Meng Chao knew that some of the Other World races, especially the underground races, seemed to have inherited immune disorders.
The ultraviolet rays in the sun would also kill the white blood cells in their blood, which made their already weak immune systems even worse.
These pitiful creatures who were afraid of sunlight and were used to appearing at night were collectively known as the dark races in the Other World.
Sunscreen was a strategic resource that the dark races could not go without. It could largely increase their area of activity and fighting strength.
Monster Mountain Range around Dragon City was a paradise for plants. It was the most suitable place to grow raw materials for Snake Vine and other supreme-grade sunscreen.
As long as Meng Chao could seize the raw materials first and develop and apply for the patent for sunscreen, he would have the initiative against the dark races.
Since he had dabbled in tobacco, alcohol, and even sunscreen, it was only natural for him to enter the soft drink market, especially the carbonated drink market.
Based on his experience on Earth, carbonated drinks were definitely one of the best-selling inventions in human history.
The first company to develop carbonated drinks had a legacy of one hundred years, and its foundation was everlasting. Its market value far surpassed that of most of the high-tech, heavy industrial, or financial giants.
Carbonated drinks did not contain alcohol, but they had a refreshing taste and a stimulating kick. They were like strong alcohol, making people unable to stop drinking.
It has to be known that while there were orcs and frost giants who loved alcohol as much as their lives, there were also quite a number of races who worshiped gods and obeyed the precepts.
However, there were also many races that worshiped gods and devils, abided by the rules and had all kinds of strange taboos. At least on the surface, they would definitely not be tempted by alcohol.
If Meng Chao went to the territories of these races to sell tobacco and alcohol, he might end up being treated as a messenger of the devil and die without even knowing how he died.
When he ran into these ascetic races, the carbonated drink brand Dragon Mansion Cola that Meng Chao was prepared to introduce would be of great use.
Besides, carbonated drinks were not just a simple drink.
They could also be used as a cultural export.
In the past, the soldiers of the hegemonic countries on Earth drank carbonated drinks while they killed and looted. They also used cold and stimulating carbonated drinks to tempt the ignorant citizens of the conquered lands so that they could present themselves as envoys of civilization or even messiahs.
And the Other World's carbonated drinks had a lot of monster materials and etherealized plants in them. They were one hundred times more stimulating than the carbonated drinks on Earth.
Meng Chao was certain that the Other World races had never tasted such a unique and exciting taste before.
Regardless of whether it was the Flame Demons from hell or the masters of Dragon Island, they could not refuse carbonated drinks.
Perhaps, in the end, it would not be the steel army that would conquer the Other World, but carbonated drinks.
Of course, carbonated drinks alone were not enough.
Meng Chao had also prepared a gift bag for the Other World races that could provide them with sex.
It was the developed entertainment industry in the lair.
Meng Chao had thought about it before. Compared to the intelligent life forms of the Other World, just what was the advantage of Earthlings?
Was it technology?
On the surface, it seemed so.
The races in the Other World seemed to still be in the Middle Ages, which was ignorant and backward on Earth. In fact, quite a number of savage races were still in a primitive society where they ate raw meat and drank blood.
And after Dragon City digested and absorbed some of the advanced technology from the ancient ruins, in certain areas, they were already at the edge of the interstellar era.
However, this was only the surface.
The races in the Other World were definitely not a medieval civilization that had evolved naturally.
How could a real medieval civilization give birth to something as unscientific as sorcerers?
As for the elves who had lived for thousands of years, even if they were just hairless monkeys lurking in the depths of the forest on the surface, their unfathomable wisdom allowed them to decipher, comprehend, and replicate the black technology of the Earthlings in just a few short years.
No, technology alone would not be able to conquer the Otherworld.
Culture was the area where Earth's civilization was truly ahead of the Other World's civilizations.
Dragon City should not just send out a steel army.
It should also send out Earth's culture and Earth's values. That was the only way it could deliver a dimensional blow to the Other World races.
And when it came to sending out culture, the greatest taboo was to act high and mighty and not be down to earth.
To talk about the superiority of Earth's culture to the orcs who lived in a slave society, talk about the principle of everyone being equal and liberating the productive forces, and encourage the orcs to build a peaceful, friendly, and prosperous new Other World with Earthlings?
No one would care about that!
If they did not roast you and eat you, they would already be showing respect to Earth.
If they wanted to open up a business in the Other World and send out Earth's culture, they could only do things that were vulgar, vulgar, and coquettish.
Coincidentally, these were the things that the gangs were best at — gray industries!
What was "mouth"? What was "mouth"? What was "mouth"? There was also "mouth" and "mouth". These were all things that even a gentleman like Meng Chao would blush and shudder when he saw them.
In any case, the most ancient industries of humanity had been turned into art in the lair.
Of course, the lair was going to be fully integrated into Dragon City, and the gray industries were an eyesore, so they could not do anything special anymore.
Besides, Meng Chao was a person who could not tolerate any mistakes. He had a strong sense of justice and principles, so he could not just watch his compatriots jump into a pit of fire again.
But his sense of justice and principles were not so strong that he could treat all the intelligent races in the Other World as his compatriots.
If he could move the model of the gray industries in the lair to the Other World races, Meng Chao believed that he would be able to monopolize the entire Other World's culture market, or at least the entertainment market … Well, at least the vulgar market.
Perhaps in the near future, the elves, dwarves, orcs, ice barbarians, priests, and magicians would all carry Earth-style semi-automatic rifles and rocket launchers, smoke Earth-made cigarettes, drink Earth's strong alcohol and carbonated drinks, wear Earth's sunscreen and makeup, and admire the girl groups and fresh meat that were packaged in Earth's fashion.
Even their children regarded "Captain Earth" as their most worshipped idol.
What was cultural invasion? What was the export of values?
That was it!
The simple export of values might not be able to make the Other World races bow down to them and surrender, but it could definitely reduce the hostility of the Other World races.
But it could definitely reduce the hostility of the races in the Other World. At the very least, it could bewitch the hearts of the intelligent races in the Other World and divide the ignorant citizens in the enemy camp. It could create countless Earthlings who were willing to join the embrace of Dragon City's civilization, even if it meant seeking death.
The steel army was a hard knife.
The export of culture was a soft knife.
It was still hard to say which knife was sharper!
Besides, quite a number of the gangs were already used to doing gray industries, so they formed interest groups and became dependent on each other.
Meng Chao was just the master of the lair in name. There was no way he could make them give up on it with just one order.
It would be better for him to make preparations beforehand, and when the time was right, he could move them out of Monster Mountain Range and start from scratch.
Last, and perhaps most importantly, when he had enough technology and money, Meng Chao actually wanted to get involved in the information industry.
His dream was to spread Dragon City's internet all over the Other World.
In the vast, ignorant, and backward Other World, it sounded like a fool's dream to spread the internet all over the place.
But through the memories from his previous life, Meng Chao knew that it was not as complicated as he imagined it to be.
Monster Mountain Range, where Dragon City was located, was the place with the most complicated spirit energy magnetic field in the Other World. The interference was also the strongest.
To ensure that the wireless internet and tactical data links were unobstructed in such a terrible environment, Dragon Citizens had spent a few generations of blood, sweat, and tears to create a lot of advanced technology.
In his previous life, when Dragon City's civilization advanced triumphantly and swept through the Other World, they sent signal towers, signal transmission airships, and portable wireless internet nodes everywhere, and they did not run into much resistance.
Even the Other World races who hated Earthlings the most were usually addicted to their phones and could not free themselves from it. They could not bear to destroy the communication bases and information nodes Earthlings built.
In truth, there were examples of this on Earth.
In the ancient home of humans, which was a hot and savage black land, many of the races had just broken free from ignorance decades ago. Some of them were even living in tribal societies that were constantly at war.
To put it bluntly, they did not even have slippers, so they had one on each foot.
But they could make it so that everyone had a phone.
In fact, they treated their phones as necessities and believed every single word displayed on their screens.
Meng Chao hoped that one day, everyone in the Other World would have a phone and help the Other World races enter the post-information age.
Of course, this was not to increase the Other World races' strength.
Instead, it was to make it easier for them to implant Earth's culture and values.
In the post-information age, whoever controlled the internet would control the media, and whoever controlled the media would control the brain. Whoever controlled the brain would have the right to decide what was righteous, what was evil, what was advanced, what was backward, what was light, and what was dark.
There was no doubt that Dragon Citizens represented the most righteous and advanced Earth civilization in the universe.
Dragon Citizens were the emissaries of light sent by Earth to save the Other World races.
It was only through the phones and the internet that the millions of intelligent lifeforms who were at the bottom of the Other World races and had been enslaved and oppressed could see and believe this.
Meng Chao knew that there was a really sharp structural conflict between the Other World races and even within the same race.
The solidification of social strata, the tearing apart of society, the strong staying strong, the winner taking all, the population expanding, the conflict between advanced technology and backward production methods … These problems existed in Dragon City in the Other World races, and they were one hundred times stronger.
Otherwise, why would the apocalyptic war that swept through the Other World have erupted?
Many of the races and social classes that had been enslaved for millions of years had their anger turn into magma, which was then compressed into the most violent crystal explosives.
One small spark could cause them to explode.
And what could be transmitted through the phones was not just a small spark.
The analysis of conflicts, the program of action, the principles of organization, the methods to create weapons and explosives, how to assassinate the enemy, how to get rid of traitors and indecisive members of organizations … Earthlings could practically provide a full set of textbooks to teach the people at the bottom of the Other World how to awaken and overthrow the Other World rulers who oppressed them.
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