This scene of humans and beasts exchanging places made Meng Chao's skin crawl.
Then, he remembered Gao Ye, the human who had put his soul into the body of a super Giant Sandworm and turned into the Supernatural Entity Earthquake.
More Peach Blossom Town residents surged forward like a tidal wave.
Like Ancient Spirits, they held or carried a large number of industrial products from Earth.
Most of them were wearing clothes from Earth or had broken phones and computers that could not be turned on.
There were also people riding on monsters. The monsters either carried or pulled black engines on their backs.
Judging from the bumps and hollows on the engine, the people had already vented their anger at the "evil technology" before they pulled it here.
Meng Chao also saw a few burly men carrying a few plastic models high in the air.
These plastic models were all dressed in suits and leather shoes. They had a lot of phones and computers tied to their bodies. They looked like they were wearing ugly armor.
Her face was painted with a mixture of avarice, anxiety, and perplexity.
Some people used lipstick that had expired a long time ago to draw a big red cross on the plastic model's face.
When the burly men finally carried the plastic models to the Wisdom Tree and stuck them in the intertwined vines, many of the Peach Blossom Town residents came forward angrily and spat on them.
Meng Chao guessed that these plastic models should be the symbol of the "evil Earthlings".
Spitting on them meant that they drew a clear line between themselves and Earth's civilization and even swore to be enemies.
This kind of action of punishing evil idols during celebrations and praying for good luck in the coming year was a very common ritual in many primitive and medieval civilizations.
Peach Blossom Town, which originated from modern Earth, had only traveled through time for around half a century, and it had already embarked on the path of irreversible degradation?
Meng Chao sighed in his heart.
At that moment, the huge crown of the Wisdom Tree swayed, and countless vines stretched out one after another, forming a staircase that led downwards slowly.
A man wearing a black wooden mask and a gorgeous feathered robe, who looked like a colorful bear, slowly walked down the vine staircase.
He walked very slowly, just in time to give the intoxicated and reveling Peach Blossom Town residents time to calm down.
From the crown of the tree that was hundreds of meters tall, he walked all the way until he was about twenty meters away from the ground before he stopped.
The vine stairs under his feet naturally turned into the shape of a lotus.
There were indeed beautiful flowers that crawled out of the gaps of the vines tenaciously and bloomed slowly. Their pollen spurted out like spores, forming gorgeous and mysterious garlands around the man.
Meng Chao noticed that the left side of the man's mask was that of a human, and the right side was that of a monster. There was also a small tree with branches that swung around like tentacles on his forehead. Dozens of tentacles wrapped around the human and monster's eyes. The entire picture was incredibly strange.
The head behind the black wooden mask had white hair and beard.
At this time, only Guling's grandfather, the mayor of the Peach Blossom Town, was qualified to descend from the depths of the Wisdom Tree.
Just as he expected, Ancient Spirit tugged at Meng Chao gently and winked at him to tell him that it was her grandfather. The Harvest Ceremony was about to begin!
"People of the Peach Blossom Town!"
After everybody was quiet and the square that accommodated tens of thousands of people was dead silent, the mayor cleared his throat and finally opened his mouth. "A long, long time ago, although our ancestors escaped from hell, their souls were still burnt by the invisible, haunting hellfire. As a result, they could not understand the true meaning of 'life' and 'civilization'. However, their desires were insatiable, and they wanted to turn the new world that they finally arrived in into a new hell!
"They almost succeeded!
"In those years, the Peach Blossom Town was a large factory, a large barracks, a colosseum where the strong bullied, enslaved, and toyed with the weak. Aside from a few powerful people who were high up in the hierarchy, most of the town residents lived precarious and miserable lives.
"And the green mountains and clear waters around the Peach Blossom Town, the birds and the fragrance of flowers, were also messed up by them.
"Now that we think about it, we are still afraid. If they had really succeeded in turning the Peach Blossom Town into a new Earth, a living hell with dirty air, roaring machines, and people either scheming against each other or being indifferent and alienated, it would have been an irredeemable sin!
"Fortunately, at the critical moment, the Wisdom Tree saved us.
"The spirit beasts that were hurt by our ancestors also accepted us regardless of the past and gave us a chance to turn over a new leaf.
"From that day on, we swore to draw a clear line with the way of life, social structure, and civilization on Earth. We wanted to explore a path that was completely different from the civilization on Earth, which would eventually destroy itself.
"The Harvest Ceremony every year is a way for us to express our sincerest gratitude to the Wisdom Tree. We thank it for protecting the entire Peach Blossom Town and making it a paradise for humans and spirit beasts.
"It is also a 'regular treatment' that we must undergo. During the Harvest Ceremony, we will completely open our hearts and examine each other's souls to see whether the evil genes from Earth have sprouted in the depths of our brains again!"
When Meng Chao heard this, his heart froze.
He was especially sensitive to the words "completely open our hearts and examine each other's souls".
It has to be known that in his previous life, the greatest threat to Dragon City was not the Apocalyptic Beasts that had the power to destroy the world.
Instead, it was the intelligent monsters that had a deep understanding of humans and could imitate them to perfection.
The Supernatural Entities were the best of the best.
Now, there were still a total of five Supernatural Entities that had yet to show up!
The mastermind of the monsters might be able to use genetic modifications to create the powerful physical bodies of the Supernatural Entities.
However, the ability to play with the free will of humans was probably something that could only be cultivated by tens of thousands of humans opening their souls, right?
"There is something different about the Harvest Ceremony this year compared to the previous years. Peach Blossom Town welcomed a group of pitiful guests. They are our compatriots from Dragon City!"
The mayor changed the topic and suddenly mentioned Meng Chao and the other Dragon Citizens.
But there was not much animosity or malice in his words. Instead, just like Ancient Spirit, he was filled with deep sympathy and pity.
"Through their stories, we learned that Peach Blossom Town was not the only one who escaped from Earth. All of Dragon City escaped as well."
The mayor sighed and continued, "Unfortunately, their luck was not as good as ours. They did not run into the wisdom tree when they transmigrated. Besides, there were too many of them, and the inertia of Earth's civilization was too strong. The spirit beasts around Dragon City were too weak, so they could not stop this sinful inertia.
"That's why the current Dragon City still maintains the dark, tragic, decaying, and declining civilization from Earth.
"The current Dragon City is the embodiment of Earth's sins.
"A handful of people from the nine great cultivation families use the nine great mega corporations as tools to control Dragon City's management system. They monopolize most of the resources and become peerless fighters who stand at the top and act like tyrants.
"Most of the normal citizens and low-grade warriors can only struggle under the unfair rules of the game created by the peerless fighters. They have to endure the peerless fighters' enslavement, deceit, and oppression. It's the same as Peach Blossom Town in the past.
"When we, the people of Peach Garden, enjoy delicious mushrooms and fruits equally regardless of our status, strength, and wealth, the normal citizens in Dragon City can only eat the leftovers of spirit beasts and disgusting canned food made with chemicals, but the powerful fighters from the nine great cultivation families can leisurely cut off the tenderloins of high-grade spirit beasts and feed them to the dogs crawling at their feet!
"When the people of Peach Garden wake up in the bushes and sea of flowers filled with the chirping of birds and the fragrance of flowers, our gazes are not blocked by railings and walls, and we can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the city, the normal citizens in Dragon City can only struggle to climb up from the dark and narrow slums that are even worse than rat nests to do hard and dangerous work in exchange for those disgusting synthetic canned food." But the powerful fighters from the nine great cultivation families can stretch their backs comfortably in their beautiful palaces. They don't need to go out to work either. They just need to continuously train and strengthen themselves so that they can ensure that they have absolute power that is above that of normal citizens. That's enough.
"While the people of Peach Blossom sing and dance with the spirit beasts every day and are as close as family, the normal citizens of Dragon City are being driven by all sorts of lies and violence to go into the wild to fight against spirit beasts they don't know.
"Countless people die pointlessly, and some lucky people only lose a few organs and limbs.
"However, the spoils of war they get with their lives are shamelessly snatched away by the nine great cultivation families.
"Over the past half a year alone, after killing countless pitiful spirit beasts, the nine great cultivation families have been occupying land at the perimeter of Dragon City. They have practically swallowed up land that is even larger than the total area of Dragon City. They have occupied countless crystal mines filled with spirit energy and turned them into their independent kingdoms.
"In these independent kingdoms, the children of the cultivation families don't even need to leave their houses, but they can obtain practically endless cultivation resources. Through all sorts of financial tools, they can control the price of cultivation resources, and without any effort, they can obtain a profit that is one hundred times greater than what they would get if they were to fight." Even if they fight in the wild, they have a large group of people surrounding them, and they have super firepower to support them. The difficulty in obtaining war achievements and the probability of them dying is one hundred times lower than that of normal citizens who have no power or power!
"We've been living in Peach Blossom Town for a long time, so we didn't expect that there would be such an unfair and preposterous thing in the world!
"But I'm definitely not making this up. All of you have guests from Dragon City by your side. As long as you ask them, the truth will naturally come to light!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. For a period of time, countless gazes were cast on Meng Chao and Lu Siya.
Lu Siya had long since become friends with the people of Peach Blossom Town, so everyone knew her.
Meng Chao's presence that did not fit in with the crowd made him look like a firefly in the dark. He was instantly noticed by the people.
Of course, Meng Chao was not the only one who had such a presence.
The explorers from Piranha Squad and Lu Siya's squad, along with Railway Cannon Long Feijun and the other powerful fighters from the Red Dragon Army, were scattered in the crowd like stars. They were being monitored by the people of Peach Blossom Town and the monsters.
They could only use their gazes to greet each other from the distance and mark their own kind.
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