Chapter 1732: The Biggest Problem of the Cleanup Bureau

Sure enough, you are not unwilling to change, you just can't accept the consequences of failure.

Seeing a little bit of movement in the eyes of several Directors, Leon, who confirmed his judgment, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

Through contact with the Directors, he had roughly figured out their temperaments. Although they all had problems in their personalities, those who could mix into the position of Director had quite good moral levels.

It's just that perhaps due to their background as cleaners, most Directors had personalities that tended to be cautious, coupled with those failed cases in the past, it was natural to regard all reforms that lacked "guarantees" as reckless, which was why the present world had become what it was now.

Actually, this kind of personality couldn't be said to be a bad thing. The entire human race was like a big company. The middle level and below were naturally daring to think and do, and it was best to be enterprising. But if the manipulators who decided the fate of the entire "company" were also like this, then they were joking with the fate of all humanity.

But having said that, the Directors' overly conservative decision-making philosophy had indeed led to some not-so-good situations. With the cleaners' abilities far exceeding ordinary people and the powerful effects of various anomalous items, the Cleanup Bureau could completely do more!

"Next are the problems of plague, war, poverty, and disasters."

After completely figuring out the "vital points" of the Directors, Leon continued while secretly sensing the state of their heart lakes:

"These several very serious problems, as well as the previous hunger problem, often appear simultaneously or successively, and mutually trigger and strengthen each other."

"War and disasters are likely to bring plague, while war, disasters, and plague inevitably lead to poverty and hunger. Large-scale poverty and hunger are prone to war, and due to population loss, destruction of economy and facilities, the resistance to disasters is greatly weakened."

"For specific cases, in pages 6 to 10 of the booklet, there are several suitable examples found by the Fourth Research Institute of the Traveling Thrush from the history of various kingdoms in the past 500 years. The several major wars between the Traveling Thrush and the Northern Kingdom are the most typical… Why don't you turn to that page, and I will talk while you look?"

"Oh oh!"

Hearing Leon's words, the Directors, whose brains were running at high speed, suddenly realized, lowered their heads and flipped through the booklets in their hands. Amidst the rustling sound of the Directors flipping through the books, Leon cleared his throat and then spoke:

"Take the war seven years ago as an example. The biggest fuse was that the Northern Kingdom encountered a snow disaster, leading to a large shortage of food, coal, and other materials, and they could only choose to go south to attack."

"After the war, two counties of the Kingdom of Traveling Thrush were almost beaten to pieces, losing a large number of population, and a large number of factories and infrastructure were destroyed, leading to the subsequent epidemic and large-scale famine."

"The Ryan County, which was originally quite prosperous in industry, has never recovered since then. It was only after Queen Veronica came to power that she repaired infrastructure, allocated production capacity, and gave a series of measures that it recovered… What can we see from here?"

"?"

Seeing Leon suddenly stop explaining, the Directors couldn't help but be stunned.

And finding that Leon's gaze finally fell on him, and others also looked at him, the Scorpio Director had to say "uh", then said somewhat uncertainly:

"That Queen Veronica did a good job?"

God mother, Veronica did a good job… Although she did do a good job, was that what I asked? You really shouldn't be called the Scorpio Director, just change your name to the Horn-of-the-Bull Director! This brain is too unwilling to turn.

Rolling his eyes speechlessly, Leon had to give up the intention of guiding and answered directly:

"We can see that if a cleaner with weather-type anomalous items had been sent to destroy the snowfall when the snow disaster broke out in the Northern Kingdom, or if we had found a way to open up transportation after the snow disaster to help the Northern Kingdom obtain necessary food and fuel, then the subsequent series of problems would all have been solved."

"Disasters, wars, plagues, poverty, hunger… these five problems are very difficult to deal with, and as long as one breaks out, the others are easy to follow. But as long as you can find the cause of the problem, it becomes quite easy to solve!"

That's right!

After hearing Leon's words, the Virgo Director, who was the fastest-thinking among the Directors, immediately reacted.

Compared with forcibly intervening in the governance of the Twelve Kingdoms and requiring them to eliminate famine and poverty, it was much easier to start from this angle.

For the Twelve Kingdoms, solving snow disasters and plagues was a huge problem, but for the Cleanup Bureau, it was just a small matter… Saying it was a small matter was a bit exaggerated, but at most it was a medium matter.

There should be dozens of anomalous items in the secret treasury of the headquarters that can change the weather or disperse epidemics. Even if the Twelve Directors had more important tasks, the branch directors and elite cleaners in various places could all do it… But why didn't the branch director of the Aquarius Branch do it?

"He actually did it, but only did half of it."

After the Virgo Director finished asking his question, Leon, who had done enough homework, answered:

"When the snow disaster broke out nationwide, the branch director of the Aquarius Branch was carrying out a joint operation to deal with the altar of the Storm God. Although he put down the work in his hands and rushed back to eliminate the subsequent snow disaster, greatly reducing casualties."

"But after he arrived there, he went back to clean up the Storm Altar, without considering the shortage of food and materials after the disaster, and the possibility of war breaking out. And this is the biggest problem of our Cleanup Bureau… arrogance."

"…"

Looking around at the puzzled Directors, Leon asked:

"Everyone, I want to ask a question… Do you really still regard yourself as a part of humanity?"

"Leon!"

Seeing the expressions of other Directors change, the Taurus Director hurriedly said:

"Don't talk nonsense! If you didn't regard yourself as a part of humanity, how could everyone appear here as a Director? Including you, we must all hope that the race we come from can get better and better!"

"Apologies, my expression might not be clear enough. I am not accusing everyone of betraying their origins. This point does not need to be doubted."

After nodding and apologizing to the Directors whose expressions were not very good, Leon, who was deliberately shocking, blinked and asked again:

"What I want to ask is… have you tried to communicate with the Twelve Royal Families and more other 'ordinary' humans?"

Communicate?

Hearing this, several Directors couldn't help but look at each other, and then the Cancer Director answered:

"Of course we have! Everyone has to look at a lot of…"

"What I mean by communication is not the 'reporting' of sending a letter to the local Cleanup Bureau or explaining the situation after discovering anomalous events, but a more equal exchange of sitting down face-to-face, mutually understanding each other's needs, and putting forward their own demands."

"Is there a need to do so?"

Hearing this, the Cancer Director couldn't help but frown:

"The opponents we usually need to face are not something ordinary humans can intervene in at all. Even the established armies of the major kingdoms often cannot help, and will even cause a large number of casualties."

"And because of the cleaning effect of the 【Illusion Can】, most people don't even know the existence of anomalous items. If we communicate too much with them, it will make them suffer more immersion and encounter more dangers, this…"

"This is the arrogance I mentioned…"

Sighing slightly, Leon said helplessly:

"Everyone, although you regard yourself as a part of humanity and are willing to contribute, or have already contributed your whole life, in your hearts, you ultimately regard cleaners and ordinary people as two completely separated groups."

"If the branch director of the Aquarius Branch hadn't regarded himself as a higher-level protector when the snow disaster broke out, only focusing on the problems he had to solve, but communicated with the Northern Kingdom, he would have understood where the more critical problem was, and then found a way to help raise food and materials."

"The Storm God's altar is indeed dangerous, and if not handled well, it will cause large-scale disasters. But compared to the situation where hundreds of thousands of people might freeze or starve to death, and the plague, famine, and poverty after the war breaks out, it is really just a small problem."

"And all this could have been completely avoided, just by asking one more question…"

"…"

"Everyone, most ordinary people don't know the existence of the Cleanup Bureau. Even a few who know the existence of the Cleanup Bureau don't know that we have the ability to solve these problems because of the extreme lack of communication. But we know it ourselves! We can completely be more active!"

"And ordinary people may not be unable to provide help. Not all anomalous events are like the ones we encounter, which are crises of True Gods and a plane. Many anomalous events actually have a very small scope of influence. Maybe a block, a small town, or a port is the limit."

"In this scale of anomalous events, ordinary people can also help. Even if they can't solve it, they can provide a lot of information, so that cleaners who are already highly casualty-prone don't have to bump into it in the dark and risk their lives to do investigations."

"…"

"I also know that those intangible, spiritual anomalous events are completely beyond the reach of ordinary people. But apart from these, aren't there many that ordinary people can deal with?"

"Sea monster tribes occupying ports, beasts mutated by demon blood pollution, fish-man raiders appearing near shipping lanes, small-scale gatherings of evil god believers, etc… After finding out the situation, isn't it good to wash the ground with artillery fire? Why use the lives of cleaners to fill it?"

"…"

"Also…"

Also?

"Don't don't don't! Wait a minute!"

"Let us think about it…"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute!"

Seeing that Leon seemed to want to continue, the Directors who couldn't hold on anymore hurriedly opened their mouths to stop him, then exchanged glances, and finally the Taurus Director represented the others and said with shame:

"Leon, we were indeed… too arrogant and too conservative in the past. Things are just as you said. We can indeed do more. This… why don't you say how you are prepared to change?"

Well… looking at the situation of everyone, I feel it should be almost brewed?

Stealing a glance at the state of the Directors' heart lakes, and after confirming that the heat was enough, Leon nodded slightly, no longer continuing to stand on the moral high ground and urinate everywhere, but directly put forward his own ideas.

"I want to pull the royal families of the Twelve Kingdoms together in the name of the Cleanup Bureau, sit down at the same table, connect with each other, eliminate conflicts, and take what they need… at least reduce the number of wars first."

"…"

"…"

"And then?"

"?"

Looking at the Taurus Director who was silent with him and seemed to be waiting for the following, Leon couldn't help but blink.

"That's all. Such an important problem cannot be rushed. Take it step by step, slowly!"

"Hiss…"

Looking at Leon opposite him who took it for granted, the Taurus Director and the Cancer Director, who knew him better, couldn't help but gasp.

This is not right?! Based on your style, shouldn't you propose to hang those few royal families who are messing around? But you only pulled them together to talk? Such gentleness doesn't look like you either!

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1733 =====