Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Theresa stayed the night, Makka Pakka style. [Reference to In the Night Garden]

It was Fu Hua who took care of her because some people even wanted to beat her up at night.

Wendy was barely held back, or she would have launched a night raid to give Theresa some "warmth."

Cocolia's scalp was itching, and she scratched her head to relieve her slight tension.

She glanced at Wendy, who had been injected with a sleeping drug by Noldrei. The girl's fighting spirit had been forcibly suppressed.

The girl looked rather shy, but in reality, she had mixed feelings of love and hate toward Theresa. Noldrei was decisive in his actions to protect his palace.

From Wendy's attitude towards Theresa, Cocolia seemed to see a shadow of her own future. Perhaps someday, some orphan would also come to her with a loving revenge.

After meeting Noldrei, Cocolia first explained Anti-Entropy's needs and then reported on the construction progress of the Academy City.

As of now, the Academy City, which could accommodate two hundred thousand students, would be completed in two months. But they needed to rearrange the schools and create a hierarchy, which was a boring and tedious task.

The Anti-Entropy Alliance Leader's needs were simple to Noldrei, as these things were never difficult for him. Noldrei generously funded the American cosmetic surgery industry.

But when it came to planning the future Academy City, Noldrei had his own ideas.

He didn't really want to hand these students over to the primitives. The leaders on this Earth weren't all bastards, but they were all pretty much scum.

Noldrei needed to find a group of new humans who could manage themselves.

But to do this, he had to figure out a way to have them willingly hand over their student management rights.

"Anti-Entropy's needs are easy to solve. What I want to ask is, can you make the student management system independent? I want to see a new breed of humans that meet my requirements."

"The research on living Stigmata has been a complete success. If nothing unexpected happens, the Kaslana family Stigmata space will become an important place of communication for new humans."

Noldrei casually claimed ownership of the Kaslana family Stigmata space with a single sentence.

This was because the 'living Stigmata' mother he created was Kiana.

It sounded strange, but Kiana was indeed the mother of these future new humans, or rather, the mother of new Stigmata.

Cocolia naturally knew about artificial Stigmata research.

But this was the first time she had heard that a family's inherited Stigmata space could be used as an activity space for new humans.

"May I ask, why did you create living Stigmata? Is it simply to turn genetic information into a currency system?"

Cocolia could understand the concept of genetic currency, and the word currency itself made it easier for her to understand it.

But she didn't know what kind of future world Noldrei envisioned when constructing such a system.

Noldrei reached out a tentacle, pulling Wendy's unconscious body closer.

His tentacle gently tugged at Wendy's back, revealing her spine like unzipping a jacket.

Cocolia saw it clearly. It pulsated like a second heart in Wendy's body, and the blood vessels glowing with the light of the Stigmata, spread throughout her body like a spiderweb. This organ connected the entire nervous and circulatory system of Wendy together.

The pulsating rhythm made Cocolia's breath hitch.

"The humans of this era haven't experienced nuclear war, nor have they experienced the genetic damage caused by nuclear contamination. So, they haven't accumulated enough samples for genetic research."

"Humans begin their research of any natural phenomenon with destruction. Naturally, the human genome is no different."

"Honkai and Stigmata are both linked to human genetic information, even creating a spiritual world that shouldn't exist."

"From this, I can infer that both Honkai and Stigmata have the ability to materialize the conceptual knowledge system of humans. They are an expression of the same power, but in different sides."

How else could Noldrei absorb all the Honkai energy in Nagazora City? It was because his own genetic information was so chaotic that the current Honkai energy couldn't express it.

"But this kind of energy system isn't without its problems. The conceptual power that humans can wield is limited by their own cognitive abilities."

"It's like, the power displayed by an illiterate with a Herrscher core is completely different from the power displayed by Tesla with a Herrscher core."

As Noldrei spoke, Cocolia saw fleshy wings sprout from his back, seemingly dissatisfied with his words.

Clearly, someone had taken the 'illiterate' comment personally.

"The materialization of concepts is the result of the development of human civilization. The development of civilization is the cognitive and practical activities of humans towards the world. Everything else is merely a practical tool produced during this process."

"Theoretically, the conclusion I have reached is..."

"The stronger human civilization becomes, the stronger the destructive power of Honkai becomes, and similarly, the power brought by Stigmata also becomes stronger."

Cocolia had always thought that Noldrei only acted like a future human when he talked about future development. Usually, he was just an abstract weirdo.

"Only by advancing living Stigmata to a certain level, can I see stronger and more powerful Stigmata powers appear. So, we must let humanity continue to grow in this direction."

Cocolia frowned when she heard this and asked uneasily, "Doesn't that mean that the Honkai that humanity faces will also become increasingly stronger?"

"No! Because Honkai energy has an upper limit. As long as it is manifested in this world in the form of energy matter, it will definitely become something like coal or oil. As long as it has a limit, there will come a day when it cannot keep up with the power of human civilization exploring the world."

"You can't even begin to comprehend how powerful humanity will become in the future."

"The realization of concepts is nothing more than that. It's not some major crisis. Don't be so sensitive, the biggest crisis now is still within you primitives."

Noldrei wasn't worried about the trouble caused by Honkai.

Cocolia was ashamed. She thought everything Noldrei said was extremely strange.

Concepts materializing, and yet, he could still calmly say, 'it's not some major crisis.'

Cocolia asked carefully, "The crisis within us? What is that?"

"......"

Noldrei frowned at her, looking at her like she was an idiot.

"Didn't I tell you guys? You're going to have a nuclear war pretty soon. Just a few decades away, don't you want to think about how to save yourselves from your own people first?"

Cocolia was stunned for a moment and finally remembered what Noldrei had said.

She thought that Noldrei was planning to solve the nuclear war.

But it turned out he wasn't planning to do anything at all, and he just wanted them to figure out how to solve their internal conflicts first.