The Pseudo-Human Academy: Starting with a Bricklayer Personality

Philo looked at Rhodes' panicked appearance, but she was not flustered at all.

Instead, he grinned, a smile tinged with a strange madness, and his tone became agitated:

"I'm not crazy, I'm perfectly clear-headed! It's precisely because I know these are fragments of a catastrophic object that I'm secretly keeping them!"

"Do you know what you're doing? Hand it over right now and take it to the warden immediately, begging for his forgiveness!"

"If we are discovered, we in Asak cannot afford the consequences!"

Rhodes looked anxious and shouted loudly, reaching for the broken pieces on the table, wanting to return them immediately.

Philo shoved his hand away, her emotions instantly escalating into a hysterical outburst. Years of pent-up grievances, resentment, and anger erupted at that moment:

"Send them back? What would we gain by sending them back? We'd still be bullied by powerful nations, still unable to hold our heads high on the international stage, still a weak nation at the mercy of others!"

"Rhodes, take a good look at our country! What are we, Asak, anyway?"

"With a small territory, weak national strength, and scarce resources, we don't even have the right to speak at international conferences. A single sanction or pressure from a neighboring major power can leave us breathless!"

"What gives them the right? Just because they're stronger than us, just because we're weak, does that mean they deserve to be bullied and looked down upon?"

"That warden looks down on us, the great powers look down on us, everyone thinks we Asak are unworthy of a voice, unworthy of standing on our own two feet!"

"I've had enough of this life, enough of having to be subservient to others, enough of our people living in fear and humiliation!"

Philo became increasingly frantic, her eyes bloodshot, her expression twisted, staring intently at Rhodes, her tone filled with a crazed obsession:

"These fragments of the monstrous object are our opportunity! Our chance to completely turn things around!"

"As long as we hand it over to the country's top scientists and dedicate ourselves to studying its extraordinary power, and as long as we can control this power, we can become powerful!"

"At that time, who will dare to look down on us? Who will dare to oppress us?"

"We, Asak, will completely escape our current predicament, gain our own place on the international stage, and never have to depend on anyone again!"

"All problems can be solved once the power of the calamities is mastered!"

His voice was hoarse and frantic, every word filled with ambition driven by inferiority and obsessive disregard for consequences.

Years of being bullied and looked down upon had fueled a crazy ambition in his inferiority complex.

To make the country strong and to prove himself, he was willing to gamble the fate of the entire nation.

Rhodes was quite taken aback by Philo's words. He was a conservative and abhorred such extreme measures.

He stared at Philo, who had descended into madness, at the destructive ambition in his eyes, his face filled with disbelief, and he shouted in a trembling voice:

"You're insane! Philo, you're completely insane! That's a catastrophic object, a terrifying being capable of destroying everything, not a tool to be used casually!"

"You actually want to control its power? You're playing with fire, gambling with the future of the entire Asak! This is insane! I will never allow it!"

"I now order you to hand over this fragment immediately, and I will pretend this never happened."

"Otherwise, you will destroy our country and all our people!"

Rhodes was still trying to make a final attempt to persuade him.

But at this moment, Philo was already blinded by ambition and wouldn't listen to a word of advice.

He looked coldly at Rhodes, a chilling smile on his face, and slowly took a step back, clapping his hands lightly.

"Bang!"

A series of rapid kicking sounds rang out, and the heavy doors of the Presidential Palace were kicked open in an instant.

Squads of fully armed soldiers filed in and quickly surrounded the entire presidential palace.

The dark muzzles of guns were all pointed at President Rhodes, their eyes cold and devoid of any emotion.

These soldiers were all Philo's confidants, and they obeyed only him.

Rhodes' face turned deathly pale. He staggered back a step, staring at Philo in disbelief, his voice trembling:

"What...what are you doing? Philo, are you planning a coup?"

"What are you doing?"

Philo walked slowly to Rhodes, looking down at him with a cold and mad tone:

"Rhodes, you are too conservative and too cowardly. Under your leadership, Asak will forever live at the bottom and will never have a chance to rise above his circumstances."

"Now, this matter is no longer up to you."

"From today onwards, I will be in charge of Asak."

As soon as he finished speaking, Philo waved his hand, and the soldiers immediately stepped forward, firmly restrained Rhodes, placed him under house arrest in the presidential palace, and completely stripped him of all his power.

A silent coup was swiftly carried out under Philo's orchestration.

After seizing power, Philo immediately handed over the secretly kept fragment of the calamity artifact to Asak's top research team.

Philo gave them a death order, demanding that they spare no effort to study the extraordinary power contained in the fragments, and to decipher the secrets of the anomaly so that it could be used by Asak.

In the research laboratory, the lights stayed on all night, and scientists, under Philo's high-pressure orders, began a frantic study of the fragments of the anomalous object.

Driven by Philo's ambition, the entire kingdom of Asak has quietly embarked on a dangerous and insane path.

……

Meanwhile, Xu Feng, completely unaware of the situation, carried the lump of charcoal back to the Silent Containment Tower.

Xu Feng looked at the coke in his hand, a thoughtful expression on his face.

The anomalous creature doesn't seem dangerous at the moment, and he doesn't know what kind of containment prison to build to contain it.

After thinking for a long time, Xu Feng decided that it was safest to keep the lump of coke with him.

With this in mind, Xu Feng hung the remains of the strange object on the wall of his office as a decoration.

Xu Feng looked at his masterpiece and nodded with satisfaction.

To be fair, it is still entertaining.

Xu Feng couldn't help but start to think about whether he should bring some weeping angels back and put them in his pseudo-human academy as decorations.

It must be really exciting.

Putting everything else aside, the weeping angel is at least more visually appealing than this lump of charcoal.

Ren Hongying, who was standing to the side, was dumbfounded.

No, Warden, what the hell are you doing now?

Hanging a lump of coke on the office wall as a decoration, don't you think that's irrational?

Xu Feng stretched his neck. Now that the supernatural object for this month had been found, nothing could stop him from watching his dramas.

Xu Feng glanced at his empty teacup, frowned, and said in a leader's manner:

"Xiao Lian! I'm not trying to be mean, but how come you have no sense at all? Your teacup is empty and you didn't even refill it for me."

"Oh right, switch the TV to the kids' channel. Thomas the Tank Engine is about to start airing. What's wrong with you? Don't you know I want to watch cartoons?"