Chapter 1627: Ointment (Part 3)

"Hmm?"

Looking at the Ophiuchus Director who suddenly changed the subject and began to rebuke his thoughts on the Bureau of Cleanup, Li Ang's eyebrows couldn't help but raise slightly.

"Why are you anxious?"

"I'm not!"

Okay, he's definitely anxious.

After pondering the Heart Lake of the Ophiuchus Director, which made a bang and then began to leak sideways, Li Ang's eyes blinked, and then he realized:

"You seem... very unwilling for me to continue the topic just now?"

"?!"

"So besides that broken rein, you also did other things to me?"

"?!!!"

"Wouldn't it be something like 【True Word Balance】? After debating with each other, the loser has to pay a price, or even be enslaved by the other party?"

"?!!!"

"Okay, I understand."

He understands! He understands!

Looking at the Ophiuchus Director whose Heart Lake was about to collapse, the corners of Li Ang's mouth couldn't help but pull up, and in his desperate expression, he showed a kind smile.

"Then let's talk about the Bureau of Cleanup!"

Ah?

"Regarding how to transform the present world, I do have many ideas, such as resource allocation, environmental transformation, political system change, consciousness construction, conflict handling... and so on."

After counting on his fingers, Li Ang smiled:

"But these are just assumptions, and I can't guarantee that my ideas are definitely correct. They must be strictly verified and improved. Pushing them hard might cause problems, so changing the topic is also good... Speaking of which, what kind of organization do you think the Bureau of Cleanup is?"

"The Bureau of Cleanup... is the watcher of humanity!"

Seeing that Li Ang actually gave up his "advantage" and didn't continue to press him, the Ophiuchus Director, who was terrified, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then said righteously:

"Although I feel that the Cleanup Bureau has already rotted—not only is its strength inferior to the previous generation, but it is even hesitant and indecisive in its actions now, stale and incompetent, and completely unworthy of the status of humanity's watchers."

"But the relative stability maintained for thousands of years in the past proves that the model of the Bureau of Cleanup itself does not have much problem, it just needs some 'blood transfusion,' so your idea of overthrowing the Bureau of Cleanup entirely is definitely wrong! If there is no Bureau of Cleanup..."

"When did I say that I wanted to 'destroy' the Bureau of Cleanup entirely?"

"???"

In the Ophiuchus Director's puzzled gaze, Li Ang explained patiently:

"I said there is no need to take over the Bureau of Cleanup's mess. This sentence does not mean thoroughly erasing the Bureau of Cleanup, but changing the current mode of completely isolating ordinary people, and trying to let ordinary people participate."

"Let ordinary people also... are you crazy?!"

Hearing this, the Ophiuchus Director couldn't help but tremble, and then asked angrily:

"Do you know that there were seniors in the Bureau who did this? Do you know what the consequences were? Do you know..."

"The eighth Ophiuchus Director, right? I heard it from Lord Taurus."

Li Ang said calmly:

"He allowed the blood moon to shine on the earth, generally increased the Lyon value of a large number of citizens, and wanted to cultivate a batch of Cleanup Agents, but the result was a large number of vicious anomalous events, causing huge casualties. After that, similar things were called off."

"Don't you know that..." "I know this, but I think the problem is not that ordinary people have Lyon values, but that the lives of ordinary people are too hard, so they often give birth to anomalous objects with extreme effects, and after having power, they also retaliate against society, instead of trying to do something meaningful."

"How can you be sure it's..."

"Okay, regarding this issue, the Bureau is trying to verify it, let's talk about something else after the verification results come out. Let's talk about something else."

After waving his hand to interrupt the Ophiuchus Director, Li Ang stared into his eyes and said peacefully:

"The Bureau of Cleanup in your eyes is the watcher of the human race. I admit that this statement is not unreasonable, but have you considered a question: what is the price of this 'watching'?"

"The price... is... must face the crisis directly?"

"The price is the large number of deaths of Cleanup Agents."

After looking at the Ophiuchus Director who was a bit stunned, Li Ang explained:

"There are more than 80 branches in the Bureau of Cleanup. Large branches have one or two hundred Cleanup Agents, and small branches have more than a dozen. The total number of Cleanup Agents in history has never reached 20,000."

"And these mere thousands of Cleanup Agents have to be responsible for dealing with various anomalies born from the pain of 20 billion people, so they will naturally be stretched thin. Just in the two and a half months I spent building the Underworld Branch, more than 80 Cleanup Agents died and came to report."

!

"Calculated by this probability, the number of Cleanup Agents who die every year is about 400 to 500. So from the birth of the Bureau of Cleanup to now, the number of Cleanup Agents who died because of missions, added together, is afraid that it is already touching the threshold of the million level."

Millions... are there so many?

"There really are so many, and I'm afraid it's still a low count."

Seeing the doubt in the Ophiuchus Director's expression, Li Ang continued:

"According to my statistics, although the number of Cleanup Agents has rebounded occasionally, the overall trend is actually constantly decreasing. When only four of the Thirteen Kingdoms were established and the total population of the present world was less than 600 million, the total number of Cleanup Agents was about 16,000."

"But after the seventh kingdom was established and the Watch Palace could basically ban the descent of True Gods, the total number of Cleanup Agents began to decrease year by year. The population of the present world has tripled or quadrupled compared to the past, but the number of Cleanup Agents has shrunk to less than one-third of that time."

"However, even during the best period of the Third Generation Director, the annual casualty rate of Cleanup Agents was maintained at more than 6%, and in the past few hundred years, it has broken through 10%, vaguely moving toward 11%, so this total casualty number is definitely only more, not less."

"..."

There are really so many...

Facing the facts presented by Li Ang, the Ophiuchus Director was silent for a while, then refuted:

"But those who died should be mostly Level 2 and Level 3 Cleanup Agents, right? And they..."

"And they themselves are mostly criminals, joining the Bureau of Cleanup can be considered atonement for themselves, and being able to die for the sake of defending the human race can be considered as dying in their proper place?"

"Isn't it?"

"Yes, you can say that if you want."

Li Ang glanced at the Ophiuchus Director, and then asked pointedly:

"So the 'human watcher' you mentioned, who is crucial, meritorious, and indispensable, is actually a group of vicious criminals who deserve to die?"

"And the organization you think is indispensable chooses to let a group of prisoners who have committed vicious cases, mastered extreme abilities, and have extreme personalities stand at the forefront of all humanity, resisting danger for the entire race?"

"Even those who survived among these 'criminals,' as their strength continues to grow, will eventually become branch directors, become Twelve Directors, and then obtain terrifying power, becoming the actual controllers of the fate of all humanity?"

"?!!!"

Looking at the Ophiuchus Director whose eyes were slowly widening, whose mouth was also opening unconsciously, and whose whole body began to exude a strange oily fragrance, Li Ang couldn't help but sigh from the heart:

"To be honest, after discovering this, I felt that our humanity has survived until today without finishing, this luck is not ordinary!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1628 =====