After communicating with Eve Nightburn, Nina White and Lucian Blue found a hotel for her to stay temporarily. Then, Nina and Lucian went to the psychiatric hospital before finally arriving at the city government.
Mayor’s Office.
“Report,” Nina White walked in with a bag full of documents.
Song Mingcheng, who was handling a large pile of paperwork, stopped his work upon hearing someone enter.
“You are?”
“I’m Nina White from the Security Bureau,” Nina said, placing the bag of documents on Song Mingcheng’s desk.
“Oh, please sit,” Song Mingcheng quickly pulled out a chair for her upon learning her identity.
“As a new mayor, I’m not yet familiar with everything, so I can’t quite grasp your work immediately.”
“No problem,” Nina sat down and opened the sealed document bag. “It’s already an honor for me that the mayor pulled out a chair for me.”
After exchanging polite words, they got down to business.
Song Mingcheng: “So, Nina, what brings you here?”
Nina took out a stack of documents from the bag and handed them to Mayor Song: “This is the psychological analysis report on that Calamity. I specifically went to the local psychiatric hospital to conduct the analysis. Please take a look.”
Song Mingcheng took the stack of documents. Though he hadn’t yet read them, he had a rough idea of their content: “Are you talking about the report on Eve Nightburn?”
“Yes, the report on the Calamity ‘Eve Nightburn’,” Nina confirmed the mayor’s thought.
The information about the Worldburn Flame had already been replaced by the government, and its name had been changed to the Calamity’s own name: “Eve Nightburn”.
Song Mingcheng nodded: “The name ‘Eve Nightburn’ is good. It represents another step forward in humanity’s understanding of Calamity. Compared to the artificially defined name ‘Worldburn Flame’, this name now is closer to its true nature.”
After saying this, Song Mingcheng began flipping through the report.
1. Self-cognition contradiction
2. Severe nihilistic tendencies
3. Extreme emotional experiences
4. Strong persecution complex
5. Lack of emotional anchors
6. Obvious emotional trauma from orphanhood
7. Insecurity
8. Severe depressive tendencies
9. Scarcity of self-existence
10. Severe inferiority complex
As Song Mingcheng flipped through the pages, Nina took a sip of tea and placed the cup on the table, saying:
“I now think that the girl named Miri Dreamwell was right. We indeed created a big monster ourselves. If we hadn’t pursued her, I believe at least nothing would have happened this year.”
After reading through the pages, Song Mingcheng put the documents aside and sighed.
“Ah, yes, we are accustomed to solving these issues with violence, believing that all Calamities can be eradicated with force.”
“But this time we were wrong. The real Calamity is something we cannot solve with any method.”
“The result is, we presumptuously assumed we were acting for the safety of the people, nearly pushing the world to the brink of destruction!”
“I’ve finished reading this report. I think anyone carrying so much psychological burden for so long would consider destroying the world, don’t you think?”
Nina immediately followed up: “But she has never thought of such things. All she has ever wanted is a Strawberry Cake.”
“And yet, such an incredibly simple wish is something our world absolutely refuses to grant her.”
Song Mingcheng nodded: “Because we believe she should not exist, she shouldn’t even steal our resources, not even a small cake.”
“Yes,” Nina nodded, “In essence, it’s the collapse of the operating system.”
“In the end, it’s the problem of human mental laziness, we rely too much on labels to simplify things.”
“By the way, Mayor,” Nina suddenly changed the topic, “do you know a saying from 3000 years ago?”
Song Mingcheng: “How would I know if you don’t tell me?”
Nina: “It’s this: ‘The name that can be named is not the eternal name.'”
“In our current context, it means that the human brain dislikes complex logic. We like to use names to define the essence of things, we habitually label everything, using a fixed label as a substitute for thinking about the essence of things.”
“But labels constrain our thinking. We obsess over good or bad, right or wrong, easily overlooking the possibilities between good and bad.”
“Once we fall into this mode of thinking, we drift further away from the truth of the world.”
“It’s like if I asked people to abandon the concept of good, most think I’m asking them to be evil because most people are bound by such thinking and cannot comprehend the state between good and evil.”
After saying this, Nina got up from her chair.
“Mayor, I’m done talking, please continue your work. As for me, I still have to go and comfort a child.”
Nina didn’t want to deal with the new mayor. It’s difficult for a strong dragon to suppress the local snake; who has been in this city longer? It goes without saying.
To put it plainly, it was Song Mingcheng seeking her help, not the other way around.
Anyway, if she didn’t want to do this job, she could just forego the salary. After all, no one else wanted to deal with an ultimate Calamity.
Only she and Mr. Trash were willing to risk their lives for this money to support their families.
As for the irrelevant saying from 3000 years ago, Song Mingcheng would probably acknowledge but not accept it.
After all, the system won’t change, but at least… let the absurdity surface.
Otherwise, who knows how long it will take before people make the same mistakes again and again?
As she walked out of the government building, Nina stretched.
“Scarcity of talent makes you bold!”
Nina then hailed a taxi.
After getting in, she directed the driver to head to the booked hotel.
After all, up until now, the expenses were still covered by the country!
She just needed to collect her five thousand yuan salary.
As for whether the taxpayers are happy?
That’s not for her to consider, anyway, such matters won’t fall on her head since who knows her, a nobody?
Unknown by all, that makes you bold!
Inside the hotel.
Eve Nightburn sat at the table, idly tossing two dice in her hands.
Speaking of her phone, she had long since lost track of it…
Probably… was it thrown into the lake when she was reciting the incantation?
Eve could not verify now, lost was lost, and now she could only play with dice.
This time, she really had to thank the girl named Lore for inadvertently giving her something, otherwise she wouldn’t even have this last bit of entertainment.
According to Lucian and Nina’s requirements, now she had to live under the country’s monitoring. Although she currently had a temporary ID Proof, it would take half a month before a real ID Card could be issued.
And during this half month, she had to live under the supervision of Lucian and Nina.
“So… for this half month, I’ll be kept in this hotel by those two, doing nothing~”
Eve expressed if she had a phone now, she would definitely ask Miri Dreamwell to get her out of this cage!
