Industrial Cthulhu doesn't believe in the end times.

Chapter 180 Six Major Guidelines and the New Consensus
No matter how well prepared, a conference of this scale often requires a lot of effort and time. Su Xun and his team have tried their best to avoid lengthy agendas based on a highly pragmatic principle, but the necessary procedures still cannot be omitted.

The first issue to enter the deliberation stage is legal reform.

This is inevitable, as the law is the cornerstone of social stability and the fundamental guarantee for the advancement of other reforms.

The issue of legal reform was discussed the least before the conference, not because it was unimportant, but because it was so important that there was almost no disagreement. Everyone knew that this reform was inevitable; the only question was how to reform it.

As for how to make specific changes, after Su Xun and others provided some suggestions, the majority of the work was handed over to many legal professionals.

This work began long ago, since it is impossible to draft so many regulations on the spot at the conference. What is presented at the conference is the result of the hard work of countless people over this period of time. The role of the conference is to recognize these results and give them legitimacy.

The legal reform discussion group submitted several draft proposals. In terms of institutional reform, it proposed the establishment of two units: the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs and the Extraordinary Person Investigation Tribunal. The former would be responsible for regulating the registration, identity verification, ability assessment, code of conduct, and various daily affairs of extraordinary persons, while the latter would mainly be responsible for investigating and punishing crimes committed by extraordinary persons.

Specifically, at the regulatory level, there are the "Code of Conduct for Extraordinary Individuals," the "Management Measures for Extraordinary Individuals," and most importantly, the "Law on the Rights and Responsibilities of Extraordinary Individuals."

In response, the representative of the law reform group stood up and gave a special explanation to the assembly.

"Secretary-General, Commander-in-Chief, and comrades."

His voice was clear and steady, with the logic characteristic of a legal professional. He had gray hair and a thin build, and among the group of extraordinary individuals, he appeared somewhat frail—he was an ordinary person with no extraordinary abilities.

However, under Su Xun's gaze, he calmly and steadily opened the document, and under the watchful eyes of a group of extraordinary individuals, he spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Stability is hard-won, order is the prerequisite for development, and extraordinary power is a double-edged sword, but also an important resource for the new era. The core of this law lies in balancing power and responsibility and clarifying boundaries."

"In terms of rights, this law will legally recognize that individuals with extraordinary abilities and contributions will enjoy priority and corresponding allowances in specific public service positions, high-risk occupations, and in responding to major public safety incidents."

"Therefore, we need to establish a 'gift for extraordinary individuals' and a dedicated medical security system to ensure that their abilities can sustainably serve society."

Put into words, it's just two short sentences, but it will legitimize many future changes worth imagining. Many extraordinary individuals present nodded slightly.

It is only right that medical care related to superhumans be separated. Although superhumans are strong, they often suffer from injuries that are more difficult to heal than those of ordinary people. Many injuries require specific superhuman resources to recover. At the fourth stage, this trend is not obvious yet, but it will become more obvious as you go higher.

He went on to say: "In terms of responsibility and constraints, any act that uses supernatural abilities to infringe upon citizens' personal safety, property safety, or basic freedoms, or to disrupt public safety, social order, or critical infrastructure is strictly prohibited."

"Therefore, we need to establish an independent investigation court for 'supernatural crimes,' with sentencing standards significantly higher than those for ordinary crimes. At the same time, we need to establish a 'registration and reporting system for the use of abilities,' requiring prior application and filing for the use of abilities involving public areas or potentially having a wide-ranging impact." As a fairly basic law, the basic idea of ​​the Law on the Rights and Responsibilities of Supernatural Persons is actually quite simple, and its advocacy and requirements are relatively broad, after all, the law itself is only the bottom line of morality.

Even so, it still made some civilian superhumans frown slightly, especially his last point: if the use of abilities in public areas also needs to be restricted, then it is likely that they will be subject to stricter restrictions when entering places like base cities.

However, the representative did not stop speaking, but continued to report on the many details derived from these two basic ideas.

For example, the allowances for extraordinary individuals include spiritual energy crystals that greatly help them advance in their cultivation, and there are also targeted adjustments to the taxes related to extraordinary individuals.

Organizations like the Hunter's Guild and individuals who legally operate and serve society by utilizing their own capabilities, such as participating in major infrastructure construction or maintaining transportation lines, will receive policy support such as tax reductions and exemptions and streamlined approval processes from various military units and base cities. In the future, when the economic system is re-established, preferential loan policies may also be provided.

For those who obtain exceptionally high benefits through extraordinary abilities, a higher tax rate will be levied to guide them to indirectly give back to society.

Essentially, every provision of this law revolves around guiding values. Under this guidance, even for extraordinary individuals, the highest value of their extraordinary abilities is still to serve the public and society.

After all, the labor of ordinary people is the value creation that drives the formation and development of society, while extraordinary individuals, based on their extraordinary abilities, can more effectively and directly influence the world. In essence, it is still labor, and it still has the same characteristics.

Finally, he concluded: "The purpose of this law is to protect legitimate rights and interests, severely punish illegal abuses, guide power towards good, and make extraordinary individuals an important force in safeguarding the new order. Report complete."

Regardless of whether individual extraordinary individuals have objections, the fact that this law has been proposed means that it has been accepted by the majority of people; otherwise, it would never have been possible for it to come into being.

For Su Xun and others, the issues that needed to be discussed had already been discussed. He, along with Feng Zhengze and other high-ranking members of the corps, formed a presidium that compiled many draft proposals and submitted them to all participants for a vote.

The vote was no surprise, and the first major reform direction confirmed by the summit is about to enter the implementation phase, with many laws to be piloted no later than the end of this year or New Year's Day of the following year.

In general, the management system for extraordinary individuals was ultimately summarized into six major principles, namely—

Rights are clearly defined, obligations are clearly defined, incentives are sufficient, constraints are strong, guidance is effective, and supervision is in place.

All of these together form the 'sheath' that Su Xun and others have meticulously crafted for the double-edged sword of the extraordinary. In the near future, these six major principles, along with most of the content of this meeting, will be summarized in a document, namely the so-called "New Fu Consensus".

Of course, that's all in the future. With the conclusion of the legal reform agenda, the meeting moved into the next phase, the second major agenda item being the reform of the education system.

(End of this chapter)