Different National Circumstances Really Make Things Difficult
[Notice: Recently, suspicious letters have been being sent to residents by unidentified individuals. We suspect this may be the work of a new type of child abduction perpetrator or LT (lesbian/addictive) individual. We have notified the police. Residents with children are urged to be vigilant...]
"Wtf..."
Feng Xue stared at the notice board, feeling a lump in his throat. A bag of salt kept flashing between his hands before he finally threw it into the trash heap.
At that moment, he suddenly recalled a classic question and answer session he had seen online in his previous life—
Q: Why are people in other countries so sensitive to racial discrimination?
A: Because they really have a lot of racial discrimination.
This Q&A could be rephrased with other words instead of "racism," for example—
Question: Why are foreign countries so sensitive to children's seqin (tongqiazi)?
A: Because many of them have a history of LT (lesbian/lesbian) fetishes.
After realizing this, Feng Xue finally understood that in this country, trying to take the children's route was probably not going to work.
There's a reason for choosing children as the starting point. If you carefully examine the structure of Weird Tale from different countries, you'll find that for them to spread widely, only two conditions are needed—
People willing to spread Weird Tale, and circles that can spread Weird Tale.
If we use circles as the classification standard, Weird Tale can be roughly divided into campus Weird Tale, office Weird Tale, internet Weird Tale, and so on. Analyzing these circles reveals a problem: those who are willing to spread Weird Tale are basically people with a lot of free time every day.
Whether it's students in schools, white-collar workers in offices, shut-ins who seem to never work online, or elderly people playing chess and dancing on the street, it all boils down to idle chatter. Gradually, what started as a trivial matter becomes a rumor circulating in a circle, eventually fermenting into Weird Tale.
However, even among idle people, the difficulty of infiltrating different circles varies. For example, if you want to create an office Weird Tale, you first need to be a white-collar worker in that office circle to join the discussion. On the other hand, the children's circle has no barriers to entry, and it is easy for them to get together and play. Moreover, they are innocent and carefree, and easily believe in miracles and magic, making it easy for Weird Tale to spread.
In fact, the easiest way to spread information is through the internet, but the problem is that to spread Weird Tale online, one needs to be able to access the internet intensively.
Many netizens who are new to forums and online communities have probably experienced something similar: they put a lot of effort into writing a helpful post, but after a day or two, they don't see any replies. Instead, some random and inexplicable comments can easily get hundreds of replies.
The reason for this is actually just one thing – account popularity.
If you want people to listen to you, the first thing you need to do is let people know who you are; this is what's called becoming a familiar face.
Even anonymous accounts like "Whatever, I'll take care of it" rely on the popularity of the poster. If the post about the monster that devoured the planet hadn't gone viral, this classic boasting meme would probably have disappeared without a trace.
And that is precisely the problem.
In Victoria, a laptop can cost thousands of pounds, but that's not the key issue. The real challenge lies in the subsequent online application process, which is extremely difficult, at least for someone like Feng Xue who lacks identity and Household Registration.
And internet cafes...
The cost of internet cafes in Bekeland is £4 per hour.
At least this is a considerable expense for Feng Xue, who relies on cash machines to make a living, not to mention that he doesn't understand Victoria's network environment at all. If he doesn't spend enough time to understand it, it is easy to make the same cognitive mistake of "fuck", which is a national curse in the Yan Kingdom, but is laughed at in the Dong Kingdom.
Beyond these issues, we must also consider the potential attention that Feng Xue's frequent visits to internet cafes might attract from the authorities. After all, the internet cafes in Bekeland are very reputable, and most of them are chain businesses, with quite thorough monitoring in all aspects.
Several of his colleagues in the city are currently causing trouble. He can usually avoid the embarrassment of being stopped for passport checks on the street by using the "integration" effect of The Phantom of the Opera. However, if the authorities really put in a lot of effort to investigate, he dares not underestimate the level of criminal investigation in the 21st century—after all, this place is not Conan.
"That's why Dongguo is so much better! The police are incompetent, there are small cliques everywhere, internet cafes are everywhere, and you can stay there regardless of your identity, plus they're cheap and can be used as mini-hotels. Even if you stay in an internet cafe, no one will think anything of it... Plus, there are Housewife everywhere. Just take a walk in the shopping street, and it's easy to create a hot topic among the Housewife..."
The more Feng Xue analyzed it, the more she felt that the Eastern Kingdom was truly a paradise for Weird Tale, as if it existed specifically to breed Weird Tale.
"Do we really have to resort to crime to improve our understanding and gain Tag?" Feng Xue hesitated slightly, as if she were engaged in a internal struggle.
Although Feng Xue didn't consider himself a good person—he had killed people, broken the law, and committed crimes—it was all for survival, and those he killed were all villains.
Now that his basic survival is secured, for him to harm innocent people, simply to make himself feel more real...
Feng Xue, who considers herself still a person, could not do such a thing.
Although it may seem a bit silly, Feng Xue believes that a person, or rather an intelligent life form, must retain some bottom line in this world. It may not be high, it may be flexible, but it must have one. Otherwise, if one loses even their self, even if they can live forever, they will only be a walking corpse driven by immortality.
Once again banishing the idea of wreaking havoc from her mind, Feng Xue began to consider the possibility of creating a Superhero.
However, he quickly abandoned this idea. Even when Batman was "Act of Chivalry," he still needed to show his chin to tell others that he was white. If Feng Xue really dared to create any Superhero, the authorities would soon come knocking on her door.
As a native of Tongliao, Feng Xue was well aware of Victoria's serious lack of morality. Feng Xue had no liking for such an official who consistently acted inhumanely, and had no intention of having any contact with him.
"To gain knowledge, you must first create a Tag; otherwise, no matter how widely it spreads, it's useless. Creating Tag requires a sufficiently strong understanding... and children, who are most likely to develop understanding, are precisely the ones under strict surveillance in this country... Wait, why am I always thinking about creating new Tag?!"
Feng Xue suddenly stood up, startling the homeless man sunbathing nearby. However, he didn't care at all and just kept pacing back and forth because he suddenly realized that he had actually gathered all the conditions to form Weird Tale!
"The problem now is that the Sunflower Acupuncture Hand needs to be practiced to a higher level, otherwise it would be bad if it accidentally killed someone..."
Thinking of this, Feng Xue immediately took out her Alligator Wallet and put it in her pocket, then took out her expensive fountain pen. In the blink of an eye, she went from a homeless person who wouldn't seem strange squatting by the roadside picking up cigarette butts to a successful person strolling on the street.
"For the sake of my Weird Tale stories, I guess I'll have to suffer with the ATMs..."
Victoria is very strict about children's pornography. You might even be questioned by the police if you buy a New Year's picture online. If you bring a Japanese Lolita-themed book with you to customs, you might be detained along with the book.
In Yan Country, seeing a child wearing open-crotch pants would at most elicit a laugh and say they're not grown up yet. But in Victoria, people would think the opposite. Ultimately, it's probably because there are a lot of perverts there, right?