Necromancer Farming Notes Figure Master

Chapter 905 God’s Will

At school, during the afternoon break, Melina sat in her seat, lost in thought.

She tried to monitor her thoughts, but each time her attention would wander to some interesting one. These interesting thoughts seemed endless, weaving all sorts of fascinating stories.

This caused Melina to freeze in shock.

By the time Melina came to her senses, she had been sitting there in a daze for 5 minutes.

She tapped her head in exasperation. "Mission failed! I need to concentrate more; I need to monitor my thoughts, not play with them."

“Melina, what’s bothering you? You look troubled,” Seren asked, sitting behind Melina.

At this moment, Seren was doing her homework. Judging from how quickly she wrote, the assignments should be easy for her.

"Well, Seren, what do you think about the privatization of the fire department?" Melina asked, seizing the opportunity.

"..."

Upon hearing this question, Serian stopped writing her homework abruptly, and a look of sadness appeared on her face.

"This country is heading towards decline."

"Oh? Tell me about it." Melina's eyes lit up.

“Parker gave us a lesson before. In that lesson, he described a more perfect set of social rules. And to achieve that set of social rules, we must follow public ownership.”

"Is Parker really that good?" Melina asked suspiciously.

“This set of rules probably wasn’t his idea. You should be able to guess who came up with it,” Seren said.

"Oh, I understand." Melina nodded. Those rules must have been devised by the God of Learning, only spoken through Parker's mouth.

"The core of that set of social rules is actually very simple: it is to publicly own the means of production, and then any products and surplus value generated by a citizen's labor belong to him personally."

Serlian then explained what means of production, products, and surplus value are.

These concepts are easy to understand, and Melina grasped them immediately.

However, the simple rule Serenity mentioned puzzled Melina.

"So who is the ruler in this system?"

"It is the citizens themselves."

"Huh? If everyone is a ruler, wouldn't that be the same as having no rulers at all? Wouldn't that be chaotic?"

"Is it necessary to have a ruler to prevent chaos? If that's the case, the Golden Dynasty wouldn't have fallen." Seren directly cited history.

"This..." Melina was completely dumbfounded. She couldn't imagine how a world without a ruler could exist.

Shouldn't there be a ruler in this world? Isn't it a basic and normal thing for a world to naturally have a ruler?

Melina's worldview was shaken. If these words had come from anyone else, Melina would have thought that person was crazy, but these words came from the god of learning.

Melina didn't think the God of Learning was crazy.

Melina then asked some more questions about the system. After asking them, she felt both awkward and curious.

She was also recalling her conversation with Dior at noon that day.

Dior first had her monitor herself, and then had her ask Serenity what she thought about the fire department being abolished.

Melina had a vague feeling that there was some kind of connection between them, but she couldn't figure out where that connection was.

“In the early days of our country, our government had strong control over the entire nation. They established public schools, public hospitals, and various public facilities throughout the country. These public facilities have long benefited the people.”

"However, with the change of government and the infiltration of various capitalist families, the current government is no longer the government of the past."

"With the passing of our predecessors who championed equality, the current government has decayed. Major capitalist families control the government, wreaking havoc on the entire country for their own benefit."

"Nowadays, the ratio of public to private schools has undergone a dramatic reversal, from 8:2 to 2:8. Moreover, private schools have better teaching resources, and people at the bottom of society have to spend more money to enjoy better educational resources."

"And those private schools are backed by capital from various places. They monopolize education and control every aspect of it."

"Because we live well, we don't see the decline of this country. But just go to the slums and see the living conditions of the people there, and we'll know that this country is rotting."

Seren shook his head slightly.

Public infrastructure is the conscience of a nation, because it is the last line of defense for the most vulnerable. And as a nation's conscience diminishes, the suffering of its people intensifies.

"Is there any way we can change the current situation?" Melina asked.

“We’re trying. Dragon King Supermarket is one such attempt.” Seren’s eyes gleamed.

Melina thought for a moment, then nodded. She finally understood the logic behind the generous welfare benefits at Dragon King Supermarket.

However, in Melina's view, it is very difficult to make the value generated by citizens' labor belong to oneself.

Because most people in the world share her opinion. Everyone believes that there should be a natural ruler to govern everyone.

Even if people are living a very difficult life, it is hard for them to doubt whether the ruler sitting above them has any reason to exist.

As long as people's thinking doesn't change, the world won't change.

Jingle bell bell~

The school bell rang, and Melina scratched her head, continuing to monitor her thoughts. She had to figure out the true purpose of the god of learning.

However, doing this only distracted her from class and did nothing else.

That evening, Melina returned home feeling exhausted. She felt she needed to get some more clues before she could continue thinking.

So she asked Dior a question at the dinner table.

"Dad, what's the connection between the new social system Serenity mentioned and the idea of ​​me monitoring my own thoughts? You don't have to tell me the answer directly! Can you give me a hint? Just a little hint will do!" Melina stretched out two fingers and pinched them together.

Dior smiled slightly, stroked his chin, and said, "You really are a thoughtful child. You sensed the connection between the two so quickly?"

"Actually, you can imagine yourself as a country."

Melina's face lit up with excitement upon hearing this; she seemed to have grasped Dior's meaning.

"What kind of riddle are you two playing?" the wife asked curiously.

"It's just a little game. By the way, how's your book translation progressing?" Dio asked.

"It won't be translated so quickly. I guess it will be roughly completed by the time Xiaoguai gets married," the wife said.

“Okay.” Dio nodded.

After finishing her meal, Melina returned to her bedroom and spaced out.

She already has some ideas.

"If I imagine myself as a country, then who are my people? Are they the cells in my body?"

"Hmm... they're more like homelands. After all, they don't really have any ideas."

"Huh? So, are my thoughts my people?"

"Then, who is the ruler of this country? Is it me?"

But who am I?

Melina was stunned for a moment when she thought of this.

"Well... in reality, rulers are often a combination of many interest groups. All resources are tilted towards them. In other words, for me, there is also a group of ideas that belong to the ruling group, while the rest belong to the ruled."

With this in mind, Melina finally understood what was going on.

Then she realized a very serious problem.

That's what she remembered Serenity saying: People don't need a ruler at all. Because rulers bring suffering to the country.

Does this rule also apply to herself? Does she not need a ruler?

She herself does not need an "I" to rule.

As she thought of this, a deep sense of panic rose within Melina.

"Who is afraid? Is it me? Or is it my ruler who is afraid?"

Melina curled up in a ball, feeling as if her mind was in turmoil, like a battle was raging inside her.

"The god of learning is a demon! Don't listen to him! What's the point of existence if you don't have a self?"

"Wake up, Melina! Without a self, what difference is there between you and someone who is dead!"

"If you lose yourself, then delicious food, good novels, and fun things become meaningless. Can you endure that kind of monotonous life? What's the difference between that and being in a vegetative state?"

"..."

Various thoughts popped into her head, all trying to persuade Melina to give up some unrealistic ideas.

“How terrifying…” Melina stared wide-eyed.

"Are these the rulers of the kingdom within my heart?"

“They brought me fear and pain,” Melina thought.

"It's not that we've caused you pain! It's that you're undermining your very foundation! If you don't think about bad things, how can you be in pain? Stop thinking about those things!"

"..." Melina forced herself to calm down.

To be honest, she's starting to suspect that Dior is the devil.

Melina had never encountered such a strong psychological conflict before. She had always been exceptionally adaptable, and even her parents' divorce had not caused her such a great shock.

"I can't think about it anymore..." Melina stopped delving deeper, but she didn't give up monitoring her thoughts.

Under her quiet observation, she discovered that her mind was filled with all sorts of thoughts.

These ideas don't connect at all; they're all scattered and disjointed. They can't form a complete story.

However, some particularly attractive ideas always make Melina unconsciously pursue them.

Once Melina pursued this idea, it became incredibly fascinating.

"Ah! I forgot my surveillance duties again!" Melina frowned.

"However, I think I've discovered the interest groups in the Kingdom of Hearts. Every time I think of something that makes me happy, I generate more thoughts around that thing. Those thoughts, when connected, form the stories that I become obsessed with."

"And other thoughts will be subconsciously ignored and suppressed during this process..."

"Are the thoughts that went unnoticed by me the poor of the Kingdom of Hearts? They go unnoticed and remain unknown."

"Those interest groups in the Kingdom of Hearts, in order to strengthen themselves, disregard the expression of other thoughts. And their continuous existence has gathered together a ruler, and that ruler is the so-called 'I'!"

"Actually, it's not just happy things that get me hooked; some bad things also attract my attention... Damn it!!"

"So the so-called 'I' was just a collection of interest groups?!"

"What I like and what I hate, all the thoughts that can attract my attention, are blinding me! They are making me sink and rot!"

Thinking of this, Melina felt a surge of inexplicable anger; she felt deceived!