Monsters Die When Killed

May 24, 2016, 2:19 AM.

High above Zhengguo Hong City.

Su Zhou hovered beneath the clouds, gazing down at the modern city. Even in the dead of night, it glittered with countless lights, a place that would never know true silence.

At that moment, Su Zhou was holding his dedicated Security Bureau phone, scrolling through photos of wanted criminals and dangerous Cultivators.

’There are quite a few dangerous individuals in the south. Most of them are around the border, so there are basically none here in Hongcheng, but I still can’t let my guard down.’

Su Zhou flicked through the photos and descriptions at a blinding speed. A normal person would have only seen a blur of color on the screen, but for Su Zhou, it was more than enough time to commit every detail to memory.

Ten years ago, Zhengguo had already networked all information on wanted criminals and other dangerous individuals into a big data system, accessible to Patrols and other relevant personnel across the country. As long as they dared to show their faces in a major city, under the gaze of official cameras, their capture was inevitable.

But in the last two years, with the advent of the Spiritual Energy Revival, new challenges had emerged. While the Zhengguo Government had once again reinforced its nationwide surveillance network, there were now more and more ways for people to change their appearance—even swapping faces completely with no side effects. Special Transcendents had even appeared who could directly interfere with electronic signals using their powers.

Surveillance and counter-surveillance—a high-stakes game played across cyberspace—had become the primary battleground between criminals and the authorities in the Spiritual Energy Era.

’Looks like I’ll have to ask the Security Bureau for an official terminal next time. That thing connects directly to their database. With my clearance level, I could access a lot more information.’

Having finished his preparations, Su Zhou put his phone away and looked down, his gaze fixed on the sprawling city of Hongcheng below.

Unlike a regular Patrol officer,

he didn’t need to go to such trouble to find wanted criminals and dangerous individuals.

From his position two thousand meters in the air, Su Zhou activated the Divine Techniques of the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord. A bluish-purple Spiritual Light ignited in the depths of his eyes as he scanned the entire city.

When he activated the Divine Techniques of the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord, Su Zhou could perceive the amount of evil thoughts clinging to his enemies. This allowed him to judge what kind of person they were and even get a faint sense of what they had done to be afflicted with the aura of a Curse.

Su Zhou had previously used this ability to distinguish friend from foe, but on second thought, it wasn’t actually very effective for that purpose. The Evil-Devouring Demon Lord’s power essentially only detected the aura of a Curse. Not all of his enemies were bloodthirsty Demons. If someone hadn’t committed any truly evil deeds, Su Zhou wouldn’t be able to see anything at all.

On the other hand, if an enemy really *was* a bloodthirsty Demon cursed by countless people, he wouldn’t even need the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord’s power to make a judgment. More importantly, he could lock onto them from a great distance. No matter where they ran or how deep they hid—even if they burrowed into a hole in the ground—the aura of the Curse, clinging to them like a festering wound, would guide Su Zhou right to them.

And since advancing to the Commander level, Su Zhou felt his Divine Techniques had grown stronger, and his detection range had increased dramatically. If he flew high enough, he could scan the entire city in no time.

’Hmm, everyone seems pretty decent.’

A Dark Shadow in the night sky, Su Zhou silently manipulated the Gale with his Gale Shield, hurtling through the air. In his eyes, the entirety of Hongcheng appeared as a dense field of ’green names.’ Only a few spots were slightly darker, but it was nothing to worry about.

In truth, even ordinary people carried a little resentment. An average employee might be disliked by their colleagues, grumbled about by their spouse, or even be the target of a child’s fleeting resentment after a scolding. As for managers, if they were strict and unfeeling, or just had a nasty personality, they were even more likely to be secretly hated by their subordinates, eventually becoming shrouded in a Curse.

The news occasionally reported stories of company executives being killed by their employees. In Su Zhou’s eyes, that level of resentment and mutual loathing was already extremely dangerous—enough to dim a person’s light.

Of course, the fact that such incidents made the news meant they were rare. As Su Zhou saw it, the vast majority of people either had no resentment on them at all, or just a tiny bit—the equivalent of not flushing a public toilet or cutting in line. Both actions were certainly enough to provoke intense disgust from others.

’Huh. Now that I think about it, doesn’t that mean my Evil-Devouring Demon Lord’s Divine Techniques are basically a kind of reputation system?’

As he patrolled the city, a strange thought popped into Su Zhou’s head. His mind filled with a very light-novel-esque title, something like *’I Can See Reputation Levels!’* But the thought quickly scattered to the wind.

Now, however, Su Zhou’s mind turned to a different question: what would happen if he could share this ability to see resentment with everyone? What if every person in the world could see the resentment they held for each other?

’A lot of conflicts and disputes probably start simply because someone says something, unaware that it’s earned another’s dislike. They don’t realize it, the other person doesn’t say anything, and over time, that resentment builds until it erupts into conflict.’

’But what if people could know immediately when they misspeak? If they could realize they’d done something wrong and caused someone to dislike them? If everyone could clearly understand the consequences of their actions on others, and in turn, change and respect one another... wouldn’t the world become a better place?’

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