Chapter 572

"Yes, thank you very much."

"But I hope you still don't lie about your feelings. That's a bit of a loss of face for both of us."

O5-3 fell silent; his slightly turbid brown eyes turned to the side, not daring to look directly at the Administrator, rejecting him; if this continued, he would be like facing his own father.

Because he had been an O5 for thirty years and was also a high-level official of the Foundation before, no one had dared to tear his coat apart, pull off his face, grab his inner thoughts that he dared not expose, and throw them under the spotlight for a long time.

He took a deep breath:

"You say that as if you know my personal feelings."

"Yes, that's right."

"You are not a telepath. Confirmed decades ago."

"No, I am not." The Administrator leaned forward, like a lion king waking up and taking a step, stretching his waist, "Your predecessors did a good job."

Then, the Administrator crossed his legs and shook his head repeatedly:

"People like to think that everyone is unique."

"But in fact, the types of people are limited, just a little over a hundred; they just repeat and repeat, with only slight differences between each other."

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"A little bit of temperament, a slight preference for flowers, some fear of wasps."

"All are windows decorated with the same few types."

O5-3's heart hung up: "This —"

The Administrator ignored the old man opposite; in terms of seniority and seniority, no one in the Foundation could compare with him.

On the day he became immortal and started walking on this land, humans could not yet be called a civilization — no, at that time, a part of humans could not yet be called humans.

In a recent science fiction work, there was one who was a little similar to him, but only a little.

He was called —

"The Emperor."

"And as long as you hang out as long as I do, you will find them quite easy to identify."

"So, say it again, please don't lie to me."

"I've heard it all before."

No one can face living human history.

O5-3 couldn't either, his brows loosened weakly, and the momentum of the king of the "anomaly" world gradually moved away:

"I think you have the wrong idea about me."

"I do... I do have doubts, but as I said, I hold the utmost respect for you."

"However, if, as you said, we can only prevent 'Containment-001' through observation, and He Himself cannot be observed, then what is the point of us investing so much energy and money...?"

The Administrator turned his head and took a book from the armrest of the sofa, the cover was exquisite, with large gold-stamped characters.

"Have you read *Moby-Dick*?"

……

In the novel.

Captain Ahab of the "Pequod" had a leg bitten off by the vicious and clever white whale Moby Dick during a whaling operation.

This painful experience filled Captain Ahab's heart with the flame of revenge, and he was determined to hunt down this white whale.

Therefore, he was full of thoughts of revenge, determined to hunt down this white whale.

The crew were infected by his fanaticism and tenacity and threw themselves into this revenge.

However, as the revenge operation progressed, Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale gradually distorted into a pathological paranoia, and revenge on the white whale became the only focus of his life.

Driving the "Pequod," which carried his will for revenge, Ahab experienced the twists and turns and hardships of various seas in the world, and finally discovered the traces of Moby Dick.

At the end of the story, Captain Ahab stabbed the white whale, but the injured Moby Dick counterattacked violently, cracking the "Pequod," and almost all the sailors were killed.

Captain Ahab was entangled by the taut rope and fell into the sea, heading toward his end.

The mainstream view of this novel in society is:

Captain Ahab's death symbolizes that the struggle between man and nature was doomed to fail from the beginning.

Some also believe that it represents the self-destruction of persistence and arrogance in human nature.

……

"Read it," O5-3 said in a low voice.

"A new book written by a Mr. Melville. I really feel the same way." The Administrator put the book on his lap, turned to the last page, and looked at it casually.

"There's a character in there, Ahab, who had a grudge against a whale. He didn't end well."

O5-3 thought for a while:

"In my impression, this book is about Ahab's revenge on nature being doomed to fail from the beginning."

"Really? My impression is not like that."

"Okay, then how do you see it?"

"It's that Ahab wasn't trying hard enough," the Administrator laughed.

As the conversation between the two slowly deepened and progressed, the audience had already faintly sensed that the Administrator was more ancient than they had imagined.

"If you say the Administrator was born early, then it's not very impressive; but if you say the Administrator was born before 'having a name,' then the impressiveness is very high, so high that there is nothing to say."

"An era when humans didn't use names to call each other... that shouldn't be, is it before the birth of writing, after the birth of early language?"

And not just that... in the original trajectory, the Administrator might have been destined to be just an ordinary primitive man, just like his tribesmen of that era.

Until the hermit, whose background and origin were unknown, came from afar, walked to the village where the Administrator was, and handed the power named "Balance" to the latter.

"It's like a classic bridge in all fantasy novels — the great sage searches the world for a hero, lets the hero pull out the sword in the stone to challenge the demon king... it's just that the selection ceremony here has changed, changed to someone who can witness the annihilation process with their own eyes can inherit this power."

"So, why didn't the hermit solve the 'Black Moon' himself? He was older than the 'Administrator,' and his experience was richer than the 'Administrator's,' so why did he discard this power that represents immortality?"

"Perhaps the truth is this: at the same time the 'Black Moon' was born, the power of 'Balance' was born simultaneously. Someone inherited this power long ago and passed it down to the hermit generation by generation. The hermit didn't know how to fight the 'Black Moon' either, so he handed it to the 'Administrator'."

"This seems to explain some problems."

"If this is really the case, it can also explain why the Administrator's evaluation of Captain Ahab was that he was not '170' hard-working enough... For the Administrator, fighting the 'Black Moon' is not a whaling on the sea, nor is it a whaling in the star sea, but a counterattack that bets the lives of all intelligent life in the entire universe."

"And this battle will last for a long time, until the Administrator dies, or the 'Black Moon' is destroyed."

……

Amidst the audience's discussion, the conversation between the Administrator and O5-3 ended.

O5-3 packed his things, tucked his briefcase under his arm, bowed to the Administrator, and walked away slowly, leaning on his cane.

As the door closed, the screen in the light screen also faded.

Immediately afterward, lines of text jumped out, and a follow-up file unfolded in the light screen.

[File update time - 02/05/1993]

[Item Number: Containment-001-Key]

[Danger Level: Thaumiel]

[Special Containment Procedures:]

[Materials used to create "Containment-001-Key" will be stored in the security warehouse of Site-01.]

[Conceptual records used to contact "Containment-001-Key" individuals and "Containment-001" can only be stored in the Site-01 database.]

[Memory deletion treatment will be used to prevent the leakage of knowledge of related concepts from Site-01.]

[The unreliable "Containment-001-Key" created in the plan will be stored under containment, in the hope that it may be beneficial to the research work of "Containment-001" in future research.]

[Once "Containment-001-Key" is fully determined, it is approved to be contained at a location outside Site-01.]

[However, to maintain the potential containment of "Containment-001," all "Containment-001-Key" must be placed under observation.]

[All newly created "Containment-001-Key" individuals, as well as research on existing "Containment-001-Key" individuals, must be approved by Dr. Moto.]

……

"Key? Is this the secret weapon the Administrator uses to fight the 'Black Moon'?"

"It should be, but this is the first time I've seen the Foundation create an 'anomaly'."

"If it were possible to fight the 'Black Moon' without creating 'anomalies' and researching containment objects, the Administrator at the time would probably be very happy to pass 'Balance' to you and let you raise the banner of resisting supreme divinity."

"Hehe, I won't go."

In the audience's hearts, there was an identical question:

At this time, the Administrator is neither a supreme divinity nor a divinity, so how should he fight the "Black Moon" who is a supreme divinity?

Relying on his immortality? Relying on his superhuman recovery ability? Or his potential to become the king of resistance to falls?

In daily anime, such abilities can be called powerful.