“That… Lyon…”
Floating directly above the City of Regret, watching the tens of thousands of undead enthusiastically chanting and working hard to dig the City of Regret out of the swamp, Taurus Director couldn't help but say with a strained expression:
“Wasn't the City of Regret sunk by you? Why are you digging it out now? And you're practically the master of the Death Realm now, wouldn't it be faster if you did it yourself than having them do it?”
“It's different.”
Lyon shook his head upon hearing this.
“I only control half of the authority over death, so without destroying the basic rules of the Death Realm, I can only modify half of it. Things that others can do, I should leave to them as much as possible. It doesn't matter if it's a bit slower.
As for why I want to dig out the City of Regret… not all the undead can completely let go of their regrets. They still need a place to live. And I've also recruited a lot of employees for the Underworld branch. They can't just be working all the time, they need some other kind of life.
Digging out the ruins of the City of Regret and Daoling Bazaar, and tidying them up, one can be used for them to live and reside in, and the other can be used to arrange some shops and entertainment, so they don't live… um… die too boringly.”
“But… isn't this a little too good?”
Squinting at the undead below, seeing the vitality on their pale faces full of death, almost no less than that of the living, Cancer Director couldn't help but remind with a complex expression:
“Lyon, according to your plan, the future life of the undead in the Death Realm may not be worse than the mortal world. If you make the Death Realm so good, will the dead still be willing to go to the Cliff of Ending?”
“They will.”
Having probably thought about this question long ago, Lyon modified some of the rules in the City of Regret while calmly explaining:
“The true undead have no physical bodies or five senses. Everything is just the soul's 'perception.' This kind of life cannot be compared to 'being alive' itself.
Moreover, from the moment the undead enter the Death Realm, the Death Realm is constantly eroding the 'living' part of them, but the speed is not as fast as the original locations. This is the basic rule of the Death Realm, and I can't change it either… Oh, right.”
Speaking of this, Lyon seemed to remember something and turned to look at Taurus Director beside him.
“Taurus, can the way the Bureau selects Cleansers also be changed?”
“Ah?”
Unexpectedly, Lyon had just drastically changed a batch and was already eyeing a basic policy of the Cleansing Bureau. The two directors couldn't help but shudder, and then asked with some trepidation:
“You… you have new ideas again?”
“Actually, I've had this idea for a long time.”
After thinking for a moment, Lyon sincerely opened his mouth and said:
“Taurus, Cancer, to be honest, I actually think that the methods used by our Bureau's Cleansers to carry out their missions have always had big problems.”
Oh no… here we go again?
Hearing this unusually familiar sentence, the two directors couldn't help but feel their scalps tingle.
Not long after saying this last time, Aquarius completely refuted the Cleansing Bureau's thousand-year tradition of "suppression first", and then began to hand-craft the Death Realm, completely changing the face of the originally terrifying and gloomy world. The plans proposed later were even more outrageous than the last.
And this time, he's eyeing the Bureau's personnel selection methods and execution methods, could it be that…
“Why not just abolish the original model altogether!”
“……”
I knew it! X2
After making a proposal that completely met the two directors' "expectations", Lyon earnestly explained:
“Taurus, Cancer, our current selection method, although it can find those who have extreme personalities and thinking, and therefore give birth to anomalies, in the fastest way.
But precisely because of this selection method, many of our Cleansers are criminals who have committed evil deeds. Even if they are now standing on the front line of protecting humanity, their methods of handling things are quite cruel, often disregarding the lives of ordinary people, causing large-scale casualties that could have been avoided.”
“Alas… there are indeed problems in this regard…”
After sighing slightly, Cancer Director frowned and said:
“But I still disagree with your idea, because if the Bureau imposes restrictions and prohibits the use of excessive methods, the Cleansers' casualty rate will inevitably rise sharply, and then cause more problems.”
“I understand what you mean.”
After nodding to Cancer Director, Lyon calmly argued:
“I'm not going to use this reason to tie the hands and feet of the Cleansers, forcing them to choose a choice that is extremely dangerous, may reduce casualties, but is more likely to harm more people.
I just hope that by changing the selection method and adding some small rules, the future Cleansers can be a little more 'human', so that when faced with those dilemmas, they can try to make some more 'humane' choices.”
“So… what are you going to do?”
“The first is naturally to expand the scope of 'inspection' and use large-scale inspections to replace the method of fishing people out of prison.”
After organizing his words, Lyon looked at Taurus Director and said:
“Taurus, can you forge an anomaly that has a very large sensing range and can periodically conduct ultra-large-scale inspections of human Lyon values?”
“I can, but…”
Taurus Director couldn't help but hesitate upon hearing this.
“But this kind of thing not only consumes a lot, but also temporarily raises the Lyon value of ordinary people. If the number of inspections is too high… um… I understand.”
After looking at the City of Regret below, a look of understanding appeared in Taurus Director's eyes.
The reason why this method was not used to find people in the past was because it was worried that it would accidentally "create" a large number of anomaly holders, causing more anomaly disasters. But if Lyon's transformation plan is okay, this small and frequent "micro-contamination" is a good thing instead, and can give birth to more Cleanser seedlings.
“I'll start trying when I get back!”
“Then I'll have to trouble you.”
After nodding to Taurus Director, Lyon looked at Cancer Director who was frowning, and then continued:
“As for the problem that the Cleansers' methods are too cruel, I think it can be combined with the current Death Realm to deal with it… Although it's not easy to make too many restrictions for the time being, we can use a method similar to 'inducement' to make them regulate their own behavior.”
“Inducement?”
“To put it bluntly, it's actually a reward and punishment system, but Cleansers are very different from ordinary people, so the things that are rewarded and punished naturally have to change.”
After glancing at the City of Regret below, which had already revealed most of its body, Lyon said thoughtfully:
“Cancer, I've found that most Cleansers are extreme and stubborn, but they actually have a lot of regrets, and many of these regrets are related to their relatives.
Then, if we add another rule to the Underworld branch, that Cleansers who join the Cleansing Bureau and maintain 'excellent' 'assessments' and have no malicious bad records, can periodically meet their dead relatives, and if they accumulate enough merit, they can even resurrect them…”
