Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

"Leave this matter to me!"

Cocolia slapped the table and declared that the matters of the Emperor of Nagazora City were her matters.

Just some dark aspects of society, wouldn't it be a piece of cake for her to find them?

"Where should we start?"

Cocolia was already impatient. She wanted to show off her skills now.

"I've roughly understood the situation of this small country in the Far East. After my in-depth research, I've discovered some unusual problems."

Noldrei even kindly prepared a thick stack of documents for everyone and said, "These are all the problems that they've reported. So far, they haven't changed anything. This already shows that their so-called social supervision has seriously failed, and they've covered up most of the contradictions."

"The first problem is that the number of homeless people is increasing day by day, but the local government says it's not a big deal and has already driven them back to their hometowns. The second problem is that the nuclear power plant is old and in disrepair, and the leader seems to have embezzled public funds. So far, no one has found out where the public funds have gone. The third problem is about the hereditary nature of councilors. A reporter spoke out righteously, and since then, no one has seen any related news reported by that reporter."

"The fourth problem is, oh, it's a minor matter of the US military stationed in the Far East raping local people... let's skip that. The fifth problem is, huh? It seems like they're going to raise interest rates again, and no one knows where the printed money has gone. The sixth problem is that they've increased the anonymous reporting investigation channels, but they've installed blind spot monitoring in front of the anonymous channels. Wow, that's so cool."

"The seventh problem..."

Noldrei had found a total of sixty-seven social problems. These social problems were like a collected volume that he directly threw on the table.

Raiden Mei's face turned red as she looked at them.

"Damn it! How has this country not collapsed yet?"

Siegfried exclaimed in shock. He flipped through the messy problems that had been exposed. When he thought that this society could still operate with so many problems, he realized that human resilience was far beyond his imagination.

"Not long ago, the owner of this house was also harmed by the judicial and regional management departments. I was the one who avenged this old man. He even thought I was some kind of evil god?"

"Just kidding, there are so many cults in this place. Do they need me to be an evil god? The locals know better than me what an evil god should look like. Seriously, the brains of these primitives just don't work. I just want to be an emperor in a primitive society, what did I do wrong?"

Noldrei was even a bit angry. He felt that he had been underestimated by the primitives, which had impacted his future-person self-esteem.

He could already control the brains of the primitives at will, so why would he bother with such a backward social organizational form? Was it because he thought that he had too few problems and too little work?

Kiana was a bit curious. She really didn't know what an evil god looked like.

She felt that at most, they would just look like Noldrei.

"Then what do evil gods look like?" The white-haired dumpling girl asked directly when she thought of it.

He thought for a moment and said, "Evil gods are quite simple. You just need to personify your local government."

Noldrei's words made Bronya exclaim in surprise.

'Could he really be a genius?!'

"'Evil gods' will accept your offerings with peace of mind. The believers will emphasize its role in 'protecting' you, while also emphasizing your own weak material level, further completing the rationalization process of its existence. At this time, your sacrifices and your needs will not be answered. The gaze it casts on you will make you tremble, and make you feel like you've been stripped naked."

"At this time, a contrast between the powerful and the weak is officially established. You will try to use your own progress and hope to complete its gaze and reward for you. If you don't get this gaze and reward, you will feel restless and angry at the people around you, thinking that others have received your reward."

"After that, you will gradually become extreme and crazy, and a kind of foolishness will be born in your heart. You will imagine that the other party is an all-encompassing goddess, a great mother figure. You will be afraid of being abandoned by her, because there will be other evil gods staring at your flesh, ready to devour it at any moment."

"These evil gods attack each other for their own desires and needs. If you are slightly brushed by them, you will die like dust."

"The essence of 'evil gods' is just something you can't see or touch, something that gives you a little benefit and a huge threat, while also demanding all of your own. A huge, indescribable 'other' that is in opposition to your existence."

"This is an evil god."

Noldrei calmly explained, "When humans face power, the worst they can do is die. So the essence of people who worship evil gods is not to worship the evil gods, but to worship the powerful 'big other' that humans themselves have created and that controls them."

"I don't think I need to explain this too much. These kinds of novels are just writing about the feeling of being imprisoned in a 'prison', and then covering it with a layer of mystery and cosmic color."

"Most of these literary works are similar."

"These works are not cosmic horror novels in essence, but large-scale prison novels of magical realism."

Noldrei's explanation made everyone understand a lot.

Siegfried didn't expect that future people would have such an understanding and interpretation of the literary works of their era.

The background of the story seemed to have undergone a bigger and broader change, but this was just a change in the prison of human cognition.

"As expected of a future person. After you said that, I actually have some thoughts about the content of these novels. I never had similar insights about the things I used to read to pass the time."

Siegfried felt awe at Noldrei's learning progress. The speed at which this future person was learning had exceeded his imagination.

Who would have thought that the evil gods in literary works actually had real-life substitutes?

Who would have thought that future people would think that the terror of evil gods was created by humans themselves?

No one would care about these things except for those obsessed writers who specialized in studying literary works.

But did Noldrei look like someone who liked to study literary works?

He clearly wasn't that kind of guy. This was clearly his own future knowledge and insights that he had preserved.

"Then what do you plan to do? Do you want to eliminate this 'evil god' that exists among humans?"

Raiden Mei was a bit curious. She thought that even if future people were to promote human progress, they couldn't possibly help humans to this extent.

As it turned out, she was right.

Noldrei waved his hand and said, "What does the life or death of primitives have to do with me? This is their own doing and they are suffering the consequences. We future people also experienced their pain before I was born. Our purpose is very simple, to further promote distrust of human organizations within humans, so that local protectionism will rise."

He stood up, and the fleshy wings behind him slowly opened.

'You can talk without moving me, okay?!' Sirin was furious.

"I'm going to build a future human incubation center in this city."

"I've already thought of a name..."

Noldrei said proudly, "It'll be called Academy City!"

Bronya couldn't help but complain, "Did you copy something?!"