Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 605 - 605: A Lie

"This crazy nutbag."
Alex mumbled as he turned his gaze downward.
Through the AI core, Alex quickly traced every connection and AI persona, making sure it could not do anything extreme.
As expected, he found two connections in the city.
The crazy part was that he found many more connections far deeper than the city.
Based on the depth, they were near the planet core.
"What happened, Alex?"
"Seems Sigma is misleading us. He made us think he's going to take the city and the planet down, but in reality, he doesn't want either of them destroyed," Alex said.
"It looks like he's doing something at the planet core."
"Planet core? Isn't that something that can evolve and gain its own will?"
MingYue still remembered Vesa's explanation.
If the planet core leveled up, it could evolve the planet.
An advanced one could even hide itself and create its own laws and rules for the planet.
Alex nodded. "It's also a huge source of energy. I doubt whatever Sigma planned is good for us."
"So we attack him again?"
Alex thought about it, then shook his head.
"Let's do what we need to do for now. Sigma is probably still trying to figure out if we got this information or not," Alex said.
"If we go after the Mecalyte, he'll believe we don't know what he's doing."
In Alex's view, whatever Sigma was planning would take time.
If they confronted him now, the fight would probably escalate to the level where he could not hide it anymore.
After their fight he couldn't underestimate Sigma anymore.
Even tough his and MingYue power is far stronger, Sigma space power is till a headache.
A full on confrontation will probably result in planetary scale destruction.
That would warn the Mecalyte and make things worse.
Who knew what would happen if they decided to send a message back to their base.
They returned to the city hall.
Then they quickly made their way toward the world leaders.
Alex did not bother hiding.
He kicked the double doors open, while the guarding robots were turned into frozen statues by MingYue.
"As expected."
He frowned as he looked at the immoral scene before him.
Men and women, young and old, he saw all kinds of people doing something he did not even want to describe.
With a wave of his hand, the Awe Cube shot forward and captured every single person.
MingYue's cheeks turned red.
She did not look away, but her gaze still lingered on the place where those people had been lying.
It was a huge circular bed.
"What is it, MingYue?"
"Nothing," she said quietly.
"I'm just wondering what those young women find interesting about those old men."
"They're probably forced, or drugged. But maybe some of them did it on their own for some benefit."
"I see," MingYue said.
"I just find it surprising, because I could feel some of the women were stronger than the men."
In MingYue's view, if the women were stronger, the chance of them being drugged was smaller.
The chance of them being forced was even smaller.
So it was possible some of them agreed to it.
"It's what happens in a world driven by politics," Alex said.
"Even if individual power rises, the system still stays rooted in people's minds.
People in power also make sure it continues for as long as possible."
Alex started explaining hierarchy and the kind of democracy his old world used.
People voted for representatives, putting them into positions of power.
Those representatives then gained the privilege to move the army through orders, even if they were not the strongest person in the room.
MingYue shook her head.
"What a weird system. I still don't feel like it makes sense, even after hearing it.
Aren't the army and soldiers the ones who hold more power?
How could they let elected officials order them however they want?"
"Well, there are laws and rules," Alex said. "But in the end, it's also because of corruption, nepotism, and greed."
He explained how it all linked together.
The officials controlled budgets, promotions, and appointments, so the people under them learned to obey if they wanted resources and a future.
The army had strength, but it still needed supply lines, pay, equipment, and legal cover, and those things were controlled by the political structure.
Even when soldiers were stronger, they were surrounded by paperwork, command chains, and courts that could brand them as criminals if they stepped out of line.
Power also hid behind polite words.
Committees, agencies, and advisors could block decisions, delay action, or bury evidence, while still claiming they were following procedure.
Then money and favors flowed through the cracks.
Big families, donors, and connected companies pushed their interests, and the officials who played along gained protection and influence.
It created authority that did not rely on raw strength.
It relied on control over systems, access, and consequences, so even strong people learned to keep their heads down.
Even after hearing Alex's explanation, MingYue still found it absurd.
"With power in their hands, why don't they just take resources by force? What use are polite words in front of true power?"
"Based on books I've read, it does happen," Alex said.
"We call it a military coup. But their strength is limited.
They might be able to take over a country, but managing it and handling diplomacy with other countries becomes a problem."
Most of the time, the country would sink into an economic crisis, and that would build into another revolution after some time passed.
"I see," MingYue said.
"I understand now. It's because they don't have enough power to put the whole world under them."
Alex nodded.
"People's limited lifespans are also a factor.
Many want to leave behind a stable and prosperous world for their descendants."
That made people compromise.
As long as they had a path to rise up, and their family could live in peace, they were content.
But based on what Alex had read, things were not going well.
As power kept getting consolidated by the elite, the path to rise up started getting blocked.
They lived in luxury while ordinary people lived in debt and barely paid their bills.
In this case, the dungeon outbreak could almost be called a blessing.
If the world kept progressing on that path, Alex was sure it would end up as a dystopia.
Knowing his parents' personalities, Alex was sure their lives would be worse, and they would probably be at the mercy of the elite.
After all, Edward and Luca only rose because they tried to save humanity from monsters.
In that kind of world, the people who deserved to lead would avoid it at all cost, while bandits and scammers would go all out to take those positions.
It was a world that cared more about outward appearance and polite words than real responsibility.
In Alex's view, that kind of world was doomed.
It would enter a never-ending cycle of corruption that would only end in catastrophe.
The elite would only see the poor as numbers and resources, and even that would not last.
At some point, technology would grow to the point where they would not see the need to take care of ordinary people at all.
In that situation, they would push them out, then build their own "utopia," monopolizing every resource they could, while the rest lived in scarcity.