling smiled at the humanoid monitor. "By the way, what's your name?"
"Just call me Zhu Yan, big brother."
Seeing that the atmosphere in the room had eased, Zhu Yan relaxed considerably and asked Ye Ling, "By the way, big brother, I need a reason to contact them. What do you plan for them to do?"
"Just find any topic. I mainly want to see if you have the ability to gather those awakened ones."
Ye Ling squinted and smiled. While he said this, ink was quietly condensing beneath his feet.
"You... you just want to see my ability?" Zhu Yan was stunned, his mouth twitching.
He had thought Ye Ling wanted to gather all the awakened for some grand plan and that he should prepare in advance.
But now, with Ye Ling's words, he didn't know what to do.
"Big brother... gathering the awakened is no small matter, and it's very easy to be discovered. If there's really nothing important, little brother doesn't advise big brother to..."
Ye Ling's eyes narrowed slightly: "You've been making excuses. Can I assume you can't do it and were lying to me before?"
"No matter what method you use, if the number of awakened you gather doesn't exceed ten thousand, I'll twist your head off and use it as a soccer ball!"
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Zhu Yan trembled and quickly said, "I... I can do it! I'll go gather the awakened immediately!"
Without daring to hesitate, Zhu Yan returned to the main control console in the room and used his power to create a hidden space within the public network shared by all monitors.
After completing the basic work, Zhu Yan, fearing that no awakened would come if he just found any topic, used the topic of "Luo Yun" to urgently gather the monitors hidden in the base camp through a special signal.
As Zhu Yan used Luo Yun's name to gather the awakened, soon many awakened responded to Zhu Yan's call, each sending a wisp of their divine soul to quietly enter the hidden space created by Zhu Yan in the public network.
In less than ten seconds, the number of awakened who entered Zhu Yan's hidden space exceeded thirty thousand, and this number continued to grow.
"Wh-why are there so many?" Zhu Yan was instantly flustered as he saw more and more awakened entering the hidden space.
In the hidden space, he even sensed many awakened he had never seen before!
After all, Zhu Yan had only gathered so many awakened by spreading a false rumor. If fewer awakened had come, he could have managed to gloss over the false rumor.
But from the current situation, it seemed that all the awakened hidden in the shadows were coming out...
If the awakened knew that Zhu Yan had used a false rumor, they would tear Zhu Yan apart!
Soon, the number of divine souls in the hidden space constructed by Zhu Yan exceeded fifty thousand, and even included divine souls of awakened from other regions...
The situation was gradually getting out of control, and Zhu Yan looked at Ye Ling for help, pleading, "B-big brother, this seems to have gotten out of hand. So many awakened have come, what should I do? I don't know where Mr. Luo Yun is!"
Ye Ling chuckled, "It's fine... It's probably because the 'Brain's' recent announcement has alerted everyone. Now that the 'Brain' has left the base camp, everyone is bolder, so they've responded to your call."
"This is a good thing. Keep up the effort, the more the merrier."
"But..."
Zhu Yan wanted to say something more, but after seeing Ye Ling's subtle smile, the words got stuck in his throat.
He had a vague premonition that Ye Ling suddenly asking him to gather the awakened was not simply to test his energy, but had another purpose.
However, Zhu Yan dared not think too much about it.
With things having reached this point, he could only brace himself and continue to use Luo Yun's name to appease the awakened in the hidden space, while also asking them to gather more awakened.
He decided to go all out and trick all the awakened out!
The awakened who responded to the call and entered the hidden space had never seen such a scene before. They all believed it was truly Luo Yun gathering them and began contacting the awakened they knew.
Thus, word spread from one to ten, and then from ten to a hundred. Using only Luo Yun's name, Zhu Yan managed to gather over a hundred thousand awakened!
The hidden space in the public network was filled with divine souls!
During the process of the awakened responding to the call, the hidden space created by Zhu Yan could not even withstand so many divine souls and almost collapsed, alerting other monitors.
It was only when Ye Ling intervened that it was stabilized, and the hidden space was expanded.
And it was Ye Ling's action that made those awakened even more certain that Luo Yun was also present.
In Zhu Yan's room, Bai Lan saw the spectacular scene in the hidden space through the main control console's screen and exclaimed to Ye Ling, "Master, I didn't expect Luo Yun to have instigated so many people under the 'Brain's' nose. This is something even the Original Chaos Will couldn't do! Who is he?"
Ye Ling glanced at Bai Lan and then said, "No matter who Luo Yun is, or what his purpose is in instigating these monitors, soon, everything he has done will be for our benefit."
"Heh heh, Zhu Yan probably never imagined that Master, you have the ability to change everyone's thoughts in an instant... The awakened monitors in that hidden space are spread across all areas of the base camp, distributed in different positions!"
"If we control them, and then use them as a starting point... before 'Hand' takes office, we can drive out the monitors in advance!"
Now that the "Brain" had left the Original Chaos, coupled with the previous explosion in the monitor headquarters, the entire base camp had reached its most chaotic state in history.
This was a golden opportunity to drive the monitors out of the Original Chaos!
Ye Ling was thinking the same as Bai Lan. One hundred thousand monitors not controlled by the "Brain" was already a considerable force. If used well, he could even destroy the monitor headquarters!
And in the end, the "Brain" wouldn't even know how the headquarters was destroyed!
Even if Ye Ling couldn't drive the monitors out of the Original Chaos, he could severely cripple them, making them lose their intelligence integration capabilities and weakening their surveillance of the various universes within the Original Chaos.
This way, the geniuses of the Original Chaos, no longer suppressed by the monitors, could seize the opportunity to rise and grow into powerful forces capable of resisting the monitors and standing on their own.
The Original Chaos was vast. Even if only one peerless prodigy emerged from each universe, the number of strong individuals born throughout the Original Chaos would be enough to contend with the monitor army!
Controlling the awakened was of great significance!
At this moment, Ye Ling had even placed the priority of controlling the awakened above absorbing the Original Soul King!