American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

Xiu En was speechless.

The half-eaten cookie in his mouth also lost its flavor.

He realized he had just stumbled on a most basic yet fatal problem.

He only thought about how to get the believers to find him good food.

However, they never considered how to manage and restrain this group of people with all sorts of strange ideas.

God is very powerful.

But when a god wants to establish an organization, he must confront the most troublesome and unsolvable thing in the world.

human heart.

Xiu En covered his forehead.

"I was wrong."

"I think I oversimplified things."

Ivy softened when she saw how devastated he looked.

She gently patted the back of his hand with a leaf as a gesture of comfort.

Sunflower changed the subject.

"However, the core idea behind your food review is still quite good."

"Huh?" Xiu En looked up.

"At least, it will make it less boring for you, the GM, when reviewing the menu."

"I feel like you're subtly criticizing me, but I have no proof."

Xiu En thought for a moment.

heart...

This thing, which he had been deliberately avoiding and found troublesome and boring, ultimately became an insurmountable wall blocking his path to becoming a great GM.

"Okay, okay, I admit it."

Xiu En exhaled a long breath, as if exhaling his naivety along with it.

"You can't manage a food club well just by having the slogan 'aspiring to the light'."

"A company that only focuses on KPIs and lacks HR and risk control will eventually rot from within due to internal competition among its employees."

Seeing that Xiu En had finally come to terms with reality, Ivy's tone softened, even though she was still using Xiu En's strange metaphors.

"So? What do you want to do?"

"Since just having likes isn't enough, let's add dislikes too!"

"We need a comprehensive module for judging good and evil! A system for divine judgment!"

He once again opened the background interface in the void, which only had a big sun, and his fingers began to frantically draw up new blueprints on it.

"First, we need to establish a credit score system for believers' behavior!"

"Everyone starts with 100 points, representing neutral and good. Do good deeds, gain points! Do bad deeds, lose points!"

"Helping an elderly lady cross the street earns one point. Saving someone from a fire earns ten points. Preventing a bank robbery earns one hundred points!"

"But the reverse!"

His expression turned serious.

"Spitting on the ground, deduct one point. Snatching a child's lollipop, deduct ten points. Beating someone into the hospital while attempting a robbery, deducting a negative number of points!"

Secondly, negative reviews must also be categorized!

Shuen drew a pyramid of punishment levels with his fingers.

"I'm not interfering during the point deduction phase; I'll let them figure it out themselves. That's called community self-governance."

"When a believer's credit score is reduced to zero and they enter a probationary period, all their merit gains will be frozen. Any food reviews they submit will be automatically rejected by the system."

"This is called depriving someone of their political rights!"

"If he still doesn't repent, his credit score will become negative."

"That's good. His Sun Blessing will be automatically revoked by the system. He will return to being a mortal."

"certainly."

Xiuen added.

"This isn't even the worst part."

"For those so-called believers whose credit scores have plummeted to below -100, it's an extremely egregious case. For example, someone who actually went and killed an innocent mythical beast in search of the legendary phoenix liver."

Xiu En's finger landed on a newly added blood-red button on the backend interface.

"Then I will personally give him the final, god-like worst review!"

"The location and all information of the person I give a bad review will be automatically marked by the system and packaged into a top-priority cleanup task!"

While Hugh was basking in the glory of his brilliant design, Ivy raised a new question.

"So, who decides the ultimate standard for good and evil?"

"Of course it's me!" Xiu En said matter-of-factly.

"you?"

Ivy pointed at him with a leaf, then at Joestar and Alvin on the ground.

"One believes that cramming one's doctrines into a child's head is love. The other believes that separating a child from their doctrines is love. Your two fanatics have completely different understandings of good. So how can you guarantee that your good is something everyone agrees on? What if one day you faint from hunger and think that roasting and eating Bruce is a good deed that benefits the future of the universe?"

"..."

"Uh, really?"

He discovered that being a GM was much harder than he had imagined.

He just wanted to be a carefree, pampered sun, with everything done for him!

Why bother with such a complicated problem?!

"Then how can you guarantee that your good deeds will be the kind of good deeds that everyone agrees on?"

"Furthermore, since there are negative reviews, your followers have already done bad things, and it's always too late to make amends, which is not good for the victims."

Xiu En's previously excited expression, which had been fueled by the prospect of receiving a terrible review, crumbled once again.

He stroked his chin, lost in deep thought.

Yes.

He may not care about good and evil, but his followers do.

Each of these believers is an independent person with their own worldview.

A sun-centric, autocratic standard of judgment may be effective in the early stages.

But when this organization expands to span countless worlds with completely different cultures, races, and values, such dictatorship will inevitably become the source of unrest.

He cannot and does not want to become a dictator that he himself despises.

He just wanted to eat something nice in peace!

Why is it so difficult?!

"No, that's not right!"

Xiu En thought of something.

"Ivy! Do you think you plants all have that kind of collective consciousness?"

He asked eagerly.

"Like a giant beehive, or an ant colony, is each individual plant a node in the network?"

"That's one way to understand it."

Ivy nodded.

"Just like the green of all things here, it is the sum of the consciousness of all plant life. We share the most basic laws of existence and the desire to survive."

"That's right!"

"We don't need a unified, absolute divine standard!"

"We just need one point of reference!"

Xiu En once again manipulated the sun icon, and a completely new logical framework was quickly built.

"Every planet with life, or every civilization, will develop its own collective morality to some extent! Or, we can call it planetary consciousness! Just like Earthlings feel that they cannot kill or rob indiscriminately, that is Earth's collective consciousness!"

"My Solar Ring System will be adding a brand new function from now on: the [Gaia Lie Detector]!"

He excitedly explained, "When my followers arrive in a new world, the Sun Ring will automatically read and analyze the dominant collective consciousness of that world, and based on this, generate a temporary set of rules of good and evil that apply only to that world!"

"Just like when you visit someone's home, you have to follow their rules! When my followers go on business trips to other planets, they must also follow the local rules!"

"This is just the first step!"

Xiu En's smile became even more cunning.

Simply adhering to local ethical standards will only earn you a passing grade! It will only ensure your credit score isn't completely depleted!

"Want extra points? Want to gain merit? Want to exchange for my blessing?"

"What needs to be done is to have a moral standard that is many times higher than the local average!"

He gave an example.

"For example, in a world where everyone spits on the ground, if you can refrain from spitting, I'll give you one point. But if you voluntarily clean the streets, making everyone think, 'Wow, this person is so clean and has such a good sense of public morality,' then I'll give you a hundred points!"

"In a world where everyone believes in the law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak, I'll give you one point if you can refrain from bullying the weak. But if you can stand up and protect those who are bullied, establishing a new order of mutual assistance, then I'll give you ten thousand points!"

"What's this called? This is called the catfish effect! I sent my followers there not to let them assimilate, but to have them raise the local moral standards dramatically!"

"The better you do, the more merit you accumulate, and the greater the reward you receive!"

Sunflower listened quietly to Xiu En's wildly imaginative theory, and she was very happy that Xiu En had really taken it to heart and thought about it.

"Great job, Shum! I have to admit, your approach of adapting to local customs and engaging in self-reinforcement has indeed solved the problem of standards."

"But how can you guarantee that the collective consciousness you've read is correct? What if the mainstream values ​​of a planet are inherently evil? For example, a warrior race that worships killing, whose collective consciousness is that the more you kill, the more glorious it is. Are your followers then also going to compete to see who can kill the most?"

"Good question!"

Xiu En had anticipated this problem, and he confidently snapped his fingers.

"This is where you need to shine, my dear little flower!"

"Me? Uh, you know, I only care about you, nothing else matters."

"That's right, it's you!"

Xiu En pointed at her and said.

"I'll handle the technical implementation; you retain the final right of interpretation!"

"You are the god of nature; your good and evil originate from the order and harmony of the very source of life. Your judgment is a hundred times more reliable than mine, a glutton who only wants to eat! If you cannot tolerate a world, then it must be evil!"

"From now on, all collective consciousnesses of the new worlds must pass your review before being entered into the system! You will be the one to determine whether the mainstream values ​​of this world conform to the basic laws of life."

"If the collective consciousness of a world is inclined towards good, then follow the involution model I just mentioned."

"If its collective consciousness is inherently evil,"

A smile appeared on Xiu En's face.

"That makes things even easier."

"The system will automatically mark this world as the highest priority purification target!"

"If it can be corrected, send someone to correct it; if it can't be corrected, then it won't need to be corrected in the future."

He knew that when he was in charge of unleashing his wildest ideas and Ivy was in charge of setting the bottom line, their small startup team was already invincible.

"To celebrate the official launch of our Food God National Project."

He solemnly pulled another cookie out of his pocket.

"Come on, dear product director, let's grab a bite to eat first."

He broke the cookie in half and handed it to Ivy's flower plate.

Ivy symbolically touched the leaf tip with her finger to indicate that she understood.

"Alright, the plan is finalized. Next up is the A-test phase!"

Xiu En was full of energy.

"Talk is cheap; we need to find two seed users to experience our new version!"

His gaze swept back and forth between Joestar on the ground and Alvin on the roof.

Just do it.

Xiu En's hands ignited two white-gold flames containing boundless creative power.

He did not use the central solar cell system that he had already rejected.

Instead, it directly drew two strands of energy from its own original golden fire and white lamp power.

Then, he started writing code into the two energies.

He wove commands representing [Dynamic Moral Standards], [Gaia Lie Detector], [Believer Credit Score], and [God's Disapproval] into those two beams of light.

Finally, he also added a background observer mode that only he and Ivy could see.

This allows them to spy on your screen anytime, anywhere.

Oh no, I mean collecting user feedback.

The whole process was completed in one go.

Soon, two brand-new sun rings, completely different from the previous one, took shape in his palm.

The two rings feature a small sun motif on their face.

But upon closer inspection, they are completely different.

The ring intended for Joestar radiated a golden light that exuded an aura of righteousness. It gave the impression of the midday sun, full of masculinity and majesty.

The other ring, intended for Alvin, possessed a cold, understated platinum quality. It also glowed, but that light, like the winter dawn, carried a chilling, judgmental quality.

"Great!"

Ivy nodded, expressing her approval of Xiu En's ability to customize skins for different users.

"Of course."

Xiu En smiled smugly.

"User experience must be top-notch!"

He waved.

The two test rings, carrying his new ambitions, transformed into two streams of light and shot towards the two chosen ones on the ground.

Author Hun Gu's latest work, "American Comics: Praising the Sun Starting from Gotham!", is exclusively released for the first time!