1419: Big Shot (1)

Big Shot (1)

The Wolf King looked at Meng Chao with a strange expression.1

"If 'the blood of the strong must flow for the weak,' what benefits does it have to be the strong? Why does everyone have to sharpen their brains to become strong? Why doesn't everyone just lie down and be weak so that they can enjoy the benefits brought about by the sacrifice of others?" the Wolf King asked.

Meng Chao blinked and coughed dryly before he fell silent.

"However, I seemingly heard similar words in my dreams," the Wolf King picked his ears and said disapprovingly.

"Just like in Picturesque Orchid Lake, the warriors would also say to the rat people, 'Use your swords and courage to wash away your lowly bloodline and defend the ancestral spirit's glory.'

"It doesn't matter whether the warriors sincerely believe that the rat people are also qualified to defend the ancestral spirit's glory.

"What's important is that this will make the rat people more docile and happy to die. They'll become better and more efficient cannon fodder, and that's enough.

"Dragon City is the same as Picturesque Orchid Lake, so there must be similar words."

"No, they're not the same."

Meng Chao frowned deeply. "Dragon City and Picturesque Orchid Lake are different."

"What's the difference?"

The Wolf King looked at him sideways. "Do you know, in that endless nightmare, the thing that I dislike the most about the Earthlings is that you are too pretentious, too self-righteous, and too hypocritical?

"You always think that you're smart, highly civilized, and very moral, as well as noble. In short, you're different from all the races living on this planet, especially the Turan orcs who are 'well-developed, simple-minded, and only know how to fight and prey on the weak.'

"Even though we had no choice but to form an alliance, most of the Earthlings still couldn't hide their... disdainful eyes when they saw the Turan orcs.

"We are all members of the Chaos faction, but you seemingly grasped some unique truth in the universe that can save people, even though in the end, you can't even save yourselves.

"However, when I was captured from Picturesque Orchid Lake to Dragon City in the nightmare of doom, I didn't feel any discomfort at all except for a little pain during the experiment and modulation.

"I learned the survival rules of Dragon City in a very short period of time, and I discovered something. Unsurprisingly, Dragon City's rules for survival were no different from those of Picturesque Orchid Lake.

"It's the same law of the jungle, the same natural selection, the same winner-takes-all, and they are all divided into 'nobles, warriors, rat people,' and other different classes. It's the nobles and warriors who shout all kinds of righteous and glorious slogans, waving flags such as 'glory for the ancestral spirits.' They use these flags to deceive the rat people at the bottom of the pyramid, driving and squeezing them to serve their own interests.

"Putting aside your skyscrapers and dazzling 'technology,' I really don't see any fundamental difference between Dragon City and Picturesque Orchid Lake.

"Aren't the so-called 'nine mega corporations' the 'five clans'? Isn't so-called 'advancing for Earth' the same as 'glory for the ancestral spirits'? Isn't the 'Red Dragon Army' the 'rat militia'?

"I don't know how different the details are between the future that you see and the future that I see. Perhaps, your future is slightly better?

"However, is Dragon City some perfect paradise in the future that you see? Was there nothing ugly, dark, and unfair there? Didn't the people cheat, exploit, and enslave? Didn't the strong get stronger and the winner take all?

"Could it be that in the future that you saw, Dragon City was not controlled by a very few ultimate powerhouses? Could it be that these ultimate powerhouses were not high and mighty, and were worlds apart from the ordinary people? Could it be that these ultimate powerhouses didn't have their own forces and interests? Could it be that their forces didn't monopolize the most resources and channels, didn't drive countless people to charge forward for them? After victory, they weren't the first to wave their knives and forks and take away the largest portion of the cake?

"Could it be that, in the future that you saw, the strong and the weak of Dragon City could really unite as one without any ill feelings and advance in the same direction in great strides? Could it be that the strong could really regard protecting the weak as their most important mission? When they needed to shed blood and sacrifice for the weak, they could step forward without even blinking, sacrificing themselves and also sacrificing the entire interest group that was attached to them?

"That can't be. The future you saw couldn't be so beautiful, right? You can't really believe that such a beautiful future could really happen, right?"

Meng Chao was rendered speechless by the Wolf King's series of sarcastic questions.

After a long silence, he sighed and said, "You're right. Even in the future that I saw, the nine mega corporations had not expanded into the future that you saw, and they were known as the behemoths of the nine great families.

"But in that future, Dragon City wasn't a perfect paradise on Earth. There were also a lot of dark, ugly, unfair, and unbearable things that weren't... fundamentally different from Picturesque Orchid Lake.

"Perhaps, because of this, neither Dragon City nor Picturesque Orchid Lake can unleash our civilizations' strongest hidden potential, thus leading to the arrival of the apocalypse.

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