Chapter 328: Got Used to the Crash
"From heaven or the edge of heaven..."
Aurora often heard her father hum this rhyme when she was a child, and only when she begged for knowledge would her father tell her that it was about an organization of New Humans that had existed long ago.
People in that organization were all naive and cute children, yearning for freedom and liberation, longing to live unfettered in the city.
They were the original New Humans.
But the later parts of the story, Aurora never heard, as her father would always find various reasons to stop halfway.
Aurora could clearly feel that her father seemed to have a sense of nostalgia for that organization.
The New An Bureau was founded by her father and mother when they were together, and by this time, rather than leading the New Humans towards a better life as envisioned, the New An Bureau was more about restraining and controlling the New Humans.
As long as there remains a huge numerical difference between New Humans and ordinary people, such harmony is hard to achieve.
But if leading the New Humans in overthrowing the current imperial rule, it would probably be an even more difficult and brutal war.
Tens of billions of ordinary people, compared to the thousands of New Humans, there's no need to compare who is the ruler of this world. Even though New Humans possess those extraordinary abilities, ordinary people also have powerful technological weapons at their disposal.
It's difficult for the New Humans to increase their population.
Even if two New Humans couple, the child they give birth to might not necessarily be a New Human; they would need to awaken in an orderly fashion during their adolescence.
Whether one can become a Superpower User seems to be entirely based on luck; the New An Bureau has conducted long-term genetic research but hasn't come up with anything significant.
At most, they've figured out how to evolve abilities.
Therefore, compared to liberating New Humans to let them live safely in this world, it would be simpler to leave this planet and establish a new home.
Once Marcia gradually gained power within the Morales Family, the "Beta" of the New An Bureau left Earth, using a starship to wander the universe in search of habitable planets.
But then—
Compared to her father's somewhat escapist mindset, Aurora was more inclined to have New Humans achieve equal status with ordinary people in society.
Even though everyone is human, they are persecuted and subjected to cruel experiments by ordinary people just because they have a few extra abilities, which seems far too excessive and unfair.
Thus, Aurora re-established an organization known as the Paradise Bird Organization.
Freedom and wildness, passion and casualness became the hallmarks of Paradise Bird, and those gathered here were mostly young people who had just awakened. Experience new stories on My Virtual Library Empire
—Aurora was thus able to recruit those who had just awakened.
In the beginning, the members of the organization were merely carefree and unrestrained, sometimes even getting away with a few pranks on the New An Bureau without being hunted.
And so, they grew bolder and bolder.
...
The Paradise Bird went out of control.
It was almost an inevitable outcome.
Sometimes, the more people lack something and desire it, the more they want to obtain it.
And once you have that power, you'll definitely take action; you won't be content with your current situation and will want to change it.
New Humans are indeed a restless group.
Because they possess abilities that are superior to ordinary people's, especially since the awakening often occurs in teenagers, who are more reckless and unruly at that age.
Controlling them isn't an easy task.
Being autistic as well, the reason the director of the New An Bureau could control it was not only because he could monitor everyone's emotions and thoughts, but also because he had grown to an almost invincible level of strength.
So what did Aurora have?
With her current strength, other than predicting the short-term development of a person or an incident, she practically had no combat abilities.
No one would follow a girl who seemed easy to bully and indeed was easy to bully.
Therefore, when the second-in-command of the Paradise Bird Organization initiated a power grab, Aurora was not surprisingly powerless to resist, just as bewildered and uncomprehending as her father had been back in the day.
Subsequently, her father, who arrived in haste, saved her.
"Hmm... Don't be too troubled, humans are indeed a complex species, adept at uniting to resist as well as at civil war," said her father in an attempt at consolation that didn't quite hit the mark.
Although Aurora inherited her father's perpetual youthful appearance and physique, her genes were also as frail as her mother's—hence the director of the New An Bureau wasn't sure if his daughter would be able to wake up again after being killed.
Moreover, her father was very worried about Aurora's life, which was nearing its end.
Therefore, rather than worrying about his daughter's emotional well-being, he felt it was better to think quickly about ways to keep his daughter alive.
But on the contrary, what Aurora, who possessed "Precognition," needed most was emotional comfort; she couldn't get over it.
Having received little attention from relatives and lacking communication with peers her age, Aurora, even with her knowledge, felt uncontrollably empty inside and exploded!
Her father had become withdrawn after being betrayed, isolating himself for hundreds of years. Aurora, when betrayed, completely lost control of her abilities!
However, since Aurora wasn't combat-oriented, she didn't cause any destruction to her surroundings.
It was just that her overwhelming spiritual power caused the brains of nearby people to crash temporarily, and the precognitive visions that burst forth after her ability explosion also appeared in their minds, nearly shattering their consciousness, were it not for the timely intervention by the director of the New An Bureau.
After wiping the memories of those individuals, the incident was considered closed.