Meng Chao sucked in a sharp breath. "Could it be …"
"That's right. It's exactly what you're thinking."
Ye Xiaoxing brought out the second photo.
It was a picture of more than one thousand young men surrounding a burning fire.
Amidst the flames, there was actually a young and beautiful woman tied up!
Even if it was just a photo, Meng Chao could see indescribable pain on the woman's twisted face.
Meng Chao was shocked. "What are they doing? Why are they using such cruel methods to kill their own kind?"
"They're judging witches," Ye Xiaoxing said.
Meng Chao could not believe it. "Who's a witch?"
"All women are witches," Ye Xiaoxing said.
Meng Chao was dumbfounded for a long time. He could not understand it. "How could this be?"
"The Dragon City search and rescue team discovered Dragon King Town four years ago, but since their civilization had become completely different from ours, the search and rescue team did not come into contact with them recklessly. Instead, they lurked in the dark and observed them for a year. They thought of a way to get a lot of diaries, wills, selfies, videos, and other information left behind by the Dragon King Town residents during the early days of the transmigration. From thousands of clues, they finally managed to piece together the full picture of Dragon King Town during the fifty years of transmigration," Ye Xiaoxing said.
"At the moment Dragon King Town transmigrated, due to the push from the space-time ripples, it was far away from Dragon City's main city area. It transmigrated to a corner of the mountain range, so the residents didn't know that tens of millions of their compatriots had transmigrated with them. They thought that only tens of thousands of people in the town had encountered misfortune.
"During the first few years, Dragon King Town relied on its own strength to survive.
"When we transmigrated, the space-time ripples turned into fog walls that blocked the fierce monsters outside.
"Even though the viruses in the Other World have attacked Earthlings' immune systems and created some zombies, Dragon King Town is very lucky. They didn't run into a large-scale plague. The few zombies were soon reduced to mincemeat by the humans' tight organization.
"I mentioned just now that there are a few machine processing factories in Dragon King Town. There are also a few schools specializing in machines and civil engineering. This means that the citizens won't have much of a problem when it comes to weapon processing and fortress construction. Before the fog disappears and the monsters invade, we can turn Dragon King Town into a fighting fortress surrounded by iron walls.
"The problem lies within.
"There are too few people who can reproduce.
"From the wills left behind by the Dragon King Town residents, they were filled with despair and believed that they would never be able to return to Earth. They didn't even realize that they had transmigrated to a new and vast land. They thought that they would forever be trapped in a small, fog-shrouded town.
"And the number of women who are of the right age is so small that even if Dragon King Town as a whole continues to exist, as individuals, most of the townspeople will not be able to pass on their genes.
"Women of suitable age have become an extremely scarce resource.
"Surrounding this scarce resource, the hot-blooded young men quickly split into different factions. They fought and killed each other.
"Over the past few years, when zombies and monsters aren't a major threat, nearly half of the young men in Dragon King Town died in the hands of their own kind.
"Of course, apart from the opposite sex, clean drinking water, food, and all kinds of machinery and raw materials that can be used to create weapons are all scarce resources.
"You can also say that the fog-shrouded Dragon King Town can't satisfy the needs of nearly one hundred thousand young men. Only by killing each other can the population be reduced by half. Only then can this system be maintained.
"After years of internal strife, Dragon King Town formed five powerful forces of power with schools and factories as units. They are similar to the gangs that were formed spontaneously in Dragon City during the bloody and dark era.
"As for the women of suitable age who are scarce resources, some of them died in the fights between the gangs. Some of them were unwilling to accept a tragic fate and ended their own lives. Only a handful of them survived.
"Because of that, the fundamental problem of the continuation of civilization was not solved.
"And during the internal strife, which was akin to raising poisonous insects, an incredibly terrifying Gu King was born. She was a woman who could toy with men like a toy.
"We don't have a lot of information about this woman. We only know that the Dragon King Town residents later called her the most evil witch.
"But based on what we know, in the beginning, this witch only wanted to protect her sisters.
"In any case, she used her natural charm to deal with the leaders of the five great gangs and made them fall head over heels for her.
"She also used some very extreme methods, such as working together with all the women of suitable age to monopolize the reproductive resources so that she could obtain more power and a higher status.
"Even though the men had an absolute advantage in terms of numbers and had great fighting strength, if there were no women to give birth to their children, Dragon King Town would be destroyed before long.
"Just like that, this witch ingeniously used the conflict between the five gangs to stir up internal strife in Dragon King Town again.
"During the second internal strife, the number of young and strong men was reduced by half. Two of the five gangs were completely destroyed, and many of the losers were chased out of Dragon King Town. They disappeared into the depths of the fog.
"This witch also seized the highest authority for a short period of time, causing Dragon King Town to enter a new stage that was similar to a matriarchal society.
"The women of suitable age who survived seemed to have welcomed the most beautiful spring in their lives.
"Their statuses were above everyone else. They could choose tall, handsome, gentle, considerate, and strong men as their partners. They could also use the reason that they wanted to give birth to their children to occupy the richest resources. They could also give the cruelest punishment to the men who were lewd, ugly, and unattractive.
"Unfortunately, the women who enjoyed the treatment of queens forgot to think about a problem in their short dreams."
"What problem?" Meng Chao asked.
Ye Xiaoxing sighed and said, "Compared to handsome and gentle gentlemen, there are too many men with mediocre appearances and wretched personalities.
"When they realized that their genes would never be passed down and that they would never be able to hold the hand of the opposite sex, the lewd men who made up the majority in Dragon King Town launched the third internal strife.
"After the first two internal strife, the humanity of the citizens in Dragon King Town was completely destroyed.
"Their brains were invaded by androgens, and their brains turned into mush that smelled like fish. The lewd men launched indiscriminate attacks and treated all women as witches. They treated the handsome men raised by the witches as wizards, and they treated the witches and wizards as the culprits behind the three internal strife in Dragon King Town. In the end, they killed all the witches and wizards.
"Women are trouble. Even if only one woman was left alive, the internal strife in Dragon King Town would never be quelled!
"This was the slogan the lewd men shouted at that time."
"…" Meng Chao said hesitantly.
"But if that's the case, Dragon King Town will have no future," Meng Chao said hesitantly.
"That's right. The frenzied passion faded away. When the survivors saw the devastated Dragon King Town and all the people of the same sex, they regained their rationality and realized that they had personally cut off their future. But at that moment, the fog at the perimeter of Dragon King Town dissipated a little, and all sorts of monsters and etherealized plants appeared one after another, bringing with them a new danger," Ye Xiaoxing said.
"Originally, Dragon King Town would never have been able to last. Even if they managed to fend off a few waves of monsters, without descendants, humans would lose their basic motivation to survive.
"Fortunately, the Divine Tree appeared," Meng Chao said.
Meng Chao asked, "What's the Divine Wood?"
"It's a unique plant. Or rather, it's something between a plant and a fungus. It's a brand new life form that has never been seen on Earth."
Ye Xiaoxing pointed at the towering tree that covered half of the town in the first photo. "This isn't the true appearance of the Divine Tree. It's a parasite on a banyan tree, and it modified the banyan tree's genes. The Divine Tree's true form should be something similar to moss or mushrooms.
"That's right. This strange life form seems to have really advanced genetic modification abilities. It can even … help humans pass down their genes."
As he spoke, Ye Xiaoxing slowly revealed the third photo.
In this photo, Meng Chao saw that the branches of the towering tree were filled with fruits. The branches were bent to the ground, and quite a number of humans were harvesting the fruits by the branches.
These humans were different from the people in the second photo who were trying the witches.
Most of them were not wearing clothes. They only had a simple loincloth wrapped around their crotches.
Their skin was an abnormal shade of green, as if there was a thin layer of moss growing on them.
Their upper limbs were longer and thicker than a normal person's. Their lower limbs might be short, but their toes were really developed.
They were like gibbon. They relied on their arms to jump from branch to branch, so they could let their toes handle many of the delicate tasks.
However, what shocked Meng Chao the most were the things they "harvested".
They were cocoons that were as thin as cicada wings and covered in blood capillaries.
No, they were not fruits or cocoons.
Because in the fourth photo, Meng Chao saw them carefully cutting open the cocoons and taking out … babies!
"H-How is this possible?!" Meng Chao cried out in surprise.
Even in the memory fragments of his previous life, he had never seen such a strange scene.
"Now, you should understand why we can't publicize the situation in Dragon King Town, right?"
Ye Xiaoxing said. "Over the past half a century, Dragon King Town's citizens seemed to have formed … a symbiotic relationship with these strange creatures of the Other World to continue their genes and civilization.
"The Divine Tree helped them continue their genes and extracted resources from underground. It also grew branches that were as sturdy as metal, and they became raw materials for creating machines and weapons.
"Dragon King Town's citizens served as the hunters and guardians of the Divine Tree. They filled up the Divine Tree's lack of mobility and attack power. They hunted more monsters for it and turned them into its food to speed up its growth.
"Up to now, Dragon King Town's citizens and the Divine Tree have a very close and good working relationship. You can say that the humans in Dragon King Town and the Other World creatures have fused together to form … a brand new civilization.
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