Hei Deng Xia Huo
Chapter 360 Greenhouse
Old Dorothy’s aged, gaunt face instantly turned liver-colored.
Li Ang didn’t actually have such twisted tastes as to make the green-clad old woman serve the lumberjack Frederick long-term as a maid.
Even if the lumberjack had some unknown fetish and was willing to accept it,
Old Dorothy probably wouldn’t abandon her dignity as a spellcaster.
Li Ang said this only to prevent the forest witch from running away. A spellcaster who deeply understood the many secrets of the mystical side of this world could help players quickly obtain information.
Old Dorothy really wanted to abandon the Forest Children members present and run away alone. In any case, the Forest Children’s souls were her own. As long as she could escape, she could recruit another group of followers anytime, anywhere.
Unfortunately, several players had already surrounded her from all directions. As soon as the witch made a move, they would directly attack and blast her into smithereens.
Helpless, the forest witch had no choice but to raise her hands in surrender, allowing the group to crush her shoulders and tie each of her fingers with something like a rope (actually nylon zip ties).
Afterward, Li Ang chatted with the paper mill owner, Carpenter Hornburg, explained his identity, and expressed his desire to escort the Forest Children to Antimony Town.
As the local tyrant of Antimony Town, Carpenter Hornburg had just witnessed the Eastern monk’s ferocious and violent side, and his children had been saved by him (although the method of rescue was a bit strange), so how could he possibly disagree?
Next, the paper mill’s lumberjacks, under Hornburg’s command, restrained all the Forest Children who had given up resisting, tied them with hemp rope, and escorted them out of the forest onto the road.
At this time, the other search and rescue teams dispatched by Antimony Town also came to rendezvous. Li Ang asked Bob to go back and call the coachman. Taking advantage of this time, Carpenter Hornburg hurriedly asked the Eastern monk how to completely cure his two children.
When spellcasters awakened, there was a certain probability that their temperament would change drastically. This change was not only psychological but also physiological.
Even the Runeland government had no good way to cure those spellcasters with antisocial tendencies, and could only assign them to special departments, as secret military forces, and accept close supervision by other spellcasters.
In more serious cases, they would be given magic potions to destroy their abilities, locked up in mental hospitals for research, or directly executed.
Even without special abilities, spellcasters with severe antisocial tendencies would commit appalling crimes.
As the father of two children, Carpenter Hornburg could not accept his children committing serious crimes and being imprisoned, or continuing to exist as weapons without normal personalities.
“Venerable Monk, do you have a way to save them?”
Carpenter Hornburg said quite humbly, “As long as I can save them, I’m willing to pay any price.”
“Well...”
Li Ang thought for a moment and said casually, “The magic potions cannot be stopped. Let them continue to take the magic potions until they lose their special abilities.
After that, I suggest using the correct methods to guide their passion for protecting the ecological environment.”
Carpenter Hornburg was stunned when he heard this. “Guide? How to guide?”
Li Ang smiled and said, “Just like what the newspapers say, Her Majesty the Queen has long proposed to pay attention to ecological environmental protection and construction work, and in recent years, the major kingdoms have also admitted that global warming is indeed happening.
You can completely let these two children use a peaceful and healthy way to call on people to protect the ecological environment.”
“Ah?”
Carpenter Hornburg subconsciously said, “Does that mean letting them go to the desert area, personally work, plant trees, plant poplar euphratica, turn barren sandy land into green water and green mountains, and prevent soil erosion and desertification?
Wouldn’t that be too hard?”
“How is that possible?”
Li Ang glared his eyes, “Going to plant poplar euphratica trees in person, and using the efforts of several generations to prevent desertification, only those real environmental fighters would do that.
They are just children! And do you think they can persevere?
Of course, we have to take some gentle approaches.”
Carpenter Hornburg asked, “For example?”
Li Ang said with a smile, “I saw in the newspaper that major kingdoms have established basic education schools in recent years. These two children usually attend the noble school in the town, right?
In this way, after they lose their extraordinary abilities, you let them strike from school, drop out of school, and set an example to call on the teenagers of the major kingdoms not to go to school every Friday to force adults to pay attention to climate issues and the greenhouse effect.”
Carpenter Hornburg’s eyes widened, “Is this useful?”
“Of course it’s useful,”
Li Ang said, “You spend some money to contact several large newspapers and package them as a new generation of environmental fighters. When their reputation is accumulated enough, send them to the capital of the Rune Kingdom and let them hold sit-ins and hunger strikes.
Teenagers these days are very mindless and will be instigated all at once.
Students from major kingdoms will collectively strike from school. Won’t this reputation be immediately established?
At that time, you don’t have to spend money, and some people who want to use environmental protection as a political achievement will naturally come up. You can discuss it and continue to make things happen.
For example, let these two children insist on being vegetarians, promote the Earth Hour movement to turn off kerosene lamps around the world, cross the ocean in a carbon-free sailboat, and cycle around the kingdom on a carbon-free bicycle. The entire process will be published in newspapers.
At that time, these two children will become well-known figures in major kingdoms, enter and exit high-end places, meet dignitaries and nobles, and always talk about energy conservation and emission reduction, and their minds are full of the dangers of the greenhouse effect.
If they are lucky, they can also receive kingdom medals and be awarded peace prizes.
In this way, are you still afraid that their energy cannot be vented and they will commit crimes?”
Carpenter Hornburg was dumbfounded after hearing these words, “But, but these have nothing to do with real environmental protection...”
“Publicity, do you understand publicity?”
Li Ang pointed out earnestly, “To deceive others, you must first deceive yourself.
The main gases that cause the greenhouse effect are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and ozone.
Among them, uncontrollable water vapor accounts for the largest proportion, carbon dioxide ranks second, and methane ranks third. Although the carbon dioxide targeted by the major kingdoms’ environmental protection campaigns ranks second, methane’s ability to capture heat is more than twenty times that of the former, which is much more powerful than carbon dioxide.
The carbon emissions of the major kingdoms combined are not as good as the methane released by all cows farting, which can capture more heat.
Moreover, even if all kingdoms strictly implement energy conservation and emission reduction, scientifically speaking, it can only reduce the world’s average temperature by less than 0.2 degrees Celsius in the next few decades, which is completely useless.
Moreover, the global climate is actually a huge and complex system. Even if the Rune Kingdom’s smartest climatologist is dragged over, he probably can’t guarantee how much the greenhouse effect is related to humans, and that energy conservation and emission reduction will definitely alleviate the greenhouse effect.
Since even climate experts and the major kingdoms themselves can’t figure it out, are you still worried that these two children will one day figure out that they have been doing useless work all their lives?”
After hearing these words, Carpenter Hornburg’s eyes lit up, and he looked at the two children who were lying unconscious on the roadside stones, his eyes full of hope.