I am the magnetic field maniac

"After you were seriously injured and unconscious, a little girl named Katagiri Yumiezuki brought you back and handed you over to me." Muroto Sumire answered casually while checking various data...

"But she has been missing since she brought you here, and your physical condition has become increasingly strange. After sleeping for three months, the energy generated by the viral microorganisms that coexist with you has become increasingly powerful..."

"That's not what I'm asking." Rentaro interrupted Muroto Sumire and whispered...

"Well, after the great war in Tokyo, Blue Dream Company took over the entire Tokyo." Muroto Sumire turned her head and looked at Rentaro and said softly...

"After defeating Scorpio and all the invading gastrula creatures, the leader of Blue Dream Company, Bai Wujie, announced that he and the Holy Emperor had taken over the ownership of Tokyo and Japan.

At the same time, he disbanded all the military power of the Self-Defense Forces and the right of the police to carry guns, killed or arrested all senior officers, and the officials had a similar fate, and replaced them with AI to take over most government functions..."

What Muroto Sumire described was a situation in which the leader of an extremely powerful corporate organization took over and controlled the government, abolished all military and official departments, and completely controlled it with his own power.

It can be said that it perfectly fits the cyberpunk worldview. But the rule of Blue Dream Company is not that simple.

"He ruled over a Tokyo that was almost in ruins, but with the help of his iron birds, he rebuilt all the destroyed cities and infrastructure in just one and a half months, and regained control of the heavily polluted nuclear power plants and factories.

Using the iron metal from the broken stone monuments, they made more iron birds to protect the Tokyo area, and restored order in Tokyo in a very short time... With the assistance of companies such as Sima Heavy Industries, Tokyo has even become more "prosperous" than before..."

Muroto Sumire's tone was very neutral, and there was no doubt that what the Blue Dream Company she described did was a good thing that could not be faulted.

It rebuilt the city that was almost destroyed at the end of the world, controlled and united the people who had fallen into hell on earth due to the chaos of order, forced companies to hand over resources and profits to maintain people's livelihood, and protected this place from the continuous invasion of protostomes.

How can anyone point out the mistakes and flaws of such a "perfect" ruler?

Rentaro couldn't find any fault with it. As long as the Scorpio was not put in by Blue Dream Company, his behavior could be said to be as great as that of a savior.

But he still didn't feel any favor towards Lan Meng... because he knew the dark secrets of this company and this organization. He looked at Tendo Mugen, hoping to get the answer he wanted from her.

Facing Rentaro's gaze, Tendoki hesitated for a moment and whispered...

"I know what you want to ask, but it's time for you to rest. We'll wait for you to recover..."

"Tell me right now!" Rentaro grabbed Tendo Kisara's hand and held it tightly, his firm voice leaking out from between his teeth...

"On the day that Blue Dream announced its takeover of Tokyo, the new gastrula law was passed." Tendo Mu was silent for a moment and whispered...

"But unlike the law drafted by the Holy Son of Heaven, this new law on protostomes stipulates that all cursed children - no, now blessed children, automatically obtain a citizenship status one level higher than ordinary people from the moment they are born, and enjoy higher priority in the use of public facilities and welfare benefits. At the same time, when they are over five years old, they must accept the government's sign and join the Blue Dream Company to receive unified education..."

In other words, the cursed children who were once despised, abandoned, and regarded as having no legal rights have suddenly become people above the social class of ordinary people, and this is even written in the law.

Rentaro was silent again, and Bai Wujie had indeed done what he had not been able to do - to help those unfortunate children find their own happiness.

Could it be that I really misunderstood Bai Wujie? Could it be that the existence of Lanmeng Company is really a better thing for the world?

No, it won't be that simple. Rentaro's brain hurt a lot, but his active mind still made his logic clear. He took a deep breath and asked Tendo Bokugen...

"What about those who resist him? With such regulations, it is impossible that no one will oppose him."

Rentaro clearly knows the fragility and meanness of human nature...

How could they tolerate a group of people who had just been trampled under their feet standing above them?

Happiness is always achieved through comparison, and for the general public, their happiness often needs to be obtained through the suffering of others.

The loser lying in the pit often doesn't think about how to climb out of this unfortunate pit, but how to drag others into this unfortunate cave, step on other people's heads and look at the other person's position lower than his own, to gain happiness and joy from comparison.

Tendoki lowered his head and did not answer, but this time it was Muroto Sumire who answered. She turned on a TV in front of her, and the live broadcast on the TV was a large parade.

They held up all kinds of signs, and without exception, they were all covered with various radical slogans.

Slogans such as "Black-hearted entrepreneurs, get off the stage!" and "Return power to the Holy Emperor" were mild. Most of the comments were offensive and even insulting to the Cursed Son and the Blue Dream Company.

Such marching crowds were wandering through the streets and alleys of Tokyo, and strangely, fully armed troops were watching them from the side and even helping them maintain order in the march.

These soldiers are all private armed forces of companies like Sima Heavy Industry...

After Blue Dream announced the removal of all civilian police officers’ rights to hold weapons and the removal of all Self-Defense Force military forces, those forces either chose to be absorbed by the company or become civilians.

"This parade has been going on for six days." Muroto Sumire said faintly.

"The city march started six days ago and was initiated by former Justice Minister Yamanaka Inoji on February 26. He gave a passionate speech in front of the Lembongan Tower, which is now the political center of Tokyo."

Muroto Sumire pressed the remote control a few times, and a video began to play...

In the video, a middle-aged man in a suit and tie is standing on a simple platform and speaking loudly into a microphone. Behind him is a tall building that reaches into the sky and seems to have no end in sight.

"Our government is finished! Political power has fallen into the hands of corporations, and military power has been seized by Blue Dream Corporation! The Tokyo government is dead in name only!"

"If this continues, everything we have will be controlled by those big companies. Our society will lose its vitality, all our social welfare will be cancelled... and more importantly, our human rights will be violated!"

“The new gastrula law, the Blue Dream CEO Bai Wujie who advocated the implementation of such a law is trampling on the human rights of our Yamato people!

They have given higher power to some children who have been infected by the virus. This is a trampling on us and a contempt for us!"

"Tokyo is sick, and Japan is about to be destroyed! The international community is condemning the actions of our crazy government, and now is the time for us to resist!"

"The traitors of the country will be punished by heaven. Now is the time for us to rise up!!"

It was a passionate speech, and it indeed created a passionate atmosphere among many people below.

There seems to be nothing wrong with the content of this speech. But does a country controlled by so many big companies really have a future?

But the problem is that the world today is a doomsday world.

Three months ago, the entire Tokyo was nearly destroyed by the invasion of monsters.

Don’t people who have been immersed in peace for so long understand that they have been living in a birdcage that seems safe but is actually fragile!

The stupidity of one person is understandable, and the stupidity of ten thousand people is also understandable, but Rentaro knows what the price of stupidity is.

Rentaro, who had climbed up despite the pain, looked at the silent Muroto Sumire and asked with a trembling voice...

"Tell me, what happened to those officers - Tendo Kikunosho!"

The Blue Dream Company seized the supreme power in Tokyo and liquidated all senior government officials except the Holy Emperor.

So what is their fate?

Kill them all? Or... something worse?

Rentaro had a premonition that what happened to these people would also happen to those who were marching in protest.

"They..." After a long silence, Tian Tong Mu slowly spoke, happy but sad...

"I'm still alive, but I'm living a life worse than death."

27. The Reign of the Sea Tiger God

Politics is a thick fucking pile of shit, and everyone in power...

But you have to hold this lump of rich dog shit in your hands and play with it with a smile.

Some people have said that the art of politics lies in compromise, while others have said that the art of politics lies in assimilation.

Bring the IQ of a group of people to the same level as yours, or lower your IQ to the same level as the crowd.

People talk about politics with great disgust yet are eager to get involved. On the one hand, they lament the filthiness of political bureaucracy, and on the other hand, they promote politics as a science and a kind of wisdom.

Fuck, politics is shitty wisdom! In Bai Wujie's opinion, politics is just to complicate something that can be said in one sentence into hundreds of sentences and then discuss endless nonsense!

Bai Wujie hates all things politics, because he's experienced what it's like to be forced to play with that shit.

Sometimes, even between martial gods, there are some political factors involved.

Isn’t this what the earth used to be like?

The Bai family royal family, the United Nations, and the Ultimate Infinite are large factions and tribes. In their heyday, the Bai family royal family can suppress everything, but more often than not, even the Sea Tiger Martial God needs to "compromise" with these organizations.

Wherever there are people, there is politics. Bai Wujie would not deny this statement, because people are so fucking complicated.

The politics of hell is also politics, but it is only the politics of one person. It replaces bureaucratic democracy with absolute authority and replaces the entire structure of political factors with a wise king.

It is human nature to complicate simple things, regardless of whether you are strong or weak. Even the strongest war gods have the nasty habit of playing politics and intrigue.

But Bai Wujie is definitely not one of them.

He hates politics, not only because he hates the disgusting feeling of making things complicated and inefficient, but also because he himself is a "real" person.

He knows his true self and expresses it without hesitation, and will never hide his true thoughts or words unless he is deliberately having fun.

And even if he was having fun, he would never lie to others. He hated the feeling of making up lies, and hated the inferiority of going against his own will even more.

This was how he had ruled the earth, with absolute "truth" and an undisguised "self". Even when he had been planning to cleanse the earth, he had never concealed his thoughts within the Bai family.

Well, this is probably one of the reasons why he and his younger brother once fought against each other.

But even so, at the root of the matter Bai Wujie still cannot completely escape the constraints of politics.

Just like what we say, hell politics is also politics, and absolute dictatorship is also a kind of politics.

Bai Wujie does not play politics, but he is politics itself. Even if he is the great commander of hell, he cannot do everything himself, and still needs the government and institutions to share his power and politics.

Even if Hell is a perfect philosopher king, he cannot build a perfect society, because a perfect society itself is counterintuitive.

So if you want to get to the bottom of it, the country that Bai Wujie wants to build and the land that he wants to rule... at most, it's just about not being a crappy bureaucrat or an inefficient cook.

This is also why most of the truly powerful magnetic field gods have no interest in ruling itself... because even for extremely "real" people, even in the politics of hell, there are too many things that make them dislike and waste their time.

Even a peerless strong man and emperor like Bai Shounan would have his patience greatly worn out in the process of ruling, and would even be tortured by the things that come with ruling more than the enjoyment it brings.

Of course, all of this is based on the premise that you want to rule well.

If one just wants to do whatever he wants and enjoy the feeling of being the only one at the top and being respected by others, then anyone with a strong magnetic field can do it easily.

Because that is nothing more than being a god, and being a god is not without difficulty for those with strong magnetic fields, but it requires no effort at all.

The Magnetic Field God of War is a god to ordinary people, so why do they need to learn and endure anything?

Absolute violence can create absolute power and an absolute state. But that is only temporary. Just knowing violence will not make the place you create a real "heaven". As long as you really want to pursue hell politics, you will have to experience these shitty things sooner or later.

Precisely because one has to be an emperor and a commander, one has to endure and bear those things.

Only in this way can one enjoy the heart-pounding pleasure of being respected and revered by the people in the prosperity created by one's rule.

At the top of the towering Blue Dream Tower, Bai Wujie was soaking naked in a huge golden bath. Under the bath surrounded by countless mists, a white mermaid was swimming up and down.

Bai Wujie remained silent, just savoring the wine in the glass while looking at the bustling neon lights in the night, but his thoughts were racing.

As an emperor, there are still many things he needs to consider and decide.

In order to be a good emperor, he had to bear all of this.

Even though he had delegated power to talented people to manage the city for him.

This time, Bai Wujie did not adopt the Bai family's royal family model. Because, after all, the Sea Tiger Martial God's ruling model itself did not have a definite system.

It doesn't mean that the political system with the existence of Haihu Wushen and the Bai royal family must be the model of hell politics or feudal monarchy. In fact, this is a wrong prejudice.

Let the people organize a parliament on their own, let the surrendered gods of war solve problems among themselves, or let the Bai family's royal family and relatives manage the land...

Some Sea Tiger Martial Gods even choose to take paths that seem utopian to people in the old times.

As for the question of whether the Bai family royal family will become parasites of the people as their reproduction expands, there is no need to consider it... The Bai family will never allow the kind of royal bloodline to do nothing and crush the people.

It’s not because the Bai family is inherently noble, it’s purely because of, um... the internal "excellence" elimination mechanism.

First of all, it is not easy for the Bai family's royal family to reproduce as they are strong in magnetic fields...

Secondly, the choices made by each generation of Sea Tiger Martial God are always bound to cause a real bloody storm within the Bai family's royal family.

This was no mere palace dispute, but the fight for the Sea Tiger God of War had turned into...

Star Wars are not uncommon, so most of the Bai family's royal family either died at the hands of their brothers or left the Bai family and went to other places...

But no matter what model it is, the existence of the Sea Tiger God of War will override any political system and institution.

It's not just politics, it's absolute supremacy over the law and everything, absolute power!

Therefore, whether it is a simple political system or not depends solely on the interests and ideas of the Sea Tiger Martial Gods.

The ruling structure adopted by Bai Wujie this time is to support some giant technology companies to rule the country instead of the government.

Including Lanmeng Company, Tokyo's Sima Heavy Industries and several other technology and industrial giants have grown in power with the support of Bai Wujie, confronting each other and forming alliances...

It ruled the vast Tokyo area and took over the functions that once belonged to the government from Bai Wujie.

Is this kind of ruling structure good? Bai Wujie didn't know, but he would never lack the determination to wipe out these giant companies at any time and then replace a system and a group of people.

After all, Bai Wujie admires the politics of hell, but he will not completely imitate the political methods of the hell's great commander.

He also saw it very clearly. The so-called system did not make much difference to him. He only needed to control absolute power, maintain the health of the upward channel, and relatively fair laws to always create a good politics...

But he also knew that politics was no different from nature, and that all things would inevitably go through a stage of decay and withering.

Even a perfect philosopher-king cannot build a perfect society... unless he can completely change human nature.