Meng Chao was dumbfounded for a long time before he said, "There are people who believe in such a ridiculous rumor?"
"Of course not, but you know that when the fog descended, a lot of monsters skilled in mind attacks appeared, and a lot of the citizens' mental strength indexes collapsed."
Xiao Fanghua looked like she wanted to say something, but she hesitated. "Besides …"
Meng Chao frowned. "Besides what?"
"Besides, the homeless citizens see superhumans living in high-end residential areas with tight defenses and luxurious decorations. They see their children staying in tents and cultivating to the point of coughing up blood, while the children of cultivation families go to aristocratic schools and enjoy the best education. They see themselves holding their severed limbs and moaning in pain on the camp beds, while the superhumans can split mountains and ride on clouds. They see themselves surviving on the cheapest canned food and recycled water every day, while the superhumans with connections can hoard and earn a lot of money. They even see their wives selling their bodies to the superhumans to fight for a better life for their family."
Xiao Fanghua sighed softly. "In despair, resignation, and anger, it's not surprising that they believe in such ridiculous rumors.
"Besides, this rumor isn't the most ridiculous."
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath. "There are even more ridiculous rumors?"
"There are."
Xiao Fanghua smiled and said, "There are rumors that when the superhumans march into the depths of the Other World, they will abandon Dragon City and all the normal people."
Meng Chao was stunned for a long time. "How is that possible?"
"Why is it impossible? Superhumans aren't the parents of normal people. Why do they have to be tied to normal people? It's just that everyone has the title of Earthling, but we've transmigrated for more than half a century. Who knows whether we can return to Earth while we're still alive. The meaning of being an Earthling is becoming fainter and fainter, right?
"The rumors say that in the eyes of superhumans, normal people are clumsy and aren't of help, but a burden. If superhumans want to conquer the Other World, there's no need for them to bring normal people along. They can just use modified biochemical beasts or automated runic symbol machines to form an army that will obey them.
"Of course, the current biochemical modification technology and runic symbol machinery technology are still imperfect. This kind of 'unmanned army' might not be able to win against an army made up of ordinary people, but they have one advantage. They are cheap and of high quality-price ratio!
"If we use an army made of normal people, once we run into casualties, we'll have to face the problem of rewards and compensation. Right now, we're just defending Dragon City, and the resources we use for rewards and compensation every year is enough to crush Dragon City's budget. In the future, we'll have to use an army of normal people to conquer the Other World civilizations that are ten thousand kilometers away. It was not worth it at all.
"The rumors also say that even if there are native intelligent lifeforms in the Other World, they are definitely at the stage of a tribe with an incredibly low level of civilization. The superhumans use their great fighting strength, their elusiveness, and their agility to become the gods of the native tribes." With the status of a god, they can enjoy all the benefits in the Other World. Is there a need for them to bring along normal people and share the benefits of the Other World with them?
"It's just like this time. We gained full victory in the northern offense, and we managed to dig out a lot of resources from under Shattered Starlake, Graveyard Forest, and Raging Waves, but did any of those resources end up in the hands of normal people? In the end, they were snatched away by the superhumans in the name of cultivating and protecting Dragon City. What was left for the normal people was the rage of monsters seeking revenge.
"Let's use the northern offense as an example. Even if the superhumans really conquer the Other World one day, it has nothing to do with the normal people. After all, we're never on the same side. Even when we first transmigrated to this world, we had to work together for warmth, but we can't share our wealth!"
Meng Chao cast Xiao Fanghua a deep glance.
The baby-faced Ms. Xiao looked at him with a smile.
Meng Chao never knew that Xiao Fanghua's words could be so sharp. As expected of a teacher.
When he thought about it carefully, he found that the rumors were the same as Lin Chuan and Gao Ye's opinions. In fact, they were even more bewitching and destructive.
The question now was who was the one who made up these rumors.
Was it Xiao Fanghua's husband, Zhao Feixuan, one of the ten great lost people in Dragon City in the future?
"Big Sis Xiao, you sure know about these rumors," Meng Chao said.
Xiao Fanghua said, "The school I work in is a normal middle school in the old city area. During the fog's descent, it was also attacked by monsters. Its defense line was nearly destroyed, but the citizens used their bodies to block it. During that battle, we suffered a lot of casualties, so the citizens are full of complaints about the current situation. I can't pretend that I don't hear it even if I want to.
"The adults are fine, but the innocent children sometimes ask questions that I really don't know how to answer," Xiao Fanghua said.
"For example, what kind of questions?"
"There's a very pretty girl in the class I teach. She used to have good grades, but after the fog descended, her grades plummeted. She also became absent-minded, as if she became a different person," Xiao Fanghua said.
Xiao Fanghua said. "I called her to my office and asked her what was going on in private. She had a good relationship with me, so she couldn't help but tell me. Her parents were fighting at home and wanted to divorce, and the reason for the divorce was because her mother had an affair with a superhuman.
"The girl said that when her mother fought with her father, she scolded her father for being useless. He said that he was just a normal person who couldn't even protect his family when the monsters invaded. Marrying a normal person like that was really bad luck.
"The girl asked me, 'Ms. Xiao, is it really bad luck to marry a normal person?'
"The girl asked me, 'Ms. Xiao, aren't superhumans supposed to protect normal people?' Why did the superhuman bully my mother? '
"The girl asked me, 'Ms. Xiao, didn't the Supernatural Tower forbid superhumans from bullying normal people?' If anyone dared to bully a normal person, the adjudicator court would immediately capture them. 'Why didn't the adjudicator court capture the superhuman who bullied my mother?'
"I can't answer any of those three questions," Meng Chao said after a moment of silence.
"The adjudicator court only cares about superhumans breaking the law and committing crimes. No one seems to care about their messy private lives."
"That's right."
Xiao Fanghua smiled. Her tone was still as gentle as ever, but the words she said were bone-chilling. "After the fog descended, a lot of the parents in the classes I taught got divorced. Most of the wives think that as normal people, their husbands can't protect them, and they can't earn a lot of money. They can't exchange for a lot of cultivation resources, and they can't help their children find a way out. So, it's better for them to ride on the coattails of superhumans. They don't need any status. As long as the superhumans give them some leftovers, it'll be enough for them to live a better life than before.
"In this sort of situation, the abandoned husbands are willing to be bewitched by the rumors. They can't do anything about it, right?"
"What about you, Big Sis Xiao?"
Meng Chao looked at Xiao Fanghua seriously. "Do you believe in these rumors?"
Xiao Fanghua looked down. She did not answer him directly. Instead, she asked, "Meng Chao, do you know what I admire the most about you?"
Meng Chao shook his head and said, "There's nothing to admire about me. I'm just a normal superhuman."
"What I admire the most about you isn't how you built the Broken Star Club or how you developed the Ultimate Style, but your performance during the national college examination," Xiao Fanghua said sincerely.
"Ninth High School is just a key high school in the region, and you're just a normal class student there. It's really not easy for you to get into Agricultural University's martial arts course as one of the top one hundred students in the city and even come out on top during the admission test for the martial arts course.
"Others might not understand you, but as your teacher, I know just how much you've sacrificed for these results.
"Many people treat your results as a miracle, but unfortunately, miracles are things that can't be replicated. They're also incredibly rare.
"As Dragon City's system is perfected, the spirit energy and cultivation system continue evolving, and the prices of cultivation resources are becoming higher. It's becoming harder for poor people to stand out.
"The school I teach in is far inferior to your alma mater, Ninth High School. It's just the most normal high school.
"But ten years ago, when I just started working, there were more than ten top students from normal middle schools who managed to get into key high schools every year. Among the top students who graduated in the past, there were always a few who awakened to supernatural abilities and returned to their alma mater in glory to report the good news.
"But over the past two years, there have been fewer of them.
"Two years ago, there were twenty-five students who managed to get into key high schools. The year before that, there were seventeen. Last year, there were nine. This year, we were attacked by the fog, and many of the students' families were affected. Their results might have become even worse.
"That's strange. I might not dare to say that I'm an ace lecturer, but I've been working for ten years, and my teaching experience has increased, right? Why is it that the success rate of the children I teach is decreasing? "
Xiao Fanghua cradled her stomach and stared at Meng Chao with sparkling eyes.
"Meng Chao, it doesn't matter whether I believe these rumors or not."
She continued speaking softly. "If a normal school like ours, which serves the citizens at the bottom of society, can have dozens of students get into the key schools of a higher level every year, and three to five superhumans appear among the children who get into the school. I believe that all the parents will see hope, and no matter how exaggerated the rumors are, no one will believe them.
"But if a school like ours continues to decline, slowly, we won't even be able to produce a single superhuman. In fact, when the parents learn from the first day they send their children to school that their children will never become superhumans, aside from the rumors, what else can they believe?
"Just now, you said something to Li Jue's father, and I agree with it. In the future, the Other World will definitely be a world of superhumans.
"But I wonder how normal people should survive in the world of superhumans."
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