"Meaningless?"
Meng Chao endured the pain and laughed wantonly. "You've already been forced by us to reveal your true colors, and you're saying that all of this is meaningless? Even if there's only a one in a billion chance, we'll turn into two poisonous thorns in your subconscious and destroy you in the end! "
"No, you misunderstand," the skeletal giant said without batting an eyelid.
"I'm not saying that you don't even have a one in a billion chance of destroying me. I'm saying that even if you destroy me, it's meaningless.
"Meng Chao, it's good that you thought about the possibility that there's a second microbrain in your mother's body.
"But why didn't you think that since there's a second microbrain, there might be a third, a fourth, a fifth, and a hundredth microbrain?
"Alright, even if most of the microbrains were destroyed by the space-based orbital weapons of the ancient people, at the very least, some brain cells were preserved and recovered after millions of years of hibernation. This is something that can be done.
"Now, here's the question. Do you think that Lu Siya is the only human I chose to fuse with?"
"What?"
Meng Chao and Lu Siya were stunned at the same time.
A moment later, the two of them, whose minds were spinning at lightning speed, could not help but break out in cold sweat on their foreheads and spines.
"That's impossible …" Meng Chao mumbled.
Meng Chao mumbled, "You chose someone else as your host?"
"Everyone. I chose everyone," the skeletal giant said calmly.
"Don't you understand? There were many times when I practically threw the answer right in your face, but why did you ignore it?
"The Monster War doesn't exist at all. Perhaps more accurately speaking, it's not a real war at all. It's just a trial, and it's a necessary part in creating a perfect monster."
"Perfect monsters?"
Meng Chao's pupils shrank. "Are you talking about the Ultimate Apocalyptic Beasts you created in the monster nests?"
"Of course not. Those creatures only have brute strength but only submit to the most basic hunger and lust. They only know how to destroy things at the lowest level. How could they have the right to be called perfect monsters?"
The Skeletal Giant let out a deep chuckle. The red light that was like a searchlight shone on Meng Chao and Lu Siya, as if it wanted to illuminate their bones, organs, nerves, and even souls.
"The unique and irreplaceable perfect monster in my heart is you, humans!"
Its voice was like a great bell as it revealed the mystery.
"What?!"
Meng Chao and Lu Siya widened their eyes.
"There are no monsters that are more perfect than humans. No, compared to humans, these creatures have no ambition or desire to conquer. They only need to satisfy their appetites and have no other desires. They're no different from livestock. What right do they have to be called monsters?"
The Skeletal Giant extended an arm that was more than one hundred meters long and used a finger that was thicker than Meng Chao's entire body to point at him. "Humans are the only ones who still feel hungry no matter how much food you eat. No matter how much money you have, you still feel poor. Even if you don't want to reproduce, you still want to control all the opposite sex. Even if you occupy the most fertile land, you still feel cramped. Even if you create unprecedented achievements, you still can't obtain eternal peace and happiness. Instead, you feel gloomy and sigh. In fact, you even cry because you can't conquer anything anymore.
"You're born bloodthirsty and murderous. You do everything by hook or by crook. You don't care about the consequences. You want to conquer everything within sight and beyond. You claim to be the spirits of all living things, and you don't want any carbon-based creatures to climb over your heads, not even your own kind.
"To fight for the illusory supreme throne, you even started a thermonuclear war and destroyed your own home planet!
"If all of you aren't considered perfect monsters, then who else is more qualified to be given that name?"
Meng Chao fell silent.
"During the ancient war billions of years ago, I commanded the so-called monsters who only looked impressive. I tried it once, and the results were just as you know," the Skeletal Giant continued.
"Regardless of whether it was the prehistoric beasts that were huge and were more than one hundred kilometers long or the Sky Piercing Towers formed by billions of monsters gathered together, none of them managed to break through the defenses of the ancients and rush into the endless galaxy.
"Even if I can devour Mother 02 to Mother 99 and return to the peak of my form during the ancient war and create the prehistoric beasts that are identical to them, so what?
"I'll still suffer a crushing defeat, just like I did billions of years ago, and I'll be forever sealed on this damn planet!
"So, this time, I changed my strategy. To declare war on the galaxy again, I chose a brand new main force, and it's you, the perfect monsters, humans!
"When I first came into contact with you, I was surprised and delighted to discover that there were two powers in your bodies at the same time. The power of the ancients and the power of the mother.
"I don't know about your origins.
"I am just a tiny fragment that was split from the remains of the destructive, omnipotent mother during the primordial war after it was bombarded by the space-based orbital weapons that were almost obliterated.
"I lost a lot of my memories regarding the mother. I don't know what reason it or the ancients used to create you.
"But I realized that seemingly indestructible fortresses are usually destroyed from the inside. Since you have such a strange power in your bodies, perhaps you can help me.
"That's why I awakened and created a large number of monsters. The low-grade soldiers that should have been eliminated a long time ago formed a monster horde that filled the entire galaxy and started the Monster War.
"My goal in starting the Monster War wasn't to defeat or even destroy Dragon City.
"I knew it very well. During the first second I started the war, I knew it even better than all of you that the monsters who were strong on the outside but weak on the inside would definitely not be able to win the Monster War and destroy your civilization.
"I didn't want to destroy your civilization at all. On the contrary, I wanted to shape your civilization and help you become stronger so that your civilization would be able to advance faster along the path I set.
"I wanted to help you get used to the brutal environment in the Other World as soon as possible. I wanted to use the monsters as a whetstone to turn you into a Dragon City civilization that was completely different from Earth. I wanted you to become the sharpest saber that could destroy everything and tear through the seal on this planet so that we could rush into the galaxy together.
"At the same time, I could also slowly observe and filter through the Monster War to search for the strongest among you.
"The strong prey on the weak, and the victors are kings. The more brutal the war is, the easier it will be for powerful people like you and Lu Siya to stand out.
"As long as I choose powerful people I like, I will naturally have all sorts of ways to have my strength and will subtly seep into their minds.
"No, no, no. The 'leakage of ancient germs and contamination of mysterious power' that happened in the ancient ruins was just the simplest and crudest method. It was to divert your attention and make you think that the power of the ancient era can only be manifested through such a ridiculous method, such as turning humans into giant, pitch-black bugs. That's all.
"No, the people who went berserk and turned into insects aren't my chosen ones.
"The real chosen ones are those who have fought bloody battles in monster hordes that filled the sky, trained in the wild where no one went, and stared into the abyss for a long time in the depths of the ancient ruins.
"Through the monsters' fangs and claws, the spores that fluttered in the wind in the wild, and the ancient summoning that only he could hear in the abyss, I have carefully chosen quite a number of chosen ones.
"This work has been going on for several decades.
"Many of the chosen ones became war heroes due to their outstanding performance in the Monster War. They enjoyed a lot of war benefits and became lecturers in universities, ace instructors, higher-ups in corporations, and even leaders of families.
"Even they themselves may not be aware that the power and will that originate from the primordial era has long since taken root and sprouted in the depths of their brains. It is incessantly stimulating their ambitions and desires, causing them to grow madly like weeds and vines during the rainy season.
"Now, they are gathered together, singing, drinking, and celebrating the victory of the Monster War.
"They are also racking their brains to think about how they can divide the monster civilization's legacy and how they can use the resources and prestige they accumulated during the war to continuously expand, monopolize, and become stronger.
"But they don't know that this isn't just your victory, it's also my victory.
"We worked together to destroy the old-fashioned, stupid first-generation monsters that can no longer adapt to the development of the times and the needs of the future war. We created the stronger, more agile, and fiercer second-generation monsters.
"This is a win-win situation, right?
"So, even if you face death with equanimity, even if you never submit, even if you miraculously think of a way to destroy me and die with me, what's the point?
"Your courage will turn into your epitaphs, but the other chosen ones will still walk down the path I planned. They will stride forward and advance triumphantly. They will upgrade Dragon City's civilization to Monster Civilization 2.0. In the end, they will complete their wish from billions of years ago and conquer the Other World to rush into the galaxy!"
The skeletal giant let out a shocking roar.
Dark, phosphorescence gushed out of the intersecting bone gaps and dark eye sockets of each of the broken monster skeletons around him.
Countless phosphorescent flames gathered together, as if they had formed an indestructible armor over it. It also gave it the presence of a deity that had descended into the world.
And under the phosphorescent armor were billions of monster carcasses. They squirmed madly, split up, and recombined. In an instant, the bone-cracking and grating sounds rose, and all of them changed into human skeletons!
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