Lu Siya's words were like a huge axe formed by lightning. It came crashing down on Meng Chao's head, and he had a hard time parrying it.
To a certain extent, Meng Chao knew that Lu Siya was right.
Spirit energy cultivation, runic symbol technology, and gene modification were the three pillars that supported Dragon City's civilization for half a century in the Other World.
And the foundations of these three pillars were built in the abyss of the ancient ruins. They were built on the corpses of millions of innocent citizens who were forced to enter the ruins to explore it.
Blood Alliance was the absolute definition of a demon.
He was a demon brimming with talent, ambition, and a strong desire to explore and conquer.
After the demon fell, its carcass turned into countless research data, experiment logs, and videos of explorations and cultivation. It opened up a strange and exciting new world for all transmigrators. It also allowed the latecomers to turn misfortunes into blessings and avoid a lot of detours.
"Think about it. What if Blood Alliance wasn't around?"
When Lu Siya saw that Meng Chao was silent, she seized the opportunity and said, "If there was another organization at that time, one that wasn't as brutal, evil, and inhuman, and if that organization still upheld the moral principles of Earth and had a little bit of conscience, then it would have been impossible for them to be like Blood Alliance.
"It would have been impossible for them to force hundreds of thousands of citizens to explore the ancient ruins like Blood Alliance.
"It would have been impossible for them to plant bombs and poison that would be released at fixed intervals in the citizens' bodies or use the lives of their wives and children to threaten them so that they would rush into the secrets of the ancient ruins like moths flying into a flame.
"It would also have been impossible for them to immediately send the explorers to the operating table after they finally crawled out of the cracks underground to cut them up and study them.
"At most, this organization could only reach the level of the ruins research center. They used astronomical benefits to sign contracts with the explorers so that the explorers would be willing to take risks.
"They also had to prepare the best medical conditions for the explorers, pay insurance money, and provide compensation money to satisfy the explorers' requests.
"And even if the explorers were willing, the ruins research center would not easily open the forbidden death zones that were too dangerous.
"It's just like right now. There were only a few hundred cases of people being affected by the ancient power in Ancient Ruins No. 2, and not all of them died.
"The major forces of power were forced to work together to close Ancient Ruins No. 2 and conduct a full inspection.
"A few hundred cases, just a few hundred cases! If they were placed in the era when Blood Alliance explored Ruins No. 1, this would be nothing. It would just be a week or even a day's worth of resources.
"This method is, of course, very safe, very stable, and very humanitarian.
"But what about efficiency? What about the efficiency that could determine the survival of a civilization?
"Meng Chao, you might have to admit that if the heinous Blood Alliance in the past had been replaced by an organization with a little bit of humanity, the efficiency of Dragon City's exploration of the ancient ruins wouldn't have been so high. We might have to spend another thirty years, fifty years, or even one hundred years to slowly accumulate the data, theories, and fighting strength Blood Alliance left us.
"The problem is, at that time, Dragon City didn't have 100 years, 50 years, or 30 years. We didn't even have 10 years!
"Soon after the zombie crisis subsided, the Monster War erupted at full force.
"There are only a few short years between zombies and monsters. It's an incredibly important and precious window.
"Fortunately, Blood Alliance rose to power and used an incredibly brutal method to seize the fleeting window. Before the monster horde arrived, they gathered enough powerful fighters and fighting strength for Dragon City.
"The demon from Blood Alliance might have died, but the dead lingering in the sky above Dragon City used an incredibly brutal and evil method to save our civilization.
"And this is something that no organization that is bright, just, humane, and has the greatest sympathy for the citizens can do. Even if the people who formed the organization are all heroes who are willing to risk their lives for others and are willing to do anything for their homes, they can't do it.
"The more heroic they are, the heavier their burdens will be. In the end, they will be trapped and unable to move forward.
"Besides, where are we supposed to find so many heroes?
"Meng Chao, do you agree with this?"
Meng Chao smiled coldly. "Now that you put it that way, I think that the leader of Blood Alliance is a pure and flawless saint surrounded by halos. So, everything he's doing is for our civilization!"
"Of course the leader of Blood Alliance isn't a saint. Everything he does isn't for our civilization, but is that important?"
"Lu Siya" said nonchalantly. "Since ancient times, there have been many emperors who created great achievements. Were they all for the country, the people, or for some incredibly grand and noble goal?
"The dazzling palaces and miraculous buildings were originally built to satisfy the selfish desires of the emperors or to win the favor of the gods.
"When the emperor's ambition burns, millions of people will die. Their corpses will turn into a force that is one hundred times more terrifying than a landslide. That's why they can sweep through other countries and build a vast empire that stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers.
"Digging canals, building city walls, building magnificent pyramids, solemn churches, and royal gardens that are filled with treasures that are like paradise … All of these will take hundreds of years, and tens of thousands of lives will be piled up in them.
"So what?
"Millions of years have passed. Countless empires have risen and fallen. Countless normal people who are like ants have been born and died. Everything in the past has disappeared. Even their roars and wails have long since faded away with the wind. They have become meaningless.
"But these miracles created by the ambition of the rulers who used brutal methods to squeeze out the lives of millions of innocent people still stand there and tell the people who come later what civilization is without batting an eyelid!
"Meng Chao, if you and I had the chance to return to the current Earth, there's a high possibility that human civilization would have already been destroyed by a full-scale nuclear war. All the skyscrapers and laughter would be gone. The entire world would be enveloped in terrifying dust and sandstorms. Even if there were survivors, they would have turned into deformed monsters. They would be like bullfrogs with their skin removed or spiders and ants that were grafted together.
"But I believe that the pyramids still stand there. They stand in the nuclear winter that is filled with lead clouds.
"Imagine this. When you look at the devastated land, you see deformed and mutated humans, and you see the rusty, broken, and broken walls that are covered in dust, you won't be able to find a single trace of civilization.
"At that moment, you would see the pyramids standing under the lead clouds, in the sandstorms, and above the wastelands.
"In front of this sort of civilization, would the method and motive of building the pyramids and the slaves who died tragically thousands of years ago still be important?"
"Perhaps to the people in the future thousands of years later, the good and evil of Blood Alliance wouldn't be important. During the early stages of Dragon City's transmigration, the lives and deaths of millions of citizens wouldn't be important either. At that time, these things would have already become history and numbers."
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath and said firmly, "But I'm not living thousands of years ago, and I'm not living thousands of years later either. I'm living right now, and I'm living in the current Dragon City!
"In my world, the millions of citizens aren't history, and neither are they numbers. Their laughter and cries have yet to fade away with the wind. When I explored the depths of Ruins No. 1, I often found their corpses that had not completely rotted away. I could sense their pain and their souls that were in desperate need to be saved!
"If you're really Lu Siya, you should know that I'm an orphan. I was adopted by Meng Yishan and Bai Suxin, and my birth parents have long since disappeared due to the chaos of war.
'Then, there's a high possibility that my birth parents were one of the innocent people who were forced by Blood Alliance to enter the ancient ruins to explore the area!
"My birth parents might be in the depths of the ancient ruins. They might have been infected by the Other World viruses and turned into deformed monsters!
"My birth parents might be on the operating table right now. They might be facing the butcher's knives covered in blood in the hands of those inhuman monsters in human skin!
"Now, you want me to believe that these monsters in human skin and inhuman demons actually saved Dragon City?
"Even if I believe it, will my birth parents and the millions of innocent citizens who were killed by Blood Alliance and whose souls wander about the ancient ruins all day believe it and accept it?
"It's meaningless whether they believe it or accept it, because they're stragglers. It's impossible for any race or civilization to bring all of them forward. There will always be people who fall behind, and there will always be people who have to sacrifice themselves. If we think that we can't leave a single person behind and that we must protect and save every single one of them, the end result will be the destruction of our entire race and civilization," Lu Siya said indifferently.
"The super abnormal beast, the Wisdom Tree, didn't lie to us about this. I believe that you've read a lot of ancient information through the microcomputer and know that there might be a large number of native civilizations scattered in the boundless Other World, the deep sea beyond the continents, and the galaxy above the deep sea.
"They are known as natives, but the fighting strength of these civilizations might not be as weak as the native tribes on Earth. They have been baptized by the ancient people and their mother's bodies, so there's a high possibility that they have the power to destroy Dragon City.
"The fog over the past half a century has completely separated Dragon City from the outside world. It's like … the newbie protection period in games.
"And the zombie crisis, the Monster War, and the brutal competition among humans after order collapsed are like trials and tutorials for newbies.
"It's precisely because we paid the price in blood that we were able to successfully clear the newbie trial. Before the fog completely scattered, we gained enough fighting strength and gained the right to face the even more dangerous and grand battlefields.
"If we weren't willing to pay the price in blood and didn't go through the baptism of the Monster War, there wouldn't be madmen and demons like Blood Alliance who would use methods like killing each other and exploiting us cruelly to force all Dragon Citizens to cultivate, cultivate, and cultivate!
"We're still as weak as we were when we first transmigrated. How are we supposed to conquer the Other World and create a future? The moment the fog scatters, we might be torn to shreds by the threats beyond Monster Mountain Range! "
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