Nuo retracted her hand, picked a small octopus from the pot, and placed it into Eve Nightburn’s bowl.
“Actually, when I mentioned the broken thermometer, I wanted to say that your heart refuses to change.”
“A thermometer needs time to calibrate its temperature, and the ice at absolute zero is essentially frozen time.”
“When you were building your country, the old world was completely destroyed once, but after the country was completed…”
As Nuo spoke, she took out another thermometer from her pocket, which clearly read:
“-36.2°C.”
“You quickly warmed up the new world, making it flow, because you understand that in a world at zero degrees, puppets don’t even have the right to move. Such a world is indeed more boring.”
“It’s quite boring now…”
Eve Nightburn added, looking at the people around her, the mechanical sounds of mutual blessings and praises only made her feel uncomfortable.
Nuo continued, “That ice is actually your pursuit of absolute safety. Absolute safety is essentially boring, but this ice now constitutes the entire sky you see, because the rules within the space have already been reconstructed by you.”
Eve Nightburn didn’t understand what she was saying at all.
“What do you mean?”
Nuo: “What I mean is, if you simply released the power of absolute zero, this planet would have been finished long ago. But you forcibly rewrote the laws of absolute zero, ultimately just building a wall for yourself, and then playing by yourself inside the wall, since people outside the wall can’t control you.”
“Now, do you understand the logic of how this world operates?”
“Control the masses to prevent betrayal.”
“Imprison the girls to prevent loss.”
“Restrain yourself to refuse choices.”
“Prohibit sadness to eliminate pain.”
“Deny currency to eliminate poverty.”
“You are like a child, locking your favorite toys in a glass cabinet, afraid of breaking them.”
After finishing, Nuo ate the last fish ball in her bowl.
Nuo rubbed her stomach, then stood up from the sofa and left her seat: “Alright, I’m full, thank you for the meal.”
“By the way, in this world, there is no concept of wealth, so my thanks for this meal will be this.”
Nuo then placed the two dice she had just thrown onto the table next to Eve Nightburn.
“Although thinking about some things is too tiring, I still hope you understand that this world is not just about yes and no.”
“You have already been hurt by the humans you thought you knew, so why are you still clinging to their way of thinking?”
After saying this, Nuo left, leaving Eve Nightburn alone, staring at the remaining food in her bowl.
After finishing her meal, Eve Nightburn looked at the threads filling the room, recalling what Nuo had just said.
“So… is this what I yearn for?”
Eve Nightburn picked up the two dice, and in a daze, she felt that the numbers on them might not be limited to six.
Outside the city.
Rowan Chu sat in his office built of sheet metal, flipping through one report after another, the most reasonable solutions proposed by the country’s top scientists.
But as Rowan Chu turned page after page, he could only see a few almost identical sentences in the margins.
1. Don’t bother.
2. Even if you want to, you can’t.
3. The structure is stable, give us a few years to figure it out, maybe then we can manage.
After reading these useless answers, Rowan Chu angrily picked up his lighter and set the documents on fire, burning them to ashes.
After looking for a while, the only useful solution he found was to seal off the city, and then there was no follow-up…
Actually, if it were just that, it would be fine. Sealing off the entire city wouldn’t affect the safety of people in other parts of the country, and theoretically, it was feasible.
But Rowan Chu understood one thing: if you set a time bomb and give it to an ancient person who doesn’t know what it is, and they carry it with them every day, the bomb doesn’t explode, so it’s indeed safe. But when the bomb finally explodes, who will take the blame? The person who handed the bomb to the ancient should have run away long ago.
Rowan Chu looked out the window at the black domain wall covering the entire horizon, and he knew that this was the time bomb in his hand.
It could explode at any moment, but understanding it would take a very, very long time.
Although many enthusiastic Magical Girls have actively arrived here to help the country solve the calamity crisis, most of them have been rejected by Rowan Chu.
Passion alone can’t solve anything, and noble justice can’t change anything.
Rowan Chu understood that these young Magical Girls were not yet capable of handling these matters, so he only allowed S-rank and above Magical Girls to help solve the problem.
Creak~
“Governor Chu, there’s a sad matter, I wonder if I should mention it?”
A mature woman with glasses pushed open the door and walked in.
Rowan Chu glanced at her and quickly pulled out a chair for the woman.
“Ms. Feng Jueyan, please, have a seat.”
“Thank you.”
Feng Jueyan took the chair and sat down.
Feng Jueyan, codename Fire Phoenix, one of the few EX-rank Magical Girls in the Divine Continent.
She should have retired long ago and should now be working in the Capital on the training of Magical Girls.
But this calamity forced her to take action personally.
This was for the public.
On a personal level, the fire that took the lives of all her relatives when she was 12 years old also compelled her to come.
Rowan Chu took a drag from his cigarette and asked, “What is the matter Ms. Feng Jueyan mentioned?”
Feng Jueyan blurted out, “All our current technology has no effect whatsoever on this black domain.”
Rowan Chu took another drag from his cigarette, then placed it on the ashtray, took the teapot beside him, found his cup, and poured a cup of tea for Feng Jueyan.
Feng Jueyan took the tea, swirled it in her hand to let it cool, and after feeling the temperature was about right, took a small sip.
Rowan Chu: “Isn’t this something we should have expected?”
“Alas,” Feng Jueyan sighed, “This is the most unwelcome expected outcome, indeed expected.”
Feng Jueyan swirled the water in her cup, took another sip, and looking at the yellowish tea, she sighed, “The proverb from the Islamic world is indeed correct.”
“Which proverb are you referring to?” Rowan Chu was somewhat curious.
“People shouldn’t get angry casually, because once you get angry, you’ll show your true skills, and then others will know how bad your true skills are!”
After saying this, Feng Jueyan downed the remaining half cup of tea.
“Ha~, and now, we are the ones with the bad true skills, all our moves have no effect on this disaster.”
“This is the weakness of humans, always thinking we are the smartest creatures in the world, but after millions of years, we still have no understanding of this world.”
