Chapter 36: Trust

Although it had become a de facto power in the scientific, industrial, and economic spheres, the foundations of the empire were not solid, and the change came too late and too quickly for much to really take shape.

Unlike the New World, North America was founded on a white land, and the colonists killed a large number of the indigenous people living in that land by drastic means in the process of continuous exploration and westward expansion, and also destroyed the basis of the local witchcraft survival. Vast numbers of monsters and supernatural creatures were slain, or defeated by the Puritans who embraced science with open arms, and the wizards and aliens of the immigrants were wiped out in the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War, making science the only religion in North America.

It is also not like the Old Continent, where the war between science and magic was fought from the end of the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, the Black Death caused by werewolves and vampires, the French Wars of Religion brought about by the Great Schism, the Hundred Years' War between England and France, the Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Protestant Reformation, the hunt for witches and werewolves, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and German Empires in World War IIt was only in Europe that magic and witchcraft were completely overthrown, and the dominance of science was established.

It is not even like the evil neighbor to the east, the country that claims to have eight million gods and sustains the emperor's eternal rule through Shintoism, and in fact the rulers of the Land of the Rising Sun have never really given up trying to suppress and eliminate Shinto since Oda Nobunaga burned down Mt. Hiei's Enryakuji Temple in 1751. They even tried to restrain the native religions and the alien forces of the self-proclaimed gods and Buddhas by introducing European religious forces, but to no avail of anything but riots and the fading power of the emperor and shogun. It wasn't until 1864 that everything began to change when Takayama Shinsaku launched the Kozanji Rebellion and began to attack the Shinto forces with the help of the British. But even with the help of the British, Japan was able to effectively liquidate the power of Shinto after a decade-long civil war, and in the decades that followed, there were continued to be small-scale riots, with several of the main promoters even killed.

It is a miracle that a country with such a vast territory and a large population, with a long history and countless sects and families, has completed the alternation of magic and science that others can only complete in hundreds of years in such a short period of time, and has not brought large-scale civil war and subversive social chaos, but it is precisely because of this that it is now facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, and it may fall into the abyss from which it will never recover.

Every day of Dai Baichuan is like walking on thin ice.

Many people couldn't understand why he did this, in fact, even he didn't know where this strong premonition came from, but it had saved his life many times and allowed him to come back alive from the battlefield of fighting the monk, and he believed that this time would be no exception.

But he suffers from his own powerlessness.

Due to his unwavering hatred for the Dao Law, he has not even been able to cultivate a little bit of True Qi after entering the Special Cases Bureau for decades, and he has no way to use any magic weapons and charms. This made him hate those practitioners even more.

He also had the same experience as the first group of elders of the Special Cases Administration, all of whom firmly believed that the Dao Law imprisoned the life of this country and dragged it to the root of death, so without exception, in the face of the vast collection of books and pills from the abyss, none of them were able to enter the Dao.

A large number of precious books and charms were burned at that time, but Dai Baichuan did not feel pity. In those days, that was the only right thing to do.

What pained him was that although they had ostensibly destroyed the rule of the sect family, they had not really fulfilled this mission in the hearts of the people. They have not been able to truly establish a system and soil that can completely destroy the power of feudal sects like the West, and they have not really made this land a forbidden place, and those stories and beliefs about ghosts still haunt this land like ghosts, becoming a breeding ground for aliens. Countless monsters, spirits, monks, and warlocks still hid among the vast number of people, and it was not long before they reappeared like weeds.

What's even more serious is that the remnants of a large number of sect families are hiding in the surrounding backward countries that have not yet completed secularization, and they may pounce from the darkness at any time and bite the body of the giant of Great Xia.

However, some of the most determined comrades-in-arms gradually changed, and with the high position and the inevitable arrival of old age, they began to turn to those who had been spurned by them, some of them began to quietly look for things that would allow them to live longer, while others simply began to advocate correcting the excessively harsh and radical practices of the past, and seeking reconciliation with those families who had fled abroad in the current international environment.

Long Qingting and all the things gathered around him were the product of this kind of thinking that had gained the upper hand in the last five years, and Dai Baichuan hated it. But he had already learned to keep his resentment and hatred of the monks in his heart. The power of those people in Long Qingting has been established, and it is impossible to restrain them within the Special Cases Management Bureau with the strength of ordinary people, and it is necessary to find new forces that can be used.

And the most promising one he sees now is Sun Yang.

Although there was nothing more special on Sun Yang's body except for the abnormal cultivation speed and the special spell that had just been exposed, Dai Baichuan's sixth sense made him firmly believe that this person would definitely be a key existence for him and for the Special Case Administration.

"Twenty minutes later, at the entrance of your community, the black business car." Ma Bin said on the phone.

Sun Yang hurried to the kitchen. "Mom, Dad, Mom......" he suddenly didn't know how to say.

"What's wrong?"

"The situation has changed, and you must move to a safer place."

Sun Yang thought that he would see the panicked expression, and thought that he would have to do his best to appease his mother who had fallen into collapse and face countless problems, but he never expected that his father and mother would invariably breathe a sigh of relief.

"You ......"

"From the day you started doing this, we thought maybe there would be such a day." My mother glanced at the half-finished fish on the board with some reluctance, washed them and put them in a bag and put them in the refrigerator, and stopped all the half-finished things, and turned off the fire, electricity, and water. "Let's go, where are we going?"

Sun Yang suddenly felt that his nose was sour, this may be the love of his parents, they will not ask this and that like other people, they will not doubt, they will not complain, and they will not blame and prevaricate.

"I'm sorry......" he whispered.

"Don't say that, we know you're not messing around, you're trying to do the right thing every day, you're helping people in need, that's it." Dad wiped his hands with an apron and said with a smile.

Sun Yang finally couldn't help but hug him tightly, and then pulled his mother over.