As they stared at the giant formed by billions of human skeletons, Meng Chao and Lu Siya gritted their teeth, and their limbs turned cold.
The phosphorescent flames surrounding the skeletal giant spread toward them through the vines that looked like nerves.
"Of course, I chose carefully, and the most perfect chosen ones are still the two of you," it said faintly.
"The other Chosen Ones are either too old, or after decades of life and death fighting, in addition to the crazy division and growth of their cells that I stimulated, their bodies and souls have suffered irrecoverable damage.
"They're already in their twilight years, and it's time for them to be eliminated.
"But among the so-called Golden Generation, who has more talent, more potential, more glorious achievements, more influence that can shake the entire city, more complicated connections, and an astronomical amount of resources than the two of you?
"So, even though I can do it easily, I don't want to extinguish the flames of your souls, just like how I extinguish two candles in a storm.
"Right now, you only have two paths in front of you.
"You can either persist in your path and put up a stubborn resistance, and in the end, you will die a meaningless death.
"Perhaps I can preserve a wisp of your fragmented soul so that you can watch Dragon City — Monster Civilization 2.0 — charge into an unpredictable future like a burning tank under the lead of the other chosen ones. You will win or lose, be glorious or destroyed. You won't be able to change anything.
"Or, you can fuse with me and become the leader of the chosen ones. Even though you will lose some things, at the very least, you will have some hope to change the future. You will have the chance to turn Dragon City — Monster Civilization 2.0 into what you want it to be.
"This isn't a difficult choice.
"Facing death with equanimity might not be the highest form of courage. It might also be the greatest form of irresponsibility.
"If you recognize the brutality of the world and still summon your courage to do everything you can to survive, then you will be able to turn hope into a future, right?"
The skeletal giant's voice suddenly became deep and hoarse.
Originally, the voice that came out of its chest and exploded in Meng Chao and Lu Siya's minds was like a furious thunderclap.
But now, there was a hint of a seductive femininity to its voice, and it surged into the depths of their souls along with the dark phosphorescent flames.
Meng Chao was gradually captivated and hypnotized by the voice.
His hands and feet felt weak and powerless.
The thousands of skeletons around him seemed to have turned into mollusks that crawled, covered, and devoured his body inch by inch.
It was as if he had sunk into the finest quicksand, sinking into the depths of the skeleton.
From the gaps of every skeleton and the dark eye sockets, countless red tentacles that looked like Blood Flower mycelium crawled out. They were like the skeletal giant's nerves and crawled into his brain.
Meng Chao heard fragmented murmurs from the depths of his mind.
He didn't know if it was the Primordial Summoning.
Or was it his truest voice?
"Perhaps the mastermind of the monsters is right.
'It's only by changing human civilization into Monster Civilization 2.0 that we have hope of saving Dragon City.
"The extraordinary beings of the Other World are just too strong. Without the help of the mastermind, it's impossible for us to conquer the Other World, and it's also impossible for us to figure out the mystery of transmigration. We can't figure out … where we came from and how important our mission is.
"It's meaningless. There's no point in dying here.
"I have to live. If I live, I'll have hope. I'll be able to change the future and contribute even more to Dragon City.
"Everyone will die. Tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of Dragon Citizens will be burned to ashes by the flames of destruction. This is something I saw with my own eyes during the apocalypse!
"To save millions of Dragon Citizens' lives, what's wrong with sacrificing millions of Dragon Citizens? They were going to die anyway! "
These chaotic thoughts were like sticky venom. They were sent into the depths of Meng Chao's soul by the skeletal giant's blood nerves.
Now, Meng Chao was devoured by thousands of skeletons. Only half of his face was visible.
Strands of translucent blood vessels appeared in his eyes. Very soon, his eyes were about to turn into two emotionless scarlet diamonds.
Through his red eyes, Meng Chao saw that Lu Siya was also completely enveloped by thorny vines and turned into a huge green cocoon.
The green cocoon was dragged to the center of the skeletal giant's brows by the vines.
The center of the skeletal giant's brows split open and turned into a vertical mouth.
The green cocoon shuddered slightly. This was Lu Siya's final struggle.
But as the bewitching venom continued surging into it, the strength of the shuddering became weaker.
"This is … the final …"
Meng Chao closed his eyes.
He simply allowed the squirming skeletons to completely submerge him.
Just when the last two pieces of shattered bones were about to cover his eyes …
Suddenly …
As his thoughts spun, a dazzling bolt of lightning tore through Meng Chao's mind, causing him to shudder.
He opened his eyes, and his pupils shrank into two atomic nuclei that were about to fuse!
'No, that's not right. I was wrong. Everyone was wrong. All of Dragon City was wrong!'
At the moment his mental defenses were about to completely crumble, Meng Chao's mind suddenly jumped out of his blind spot, and he noticed an incredibly terrifying truth.
Regardless of whether it was his previous life or his current life, Dragon City had never won the Monster War.
'If the monster mastermind wasn't lying and the Monster War was a scheme it came up with to invade Dragon City from the start, and its goal was to infiltrate Dragon City, not to destroy it. This wouldn't have changed just because I returned to the past!
'This means that Dragon City's civilization paid a devastating price in my previous life and sacrificed countless heroes, including Battle God Lei Zongchao. They thought that they won a pyrrhic victory, but in truth, all of this was within the mastermind's plans. It was the final victor of the Monster War!
'Humans seized the victory in front of them.
'But it seized Dragon City's future!
'That's right. In my previous life, after Dragon City won the Monster War, it didn't even catch its breath. It was immediately dragged into an even larger colonization war that was ten times more devastating — the Other World War!
'Everyone seemed to have gone mad. They killed, conquered, plundered, devoured, and destroyed!
"The trembling natives of the Other World call us the Extraordinary Calamity. Our allies who are just as merciless as us call us the Dogs of War. Our enemies who are even stronger than us call us a bunch of mad dogs in disdain.
'Regardless of whether it was the Extraordinary Disaster, war dogs, or mad dogs, they all meant the same thing. At that time, Dragon City was a war machine that was overloaded and had to run at full speed. Its brakes were completely broken, and it charged forward on a path that crushed everything in its path. It couldn't stop at all, and when it crashed into an iron wall, it dug its own grave!
'At that time, the normal citizens in Dragon City had to endure the pain brought by the war. They didn't have the right to enjoy even the slightest bit of profit from the war. All the spoils of war were split among the nine mega corporations, and they used the profit they obtained during the early stages of the colonization war to swell up into huge monsters. There was no power that could stop these nine-headed monsters from continuing to swell until they exploded like balloons that had gone past their limits.
'At that time, there was no fairness or justice in Dragon City. There was no room for kindness or mercy either. Natural selection and the rule that the winner was king became the main theme of Dragon City. Everywhere, the strong bullied the weak, and the strong preyed on the weak. The entire society turned into a tiny pyramid that was the pinnacle of the pyramid. Strength was everything!
'And for normal people like me who came from a poor family and had nothing, the only hope for me to obtain strength was to join the private armed forces of the nine mega corporations or assassin organizations like Ghost Tribe. Then, I would become a tiny pyramid covered in blood, and strength was everything!
'Now that I think about it, is this really how human civilization should look like?
"Is human civilization really supposed to destroy the Other World after destroying Earth, and then completely destroy itself?
'No …
'This isn't human civilization. This is the true Monster Civilization 2.0!'
When he thought of this, Meng Chao realized that after he returned to the past, he seemed to have done a lot of things, but they had changed the ending of the Monster War by 180 degrees.
But he still could not stop the wheel of history from rolling forward along the path the mastermind had designed. It charged into hell!
'So, this isn't about sacrificing ten million people to save billions of people!
'It's about sacrificing ten million people, but not billions of people. Dragon City's civilization will still be doomed, and it will definitely die!
'In fact, it's precisely because Dragon City's civilization was infiltrated by the mastermind that it chose the bloody path of sacrificing ten million people, which led to the tragic deaths of billions of people and the destruction of the entire civilization!
'No, this isn't the path I want to choose. Dragon City's future shouldn't be like this!
'There's still a chance. Since I've already realized this, there's definitely a chance. The Monster War has just ended, and the war in the Other World hasn't started yet. As long as I can escape from this damn place and escape the mind control of the mastermind, I'll definitely have a chance to reverse the future and crush the apocalypse!'
Meng Chao's puzzlement was gone.
His soul had been incredibly dim just now, but now, as if it had been injected with brand new fuel, it burned fiercely.
His limbs were originally heavy and numb, as if they were filled with cement. Now, they were clamped down by the shattered bones.
Suddenly, his fingertips touched something incredibly sturdy.
When he held it tightly in his palm, a wave of heat that was like magma flowed from his arm to his entire body. In the end, a shocking roar came from the center of his mind, and it shone with a dazzling golden light.
Under the illumination of the golden light, the bone shards that covered his body rapidly disintegrated, retreated, and evaporated.
'This is … Golden Tooth Bloody Soul?'
Meng Chao stared at the saber that was connected to his blood and resonated with his soul in a daze.
Soon, a confident smile appeared on his lips.
Indeed, the Golden Tooth Bloody Soul was still in the safe in the dorm in real life.
But this was a mental world. It was an illusion created by the surging of his brain waves.
It was a place where an indestructible will could be turned into a weapon and fighting strength!
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