"Is it?"
Lei Zongchao looked more and more interested. "What's wrong with it?"
Meng Chao thought about Lei Zongchao's intentions.
He also thought about his relationship with the nine great mega corporations.
On the surface, Battle God Lei Zongchao and the nine great mega corporations seemed to be working together happily.
Under Lei Zongchao's suggestion, the nine great gangs that gained the most after Blood Alliance's collapse gradually turned into the nine great mega corporations. They even formed the Survival Committee, which allowed Dragon City to break free from the lawless, bloody era where the strong preyed on the weak. They rebuilt order and civilization.
After that, Lei Zongchao retired and did his best to cultivate new forces. He never fought for the right to lead Dragon City against the nine great mega corporations.
The nine great mega corporations also gave Lei Zongchao all the glory aside from actual power.
That included Battle God Palace, which occupied the highest spot in the Supernatural Tower.
In truth, with Lei Zongchao's Battle God cultivation realm and invincible prestige, he would have had a chance to completely control Dragon City over the past few decades.
If that was the case, Lei Zongchao should have acknowledged and even admired the way the mega corporations controlled Dragon City's civilization.
But based on A 'Ji's analysis and Lei Zongchao's attitude today, that was not the case.
There was something else.
The money Lei Zongchao donated to the Broken Star Club anonymously was paid through the abnormal beast research department.
The invitation to Battle God Palace was also given to Meng Chao by Director Nie Chenglong.
In his previous life, after Lei Zongchao died together with the monster civilization's mastermind, the abnormal beast research department soon vanished without a trace and ceased to exist.
The abnormal beast research department had been able to rise to power in just a few short years and stand on equal footing with the adjudicator court, an old secret organization with countless secret police officers in Dragon City. Without the support of the mastermind, it would have been impossible.
Could it be that Lei Zongchao was the mastermind behind the abnormal beast research department?
Meng Chao thought about it for a long time, but he still could not figure it out.
He decided to tell the truth and speak his mind freely.
"I can't tell what exactly is wrong, but I often think about a very interesting question," Meng Chao said.
"I had an epiphany dozens of days before my national college examination, and that's why I managed to turn things around miraculously. I got into the school I wanted and stepped on the path of a superhuman.
"But if I didn't have this sudden inspiration, what would my fate be?
'Perhaps I'll fail my national college examination and fade into the crowd. I'll struggle in the flames of war, and even if a new opportunity comes one day, I'll end up as a tool for the mega corporations. I'll have to work hard for most of my life, and at most, I'll be a third-class fighter.
"I'm lucky that I didn't end up like this.
"But no one knows better than me how difficult it is to obtain this' luck 'and how it cannot be replicated.
"I believe that there are plenty of poor people like me in Dragon City. Some of them are definitely more talented than I am, and some of them are even more hardworking than I am, but they aren't as lucky as I am, and they don't have as many cultivation resources as rich people and opportunities for trial and error. They can only submit to fate.
"I keep thinking that this isn't right. We're letting so many talented and hardworking poor people fade into the crowd because we don't have enough cultivation resources. We can't bring out their full potential. This isn't just a waste, it's a crime!
"No matter what, Dragon City has too few people. If we want to gain a foothold in the vast and boundless Other World with this small city, we have to create a more scientific, logical, and fair distribution method. We have to distribute cultivation resources based on everyone's potential and performance.
"We can't be like now, where the rich can buy rare resources without restraint or even use all the leverage to hoard them and easily earn one hundred times the profit." The poor can only risk their lives and risk their lives in the wild. When they finally earn some money by hunting monsters, when they return to the city, the price of cultivation resources will increase by one fold!
"And the richest tycoons can even influence the Survival Committee's decisions. They use the mining teams and hunting teams under their names to monopolize some of the crystal mines, monster materials, and other cultivation resources. They don't let these cultivation resources enter the market. Instead, through a series of secret operations, they flow into the tycoons and their children's veins.
"As time goes by, won't the absolute fighting power in Dragon City be monopolized by the rich people?"
Meng Chao had heard quite a lot of dirt about the mega corporations from Lin Chuan, Gao Ye, and lately, A 'Ji.
Based on the memories from his previous life, he learned about what the mega corporations did while they were conquering the Other World.
He simply could not believe that the mega corporations were all pure angels and selfless saints.
"Makes sense."
Lei Zongchao's gaze was profound. He coughed a few times and said, "But it's not a bad thing for the rich to monopolize absolute fighting power. Don't the nine great cultivation families say that superhumans are the sabers of human civilization, and the blood of the strong flows for the weak?
"Over the past few decades, the powerful fighters from the nine great cultivation families have indeed put this into practice. They fought at the frontlines of the Monster War and used their blood and even their lives to defend our common home.
"That was indeed the case in the past. Since the fog shrouded Dragon City, even the Deity Realm superhumans couldn't leave Dragon City and live in the wild for too long. That's why the interests of the mega corporations and Dragon City are tied together."
Meng Chao did not deny the contributions the mega corporations made to Dragon City in the past, but he was very worried. "But what about in the future? If Dragon City's civilization really rushes out of Monster Mountain Range and the mega corporations, as the vanguard, continue growing until they become even larger than Dragon City itself, then the interests of the corporations and Dragon City will no longer be the same. At that time, what will happen?"
Lei Zongchao was contemplative. "Do you think that this will happen? That the interests of the mega corporations will not be the same as Dragon City's own interests and might even clash? "
"I don't know."
Meng Chao shook his head and said, "I only know that when the rich and high society's men and women are dressed in nice clothes, drinking and chatting happily, there are quite a number of vagrants covered in abscesses rotting to death in the alleys of the lair. Mr. Lei, tell me, who do you think represents Dragon City's interests more, the rich or the vagrants?"
Lei Zongchao was silent.
But there was admiration and delight in his eyes, as if he had just discovered a brilliant piece of unpolished jade.
He used his gaze to encourage Meng Chao to continue speaking.
"You know that I'm a director of Blue Home, and recently, I've been studying the history of Earth with my friends from Blue Home," Meng Chao said.
"It's only now that I know that life on Earth isn't necessarily the blissful and carefree paradise that Dragon Citizens think it is. There are also differences in social strata, social rifts, and all sorts of sharp conflicts. In fact, there are mutual deceit, exploitation, and oppression among people.
"At that time, the richest 1% of the population on Earth had more than 70% of the wealth.
"But on Earth, no matter how great the difference between humans was, there was at least one thing that was very fair, and that was life.
"It doesn't matter if it's a millionaire, the most talented brain in the world in the field of scientific research, a dignified king, or a commander who commands an army, a small bullet can end their lives. This is no different from beggars who don't have clothes to cover their bodies and are covered in abscesses.
"So, even when the poor on Earth were at their most despairing, they still had the ability to rise up and keep the rich in check. Even though this ability only had a theoretical success rate, at the very least, it made the rich a little wary and wary of them.
"But the Other World is different.
"This is a place where the millionaires have absolute power.
"This is an era where a Deity Realm superhuman can single-handedly kill an entire army.
"Now, these powerful people who have billions of wealth and absolute power are willing to bind their interests to Dragon City's interests. They are willing to serve as Dragon City's sabers and fight for millions of normal citizens. This is naturally a good thing.
"But what if there comes a day when they are no longer willing to do so?
"After all, the ultimate goal of the existence of corporations is to earn great profits, not to bleed for the weak and defend their so-called civilization!"
Lei Zongchao did not say anything.
Lei Zongchao didn't say anything, but he stared at him for a long time with a meaningful look.
"Young man, your thoughts are very dangerous," the martial arts legend of the past said faintly.
"I remember that this seems to be the theory of Lin Chuan, Gao Ye, and some of the extreme extremists in the Home Party, right? It's fine for you to say it here, but if you spread it on the streets, you might become the next target of the abnormal beast research department. They might suspect that you are being used by the monster civilization to sow discord between Dragon Citizens and the mega corporations! "
"Lin Chuan and Gao Ye have indeed said something similar. They have indeed been deceived and used by the monster civilization, which is why they made a huge mistake that they can't undo. But I don't want to speak nonsense because of other people. Their actions are wrong, but it doesn't mean that their theories are not worthy of being used for reference and thought about."
When Meng Chao saw that Lei Zongchao did not refute his words and even showed signs of wanting to protect him, he became bolder and took the initiative to speak. "Mr. Lei, in truth, before Gang Leader Jin died, he couldn't figure it out. He told me that if I had the chance, I had to ask you this. Why weren't you willing to fight against the nine gangs with him in the past? Why did you just watch as the nine gangs crushed Golden Tooth so badly that they had to sign an alliance and lock themselves in the lair? You didn't even help them.
"Could it be that it's really as he said? That you have no ambitions and are only satisfied with the mega corporations praising you and the glory and glory of being the Battle God?
"Could it be that you've never been tempted by the highest power in Dragon City?"
This blatant and offensive question caused Lei Zongchao to fall silent for a long time.
It was so long that Meng Chao thought that Lei Zongchao would fly into a rage and ask someone to kick him out.
The unkempt old man, however, heaved a long sigh. With heavy footsteps, he walked back to the medical cabin and soaked in the gene stock solution that was as thick as ink. Only his bald head, which was covered in age spots, was exposed.
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