"Why aren't you eating?"
Gu Ling quickly sucked the Purple Sara Fruit until only the skin that was as thin as a cicada's wing and the core that was the size of a finger were left.
The little girl was satisfied. Her cheeks were flushed as if she was tipsy.
She patted her belly and asked Meng Chao.
"… I'm used to eating synthetic food that tastes like wax. This is the first time I've eaten such pure, natural food. My taste buds are so stimulated that I can't bear it."
Meng Chao said, "Why don't I eat slowly and listen to you talk about the history of Peach Blossom Town while I eat?"
"Sure."
Gu Ling waved her hand and plucked another Purple Sara Fruit from the vine that extended over.
At the same time, he gently plucked a leaf with a jagged edge from a branch that was wrapped around the vine. He carefully rolled the leaf up, making it look like a hollow straw.
She poked the 'straw' into the fruit as if she were holding a natural beverage and took a sip. Holding her head, she thought for a moment. "That was a long time ago. I didn't experience it in person. I heard it from my grandpa. Where should I start? Right, let's start with the destruction of Earth."
"Wait, what?"
Meng Chao's cerebral cortex, heart muscles, and squirming intestines froze at the same time.
"What did you say? The destruction of the Earth?" he asked in a voice that sounded like a wild ghost.
"That's right. Oh, wrong. It's not the destruction of the earth. I heard that the earth is a very big place. It's a thousand times bigger than the Peach Blossom Town, even ten thousand times. How could the power of humans destroy it? It's just the destruction of human civilization on Earth. "
Guling said as if nothing had happened, as if she was introducing common sense that women and children knew, "It is precisely because the Earth civilization was about to destroy itself that our Peach Blossom Town and your Dragon City escaped at the critical moment. Isn't that the case?"
"Is that so?"
A storm raged in Meng Chao's heart.
He had always thought that Dragon City was a passive transmigration.
They were affected or even controlled by some mysterious power, and they somehow transmigrated to the Other World.
According to Guling, at least the residents of Peach Blossom Town believed that they had taken the initiative to cross over and escape from Earth!
"Then, did your grandfather ever tell you how Earth's civilization was destroyed?" Meng Chao grabbed Ancient Spirit's wrist excitedly.
The little girl cried out in pain, and the Purple Sarah Fruit almost fell to the ground.
Hearing her cry, the green tide and the sea of flowers around her immediately let out a "slurp slurp, slurp slurp" sound.
Countless vines and the pythons hidden in them straightened their bodies at Meng Chao. They opened their mouths, which were filled with intersecting fangs, and hostility gushed out.
"Sorry."
Meng Chao quickly stopped and apologized, "I was too excited, Ms. Gu Ling."
"It doesn't matter. My skin is rough and my flesh is thick. I'm used to fighting in the jungle."
Ancient Spirit swung her arm and had all the vines and pythons return to their original positions. She took another sip of Purple Saros Juice and sized up Meng Chao curiously. "So, you guests from Dragon City don't know that Earth's civilization has already been destroyed? Then it's no wonder why you still call yourselves Earthlings.
"Let me think. Grandpa mentioned it before. What's the name of that thing again? That's right, nuclear weapons, thermonuclear war. Nuclear dust shrouds the entire world. Boundless darkness and extreme coldness will last for at least a decade. It's impossible for Earth's civilization to survive in that kind of environment that's even more terrible than hell."
"…"
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath and tried his best to calm himself down. "If you really escaped from Earth at the critical moment, how did your grandpa know that the nuclear winter would last for at least a decade?"
"Because before we escaped, the thermonuclear war had already broken out. It was as if countless nuclear weapons had flown into the sky, and it was impossible to stop or defend against them. Based on the number of nuclear weapons, the nuclear winter would definitely last for a long time. It would kill all intelligent life on Earth and destroy all of Earth's civilization," Ancient Spirit said.
"Grandpa told me that only a handful of really lucky towns managed to escape from Earth before the destruction arrived. Peach Blossom Town was one of them!"
"I see. You didn't see it with your own eyes. It's just a guess …"
Meng Chao composed himself and said, "Looks like I'll have to meet your grandpa when I have the chance and ask him about the destruction of Earth.
"Forget it. Let's not talk about this for now. Let's talk about what happened after you transmigrated here. Peach Blossom Town isn't that big, and there aren't many people either. Life during the early stages of transmigration must have been very difficult, right?"
"That is indeed the case. Although this place, which we have named the 'Peach Blossom Spring', has beautiful mountains, clear waters, and abundant resources, and is simply a legendary paradise, the people of the Peach Blossom Spring who have just migrated here still encountered many difficulties."
Gu Ling said, "However, Grandpa told me that we can't blame anyone but ourselves. That's because the Peach Blossom people who just arrived here are still holding onto the idea of Earth's civilization. They want to fight against the entire nature and turn this place into a second Earth.
"They set fire to the mountains and turned the etherealized plants into charcoal.
"They were greedy and insatiable. They slaughtered monsters on a large scale. Even though their stomachs were already full, they still cruelly harvested the raw materials in the monsters' bodies to build their so-called civilization.
"They also wanted to mine the crystal mines in the mountains around us on a large scale. Just like on Earth, they created machines filled with black smoke and rumbling sounds. Then, they used those evil machines to continue devouring the harmonious and beautiful world. This sort of devouring was endless.
"As they continued to reclaim their farmlands, expand their towns, mine crystals, and develop their so-called 'civilization', some of them gradually grasped the cultivation methods and most of the resources. They became stronger and more arrogant, and the gap between them and the others kept widening.
"Hence, the evil genes of Earthlings crawled out from the bones of these powerful people.
"They called themselves leaders, generals, supreme commanders, and frontline pathfinders. They used all sorts of grandiose titles to disguise themselves.
"With the power that no one could fight against, not only did they extend their greedy hands to the surrounding nature, they also extended their greedy hands to their weak comrades.
"On the surface, they used the banner of rebuilding Earth's civilization in Peach Blossom Town.
"But in truth, they were all extremely selfish people. They only wanted to devour their comrades and spirit beasts so that they and their descendants could become stronger.
"In truth, many of the people in Peach Blossom Town were tired of the endless development and conquest. They just wanted to live a relaxed and carefree life in Peach Blossom Town.
"After all, this place was rich in resources. Just gathering, fishing, and hunting a small number of low-grade spirit beasts was enough for them to live a carefree life. Why was there a need for them to run into the depths of the forest and fight to the death against high-grade spirit beasts?
"But the people who called themselves leaders always had their own set of principles.
"They said things like 'We can't just sit here and wait for death', 'The devastated Earth is still waiting for us to go back, and we have to start from zero', 'If we indulge in the most basic gathering and hunting, our civilization will go back thousands of years', 'If we don't develop our industry and technology again, if we run into powerful enemies, we won't be able to fight back'.
"In any case, these leaders, generals, highest commanders, and first pathfinders used these slogans to force the innocent townsfolk to continue marching into the depths of the forest and fight against the spirit beasts who had no grudges against them.
"But even if the town residents work hard and pay a devastating price to harvest a large amount of high-grade spirit beast materials or risk their lives to dig out crystals that contain rampaging spirit energy from the depths of the mine, the benefits won't end up in everyone's hands. They'll only be snatched by the leaders to help them and their descendants become stronger and harder to overthrow, even if it's just a matter of putting a limit on them.
"Grandpa said that these people had only been wearing hats for a short period of time, and they were starting to show their true colors. They were practically one hundred times worse than the powerful fighters on Earth.
"After all, there was no spirit energy on Earth. No matter how great the difference between people was, at the very least, there wouldn't be much of a difference in their combat strength. Even the most domineering tyrant could be killed with one bullet. So, the powerful fighters on Earth were more or less scrupulous when they did things, and they were willing to set up a set of rules that were fair and just in name to help them rule.
"But in this land filled with spirit energy, the powerful didn't just have money and power. Even their combat strength was ten or even one hundred times that of a normal person. Normal people couldn't fight against them at all, and they could only allow themselves to be slaughtered like low-grade spirit beasts.
"As a result, more and more normal townsfolk realized that the never-ending war for survival was continuously destroying them and the spirit beasts.
"The powerful fighters who stood at the top became stronger, richer, and more ruthless.
"Even though they said that they were rebuilding their civilization, they were only rebuilding the families and forces of power of the powerful fighters. Even if Peach Blossom Town was ten times larger, its technology advanced by a few hundred years, and it had even more destructive weapons, the normal townsfolk still wouldn't be able to obtain many benefits!"
When Gu Ling said all this in one breath, her mouth became dry.
She lowered her head and sucked in a huge mouthful of air.
She sucked the core of the Purple Serow into a straw made of leaves.
"Bah!"
The little girl spat out fiercely, and the core shot out like a bullet, disappearing without a trace.
Meng Chao listened attentively and said, "What happened after that?"
"After that, those damn guys finally got the punishment they deserved."
Gu Ling tilted her head and thought for a while, then said, "It seems that one year, there was a long period of heavy rain. Mountain torrents and mudslides submerged the main crystal mines near Peach Blossom Town.
"The power of those powerful fighters all relied on devouring crystals and continuous cultivation to maintain it. Without the nourishment of crystals and spirit energy for ten days to half a month, they gradually weakened.
"This was the best opportunity. The normal townsfolk could no longer endure the deception and slavery of the powerful fighters, especially the low-level warriors who fought against the spirit beasts in the depths of the jungle. They had long since secretly formed an alliance with the spirit beasts. Everyone worked together to eliminate all the powerful fighters who harmed Peach Blossom Town and nature. From then on, we could live a happy life together!"
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