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Chapter 258 Extra - The Secret of the City God System [Two in One]

On the third day of April in the thirteenth year of Huaide, Emperor Huaide, grandson of Emperor Taikang, died suddenly during his reign without leaving a single word. Although the crown prince ascended the throne without any setbacks, he changed the reign title to Huaguang the following year.

But he failed to obtain the secret of the imperial seal.

It also failed to be bound to the imperial seal.

Of course, none of this is important. What is important is that in this way, even if the connection between the new emperor and the entire city god and land system is cut off, he will not be able to manipulate or command the many city gods and lands to work for him.

The entire City God system will only follow established rules.

It operates in an orderly manner but without human control.

In the past, the operating rules of the City God system were mainly manifested in that the City God was responsible for collecting all information within their respective jurisdictions, and analyzing on their own which information the local government could handle and which information the local government could not handle. The information that the local government could handle would appear in dreams at night.

Inform the responsible local officials.

Matters that the local government cannot handle will be passed on to their superiors, who will then pass them on to departments that can handle the matter.

That is, the county city god passes it on to the prefectural city god.

The City God of the prefecture passed it on to the City God of the capital!
If the local government fails to handle the matter in a timely manner or fails to handle it, the relevant information will still be collected and reported.

The task is time-limited and responsibility is assigned to individuals.

At the same time, all information will be copied, handed over layer by layer, and transmitted to the central processing unit inside the imperial seal, where it will be sorted, analyzed, stored and classified. The emperor can read it if he wants to, and he can choose not to read it if he doesn't want to, but if something goes wrong, it will definitely be considered conclusive evidence.

The specific person responsible can be traced at any time.

In fact, at the beginning, the emperor had to see some important information, which would be told to him directly by the city god in his dreams at night. However, in the later years of Emperor Taikang's life, he was old and weak, and he did not want to abdicate, so he made appropriate changes to this.

Change it so that he can watch it anytime he wants.

There’s no need to tell me in my dreams late at night.

Get a good night's sleep and watch the same in the morning.

If he does not check on particularly important matters within 24 hours, the City God will directly inform the person responsible for these matters in his dreams at night.

That is to say, if a large-scale natural disaster occurred in a certain place, the original procedure was to directly inform the emperor in his dreams that night, and then the emperor would inform all ministers of the news in the court to discuss together how to provide disaster relief.

It can be considered to be maintaining imperial power to a certain extent.

It can increase the emperor's supreme sacredness.

After the revision, in order to ensure the timeliness of disaster relief, if the emperor did not review the relevant information within 24 hours, the relevant information would be submitted by the City God to the Minister of Revenue.

It is convenient for the Minister of Revenue to deal with disaster relief in a timely manner.

Other major matters basically follow this principle.

With this, all the affairs of the world are under the control of the emperor who is bound to the imperial seal. Even if something happened in a farmer's home in a certain place, as long as the emperor wants to know, he can look up the relevant information in the central database of the imperial seal.

What the emperor fears most is being deceived.

A completely controlled system of city gods and land gods spread all over the world is enough to allow the emperor to perfectly control the court.

Perfect control of the whole world!

But that was when it was bound to the Imperial Seal and could be used perfectly. The situation faced by the newly enthroned Emperor Huaguang was that he had no way to log in to the CPU to check the information, and the City God was unable to communicate in his dreams because the rules had been modified.

So, although he will not become blind and deaf because of this, it is not much different from becoming blind and deaf.

The control over the world has dropped precipitously.

Especially on several occasions when natural disasters occurred, the Minister of Revenue had to report them in the court and discuss disaster relief. Not only did this make many officials doubt his situation, but he himself was also very anxious. But anxiety cannot solve the problem!

Emperor Huaguang knew very well that his current helplessness must be directly related to his father's sudden death, which prevented him from taking over. He also tried hard to look through the emperor's daily records, hoping to find some clues, but how could such an important secret be recorded on paper?

The end result can only be nothing.

Later, many clever ministers had guessed the truth, which was that the current emperor might have lost the way to communicate with the city god and land system.

It is impossible to control the world perfectly as in the past.

However, because the City God Land System is still operating normally, they are not sure how much impact the current situation will have on the City God Land System?

So I secretly tried it out.

They deliberately let some people do some illegal things, and after a period of time, they successfully figured out the changes in the City God and Land System.

The most important point is.

The emperor was unaware of many things.

For example, they deliberately embezzled some disaster relief funds when providing disaster relief in a certain place, which delayed the process. Although the local city god discovered it in time, issued a warning and submitted a report, and convicted the relevant responsible persons, the Ministry of Justice deliberately delayed and failed to deal with the offending officials in time, and the local city god once again overstepped his authority to enforce the law.

But Emperor Huaguang was completely unaware of this.

They were completely unaware of this unless they reported it.

Although this change should not be enough to allow them to break the law and discipline at will and act as freely and uninhibitedly as they did in the past, it is at least a breakthrough!

From now on they could only let Emperor Huaguang know.

What they wanted him to know!
As the saying goes, a thousand-mile dike can be breached by a single ant hole, and Emperor Huaguang was completely unaware of this loophole.

It's the ant nest.

In the future, this will surely shake the entire City God system.

Emperor Huaguang was not aware of this situation at first, but as time went by, he had some confidants of his own, and he was not a fool. Having been the crown prince for so many years, he had become more cunning. So he eventually found out about the officials' deception, but he was helpless.

After some painful struggle.

He finally decided to secretly win over the staff of relevant research institutes and set up a professional research team just to figure out the mysteries of the City God and Land System, hoping to deepen his understanding and achieve the goal of re-communicating with those City Gods.

However, this research team was infiltrated by the powerful.

Unlike Emperor Huaguang who wanted to reconnect with the City Gods, the powerful and influential people felt that if they could figure out the true identities or weaknesses of the City Gods, they might be able to find a way to destroy the City God system.

So they didn't make any trouble.

Some of them even secretly provided help. They managed to poach some top talents that the Huaguang Emperor could not recruit and sent them to relevant research institutes.

Participate in research on City God and Land.

After nearly ten years and many technological breakthroughs, they finally succeeded in capturing a county city god. They used many instruments and set up a trap in an official's bedroom, and finally one day they managed to capture the county city god who appeared in his dream in the middle of the night.

I've actually caught it a few times before.

But it is always lost due to various accidents.

This time they did not lose it again. Not only that, after more than a year of research and analysis, they successfully figured out what the so-called City God is.
Although it is impossible to create nanorobots with their technology, it is not necessary to have the technology to create nanorobots in order to discover them. For example, if you want to see the sun, do you need the ability to create the sun?
So as long as the observation capability reaches the nanometer level.

Basically, nanorobots can be observed and captured, but it is impossible to conduct in-depth research on them, let alone control or successfully replicate them in the short term.

However, even so, when they discovered that the so-called City God was most likely a very small man-made object, they still felt their worldview exploded. Although the concept of atheism has become more and more popular with the development of science and technology in recent years, people still firmly believe in the existence of City God and Land God. As a result, City God and Land God are now suspected to be the technological creations of high-tech civilization.

Who wouldn't be confused? Who wouldn't be panicked?

When Emperor Hua Guang received the news, he was confused and found it hard to believe, but he finally took a few days to calm down and decided to continue his research. He had to get this powerful weapon back in his hands.

And the civil and military officials and many dignitaries.

I feel that the more I think about it, the more terrifying it is. I suspect that Emperor Taikang may have obtained some alien technology and used it to create the city god and land system to enslave them.

Or maybe Tai Kangdi's mother is an alien.

Or maybe Emperor Taikang was a traitor and betrayed humanity.

Of course, no matter which speculation is true, or whether it is right or wrong, there is one thing that is the common understanding of the vast majority of civil and military officials and dignitaries, that is, Emperor Huaguang must not be allowed to regain control of these nanorobots.

If possible, they would even destroy these things. After all, these things definitely could not have been researched and manufactured by their craftsmen.

Those who are not of my race must have different hearts. They are still human beings, let alone these alien creations?
And these things are not removed.

How do they regain their freedom?

They have had enough of the days where they have power but have to serve the people, cannot embezzle a single penny, and cannot do anything bad.

They work hard to climb up not to work like slaves for others, but to be willing to be a cow for others!
So the final result was that many forces joined forces to disclose all the relevant research reports without telling Emperor Huaguang, and at the same time started a nationwide discussion, trying to create conspiracy theories as much as possible to discredit those nanorobots, in order to warm up for launching a referendum in the future to destroy the city god and land system.

When Emperor Huaguang knew all this.

The news could no longer be concealed.

As the secrets of the City God system were revealed, the first people to be unable to bear the shock were those who were seeking immortality. Why did they firmly believe that there were methods of cultivating immortality in this world and that they could become immortals? It was because of the City God system!

Now they are told that the so-called city gods and land gods are just some nanorobots with alien technology.

Who wouldn't collapse?
What’s the difference between this and telling religious believers that God and Buddha are mechas created by alien technology?

What followed was a nationwide discussion.

In the top ten trending searches, on countless communication networks and information platforms, everyone is discussing this matter. Unless Emperor Hua Guang hangs himself on a tree on the spot, there is basically nothing else that can compete with this matter for the top spot in the trending searches.

【??? Am I dreaming?】

[Oh my god, I'm going crazy, what happened? How come the god I kowtowed to countless times and prayed to countless times turned into a robot? ]

[The neighbor next door just died of vomiting blood. He had been thinking about seeking immortality since he was a teenager. He had been seeking for more than eighty years but had not gained anything, and he was still full of hope.

In a few months he would have celebrated his 100th birthday.

Now it’s all right, I’m so angry that I’m going to die…】

[It’s scary to think that the city gods and land gods are all robots and can monitor us. ]

[Is there something wrong with the above? God is always there, why don’t you feel that he is monitoring you? Now that God has become a robot, you think there is something wrong? ]

[That’s what I said, if the city gods and land gods were all gods, or if they were all deified after death, how could they be so fair and honest? There are so few honest officials when they are alive, so how can they all be honest and upright after they die!

If they were all robots, it would make sense.

Machines without humanity are naturally fair. 】

[What those experts said was so scary, as if the next second those city gods and land gods would invade us, destroy us, and enslave us. Is this really possible? ]

[Yes, the aliens are so evil. They came to us from afar just to give us justice. There must be a conspiracy. If we don't destroy these alien things, how can the master be so arrogant? ]

[I can't tell if this is sarcasm or...]

[But if the current royal family is really aliens, then aren't we being ruled by aliens? Although life is okay now, it always feels weird to be ruled by aliens. It is more shameful than being ruled by foreigners. In short, I feel very complicated now. ]

[Can aliens die suddenly before the age of fifty? ]

[The longest-lived emperor among the emperors, Emperor Taikang, only lived to be 89 years old, not as long as my grandfather. How could an alien be so miserable? ]

【This is definitely nonsense.】

[Please, over the past hundred years, everyone has witnessed how fair and honest the city gods and land gods in various places have been. They have never killed any innocent people. Those who shout that they are bad or even want to destroy them can you please read more history and see how ordinary people with no power and influence lived in the past. ]

[According to the news, the current emperor did not get the secret of controlling the city god and land from the previous emperor, so now the city god and land system has been out of control for many years, but there is no problem, isn't it still normal? ]

[As machines, there is a possibility of damage. What if these nanorobots are damaged, malfunction, or go crazy? ]

Although the powerful and wealthy have been trying hard to guide public opinion, trying to make everyone question and even oppose the nanorobots, there are still many sober and calm people, so there is no overwhelming public opinion trend.

In addition, Emperor Huaguang has been making appearances and giving speeches recently.

Guide public opinion and express attitude.

So the overall situation is still under control.

However, some land temples and city god temples were destroyed artificially. The powerful class who were tightly bound by the city god and land system never accepted their fate. They have been lurking for more than a hundred years, looking for opportunities to break free.

They firmly believe that no system is immortal and no system is without loopholes.

As long as they pass it on steadily.

There will always be a day when the situation will break out!
New challenges have emerged. Bai Sheng is no longer able to control the future. It all depends on whether Emperor Huaguang is strong enough. Whether the country will prosper or decline depends entirely on him.