To Fang Zheng, the more he learned about Honkai, the more he felt that both the previous era and the current era had gotten something wrong in how they viewed it.
Whether it was the technologically advanced world of the previous era, this medieval world, or the modern world where Theresa and the others lived, their attitude toward Honkai had always been, "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
Only by completely eradicating Honkai could humanity be saved.
That seemed to have become the consensus of both eras, but... consensus was not necessarily correct.
Anyone from China knew the story of Yu the Great controlling the floods. In ancient times, there was a great flood, and Emperor Yao ordered Gun to deal with it. But Gun only knew how to block water with earth and build dams. In the end, the flood destroyed the dams, causing even greater devastation. Later, Yu the Great took over and discovered that dredging was better than blocking. So he dug channels, cleared the riverways, and guided the floodwaters into the sea, thereby bringing the disaster under control.
As Fang Zheng saw it, both the Flame Moths of the previous era and the current Schicksal followed Gun's approach: blindly seeking to completely eliminate Honkai and solve the problem once and for all.
But... was that possible?
Light and shadow would always coexist. Just as you could not make pretty girls stop using the bathroom—oh, well, pretty girl robots did not need bathrooms. When humans produced things, they generated waste. Industrialization created exhaust fumes. Likewise, Honkai developed alongside human civilization. That itself was something that should be viewed objectively.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and plagues were all disasters. Humanity could not simply ignore them, so what could they do? Resist them, flee from them, or find a way to change things.