The road to completion starts from the Gate of Truth

Although Fang Yuan, who was walking in front, did not look back, he "saw" everything that happened behind him, and suddenly let out a silent sigh: What a good mother! ..."We're here!" After walking for an unknown amount of time, even the daughter who kept asking this and that already yawned and fell asleep again. After hearing the reminder from the man in front of her, the woman finally breathed a sigh of relief, then raised her head and looked around.

"This is..." She realized that something was wrong. This seemed to be the edge of the "curtain" that covered the entire lunar city. How were they going to get out? Could they just make a hole in the curtain? "Don't worry, I said I can take you out, but first, I have to let you change your clothes!" Fang Yuan ignored the other party's reaction and waved slightly to the ground. As the undetectable light of the refinement flashed, The high-strength concrete on the ground seemed to melt, turning into a dark, viscous liquid that followed the woman's feet, causing her to scream in surprise.

"Don't be afraid, it's harmless!" Fang Yuan comforted casually, and then accelerated the refining speed. After just a few seconds, not only the adult mother, but also the three-year-old girl in her arms, The body was covered with a layer of light but extremely tough protective clothing.

"Is this...is this Anaheim's technology?" The girl who was awakened was groping for this strange "clothes" on her body with curiosity, but her mother, as an adult, was fascinated by this miraculous technology. Marvel.

She raised her head and saw that the man in front of her was also wearing a thicker and more powerful armor. She could be sure that the man in front of her was not carrying anything from the beginning. Could this be the same as the protection on their bodies? Does it "grow" out of the ground like clothes?

She is not an ordinary civilian without knowledge. During her brief interaction with the Emperor of the Visor Empire, she has also seen some Martian high-tech, but even the Martian super-tech she has seen, none of it can compare with the one in front of her. It is comparable to the power of creating things out of thin air.

"We will go directly across the curtain to the lunar surface. Without this protective suit, you will not survive for a second."

Fang Yuan didn't know what the woman was thinking, so he just explained it casually.

"Follow me, and don't stay more than three meters away from me!" Fang Yuan walked step by step towards the edge of the curtain in front of him. The woman who heard the instructions did not dare to neglect, quickly raised her heels, and followed him step by step. Dare to stay away even a little bit.

Next, she couldn't believe what she saw - As Fang Yuan approached step by step, the curtain in front of her was called "curtain", but it was actually tens of meters thick reinforced concrete. The barrier actually melted and cracked little by little, and a circular hole with a diameter of two to three meters appeared in it! "Let's go."

Fang Yuan greeted him and walked directly into the cave. The woman did not dare to fall behind and quickly followed closely with her daughter in her arms.

As she walked towards the cave, through the visual compensation effect on the mask of the protective suit, she clearly saw that the cave did not lead directly to the opposite side of the curtain, but instead only went a few meters deep into the concrete wall.

However, with every step the man in front takes forward, the cave also extends one step forward. When they walk a certain distance, the cave behind them will automatically shrink and close like a living creature. As they walk along, It's like riding a bubble through the water.

As for the little girl who was tightly held by her mother, when she saw this fairy tale-like scene, she was so excited that she couldn't help herself. She exclaimed repeatedly, danced and almost jumped down and touched everywhere.

When the mother finally walked out of the "curtain" wall and felt the sudden drop in gravity, she felt an unreal dream.

Is this coming out? So simple? Looking back, the woman was even more amazed when she saw the flat wall without leaving any trace on the outer surface of the curtain.

This kind of technology should have surpassed that of Martians, right? Could it be that Anaheim also obtained alien super technology like the Martians? Ignoring the exclamations and curiosity of the mother and daughter behind him, Fang Yuan scanned the area with vigilance and mental strength, but did not find any witnesses - also, this was the outside of the "curtain" that was tens of meters thick, and there was no entrance or exit, even if it was The Martian army stationed in the lunar city would not place any guard posts in such a place, so no one noticed the movements of Fang Yuan and the others.

"This... Sir, may I ask... where is the spaceship?" The woman regained her composure after being amazed. She looked around at the desolate scene on the moon's surface, but did not find what she expected. She suddenly felt a sense of panic. disturbed.

Without a spaceship...how would they get to Earth? Just rely on this space suit? "Don't worry, the spaceship or something will be here soon!" Fang Yuan reassured through the communication in the suit, then lightly stamped his feet, and a series of undetectable flashes of light flashed in the lunar rock formations in front of him, and then, Countless material particles are seen "growing" and spreading from the rock formations and lunar soil, entangled with each other like vines, changing while "growing", various metal parts grow from the "vines", and move on their own. Combined into larger parts.

Finally, just over twenty seconds later, a ten-meter-long small space shuttle "grew" out of thin air! "Wow~~Okay, so disgusting!" The pink-haired little girl suddenly let out an inarticulate exclamation when she saw what happened in front of her. Even her mother also looked like her jaw dropped. The same expression on the ground.

Anaheim's technology...it turns out that even a spaceship can be "grown" like this! ')125'\u003eChapter 124 The truth about activation factors

"This is...the earth..." When her feet stepped on the ground again and felt the gravity that was similar to the lunar city, but completely different in nature, the young mother still couldn't believe it - she was back. Ah... After taking off the protective suits that "grown" from the ground, the mother and daughter followed Fang Yuan into a stretch sedan that was obviously worth a lot of money and drove towards an unknown destination. go.

"Mom, mom, the sky here is indeed blue! Also, is that a bird? It's exactly the same as in the picture..." The little pink-haired girl was held in her mother's arms and sat together in the special car. With excitement on his face, he opened the car window and shouted at the sights he had never seen before.

The blue sky, the land full of green vegetation, the birds flying in the sky, and the fresh air blowing in through the gaps in the car windows, which is completely different from the metallic air in the lunar city—— This was all something she had never experienced before.

Seeing the child so happy, Fang Yuan's mood became happy for some reason. He leaned down, put his face in front of the little girl and said, "Yes, this is the earth! It will also be your future home~" "Home..." Seeing the big face approaching her, the girl was not afraid of anything. After hearing Fang Yuan's words, she tilted her head in confusion, then turned to her mother and asked, "Mom, are we moving? "At only three years old, she probably only regarded everything that happened before as a fun outing. She may not even be able to understand that she just experienced a space trip from one planet to another.

"Yes, we are moving~" The mother who came back to her senses looked at her children tenderly, and said something that even she herself was not sure about: "It is bigger and more comfortable than the original home, and there are Lots and lots of toys~" "Really? Then I want lots and lots of dolls and delicious ones..." the little girl cheered in surprise.

"Yes~ yes~ it will happen~" Looking at the warm interaction between mother and daughter, Fang Yuan couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face. He could also see that this young mother was not only coaxing her child, but also caring for her. Make a request to yourself in a very implicit way.

And this request is really very simple - I just want a house that is bigger and better than the shabby apartment in the lunar city, and an environment where my children can grow up without worries.

Of course, Fang Yuan would not object to such a request. Rather, he admired this young mother more and more.

"Don't worry, your place has been arranged. You can move in now. You don't have to worry about your living conditions. I said I will let you live a better life here!" Fang Yuan faced the mother. said.

"Look, we're almost there!" As he said this, he pointed out the car window. The mother and daughter followed the direction of his finger and saw a group of villas hidden among the vegetation.

"This is..." The woman did not expect that the residence Fang Yuan arranged for them would be a place where it was obvious that only rich people could afford it.

"Don't worry about the cost or anything like that. Let me tell you the truth. Your daughter is indeed very important to us in Anaheim. This level of importance cannot be matched by villas and real estate ten times or a hundred times. You can rest assured in the future." Stay here!" Fang Yuan said to the dumbfounded woman with a serious look on his face: "If you feel uncomfortable eating and drinking for free, we can also provide you with a suitable job, even if you don't know anything. We also have a complete employment training mechanism.

In short, when it comes to life, you should be careful! " "……Thanks! "The woman didn't say anything more. Even though she was sitting in the car, she still bowed deeply and was unwilling to get up for a long time.

"Mom, why are you crying?" The daughter's question came from her arms. The woman touched her face somewhat dully and felt the moist touch in her hands.

Ah, it turns out she just cried... But she knew that these tears were different from the past ones. They were tears filled with joy after seeing hope.

... A few days later, Fang Yuan's personal laboratory.

"I see, the so-called activation factor turns out to be this kind of thing!" From the blood sample taken from the little girl, Fang Yuan finally discovered the truth about the so-called activation factor.

This is a nano-sized autonomous machine composed of long carbon-based chains, somewhat similar to prions.

Or, to be more precise, this is a tiny protein computer capable of autonomous action.

Although this protein-based nanomachine itself does not contain structures such as DNA or RNA, it can read and modify DNA sequences in human cells, artificially adding and synthesizing these elements to human DNA fragments. DNA fragments related to nanomachines consume human body nutrients at a certain orderly speed and scale to produce more nanomachines until they are saturated.

In other words, this is an artificially created intelligent virus.

A single carbon-based nanomachine has very low computing power, operation logic and even data storage capacity, but when there are enough of them, they can be interconnected to form a more advanced computing system. Both the data processing capacity and storage capacity far exceed the traditional transistor computer of the same volume, and can even have a certain degree of self-discipline intelligence.

Moreover, Fang Yuan also found that the information exchange between these nanomachines is not through ordinary electromagnetic wave signals, nor is it quantum entanglement communication, but like the Aldnoah core, it connects to another extra dimension that is completely different from the macroscopic three-dimensional space-time to achieve the time-free transmission of information.

Therefore, the properties presented by this nanomachine on a macro scale are very interesting.

On the one hand, all the nanomachines in different individuals seem to be connected together through the super-time and space information interaction, and together they form a huge interstellar information network.

On the other hand, the nanomachines in each individual will build a local network based on this individual, and have a specific address code and network permissions.

The essence of this authority is the right to operate and use all Aldnoah technologies. The authorization and restriction from top to bottom are the real source of the feudal aristocracy system of the Martian Empire that is a step backward in history.

It is no wonder that Fang Yuan has not been able to crack Aldnoah's identity authentication mechanism before. After all, this kind of information interaction that directly exists in another dimension, even if the computing power and intelligence of [Ether] are a hundred times higher, without the means to touch this dimension, it can only sigh in despair.

Looking back at some of the information that Fang Yuan analyzed from the hyperspace gate, it is also found that the cross-dimensional information energy interaction structure is similar in principle, but the scale is completely not in the same order of magnitude.

It seems that the real core technology of the ancient alien super-technological civilization discovered on Mars should be based on this special dimension-whether it is a permanent clean energy like a perpetual motion machine, or a starter factor closely related to the user's life, or a hyperspace gate that can travel across interstellar superluminal speed, it is closely related to the existence of this extra dimension.

')126'\u003eChapter 125 Someone seems to be in trouble

The problem now is that although Fang Yuan has discovered the existence of this extra dimension and has obtained the right to enter this super-time and space information network through the data invasion of the activation factor, he himself still cannot really touch this extra dimension.

Although his mental power is mysterious and can even directly observe the changes in material energy at the subatomic level, he has no means to penetrate the dimensional interval. For Fang Yuan, this extra dimension can be known to exist, but it is impossible to observe it at all, let alone analyze it in depth.

——It is too big for Fang Yuan to jump from the traditional earth technology tree to the level of dimensional technology in an instant.

"Tsk, the knowledge brought out from the Gate of Truth does not have much content about dimensions. Do I have to go deeper into the Gate of Truth a few more times to try my luck?" Fang Yuan instinctively rejected this plan.

This approach of directly looking for answers when encountering problems is the most undesirable for a scientific researcher. In the long run, he will lose the ability to explore and research new fields, and finally become a slave of knowledge instead of a master.

Moreover, since knowing that the true identity of the Gate of Truth was that big guy, Fang Yuan instinctively didn't want to rely too much on His power.

After all, he didn't read so many novels of Master Ai Shouyi for nothing. All those who covet the gift of the indescribable will not have a good end in the end.

Although Lord Yog Bubble is quite friendly to humans among all the Outer Gods, and the truth he met should be one of His most humane incarnations, he can't just go around casually based on this point. If he really drowns, he will have nowhere to seek justice... "Maybe there will be some clues in the alien ruins on Mars..." Fang Yuan thought of the source of these Aldnoah technologies. If it is there, he should be able to find some key information! However, if he wants to enter Mars to conduct an in-depth investigation of the alien ruins, the Weisser Empire is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

"It seems that there is one more reason to destroy the Martian Empire!" Fang Yuan muttered to himself, holding his chin with one hand.

… Just when Fang Yuan had initially cracked the core secret of Aldnoah technology - Mars, Weisser Empire, Count Reinhardt's Mansion.

A middle-aged man wearing a complicated suit, with a shiny slicked-back hair and a small goatee on his chin was furious at his men.

"What? Missing?" The man slammed the wine glass in his hand heavily on the table, letting the red wine inside spill out and stain his cuffs, but he didn't care about his manners at this time. He almost took two steps at a time and stepped forward, grabbed the collar of the man kneeling on the ground, and lifted him in front of him.

"What's going on? How on earth are you doing this?!" Why are you missing? Did anyone notice his actions? But the most confidential matter he arranged for people to monitor the mother and daughter, how could it be exposed? Could it be that anyone else also noticed the illegitimate daughter of the second emperor, had the same idea as him, and even took action first? Or maybe the emperor had noticed everything and took them away decisively? All kinds of speculations flashed through the man's mind one by one, and every possibility made his face look even worse.

"What is going on over there in the Moon City? Tell me clearly!" The man who came back to his senses saw that the subordinate in his hand was about to roll his eyes because of him. He couldn't help but let go of his hand in disgust and turned around to walk back and forth. After taking a few steps, he took a deep breath to calm down.

The poor subordinate who was almost strangled to death did not dare to complain at all about his master's atrocities just now. After taking a breath, he immediately straightened his kneeling posture and lowered his head to make a report: "Yes, Lord Earl... At first When we realized something was wrong, we found that all our tracking personnel had lost contact. When we sent people to confirm the situation again, we found that they had all been killed. The scene was very clean and neat, and everyone was killed with one blow.

Only then did we realize something was wrong, and then we discovered that the surveillance target had disappeared from his place of residence. "

"...Have you checked other places in the lunar city?" Earl Reinhard asked with the last glimmer of hope.

"After checking, we asked the troops stationed there to check the entire lunar city in the name of searching for spies on Earth, but no trace of them was found."

The kneeling subordinate answered honestly, but it gave the result that the earl least expected to hear.

"So, have you confirmed the interstellar flight after their disappearance?" The Earl, who had not given up, made his last effort.

"It has been confirmed. Starting from the day when all surveillance personnel lost contact, we have checked the records of all flights leaving the lunar city, and found nothing."

A very conscientious and thoughtful subordinate delivered the final blow.

"..." Reinhard covered his face with his hands in frustration.

"Sir?" The subordinate who had been waiting for a long time to ask raised his head cautiously and asked tentatively.

"Forget it, go down!" The earl waved his hand and asked him to retreat.

"Yes..." The man who didn't even have a name stood up carefully and left here silently.

After a long time, a sigh came from the silent room: "Don't let this be the worst outcome..." ... "You mean, Reinhard's subordinates went on a rampage in the lunar city, searching for something on Earth? Spy?" In the Palace of the Weise Empire, the first-generation emperor, dressed in formal attire, was sitting on the throne, listening to the intelligence manager below reporting on the affairs of many nobles in the country.

However, he seemed to have heard something interesting just now.

"Yes, they even mobilized the local garrison in the name of Count Reinhardt and searched the lunar city from house to house. Our people's investigation found that before this, there were 12 people belonging to Count Reinhardt. The intelligence officer died there."

The intelligence manager who was making a report below actually had the title of baron himself, but looking at the way he was kneeling on one knee and not daring to raise his head, he looked more like a slave than a noble.

But this is normal. For a small nobleman like him who is attached to the royal family, he is really no different from the emperor's personal servant.

"Interesting... Why are you so aggressive after 12 subordinates died? I don't think that Reinhardt is such a considerate boss... Continue to investigate, find out for me why Reinhardt sent intelligence personnel to the moon In Miandu City, let me know what they are investigating and who killed them!" "Yes!" Looking at the leaving figure of the intelligence chief, a rare expression of fatigue appeared on the old emperor's face. , these guys who don’t make people worry, what kind of conspiracy are they planning to do...')127'\u003eChapter 126: Chatting in the training ground

Let’s ignore the intrigues on Mars and let’s turn our attention back to Earth.

While the Martian nobles were busy fighting openly and secretly with the royal family, the people on Earth were advancing rapidly one step at a time.

"I didn't expect that the technology of us people on earth has developed to this extent..." A general with three general stars on his shoulder straps looked at the scene in front of him, his tone full of emotion.

This is a secret training ground of the Earth Alliance. What the senior officials from the Earth Alliance are watching is the live-fire exercise of the Earth Alliance's most cutting-edge experimental force.

"Anaheim's engineers are really good... but why don't they build armored cavalry like Martians, but this... this kind of spider-like robot?" Another one also has three general stars, but The old general, who was missing one hand, asked with some confusion as he looked at the drone cluster in the training ground that was moving on four legs in the complex terrain, destroying several times more armored cluster troops.

These robots with shiny metal surfaces have a spherical body trunk and arc-shaped slender sharp limbs. They can retract their walking limbs to roll at high speeds on flat roads, and can move on four legs in complex terrain. The spider robot climbs rocks and walls, and is equipped with two 90mm electromagnetic cannons that can penetrate the frontal armor of any main battle tank with one hit. It is said that even the main armor plate of a battleship can be easily penetrated. The latest electromagnetic shield It can deflect all attacks from physical ammunition. Even though they are at a numerical disadvantage, these drones are almost a one-sided killing when facing the old ground armored forces.

"To be precise, they are called terror robots. They are special cannon fodder designed by Anaheim engineers for future land wars."

The general with sound arms corrected the wrong statement of his previous colleague, and then continued: "As for why you don't build armored cavalry... I have heard a rumor. It is said that the boss behind Anaheim believes that everything is a double-edged sword. Huge humanoid robots with upright legs are all evil in weapon design. Anyone in his company who dares to design such a thing will be fired immediately..." As he spoke, the general shrugged, and he completely took this rumor to heart. Treat it as anecdotal information.

"...The boss behind Anaheim who never appears in public? It is said that he is also the chief researcher of this group company. I didn't expect that he would be so resistant to weapons such as armored cavalry... Could it be that he thinks that those Are all the Martian weapons engineers idiots?" The one-armed general's impression of the Anaheim boss he had never met instantly deteriorated a lot - after all, according to this logic, wouldn't they, the Earthlings, be the same? Defeated by a weapon designed by a bunch of idiots? "In fact, many of our engineers agree with this statement.

After all, from the actual cost-effectiveness point of view, it is indeed very wasteful to design weapons in human form. The Martians can afford it because they have the foul Aldnoah technology. Waste is wasted, and they can still suppress us who are lagging behind. beat.

But we earthlings don’t have such convenient things as Aldnoah! "This general with sound hands is quite objective. He actually thinks that the Anaheim boss's statement is quite reasonable. We earthlings are not those Martian knights. To be knights, they really have to make their weapons into human shapes. , Earthlings have always been very pragmatic! "...Well, I don't understand weapons development, so just assume that what you said is right.

However, can this kind of terrifying robot really pose a threat to those powerful and unreasonable Martian knights? "Although the one-armed general did not personally participate in the Earth-Fire War a few years ago because he was too old, he is also a boss who is qualified to mobilize and read all war-related information, so he is very aware of those who possess various science fiction-level weapons. How terrifying are the armored cavalry - can these super-large spider-like drones in front of me really threaten the Martians? "After all, these are actually cannon fodder. They are essentially used to test the Martian knights. It's capable, because it's a drone and there's no need to worry about the loss. It's better than testing the lives of soldiers, right? "Hearing what his colleagues said, the one-armed general couldn't help but nodded. Indeed, it is indeed a good thing to reduce the casualties of soldiers.

"After all, what really determines the outcome of a battle depends on the soldiers with real flesh and blood!" the one-armed old general sighed.

"Well... the soldiers of the future may not necessarily have real flesh and blood, right?" The younger general, with both arms intact, shrugged and said, "It is said that a super soldier with a full body of prosthetics has been successfully developed. If there are enough If there are more volunteers, the soldiers on the battlefield in the future are likely to be real steel warriors."

"..." The old general also heard a little bit about the news spoken by the junior next to him, but he did not feel happy at all: "This approach is too much! War should not be like this, turning people into Machine...I can't accept it!" "...Is this the reason why you insist on not installing a bionic prosthesis on yourself?" The young general looked at the incomplete left hand of the senior next to him.

"No, this has nothing to do with my left hand. I don't need it just because I am already used to one hand. It will take time to get used to it again when I install a prosthetic limb..." The old general shook his head and denied the other party's statement. He said: "If I don’t have any objections to human body modification that allows disabled people who have lost limbs and organs to regain health. In fact, I am very happy to see this kind of technological progress.

But for the sole purpose of making stronger living weapons, using human beings as raw materials to transform them, regardless of whether they are willing or not, I feel that this has deviated from the right path! He paused, and then continued: "After all, who knows whether things will get completely out of control in the end?" Now we are still using severely disabled volunteers and the dying, but what about in the future? If the war gets serious, will able-bodied people be directly used for forced transformation? Once this kind of thing is opened, the future development will be completely unpredictable! "...Maybe your worries are reasonable, but this is not the reason for us to hold back!" "The young general shook his head and did not agree with the old man's view: "The gap between us and the Martians is already huge. If we still worry about this and that at this time, we will never be able to catch up with the Martians.

Furthermore, the full-body prosthetic super soldier itself is not a very important part of the grand strategy, and will not develop to that point! "...Forget it, I'm basically in a semi-retired state now anyway. I can't control what you young people want to do..." Seeing the confident expression of the junior next to him, the old general said helplessly. He shook his head and stopped talking about this topic.

')128'\u003eChapter 127 A trio of people who are concerned about the country and the people

Bang——! "This can't go on like this! We must stop this internal strife!" The young earl with blond hair slammed his fist on the conference table and said the above words.

"Look, the people on Earth are making rapid progress and are closely chasing behind us, but what are we doing now?!" He pointed to the pictures on the holographic projection table, which were captured by Mars' spy satellites Photos and videos of Earth.

From the picture, in addition to the terrifying robots that appeared in the previous chapter, there are also several other new weapons that should be kept highly confidential.

Among them, there is a mysterious aircraft capable of full-band stealth and even optical stealth. It only disappears in the blink of an eye when it takes off. When it really takes off, even the Martian detection system cannot find any trace of it.

There is also a giant land-based firepower carrying platform like a land cruiser. The thick gun barrels and honeycomb-like missile launch bays all around are equally intimidating even to most Martian knights.

Then there is the individual super soldier who is like a superman, powerful enough to overturn a tank with his bare hands, and faster than a supercar. Equipped with a variety of powerful individual weapons, one person is enough to unleash the firepower and destruction of an entire legion. If the power is used for sneak assassination... Of course, what makes everyone present even more troublesome is that in the last few pictures, the space battleships that are hundreds of meters long and are about to be completed - and this is also Not against a cosmic background, but captured in a terrestrial dock! This shows that people on earth can already build batches of space battleships on the surface and fly directly to extraterrestrial space without being limited by limited rocket capacity as before.

In this way, even in terms of space power, it is only a matter of time before the Earthlings reverse their strategic disadvantage! Everything clearly shows that the technological gap between the earth and Mars is not as big as imagined. The people on earth who once fell behind because they missed the great opportunity of alien technology are making great strides to catch up! "Yes, people on earth are progressing too fast...Look at our empire, the struggle between the royal family and the nobility. This is something that no one would even think about a few years ago!" Black-haired man The noble nodded, with the same worried look on his face.

"However, Lord Kurut'ou and Lord Zazbarum, even if we oppose this matter, it will not help. This is not a conflict between one or two nobles and the royal family, but a struggle between the entire noble class and His Majesty the Emperor. !” The speaker was a woman with long, silky, straight black hair. She was the Baroness of the Martian Empire who survived because of someone’s butterfly effect, and she was Zazbarum’s fiancée, Warein.

She, her fiancé, and Kuruteu also formed a close alliance through various opportunities and coincidences, and worked together to protect themselves in the treacherous political turmoil of the empire.

However, unlike the cynical opposition and the hedging faction, the three of them are royalists and loyalists who belong to the minority.

Because of their younger age, these younger generation of nobles do not have much selfishness. Instead, they can see the bigger picture beyond the perspective of political intrigue.

They clearly know that while the Earth side is chasing after them as if they are cheating, the Martian Empire is caught in an internal struggle for power and profit. In the long run, this is definitely digging its own grave.

"Kuruto is right, we can't just watch, we must take action!" Of course Zazbarum knew that his fiancée was right. Nowadays, there is a huge gap between the royal family and the aristocracy in the entire empire. The conflict has almost become public, and it is really difficult for the three of them alone to change anything.