As for "we don't need to be tired or go through a lot of trouble to become superhumans. We just need to take Deification Capsules", that was an incredibly sinister lie.
After decades of development, the modern cultivation system had become a very scientific and comprehensive system.
Gene medicine, high-calorie nutritional fluid, spirit energy magnetic fields, all sorts of methods to meditate and stand still, as well as continuously refining his mind and will at the edge of life and death through bloody battles. All these aspects were equally important. There was no way a person could become a peerless fighter just by taking some medicine. No matter how powerful the medicine was, it would not work.
If one were to imagine extraordinary power as a speeding racecar, then one would be able to see it.
Fuel, the car's strength and design, and the driver's skills were all in one.
If a normal person took the Deification Capsule, it would be like a housewife driving an unmodified grocery cart with a lot of spirit energy in it and trying to race against a professional racer.
Because this kind of super fuel was really too powerful, in the first few times, on certain specific tracks, it was indeed possible for the supermarket car to race at a very crazy speed.
However, it was impossible to maintain this speed for long.
Even if there was an endless supply of super fuel, the supermarket cart itself was not strong enough. It could easily fall apart with the slightest bump.
Housewives, on the other hand, lacked the skills and spirit of professional racers, and it was impossible for them to drive a burning grocery cart forward for a long time.
In the end, the car would be destroyed and the passengers would die.
This was the conclusion the professional labs from the research department and adjudicator court came to after they analyzed the Deification Capsule.
If a normal person took Deification Capsules for a long period of time, even if they could replenish enough high-calorie nutritional fluid every time, their bones, muscles, nerves, and even cells would not be able to withstand the impact brought by the rampaging spirit energy.
Paralysis, mental disorder, organ failure, and even spontaneous combustion were the inevitable outcomes for long-term users of the Deification Capsule.
Using the Deification Capsule to increase his strength was the same as drinking poison to quench his thirst.
This kind of evil medicine was definitely not the hope of ordinary people. It was just a despicable trap that would bring endless despair.
However, as the saying went, "Once you open your mouth to spread rumors, you run your legs to refute them."
Meng Chao could convince his mother.
He could also spend a great deal of effort to convince his aunts and neighbors.
But it was impossible for him to use his glib tongue to completely sweep away the rumors on the Internet that were getting more and more intense.
At that moment, Qin Hu came to him and told him that some strange threads had appeared on the official website of the Broken Star Club.
The first post:
"I'm a broken-star superhuman, and I've always upheld the beliefs of superhumans. I fight to protect Dragon City and my comrades. Even if I'm heavily injured, my spirit meridians wither, my cultivation realm comes to a halt, and even if I end up suffering from all sorts of cultivation complications and sequelae, I don't care.
"I didn't expect that the so-called compatriots I've been protecting would stab me in the back last night. After they took the Deification Capsules, they robbed the company I built after more than ten years of hard work. Even the equipment that can't be moved was destroyed by them!
"It's over. My ten years of painstaking efforts are all gone!
"But today, when I went online to take a look, I saw a lot of normal people complaining about us superhumans not being able to protect them. They even said that we're going to abandon normal people and run out of the city to build a paradise for superhumans. This is too ungrateful! "
The second post:
"That's right. These normal people are greedy and don't know how to be grateful. They keep saying nonsense like 'with great power comes great responsibility.' It's as if we have awakened to supernatural abilities, so we have to serve them.
"You have to understand that superhumans already have a lot of responsibility. I'm a hunter in the wild, and every time I kill a monster, I have to hand over more than half of the monster flesh and blood to the Supernatural Tower so that the normal people in the city can eat them.
"But now, the government is working on the plan to remodel old residential areas and the three nutritious meals project. They need a lot of resources, so they can only force us superhumans to tighten our belts. The amount of monster flesh and blood we have to hand over has been reduced from half to two-thirds.
"Think about it. We risk our lives every day in the wild. We're really putting our lives on the line and dancing on blades and fangs. We kill monsters with our own hands, but we only get one-third of the resources.
"The normal people stay in the city comfortably and don't do anything, but they get two-thirds of the resources. They even complain about how the world is unfair and how superhumans are superior and only care about enjoying life. They even say that we're going to abandon them. Is that something a human should say? Is that really fair? "
The third thread.
[If I have to say it, you're all too stupid. The Supernatural Tower said that you have to hand over two-thirds, so did you really have to hand over two-thirds?
[Hmph. Superhumans protect normal people because it's their duty, not their duty. If normal people know how to be grateful, everything will be fine. But if it's like this, why do we have to send the monster resources back to the city?
[We might as well set up secret developing spots and underground black markets in the wild. We can kill monsters and eat them in the wild. If we can't eat them, we can bring them to the black market to exchange for cultivation resources. In any case, we should think of ways to increase our strength. That's what matters.
[The Supernatural Tower will hold us accountable? The law doesn't punish the masses. If all the superhumans do this, what can the Supernatural Tower do to us?
[As the saying goes, the emperor is far away from us. The situation in the wild has always been complicated, and the internet is often broken. If we hunt monsters in secret, eat them, and trade with them, no one will notice us.
[If we really don't have the courage to do this, at the very least, we can't fight so hard when we hunt monsters. We can cultivate and hunt in a relaxed manner. That should work, right? In any case, no matter how many monsters we hunt, if we send them back to the city, they'll just be fed to those ingrates. Why do we have to do this?!]
There were a few other similar posts.
Meng Chao frowned.
[These are posted by our members? That's too extreme!]
Meng Chao said. [The hostility on the internet has always been ten times greater than in the real world. How can we treat the rumors and noise on the internet seriously? In reality, most of the normal citizens respect and love superhumans a lot. For example, when I walk in the university right now, there are a lot of female university students who come up to me to ask for my autograph!]
[That's the problem,] Qin Hu said.
Qin Hu said. "Our official website uses real names, and each account corresponds to a broken-star superhuman's member number. I've checked it, and the accounts of the members who posted the threads were hacked yesterday. They didn't post the threads themselves." "That's right," Qin Hu said.
Meng Chao was stunned. [What?]
[It's true. These members are baffled as well. They swore that they didn't post these posts. Besides, their identities don't match the descriptions in the posts. Many of them aren't hunters and weren't robbed yesterday. There's no reason for them to post posts that are so provocative,] Qin Hu said.
[Right now, the technicians are investigating it, and they've already discovered some loopholes. In truth, when the Broken Star Club built their official website, they didn't think too much about it. They just used a template structure, and it's very easy for their accounts to be hacked.]
[So, someone's setting the pace?] Meng Chao came to a realization.
[That's right. Most of the members in the Broken Star Club come from poor families. Even if they moved out of the old residential areas a long time ago, many of their friends and family still live in the old residential areas. That's why everyone is very supportive of the project to upgrade the old residential areas. Even if they have to bear more responsibility, they don't have any complaints, and they won't post these sorts of posts,] Qin Hu said.
[I can tell at first glance that someone is setting the pace for these posts. They want to sow discord between normal people and superhumans.
[By the way, it's not just the official website of the Broken Star Club. I've also noticed signs of people manipulating public opinion on many of the forums and social media platforms outside.
[In truth, over the past half a year, the Survival Committee and the Supernatural Tower have been paying a lot of attention to improving the relationship between superhumans and normal people so that they can close the distance between them.
[It doesn't matter whether it's the slogan 'the blood of the strong flows for the weak', the renovation of the old residential areas, the three nutritious meals plan, the active participation of superhumans in voluntary work, and the promotion of model superhumans, they're all working hard to promote the unity of Dragon City.
[Even Lu Siya moved out of her mansion, sold her luxurious car, and drove a broken van all day to wander around the streets to help normal people.
[Regardless of whether she has other motives, at the very least, she did a lot of things and gained the favor of quite a number of normal citizens. Many of the citizens' evaluation of the rich people has also increased. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be so much noise and rumors popping up in one night.]
[Makes sense.]
Meng Chao rubbed his temples and felt a headache coming on. [Looks like a lot of the discordant voices on the internet are the monsters launching a new wave of public opinion against humans!]
Even if they knew this, it was still very difficult for them to fend against it.
Meng Chao told Lu Siya and Shen Yupeng his and Qin Hu's analysis.
The related departments of the research department and adjudicator court soon followed the clues and located quite a number of internet users.
But the people who spread the rumors and stirred up conflict were usually low-class citizens who lived in squatters and slums.
They had no power, no jobs, and no hope, so they were naturally not afraid of punishment.
Besides, they had only seen the rumors on the internet and reposted them. At most, they would add fuel to the fire. They were not the source of the rumors, so it was difficult for them to be considered as real crimes.
When some of the posters were discovered, they thought that they were speaking up on behalf of the large number of normal citizens. They were speaking up for justice and criticizing the superhumans' oppression of normal people.
In many of their mailboxes, they found special mail with swirl shading.
By the looks of it, they had been hypnotized by the Vortex and thought of themselves as some sort of spokesperson for the normal people.
As for the true source of the rumors, it was hidden in the depths of the deep web. Even if they used all sorts of data mining methods, it was difficult for them to locate it within a short period of time.
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