Male Succubus Apocalypse
Chapter 146 Thoughts in the Dark
The City Lord's Mansion, located in the center of Golden City, is also the main venue for parliamentary meetings. It actually has another interesting name - "Round Table Tower".
In addition to its three-story cylindrical tower structure, it is also because of the way the parliament conducts its meetings in the tower.
Inside the tower, from top to bottom, from the third floor to the first floor, there are three discussion venues for convening conferences - the chief councillor, the standing councillor and the temporary councillor, which distinguish different occasions based on the groups with high and low power status.
The layout of the venue on each floor is that tables and chairs are arranged in circles. When proposing a proposal, you can stand at the center of the circle and express your views under the scrutiny of all the members of the same floor. After the expression, a discussion needs to be started. The whole process in the tower is like communicating with each other around a round table, so the "Round Table Tower" is inspired by this.
There are several steps to complete a complete conference:
The first-level members of parliament need to hold a meeting in advance to discuss the draft they have prepared. Because they have the largest number of people, it often takes many days to discuss. This is the preparation before the meeting, commonly known as the "first-level small meeting."
Ultimately, it is necessary to vote on which proposals are worth "reporting".
The second-tier legislators, based on the discussion at the first-tier meeting, will have a second discussion on the draft. After discussing their own proposals like the first-tier legislators, they will have a second vote on the "reported" first-tier proposals, rejecting some proposals that they believe do not have the value of further bidding.
The proposals submitted at the second level include the proposals they want to submit themselves, as well as the first-level proposals for them to undergo secondary screening.
At this time, members of the first-level parliament also need to be present, and they can come to the second-level parliament for a second presentation and defense of the rejected proposals.
Finally, a real meeting was held, with three different levels of parliamentarians gathering in the tower at the same time, and secretaries were sent to announce what proposals would be discussed today.
Like the previous two-level parliament, the highest-level three-level parliament will first deal with its own proposals, and then vote on the proposals submitted by the second-level parliament one by one. Even after the first two rounds of discussion, there are still a large number of proposals.
Therefore, as long as more than four out of the twenty seats among the third-level legislators vote against it, the proposal will be automatically and forcibly rejected without any room for negotiation.
But if it does not exceed three-quarters, it will be a stalemate and need to be discussed. The second and first parliaments will need to vote at the same time, and finally discuss whether the proposal will be passed or not based on the results of the votes.
The distribution of weights is - the third-level councillors have 200 votes but only about 20 seats, so one vote is converted at a ratio of 1 to 10, while the second-level councillors have 100 seats, so one vote is converted at a ratio of 1 to 2, and the third-level councillors have 200 seats, so the conversion is 1 to 1.
After rounds of voting, the proposal was finally promulgated and implemented. There seemed to be more than 300 members of parliament, and the voting results tended to be uncertain. In fact, after dividing them into different factions, there were only a few fixed choices left.
Some proposals can be confirmed and passed from the moment they are put forward. The only reason they are made more cumbersome is often not for the sake of being more democratic and rigorous.
What is that for? Don't forget that the largest group in Jincheng is businessmen, so among the first-level councilors, the largest proportion of them are businessmen, while at the second and even first levels, there are more professional politicians.
The parliament has given ordinary people in Jincheng the right to make choices, but in practice, if you want a proposal to be finally passed, you will have to pay an extra price.
In order to avoid suspicion, the higher the level of the legislator, the less likely he or she is to own a large amount of private property. Otherwise, the final resolution will be unreliable and will be questioned by Jincheng taxpayers.
Therefore, it is self-evident what the congress system established by the parliament is actually for, what it deals with, and what it aims to achieve. They do not need higher efficiency. On the contrary, the more complicated and contradictory the process is, the greater the probability that they can achieve their goals.
The more clumsy and inefficient the parliamentary system is, the more it can develop the parliament itself and the more people will want to become members of parliament. However, the lower the efficiency, the more it will be questioned and criticized. The short-term benefits gained will result in long-term accumulated dissatisfaction, and finally there will be a reshuffle after party struggles. It may seem that a group of people have been replaced, but in reality nothing has changed.
The better the parliament, the worse it becomes, and the worse the parliament, the better it becomes. This has gradually become a vicious cycle in Jincheng's political history. If it were not for a few outstanding people who made great sacrifices, Jincheng's development would not have reached where it is today.
However, looking at the whole country of Roen, this is actually a political system that can only be born in Jincheng itself, because Jincheng is a city of merchants, which is contrary to the national trend of pursuing production rather than distribution. Jincheng is a typical representative of several atypical cities in the country. It does not have many factories, but more commercial entities.
In short, the pie isn’t big enough, so how can you divide it?
Let the magic machinery be put into production? The cost is far greater than the profit, and the high-end products in the other world are not gold and silver, but purple crystals with cultivation value. In other words, the bottom-level factories are simply unable to produce products that satisfy the strong people who control the most resources in the world.
Only the strong can supply the strong, or races with natural advantages like dwarves and elves can provide products that the strong are willing to pay for.
The people at the bottom can only play with themselves and slowly make the cake bigger. It seems that the entire alien world has various high-tech capabilities combined with magic machinery and fighting spirit, but the development of culture and the changes of the times are extremely slow.
The strong have their own world, and ordinary people have their own world. However, ordinary people, or the so-called broad masses of people, are the ultimate driving force behind history, but the ownership of the world is not in their hands.
For thousands or even tens of thousands of years, the social development of the other world has been incredibly slow. When the cost of magic machinery can be reduced to a level that ordinary people can use, it will undoubtedly be an unprecedented revolution of the times.
But this is basically impossible. Even if there are steam engines and so on from the original world, the products cannot be converted into cash at all, because a large amount of resources are ultimately in the hands of a group of people standing on the pyramid who do not need any mundane materials at all.
In the darkness, Xu Heng was thinking about what he had gained and the Golden City system that Quess introduced on the way back. He couldn't help but start to think about the other world in a new way.
It seems that the other world can only be the Middle Ages, and it will continue for longer and longer. There is no telling when devastating wars will occur again and again, causing damage to the economy and politics.
Everyone yearns for the pursuit of self-improvement through cultivation.
Referring to the original world, it is extremely impossible to develop a different world itself. Only by making more strong people and turning the lower-class people into strong people can we truly provide for each other.
This world is controlled and requires a large number of strong people, a large number of so-called "gods". Only through cultivation can the so-called human liberation be achieved in the end.
So does the so-called "politics of the strong" restrict the top strong men? No. In fact, it can be used by the strong men to exploit the middle and lower class people, because they cannot fundamentally curb the emergence of new strong men, which will continue to threaten themselves.
In this case, let them control themselves. The political game and the economic suppression of each other. Yes, if people don't just practice, but invest in these so-called things that can also bring out their own value, they will not become stronger. Because with this channel, those who are originally talented can actually make a choice.
A war of nations made the strong realize that even if they restricted resources, those talented players, or other oppressed races with naturally uneven resource distribution, would still break the balance.
Then in troubled times, many more powerful people who conform to the laws of this world will emerge to share more of the cake, or in other words, the powerful demigods will become less and less valuable, until they become worthless.
So, strangely enough, a post-war "political system" emerged, which ostensibly restrained the strong but was actually manipulated and deceived everyone.
But the middle and lower classes still pursue the birth of strong people, so what should they do? That's right, Tianmen College and Hongdao let these people gather together and let them directly confront ordinary people instead of confronting the strong people who already exist.
People in the upper class, just play politics slowly by yourself, we are strong but stupid, so we play our own games and practice honestly.
The political system after the War of Nations was a huge fraud, a compromise of the strong? No, it just lengthened the chain of enslavement of the world.
But doesn't this go against the original intention of the so-called God of Creation? The world order she established is to produce more powerful people.
Could it be... Oh! So that's it! This is the resistance of the original strong who realized that they were controlled by the God of Creation! They are deliberately slowing down the speed of creating gods and fighting against the order of the alien world itself!
Because once the overall rank is raised, in order to maintain the limited resources, one must become stronger, and the distance between being taken away by the God of Creation to an unknown place is one step closer.
So, what is the most direct fear that the old powerful people of that level feel about the devaluation of their own value and possible plunder?
No need to think about it, they are those false gods who are between gods and demigods, hiding but have not really ascended to gods!
This truth is difficult to know for those who keep themselves out of trouble like Julie, the demigod controllers of Tianmen Rainbow Island, and the so-called politicians who are in charge of politics and think they can stand on equal footing with the strong!
This is a huge scam, nothing but a situation arranged by false gods to fight against gods and the God of Creation. Therefore, it can be seen that the team of the God of Creation must be too busy with more important things and cannot directly step in to control everything.
This information also further tells the false gods that after becoming gods, they will face greater restrictions. It is not that they do not want to return to the mortal world, but that they cannot return, so they will not want to become gods even more.
The pursuit of Krolitz seemed more like a warning to the false gods hiding in the dark. They must have wandered through the past history without leaving any traces... or left a little.
Old Man Time.
A false god who, according to Julie, adopted Vivian.
So, would the God of Creation really remain indifferent? Impossible, Xu Heng immediately thought of the most bizarre place.
The abyss, the race of the abyss, was created by the will of the abyss. What is the will of the abyss? - Can't it be the will of the God of Creation!
Shit! No wonder the Abyss is not making any moves now. The Creator is also preparing a backup plan! Then tnnd, if we want to get the world back on track, isn’t the easiest thing to do to make becoming stronger the main thing that people pursue?
It means starting another war! And it will definitely be a catastrophe, destroying all the current political economy, and rebuilding it again! It will force people to become stronger.
The abyss is obviously the whip that the Creator God uses to urge the world on!
Xu Heng suspected that it was the same group of people who had led the establishment of the Warrior Academy in Tianmen, the Magic Mutual Aid Group in Hongdao, and then the black market. This was because the historical records were ambiguous and it did not make it clear who had initiated it. It seemed like a very natural thing, but now that he thought about it carefully, it was not natural at all!
Just like the people in Jincheng who were controlled by the mind, they were dull. The history that was covered up was impossible for a rising star like Julie to understand. No one knew what agreement the emperor of the Roen Empire and the representative of the powerful at that time had reached, and how it was reached.
Because that powerful representative, according to legend, has become a false god and disappeared from the world... just like reading a personal biography in the Jincheng Library.
It was not until after the War of Nations that the records of the strong became more detailed and accurate, because they all stayed in the same place, and based on the politics of the strong, they could also be understood and recorded.
But before the War of Nations, the records of the strong were kept randomly, mostly legends. The only information that could be confirmed was the information passed down by word of mouth from the strong. So, during the war, it would be very easy to cover up who reached an agreement with Emperor Roan.
Even if we ask the powerful people at that time, ask the old man of time? Let's not talk about whether our status is high enough, will they answer? It is impossible. Why? Because it is in their interest.
And gathering these strong men together is like mobilizing for war, isn't it? Once the abyss attacks, they can gather together to fight. My God!
Then if both sides are defeated, a lot of strong people will die in the end, and there will be fewer strong people of high rank, which will kill the God of Creation directly? So what tricks did the God of Creation prepare to crack this?
Now, Xu Heng felt that it didn’t matter what Machi’s next move was. No matter what, after the war started, it would all be meaningless.
And when he comes back, there is still room for recovery. In addition, if the future is bound to start, Xu Heng's original future direction for the cubs needs to be changed.
From the specific analysis of Jincheng and combining it with information obtained from all over the world, Xu Heng suddenly had an epiphany and answered all the questions that he had been hiding in his heart.
He had to calm down and think about all this.
Reduce the number of practitioners, gather together those with talent for practice and the strong ones born after the War of Nations, fight against the abyss, and make the development of the other world regress.
The game between the false god and the creator god.
Damn it! Why did I have to be reincarnated into a different world at this time? How can I break free? Fuck!
Originally, Xu Heng realized that with Krolitz around, the overall situation in Jincheng was already decided. He had been checkmated and didn't want to do anything. The only thing left was to understand what Krolitz wanted.
Then, by truly exploring the unique politics and economy of the other world run by Jincheng, everything will become clear, and the conditions for understanding the other gray side of the other world will be met.
Just like the harsh conditions that Vivian brought when she summoned him.
Xu Heng was satisfied and understood the upper-level economic and political system - the politics of the strong obtained from Tianmen - and the lower-level economic and political system, that is, the social life run by ordinary people represented by Jincheng.
As a demon who has some knowledge of the abyss, he has a demigod from another world, Julie, who can serve as a window for his cognition. Based on the demigods he has come into contact with, he understands the "upgrade system" of the other world itself, a series of basic but extremely difficult to achieve conditions.
The most important thing is a key point that the natives of the other world simply cannot have - he is a reincarnated person who holds the development blueprint and cognition of another world and can compare the two worlds.
Based on the above, Xu Heng deduced what he believed to be the final dilemma of the other world, or its future direction.
Ask a person, can you really sit and think, knowing a series of conditions, and then know the changes in the overall situation of the world? Maybe, at least Xu Heng did it.
So what will he do next?
When the world is bound to set off an inevitable storm, and you are the one who foresees it, it is impossible to stay out of it, so what choice will you make?
As a small fourth-level succubus, Xu Heng was powerless.
But he cannot stand idly by. This is the pain of a sober person, because this storm will have unpredictable impacts on the people he cares about.
But what can he do?
Xu Heng originally wanted to return to Jincheng and carefully plan the future development direction for his children, but he didn't expect that he might not even have a future.
The more you know, the more you consider, and the more you need to take into account. But you would never have thought that after unravelling the mystery, the cruelest truth would be revealed.
The exploration of Jincheng is a microcosm of Xu Heng's reasoning about the world.
The other world is God's pasture... The cattle and sheep on the pasture want to rebel against the herder, but they still resort to herding other animals in the same predicament as themselves, hehe.
Sighing repeatedly in the darkness.
The world is still dark, why should we stay awake?
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