Most of the members in the Broken Star Club were poor frontline workers.
Many of them had told Meng Chao about their troubles.
They said that the good positions in the various units in Dragon City, regardless of whether it was the businesses or the departments under the Survival Committee, were all occupied by the rich.
The "good positions" were not necessarily management positions that looked impressive on the surface, but they were relatively easy jobs that allowed them to produce results easily.
The rich had a lot of connections and all sorts of resources. They could complete their jobs within the limited working hours, and the rest of their time could be used to cultivate. Their units would also provide a lot of subsidies and opportunities for them to cultivate.
The poor children who had no power or influence could only work hard in their units. Most of their jobs were tedious, tiring, repetitive, and not easy to quantify.
Their normal working hours were from eight in the morning to eight at night, and they had to work overtime every few days. It was normal for them to work through the night.
The result of working long hours was that they did not have any private time to cultivate.
The path of cultivation was like rowing a boat against the current. If they did not move forward, they would fall behind. If they had to work overtime every day, how could they maintain their cultivation realm?
Hence, at the end of the year, the rich children brought out beautiful work reports, cultivated to a brand new realm, mastered more divine arts and killing moves, and obtained all sorts of certificates. They might even use their spare time to hunt monsters in the wild under the protection of the powerful fighters in their families and obtain all sorts of medals from the Supernatural Tower.
But the poor children had worked hard for a year, and they spent most of it working through the night. Forget about increasing their cultivation realms, it was difficult for them to even maintain a healthy body. Their bodies were crushed by the heavy workload, and they could not support themselves when they went to the wild to kill monsters.
When the two were compared, it was obvious who was the best employee of the year and who should get a raise and a promotion.
This was not a problem of a single industry or a single department.
Instead, it was a problem that all poor children in all industries faced.
From the chaotic era when zombies and monsters ran amok and social order collapsed to the new era where order was orderly and the people lived in peace, it was a huge improvement.
However, the era of heroes in the wilderness taking advantage of the wind and the down-and-out youngsters seizing the opportunity to ascend to the heavens in a single bound was gone forever.
The broken-star superhumans even told Meng Chao a joke.
"Can the children of Heaven Realm superhumans become Deity Realm superhumans?
"How is this possible? The Immortal State Experts have their own children! "
Of course, the joke was absurd.
However, the mentality of a portion of the poor disciples could be seen.
If he joined Blue Home, he might not be able to change his current situation, but at the very least, he could make jokes and gather together to vent the pressure from life, work, and cultivation. It would make his mood a little better.
Aside from the middle-grade and low-grade superhumans who came from poor backgrounds, many of the middle-grade and high-grade superhumans who had some achievements and even a small number of Deity Realm superhumans became very interested in Blue Home.
Logically speaking, Deity Realm experts already stood at the peak of Dragon City, and there was no need for them to mingle with the poor.
However, as his cultivation level increased, the resources he consumed for his daily cultivation also increased exponentially.
Every single God Realm expert was a gold swallowing beast, a combustion machine that consumed an enormous amount of resources at all times.
It was impossible to gather enough resources to maintain one's cultivation level just by relying on one's own strength, not to mention breaking through to a higher cultivation level.
If they had to rely on themselves, they would be like the behemoths of the animal kingdom. Apart from foraging and digesting, they could do nothing else.
They had to build their own forces of power and rely on the power of their followers to obtain enough resources.
But with the nine great mega corporations and cultivation families hiding, suppressing, and monopolizing them, building a brand new force of power was definitely not as easy as reaching Deity Realm.
The nine great mega corporations offered olive branches to the powerful fighters who had recently risen to power in hopes that through recruitment, marriage, and other methods, the new powerful fighters would be brought into the nine great mega corporations' system.
Some of the powerful fighters who did not have a strong foundation had to choose to submit to the nine great mega corporations. They obtained the nine great mega corporations' channels to gather resources, integrate them, and distribute them. They solved their cultivation problems, but they also lost their independence forever.
Most of the powerful fighters chose not to submit to them.
… Those who were able to cultivate to the Godly Realm were all people with unwavering willpower, extraordinary wisdom, and untamed.
They risked their lives to reach Deity Realm and broke through the limits of their lives because they wanted to stand above all things and not be manipulated by any laws or forces of power.
If they still had to submit to the nine great mega corporations after reaching Deity Realm, wouldn't they have cultivated for nothing?
The powerful fighters who had recently risen to power had a deep conflict with the powerful fighters of the older generation who had intimidated Dragon City before the Survival Committee was formed.
The greatest conflict was the question of whether the older generation elites should continue spending a large amount of resources to maintain their supernatural abilities after they became old and battered.
The powerful fighters of the older generation who controlled the nine great mega corporations and Battle God Lei Zongchao were the pioneers in the field of spirit energy cultivation.
They were the first to awaken to supernatural abilities.
They were also the first to try out all sorts of amazing martial arts, divine abilities, and secret techniques. They built the modern cultivation system and fended off the savage attacks on human civilization from zombies, monsters, and lost people.
But decades of trial and error and crazily draining themselves had severely damaged the bodies and souls of the powerful fighters of the older generation.
The powerful fighters of the older generation were like ancient machines that had been overloaded for decades and were destroyed by the flames of war. They were riddled with holes, but they were also incredibly complicated and precise.
Forget about repairing them.
The daily operation of these ancient machines required an astronomical amount of maintenance fees.
Of course, the powerful fighters of the older generation had plenty of money.
The businesses and families under them also had the ability to fork out a lot of resources to maintain the flames of their lives.
But the powerful fighters of the new generation felt that this was a huge waste.
The powerful fighters of the new generation grew up on the shoulders of the powerful fighters of the older generation.
They moved forward with their heads held high on the path the older generation opened up and mastered more scientific cultivation methods. Hence, they made fewer mistakes and suffered fewer hardships.
Compared to the old fighters who were riddled with wounds, they undoubtedly had more potential to reach higher realms.
"No one can deny the contributions the old fighters made to Dragon City, but the old fighters who are riddled with wounds use up an astronomical amount of resources every day. They can only maintain their current cultivation realm and can't reach higher realms. Isn't this a waste?"
"If the resources the old fighters used up for nothing were given to the new generation of superhumans, perhaps more Heaven Realm and Deity Realm superhumans would have appeared in Dragon City a long time ago."
"The seniors worked hard and contributed a lot. It's time for them to retire and enjoy their lives. It won't be too much for them to enjoy all sorts of glory and treatment, but crystals, superbeast flesh, and all sorts of treasures are strategic resources that belong to all of humanity. Shouldn't we distribute and use them more carefully?"
"Many of the old fighters are almost one hundred years old, but they still have to take in a lot of cultivation resources every day. I don't see them surpass Deity Realm, and they rarely come out to fight monsters. Is there any meaning to using up so many resources?
"If we give these resources to the youngsters in their prime or the superhumans who are at the peak of Earth Realm or Heaven Realm and are just one step away from reaching a breakthrough, wouldn't it be a better choice for Dragon City and even human civilization?"
"In the current Dragon City, wasting resources is a crime!"
This sort of statement was a little ungrateful.
But to a certain extent, it was a cruel truth.
Aside from the powerful fighters of the new generation who did not belong to the nine great cultivation families, there were also plenty of civil officials and researchers who joined Blue Home.
The brutal war over the past half a century had caused all Dragon City citizens to revere martial arts. It was an iron-blooded society where the strong were respected.
Even among the superhumans, the four fighting occupations — martial artists, heroic spirit users, machine masters, and monster controllers — were valued above all else.
But in modern civilization, they could not just rely on their fists to speak.
If they wanted to conquer the Other World, they could not rely on their fists, weapons, guns, and steel army to succeed.
Many superhumans were not very developed in terms of their basic science research and the bureaucratic system that ensured the efficient operation of the city. They could not kill monsters that were at the level of Nightmarish Beasts or above, but their powerful deductions, calculations, management, and research abilities also contributed greatly to the flames of civilization.
Unfortunately, under the current system, their contributions were easily underestimated or even ignored.
Their statuses were also not as high as the fearless Gods of War who fought against peerless beasts in the wild.
If they did not change the current system and recklessly launched the Colonization War, they could already imagine that the statuses of the martial artists would become higher, while the statuses and strength of the civil officials and researchers would plummet.
"It doesn't matter how our statuses and treatment are, but if human civilization turns into a barbaric civilization that only knows how to use its fists, it will undoubtedly be a very sad thing."
Many of the civil officials and researchers joined Blue Home with this philosophy in mind.
The two politicians Meng Chao got to know recently chose to support Blue Home because of this sort of background.
Aside from the four types of people.
There was another type of member in Blue Home that Meng Chao did not expect.
They were the members of the nine great cultivation families.
Yes, on the surface, they had all the advantages under the current system in Dragon City.
But they also had their own troubles.
Their brothers and sisters … seemed to have too many of them.
This was a historical problem left behind by the lawless, dark era.
Let's go back thirty to forty years. Under the siege of viruses, zombies, and monsters, Dragon City was in tatters, and the flames of human civilization swayed. It was truly the apocalypse.
In the lawless apocalypse, the peerless superhumans who awakened to supernatural abilities occupied most of the resources, including reproductive resources. This was something that was only natural.
Humans who had just come into contact with spirit energy did not know how to use meditation, sitting stances, and all sorts of cultivation methods to limit the effects of spirit energy on their minds, hormones, and organs.
Once they were affected by spirit energy, the emotions and desires of the powerful were magnified endlessly. They longed to pass down their genes and spread them.
The title of the previous chapter should have been 1 + 1 Is Greater than 2, but for some reason, it was garbled. Since it was just a title, I could not change it. Please forgive me!
Also, the summer break was about to end, and Young Cow was about to go to school. Old Cow could finally catch his breath and write with all his might. He threw flowers to celebrate. ROAR! ROAR!
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