Su Lun smiled again.
As if he had finally found a loophole in Meng Chao's words, his eyes shone with excitement.
"Wait, who said that I wanted to destroy Dragon City?"
Su Lun smiled. "I admit that to take revenge against Heaven Pharmaceuticals, I did work together with the monster civilization. If you want to say that I'm an accomplice of the monster civilization and became their puppet, I won't object to it.
"Similarly, I won't deny that my hands are stained with innocent blood. The entire lair is burning because of my hatred, and my crimes are unpardonable. Even if the lair citizens cut me to pieces, I deserve it.
"But I've never thought about destroying Dragon City. On the contrary, I'm trying to save Dragon City!"
"…"
Meng Chao was stunned for a long time.
He widened his eyes and observed Su Lun for a long time, but he could not find any signs of insanity.
"Saving Dragon City? How?"
Meng Chao simply could not understand Su Lun's logic. "By turning all the citizens into monster feces?"
"Meng Chao, I thought that you were different from the other mortals and that you could think outside the box, but I didn't expect that you're still the same as them," Su Lun said.
"Do you think that if the monster civilization won the Monster War, they would eat all of humanity?" Su Lun asked.
"Wouldn't they?" Meng Chao asked.
"Of course not. What's so good about humans? When it comes to their size and meat production, they can't compare to large monsters like Demonic Halberd Pigs and Iron-armored Rhinoceroses. When it comes to taste, there are plenty of snakes, insects, fish, and prawns that are more exquisite than us." Compared to plant-eating monsters, there aren't a lot of us. Our birth rate and growth cycle are pretty normal. Even if we want to rear humans in captivity and breed them en masse before we eat them, it's too troublesome and not worth it, "Su Lun said.
"In the past, there were indeed plenty of monsters who ate humans, but that was because they had no brains. When they transmigrated to Dragon City through the space-time rift, they saw humans everywhere. Aside from eating humans, what other choice did those panicked brainless monsters have?
"But it's different now. After half a century of war and communication, monsters have gradually awakened to intelligence. Some of the super monsters with brains that far exceed those of humans have a real civilization. They can even think like humans.
"You've seen the Vortex's true face and communicated with it, right? Do you think that its way of thinking is different from humans? None at all!
"Compared to the unreasonable monsters in the past, don't you think that the abnormal beasts who have gained intelligence are more like humans and us?"
"Wrong."
"It's not that abnormal beasts can think like humans, but that abnormal beasts can imitate human thought processes in front of humans. The two are completely different."
Based on Meng Chao's memories from his previous life, there were plenty of intelligent creatures in the Other World who possessed a similar thought process to humans.
However, this did not mean that they could coexist peacefully with humans.
No matter how similar the Other World races were to Earthlings, they usually had a fundamental logic that humans could not understand, tolerate, or coexist with.
Since both parties could communicate in the same language, they would be at a great disadvantage if they treated each other as kindred spirits.
A thought appeared in Su Lun's head, and he quickly said, "That's not important. In any case, the monster civilization has already been born. The brand new abnormal beasts and traditional monsters are completely different existences. We can communicate and understand each other. Of course, we can also negotiate and surrender.
"Think about it. If you're an intelligent abnormal beast and the leader of the monster civilization, you'll be facing a treasure like Dragon City, which is the crystallization of human civilization's wisdom and contains the secrets of agriculture, industry, technology, and society's history and culture over the past ten thousand years of human development. As long as you absorb all of this, the monster civilization that has just been born will instantly have more than ten thousand years of accumulation.
"Would your choice be to devour all humans and turn the glorious city into a barbaric jungle so that you, who had gained intelligence after much difficulty, would revert back to your past lifestyle? Wouldn't that be a huge waste of resources?"
"I see. I understand now."
Meng Chao was deep in thought. "Do you think that Dragon City can survive if it surrenders to the monster civilization?"
"It's not surrender, but fusion," Su Lun said.
"Human civilization and monster civilization must completely fuse together. That's the only way we can continue surviving in this brutal world!"
Meng Chao quirked his eyebrows.
"Haven't you realized it yet? Meng Chao, we're in danger. Dragon City is already at the edge of a cliff!"
Even though his legs were broken and he was shackled with shackles that weighed hundreds of kilograms, Su Lun regained his former glory. In fact, he gained a strange and evil charm.
While he panted, he used his hoarse voice to entice Meng Chao. "Don't think that you're amazing just because you won the northern offense and the monster civilization. The Other World is huge. Based on our analysis of the Other World's gravity and atmosphere, this is a planet about the same size as Earth. Monster Mountain Range is just a corner of this planet's vast continent!
"Are monsters the only threat on such a huge planet?
"The Apocalyptic Beasts have peerless power, but they're suppressed in the tiny Monster Mountain Range. They would rather fight to the death against the transmigrators from Earth for the past half a century, but they didn't dare to cross the line and migrate to the vast world beyond Monster Mountain Range. Why? Could it be that there are existences even more terrifying than the Apocalyptic Beasts beyond Monster Mountain Range?
"Over the past half a century, the fog caused by the dimensional ripples has protected humans like an iron wall, so everyone mistakenly believes that the monsters are the only threat. As long as we get rid of the monsters, we can reign supreme on this planet known as the Other World and completely conquer this place.
"But now, more knowledgeable people are waking up and realizing that things aren't as simple as they seem. The soul-stirring Monster War might just be two amateurs pecking at each other in the eyes of the Other World. When the fog completely disappears, existences even more terrifying than the monsters will descend. At that time, both us and the monsters will die without a grave!"
Meng Chao listened quietly.
He did not refute Su Lun.
Because even though Su Lun sounded like he was trying to scare them and was trying to mystify them, what he said was wrong.
No one understood the terrors of the Other World better than Meng Chao.
The history of his previous life had indeed developed just as Su Lun predicted.
Humans won against the monsters and stepped out of Monster Mountain Range. Then, they ran into all sorts of existences even more terrifying than the monsters. In the end, they ran out of resources and were powerless to turn the tides.
"There's only one way to save us, and that's before the fog completely disappears and before the even more terrifying Other World races discover us, we have to first fuse with the monster civilization. We'll use each other's strengths to make up for our weaknesses and work together. That's the only way we'll be able to carve out a bloody path in the Other World, where the competition is one hundred times crueler than in Monster Mountain Range," Su Lun said.
"We need monsters, and monsters need us. Based on the speed and degree of evolution of the monster civilization, their leader should have enough intelligence to come up with this conclusion."
"Fuse …" Meng Chao could not help but laugh.
Meng Chao could not help but laugh. "After we spilled so much blood and lost so many of our comrades?"
"Blood will always flow when we fuse."
Su Lun spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. "The history of human civilization on Earth for tens of thousands of years is a history of war that continuously fuses with bloodshed and slaughter. The humans today are all descendants of butchers, executioners, and murderers. The blood of slaughter flows in our veins, but that doesn't stop us from creating a brilliant and glorious civilization, right?"
"Makes sense. You've convinced me."
Meng Chao nodded slowly. "But there's a small problem. Even if we fuse with them through bloodshed, why don't we swing the butcher's knife and kill all the monsters who dare to fight against us so that the intelligent abnormal beasts can only tremble under our feet and submit to us so that they can become our vassals?
"After the northern offense, we're the ones who have the initiative. If we really want to surrender, it should be the monster civilization surrendering to human civilization. I believe that humans are kind and united. Once we completely dismember the monster civilization and squeeze out all their value, we won't kill all the monsters.
"Why must humans surrender to monsters? Isn't that an unnecessary move? You'll end up shedding a lot of unnecessary blood, and it'll be the blood of your comrades."
Su Lun opened his mouth.
But he had nothing to say to that.
He originally thought that Meng Chao would look down on the threat of the Other World and firmly deny the possibility of humans and monsters fusing together. He thought that he would continue promoting the idea of using a steel army to sweep through the Other World.
If that was the case, he would naturally have a set of flowery words to confuse Meng Chao, and he might even be able to obtain a chance of survival.
He did not expect that Meng Chao would take drastic measures and hit his sore spot.
"So, selfishness is selfishness, shamelessness is shamelessness, and evil is evil. Why do you have to use excuses like revenge and saving Dragon City to flatter yourself?"
Meng Chao scoffed. "I know people like you too well. You keep saying that you want to stand out and take revenge. The first half of your sentence is true, but the second half is fake. When you say that you want to take revenge, it's just an excuse to deceive yourself and others so that you can climb up the ranks by any means necessary.
"As long as you have this reason, it doesn't matter if you sell your soul to monsters or demons, no matter how many innocent people you kill, no matter how many families and homes you destroy, you can feel at ease. You won't feel even the slightest bit of guilt. After all, you have no other choice!"
Su Lun's face swelled up like a red balloon again.
"No, it's not like that! I'm not doing this for myself, but for our civilization!"
He started arguing at the top of his lungs. "Compared to the human civilization that transmigrated from Earth, the monster civilization is more suited to survive and develop in the Other World. After all, the monsters are the natives of this planet. Their form is the perfect form that suits this planet the best!"
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