Li Yao could not help but feel somewhat ashamed after hearing that.
It was true that he was the one who proposed the plan to activate the strength of the ordinary people in the Imperium of True Human Beings and let the Immortal Cultivators be mired in the fury of the ordinary people that was like a black hole.
However, after he snuck into the Imperium, other than the miserable and desperate life of the ordinary people who were known as "sinners" in the Land of Sins in the beginning, he soon intervened in the power struggle between the reformists and the four Kurfürst families following the clue of Queen Li Linghai. He had no time to pay attention to the lives of most of the ordinary people in the Imperium.
In that regard, Long Yangjun, as an "alien" with ill intentions, had deeper observations and a greater right to speak than he did.
However, Li Yao had a very good mindset. He had always thought that one of them could learn something from him! So many great men in the past, from Xiao Xuance to Bai Xinghe, from Bai Xinghe to Jin Tuyi, and then to Lu Zui and Mo Xuan … Li Yao had perceived a lot of new theories from them, which he melted into his belief and became the source of strength for his constant progress.
Since Long Yangjun did have a point, he would simply listen quietly!
Long Yangjun went on, "From the star fortresses beyond the atmosphere to the major cities of the Immortal Cultivators on the ground, and then to the dark towns of so many levels below the ground, the entire world of Immortal Cultivators is an enormous cage and arena. What is ironic is that most of the time, the cage and the arena are built by the people inside willingly on their own most of the time.
"In the cage and the arena, everybody is the oppressed and the victim, but they are also the oppressors and the victimizers. As the old saying goes, when an avalanche comes, not a single snowflake is innocent.
"The 'advanced hominoids', who live in the single-digit areas and count as the top class of the ordinary people, seem to be glamorous, extravagant, and popular stars, but they grovel before the Immortal Cultivators, pretend to be happy, and abandon all their pride and personality. How pitiful can they be when they are old?
"However, how arrogant are the big stars, who are humble and pitiful in front of the Immortal Cultivators, when they are faced with the minor stars whose positions are lower than theirs or even the workers whose positions are lower than theirs? Since they never regarded themselves as human beings but as pets, they certainly would not regard other people as human beings. Instead, they vented the savagery that the Immortal Cultivators had inflicted on them on the minor stars and the staff. At such a moment, was their hideous face any better than the Immortal Cultivators who were toying with them blatantly?
"When they are faced with the loyal supporters of the lower space, they are like painted skin. They can weave another perfect face in the blink of an eye and say the fancy words that even they themselves do not believe. They deceive their supporters by every means possible and make their supporters willingly take out the meager savings that they have exchanged with their blood, sweat, and even their lives, just to make these 'gods and goddesses' a little more glamorous.
"Those 'gods and goddesses' verbally express their gratitude to the supporters of the lower space, as if they were born for the supporters of the lower space and that the supporters were their second parents.
"But I have seen their real faces backstage. They all take the bottom-level supporters for fools and pigs and laugh at how stupid and lowly the bottom-level supporters are. Even their casual yawn or fart will be regarded as the latest trend and chased after like ducks. The Immortal Cultivators are their real benefactors. The filthy untouchables of the lower space are not even qualified to touch them.
"It is the same for the first level, and it is the same for the second level, the area where the brainworkers live.
"Those 'brainfarmers' have to bear overloaded calculations and the relentless hunts of the 'deadlines' every day. Naturally, their life is miserable. But few of them reflect on whether or not such a life is right and whether or not they should rise up to resist. Instead, they transfer the sufferings and torments that they bear to the hominoids of the lower level, who are the service personnel who take care of their food, clothing, and transportation.
"You know that the 'brainfarmers' specialize in computation and are almost melded with the crystal processors. Their limbs are greatly atrophied, and they do not like to go out much, either. Therefore, there are a lot of service personnel in the two-digit areas who take care of the 'brainfarmers'.
"The 'brainfarmers' have a seemingly glamorous job. They have access to the latest crystal processors and the most advanced information at any time. Their salary is dozens of times higher than that of the lower level. Indulging in the illusion that they are the cornerstone of the Imperium, it is needless to say that they treat the service personnel with all kinds of hideous faces.
"The simplest example is that it is often the case that every 'brainfarmer' has a couple of service personnel. Their clothes and food will be served, and even their poop will be cleaned by somebody else. Naturally, they are not short of bed slaves who can satisfy their physical desires, either. To put it in a positive light, most of the service personnel are legally hired from the lower space. But if you think about it carefully, you will realize that it is a form of oppression for the teenage children who have not received any education to serve other people for the rest of their lives and even sell their own bodies.
"However, most of the 'brainfarmers' have long been used to it and turn a blind eye to it. They even believe that the brainworkers are destined to rule over the laborers and consider themselves to be 'brainworkers'. Hehe. Do they deserve it?
"When they are mean, they are even meaner than the Immortal Cultivators. It is because the resources and money of the Immortal Cultivators are rather easy to come by. On many occasions, when they are in a good mood, they can simply loosen their hands, and it is enough for their pets and slaves to live a good life for a year and a half. However, although the 'brainfarmers' consider themselves to be 'brainworkers', they actually have to make a living with barely enough money. Every payday, how much money do they have left to entertain their service personnel after all the bills are paid?
"Therefore, they come up with all kinds of bizarre reasons to give the service personnel a hard time. They deduct a little bit here and a little bit there. The best they can do is to keep the service personnel fed. As time goes by, the service personnel naturally become very angry, and the contradiction between the two parties becomes more and more intense. There are even arguments such as' service personnel are born thieves, and crystal cameras must be hung above their heads to monitor them closely every second '. It is arguably the most direct and most common form of exploitation."
Li Yao listened attentively and remarked in his heart that it was indeed better to travel than to read ten thousand books. When they were conducting anti-Immortal Cultivators education in the Xing Yao Federation, when they had to cite examples where the Immortal Cultivators exploited the ordinary people brutally, they could only think of examples such as mines, farms, and the slave soldiers in the army.
Who could've thought that the seemingly unattractive service industry had such appalling exploitation and slavery? Who could've thought that the exploitation and slavery did not come from the Immortal Cultivators but from the 'high-level hominoids', or 'slightly more advanced hominoids'? Long Yangjun sneered.
Long Yangjun sneered. "Of course, don't think that the waiters, the assembly line workers who live in the third class, and the miners who live in the fourth class are kind-hearted people. They are in fact the darkest and most haunted people. It's only because they are too weak and have nowhere to vent their anger in reality that they often vent their anger on the Spiritual Nexus.
"At first, they curse other people blatantly on the Spiritual Nexus, venting their failure in life and their inferiority as much as they can. Gradually, when such an approach is not enough to satisfy their empty hearts, they try to find ways to peek into other people's pain. It seems that the more painful other people are, the happier they will be.
"Stimulated by such a mentality, a lot of bizarre videos of people mutilating themselves or swallowing cockroaches and mice alive have appeared on the Spiritual Nexus. It is needless to say that the more painful, cruel, and bizarre the videos are, the more popular they are among the bottom-level hominoids. Even the pictures of the big stars dancing and sweating profusely cannot compare to the pictures of a plain, ordinary person swallowing a basin of cockroaches alive.
"When even this kind of extremely dark and stimulating video can't fill their abyss-like hearts, they will reach the extreme of venting — killing livestreams.
"Who do you think is the audience of slaughter streams? The Immortal Cultivators? You're wrong! If the Immortal Cultivators want to kill someone, they can totally do it themselves. Who would be interested in watching ordinary people fighting each other when they are already bored of killing?
"The audience of slaughter streams is the miners, service personnel, and assembly line workers who live in the third and fourth class below the ground. Those people are not even satisfied with just watching other people's slaughter. They will even raise funds to designate the players in the 'paradise of sins' to kill someone in a certain way!
"The meager salary that they have earned after risking their lives is transferred to a certain 'killer' through the Spiritual Nexus soon after they receive it, just so that the killer can kill a stranger in the cruelest ways in an extremely distant place in order to gain the pleasure of survival. That is exactly what is happening in the thousands of bottom-level factories and mines right now. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Human beings are truly the best carriers for the extraterrestrial devils!"
Cold sweat leaked out of Li Yao's forehead. Recalling what he had seen in the 'paradise of sins' in the Martial Meritocrats Sector, he sighed softly in his heart.
"If they are willing to do such things as slaughter streams, it is not surprising at all that the garbage thrown from the upper levels of the space is sold to the upper levels after some maintenance and packaging," Long Yangjun said casually.
"It seems that everybody is hopelessly bad, and only the farmers in the fifth class, such as the 10084 district, are pure and flawless good people?
"Not necessarily.
"In such a harsh environment, with such barren resources, how do you think they raised the rock worms to be so fat and strong? Did they add some unknown growth stimulants? Are those growth stimulants harmful to the human body?
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