Chapter 1057 - 97: Epilogue (Part 1)

One week later, Latovia.

[Broadcast: This is the Voice of the New World, currently reporting reconstruction tasks across all regions.]

[It has been a week since the principal war criminal, Dalio Agger, was judged and executed on the Moon. The New World Alliance Council has prepared an initial version of the post-war reconstruction plan.]

[The Reconstruction Committee is distributing food, medicine, building materials, and aid personnel globally via drones. All resource allocations and factory production capacities are publicly available on the Central Cyber Network, accessible to alliance members.]

[The reconstruction work requires a large workforce for organization. Personnel at all grassroots units who have completed basic education are encouraged to participate in elections online and contribute to the rebuilding effort.]

[Note, electors will automatically be deemed willing to lower their privacy level to "basic public" until they are either unelected or release their position...]

[Last week, the Enforcement Liquidation Committee executed 126 war criminals, and their relevant records have been made public...]

[Renaming the New World Alliance is also on the agenda. To reflect a spirit of unity, the working group has collected several names: Human Federation, Earth United Nations, Star Sea Community...]

In the virtual meeting room, Lille spoke first: "Martin, you’re not planning to continue?"

Martin shrugged: "For most of my life... Before working with you, I was doing illegal trades, or you could say I was involved in extreme activities. I knew some things were wrong, but I did them anyway.

If this kind of public system existed back then, I wouldn’t have made it from scratch."

"You’re underestimating yourself. This system doesn’t let people with determination, ability, and ambition be buried. On the contrary, it’s those with nefarious intentions who can’t keep going. Think about what someone like Dalio would say?"

Martin chuckled: "I guess he would say: Greatness is always forged by desire and power. Without the emperor’s whip, how can slaves willingly forge a crown? Without fear to drive them, who would willingly give everything?

Actually, before all this came true, I used to think that way too. You changed my perspective."

Some say human nature drives people, and human nature is an assembly of desires, so humans are inevitably selfish, inevitably self-serving, inevitably incorrigible.

Lille...or rather, the current world refutes this view, or perhaps Martin realized his previous views were because he was caught in extremism—

Those extreme individuals being in an extreme state naturally have extreme thoughts.

Now, the New World Alliance has a highly counterintuitive representative election system. Logically, it’s not much different from most "democratic selections." As long as one has a basic education and work experience, they can participate in grassroots autonomous unit selections, then continue to elect upwards through union elections, ultimately gathering the most representative individuals at different levels of democratic councils.

The biggest difference is the foundation of this system:

All production processes, production data, and resource allocation of the New World Alliance are fully public. This means public data and information are completely accessible, ensuring that every decision made by the upper levels and the consequences resulting from those decisions, as well as the logic behind them, are transparent.

And once someone joins the election, the public disclosure of higher-level records forces them to present themselves almost selflessly to everyone—

No way to profit privately, no way to indulge in minor political whims with power, even the smallest mistakes can be magnified infinitely...

For managers, this is purely a burden and responsibility; who would willingly shoulder so many chains?

But in reality, there indeed are: From ancient times to the present, sacrifice has never been something found only in legends. The devotion to work until one’s last breath is a matter praised across the ages; fighting where one dies meaningfully but may receive no recognition also drives people passionately into battle—

In this global level conflict and turmoil, such people are not lacking. Tens of thousands died in the conflict. Before their lives ended, they simply believed in a future where others could lead better lives...

And if one learns history with a reverent heart, they will find that such people are never lacking in society. It’s also such individuals who push civilization towards its better side.

If Dalio’s selfish thinking can be called human nature, then this could almost be called divine nature, but in reality, it is also human.

Martin paused briefly, then grew even more self-deprecating: "Yesterday, I saw a young candidate. I asked him, don’t you think this job brings no benefit besides burdening yourself with more work?

He smiled like the morning sun, saying: Isn’t ensuring this world never again falls into war, famine, and plague the greatest benefit? I might only live for thirty or forty more years. My daughter should live a long, long time—for her, I can give everything.

I also saw an old man in his seventies or eighties with no children. He said: I’ve lived so long, but I still feel happy every time I see villagers humming happily in their huts; there can be no more wars."

Countless faces flashed through Martin’s mind. He no longer had Negative Energy, couldn’t perceive the world through superpower means, nor regretted losing that ability, as every use of it reminded him of his deceased parents.

He did not enjoy Negative Energy, but after losing that power, he began to enjoy observing people.

He even thought he might feel people’s joys and sorrows more than before.

"Actually..." Martin paused, "You’re right. Perhaps I do enjoy being a... true leader. But before that, I should improve my personal qualities. I might just find a place to do some work for a while.

I’m not ready to make my history public yet, and, in essence, the civil servants of the new era are more coordinators. Who would handle these roles without understanding the technology?"

Indeed, it’s somewhat complicated, but the civil servants of the New World Alliance must not only gain the trust of their peers but also have a strong technical background—

Otherwise, why not let AI handle it? Why do we need people? No matter how persuasive someone is, can they surpass Lille sending a message from the central database to people’s minds: "The King needs you"?

"That’s true, do whatever you want." Lille fully understood Martin’s thoughts. "So... do you still remember what I once said to you?"

Martin paused for a moment, then laughed: "Of course I remember—A better world, well done."

...

Earth is undergoing reconstruction.

And not just reconstruction. There used to be many regions on this planet that lacked stable governance, and people, scattered like loose sand, unable to unite. The coordination of the New World Alliance, or to a large extent, Lille’s enforcement of some mandatory orders, has greatly weakened the power of nation-states.

For instance, seats in the New World Alliance’s resolutions are not locked by national units, and registered citizens don’t require nationality to be registered in the system.

More importantly, "dissolving nations" is practically an administrative task, and the first nation-states to be dissolved included the United States—

Indeed, the United States has now become an administrative continent of the New World Alliance. The EU and Africa are also undergoing orderly reforms, and organizing fragmented nations in other regions is even simpler.

Technically, communication issues can be solved using cyber technology. Politically, many countries owe their current state to the New World Alliance. Fundamentally, with a single word from Lille, the populace can descend into fanaticism.

However, as time passes, Lille fades from the public eye, as population structure updates and educational levels rise, people will gradually focus on their matters, and start to think more rationally, becoming less fanatic.

On the Moon Base, the current members of the Science Council are busy.

Busily figuring out how to trigger the singularity.