NOVEL NEXT 057. Humanitarianism (Part 1)
- Humanitarianism (Part 1)
"This matter is quite complicated... I need to explain it to you carefully."
Chen Siqi knocked on her head, pondered for a moment, and said:
"You know the Frost-Plated Republic, right? They have excessively good treatment for women. This is a tactic used by the upper leadership to divert conflicts."
"I don't understand history," Qiu Ran shook her head.
"Alright—this matter needs to be traced back a long time ago, so I'll make a long story short."
Chen Siqi leaned over and said in a low voice:
"The founders of Frost-Plated, the twin queens Yali Qin and Moting Qin, seized power through a military coup. They promptly addressed the apocalyptic disaster, becoming the dictators of Frost-Plated, consolidating power to protect most of Frost-Plated's population. They especially constructed numerous fusion reactor towers, helping Frost-Plated become one of the three most powerful countries after the sun disappeared. Therefore, the twin queens are revered idols in the hearts of Frost-Plated people."
"Three countries?" Qiu Ran was surprised. "Isn't it the Four Nations?"
"Red Arrow rose to power later. No, it should be called revenge."
Li Aozhi casually dismissed:
"I know the later history: the world powers reshuffled, and severe resource wars broke out among nations."
"Due to Frost-Plated being troubled by the influenza problem at the time, they were reluctant to go to war, which led to significant losses when they were forced into the conflict. Yali and Moting, the twin queens, deeply resented the world war and blamed men's existence as the root cause of wars, attributing all sins to men."
"And this became an opportunity for new female politicians to rise after reconstructing the republic."
"They leveraged the prestige of the twin queens. Initially, Frost-Plated men were targeted, and with the support of capital and academia, they began reducing the number of men in higher education. Using various 'experts' papers and reports, they claimed that in the future, more meticulous and patient women would be the main force of society, and that women had higher consumption power—using this rhetoric, they ultimately suppressed men's status, leading to the current situation."
"You know quite a bit." Chen Siqi took a deep breath and said, "But in reality, many people overlook one problem."
"In the armies of any country on this planet, men overwhelmingly dominate. The strength gap between men and women is too vast. Even if the new female government controls politics, judiciary, and public opinion, they cannot control the military."
"Without violent institutions, how can you call yourself a regime? How can you claim to be a country?"
"Frost-Plated only relied on national interests binding and propaganda to suppress men's status. But they haven't truly mastered a pure, powerful all-female army that can rival the other three nations."
"So..." Li Aozhi squinted. "Frost-Plated wants to overtake in a curve?"
"Yes."
Chen Siqi said calmly:
"The upper echelon of Frost-Plated believes: women must be given power, every woman must have power surpassing men."
"Nowadays, the Four Nations, by monopolizing energy, no longer worry about population issues. Even if all the men died, they could accept refugees from the outer world. Frost-Plated women never liked local men anyway. By accepting refugees, they gain a good reputation and moral high ground. In fact, many current Frost-Plated people are descendants of outer world refugees. Their skin isn't as pale anymore due to exposure to artificial sunlight—but only by truly mastering power can women be liberated."
Li Aozhi nodded.
Frost-Plated did introduce a large workforce from the outer world, which is true. In fact, the Four Nations have been doing this for a long time. Those small and subsidiary countries lack resources and would send a lot of high-quality immigrants to the Four Nations.
Li Aozhi's grandfather, Chu Bowen, in his childhood memory, was a pale-skinned pure outer world person who went through numerous trials and tribulations to gain Frost-Plated citizenship. By his generation, only Li Aozhi had overly pale skin in the family, which subjected him to much color discrimination.
The Frost-Plated Republic claimed to be a strong nation for women, but in reality, the military had a male-to-female ratio of 29:1—here's a cold joke, the Red Arrow Empire's military combat personnel ratio was 15:1, Zhengxu's was 32:1, and the most surprising was the War Nation’s Sky Ring, which had a 7:1 ratio.
In a way, Frost-Plated women relied more on male protection than women in the other three nations.
"The old ladies of Frost-Plated want to establish a true female empire."
Chen Siqi said:
"By then, all men will be reduced to slaves and workers, sent to concentrated farms and factories, only working. Only a few exceptional men—like you—will qualify to stand out and gain 'honorary female' status."
"To prevent the men currently controlling the military from rebelling, Frost-Plated has been conducting various studies for many years and, culturally, reducing male allure, encouraging men to take female hormones, raising the bar for technical jobs, making men doubt their gender and identity."
"Crazy..."
Qiu Ran whispered:
"This is not a women's country; it's a devil's country. Such a society can't last. This isn't a normal nation."
"It's a pity. Compared to the men who have always lagged at the starting line, Frost-Plated women are already just a few steps from the finish line."
Chen Siqi shrugged:
"And the task given to the Abyss Humanitarian Relief Organization by Frost-Plated is to research how to increase the ratio of female Arcane awakenings from infancy."
"Arcane abilities?" Li Aozhi was astonished.
"In terms of physical strength and technology, women lag far behind men. Women's physical issues mean they can't implant as many prosthetics as men. Even with firearms, women will lag behind men in combat due to multiple physiological factors."
Chen Siqi pointed at herself:
"If I were a man, I could at least implant four sets of military-grade prosthetics and high-precision computation modules. But I'm just a woman. I can only implant one set. Even one more chip would make my body unable to bear the load, turning me into a vegetable."
"Practicing martial arts is even worse. Men's basic physical strength is much higher than women's. Even taking some steroids can make them match women who have initially awakened their strength. Women have no advantage in martial arts."
"I know you want to mention mediums, mechanics, and biochemists. Mediums are uncontrollable, but the latter can be basically achieved with comprehensive education—but Frost-Plated has realized that continuing to restrict male education rights will lead to elite families' men emigrating to Red Arrow, Sky Ring, or Zhengxu. They can't always prevent Frost-Plated men from becoming superhumans or defecting to other countries."
"Only Arcane abilities, sacrificing a few decades of life, can let an unarmed girl easily kill an adult man with Arcane power—this power can cause societal change, making already insecure men more desperate, giving up and lying flat, forever abandoning the competition with a group of superhumans."
Arcane abilities.
In some sense, this idea isn't wrong.
But when Li Aozhi heard this result, his expression turned particularly strange.
As a top-tier player of 【Starfall Master】, he knew all too well about the nature of 【Dominion】 professions. Frost-Plated wanting all women to awaken Arcane abilities—this was something even the Galaxian civilization couldn't imagine.
Awakening Arcane abilities requires breaking the genetic chain, releasing inactive genes. This process also leads to the recombination of free gene fragments, achieving some extraordinary gene ratios. Even highly dangerous powers like Omega-level Arcane abilities severely damage telomeres, causing genetic diseases at best, and life-shortening like Li Aozhi at worst.
Moreover, those who awaken Arcane abilities are biologically unrelated to their biological parents.
Their genes constantly mutate throughout their lives. Without professional gene-editing techniques, the offspring of two high-level Arcane users are likely to be deformed, low-intelligence, non-human creatures.
Of course, there is a not low chance of combining both parents' Arcane potentials, producing a super Arcane user. But this isn't a good thing—innate Arcane user infants have a 97% mortality rate, mostly dying from their genetic load.
Doing this in Frost-Plated, even without discussing whether it could be universal, would shatter the genetic chain of all women in the country, reducing the average lifespan to 30-40 years, all to possess Arcane abilities—this is completely exhausting the country's potential.
