Meng Chao and Lu Siya looked at each other. He thought about it and asked tentatively, "Does your sister's death have anything to do with the tattoo on your chest?"
A 'Ji cast Meng Chao a deep glance and answered with a question. "Why do you think that it's related? It seems like you've been paying a lot of attention to the tattoo on my chest since the start."
Meng Chao found himself speechless for a moment, so he gave a perfunctory answer. "I just think that the tattoo is very unique. It gives off a mysterious and creepy feeling, so I'm just asking."
"You're right."
A 'Ji lowered his head and looked at the X-shaped eye tattoo on his chest. His fingertips trembled. He wanted to touch it, but he did not dare.
Pain and fear appeared on his face. He mumbled, "In truth, this isn't a tattoo. It's a curse. A curse that rose from the depths of my blood!"
Meng Chao's pupils shrank, and he asked, "What do you mean? This tattoo wasn't tattooed by someone else?"
"No."
A 'Ji's gaze gradually looked into the distance, as if he was immersed in fragmented, blood-red memories and could not extricate himself. After a long time, he said airily, "After I regained my youth, the brain cells that stored my memories withered and were destroyed. The new brain cells might contain even more life force, but they lost a lot of the memories that happened over the past few decades. Hence, I only remember the most unforgettable things in Saber Jin Wanhao's life, along with the important coordinates, passwords, martial arts, and other information.
"And these memories are like a broken pearl necklace. Each pearl spilled out and spun around in the depths of my mind. They're all over the place, and I can't figure them out.
"I feel as if I've woken up in a bottomless underground cave. All I can see is the mottled, swaying reflection of the water in the depths of the cave.
"I want to connect all the fragments of my memories together.
"After I left the secret lab, the first thing I did was to use everything I had to gather information from various places. I wanted to know just what happened to Dragon City and 'me' over the past half a century. I wanted to know how the world I lived in turned from a normal, peaceful, and peaceful city on Earth to what it is today.
"Unfortunately, be it the media, television, the internet, or the stories that have been passed down by word of mouth, they are all vague. They even contradict the fragmented memories in my brain.
"After the Survival Committee was formed, the mega corporations led Dragon Citizens to defend and counterattack. They expanded our territory and advanced triumphantly. This part of the history is clear.
"The creators of the mega corporations are also known as heroes, guardians, and Deity Realm elites, and everyone knows about them.
"Even a three-year-old knows how the nine great mega corporations saved our civilization from the depths of danger and allowed us to step on the path of power and conquest.
"But before the Survival Committee was formed, Dragon City had just transmigrated. The zombie virus broke out, and social order collapsed. The entire city turned into a bloody forest where the strong preyed on the weak. But very few people mentioned this period of history. Even if they did, they only mentioned it briefly, and it was unclear.
"It's like a deformed and ugly scar. Even though it's still hurting under the scab, as long as you don't look at it or even cover it with makeup, it doesn't seem to exist."
Meng Chao and Lu Siya fell silent.
The ten years after Dragon City transmigrated were indeed ten years that they could not bear to look back on.
The elites who had once protected Dragon City on Earth had fought wave after wave to ensure that Dragon City could survive the horrendous waves and the invasion of the mysterious and unfathomable viruses in the Other World. They faced death with equanimity and sacrificed themselves during the short few years after they transmigrated.
It was because of their sacrifice that tens of millions of Dragon Citizens were able to safely get through the disaster of transmigration.
However, as the elites on Earth were all sacrificed, the old order collapsed, and Dragon City soon entered a lawless apocalypse.
Under the multiple threats of viruses, zombies, and lack of resources, no one knew whether they could live to the next day or the next second.
To fight for a pack of compressed food that had expired a long time ago or drinking water that could circulate urine, dozens of people instantly turned into hundreds of raging beasts. They tore at each other's flesh, chewed on each other's bones, and dug out each other's organs.
In the end, no one cared about compressed food anymore.
The taste of hot flesh was even more delicious than compressed biscuits.
When some of the humans awakened to supernatural abilities under the stimulation of the viruses in the Other World, they occupied the mountains and formed settlements and gangs.
They occupied the mountains and became kings, forming settlements and gangs. Finally, some order was restored.
But this order was not the order of the twenty-first century's Earth, which had laws and morals as its foundation and allowed everyone to be equal.
Instead, it regressed to the order of a primitive society where humans ate raw meat and drank blood even further back than the slave era.
Those who awakened to supernatural abilities were the strong.
The strong could do anything to the weak.
Even if all the Apocalyptic Beasts in Monster Mountain Range gathered together and racked their brains for ten days and ten nights, they would not be able to come up with anything.
This period of time was the most shameful "dark history" in Dragon City over the past half a century.
Hence, when the Survival Committee was formed and humans gradually restored the order of the past, they became well-dressed and dignified again. Everyone tacitly forgot about this dark history.
Even though the people who committed heinous crimes during the bloody era were not the ones who formed the Survival Committee and ruled over the current Dragon City, they were still humans.
But at the end of the day, they were all humans.
If the people were too focused on the details of the bloody era, they would only realize that there was no difference between humans and monsters.
No, there were plenty of times when the things hidden under human skin were much more terrifying than the Apocalyptic Beasts.
After all, monsters would only kill when they were hungry or when their territories were invaded.
Humans didn't need any reason to start a massacre.
"Looks like you're not completely clueless about the history of Dragon City before the Survival Committee was formed."
A 'Ji was still immersed in Saber Jin Wanhao's memories. His tone was completely different from the usual Leprosy Village teenager. It was hoarse and profound, as if it came from a hole that led straight to the center of the earth. "Then, you must know how the first spirit energy martial arts came about, right?"
Meng Chao thought about it for a while before he said, "Based on what the government said, the first spirit energy martial arts came about when Battle God Lei Zongchao had an epiphany.
"The museums in Dragon City still have a lot of the formulas, force execution methods, and spirit meridian circulation charts that Lei Zongchao wrote when he first created the spirit energy martial arts."
A 'Ji cackled like a crow and retorted, "Do you believe in what the government said?"
Meng Chao shook his head. "In the past, I believed it without a doubt, but now, I don't quite believe it. The spirit energy martial arts, or rather, the entire spirit energy cultivation system, is vast, unfathomable, and profound. Even after countless superhumans poured their wisdom into it, they only managed to grasp a small part of it. No matter how talented and talented Lei Zongchao is, it's impossible for him to come up with … such a huge, profound, and terrifying system!"
"That's right. Lei Zongchao didn't come up with the first spirit energy martial arts. In fact, he wasn't the creator of the spirit energy martial arts. He was just a test subject."
A 'Ji paused for a moment, as if he had made his final decision. He gritted his teeth and said, "Lei Zongchao, me, and my sister are the same. We're all test subjects used to test the spirit energy martial arts. We have no choice!"
"What?!"
Meng Chao's heart raced.
The progress of unlocking the Mystery of the Supernatural Entities increased by 1%, and it was now at 72%!
Even Lu Siya held her breath.
Clearly, this was something she had never heard from her grandfather in Sky Pillar Corporation, the Lu family, and one of the ten most powerful people in Dragon City who had created the Survival Committee.
"From Saber Jin Wanhao's memories, I discovered that the ten years after we transmigrated to the Other World were the bloodiest and most turbulent years in Dragon City. Order collapsed, morals fell, and humans devolved into monsters. Or rather, humans have always been monsters, but they were sealed by the morals and laws on Earth and hid their true colors. Now, they've returned to their original form," A 'Ji mumbled.
"However, under the cruel law of survival of the fittest, a new order and force of power slowly took form. Of course, it's an incredibly deformed order and terrifying force of power.
"Amongst them, the strongest force is called the Blood Oath Alliance!"
Meng Chao and Lu Siya looked at each other at a loss.
Many of the gangs from the apocalypse decades ago had changed their appearances and passed down their legacies.
Sky Pillar Corporation, Universe Corporation, Heaven Corporation, Soaring Dragon Corporation, Thundercloud Corporation … All these mega corporations had their origins in the gangs from the apocalypse.
Gangs like Golden Tooth, Black Bone, and Poison Scorpion did not even change their names. They could be said to be living fossils.
However, Meng Chao and Lu Siya had never heard of Blood Alliance before.
"Today, Blood Alliance has long since been reduced to ashes and no longer exists. The Survival Committee intentionally locked down and erased its existence, so very few people have heard of this name," A 'Ji said.
"But based on Saber Jin Wanhao's memories, Blood Alliance was the first force of power to rise to power in Dragon City during the apocalypse.
"At that time, the predecessors of the mega corporations and the gangs were either not created yet or submitted to Blood Alliance's tyrannical might. They could only hide and tremble in fear.
"And the reason why Blood Alliance was able to rise to power and dominate all of Dragon City is because they occupied the ancient ruins at the center of Dragon City, which is deep underground!"
Meng Chao and Lu Siya gasped at the same time.
The ruins of an ancient civilization were hidden under Dragon City. This was a secret that everyone knew.
Right now, the Supernatural Tower was the symbol of Dragon City's spirit and strength, and it stood above the ancient ruins.
In a sense, the Supernatural Tower was a huge ancient research lab.
Most of the spirit energy martial arts, runic symbol technology, and biochemical technology in Dragon Citizens came from underground. They were enlightened by the ancient civilization.
They did not expect that right after they transmigrated, Dragon Citizens would have discovered it and started exploring it.
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