Li Yao thought for a moment and asked, frowning, "What's the problem with a world without diseases?"
"What's the problem?"
Su Changfa sneered. "The biggest problem is that the Cultivators have broken the law of nature by going against nature. The balance between the human body and nature has been completely shattered, too!
"Human beings are the soul of all living creatures. They are the super perfect evolutions that all carbon-based lives have been born after billions of years of evolution! Even in the hundreds of thousands of years since the birth of human beings, in the battles against nature, bacteria, viruses, and diseases, we have developed an effective immune system!
"Even without any drugs or medical methods, the immune mechanism of the human body can defeat most of the bacteria and viruses. Also, in the process, the human body is polished to be stronger. Such strength is even deeply etched in the genes and passed on generation after generation!
"This is the so-called evolution!"
"That's not right," Li Yao said. "If you don't see a doctor in time when you are ill, chances are that you will die!"
Su Changfa sniffed and said, "Diseases are screening mechanisms that nature has given to human beings. They can filter out the carriers of inferior genes and ensure that the entire species will develop in the right direction!
"As a civilization of mankind as a whole, we must ensure a certain elimination rate and filter out the unsuitable people in order to achieve the optimal allocation of resources.
"For individuals, death is naturally a tragedy. But for a civilization, it will be a greater tragedy if those who deserve to die don't die and only live on while wasting resources!"
Li Yao couldn't help but pretend that he was greatly enlightened. "That explains a lot. I get it now. So to speak, there are no such places as hospitals in the Imperium of True Human Beings, right?"
Su Changfa smiled and said, "Of course there are hospitals, but they are mainly focused on the treatment of external wounds! For viral infections, cancer, or other diseases, we will inject certain immune-system activators into the patients to trigger their own life potential to resist the diseases.
"That is to say, in our hospitals, it is still the patients' own immune system and resistance to resist the bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells. The doctors only play the role of awakening and enhancement."
Li Yao was dazed. "Is it effective?"
"Of course it is," Su Changfa said.
Su Changfa said, "Although it is not as good as the one hundred percent cure rate that the Medicine Fork civilization boasted, general cancer cells and virus infections can still be killed by the patient's own vitality!
"If we really can't kill him, we rarely use external methods to treat him, because this patient's fire of life is so weak that he doesn't have the right to live!"
Li Yao was speechless. He had no choice but to continue listening.
"But the mindset of the Cultivators of the Medicine Fork civilization is entirely different from that of the Immortal Cultivators.
"They believe that the civilization of mankind is a whole, and all human beings are brothers and sisters. Men and women, young and old, rich and poor, ordinary people and Cultivators, no matter how flawed their genes are, no matter how low their immunity is, they are all worth saving at whatever cost!
"Therefore, they modified the entire planet of Medicine Fork without caring about the cost and established a fragile ecosystem that was devoid of fatal bacteria and viruses. They also injected tremendous hormones, antibiotics, and chemicals into the body of every Medicine Fork resident, establishing an unbreakable artificial immune system!
"At that time, the Medicine Fork people had to be injected with all kinds of drugs when they were still in their mother's womb. They had been soaking in the tanks of drugs since they were born. That was the reason why they could live a seemingly healthy and long life!
"It is a pity that such a seemingly healthy and long life is based on an extremely fragile artificial foundation. It is almost like the Cultivators built a greenhouse for the ordinary people after all the hard work to protect them from the scourge of the outside world!
"Such an approach is indeed effective in the short term.
"But the side effect is that everybody, including the Cultivators themselves, becomes a flower in the greenhouse!
"As the saying goes, a country will always perish if it is exposed to foreign patients. It is the same logic when it is applied to a human being!
"Without the attacks of diseases, bacteria, and viruses, there is no chance for real-life drills. They can only maintain their health with drugs. It's like relying on foreign mercenaries to protect the country. How can it work?
"Just like that, the Medicine Fork people grew up in an enormous sterile room. Generation after generation, their immune system became weaker and weaker. Eventually, they lost the ability to survive in nature on their own!
"When the historians of the Imperium of True Human Beings studied the history of the Medicine Fork civilization, they gave the symptoms of the Medicine Fork people a name — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It refers to the collapse of their own immune system because of the overly clean environment and the overloaded defense measures of the interventional drugs. Some of them were even genetically altered!
"Their immune systems are like our appendices and tails. They have become completely useless organs and are slowly degenerating or even disappearing!"
"Hehe. Because the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a disease caused by the selfless love of the Cultivators for all their compatriots, we also call it the Love Disease!
"The Love Disease is only one part of the problem. What is more dreadful is that, because of the Cultivators' belief that everybody must be saved, many people who carried inferior genes and were not suitable for survival at all, or at least not suitable for leaving offspring, were all rescued by the Cultivators. They got married and had children like normal people, leaving offspring that were even more inferior.
"They could suppress the obvious symptoms of the carriers of the inferior genes with their marvelous medical skills and unbelievable drugs, but it was difficult for them to solve the problem from the source of the gene strands.
"As a result, a lot of inferior genes were spreading, lurking, and lurking among the Medicine Fork people. They were like dormant volcanoes that could be woken up at any moment and were still expanding!
"In order to suppress the symptoms of the inferior genes, they had to increase the dosage of drugs, which only led to the Love Disease getting worse and worse. Nothing could stop such a vicious cycle!
"Although the Medicine Fork civilization was on the verge of destruction, on the surface, their civilization was still prosperous and splendid!
"They were not as idiotic as the people of the Curly Dragon Sector who had developed rather advanced space cruising technology in only hundreds of years and were already able to perform space jumps across Sectors!
"At that time, it was the peak of the golden age of the Medicine Fork civilization. Staring at the boundless sea of stars, all the people of the Medicine Fork civilization were confident that they could conquer all the enemies, including nature!
"But they did not expect one thing.
"When their immune system deteriorated step by step, their most dangerous opponents, the bacteria and viruses, were mutating, or rather, evolving!
"The drugs and interferons produced by the people of the Medicine Fork civilization could eliminate 9,999 viruses out of ten thousand, but they would stimulate the last virus and make it mutate shockingly, making it even more sordid, mysterious, and fatal!
"Hehe. Survival of the fittest is the law of the universe in the first place. The Medicine Fork civilization under the leadership of the Cultivators trampled on the law arrogantly, but the bacteria and viruses on Medicine Fork obeyed the law all the time. Also, stimulated by the drugs and the interferons, they struggled, mutated, and evolved at a hundred times the speed in the past!
"The people of the Medicine Fork civilization also discovered that the bacteria were more and more resistant to the drugs, and the viruses were mutating faster and faster. A newly discovered virus often mutated into dozens of subspecies in less than five months.
"But they still did not wake up. Instead, they produced even more drugs, vaccines, antibiotics, and interferons. It was like they were trying to increase the dam when they were faced with a flood that had nowhere to go. They only wanted to increase the dam for the stability in front of them, but they did not care about the collapse in the future!
"For a while, such a strategy seemed to work.
"All the bacteria and viruses on the land have been thoroughly studied by them, and they have developed the corresponding vaccines and interferons, which they have injected into everyone."
"But they ignored the ocean.
"Right when the first space fleet of the Medicine Fork civilization was about to set off to explore the sea of stars, an undersea volcano that had been sleeping for hundreds of thousands of years suddenly erupted in the west ocean of Medicine Fork, spurting tremendous materials from the bottom of the ocean into the sky.
"One of the materials was an ancient virus that had been hibernating in the sulfur mud near the undersea volcano for hundreds of thousands of years.
"For hundreds of thousands of years, the virus had never appeared on Medicine Fork. The Medicine Fork civilization knew nothing about it, nor did they have any targeted drugs.
"The virus swept across the entire planet like a tornado. Mixed with the bacteria and viruses that failed to be killed after hundreds of generations of antibiotics and interferons, it evolved into a doomsday plague!
"The glass greenhouse that the Cultivators built for the Medicine Fork Civilization after almost a thousand years was finally crushed mercilessly. The flowers, which had a lot of inferior genes and no immune system, were exposed to the storm pitifully!
"In only three months, the Medicine Fork civilization lost one fifth of its population. Its social order was on the verge of collapse. It fell from the sky to the deepest level of hell!
"In fact, there were still ways to save the entire civilization at such a moment."
With a cold face, Su Changfa made a chopping gesture with his hands and said, one word after another, "Kill! Kill! Kill! Establish a lot of quarantine areas. Gather the Cultivators with strong resistance and maintain the basic order. Kill all the patients and suspected patients without mercy. Purge the entire planet of Medicine Fork!
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