Chapter 888: Chapter 561: The Digital Divide
"So..."
Su Yue slightly frowned, "A group that occupies one-third or even two-fifths of the national population, is gradually being marginalized, stereotyped, and demonized at the network level in the capital and key cities?"
"This is not just network content specially supplied to us."
Finn Xi sprawled her entire body on the sofa, her hands unconsciously forming a peculiar posture on her skirt hem.
This is the most relaxed and habitual professional posture of this senior sister, just like sitting back in her old nest full of Spiritual Artifact Terminals, located in a void somewhere beneath Longteng University resembling a spider cave.
Talent [Web Heaven], True Intent [Controller’s Benefit].
Without stepping out, she can still know the world’s affairs, stirring the winds and clouds of the world.
Data streams emerged from the void, converging and forming the shadow of a dragon around her, coiling around her slender neck, with vertical pupils flashing a hint of proud and wise brilliance.
—She indeed doesn’t excel offline, but online it’d be best to show this dragon some respect!
Finn Xi patted the surface of her beast king partner [Digital White Emperor Beast], seemingly formed by countless tiny digital scales, and continued, "While in the capital, I’ve always used Mystical Techniques to set up hidden channels, letting it use the clumsy method of physical snooping to help monitor others’ internet content."
"Yesterday and today, I’ve been monitoring the information within dozens of kilometers around, using the Ether computer array I carry in my Sea of Spirit to aggregate and analyze various data of more than 4.7077 million people while surfing the web..."
Finn Xi tapped her head with delicate fingers, saying casually, "Judging from the chat content and various browsing records of people here in the capital and Tokyo, at least from their perspective, the existence of Beastmen seems to have been steadily distancing from their actual lives over the past decade or so."
"On the network, only the generalized idea remains that [most are savage, uneducable, unambitious, thus caught in a vicious cycle with low credit levels], along with impressions like [cannot marry, or it will contaminate offspring]."
"In the everyday information they can access, only a very small fraction of Beastmen break through this stereotype, surpassing their own class and prejudice, but it doesn’t affect the whole."
She frowned slightly, "Yet, if it’s only this, then fine."
"The key is..."
"In the networks that normal people in these two cities can access, there is basically no specific depiction of the lives of those Beastmen living in outer layers, and the documentaries from the past have vanished without a trace, while the lives once orally passed down by the elderly are gradually blurring in the young people’s perspectives."
"Thus, in the end, only the demonization and exclusion brought by distance remain."
"And precisely because of this, as Arasaka Koichi mentioned, migration activities moving the remaining Beastmen in big cities to peripheral and heavily polluted areas in Fusang... seemed to go unnoticed."
Su Yue frowned, "What about the people’s livelihood? The military? Do Spirit Masters not communicate with other cities? What about the corresponding position on the Outer Battlefield and unique resource circulation in the Secret Realm?"
At this moment, Lin Guang suddenly spoke quietly, "Arasaka Group."
"That’s correct, exactly so." Finn Xi sighed.
"Fusang and Great Xia are different; basically, all domestic and foreign exchange businesses are covered by the military-political complex of Arasaka Group, and the ultimate destination for most Spirit Masters is Arasaka Group and its subsidiary companies."
"Arasaka Group... is so-called the [official]."
"This naturally includes trade and communication between various cities."
"All transactions, information, networks, basically have to go through this so-called small system of [Fusang’s Dew]..."
She couldn’t help but comment, "Well, from this level of view, besides that indiscriminate system exchange and the direct overwhelming force under Divine Domain, that [Fusang’s Dew] sure establishes a much stronger information barrier for these two cities."
Lin Guang mused slightly, "Are they truly planning to make the core ruler circle of normals and Spirit Masters completely disconnected from Beastmen? To isolate them?"
Su Yue also slightly frowned, "Building walls...? "
Finn Xi nodded, "Clearly, this is indeed the approach of Fusang’s upper echelon."
Upon saying this, she sent a large amount of information to the two who fell into deep thought:
"...Oh, by the way, the so-called pollution seems quite suspicious, yet I couldn’t find anything conclusive here."
"Only saw that the flesh of Desolate Beast [Eight-headed Serpent] in various places in Fusang produced various mineral veins, which carry pollution nearby, thus breeding Magical Beasts, extremely dangerous but with the danger also comes opportunity... generally speaking."
Su Yue and Lin Guang both fell into contemplation.
At this moment, no one questioned the authenticity of this conclusion.
After all, the attitude of Arasaka Koichi earlier had already sufficed to corroborate all of this.
Yet there are still many doubts about it.
In core cities like Tokyo and Capital, normal humans can entirely avoid Beastmen, but as the fringes advance, humans and Beastmen clearly cannot entirely live apart.
In such mixed cities, what is the ecology and situation?
And what difference is there between normal humans living there and those residing in Tokyo and Capital?
What difference is there between that so-called [deity], [evil spirit] granting bloodlines to Beastmen with ordinary Spirit Beasts and Magical Beasts?
What exactly are the bloodlines that Arasaka Koichi speaks of being thoroughly contaminated?
Moreover, if the nation’s two population parts are long divided, then communication with [national will], or [national collective subconscious], and correspondence to the Outer Battlefield versus Blue Star country’s internal mappings—won’t there be issues arising?
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