Chapter 187: The Unemployed (2)
After her discussion with the Hero Association’s chairman, Regalia returned to the headquarters of Evilus Corporation and immediately set out to verify the truth behind his claims using the company’s intelligence network.
The news that other corporations had secretly withdrawn their sponsorships without her knowledge was unsettling. How could such a thing happen, given that nearly all the world’s information flowed into her grasp? After only a few searches, she found the answer.
“So that’s it—there’s simply too much information.”
Evilus Corporation’s intelligence network, powered by the Evilus Agent system, was the most advanced in the world. It gathered not just data but also unstructured information. Anything captured by the camera of a smartphone would eventually find its way to Evilus.
For anything this network couldn’t access, the corporation had Six, its top spy. There was not a single piece of classified information that Six had failed to retrieve—no matter how tightly guarded.
Effectively, Evilus Corporation had access to all the world’s knowledge. Within the corporation, even trivial secrets—such as the hobby of a stern, middle-aged actor who secretly enjoyed cross-dressing and being whipped—were hardly a mystery.
Everyone knew Evilus Corporation was a repository of the world’s information. And therein lay the problem.
“They made me filter it myself.”
It was an obvious truth: no single person could read through all that information. If someone attempted to sift through everything Evilus Corporation received, it would take decades. By the time they were done, the data would be too outdated to hold any value.
New information was constantly being generated—daily, weekly, monthly—in massive volumes.
Even Regalia, with all her access, could only process a fraction of the data. The information she received was filtered, prioritized, and condensed to include only the most critical matters requiring her immediate attention.
And so, other corporations had hidden their withdrawal of sponsorships by creating larger, more pressing events to overshadow it. More precisely, they had ensured that the information never made its way to her.