Takano's appearance was far from being considered "handsome" to begin with.
At that moment, he was gritting his teeth, and his expression was indescribably twisted.
"Do you still think that I'm worrying for nothing? That's because you don't know about the newest development in runic symbol machines and automatization."
He cast Meng Chao a deep glance with his single eye and continued. "Let's take the newest mining machine from our greatest competitor, Heavenly Works Machines. It's a huge machine that has dozens of functions such as drilling, tunneling, crushing, gathering, and fighting. It can also carry more than one hundred small unmanned excavators.
"Thanks to runic symbol machines and automatization, this mining machine only needs one machine master at the peak of Earth Realm to control it, and they can bring out the work efficiency of hundreds of skilled miners.
"Of course, due to the radiation from the crystal mines and the automatization technology not fully matured yet, this sort of runic symbol machine can't completely replace human miners.
"But if Heavenly Works Machines gets the deal for Subway No.20 and goes on to get more deals for the development of the northern frontlines, they'll have more profits to invest in research. One of these days, they'll develop a perfect machine whose work efficiency surpasses that of thousands of miners but only needs one superhuman to control it.
"At that time, what can the thousands of miners who will be replaced do?"
Meng Chao opened his mouth. Gao Ye's topic was too important. He sank into deep thought and could not answer for a period of time.
"This is what I mean. Times have changed," Gao Ye said coldly.
Gao Ye said coldly, "Even if the ruler of the old era owned a mine, he still needed tens of thousands of workers to work for him. He also needed mine protection teams, engineers, accountants, and various experts to supplement his lack of brain power. And no matter how loyal these people were to him on the surface, deep in their hearts, they definitely had their own thoughts and interests.
"Of course they could enslave and exploit the miners. They could even commit heinous crimes, but from another perspective, they couldn't do without the miners, their mine protection teams, engineers, and accountants. Their strength came from these people. Once they betrayed them, they were nothing.
"Hence, when the miners' rage gathered into a storm, they trembled and had to pay an extra price to suppress or placate the miners. In the end, they managed to reach a temporary balance.
"But in the new era we're welcoming, due to the infiltration of spirit energy and the stimulation of genes, 1% of the transmigrators have accelerated their evolution in just a short half a century. They've already evolved into … a brand new species that looks exactly the same as Earthlings on the surface, but is actually completely different.
"From then on, those in power no longer needed engineers, accountants, guards, or miners.
"With his extraordinary computing power, he was the best engineer and accountant.
"He, who can move mountains and drain seas, is an army all by himself.
"Using the highly developed Internet of All Things, automation, and runic symbol machinery technology, he can control thousands of mining robots with a single thought and replace the traditional miners.
"Do you understand? In this new era, those in power don't need to enslave ordinary people, because ordinary people don't even have the value of being enslaved.
"If those in power are cold and heartless, they might ignore ordinary people and let them fend for themselves.
"If the higher-ups still care about the friendship of fellow Earthlings in the past and are more benevolent and just, they might pay a small price to raise the ordinary people.
"In truth, Dragon City is like this today.
"Most of the superhumans cultivate and fight madly to continuously enrich themselves and improve themselves. They climb to the peak of their intelligence, stamina, wealth, and skills.
"More and more normal people don't have the chance to show off their skills, and they don't have the ability to catch up to the superhumans. They either stay at home all day and rely on the synthetic food made from earthworm meat given by the Survival Committee to survive, or do simple and boring jobs that might be replaced by runic symbol machines at any moment. They're mining, developing underground spaces, and repairing the cities destroyed by monsters.
"But as the superhumans' intelligence and strength continue increasing, runic symbol machines and automation technology will become more mature, and these days will eventually come to an end.
"When more superhumans reach Heaven Realm and Deity Realm, Dragon City's internet, superbrain, and runic symbol machine technology will be so advanced that they can project their powerful brainwaves to control more than one thousand unmanned aerial vehicles or thinking machines at the same time. At that time, what meaning will there be for normal people to exist in this civilization?"
"That's …" Meng Chao finally thought of something.
"At the very least, normal people can consume them. If there are no normal people, who are the superhumans going to sell the things they create with fully automated runic symbol machines?"
"No one," Gao Ye said.
"The people in power in the old era chased after profit, and they had the primitive urge to continuously expand the market. But to the people in power in the new era, there might be something more attractive than profit, and that's cultivation.
"The slogan of the Survival Committee is that normal people and superhumans are like fish and water. Neither of them can live without the other. Superhumans who don't have the support of normal people are like water without a source and trees without roots. That might be the case for middle-grade and low-grade superhumans.
"But is that really the case for Deity Realm superhumans and even the powerful people who have surpassed Deity Realm?
"Let's do an interesting thought experiment. Let's say that there's a powerful person who has surpassed Deity Realm. His brainwaves are so strong that they can cover the entire planet, and the planet is filled with unmanned aerial vehicles and automatic runic symbol machines that he controls. What value and meaning do normal people have to him?"
Meng Chao frowned and stared at Gao Ye. "Director Gao, I'm starting to think that you're a little extreme."
"Perhaps I'm being extreme, but it might also be that you don't dare to face such a brutal future," Gao Ye said.
"But regardless of whether you're willing to face it or not, the pace of evolution has never stopped. In fact, it's getting faster.
"You're also a superhuman. You should have experienced the incomparable pleasure of spirit energy flowing through your nerves and blood vessels. This pleasure is far more stimulating than the increase of wealth and the expansion of capital. It's enough to drive many superhumans to continue cultivating and climb to new heights.
"In the future, there will definitely be more Heaven Realm superhumans, Deity Realm superhumans, and even powerful people who have surpassed Deity Realm. The distance between them and normal people will also increase.
"Similarly, as long as runic symbol machines and automatic technology continue developing like it is right now, these cold machines will become smarter, more agile, and stronger. One day, they will replace 99% of normal people.
"We can't stop superhumans from cultivating. In fact, we have to continue cultivating ourselves.
"But we can stop the development of runic symbol machines and automatic technology. We can expose Heavenly Works Machines' evil scheme and stop them from working with other runic symbol machine companies to get more orders so that biochemical modification technology will become Dragon City's future. This is the only path.
"Fortunately, when Spirit Creation Creatures was about to suffer from an unjust accusation, you stepped forward and helped us find the key evidence. Your actions won't just save Spirit Creation Creatures, you might even change the future of the entire civilization," Gao Ye said seriously.
"I didn't think too much about it.
I just wanted to find the truth. "Meng Chao thought about it.
"Besides, Director Gao, aren't the Giant Sandworms and other biochemical beasts created with biochemical modification technology a type of machine made of flesh and blood that has a high degree of automation?
"Based on what you said, runic symbol machines might make normal people lose their positions in civilization, but aren't machines made of flesh and blood the same?
"If there's a mine that uses biochemical beasts to mine it, won't the miners lose their jobs?"
Gao Ye was stunned for a long time.
Then, he smiled wanly.
"That's right, Meng Chao. You're smart. In just a few minutes, you managed to point out the key that I've been thinking about for years.
"Perhaps it's the same. Runic symbol machine technology and biochemical modification technology are the same. We're living in an era of rapid evolution, and this so-called evolution means that we have to eliminate 99% of the people before we can send the lucky 1% to a higher throne.
"Alright, talking to you was very interesting. I hope that we can talk more in the future. But now, I have to send the test report to the related departments."
Gao Ye looked as if he was sending Meng Chao off.
A thought appeared in Meng Chao's head, and he asked, "Are you going to hand the test report to the authorities?"
"Of course. This key evidence is enough to prove Heavenly Works Machines' scheme. The earlier we send it out, the earlier we can capture the culprit," Gao Ye said calmly.
"Besides, since something so major happened, the higher-ups have long since started monitoring Spirit Creation Creatures. It's just that they seem relaxed on the outside, but they're actually very strict on the inside. On the surface, they didn't send anyone armed to guard this place.
"I reckon that the higher-ups already know about this. After all, a lot of people saw such a huge Giant Sandworm being dug out.
"I can't think of any reason for me to hide it. The sooner we end this, the sooner I won't have to be disturbed, and I can start my new research."
"Is that so?"
Meng Chao thought about it for a while and said, "Director Gao, the higher-ups you mentioned, is it a police officer named Shen Yupeng?"
Gao Ye was a little stunned. "You know each other? But he didn't say that he's a police officer. He only said that he came from the Supernatural Tower. "
"Got it."
Meng Chao nodded. "One last question, Director Gao. This is purely out of curiosity. You can just ask. Do you have any suspects in mind regarding the lab that created the mutated rabies?"
"That's …" Gao Ye shook his head slowly.
"How am I supposed to say this? Rabies isn't something that's difficult to create. Many of the biochemical labs have the ability in this area, such as the labs in many of the courses in Agricultural University, the labs in the monster coliseums, and so on. I can't say."
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