Silence, long silence. Auroboros could observe the glint of excitement and shock in Ainz's eyeless sockets.

After a long time, Anz slowly raised his head: "Oroboros, do you think the so-called six gods may be players?" ”

"As you can see, the monster he summoned is an angel in YGGDRASIL, and the villagers of Karn Village are no strangers to the name of magic chanter, so they can be sure that there must be some kind of mysterious power in this world. We can't be sure about this, and I'm also very puzzled about the information about the six gods. You know, if the six gods are players, then they must have the means to avoid death, and dying because of the end of their life is absolutely impossible. In YGGDRASIL, there are ways to prolong your life, not to mention a variety of life items that can extend your life, and even a way to change your race...... For example, the human race can transform itself into a half-dragon race by bathing in dragon blood, or it can transform itself into another race by reincarnation, and if it doesn't work, it can even transform itself into an undead race. ”

"In other words, are they still alive in this world?"

"I don't know this either, according to the memories I read, the last of the six gods was killed by the King of Eight Desires five hundred years ago, and he never appeared in the world again. So the chances of them still alive are not high......"

Anz pinched his jaw, "Then is it possible that in addition to the six gods and the eight desires king, there is also a hidden force." ”

"Hidden strength?" Oroboros's mind was a little out of step with Ainz's rhythm, "You mean ......"

"That's right, maybe in addition to the six gods and the eight desires king, there are hidden powers that may be plural. Whether it is the six gods or the eight desires kings, if they are really dead, then there must be some kind of power behind them that is enough to push the whole event forward. Not to mention that the absurd statement that the six gods ended because of their lifespan is really untenable, is it true that the King of the Eight Desires will all die together? Especially the ending of the Eight Desires King dying together, if it is placed in the real world, then it is possible to understand. However, in the age of magic, there are many ways to resurrect people. In YGGDRASIL, there are various resurrection items such as resurrection coins and life crystals, and there are even 'death golems' that can avoid any death damage and get out of trouble. It's really not good, they can still be downgraded and resurrected, can't they...... In short, it's really hard for players to die without killing each other. ”

"So you mean someone stabbed someone in the back......"

"That's right, only this one circumstance can explain why they are all dead, and that is that there must be one or more forces that stab the Eight Desires in the back when they are fighting each other."

ATZ SAMA, THIS BRAIN HOLE OF YOURS IS A BIT BIG, AND IT DESERVES TO BE A STEADY RAT...... Although Orobros wanted to laugh, he still cooperated with the old bone's work very seriously: "If you say it, then the victor will definitely take the right to rule the whole world and live a life of glory and wealth." However, from the map we got in the village of Karn, the whole continent is like Europe, and there is no unified kingdom at all. ”

"This is a good explanation, either the winning side in the end does not have the ability to integrate the entire continent, otherwise they will not choose to stab the King of Eight Desires in the back. Either that, for some reason, they choose to hide behind the scenes, secretly manipulating the operation of the whole world in their own way. You know, isn't the world we once lived in ruled by such a force? ”

Speaking of this, Oroboros also fell silent. The 22nd century, in which Ainz and Oroblos lived, was not a brave new world of great material abundance as some science fiction writers imagined, but a cruel era of pollution, political darkness, energy scarcity, technological stagnation, social regression, and extreme unfriendliness to ordinary people.

In that cruel and dark era, the huge composite plutocracy had completely emptied all the ZFs in the world, and even basically disbanded the armies of various countries. For these plutocratic families who dominate the world, the poor are just slaves who work for them as cattle and horses, as long as they obediently obey the words of their superiors, and do not need to think for themselves. The poor who can think are just heretics who disrupt social groups, or even vermins who threaten the ruling order.

If you are forced to quit your job, it would have been possible to be self-sufficient in the past, but in the world of 2138, self-sufficiency is just a dream. Since the seeds of crops planted in the thoroughly polluted earth do not germinate, people who cannot live in the city have no choice but to die of starvation without taking food from others. Therefore, people who do not abandon their sense of humanity can only obey the company's orders and continue to work. And for the wealthy JIE· Terrorist activities by JI (people who belong to huge complex enterprises) are rare, but they do occur. However, this has done little or no real harm to the wealthy class, because they are isolated from the outside world and live a comfortable life.

Only the rich can really attack the rich, but even when the rich classes are opposed, it is only the poor who lose their lives. Because all those who follow the orders of the wealthy class and go to the battlefield are poor. The people of JI.

IN THE WORLD IN WHICH HE WAS BORN AND LIVED, ALTHOUGH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HAVE INDEED DEVELOPED TO A CONSIDERABLE EXTENT COMPARED TO THE ERA MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, THE PEOPLE ARE GENERALLY MORE IGNORANT, BECAUSE ALL COUNTRIES HAVE ABOLISHED COMPULSORY EDUCATION. DU。 THE NAME IS "TO REDUCE GONG AND CO-SPENDING", BUT IN ESSENCE, IT IS "TO GET RID OF POVERTY". JI there takes away the ability to think", and thus unabashedly implements the foolish ZC What kind of people are most likely to enslave? Of course, it is the illiterate people who have no ideas and no culture who are most likely to be enslaved. So the rulers naturally want the poor to remain stupid for generations to come.

According to this line of thinking, the number of schools is of course as small as possible, and it is better to monopolize knowledge forever in the hands of a few wealthy families, and keep the poor illiterate. Although the poor have not been completely deprived of their right to education by law for various reasons, school fees have skyrocketed to outrageous levels. Even if they are just supporting their own children through primary school, the average working family will be bankrupt and even in debt.

As a result, only the rich can afford to go to school and receive a relatively complete higher education, while the poor struggle to even get even the simplest literacy. In order to keep the poor stupid, all kinds of non-formal education channels in society, except for schools, have been strictly blocked and controlled in the 22nd century, and the poor class has basically lost the channels for rising. What's worse is that because knowledge is monopolized in the hands of a very small number of people, there is no way to talk about further research and development and innovation in science and technology, resulting in the development of science and technology basically stagnating, or even not advancing but retreating, coupled with the serious pollution and destruction of the natural environment, making the entire human society appear to be in a deep twilight, in a drunken twilight.

In this environment, whether it is Lao Gu or Oroboros, they all belong to JIE· JI。

In the setting of the original author, Lao Gu only graduated from elementary school, and his parents borrowed a lot of money in order to provide for him to go to school, and even died of exhaustion at work. But this is also very remarkable, because having a primary education means having a minimum level of knowledge to deal with some low-level paperwork. Although life is also very hard, it also avoids the fate of repetitive manual labor.

Su Jingshu's fate is much better than that of Lao Gu. In fact, in terms of background, Su Jingshu's fate may be more tragic than Lao Gu's, Lao Gu's parents at least accompanied him through elementary school, Su Jingshu's parents died of illness when he was seven or eight years old...... However, the time-traveler also has the advantage of being a time-traveler, because he is a high-achieving student with a university education in the other world, so after being reincarnated, he still maintains the knowledge he has learned in the other world. This allowed him to engage in some illiterate work at a very young age with superhuman abilities far beyond his peers. A job that Ji can't do.

Su Jingshu's talent was soon valued by the people around him, and in the eyes of those who were also poor people, he was a genius in the slums. Perhaps out of sympathy, or perhaps out of the expectation of investment, the neighbors around him began to help themselves after the death of their parents and joined forces to provide for their own schooling. Although they have only been supporting from elementary school to junior high school, they have exhausted all their strength.

After junior high school, Su Jingshu has the power of self-reliance. Relying on some of his brains and knowledge of stock trading in another world, Su Jingshu began to have his own income, so he relied on his own ability to save enough tuition fees for high school and college in the future.

Of course, Su Jingshu did not forget to repay those who had helped him. Although I don't have the ability to let them live a prosperous life, at least there is no problem in keeping them all in a well-off life. In the 22nd century, a well-off life is already a very good standard of living, in this era of extremely poor living environment and extreme lack of energy resources, more than 70% of the population is only in a state of food and clothing. Satoru Suzuki's previous standard of living was only in a state of subsistence and clothing, living in a small house of thirty square meters, and eating synthetic food every day.

At least well-off families can afford to sell some of the vegetables grown in greenhouses......

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Now that the old bone has opened his brain, let's not open this old bone to make up for it, we are simply sorry for our ancestors.

"If you are to follow what you say, then the forces that rule the world behind the scenes must have an extremely complex network of political relations, and the average civilian must be ignorant of such an organization, as I used to play Assassin's Creed Origins. If such a force exists, then we will never be able to form an alliance with it. Because as a vested LI· As far as the YI people are concerned, we are the threats and challengers of the order they have established, and they will never allow us to exist in this world, so we must eliminate the forces behind the scenes. ”

"So are we going to confront this behind the scenes, or are we going to hide it like them?"

"Integrative Medicine!"

"What does integrative medicine mean?"

"It's just two hands, both hands to grasp!"

"How?"

"It's very simple, drive the fortress of Damocles to the major cities of the natives of another world. Doing so will attract their attention, making them think that we are just passing through Karn Village, and continuing to make them think that our lair is a floating city. ”

"Is that what is called a deception tactic?"