As the wisdom tree spoke, the semi-transparent images appeared.
When Peach Blossom Town transmigrated over, the humans fought against the heavens and earth. It was a touching and tragic sight, but they also schemed against each other and fought against each other.
Regardless of whether it was fighting against the flood, fog, or monsters, or fighting against each other for resources, the humans did everything they could to fight, and the battles that surpassed all human nature were one hundred times more brutal than those in the main city area of Dragon City.
That was only natural.
Since the main city area had a large population, a lot of resources, and all kinds of industries, it was located at the center of the basin surrounded by Monster Mountain Range. It was far away from the mountains and jungles like Hidden Fog Domain, where monsters roamed freely. Relatively speaking, the difficulty of survival was much lower.
Peach Blossom Town was just a satellite city. It was in charge of all the industries and technology in Great Dragon City, so it was impossible for it to be like the main city area. It could not store a lot of resources or have all kinds of machines and technology. In fact, it did not even have an army or an armory.
But they transmigrated to Hidden Fog Domain, which was the headquarters of the monsters.
They also had to face the conflict between Red Dragon River and Tiger's Rage River, which resulted in an incredibly intense flood.
It could be said that it was a true "Hell's Beginning".
When faced with the choice of survival or destruction, the nobility and despicableness of human nature were squeezed to the limit, and they released the most beautiful and ugliest light.
Hence, Peach Blossom Town was a microcosm of Dragon City. It was a microcosm that was more extreme, shorter, and more intense.
"I saw in the memories of the people of Peach Blossom Town that the humans who sacrificed themselves like marching ants all died. They used their lives to fight for a chance of survival for Peach Blossom Town. However, Peach Blossom Town, which survived, fell into the hands of those who were as selfish and unscrupulous as the rampaging rats," the wisdom tree continued.
"I read a sentence in the mind of a human who wore glasses and seemed to be a teacher. 'Despicableness is the pass of the despicable, nobility is the epitaph of the noble.' It seems to be quite suitable to describe what happened in the early days of Peach Blossom Town's transmigration.
"In any case, the humans who were like rampaging rats won.
"That's normal.
"There is no such thing as good or evil in nature. When a group of army ants and a group of ferocious rats meet, the former's noble, great, and glorious sacrificial spirit will not automatically allow them to win.
"However, humans who were as selfish and cunning as ferocious rats, after they seized control of Peach Blossom Town, their actions confused me, who was ignorant at that time.
"They clearly control most of the resources in Peach Blossom Town — canned food, batteries, drinking water, compressed food, and medicines that they brought from Earth. Almost all of them are in their hands.
"But they are still racking their brains and thinking hard about how to plunder the remaining resources from the other townspeople, as if they can only feel at ease when they have 100% of the resources in their hands.
"And when these ferocious rats realized that all the resources were concentrated in their hands, they didn't hesitate for a second and immediately started fighting and killing each other.
"It's as if there's only one human in the entire city who can control 100% of the resources and become the supreme ruler.
"This is something that has never happened even in a real pack of ferocious rats.
"Of course, the ferocious rats will also kill each other for food, nests, and the right to reproduce, but this kind of killing is usually limited.
"No matter how strong a ferocious rat is, as long as it has more than half a year's worth of food in its nest and a dozen female rats that can inherit its genes, it will be satisfied.
"But the strong people in Peach Blossom Town clearly have enough canned food and medicine that they won't be able to finish in ten to twenty years, yet they still want to fight for more resources. Why is that?
"Also, the way they kill their competitors and resisters is especially cruel. It's normal for them to torture their competitors for three days and three nights. Some humans have been tortured for ten days to half a month and turned into rotten skeletons, but they are still alive. Even I would have nightmares if I saw them!
"Torturing their enemies is another thing that monsters rarely do.
"For monsters, hunting is just hunting. It's to obtain energy and extend their survival time so that their genes can spread. It's that simple.
"No matter how ferocious a monster looks, it only takes them one second to kill their prey, and they won't feel much pain.
"Yes, there are indeed some feline-type monsters who will play the game of 'catch and release, release, and catch' on their prey, but that is to hone their hunting skills, not to feel their prey's pain.
"There are also some insect-type monsters who will plant their eggs in their prey's body after they paralyze their prey. They will gradually melt and suck their prey's flesh until it becomes an empty shell. Then, a large number of larvae will explode. This way of dying can be said to be cruel, but it's for the sake of inheriting their genes. It's not because they really have great malice towards their prey.
"Only humans don't do it to hone their hunting skills, nor do they do it to reproduce. It's as if they don't need any goals. They can obtain indescribable pleasure from torturing their own kind and releasing extreme pain.
"The strange thing is that humans are quite good to monsters.
"Of course humans kill monsters, but their goal is to obtain food, raw materials, and eliminate threats. These goals are all within the scope of my understanding.
"Even if they cut monsters into pieces and dissect them for research purposes, I can understand and accept it.
"But humans rarely torture monsters for hatred and pleasure.
"It's as if your hatred and pleasure can only be satisfied by torturing your own kind."
Meng Chao fell silent.
Regardless of how much the wisdom tree was exaggerating and how many lies it lied to him, this was something he could not refute.
"I think that the people who act like rampaging rats are very stupid," the wisdom tree continued calmly.
The Wisdom Tree continued to say calmly, "They occupied most of the resources, but they also created too much hatred. At that time, they had just traveled to this world and had just begun to absorb spiritual energy. They stumbled on the road of cultivation, and there was still a gap between their individual combat power. Quantity was still very important.
"But they don't care about the weaklings who are like ants and weeds. They think that the weaklings who have nothing have already submitted to them, so they target the powerful people who have a lot of resources just like them. As they kill each other, they continuously wear each other down, and at some point in time, they become weaker.
"But what they don't know is that to the weak, having nothing is a form of power.
"In the end, after an incredibly devastating fight between the powerful, the weak united under the lead of a righteous, determined, kind, selfless, and dedicated leader. They rose up and defeated and killed all the powerful people.
"They put the experts who once had canned food, medicine, and entire skyscrapers that they could not finish for decades, and they put them in tires. They slowly lit the tires and let the flames burn slowly, slowly, and weakly.
"The powerful people were licked by the flames, and large black blisters appeared on their bodies. Rather than saying that they were burned to death, it would be better to say that they were slowly roasted to death.
"While the powerful people wailed, the righteous, determined, kind, selfless, and dedicated leader solemnly announced that they had already taken back the resources that the powerful people had stolen. From today onwards, they should use these resources to upgrade and expand Peach Blossom Town. They wanted to be army ants, not rampaging rats. They had to be united and not selfish. Everyone had to do their best and contribute all their strength so that Peach Blossom Town could survive in the foggy, dangerous Foreign World.
"The weak people of the past became the masters of Peach Blossom Town. Their cheers resounded through the monster-infested forests.
"This scene made me realize something.
"So it turns out that humans are a race that can seamlessly switch between 'Army Ants' and 'Berserk Rats'. They can freely choose the most optimal survival strategy according to the difference in their living environment. As expected of a high-level race that once touched the stars!
"But what happened next shocked me.
"In the beginning, the righteous, determined, kind, selfless, and dedicated leader did fulfill his promise. He distributed all the survival resources fairly, fairly, and openly. He took the lead to explore the fog, fought against the monsters, and fought against the flood. There were several times when he almost died under the claws of the monsters and the raging mountain torrents.
"I have never seen such a leader with such a spirit of sacrifice and leadership in any monster race.
"However, when I was praising him, and I was even wondering whether I should reveal my true form and explain the situation of the world around me to him. I wanted to invite him to join my neural network and use his abilities and personality to make Peach Blossom Town and the jungle more advanced, prosperous, and beautiful, he unknowingly went through a transformation.
"Perhaps the harshness of the jungle was beyond his imagination, and it made him feel despair about the future of Peach Blossom Town.
"Perhaps the scourges and beasts were too powerful, and it made him discover the darkest side in the depths of his soul when he was between life and death.
"Of course, the most likely reason is that he gradually discovered the secret of spirit energy during the endless battles. He discovered that this was a world with supernatural powers, that he could cultivate, and that he could even become a god.
"Having spirit energy and being able to cultivate meant that the gap between individuals of intelligent carbon-based life could be widened to an unimaginable degree.
"It meant that he did not need the support and help of his own kind. As long as he monopolized all the cultivation resources, he would have the chance to become stronger and become an existence that was stronger than any human or monster.
"It meant that he had the chance to obtain one hundred times the strength and lifespan. Even if Peach Blossom Town was destroyed, he would still be able to continue living in this harsh world, and perhaps even live a better life.
"After realizing this, our righteous, determined, kind, selfless, and dedicated leader became depraved in an instant.
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