My Ultimate Sign-in System Made Me Invincible Chapter 666 Heated Conversations

While the executive boardrooms of legacy shipping conglomerates calculated their liquidation numbers, the reaction across the rest of society was far from uniform.

The announcement of Nova Express had pulled back the curtain on an unavoidable, terrifying truth: human labor, across entire foundational industries, was no longer required.

On LucidNet, where over six billion users gathered daily, the comment feeds and community spaces fractured into an intense, ideological civil war.

For the second time since Nova Technologies had introduced the Lucid device, the digital crowd was no longer speaking with a single, unified voice of uncritical praise.

The platform was sharply divided between diehard Nova loyalists and a rapidly growing, fiercely hostile opposition.

On one side stood the techno-fundamentalists, individual creators, and free-market zealots who viewed Nova Express as the ultimate liberation of human potential.

To them, traditional logistics companies were corrupt, rent-seeking middlemen who had spent decades inflating prices, delaying packages, and exploiting workers.

*If your entire career can be replaced by a drone that costs six dollars to fly across the Atlantic, your job was an artificial inefficiency to begin with,* one viral post with over forty million likes declared. *Why should six billion consumers pay three hundred percent markups on shipping just so a corporation can pay union wages to people doing work a machine handles in three minutes? Progress doesn't wait for legacy workers.*

*Exactly,* another high-profile creator posted, streaming live to a audience of millions. *Look at what happened with Lucid Studio and LucidNet Music. Nova Technologies didn't kill art—they freed artists from predatory record labels and studio heads. Now, Nova Express is freeing small sellers from predatory shipping lines. If you're a truck driver or a warehouse worker, adapt. Learn to use Lucid Studio. Open a Lucid Market store. Stop expecting the world to slow down for you.*

But on the other side of the screen, the opposition was equally vocal, driven by an overwhelming mixture of anger, existential dread, and grief.

Millions of working-class citizens, union members, family members of displaced workers, and social ethicists flooded the feeds with scathing pushback.

*You people are completely sociopathic,* a trending counter-post read, attached to a video of a long-haul truck driver breaking down in tears outside a Chicago depot. *We are talking about fifty million human beings losing their livelihoods overnight. Truckers, dockworkers, cargo pilots, warehouse sorters—these are real people with mortgages, children, and medical bills. You're celebrating their destruction because your online shopping arrives twenty minutes faster?*

*Nova Technologies is building a world where humans are completely obsolete,* a prominent labor advocate wrote in an essay shared across millions of dashboards. *First it was media and entertainment, now it's physical trade and logistics. What happens when they release an AGI that replaces doctors, engineers, and teachers? Will you still be cheering when it's your turn to be thrown into the trash? We are handing total control of the planetary economy to a lunar entity that doesn't answer to a single human vote.*

#HumanLaborMatters and #StopNovaExpress surged to the top of the global trending metrics alongside #InstantWorld and #NovaEra.

The comment sections beneath every official news update became a continuous, high-velocity battleground where users traded personal insults, economic theories, and desperate warnings about the end of human labor.

***

While the digital debate raged, the response from organized labor and international trade federations was immediate, furious, and entirely chaotic.

In Geneva, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), alongside leadership from the International Longshoremen's Association and major national trucking unions, convened an emergency global summit.

Inside the packed auditorium, the atmosphere was volatile. Union bosses whose organizations represented tens of millions of transport workers were shouting over one another, demanding drastic, immediate action.

"We strike! We shut down every port, every highway, and every commercial airport on Earth starting at midnight!" a senior port union leader yelled, slamming his fist onto the podium. "If Nova Technologies thinks they can erase sixty million working families with a text file, we will freeze the global supply chain until governments step in and ban their airborne fleet!"

The General Secretary of the ITF stood up, his face pale as he looked down at the screaming union representatives.

"Strike with what leverage, Thomas?" the General Secretary asked, his voice echoing through the microphone with a cold, devastating clarity. "Small businesses and commercial manufacturers will bypass our ports and highways entirely. If our longshoremen refuse to unload a container ship, the manufacturer doesn't negotiate with us—they simply cancel the maritime contract, open a Nova Express Heavy Freight account, and have an autonomous spacecraft pick up the cargo directly from their factory yard."

He looked around the room at the stunned, suddenly quiet union leaders.

"A strike only works when the employer needs your labor to move the product," the General Secretary continued, his voice trembling slightly. "Nova Express doesn't use our labor. They don't use our docks, our trucks, our cranes, or our runways. If we walk off the job today, we aren't choking the global economy—we are simply accelerating our own permanent replacement. The world will keep moving at hypersonic speeds above our heads while we stand on an empty picket line."

The realization hit the auditorium like a physical blow. The traditional weapons of organized labor—strikes, walkouts, collective bargaining, and supply chain blockades—were completely useless against an airborne, fully automated network operating from the moon.

They couldn't picket a drone. They couldn't withhold labor from an off-world AGI. Organized labor, the historic shield of the global working class, had been stripped of its entire bargaining power in a single day.

***

Inside the parliamentary chambers and economic ministries of the world's major powers, the crisis had reached a state of emergency.

In Washington, an extraordinary joint session of Congress was called, while parallel emergency meetings took place within the European Parliament and state ministries across Asia.

Legislators were not just facing an economic disruption; they were staring at the imminent collapse of their national tax bases and social welfare systems.

Inside the Capitol, the Secretary of Labor stood before a closed-door committee, presenting a terrifying projections report.

"The immediate economic fallout is unprecedented, Senators," the Secretary reported, pointing to a series of cascading financial charts. "Logistics and transportation represent roughly eight to ten percent of total national employment. If forty to sixty million workers lose their jobs globally within the next ninety days, the loss in personal income tax and payroll tax revenues will instantly bankrupt our federal and state safety nets."

He tapped the screen, bringing up a map of domestic freight corridors. "Furthermore, the commercial real estate market tied to warehousing, sorting hubs, and truck stops is facing an immediate sixty percent devaluation. Regional banks holding loans on commercial truck fleets and cargo aircraft are staring at default rates that will trigger a systemic banking crisis if we do not intervene."

"Then we pass an immediate federal ban on Nova Express!" an influential senator demanded, standing up from his desk. "We classify their autonomous delivery drones as an unregistered commercial hazard! We mandate that any physical package delivered within the United States must be handled by a licensed domestic courier company!"

The Secretary of the Treasury let out a long, exhausted sigh, shaking her head.

"And how do you propose we fund the government after we pass that ban, Senator?" she asked flatly. "Have you looked at the stock market today? Legacy retail stocks, shipping stocks, and commercial real estate trusts are collapsing. The only asset class holding up our financial markets is JP Morgan, which just crossed three point one trillion dollars because their system is processing the off-world wealth flows from Lucid Market and Nova Express."

She leaned forward, her expression grave. "If we pass a federal ban that restricts our citizens and businesses from using Nova Express, Nova Technologies will simply pull their platform services from our region. They will restrict Lucid Market access, disable our creators' dashboards, and redirect their logistics network to nations that accept their protocols."

"Our domestic manufacturers will be completely unable to compete with foreign businesses shipping goods internationally for six dollars in twenty minutes," she continued. "Our citizens will riot in the streets over the loss of their LucidNet earnings and cheap deliveries. We cannot ban them, Senator. We lack the physical enforcement mechanism, the economic leverage, and the political capital."

"So what is the government's role then?" the senator asked, his voice rising in frustration. "Are we just supposed to sit here while a private lunar entity dismantles our labor market, bankrupts our tax base, and leaves sixty million citizens without an income?"

The room fell into a heavy, suffocating silence.

The legislators looked at one another, realizing the absolute, terrifying boundaries of their reality.

The rise of Nova Technologies had stripped sovereign states of their most fundamental powers. They could no longer protect their domestic industries, regulate their physical airspace, collect traditional import tariffs, or guarantee employment for their citizens.

To prevent immediate civil unrest, governments around the world were forced to begin discussing radical emergency measures like implementing emergency wealth transaction taxes on JP Morgan withdrawals and scrambling to create state-funded retraining programs for a workforce that had no remaining industry to retrain for.