Mystery: The arrival of the new Black Emperor

After bidding farewell to Loretta, Hobert took the carriage to the workhouse again and told Bob that the court date had been brought forward and asked him to prepare.

He then went to Leverage Church and approached Ikanser for support.

Hobert asked the servant of God in the church to send a message. After waiting for more than ten minutes, Captain Ikanser of the "Heart of Machinery" came out from a door inside the church.

His hair seems to have become a little fluffy again, possibly because he recently used the Arrodes Magic Mirror.

Hobert sighed in his heart: What a sin!

The two exchanged brief greetings and sat down in adjacent seats.

Hobert said: "The court date for Bob's case has suddenly been moved forward."

Captain Ikanser was stunned for a moment, then said angrily: "How can the legal system of the Kingdom of Loen allow such an operation?"

"That legal system is not designed to protect workers' rights." Hobert smiled: "Now I am very weak and need your help."

Ikanser was a little discouraged: "If we want to protect your personal safety or help you collect information, that's fine. But if we go against powerful people in the entire Loen Kingdom, we may be kicked out of Loen. .”

Hobert knew the bottom line of the Church of Steam and Mechanics: "Don't describe the contradiction so sharply. We are not against anyone, we are just asking for reasonable rights and interests."

He said: "I didn't ask you to do anything to irritate the Loen Kingdom. I just hope that your church can respect the facts and publicize this matter.

"No matter what the outcome of the trial is, I estimate that Arnold and others will use newspapers and other propaganda tools to try their best to discredit us. In that case, all my efforts will be in vain.

"And if this case is publicized with respect for the facts, then this type of case will have an example, and workers will know how to defend their rights and interests when encountering similar incidents."

Ikanser nodded: "That's no problem. I'll go to the archbishop to discuss this matter soon. I think he won't object."

Hobert looked at the church's emblem consisting of a gear and a triangle: "Captain Ikanser, what kind of era are we living in? Is it civilized or uncivilized?"

Captain Ikanser was stunned. Before he could answer, he saw Hobert approaching and stood up to leave.

After watching Hobert leave, Ikanser sat in the church for a long time. At present, it seems that the Kingdom of Loen has reached an unprecedented civilization, but why does the "unprecedented civilization" seem so fragile? So barbaric?

…

At about 5:30 in the evening, Hobert went to the banquet as scheduled.

The venue of this banquet was not at Arnold's home, but at the "Lun Kingdom Hotel", which was claimed to be the most luxurious hotel in the world.

The carriages that came here were basically aristocratic carriages with family crests, and the last ones were exquisite private carriages. The taxi carriage Hobert was riding in was particularly conspicuous here, and even the doorman wondered if he had seen it wrong.

After getting off the carriage, Hobert saw the huge front yard of the hotel, with fountains, statues, trees, and a huge lawn.

Opening the door of the hotel is more like entering a museum. The furnishings in the hotel lobby are all works of art, and the murals on the walls and roofs are exquisite.

Hobert looked at everything in front of him coldly, all of which were the other party's demonstrations to him.

The butler who invited Hobert before is already waiting in the lobby: "Mr. Hobert, please come this way."

Under the guidance of the butler, Hobert came to a huge restaurant. There was a long dining table in the center of the restaurant that could seat dozens of people.

There were already more than twenty people sitting on the side by the window. Some of them were fat, some had calculations in their eyes, some looked at Hobert indifferently, and some had smiles on their faces.

On the side near the door, only one chair was prepared for Hobert, as if to give Hobert a psychological hint: You are only one person.

Hobert smiled and said: "There is a tradition in the Kingdom of Loen. The more distinguished guests are, the later they arrive. But you guys arrived first. It's too polite."

After saying that, he hung the windbreaker on the clothes rack with a calm expression, then pulled out his own stool, and sat down opposite more than 20 people with a calm expression.

The confidence shown by Hobert actually made Arnold and others who had prepared carefully feel at a loss.

The middle-aged man sitting opposite Hobert smiled and said, "Let me introduce myself. I am Gusta, the president of the Backlund Chamber of Commerce."

"Hello."

"I have heard of such a theory by Emperor Russell." Gusta said: "Nature follows the law of survival of the fittest. All weak and out-of-time animals will be eliminated, and all powerful animals will get better results. Reproduce, become more and more adapted to nature, and the group becomes stronger."

He smiled and said: "Mr. Hobert, the human world also follows the same rules. Some people should be eliminated if they are weak, and some people should be better developed if they are strong. In the end, only those strong people will be left in the human world. .

"The human civilization at that time will become more prosperous and powerful, because all the people who make up this civilization are powerful people."

"It is undeniable that Emperor Russell's theory can explain the evolution of most living things." Hobert smiled: "But are all of you sitting here beasts? Are we in a jungle?

Hobert spread his hands: "The reason why humans have established civilization, but curly baboons have not, is entirely because of the 'humanistic care' we have.

"We know how to care for our compatriots, help our compatriots, and then become stronger together. This is called civilization. The law of the jungle and the strong have no moral bottom line and can only push humanity to the edge of collapse.

“A society composed of only a few so-called elites must be falsely prosperous and powerful, because under this theory, without the so-called weak as a foil, the struggle of these so-called ‘elites’ will continue.

"They all think that they are the strong ones, and Mr. Gusta, your theory just now gives them the legal basis to attack each other without any bottom line.

"You call a society with fierce internal conflicts and no morality at all a 'civilized society'?"

The smile on Gusta's face disappeared and he stared at Hobert closely, like a poisonous snake staring at its prey.

Hobert looked back, his eyes full of teasing, which made Gusta a little bit unbearable, but in order to maintain his dignity, he was reluctant to get angry immediately.

At this time, a skinny middle-aged man next to Gusta said: "Mr. Hobert, do you know the latest medical discoveries?"

"Don't know much."

"Have you heard about a recent major anatomical discovery?"

"What discovery are you referring to?"

The skinny middle-aged man smiled and said: "Of course it is a new discovery of human head anatomy."

He said: "A university professor dissected the heads of people from the Southern Continent, the people from the Rhoside Islands, and the people from the Loen, and found that the brains of the people from the South Continent were significantly smaller than those from the Loen; and they found that the people from the Rhoside Islands had significantly more skull structures than the people from the Loen. A structure emerged, and the professor believed that the extra brain structure was the structure that the Rhoad Islanders liked to obey.

"People are different physiologically. Otherwise, why would there always be thieves and various criminals in Backlund's East Side, while residents of Queens and West Side never steal?"

Hobert smiled and said: "Sir, your theory is disguised as science, but it is completely an idealist argument.

"In other words, this is a theory invented by the Loen people in order to enslave the people of the Southern Continent and the Rhoside Islands with peace of mind."