052. Elf Isnd

  The guards of Elf Isnd check the cells every ten minutes. Each prisoner is held in a separate cell, and every few days, their rooms are ged to prevent the prisoners franizing a rge-scale escape.

  All the enemies opposing the President, as well as the most heinous transdent criminals, are imprisoned here. For over a tury, no one has ever successfully escaped. Helicopters frequently patrol the skies, and during prisoner bor and recreation time, the stationed air force flies bomb-den fighter jets at low altitude, delivering terrifying auditory and visual impacts to the prisoners.

  However, more diretimidation than the air fores from the wardens here.

  All wardens are selected by the agents of Law III. They are absolutely loyal to the Frost-Pted Republid the President. They do not accept any form of bribery, have undergone chemical surgery to erase persoions, and each possesses Alpha-tier strength. The warden himself is a Gamma-tier powerhouse—'Zero Point' Frost.

  Of course, many of the political prisoners held here have vast influend wealth, so President Mai Dewei does not dare to settle scores with them all at once.

  A warden the most advanced exoskeleton armor approached Cell 92, knocked on the door, and delivered a neer inside:

  "Cell 092, David Lin, the book you requested has arrived."

  "Thank you."

  David Lin's voice was gentle, and his appearance was that of a well-proportioned, dignified middle-aged man. If judged solely by his face, he didn’t seem like a soldier but rather a sirained in bel to. Even during his impriso, he maintaihe habit of reading and studying, always keeping up with politiews.

  He took the neer, sat by the bed, and his gold-green eyes sed it up and down. His reading ability was strong; with a gnce, he quickly gained a clear and objective uanding of the iional situation.

  "The Red Arrow Empire's i rate hike period has arrived. Fortunately, the Frost-Pted Republic still has some fn exge reserves, but why freeze prices? Could it be that Mai Dewei pns to act against the ies, depleting their resources in the short term to stabilize domestitiment?"

  "Internal flicts in the Kingdom of Tianhuan have intensified and must be diverted through war. Their goal is to use Triaown as a springboard to un atta the Frost-Pted Republic. A war betweewo nations is only a matter of time."

  "Three of the four tries have announced reition of the Granter Republic... Grand Duke Gamos was killed by Li Aozi."

  David Lin put down the neer and couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

  There had been many signifit iios retly, but he could clearly see that behind all these events, there was always the shadow of one man.

  "Li Aozi, why is it always this Li Aozi?"

  David Lin had some uanding of the Abyss Humanitarian matters. Domestic reports on Li Aozi were limited, merely ning him as a national traitor.

  David Lin thought otherwise.

  The Abyss Humanitarian experiments were certainly not carried out to satisfy the health and prosperity of the citizens but were purely a twisted produai Dewei’s delusion of a ‘female nation.’ Only women possessing Omega Energy would undoubtedly increase w enfort difficulties and would further deepeagonism among citizens, harming national productivity and society in every way.

  Abyss Humanitarian was never humane; he khis from the start, but being imprisoned, he owerless. Li Aozi’s ability to remove this cer was, of course, a good thing.

  At that time, however, he merely thought of Li Aozi as a young man with reckless ce.

  But now, David Lin had a deeper appreciation for Li Aozi.

  Helping Grant achieve independence, what does that mean?

  Grant is the granary of the Frost-Pted Republic. It is surrounded by the Republic’s satellite states, allies, and ies, with no industrial base of its own.

  There is no doubt that this time the is of the Frost-Pted Republic have been severely damaged. As a pure-blooded citizen of the Republic, David Lin could not possibly be pleased with this result.

  However, this did not prevent him from admiring Li Aozi as a person.

  An ordinary person with a vocational school education, decisively leaving his homend to develop abroad, and then turning around to liberate the oppressed and strike at the anti-human anizations—if such as do not qualify someone as a hero, then David Lin would estimate that there have been very few heroes in the history of Azure Star.

  "Li Aozi, this kid is truly extraordinary." David Lin thought, feeling a moment of sadness: "The talents cultivated by our try either bee pilrs of other nations, or parasites, or, like Li Aozi, flee the homend. If the Twin Queens were alive to see what the Frost-Pted Republic has bee, they would surely be deeply saddened."

  Even before Mai Dewei came to power, at least a hundred years ago, the Republic had already bee like this.

  The women, inally endowed with meanings ress, inclusivity, and benevolence, suddenly became symbols for politis to win votes. They tinually cmored for better rights and higher status for women, using the media to portray men as ily guilty. By the time of Mai Dewei’s rule, this reached its peak.

  In David Lin’s view, this pletely betrayed the Republic's founding belief that ‘womehe embodiment of ce and wisdom.’

  The likes of Mai Dewei have not only failed tress but have instead reapplied the oppression of women in patriarchal societies onto men. That’s all.

  David Lin couldn’t uand why, even though both men and women bleed and sacrifi the battlefield, men, who suffer more casualties and are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, return home only to be repeatedly humiliated.

  The Frost-Pted Republic has alromoted indepe and self-reliant women, which is certainly good. David Lin is very willing to work with patient aiculous women. But why does there have to be a distin between high and low, noble and base when everyone is a borer?

  But if the Republic’s society could truly guarantee women’s rights, then why does Law IV o exist?

  If Law IV is really effective, then why hasn’t domestic violeopped?

  If the Republic’s womeruly indepe, then why de and family still exist?

  If women’s status is so high, then why are there still women among the poor in the relief stations?

  "Our try is not a female-friendly nation; it’s a nation friendly to a few women and a very few elite men. This is not a healthy try."

  This was David Lin’s clusion.

  In terms of personality, David Lin is a very simple ale person. Although he has killed many Tianhuan enemies, he always views his trymen through a lens of simplicity and kindness. This is because, having been raised by the military since childhood without parents, he regards the nation as his direct parental figure.

  David Lin firmly believes that the citizens of the Republic are always the best, the ki, and that everyone deserves better education and living standards. As a staunationalist, David Lin eveates to oppose President Mai Dewei, who was directly responsible for his impriso.

  After all, she is also a daughter of the Republid should, in all matters, sider the nation and the is of its citizens.

  In prison, he repeatedly read some philosophical books, including those on Mai Dewei’s advocacy of women’s ey, hoping to uand her. He believed that since Mai Dewei was elected by the people, she must at least represent the hopes of a portion of the citizens.

  However, after he fully uood Mai Dewei’s policies and thoughts, he pletely abahis illusion.

  Mai Dewei is a madwoman.

  David Lin couldn’t possibly sider someone who could brazenly state in her autobiography: "It doesn’t matter how many mehere are plenty of men ier regions and ies who want to e."—to say suhumane words, she was no different from a terrorist.

  Yes, it doesn’t matter how many men die, but what about boys? Male infants? The elderly? Are they not human?

  If all the men in the try died, allowing men from outside or even fn tries to freely breed with the women of the Republic—how is this different from being ized by fners after a defeat?

  Does Mai Dewei think that just because they are fn men, it’s acceptable?

  Mai Dewei has gone insane. In her eyes, there are no nations, no tries, only men and women. Only by eliminating men women save themselves.

  Maybe iure, when teology advahis kind of thinking could be uood, but in this era, on this p?

  On Azure Star, where people ’t evehe su alone reach space.

  David Lin had pletely lost the st bit of sympathy for Mai Dewei. To Mai Dewei, the Republic was not her homend, but merely a tool for realizing her female world.

  This was something David Lin could not tolerate; he could not tolerate anyone using the nation he loved as a tool and on.

  "At this point, there is only one way to save our beautiful try, and that is through battle."

  David Lin’s gaze fell on the photo of Li Aozi on the front page:

  "Li Aozi, though I am relut to see you take the ies, if you overthrow Mai Dewei, we might really need you."

  FAL