The villain's way to tame the protagonist

He snapped his fingers lightly, creating a crystal clear water ball next to Ming Fuluo.

"...At least, one more wrong option has been eliminated."

A pretty face covered in gray and black poked out from the smoke and dust, and dived into the water ball skillfully.

"call……"

Ming Fuluo gently shook her head that stuck out of the water ball and wiped her wet cheeks with her hands. Some of the crystal water droplets hung on her long eyelashes, and some slid down her delicate and fair face. She looked wet like a little deer that had just drunk water, but her expression was not cute at all.

"The in-depth research on the universal ether furnace can only be officially launched after you reach the fourth level."

The young Hydra looked at the waste in the alchemical furnace and couldn't help shaking his head, saying, "No matter how hard we try now, it's just a waste of energy and materials. This is different from other things, Luo. The principles and elements of its design are too complicated."

Ming Fuluo also looked at the black unknown substance that turned into a piece of tatters in the explosion. After a moment of silence, she replied in a low voice:

"I know, but I can't let it go, Anser."

She turned to look at the boy sitting on the sofa, the only person in the world who could understand her, the only person who could see the same scene as her, and said:

"When I think that if the Universal Aether Furnace is advanced by even one step, and its birth is advanced by even one day, the arrival of a new era will be advanced by one moment, I can't resist the urge to create it."

The petite but cold woman showed an emotion that she would never show in front of outsiders, a yearning and even intoxicated emotion, and stretched her hand to the edge of the extinguished furnace:

"The world will take another step forward and will no longer remain the same. The damage caused by disasters and chaos will be minimized. This continent will achieve a complete transformation in a few hundred... no, decades. Poverty and hardship will be eliminated. Even the most ordinary people will no longer become nutrients for the extraordinary. Instead, the extraordinary... will become part of the ordinary and commonplace."

Ming Furo almost never said such long and emotional speeches to Anser. Obviously, the "Universal Ether Furnace" they mentioned carried all of Ming Furo's hopes and dreams for more than ten years, and she herself had an unspoken pursuit and persistence for this dream.

"..."

Anser looked at his first and best friend, listening to her unreserved description of such a vision. He actually knew better than anyone how difficult it was to achieve such a thing, but the corners of his mouth still subconsciously rose a little, and his voice became softer:

"A Luo, you have to understand... to achieve this kind of thing, it's not as simple as just inventing a universal ether furnace."

"I know."

Ming Furo turned her head and looked at Anser, and quickly calmed herself down. She didn't like to be too emotional in front of Anser. Firstly, she would be teased by him. Secondly, although the two were the closest friends and extremely compatible companions, she was five years older than Anser, and she must not appear to be... less than an adult in normal times.

After all, she already acted like an adult enough.

"So we have been working hard for that moment to come, making more alchemical instruments that can push it forward, to change..."

"What I mean is," Anser interrupted Ming Fuluo, "no matter how many inventions there are, no matter how powerful they are, some things are just hard to change."

"You mean... the resistance we will encounter?" Ming Furo frowned slightly.

Ming Fuluo is a truly smart person, and true intelligence means that she is not an idiot who is good for nothing except alchemy creation and spell research.

“This is… indeed a problem.”

The woman calmed down a lot: "If you want to promote such a change, there are too many interests involved. After all, Grandpa is--"

Her eyes became cold and grim, and were filled with deep hatred. Only at this moment would the usually indifferent female scholar reveal such intense emotions.

Ming Fuluo took a deep breath to calm herself down. She looked at Anser and said softly, "I can't rely on you for this matter. You will be in big trouble."

"No, no, no... this is secondary."

Without touching the core circle of the empire, he naturally didn't understand what the Gods meant to the empire, so Anser just smiled inexplicably at Ming Fuluo's words: "I don't care about such trouble, Luo. The problem is that even if the trouble of pushing is solved, there are still a lot of problems waiting for us."

"... a lot?"

“Social change is based on material things, but it cannot be limited to material things.”

Whenever these topics were mentioned, Ansher would always become a little talkative, but Ming Furo did not show any boredom. Instead, she listened patiently and attentively.

"The empire wants to change, but it can't just let the extraordinary people raise the productivity of the entire society. When we were discussing the universal ether furnace, I explained to you what productivity means, right? In short, it is far from enough to just let the civilians have extraordinary-level productivity."

The young Hydra was very excited and gestured very seriously: "This will bring about class conflicts. The interest issues you just mentioned are only the most superficial... Even if I can solve this problem in a short period of time and promote it, when this society has been running for ten years... No, if the effect of the universal ether furnace is as we expected, it will not take ten years, but only five years, and even more terrible conflicts will break out. If it is not handled properly..."

He paused, and said very seriously: "It is not impossible that the empire will be divided, destroyed, and finally rebuilt, and everything will be lost."

Ming Fuluo was stunned, because Anser's words were indeed a bit unbelievable. She pondered for a long time and couldn't figure out the reason. Finally, she asked:

"Why? With you and the emperor at the time around, this kind of thing couldn't have happened."

"How many extraordinary people do you think regard mortals as the same species as themselves?"

"should--"

Ming Furo subconsciously wanted to answer "quite a few", but when she thought of her grandfather's experience and most of the extraordinary people she had seen since her childhood, she finally fell silent.

She had already vaguely realized what Ansher wanted to say.

"You see, you know it very well in your heart." The young Hydra said softly, "Extraordinary people like you and your grandfather will always be a minority among the minority."

"In the eyes of most extraordinary people, mortals are no longer on the same level as them... The gap between the two is like the gap between humans and uncivilized animals. The stronger the extraordinary person, the greater the gap, which is equivalent to... humans and ants."

"Why? Is it because the great power has alienated their personalities? This is only one of the reasons, the most superficial one."

"The bottom line is, this world is twisted, Luo."

Anser lowered his eyes slightly: "The extraordinary makes the soul pursue and desire to go further, and makes the extraordinary people eternally pursue the possibility of life leap. However, the nature of the abyss makes it impossible for all extraordinary creatures to realize this desire, and they go crazy in repeated torture."

"The road to heaven came into being, but it is an imperfect road. After the crown, no one has found the gate to the highest. For nearly a thousand years, countless extraordinary people have wandered here, unwilling to perish, and no one has succeeded. In this situation..."

The young Hydra showed a sarcastic smile:

"In this situation, there are monsters born as gods, forever above them - Luo, the extraordinary people regard ordinary people as insects and ants, but before that..."

Ming Fuluo couldn't understand the emotions revealed in those ocean-blue eyes, but she was sure that it was definitely not contempt, but... something more difficult to describe.

"Before that, they are even less worthy of mention in our eyes. Because the sheer weakness of mortals will make them infinitely respect us, infinitely rely on us, and infinitely love us, while those who think they hold power will never have such purity."

"…a tool to please the gods."

Ming Furo murmured in a low voice, her tone somewhat complicated. Anser had talked to her very frankly about this topic before, and Ming Furo did not hold any hostility towards Anser because she knew very well that if Anser was like the emperor, who regarded mortals as people who existed to please himself, it would be impossible for him to work with her for such a long time.

"Yes, and mortals can accept it, or rather... they don't even know that they exist for this reason, but extraordinary people cannot accept this reality."

"The anxiety and madness of being unable to go any further, the resentment and unwillingness of being dominated by the Old Gods... the combination of the two has formed among the extraordinary people... hehe, a vicious curse from top to bottom -"

Anser shook his head and laughed. The irony in his laughter was so obvious, yet it was more than just irony.

"The higher-level ones dominate the lower-level ones, just like the emperor dominates them. Since they cannot resist, they oppress, dominate, and manipulate all beings inferior to themselves just like the emperor. This cycle is passed down from level to level, and no one can escape. And all the malice, resentment, and unwillingness of the extraordinary ones... will be imposed on mortals. Then, they will also please themselves by playing with the lives of mortals like the emperor did."

"This is the empire now."

"This is not just a change brought about by power, Luo... it's the extraordinary itself, the malice and distortion of the entire world."

"In this situation." Anser sighed, "If mortals have the ability to touch the extraordinary unconditionally, if the extraordinary people, even the last bit of 'superiority' and 'superiority' are to be shattered, what do you think... will happen?"

"……collapse."

Ming Fuluo murmured to herself: "The extraordinary will choose to destroy everything."

"Yes, who would want to see the pigs they have kept in captivity stand up, speak human language, and no longer be as humble and respectful as before?"

As Anser said this, that scene appeared in his mind.

The extraordinary people will intensify their oppression and dominate the mortals to ensure their own superiority. The world will not become a better place, but will collapse step by step amidst the piling up of contradictions.

"If it was irreversible, the emperor at that time might have chosen to...'restart' the empire."

The boy shrugged. "After all, all he needs is praise and love, not watching the bigger ants and the smaller ants bite each other. If he gets bored, he will choose to start all over again."

"……Do not."

These light and creepy words did not make Ming Fuluo fall into despair.

Instead, she stared into Anser's eyes, her gorgeous purple pupils were extremely bright:

"What if...what if it was you, Anser?"

"what?"

"I mean, if you were in control of the empire," the woman said in a very calm tone, "If it were you... you would never choose to overthrow everything. You would definitely find a solution to elevate the entire empire, rather than continue to be trapped in this absurd and morbid stagnant water."

Anser was stunned for two seconds, then he couldn't help laughing: "You are really brave, Luo. If our emperor finds out, you will be roasted into charcoal."

“But you are just that kind of person. You are different from them and all the Old Gods.”

Ming Fuluo did not hide her thoughts:

"You're just such an amazing guy, aren't you?"

The young Hydra swung her legs, with a happy and carefree smile on her face: "Keep talking, I love to hear it."

"So... do you have a solution?"

"There's still a long way to go, and I'm still thinking about it. In fact, while I was thinking about these things, I also had an extra idea, a... remarkable thing that can serve as, um... a solid foundation, or the role of testing the current situation."

"……what?"

"A net."

"..."

Seeing Ming Fuluo frowning in thought but completely unable to imagine, Anser raised his eyebrows happily: "Can't think of it at all?"

"No matter how well I follow your train of thought," Ming Fuluo shook her head, "I still can't understand what the use of 'a network' is."

"Suppose there is a spell that can be used to collect and search for countless complex knowledge and information. What do you think it can be used for?"

The female scholar thought for a moment, then frowned and said, "What use can a portable library have?"

"Okay, then what if we expand what can be recorded? Let it be able to perform calculations and deductions, and then add more complex functions, such as autonomous recording, scanning, analysis... or even the ability to record the spells themselves? What would that be like?"

This description is too abstract. No one can understand what Anser is trying to say. Even a genius will be confined to the vision given to him by the times.

But before Ansel, there was a genius who could even surpass his time.

The woman was stunned by Anser's words. Obviously, she had begun trying to recreate the thing Anser described in her mind, but because it was too abstract, she couldn't even think of a clue for a while.

But while thinking about it, Ming Fuluo had already realized... the inestimable value of this thing.

Before Ming Fuluo could speak, Anser said, "What if this spell... it shouldn't be called a spell at this time, but this... thing can be connected to each other?"

"connect?"

"Yes, it's like someone in the North holds this thing, and he inputs information about some monsters unique to the North into it. Then someone in the South who holds this thing can transcend time, space, and even the limitations of the carrier, and can also get this information instantly?"

"It's like a network, a network that can connect the entire empire, allowing countless people to transcend countless restrictions and break through--"

"Break through that iron wall of knowledge that has stood there for thousands of years!"

Ming Fuluo said this for Ansher in a trembling voice.

"Yes - oh, Luo you -"

"Anser, you are truly a genius... No, genius is simply not enough to describe your talent. You are simply, simply..."

Ming Fuluo hugged Ansel tightly, she was so excited that she was incoherent. She could no longer control herself when she thought of that scene.

"From material things to knowledge, from knowledge to thoughts...how come you have considered everything? How come you know everything? Are you really only thirteen years old?!"

Anser was stunned for two seconds when being hugged by the soft body, and then he embraced the petite female scholar's soft and slender waist with peace of mind, half squinting his eyes comfortably: "Of course I am only thirteen years old. As for why I can think of so much... Of course it's the same as you said, because I am a genius."

"I know I know."

Ming Fuluo whispered with great peace of mind: "I have never doubted your ability, Anser."

"Well... you may be disappointed this time, because I can only put forward this concept about this 'net'. I have no idea about its internal principles, so I can only talk about it-"

"I will make it." Ming Fuluo and Anser looked at each other with an extremely serious tone, "Anser, I will definitely, definitely create it. Compared to the universal ether furnace, its preciousness and difficulty... lies in the concept you proposed. In this world, in another hundred years, two hundred years... or even a thousand years, it is not certain that anyone will be able to reach your current level."

"I will never...never allow such a great work to be buried in my hands."

Anser chuckled: "Then I'll wait and see."

Ming Fuluo responded softly, then realized that she was holding Ansel so tightly, and immediately let go of his hand, took two steps back, and turned away.

Ansher just looked at her with a half-smile, and didn't say anything to embarrass Miss Ming Furo, the adult who didn't behave like an adult.

The two remained silent for a few minutes, but no one felt awkward. In the silence, the two companions who had a vision that transcended their times could only feel an incomparable tacit understanding and harmony.

"Anser, I can't imagine how I can change the world without you."

After a long time, Ming Fuluo said this.

Anser teased, "Maybe if I wasn't there, you would have met another partner?"

"No." Ming Fuluo shook her head. "I don't believe that there is another person in this world who can rival you in talent. Not only talent... Anser, but also thoughts, the kind of thoughts that I cannot understand or touch."