The Cockroach-like Girl Is My Beast

Chapter 770 - 521: Emergency Mission, The Secret of the Nation’s Territory (3)

Vishdair and Lisa were also taken aback, not expecting to hear such a distant term.

Back during the joint exam, they, along with Lin Guang, engaged in a final showdown with the geniuses of the three major families in a small Demon Qi Secret Realm.

"Yes, exactly."

"Usually, the Demon Qi Secret Realms used for trials at various places come about this way."

"The Plague Division can already use secret techniques to roughly detect the fall locations of these polluted secret realms well in advance."

Vishdair stroked his chin: "So... if we take the task, do we have to go to all these places?"

Jing Ning shook her head and suddenly spat out a word.

"No."

She reached out and tapped gently on the map.

In the southwest direction of Great Xia, a red dot on the border of a country called "Great Yue Country" was instantly enlarged.

"This time there’s only this one task target, the others don’t need to be bothered with."

"...?"

Jing Ning glanced at Lin Guang, her voice calm: "Great Xia is only responsible for observation and vigilance. In principle, these things are handled by the countries corresponding to their locations."

"As long as it’s not within Great Xia’s borders or approaching the national boundary, or resulting in something unmanageable like a Demon Race invasion, Great Xia generally won’t send someone to deal with it."

Lisa widened her eyes slightly, somewhat confused: "Why is this?"

All along, Great Xia seemed to occupy a peak position, putting out fires worldwide on Blue Star.

News often showed Great Xia’s experts going to other countries to eliminate invading Demon Race members.

But at this moment, Jing Ning said...

They can’t handle it casually?

Jing Ning seemed to know what Lisa was referring to and shook her head: "Great Xia will only take action when there is a ’Demon Race invasion’, otherwise they try to let other countries handle it themselves whenever possible."

"What we are doing now is already maintaining the highest efficiency under balance."

"You are now at the stage where you can understand this matter."

"Because essentially, handling these things for other countries is akin to drinking poison to quench thirst."

Jing Ning pondered for a moment: "What do you think is the reason for national divisions?"

She looked at the map she had projected: "Or rather, why do you feel... Great Xia’s territory is only Nine Provinces, and not Ten Provinces, Fourteen Provinces, Sixteen Provinces, or more?"

The map of Blue Star doesn’t show Great Xia’s territory as being particularly large.

But overall, it’s due to the smaller proportion of land occupied by human civilization on Blue Star; all countries on Blue Star combined occupy less than a third of Blue Star, and they are quite dispersed.

In other words, territory isn’t that scarce on Blue Star, in fact, it’s quite abundant.

This question is rather peculiar; I fear that the vast majority of Great Xia people have never thought about it.

However, after slightly furrowing his brows, Lin Guang quickly spoke:

"Because the population isn’t enough to sustain a larger territory."

Jing Ning showed a slightly surprised expression, but she quickly nodded: "That’s right, Great Xia’s population is just over ten billion."

"Sounds like a lot."

"But actually... from a practical standpoint, it’s still too little."

The girls exchanged perplexed glances.

—— Ten billion, and that’s still too little?

In their past time in Terra World, a mobile city with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people was already a lot.

Yet Lin Guang firmly nodded in agreement.

The reason he could perceive this was because he wasn’t purely a Blue Star resident.

In his previous life, Earth had a population of about eight billion, similar to Great Xia.

Yet how much bigger is just Great Xia’s territory compared to that Earth-sized planet?

A hundred times? A thousand times? Or even far more?

If this world truly had a creator, it would seem like a malicious being closing its eyes and smashing zeros.

If you compare to other worlds, even without considering the disparity between worlds, Blue Star’s suppression of power systems, Great Xia could be considered a powerful civilization with many habitable planets.

But... governance ultimately requires a population.

It’s been only a little over five hundred years since the Great Cataclysm, so how could the population grow so much?

Now, Great Xia can manage and govern such vast national resources, thanks to the Star Track system laid across the territory, and the continuous emergence of powerful figures.

However, the surroundings of each city reveal that overall it’s exceedingly sparse, with thousands of miles of wilderness, resources of Spirit Beasts and Spiritual Materials are indeed abundant, but the population density is appallingly low.

"The total population represents the limit of the Spirit Master civilization."

"Each person’s born Sea of Spirit and Talent don’t appear out of nowhere."

"If too much population grows in a short period, the average level of talent will decline."

Jing Ning raised her head, looking toward the ceiling, but her gaze clearly wasn’t focused on the luxurious chandelier, but as if seeing through the sky, gazing toward the Outer Battlefield.

She spoke words that were somewhat obscure and hard to understand.

"And the Outer Battlefield has its own [Rules], the mapping relationship with Blue Star’s native countries relates to territory size, population, strength, fate, and even the elusive [National Consciousness], [Collective Human Consciousness]."

"The eventual result, from Great Xia’s perspective, indirect intervention is fine, but the more directly they intervene in other nations, the more Demon Race attacks and defense burdens the other side would have to bear."

"This relates to the concept of [Rule], and the merging of [Great Xia Consciousness] with other national consciousness."

"Great Xia’s population is insufficient, energy is limited, it can’t directly govern those countries, the more we assist, the more likely their future situation becomes unmanageable, not only harming them but possibly dragging Great Xia itself into the mire, constantly fighting fires."

"Furthermore, Great Xia already has heavy responsibilities to shoulder."

"Therefore, the support that can be given to other countries is limited."