Chapter 4176

"Don't just laugh, speak. How much longer do I have to endure this situation?" Strange asked.

"Do you think this is enduring? Don't you think this situation is good?"

"Good where?" Strange asked very puzzled, "Now there isn't a single piece of business in their mouths. I don't even know how far they have pushed the environmental work."

"Oh, so you really want to push environmental work." Schiller showed an expression of sudden realization and said, "I didn't expect you to be an environmentalist."

Strange was about to collapse, and he said: "Wasn't it you who asked me to push environmental work?!!"

"Since you don't know the progress of environmental work, how do you know that the work hasn't been pushed?"

"Because they would tell me if it was pushed!"

"You can't understand what they say, how do you know they didn't tell you?"

Strange opened his mouth, and was somewhat unable to refute. He really didn't pay much attention to listening to what those people said, and he didn't know whether there was any fact mixed in that pile of function words and adjectives. He tried hard to recall, and could only say that it was okay; Dream-Power Doctor Strange blocked him, otherwise, just like this, he would have sunk into the dreamland again.

"So it was pushed?"

"No."

"Then what to do?"

"I think you seem to have misunderstood one thing." Schiller said, "We asked to push the work, in order to turn the situation into what it is now, rather than working hard to turn the situation into what it is now, in order to push the work. You can't put the cart before the horse."

"……what?"

"What do you work hard for? For money? Or status? It's to not work."

"……that's not wrong either. If you earn enough money, naturally you don't work."

"Then we work hard now, so that everyone doesn't work, haven't we already achieved a happy ending?"

"Ah?"

Schiller spread his hands and said: "Under the efforts of the two of us, not only is the environmental work not pushed, but all work is not pushed. We directly skipped the complicated and long process and achieved the ultimate goal; we should toast to this!"

"Wait a minute." Strange extended a hand to stop him, and then said, "What are we here for? Aren't we here to be the Speaker?"

"Then what are you the Speaker for?"

"Uh, to fight for the status humans deserve?"

"Then how to fight for the status humans deserve? Work hard, solve some big troubles, and then let them all see how powerful humans are?"

Schiller sighed and said: "The Interstellar Council is the Interstellar Council of the three major empires; you solve the big trouble, the credit will only be attributed to the three major empires."

"Then do nothing."

"Then the three major empires perfectly dragged you down, and also realized their purpose of exchanging a Speaker position for a chance to breathe."

"I understand, you are here to make trouble, right?"

"This is called breaking the enemy from within." Schiller said with an expression of disapproval, "The purpose of humans participating in interstellar politics has always been to create a divided interstellar society. Before, we attacked the three major empires from the outside, but it didn't have much effect; now we can finally divide them from the inside—inciting emotional lives to deal with electronic lives, inciting carbon-based organisms to deal with robots, uniting the Shi'ar Empire to strike the other two major empires; an unprecedented diplomatic flourishing age!"

"……seems to make some sense. You have now made everyone in the entire Interstellar Council stop working, which can be considered a success."

"No, no, no, this is not what I did. Slacking off, being irresponsible, is the nature of all emotional lives, it is something engraved in their genes. They were born like this, it's just that this gene wasn't activated before; now they are just returning to their nature, it is we who liberated their nature, allowing them to achieve true freedom. Everyone has the freedom not to work, don't they?"

"Wait a minute, this sounds a bit……"

Knock, knock, knock. The door was knocked. The Minister of Foreign Affairs walked in, looking a bit flustered, and said: "A large-scale strike broke out in District A13 of the Ring Star Sector, and all public transport systems have stopped. Sorcerer Supreme, you have to think of a way."

Strange stood up with a "swoosh": "Strike?!!"

"Yes. That side is the terminal of the interstellar transport system in the Ring Star area. Now there are more than 2000 employees of the transport system demonstrating there, demanding to improve the welfare and treatment of the transport system, and to establish a Ministry of Transport and democratically elect a minister. Otherwise, they won't resume work."

Strange was a bit confused, and he said: "Isn't the transport system automatic? I mean, isn't it controlled by electronic lives?"

"Yes, but the ones on strike are robots."

"Ah?" Strange seemed to hear the biggest joke of the century, and he said, "Robots went on strike?!"

The minister nodded in a dilemma and said: "We are also surprised, but the facts are indeed like this. And this involves the issue of racial discrimination, we dare not handle it easily, and we have to ask you to make a decision. Should I go and gather them now?"

Strange waved his hand to let him go out, and then cast his gaze on Schiller.

"What's the situation? How can electronic lives go on strike?"

"What electronic lives, it's just Jarvis on strike." Schiller rolled his eyes and said, "It's allowed for the Supreme Intelligence to open clones to pretend to be internet water armies, but not allowed for Jarvis to have a machine intelligence crisis, right?"

"So all robots are Jarvis? That will be discovered by the Supreme Intelligence, right? If Jarvis is caught by him like this, it will be troublesome."

"Rest assured, Jarvis is much smarter than him; he is not that kind of infinitely expanding electronic life. He helped those electronic lives perfect their emotional modules."

"You mean he helped them evolve?"

"Not completely evolved, just copied his own emotional module, and then made an adaptive adjustment. However, the race he chose is itself a product of emotional life mechanical ascension, itself has a soul, no need to ignite again, just before it was controlled by the technology of the three major empires, logic was excessively strengthened, so it performed very much like electronic life, but actually it is not."

"So there is such a thing." Strange frowned and said, "The three major empires deliberately strengthened the logic of this race, suppressed their emotions, and turned them into electronic life; this will cause their souls to dissipate. This is genocide, right?"

"After they woke up, they naturally thought so too." Schiller shrugged and said, "That's why they made such a big battle."

"But why are there people of one race in the transport system?"

"Not one race, just that one of their races has thousands of people."

"How many people are there in the transport system?"

"Sixty thousand or so, probably thirteen or fourteen races. The one on strike has a relatively large number of people."

"What is the Supreme Intelligence doing with so many people there? Can't that ship drive itself?"

"What do you think they rely on to control the Interstellar Council? You must know that there are many carbon-based lives here that are not controlled by them. Do you know that our Minister of Commerce's strength is on par with Spider-Man?"

"What???"

"Their race evolved very strong power; if it weren't for the difficulty of reproduction, they could also become a hegemon. To guard against them, the Supreme Intelligence has to think of ways to stuff more robots here, right?"

Strange suddenly realized, and he said: "I said, there are only seven departments in the Interstellar Council, even adding more than a dozen standing bodies, plus all logistics personnel, it shouldn't occupy an entire star sector. And this star sector looks full of people, sometimes even blocking spaceships; it turns out they are all soldiers of the three major empires?"

"Not all are directly controlled; there are quite a few like the race on strike, which were controlled and brainwashed by the three major empires."

"Then why don't they use all soldiers?"

"Because the three major empires will also guard against each other. If they all use soldiers, who has more and who has less? Who is placed closer, who is placed farther? The Skrull's hacker technology is not weak either; the Supreme Intelligence has to keep one eye open when sleeping."

"Also." Strange nodded and said, "Then how do we handle it next?"

"You actually still think you can handle it?" Schiller said with some surprise, "You slept at least three times this morning; it's considered progress if you can sleep a little less this time."

Strange touched his lips somewhat awkwardly. In fact, more than three times; if it weren't for Dream-Power Doctor Strange blocking him, he would have been swimming in the dreamland by the time the meeting was over.

Since Schiller said so, Strange didn't ask anything, and he went directly. This time Schiller was also listening, and Strange wanted to see if Schiller would also fall asleep.

As a result, he found that he thought too much. Schiller was actively integrating, seamlessly connecting, serious, and useless.

"Regarding this strike event, our department mainly has two points of view. First, we express deep regret. The welfare issues of workers in the Ring Star area, the information lag issues of the transport system, and the racial discrimination issues that often appear in daily life are not within the scope of our department's jurisdiction. Despite this, we are still indignant at the situation of the workers. As for the solution, I said, this is not within the scope of our department's jurisdiction; why not listen to what the Minister of Commerce has to say."

"Thank you for the speech of the Minister of Finance. Our Ministry of Commerce expresses deep regret. The worker welfare issue is a basic big problem; if it is not handled well, it will significantly shake the status of the Interstellar Council in interstellar society, so we must handle it seriously. But it is a pity that our Ministry of Commerce lacks experience in solving such problems and really cannot propose an effective solution. Minister of Foreign Affairs, what do you think?"

"Like everyone else, I regret it. I have to say, seeing the mechanical workers who serve us day and night so haggard, I can't sleep at night and feel heartbroken. I want to stand with them, shout for them, shed tears for them, and express my full support to them. But unfortunately, as a conscientious minister, I must sit here and, together with my colleagues, fight for a better tomorrow for the workers. Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs is duty-bound in this matter, but for the specific solution, I am afraid we still have to listen to the opinion of the Minister of Resources."

"The Ministry of Resources will definitely cooperate with the work of my colleagues. We are anxious for what the workers are anxious about and share worries for the Speaker, which is our duty. But in terms of coordination, we still have to look at the Minister of Armed Forces."

"I can't use force to suppress them, you guys say what to do, just do it. That someone, you say."

"Ahem, the opinions of my colleagues are really deafening, and I have benefited a lot. I believe that this worker welfare issue will definitely be perfectly solved in the brainstorming of everyone. As the saying goes, the train runs fast, all relying on the head of the train; we must not ignore the leadership role of the Sorcerer Supreme in the work, must listen to the leadership's ideas, and follow the leadership's pace closely. Leader... Leader???"

"Ah, what?" Strange suddenly woke up, "Ah, what you said is quite good, just do it."

Warm applause sounded in the room. Everyone applauded and nodded while tearful.

"Alright, let's stop here today, everyone has worked hard." Strange also stood up and said.

"Yes, Sorcerer Supreme."