Chapter 3617

After sending Wei Lun out the door, Shiler looked over the newly arranged children's bedroom, thinking that he still had to go to the station tonight to pick up the personal items Billy had packed, and then bring him back from school.

After Brainiac took over Earth, he initiated a socialized child-rearing system. Simply put, humans were only responsible for giving birth; after the child was born, they were handed over directly, raised in a nursery until school age, and then sent straight to school.

This was obviously because the gap between the upper and lower limits of human parents was simply too large. If family education were implemented across the board, the potential of the vast majority of humans would not be unleashed. This race was already weak enough, and if they weren't taught properly, Brainiac, an artificial intelligence, felt the future was bleak for humanity.

Therefore, although it was difficult for humans to accept this method, Brainiac still firmly implemented this policy.

However, after it had been implemented for a period of time, humans discovered that there were still benefits. Because Brainiac was not the kind of completely heartless, purely logical machine they had imagined; he was far more advanced than that. Although he could not experience things like familial affection, he could understand that humans had such needs, and he would satisfy those needs as much as possible.

Therefore, the socialized child-rearing system he established actually meant that the society he ruled took on the most difficult part of all the responsibilities of raising a child, which was ensuring the child's physical and mental health and that they received a sufficiently good education. As for the unimportant parts, those were left to the parents, such as playing with the child.

Newborns were basically taken care of entirely by Brainiac. At first, most parents who had only had one child were strongly opposed to Brainiac taking their children away, but the vast majority of parents with multiple children and the older generation who had been through it all advised them to just honestly hand the children over, "Otherwise, you'll be crying when it's time for the night feeding."

Brainiac had actually set up a large-scale maternity center, raising both the mothers and the children. Most of the work was completed by professionals, and the standard of raising children and caring for postpartum women was much higher than in the vast majority of families.

After all, for two humans who needed to rest for several hours a day, raising a newborn was very tedious and exhausting. But for an artificial intelligence that could hammer both humans and the Darkseid Legion and the Emotional Spectrum Corps into the ground, raising a child was actually not a difficult task.

This was also a policy by which Brainiac encouraged childbirth. It was actually quite effective, because many people who had already had one child were unwilling to have another, not because they didn't want to, but because they didn't want to raise the child. If they could just hand them over after birth and not worry about anything else, a portion of people would still be swayed.

In addition, because he took on the most difficult and complex parts of the child-rearing process, the biological parents only needed to provide emotional companionship to the child, which instead reduced the pressure on both sides.

Most parents didn't not love their children; it was just that the fatigue from daily work and taking care of the family piled up, making them unable to muster the energy to accompany and educate their children, and they might even impose external pressure on the children, making the children feel stressed as well. This was unhealthy for both sides.

But if they didn't need to take care of them, nor supervise or educate them, and only needed to take a few hours within a week to accompany the child, then most people still had the patience for that, and their attitudes would be much better.

For children, they could not understand why their parents wanted to educate and supervise them when they were young. They didn't understand why their parents forced them to do homework when they clearly didn't want to; they couldn't appreciate their parents' good intentions and would instead complain a lot about it, feeling that their mom and dad were not good to them.

But if this part of the responsibility was borne by Brainiac, then they would only complain that this artificial intelligence was heartless, and would instead feel that the parents who accompanied them during their rare rest time were the ones who understood and sympathized with them, which actually helped the parent-child relationship become better.

Moreover, changing the original relatively closed family model also helped to screen out those mentally ill people among the population. Even those rotten parents who weren't willing to spend a few hours playing with their own children on the weekend, were extremely emotionally unstable, and even had to vent their stress on their own children, could just have their custody rights stripped directly. This could at least ensure that the children were not harmed.

Therefore, although Shiler was going to take Billy over to stay for a while, he didn't need to be responsible for educating him or tutoring his homework. The homework was finished in the after-school care class, and breakfast and dinner would also be delivered by meal delivery workers. Shiler just had to provide a place to stay and then accompany him to read some extracurricular books at night.

Tearing off a page of the calendar, he discovered that it was exactly ten days until Christmas. Brainiac seemed to be holding a grand victory celebration this Christmas, and it had already begun to warm up in various media outlets.

Although it was basically Brainiac who won, humans had played an important role in it after all. Before fighting this war, almost no one thought they could win, and even those elites among humans who had accompanied Brainiac in resetting the world several times didn't feel there was much hope, but in the end, they had won after all.

This was indeed a victory well worth celebrating. After all, a weak surface civilization had defeated the joint attack of the strongest enemy forces in the universe. Although the other side hadn't used their full strength, for humans, fighting above their weight class and winning was already enough to boost morale.

Because of time constraints, Brainiac's means of ruling Earth were relatively crude. During the entire war period, humans were forced by pressure to accept his rule, but there were still some complaints.

In order to prevent this negative sentiment from continuing to ferment or spread, Brainiac on one hand adjusted various measures, partially reducing control in less important aspects to lower human stress; on the other hand, he used all sorts of public opinion tactics, constantly brainwashing humans to make them accept the status quo, or even go a step further.

In fact, quite a few smart people already felt that maintaining this system was a good thing. Because in the process of fighting, they had already discovered that the invaders were not attacking randomly; they had come prepared, and it was clear they hadn't used their full strength.

If they came to harass them today and were beaten back, what if they came again tomorrow? What if they came every day? What if one day, they finally made up their minds to exterminate Earth?

The sense of crisis brought about by external hidden dangers made them begin to call for coexistence with Brainiac. And these people were mostly war heroes from the war. Brainiac also needed to provide them with an opportunity to speak, letting these respected human pioneers turn around the human view of him. The Christmas celebration was a good opportunity.

However, this had nothing to do with Shiler; he hadn't participated in the fighting at all. Although he would rather be sent to Krypton to fight or work on an assembly line than teach, Brainiac did not allow minors or the mentally ill to go to the battlefield, so Shiler didn't have the opportunity to become any kind of war hero.

However, Cat Getan did produce a few war heroes. One was Supergirl Kara; this wasn't surprising, after all, she was a Kryptonian and very capable of fighting. The elite unit she led directly beat back Granny Goodness's special forces team, and when the results were announced, many people couldn't believe it.

Kara did not announce her identity as a Kryptonian, meaning she participated in the battle as a human. The victory of this battle could be said to be the first piece of good news in the difficult process of resistance, and it had boosted morale significantly at the time.

In order not to let people say the Justice League had fled the battle, Clark and Pamela also came back to show their faces. Both of them had also achieved good results. That great battle where Pamela's vines fought against the army of Parademons had truly been one where the very Dao was worn away.

Following Superman, Pamela could once again report to the Green that she possessed the ability to defeat the Darkseid Legion. As for why you have to fight the Darkseid Legion, don't worry about that for now.

Kara and Pamela were both students at Cat Getan University, and their brilliant performances also made Cat Getan University's reputation even better. If this football game was organized well, joining the Ivy League was still very hopeful.

At about eight o'clock, Shiler boarded the shuttle bus heading to Cat Getan University. In order to alleviate Cat Getan's traffic congestion, Brainiac chose a one-size-fits-all approach: no one was allowed to drive private cars; everyone had to take school buses and shuttle buses.

At first, everyone had quite a few complaints, but later they discovered that they didn't have to drive themselves and could even sleep on the bus, so not as many people had objections.

Shiler also closed his eyes to catch up on sleep in the shuttle bus. The various professors were about the same, and some were flipping through lesson plans.

Cat Getan University under Brainiac's rule could be called a slacker's hell. To be precise, all the universities under his rule had become a nightmare for slackers.

Brainiac's teaching evaluation system was much more scientific and comprehensive than the kind humans had once used. He would require all teachers to send lesson plans on time, with no delays; he monitored every classroom in real-time, and teachers had to teach with their full heart and soul; if they dared to slack off, points would be deducted, and if too many were deducted, they would be fired. Once fired, they could either only go be an ordinary clerk or only go engage in manual labor.

However, the requirements for students were also very high. Not only were they not allowed to skip class, but there were also in-class tests for every lesson, and under his comprehensive monitoring, cheating was impossible. If they failed the exams, points were deducted, and if too many were deducted, they had to drop out.

But this was only aimed at undergraduates; after all, for graduate students and above, whether they could produce results sometimes also depended on some luck. However, a large batch of master's and doctoral students who had been unable to graduate for years were still cleared out on a large scale.

Three of Shiler's students were cleared out. It was a pity that Bruce was not among them; the three who were cleared out were all the kind who had been studying for more than ten years and still had no hope of graduating.

However, the good news was that the research quota for the psychoanalysis direction had been restricted. That is to say, Brainiac did not allow too many people to research this direction, and currently, Shiler only had three spots. Bruce had also been transferred to research behavioral science.

In fact, the three people he currently had researching psychoanalysis didn't have much talent either. Fortunately, Janna, the younger sister among the Wonder Twins, had also come to Cat Getan University to study this year, and if nothing went wrong, she should choose this direction of research.

Shiler felt this was the only good thing Brainiac had done for him. He could even, for the sake of this matter, not bother to hold a grudge about him calling himself a severely ill patient and rejecting his visa three times.

(End of chapter)