LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 14 - Who Should I Believe in the End?
Chapter 14 – Who Should I Believe in the End?
Lin Jiankong sighed again. These things were originally meant to be buried in history forever. But now that his own daughter knew about them, there was no harm in telling her.
“In this world … indeed half of the people who are Puppeteers,” he continued, “and in our department … there are quite a few Puppeteers.”
As these words came out, Lin Yaoyao’s face instantly turned pale.
So … is it true, just as Ling Tian said, that she has already come into contact with those so-called Puppeteers long ago?
“But not all Puppeteers are monstrous and consume humans. The vast majority of Puppeteers … can coexist peacefully with humans,” Lin Jiankong continued. “After all, they are like humans, just needing regular nourishment to survive.”
Upon hearing this, Lin Yaoyao’s gaze shifted back and forth between Ling Tian and Lin Jiankong. Ling Tian had said that Puppeteers had no real emotions, while her father was saying that Puppeteers could live peacefully with humans. Whom should she believe in the end?
“Let me show you a document. Among the older generation in our department, there is a record of who the Puppeteers are,” Lin Jiankong continued, picking up Lin Yaoyao’s tablet and logging into a website to access a document. Because humans and Puppeteers needed to coexist peacefully, a statistical record was made twenty-three years ago. At that time, all Puppeteers revealed their identities and admitted to being Puppeteers.
Lin Yaoyao quickly took the tablet and looked at the information in the document. She was shocked by what she saw, as many people in it were indeed Puppeteers. Many of them were people she knew, her colleagues, and superiors. Thinking about her interactions with them, Lin Yaoyao felt her scalp tingle. So, those people who consume humans were really around her? In everyday life, they were so positive and approachable!
But thankfully, her parents were both humans. She didn’t have to worry that their emotions were fake.
“Are you surprised? However, they really have not harmed humans!” Lin Jiankong continued, “Some Puppeteers never harmed humans in their entire lives. So, it is true that Puppeteers can coexist peacefully with humans. But it’s a good idea to be cautious around some Puppeteers.”
Looking at this top-secret information, Lin Yaoyao’s face was full of shock, and she couldn’t say a word. She didn’t believe what her father said because, for instance, the case she showed to Ling Tian earlier was related to a husband who was also a Puppeteer. But he never harmed anyone. He loved his family and wife deeply until his death. But … everything was fake. He only did all of that under the control of another powerful Puppeteer. He was an “active puppet,” and all of his emotions were not genuine.
“Dad, can you tell me … about what happened twenty-three years ago?” After a moment of shock, Lin Yaoyao looked at Lin Jiankong. She wanted to understand more and learn the truth about this world.
Lin Jiankong took out a cigarette box, lit a cigarette, and didn’t refuse Lin Yaoyao’s request. Then, he began a lengthy explanation.
Everything had to start from 99 years ago. At that time, Puppeteers had just appeared, like a kind of man-eating alien creature that suddenly appeared among humans. Along with their appearance, there were two other things: superpowers and psychic energy. Superpowers gave rise to some special Espers on the human side, while psychic energy was something like the spiritual energy in a fantasy world. It could be absorbed and cultivated, making people more powerful.
Espers, Psychic practitioners, Puppeteers, regular humans, ordinary Puppeteers … The world fell into chaos. There were continuous large-scale wars, and social order completely broke down. There were wars between humans and Puppeteers, humans and humans, and even Puppeteers and Puppeteers. The entire world descended into a state of chaos. Various wars continued one after another, and social order was completely disrupted!
This was a war between humanity and Puppeteers, war within humanity, war within the Puppeteers … the whole world had completely turned into an apocalyptic landscape. This went on for decades!
It was not until later, that the Alliance was formed by many powerful individuals, and everything slowly began to calm down … The Alliance turned the originally chaotic path of the world fall back into a peaceful track. Puppeteers also slowly began to coexist with humanity. Social order was being restored day by day …
Only later, a terrifying criminal organization appeared: the Tianxu Group. The Tianxu Group was a highly extremist organization that followed a single principle—by any means necessary to achieve their goals. Whether it was killing humans or Puppeteers, it was all the same to them as long as it served their purpose. At the time, their main goal was to eradicate all Puppeteers. They claimed that if all Puppeteers were not eliminated, doomsday would still come, and new catastrophic factors would continue to emerge.
However, no one believed their words. At that time, humans and Puppeteers were indeed showing a trend of peaceful coexistence. So, the fourth leader of the Alliance at that time, Ye Tian, led the entire Alliance and all of humanity to resist the Tianxu Group.
It wasn’t until twenty-three years ago that the Tianxu Group was wiped out, and their leader was publicly executed. Starting from twenty-three years ago, the name “Puppeteers” gradually disappeared from the world. So people born during that time and those who came later knew nothing about Puppeteers.