Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

Chapter 247 A Life of Dodging

"I heard Lin Xuan is back?"

Zhang Xiang put down his gaming helmet and looked at Luo Congmin beside him.

"Hmm, I think I've heard about it."

Luo Congmin seemed completely unconcerned about this, as if Lin Xuan's appearance was not a particularly important matter to her.

Since stepping down as president of the Earth Federation, she has been completely idle, staying at home playing games and not even bothering to leave the house.

Her parents were actually quite worried about her mental state, so they had Zhang Xiang go back to being a nanny, responsible for cooking for the girl every day.

Otherwise, she would be surviving on nutrient solution every day, just like those hibernators back then.

Indeed, Lin Xuan has been missing for almost decades. The last time I saw him, Luo Congmin was only over two hundred years old. Back then, with Lin Xuan as her powerful backer, she was incredibly comfortable as president.

As a result, after Lin Xuan disappeared, various problems of the Earth Alliance were immediately exposed.

First, there was the issue of food. To be honest, when Luo Congmin first heard about this issue, he found it somewhat abstract.

Before Liu Chang left Earth to join the expeditionary force, he had improved grain production to an exaggerated level. Even if he used all those rice ears as firewood every day, it would still be more than enough.

Even after so many years of the Earth Alliance, famine still occurred.

Luo Congmin checked the records in ancient books and found that the last recorded famine was during the great period of decline before the two major international powers came to power.

The solution... well, it was completely unreliable. At the time, Lin Xuan directly achieved godhood in the Battle of Luoyang, thus resolving the matter.

Therefore, Luo Congmin also realized that the so-called food problem was actually the result of corruption within the local government. So she tried to take action against the lower levels and wanted to carry out a thorough reform.

But sometimes, even good ideas can be incredibly difficult to implement.

When she was a child, her mother told her about the Hundred Days' Reform that took place several centuries ago, and which lasted less than 100 days before it was declared over.

When it came to her, her reform policies didn't even last a day before they were directly opposed by the ministers of the five ministries.

The original purpose of establishing the five departments of the Earth Alliance was to serve as a check and balance on each other, and at the same time, to strengthen the central authority of the president in critical moments.

Now, things have gotten worse. With Lin Xuan gone missing, all the trivial matters have fallen on her shoulders.

The five ministers are not fools. If they don't try to undermine Luo Congmin's power, then this woman will continue to hold the highest authority in the Earth Alliance.

Their rights as individuals were rendered meaningless.

Now is the perfect time for Lin Xuan to disappear. Compared to external struggles, the benefits of sharing internal power are far more tempting to them.

When the sky falls, someone taller will hold it up. Most people naively believe that even if Lin Xuan is gone, someone like Su Xuan or Li Xuan will step up. Besides, isn't there still a Swordholder alive?

So why are they worrying? At worst, if something really happens, we'll all die together. Anyway, apart from Luo Congmin, none of the high-ranking officials in the Earth Alliance are immortals. This world isn't theirs. A hundred years from now, we'll all be cremated, and who will even recognize who?

So in the end, the five ministers forced President Luo Congmin to abdicate. It's true that she was good at political struggles, but she was somewhat confused in this political struggle.

Is it really worthwhile for me to continue fighting against the ministers of the five ministries?

Even if I win the fight and successfully kill these five people, and a new minister of the five departments takes over, will he not have this kind of thought?

Obviously impossible!

"Where you stand determines where you stand." The rule that immortals were absolutely forbidden from serving as ministers of the five departments, which was originally set to avoid rigid thinking, has instead become a burden to the entire Earth Alliance.

Because they know that this world still belongs to the immortals, and has nothing to do with them.

So naturally, they're unwilling to put their heart into it.

"I still have to go see him, after all, he's your brother." Zhang Xiang said this only before getting up and going to the kitchen to cook.

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