Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 70 - 057. Humanitarianism (Part 1)

Chapter 70: 057. Humanitarianism (Part 1)

"This matter is quite complicated...I need to sort it out for you properly,"

Chen Siqi tapped her head, pondered for a moment, and said:

"The Frost Plated Republic, you are aware, aren’t you? They provide excessively good treatment to women: It’s a tactic employed by the upper echelons to divert conflicts."

"I don’t understand history," Qiu Ran shook her head.

"Alright then—to explain this matter, we have to go back a long way, so I’ll try to keep it short,"

Chen Siqi leaned forward and said in a low voice:

"The founders of Frost Plated, the conjoined Twin Queens, Ya Liqin and Mo Ting Qin, seized power through a military coup and subsequently, timely confronted the Ersha disaster, becoming dictators of Frost Plated. By consolidating power, they ensured the safety of most of Frost Plated’s people. Notably, by building numerous fusion reactor towers, they helped Frost Plated become one of the three most powerful countries after the disappearance of the sun. As a result, the Twin Queens are regarded as exceptionally revered idols in the hearts of the Frost Plated people."

"Three countries?" Qiu Ran was surprised. "Wasn’t it Four Nations?"

"Red Arrow came out on top later, or rather, it was revenge,"

Li Aozi casually dismissed:

"I know what happened later: World powers reshuffled, and a severe resource war broke out among the nations."

"Because Frost Plated was afflicted by a severe influenza problem at the time and was reluctant to go to war, it suffered tremendous losses when forced into conflict. The Twin Queens, Ya Liqin, and Mo Ting Qin, therefore deeply avoided mentioning this world war; they believed that the existence of men was the root cause of war, and attributed all sins to men."

"And that, in turn, became the opportunity for a new generation of women politicians to come to power after the republic was re-established."

"Leveraging the prestige of the Twin Queens, the initial troubles faced by Frost Plated’s men began. They collaborated with capital and academia to reduce the male ratio in higher education institutions. By utilizing various ’experts’ reports and papers, they argued that the future era would better suit more meticulous, patient women, who were the society’s main force, and who possessed a higher spending power—using this rhetoric, they finally suppressed men’s status, leading to the situation we see today."

"You know quite a bit," Chen Siqi took a deep breath and said, "But in fact, many people overlook an issue."

"On this planet, in any country’s military, men comprise an overwhelming majority, and the gap between genders in terms of power is too large. Even if the new women’s government controls politics, judiciary, and media, they cannot control the military."

"And without violent institutions, what basis do you have to claim that you are a regime? Do you even qualify to say you are a country?"

"Frost Plated only suppresses men’s status through national interest binding and media propaganda, but it’s still not enough to maintain a purely elite feminine force that can compete with the other three nations."

"So..." Li Aozi narrowed his eyes. "Frost Plated wants to take a shortcut?"

"Yes."

Chen Siqi said indifferently:

"The upper echelons of Frost Plated believe: Women must possess power, and every woman must have power that surpasses men."

"Nowadays in the Four Nations, by monopolizing energy resources, they no longer worry about population issues. Even if all men died, they could still accept refugees from the Outer World. Anyway, women of Frost Plated never liked men from their own country, and by accepting refugees, they could gain a good reputation and claim the moral high ground. In fact, many of today’s Frost Plated people are descendants of Outer World refugees, except their skin is no longer so pale due to the artificial sun—however, only by truly mastering power, can women be liberated."

Li Aozi nodded.

It’s true that the Frost Plated people brought in a large amount of labor from the Outer World. In fact, the Four Nations have long been involved in such affairs; those smaller countries, subordinate countries with insufficient resources, had also been sending a significant number of high-quality immigrants to the Four Nations.

Li Aozi’s grandfather, Chu Bowen, had pale skin typical of a pure Outer World person in his youthful memories, having undergone numerous tests and hardships before gaining Frost Plated citizenship. However, in his generation, only Li Aozi had overly pale skin, which led to experiencing significant racial discrimination.

While the Frost Plated Republic claims to be a strong women’s country, in reality, the ratio of men to women in the military reaches 29:1—a bit of a cold joke, considering the Red Arrow Empire’s military ratio of male to female combatants is 15:1, Zhengxu’s is 32:1, and most surprisingly, the wartime nation Sky Ring achieves a situation of 7:1.

In a way, the women of the Frost Plated Republic actually relied more on the protection of men compared to the women from the other three nations.

"Those old ladies in Frost Plated, what they aim to establish is a true Female Empire,"

Chen Siqi said:

"By that time, all men will be demoted to slaves and workers, relegated to collective farms and factories, where they can simply labor. Only some men, who are more outstanding like you, will qualify to rise above and be granted the status of ’honorary female’."

"To prevent the men who still hold control of the armies from rebeling, over the years, Frost Plated has continually conducted various studies and through cultural propagation, reduced the allure of masculinity, encouraged men to take female hormones, and raised the barriers in operational technical positions for men, leading them to doubt their own gender and question their own identities."

"Madness..."

Qiu Ran murmured:

"This is not a realm of women, but a realm of demons. Such a society cannot possibly endure; this is not a normal nation."

"It’s truly a shame that compared to the men in Frost Plated, who are always behind the starting line, the women of Frost Plated are only a few steps away from the finish line."

Chen Siqi shrugged:

"And the task that Frost Plated has entrusted to Mingji Humanity is precisely to research how to enhance the proportion of females awakening arcane energy right from the infant stage."

"Arcane energy?" Li Aozi was surprised.

"In terms of physical ability and in the technological domain, women lag far behind men. Due to physical issues of women, they can’t have as many prostheses implanted as men, and even with firearms, they fall behind men in executing combat tasks due to multiple physiological factors."

Chen Siqi pointed at herself:

"If I were a man, I could have at least four sets of military-grade prostheses and high-precision computation plugins implanted, but I am just a woman; I can only have one set implanted, and if I add even one more chip, my body can’t withstand the load and would turn into a vegetable."

"Not to mention martial arts, men’s basic physical ability far surpasses that of women. Even merely taking some steroids would allow them to compete against women martial artists who are just beginning to awaken Qi energy. In the Martial Way, women are at no advantage."

"I know you want to talk about the paths of spirit mediums, mechanics, and biochemists. Spirit mediumship is uncontrollable, but the latter only need a complete education to basically achieve it—but Frost Plated has realized that continually limiting men’s right to education will ultimately lead to a massive emigration of elite family men to Red Arrow, Sky Ring, or Zhengxu. They can’t forever stop the transcendents among Frost Plated men from being born or siding with foreign countries."

"Only arcane energy, sacrificing decades of lifespan as the price, can allow an unarmed girl to effortlessly kill a strong adult man with arcane energy—this kind of power can bring about social change, make the already inferior men even more despairing, willingly degenerate and give up forever on competing with a group of superhumans."

Arcane energy.

In a way, this thinking isn’t wrong.

But when Li Aozi heard this conclusion, his expression became exceptionally strange.

As an Ace Bro, a Meteor Fall Master, he understood the nature of the Sovereign occupation better than anyone else; that Frost Plated wanted to awaken arcane energy in all women—this was something even the Galaxy Civilization wouldn’t dare imagine.

Awakening arcane energy involves shattering the gene chain, releasing ineffective genes. In this process, free-floating gene fragments also combine to achieve a certain ratio of super genes, and even levels as dangerous as Omega-level arcane energy can severely damage the telomeres, at best leading to some genetic diseases, and at worst shortening lives like Li Aozi’s.

Moreover, those who have awakened arcane energy, from a biological standpoint, no longer have any connection to their biological parents.

Their genes continue to mutate throughout their lives. Without professional gene-editing methods, offspring produced between two high-level arcane users are very likely to be deformed, low in intelligence, and hardly humanoid.

Of course, there’s also a considerable probability that they combine both parents’ arcane potentials into a super arcane user, but this isn’t beneficial—newborns with innate arcane abilities have a mortality rate as high as 97%, with most dying from their own gene load.

For the Frost Plated to do this, setting aside the feasibility of spreading it, to shatter the gene chains of all national females and reduce the average lifespan to 30-40 years while possessing arcane energy—this is simply completely exhausting the potential of the nation.