Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Welt Yang's suffering intensified. He simply couldn't understand why the people in America would go to such lengths.

He knew the situation in America hadn't been good for a while, especially after 2010, when it had been getting worse and worse. The number of homeless people on the streets was increasing.

Regardless of whether they could fight the Honkai, they certainly couldn't save the proletarians on the streets.

Even with the Honkai, there were still brothers who would go on shooting sprees in kindergartens, emptying an entire AP-15 magazine in one go. Wouldn't it be even more dangerous now without the Honkai?

Welt now increasingly missed the days with the Honkai. At least then, he didn't have to worry about how to prevent the situation in North America from deteriorating. When the Honkai was around, he only needed to give an order to mobilize numerous financial resources to fill the massive pit that was the Honkai.

Thinking about it, it was also thanks to the Honkai that more people could concentrate their efforts on dealing with disasters like the Honkai. The surplus productivity was also consumed by the great task of dealing with the Honkai, which in turn gave rise to more industrial production units.

Welt figured out the situation and believed that they couldn't completely abandon these industrial units just yet.

But it was also obvious that the Honkai had been temporarily suppressed. The American government had personally experienced what the world was like without the Honkai and would no longer allow Anti-Entropy to bleed them dry.

Not to mention, Welt's position was now in great conflict with that of the American government.

Welt felt that he was enduring humiliation under the future man, fighting for the future of humanity, just to preserve the few literary, artistic, and aesthetic creations of the old era. At the same time, he could also continue to make progress in the fight against the Honkai.

But in the eyes of the Americans, Welt, the sovereign of Anti-Entropy, was a complete traitor. Not only did he take Anti-Entropy's researchers and defect to Academy City, but he also colluded with Schicksal and even became a leader in Academy City's real power structure.

He was holding numerous anti-Honkai technologies, eating delicacies, enjoying the high welfare and medical care of Academy City, and screwing around with Sakura girls in the Far East, having such a good time that he was completely unwilling to come back.

It wasn't that all the money America had invested in Anti-Entropy had gone down the drain, but it was a heavy loss nonetheless. And so, in the hearts of many of America's upper echelon, Welt Yang was a pure, unadulterated traitor!

If America hadn't known that they couldn't beat Anti-Entropy, that they had accidentally nurtured a powerful military organization, they would probably have already launched a tactical strike.

Back when Schicksal and Anti-Entropy were fighting to the death, the governments of the world watched this terrible thing happen, but they were all sitting on their hands, unable to do anything. The hatred of the various governments at that time erupted along with all sorts of social contradictions after the Honkai tide receded.

Welt naturally knew that the Honkai had not disappeared, but the American government didn't, or perhaps, even if they did, they had gradually forgotten about it. It had been a whole year without any Honkai incidents on the North American continent. Such a stable world state was unimaginable before.

If Noldrei hadn't stirred things up, the still-shaken government leaders might have stayed quiet for ten or twenty years. But once Noldrei made his move, these shrewd people easily figured out what was going on.

Schicksal and Anti-Entropy must have mastered a way to use Honkai Energy stably. The Honkai Energy weapons they were officially manufacturing wouldn't harm themselves. They could even stabilize the power of Herrschers and make them work for them.

In fact, the American government's guess was correct.

From the moment the SELENE was fully built, Anti-Entropy had in fact surpassed ninety-nine percent of the world's national government organizations.

It's unclear whether Welt himself had ever had similar thoughts. He may have also realized the crisis of "there cannot be two suns in the sky, nor two masters on the land" over North America.

Welt was not in a good state. He hid in his residence, leaving all the work to Einstein and Schrodinger. Sometimes he would also teach some students, doing his best to let these students take over the work of Anti-Entropy.

But just as Welt was looking for suitable candidates to expand Anti-Entropy's reserve talent, he found that he had started too late.

"Most of the people have already joined the United Student Council. Our research institute, aside from the specialized talents we recruit, all the practical talents have been... integrated by the United Student Council." Shirogane Miyuki truthfully informed Professor Yang of the specific situation. He had only thought that Professor Yang simply wanted to recruit more talent after Academy City opened up.

Welt had taken the exceptionally outstanding young man, Shirogane Miyuki, under his wing. After observing him for a full year, he had confirmed that he was a very talented young man.

When it came to judging people, Welt didn't just believe in raw ability. He was more concerned with whether a person had the willpower to persevere for a long time and the moral character to endure loneliness.

The one he had observed the longest was this young man, Shirogane Miyuki.

"I see. It seems it's no longer possible to find suitable people from the current batch of students." Welt pushed up his glasses, figuring that Otto wouldn't easily let him have the next batch of students either.

As the saying goes, one step behind leads to being behind every step. It was absolutely impossible to catch up to the number of people in the United Student Council now. Since that was the case, they could only focus on quality.

"But, Professor... even if we can recruit the next batch of people, they will still end up transferring to the United Student Council later." Shirogane Miyuki knew very well that even students in the research institute would participate in United Student Council activities. This was a result of the reason for the United Student Council's establishment; they were an organization that existed to protect the interests of the students.

By helping the students, the United Student Council had gained control over many school affairs and had a hand in the campus management of many schools.

Welt naturally knew about these things, but he had no intention of competing on the same track.

"Of course I know that, but our goal is not to fight for the right to manage the students. Since Academy City has just opened up, it hasn't yet touched on the matter of future student management. We can get a head start and intervene in these matters. The students recruited by the research institute are only a small part. Most of the students will still have to do what they're supposed to do when they graduate."

"So what we want is not the management of students' current lives, but the choice of their future studies. Only then can we snatch more talent from the United Student Council."

After clearing his head, Welt knew what he had to do now. He shouldn't get entangled in the current management problems. What he had to offer was definitely no more than what Noldrei could give.

After much thought, Welt decided to follow the path of his predecessors: If I can't beat you now, can't I beat you in the future?

He planned to learn from the future man while at the same time modifying the content passed down by the future man, adding his own understanding for re-education.

Welt Yang shall fight the future!!