Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1051 Human Rights Judgment in the Narrative Layer
Modis flipped through a book, scratching his head from time to time.

"Damn it, just how much is Shangguan still hiding?"

Modis grumbled as he packed his things: "I'm going back to the station first. You guys stay here for now and don't come back. Also, all your belongings have been moved here. There might be something useful in there. Find it yourself."

The Council of Scepters is arguing fiercely over you. You're still here today, but maybe tomorrow they'll reach a consensus and you'll be arrested and locked up.

you……"

Modis shook his head, hesitated, then gave Su Yue a wink and called her outside the room.

"Doctor, what's wrong?"

"How should I put it, I have a bad feeling that the parliament's handling of him is not going to be optimistic."

"No way, just because Brother Xia Shou released that river? Although that river was quite troublesome, it was placed in that canyon anyway, so it was contained without any accidents. The council won't punish him, will they?"

"No, it has nothing to do with that."

"Moreover, Brother Xia Shou has also made a great contribution this time."

"We can't think about it so simply anymore. There are many people who have made great contributions to world peace. Among these people, there are also those who were eventually punished by the Control Bureau because they all changed and were no longer the same people they used to be."

You can't say that you saved a million people today and have done a great job, but if you want to kill half a million people tomorrow, we shouldn't stop you, and we should even thank you, because in total you still saved half a million.

This isn't an arithmetic problem; it's not calculated that way. Once someone becomes a bad person, they become an enemy. And this kid's existence has now exceeded common sense, which is why it has sparked discussion in the council.

This involves the concept of the narrative layer in the theory of the extraordinary, and once this concept is mixed in, many things will be distorted, and the conventional definition of anomalies will become blurred.

It involves not only the definition of the content inherent in the narrative layer itself, but also judgments on morality and human rights.

I remember you've made a movie. I'd like to ask you, was the female lead in that movie a real person?

"Most of them are people, I don't think I've ever played a particularly strange character."

"No, they are not human beings, they are fictional artistic characters! Do you deny that?"

"I won't deny it." Su Yue fell into thought.

"That's how it is. According to the definition of a movie, the protagonist is a person, but to the audience, he is just an artistic image. The difference between Xia Shou and the movie character is that he can come out. But that's not unusual. Many anomalous entities come out of various fictional works, so we classify them as anomalous entities."

From what I've encountered, there are many cases where the individuals themselves don't exhibit any abnormalities and are simply ordinary people. However, because of their origins, they are still considered abnormal because their existence cannot be separated from their original carriers!

The Bureau of Control has never reached a conclusion on how to view this group of people. Basically, it judges them based on their positive or negative impact. Generally, friendly anomalies are classified as human.

This is not an objective division, but a temporary division based on social advantages and disadvantages as well as human relationships and morality.

Furthermore, we categorize others, and others may categorize us. Perhaps we are just a movie in someone else's world. No one can say for sure, so all judgments are highly subjective.

Before, Xia Shou wouldn't have had any problem even if he came from a book, but now, considering everything... there's a big problem. You felt that too, didn't you?
The Natsume we summoned to this world has a completely different life experience from the Natsume you originally knew.

You can think of it this way: Xia Shou is dreaming right now, and the Xia Shou you're meeting is the Xia Shou from his dream, but the Xia Shou you're actually in contact with is the Xia Shou he was at eighteen years old.

"You mean the original Xia Shou was a fake?!" Su Yue exclaimed anxiously.

Modis quickly waved his hand in denial: "No, no, no, it's not fake. In fact, you could say that Xia Shou back then was the real one, because he wasn't just here in spirit like he is now; his physical body also existed in reality."

The man in the book now seems more like he's dreaming.

Of course, in his dream, he would naturally feel that the life in the dream was real, and he would regard all of us as people he had met in a dream before.

Modis scratched his head again, spreading his hands in frustration: "But here's the problem: Xia Shou can use that novel to arbitrarily alter his past, even completely altering the past that was destroyed by Vero!"

what does this mean?
You might only think that he will be able to return to his original healthy state, but in the eyes of the Council of Scepters, it is not just that.

Xia Shou's past can be altered by external forces.

Today, we can erase the harm he suffered in the past and modify and influence his entire life. Can't others do the same?

It might be a bit troublesome, but it's not impossible, because we don't own the complete set of this book; we only have a portion of it!

This is like a cyclical history with multiple exits. We only control one, and while we can change history, so can others. That's the biggest risk!

If he were just an ordinary person, it wouldn't matter, but we all know this kid is incredibly strong, especially after this incident… Everyone knows he's far more dangerous than we imagined.”

"No way," Su Yue said, at a loss. "The past won't change, will it?"

"The past will not change, but the physical condition of the person involved and their perception of the past will change."

Did Vero really bite Natsumori when he was a child? Of course not!

Everyone knows that Vero attacked Xia Shou recently, and the reason Xia Shou became like that is because individual time always exists in the present. In other words, there is a kind of time that has no past or future, just like a book. When we turn to the end, we see the ending of the character, and at the beginning, we see the beginning of the character.

Does that mean if we finish reading the book today and then turn back from the last page to the first page, we can reverse time in reality?
Silly girl, don't you still remember him? This means the past hasn't truly changed; it's just that your perception and material state have undergone logically consistent changes based on the concept of 'time'!

She understood what Mordis meant and felt a little relieved.

However, the biggest problem remained unresolved: the Council of the Scepter's apprehension towards Xia Shou.

"Doctor, what do you think the council will do?"

“Who knows? That witch didn’t reveal everything. I don’t think the secrets of ‘The Fall of the Stars’ are as simple as she makes them out to be,” Mordis said. “I’m going back now. You stay here and watch over him. I’ll come back tonight!”

(End of this chapter)