The villain queen eavesdropped on my inner thoughts and won't let me lie down?

But it was also bloody, cruel, and ruthless!

The path of an emperor always leaves only one survivor; the rest are sacrifices.

Players called her Blood Mom because, in the late empire, she single-handedly swept away 100,000 troops of the Tianming Army, covered in blood, displaying unparalleled dominance.

But seeing the transformation of the little princess, which the game didn't have the space to show, even the eternal scholars were incredibly shocked.

What is killing 100,000 people?

Have you ever seen Blood Mom after her country was destroyed and her family perished, driven mad with killing?

Might ensures power, and dictatorship maintains dignity.

She didn't have time to distinguish between loyalty and treachery, good and evil, so she used the most decisive means to force everyone to submit to her.

At that time, Blood Mom's strength hadn't reached its peak in the game, and she had a group of old, weak, women, and children under her command, so she made up for it with bloody methods!

She was cruel to her enemies and showed no mercy to her own people!

Octavia Shelley used the most extreme iron-blooded methods and the most extreme concentration of feudal imperial power to forge the vast Green Vine Empire.

She embodied all the greatness, all the praise, and all the glory of the human empire.

But behind her were piles of white bones and rivers of blood.

By modern standards, she was an out-and-out war criminal.

She killed enemies, killed relatives, killed civilians of enemy countries, and even indirectly killed innocent Green Vine citizens.

But Roger didn't think she deserved to die.

At that time, the Green Vine Kingdom was already in the late stages of dynastic decline.

But if Blood Mom hadn't emerged, more Green Vine citizens would have become subjugated people, living a life worse than death.

Right and wrong?

Good and evil?

He was not worthy to say.

Even with the most authentic and comprehensive historical materials in front of him, he dared not comment on the merits and demerits of the Nightless Empress.

The Green Vine Empire has not yet perished; it is not yet time to draw a final conclusion.

On the contrary, after reading it, Roger admired how the Nightless Empress almost fell into darkness but was able to walk out without going mad.

She had power no less than that of a god but did not abuse it, but instead tried to use her kingly charm to lead the empire to true prosperity, exploring an imperial system that could be passed down.

Her level of governance and her attitude towards the common people were stronger than most rulers of this era, who only knew how to use violence and bloody suppression.

Originally, Roger was going to dig deep into the black material of the Manny City Incident, infuriate the Nightless Empress, and then resign and leave.

Later, he found that he didn't need to bother so much; the black material could fill a table by itself.

Of course, her achievements could fill an entire office.

The magic clock struck nine in the evening.

Roger and his subordinates initially reconstructed the historical panorama from the Manny City Incident to the defeat of the Wabryuga Kingdom.

He heavily uttered twelve words:

"Record truthfully, without additions or deletions, without commentary."

This was his editing plan.

A plan that five generations of historians dared not utter.

The simplest, and also the most difficult.

What a bold and reckless decision!

The historical consultants all thought that this Brando was crazy and was courting death.

But they didn't dissuade him because they liked this plan very much.

Although they knew that such an imperial history could not appear before the world, they had also worked hard.

This was their inherent obsession with scholarship.

As long as they could restore the true history as much as possible, what did it matter if they went crazy with this young historian?

Chapter 17: What Layer Is the System On?

After agreeing on the editing plan, Roger sent all the consultants home to rest.

This work couldn't be done in a day.

And he himself, as if he had used all his strength, sat in the office in a daze for ten minutes.

Blood Mom's path to rise, just reading the records, was also incredibly heavy.

Modern people who grew up in peaceful times found it a bit unacceptable.

But strangely, Roger's mood was rarely as calm as it had been since he transmigrated.

After locking the office door, Roger teleported back to the Duke's mansion.

Angelina was surprised that he came home late.

"I saw a very interesting book and unconsciously forgot the time."

Roger explained softly.

Angelina didn't ask much and hugged her younger brother.

She felt that her brother was a little different today.

That book should be more than just interesting.

But if he didn't want to say, she would wait until he wanted to say it.

After eating and washing up,

Roger lay in bed close to midnight.

He couldn't fall asleep for a long time, thinking about how to present that history truthfully and comprehensively.

Midnight.

"Ding, the Lying Flat System detected that the host's mood was stable yesterday, and obtained a random treasure chest, do you want to open it?"

"Ding, the Lying Flat System detected that the host entered a flow work state for the first time, and an additional random treasure chest is awarded, do you want to open it?"

Roger suddenly opened his eyes wide, so surprised that he sat up straight.

He was so busy yesterday, but it still met the lying flat standard?

This system...

Seems more interesting than he previously understood.

"Open."

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining advanced architectural design skills."

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the talent of Multiple Spellcasting (casting a spell once has a 20% chance of being equivalent to twice, a 10% chance of being equivalent to three times, and a 1% chance of being equivalent to five times)."

Roger looked at the two rewards that could be considered powerful and fell into thought.

He realized that his previous understanding of "lying flat" was too shallow.

The first meaning of lying flat is of course that I don't work hard anymore, I accept the status quo.

But does accepting the status quo mean doing nothing and living a void life?

He got a treasure chest when he slacked off and met the system standard.

But yesterday, he worked overtime to edit the imperial history, exhausted himself, and even thought about work before going to bed... but he also got a treasure chest?

There are also the keywords prompted by the system, flow work state.

Let's put flow aside, can you still work even when you're lying flat?

System, you are not right!

Roger originally felt that he had gradually figured out this system, but suddenly it became strange.

He really wanted to call the system out and translate what the hell "lying flat" meant.

But the system is not a field of vision, it is a cold goddess and ignores him.

Roger can only try to translate.

The word lying flat appeared in modern society.

The hell-level survival difficulty of big cities, the overload of work pressure, the impossible dream of buying a house and getting married, being frantically coerced into fighting but without upward channels...

So there emerged a lying flat tribe, similar to the low-desire life in Sakura Country, the NEETs in Great Britain, and the homeward bound tribe in Beautiful Country...

However, some people are passively lying flat, and some people choose actively.

If you can't stay in big cities, go back to your hometown, find a relaxed job, don't bother to consider love and marriage, just do what you like, and maintain a state of life that is good to live.

Sanhe God is lying flat.

Civil servants in small towns may also be lying flat.

Living one day is one day.

Easy and leisurely.

Indeed, drunkenly singing and wasting time is a kind of lying flat.

But thinking deeper, the key to lying flat should be not being coerced by secular success, but only doing what you agree with.

In such things, even if you put in more effort, it is still lying flat.

Roger suddenly felt that this system was philosophical.

"So my true heart actually likes to dig up the empress's black history?"

Roger smiled self-deprecatingly.

Of course, this is just a joke.

He knows that what he likes to do is to discover the truth and express and share it.

Then shock the melon-eating masses, secretly hide some private work for output, and gain recognition.

Didn't making videos at the beginning just because he had a different understanding of a game than others and wanted to gain recognition?

Later, he found that his videos were popular and could support himself.

Although it was full of uncertainty, he still gave up his job in the system and chose this difficult path of self-expression.

Very difficult.

Income is also not satisfactory.

I wanted to give up countless times during the bottleneck period.

There are many failed attempts.

Family and friends don't understand him either...

But he still persisted.

Just like playing games?

Heh, playing games for work, taking notes while going through the plot, playing so fast that I almost vomited, how much happiness can be left.

Editing the imperial history is not making videos, but there are similarities in different ways.

Isn't presenting the true face of Blood Mom after the Manny City Incident, which few people know, to the world also a kind of self-expression?

That is the embodiment of Roger's own view of history.

As for the original intention of offending the Nightless Empress and resigning, it was forgotten when he really started working.

"As long as you are doing a happy and authentic self, satisfying this point, even working hard meets the system's reward standards?"

Roger tried to deduce the system's original intention.

As for whether this inference is correct...