Although the scene was rather gruesome, as Li Wei watched Annie, he felt he was beginning to understand why the Queen had awarded her a medal.
Annie was exactly the sort of citizen the Queen wanted most. She felt no reverence toward any monster, only curiosity and a desire to investigate. What was more, she always analyzed these monsters from a purely scientific perspective.
Her earlier conversation with Ovelia made that clear. To Ovelia, a monster that could not stand the light and dissolved into foul liquid under the sun seemed just like a demon. Annie, however, took that to mean the monster was highly flammable and had a low ignition point.
In other words, no matter how bizarre the things these monsters did, Annie would simply find a scientific theory to explain them, rather than deciding they were devils or demons the way Ovelia did.
Or rather, in Annie's eyes, even devils and demons were merely organisms that had yet to be properly understood. Once they could be analyzed, their true nature would no longer be much of an issue.
How should he put it... demystification was important.
Modern webnovels and science fiction, for instance, often claimed that so-called gods and devils were either aliens or creatures living in other dimensions.
Put it that way, and didn't they feel much less threatening than omniscient, omnipotent gods or immortal demons?
Perhaps you still couldn't beat them, but at least you wouldn't regard them as sacred beings beyond your reach, impossible to defeat.
Just as a person couldn't beat a bear bare-handed, but wouldn't deify the bear because of it.
At most, it would be-I'll get a damn gun and deal with you.
Well, of course, this approach had its drawbacks. After meeting Ovelia, Annie had developed quite an interest in