"It's no wonder then. Our hospital gets a lot of special medicine from the outside world for free every year. Many of the special medicines are indeed useful and can at least temporarily relieve pain, but there are also some special medicines that come with powerful side effects and sequelae. They can even cause the patients to go through secondary mutations.
"Because the patients are already in critical condition, and even I can't cure them. I can only brace myself and try all sorts of methods. Even if medicine doesn't work, I can only resign myself to fate.
"So, the special medicine was sent in by the outside world for testing?"
"That's right. Decades ago, the old village chief reached an agreement with the mega corporations and the peerless fighters behind them through the gangs. The villagers would test the latest gene medicine and cultivation methods, and they would use the valuable test data to exchange for food, drinking water, and other necessities for survival," Wild Wolf said gravely.
"Ms. Mulian, don't blame your grandfather. He did it for the survival of all the villagers. If it weren't for the gene medicine and cultivation methods being tested, Leprosy Village wouldn't have been able to survive in that lawless era when order had collapsed. It was a world where the strong preyed on the weak, and it was a bloody and brutal world.
"Meng Chao, don't think that I'm lying. Just think about it carefully. Dragon City has transmigrated to the Other World for around half a century, but we've already built a perfect spirit energy cultivation system from nothing.
"Even if we have the help from the advanced technology excavated from the ancient ruins under the Supernatural Tower, if we don't go through repeated tests and continue perfecting it, the superhuman circle in Dragon City wouldn't be as prosperous as it is now."
"That's …"
Meng Chao gritted his teeth. "Wild Wolf, tell me, do the people who take the test know the truth?"
"They do, but they have no other choice," Wild Wolf said.
Wild Wolf said. "Indeed, the mega corporations didn't hide the truth behind the testing of cultivation methods and gene medicine, and they didn't force anyone to join their testing plans either. All the people who went through the testing signed an Acknowledgement Form and a Confidentiality Agreement. They knew about the side effects and sequelae of the testing. On the surface, it was completely legal.
"But the mega corporations have completely monopolized the food, drinking water, and all the necessities for survival in Leprosy Village. If we don't become testers, we can only starve to death or die of thirst. What's the point of this being 'reasonable and legal'?
"The villagers of Leprosy Village aren't three-year-old children. We know that there's no such thing as a free lunch in the world. We're not averse to taking on some really dangerous jobs in exchange for the hope of survival. There's no difference in essence between us becoming testers and you becoming hunters.
"But it's just like how the weapons orders that land in the hands of the villagers can only get the thinnest scraps after they are subcontracted multiple times. The reward for risking my life as a tester is too little.
"The mega corporations developed a new type of gene medicine and sent it to Leprosy Village for testing. Many of the villagers suffered different degrees of pain, and some of them even suffered irreversible sequelae.
"In the end, after the new gene medicine hit the market, more than 90% of the profits ended up in the hands of the masters of the mega corporations. Less than 1% of the profits ended up in the hands of the villagers.
"In the end, the people in charge of the mega corporations and their descendants can use 90% of the profits to steal more resources so that they can become stronger. In fact, they can even evolve into existences that stand above humans, while the villagers can only struggle in this stinky cesspool day after day and year after year. They become more deformed and ugly, and they don't look like humans anymore. Is this really fair?"
Meng Chao had nothing to say to that.
"I'm not telling you all this because I want to use this chance to accuse the mega corporations of their 'crimes'. I'm not that naive. One party is willing to take the beating, and the other party is willing to take the beating. This is just an unfair deal. If we want to blame someone, we can only blame ourselves for being too weak.
We can't blame anyone else, "Wild Wolf said coldly." But just now, you mentioned that the mega corporations might not know the truth about Leprosy Village. That's impossible. They constantly pay attention to the test data of the villagers, and they know the deformities and suffering of the villagers.
"Unfortunately, none of the mega corporations want to change our fates. They just want to use the villagers' tragic fates for their own benefit. They want to squeeze out every last drop of profit from our deformities so that they can become stronger and stand above all humans. That's all!"
Meng Chao had nothing to say.
He did not know how he would choose if he was in Leprosy Village and was born in the same place.
He would also be too ashamed to ask Wild Wolf and the villagers to "work together sincerely to maintain order".
"You're not born in the nine great cultivation families, and your reputation online is pretty good. That's why I'm willing to talk to you openly. In fact, I'm willing to trust you, Meng Chao," Wild Wolf continued.
"But I and all the villagers behind me will definitely not believe that the mega corporations will show us any mercy or want to save us.
"No, reinforcements won't come. At the very least, they won't come so soon.
"Because the mega corporations have invested astronomical amounts of money in the mining bases and colonization developing lands at the borders of Dragon City. They're betting their lives on it. Once the mining bases and colonization developing lands take shape, they can provide an endless stream of cultivation resources for the mega corporations and peerless fighters so that they can continue growing stronger and rule over Dragon City and the Other World you mentioned.
"That's why the borders of Dragon City are the focus. It's the foundation that the mega corporations want to protect at all costs.
"Besides, if they kill Apocalyptic Beasts at the pitched battle at the borders of Dragon City, they might be able to increase a Deity Realm superhuman's cultivation realm on the spot.
"In comparison, Leprosy Village and the lair are of little value, and it's very troublesome to save them. Which peerless fighter would go into the lair to fight against abnormal beasts?
"To put it bluntly, to the mega corporations and peerless fighters, Leprosy Village and the lair are like chamber pots. When they need to use them, they take them out from under the bed, but after they use them, they think that we're dirty and smelly. They want to kick us to the corner. Who would spare no effort to save a chamber pot?
"If you still don't believe me, think about the hunting operation you joined. Based on what you said, aside from you, there are a group of veteran hunters from the insurance industry and powerful fighters from the gangs.
"Then, what about the abnormal beast research department, the secret police, the tactical squads of the mega corporations, the special forces of the Red Dragon Army, and your close comrade, the model superhuman Lu Siya, who has always been inseparable from you?"
"That's … I have to explain …" Meng Chao said.
"Over the past few days, a lot of robberies have happened in Dragon City, and the forward operating bases at the borders of the city are showing signs of monster hordes. We don't have more manpower."
"Is that so? You don't have more manpower?"
Wild Wolf smiled coldly. "If Leprosy Village wasn't the one in trouble today but Dragon City No.1, would you not have more manpower?"
"…"
Meng Chao had nothing to say.
"Listen, I'm not complaining, and I'm not cynical enough to think that Leprosy Village can be compared to Dragon City No.1. Humans are born into different classes, just like how monsters are divided into Crystalline Nine-headed Dragons and Demonic Halberd Pigs," Wild Wolf said.
"As a Demonic Halberd Pig, you should have the resolve of a Demonic Halberd Pig. When a disaster befalls a Demonic Halberd Pig's nest, don't even think that a Crystalline Nine-headed Dragon will descend from the sky to save us. Even if a superior Crystalline Nine-headed Dragon hisses at us out of kindness and asks us to wait patiently for its rescue, don't believe in it. Don't believe in even a single word it says.
"Whatever you say, you have to rely on yourself!"
Meng Chao was silent for a moment before he said, "Wild Wolf, have you made up your mind to lead all the villagers to charge out of this place?" Wild Wolf's words were as firm as steel.
"What else can I do?"
Wild Wolf asked. "You can teach me a method that will allow most of the villagers to survive, as long as we don't stay here and wait for death."
"But if you charge out without a care, you'll definitely end up in conflict with the gangs, who will be caught off guard," Meng Chao said.
"Believe it or not, the abnormal beast and its claws will definitely disguise themselves and lurk among the panicking villagers. Even if you don't want to get into conflict with the gangs, the abnormal beast will definitely force you to fight. Both sides will be injured, and things will go out of control."
"I do, but I don't want things to go out of control," Wild Wolf said.
"Over the past few decades, the mega corporations have been ignoring Leprosy Village. If we stay in Leprosy Village obediently, they will definitely let us die on our own. Perhaps they will only come when Leprosy Village is about to be destroyed by the abnormal beast.
"But as long as we cause a huge ruckus and spread the chaos from Leprosy Village to the entire lair, we might even spread it to all of Dragon City. Perhaps the mega corporations and peerless fighters will come to provide reinforcements regardless of the cost."
"Wild Wolf, don't be rash. If we do this, a lot of people will die!" Meng Chao gritted his teeth.
"I don't think that I'm being rash. It's the opposite. I've never been as clear-headed and rational as I am right now. A lot of people will die, but 99 deaths are better than 100 deaths. 999 deaths are better than 1,000 deaths. Even elementary school students can solve such a simple math problem," Wild Wolf said calmly.
Meng Chao panicked. "We should try to talk to the gangs first and tell them everything that happened in Leprosy Village. Then, they'll tell the government outside so that they can open up a temporary shelter for you in the lair and hasten the speed at which they send reinforcements!"
"I've already sent someone to talk to them. It's Bai Shan, but she didn't even get to meet their leader before she was chased away," Wild Wolf said through gritted teeth.
"I'll talk to them!"
Meng Chao blurted out. "If you trust me, then for the sake of the countless villagers who shouldn't have died like this, let me talk to the gangs. I swear that I will definitely find their leader, the Underground Emperor of Dragon City, Saber Jin Wanhao, and have him think of a way to settle all the villagers!"
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