The sun rose from the depths of the sea outside Fengfeng City, crossed the sky, and set among the mountains on the other side. The people on Tabi Star finally finished their day's work.
The former royal palace of the Oakley Empire is now the Cathedral of the Four-Winged Dragon God. Erica, the former personal maid of Chloe, is now the inquisitor of the church and is working in her bedroom.
From being a maid who served the Queen to being the inquisitor who holds the power of life and death in the state church, Erica can be said to be one of the most powerful people in the empire except for a few people.
She has blue hair and green eyes, and she looks sweet and pleasant. It is because of this that the family arranged for her to serve the queen.
But after becoming a judge, even with such a sweet appearance, others will feel scared when they look at her. From the perspective of dealing with those who disobey the law, slander the gods, and assassinate the queen, the cruelty of her methods is directly proportional to her appearance.
After checking several disloyal names on the list, Erica prayed to the four-winged dragon god as a routine, and then entered the network through Neural Thorn on the back of her head, preparing to splice some fragments of consciousness before resting.
This pious act happened to become the last piece of the puzzle of consciousness, and the consciousness of human nature Zhang Han awakened.
In his opinion, he had a long dream. In this dream, he experienced a lot and encountered a lot. Not only the life in his own memory, but also the longer memory of Overmind. He fully experienced the vast and thrilling history of Swarm.
This makes Zhang Han admire Swarm even more. When experiencing the epic of a civilization measured in hundreds of millions of years, any sensible civilized life will be full of admiration for it.
Not only that, Zhang Han discovered that his spiritual body was connected to many weak beings, and their consciousness bodies were like fireflies surrounding Zhang Han.
As long as Zhang Han is willing, he can easily contact these consciousness bodies, know what they are thinking, and make certain interventions.
This connection is different from the connection between the Rat Man and him. It is not as close as the flesh and blood connection of the Rat Man, but it can also enhance his mental power.
In order to understand the reason, Zhang Han, who woke up, did not immediately return to Swarm Network or the body of the etheric dragon, but instead held the key point that finally awakened him with his hands.
Erica instantly felt that her consciousness was surrounded by something, and she could only feel that a powerful existence beyond her imagination was paying attention to her.
She seemed to be immersed in the bottom of the sea, and the entire ocean had a pair of eyes looking at her.
"Great... great, Dragon God. Is that you?" Erica carefully spread her thoughts around.
With the experience of the Rat Man, Zhang Han doesn't like to expose his spiritual body anymore. Who knows what kind of strange ghosts and monsters he prays to.
After catching Erica, Zhang Han's strong mental power can perform very precise operations, and can extract key memories without messing up the target's brain.
"This woman turned out to be the daughter of a duke. She once worked as Chloe's personal maid. Later, she abandoned her original faith and fell into the arms of the Church of the Four-Winged Dragon God. Now she is the judge of the church, and she likes to use cruel methods to torture the enemies of the church and the empire."
"People look sweet and lovely, but their methods are very cruel..." Seeing this, Zhang Han was also very surprised by the contrast. He was even more curious about what was going on with the four-winged dragon god church. He had never expected the natives of Tabi Star to do anything, just to serve as anchors for human consciousness.
Immediately afterwards, the memory about the church was extracted in more detail.
After watching it carefully, Zhang Han was also shocked by the subjective initiative of the indigenous people on Tabi Star. They created a very strange political system.
There is both an emperor and a church, and life is both prosperous and stable, but also authoritarian and harsh. For such a complex political system, Zhang Han does not have a suitable adjective in his mind to describe this situation.
Is this a theocratic centralism or an imperial empire? Is it focusing on the egalitarianism of ordinary people, or is it focusing on the authoritarianism of big government? It's really hard to say. I can only say that it is a national system with Tabi Star characteristics.
When Zhang Han originally thought that such a strange political system could not achieve much, he found that he was wrong again. Because Hatchery fully assumed the responsibility of social production and wealth distribution, everyone in the Darom Empire did not have to worry about food and clothing.
In order to live a better life, they worked hard and started the space age by using convenient things like the Spiritual Stone.
It doesn't matter if you don't have knowledge. After connecting to Neural Thorn, you can check the corresponding courses on the special network. A large number of scholars have transformed the knowledge transferred by Swarm into teaching materials that can be easily learned.
As long as you close your eyes, you can learn on the Internet, even while sleeping! Through the knowledge learned, ordinary people can receive the Spirit Stone at Hatchery, then process it into various parts, and then assemble these parts into battleships, machinery, or daily necessities.
Use this labor to exchange for contribution points in Hatchery, and then use the contribution points to buy things. With the consumption power of ordinary people, what they buy is nothing more than eating, drinking, and playing, these primary products.
For Hatchery, who has extremely high productivity and is at the pinnacle of genetic technology, it is simply not too cheap to satisfy the small wishes of ordinary people. Even scissors are not so profitable.
These are things that Erica can't see clearly, but Zhang Han, who comes from modern society, can completely understand just by looking at the surface.
Hatchery has mastered the production, consumption, and currency issuance. Ordinary people in the empire are working for Hatchery almost in vain.
There are no high value-added luxury goods here. How much can an ordinary person consume? Apart from the labor value of consumption, it is all Hatchery's profit!
But even so, ordinary people in the empire also feel very happy. Tabi Star With thirty hours a day, ordinary people only need to work four hours a day to meet their daily food expenses, but generally everyone will choose to work about twelve hours.
The contribution value gained from more labor can be exchanged for good houses and food, or to treat injuries and diseases, and most of them are used to strengthen oneself.
Hatchery offers gene ascension for sale. Even if the price is high, you can definitely afford it as long as you work hard. After gene ascension, ordinary people's energy, intelligence, and life span will be greatly improved.
Being able to eat well, rest, work hard, and live a long life. Ordinary people in the empire have never lived such a life. In the past, they worked hard all their lives and were either oppressed or bullied. They were thankful to have a full meal.
Now they work hard every day, and they never feel that they are being squeezed out of their production value. They feel that this is the kingdom of heaven on earth created by God for them.
The church also often advocates voluntary labor for people to repay God for his gift of a happy life.
The church of the four-winged dragon god plays a key role in guiding people's values.