The next picture in Li Yao's vision was Wanzanghai's starship again. The chairman of the Council of Earth, the savior and destroyer of the civilization of Earth, was still lurking in the darkness. While watching the cruel slaughters on the dozens of starships displayed on dozens of computer screens, he filled his glass with fine wine and raised it in midair for a long time. Then, he slowly poured the wine that was as red as blood to the ground.
This time, however obtuse Li Yao was, he could tell that the destruction of the other starships and the massacre of the passengers were all planned by Wanzanghai.
"Wan Zang Hai is actually so vicious and merciless!"
Li Yao found it hard to believe. "What — what does he want exactly?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
The voice said. "According to the Earth era, despite the major events such as the Third World War, the Battle of the Overspirits, and the meteoroids, it was only the twenty-second century when the immigrant fleet fled from Earth.
"You already have very detailed data on the technological level and resource reserves of Earth in the twenty-first century, and you are inferring the technological progress and theoretical breakthroughs in a hundred years based on the data. Do you really think that it is possible to transport five hundred million lightyears away to the unknown depths of the universe in search of groundless hope in the twenty-second century?
"No, it's impossible. It's one thing to transport five hundred million people beyond the solar system, but it's another thing to travel in the darkness for tens of thousands of lightyears through the desolate, barren, and dead vacuum of the universe through the scourge of radiation, meteoroids, and space turbulence for tens of thousands of years. The difficulty of the latter is more than a hundred times higher!
"Even if ninety-nine percent of the people are in the state of hibernation and consume little energy, it will still be astronomical after tens of thousands of years of accumulation. The hibernation drugs must be replaced every once in a while, and the consumption of high-energy nutrition liquids cannot be stopped for even one day. There is also the daily wear and tear of the starships. Five hundred starships, without backup food, fuel, and components, cannot even fly twenty lightyears away, much less search for the source of the meteoroids.
"In fact, according to the most optimistic estimation of Wanzanghai's secret research team, in order to cruise in space at one percent of the speed of light for more than ten thousand years and ensure that ninety percent of the hibernating passengers can be revived in a healthy and rational state, every immigrant starship will need to carry ten times more backup fuel, resources, and maintenance components. It means that five hundred starships will need to carry five thousand starships' worth of supplies. Or rather, fifty starships will need to carry five hundred starships' worth of supplies. Or rather, the number of passengers on each starship should be reduced by ten times, not a million, but a hundred thousand.
"Only in such a way will it be possible to find a glimmer that can save our civilization in the deepest part of the dark universe.... do you understand it?"
"Are you suggesting that —"
Li Yao's soul waves were almost frozen. His voice was even colder than the gloomy wind in hell. "Since the beginning, the magnates and the magnates have deceived all the people, and Wanzanghai has deceived all the magnates and the magnates. Of the three billion people on Earth, it is not one-sixth of five hundred million that can be saved, but one-sixtieth of fifty million that can be reduced by ninety percent?
"Of the three billion people, only fifty million can be saved!"
"Yes," the voice said calmly.
The voice said calmly, "However, such a conclusion is too pessimistic. It may even lead to the suspension of the entire plan to march into the grand universe, because the magnates, the magnates, their families, and their accomplices, as well as the elite scientists and engineers who build the starships, number far more than fifty million.
"The magnates escort the project, the magnates provide funds for the project, and the scientists and engineers solve the practical problems of the escape plan. It is impossible to stop them from boarding the starships. If Wanzanghai had told those guys in the beginning that only fifty million people could leave, I'm afraid that all the magnates and magnates would've fought each other to the death. They would've even clung to each other's thighs and would rather die together than to see a certain lucky guy swaggering out of the solar system. That is the evilness of human nature.
"Therefore, after all, Wanzanghai coerced and tempted the elite scientists and engineers under the behest of the magnates and magnates. Even if he slightly changed the content of the threat, did it really matter?"
"Got it. Everybody was kept in the dark by Wanzanghai."
Li Yao said with a bitter smile, "Those magnates and magnates thought that Wanzanghai was just their puppet and lackey, and that they were the protagonists of the escape plan. Little did they know that in Wanzanghai's eyes, their starships were nothing more than 'blood bags', 'toolkits', and 'resource storage boxes'. When the migration fleet escaped from the solar system, Wanzanghai's value should've been exploited and he could've been kicked away by the magnates and magnates. But as it turned out, he took action first and 'cooked' all the magnates and magnates. How cunning!"
"Those magnates and magnates are all parasites bred under the old system. They only know how to exploit those who are weaker than them with rules, but they are not capable of making their own rules when faced with the vast and unknown universe. They do not have the courage to develop, explore, and conquer at all. Therefore, they are destined to never be the real leaders and complete the sublimation from the 'Earth Civilization' to the 'Primeval Civilization'. Only an iron-blooded man such as Wanzanghai can achieve that."
The voice said, "Besides, it is also to avenge the billions of compatriots who died miserably on Earth. It must be noted that Wanzanghai's private soldiers are mostly the radiation clan, the cyborgs, and the superhumans. They are the descendants of the civilians who lived miserably on the wasteland in the past. Many of their family members were even abandoned on Earth and burned into ashes by the solar storm. They died without a burial place.
"Now, those ferocious devils with flames of fury flowing out of their pores and the ghosts of their family members around them should raise their blades at the culprits and let them taste the feeling of 'blood for blood' too. What are they waiting for?"
"Revenge?"
Li Yao was amused. "Isn't it all Wanzanghai's doing? Perhaps he is not the real mastermind behind the curtain, but he is the most loyal lackey and the most hardworking lackey of the magnates and magnates. Many sordid and shameless plans have been implemented by him. Is he shameless enough to talk about 'revenge'?"
"The only thing that can deal with sordid and shameless people is a hundred times more sordid and shameless. Wanzanghai's dream is to purge the civilization and create a completely new era for our civilization. He has no other choice except for the dirty and rugged path."
The voice said, "If he did not obediently work as the puppet and lackey of the powerful and the rich, he would not have been able to become the chairman of the Earth Council at all. After becoming the chairman, if he showed the slightest mercy and questioned the plan of the powerful and the rich, he would have stepped down at any moment. He might even have been killed and replaced by a second puppet who would still have to carry out the will of the powerful and the rich. What benefits would he have gained other than showing his personal integrity?
"Face reality and calmly analyze the situation. At that time, among the three billion people on Earth, at least 2.95 billion were doomed and could not be saved. As an excellent commander, you should not continue to waste time thinking about how to save people who were destined to die. Instead, you should think about how to make the sacrifice of these people more valuable.
"Wanzanghai is an excellent commander and the best leader that a civilization can meet at a critical moment. He did not let down the sacrifices of his billions of compatriots and exchanged their deaths for the greatest value.
"The bigwigs and magnates who were too fat to adapt to the new era were all swept away. The remaining survivors were all iron blood warriors who were strong, determined, highly unified, and even had all kinds of supernatural abilities. After Wan Zanghai's rounds of selection and cruel elimination, they all had the best genes and were naturally very sensitive to spiritual energy. They were out-and-out 'superhumans'.
"In the meantime, after 90% of the people with inferior genes who are not qualified to participate in the great march are eliminated, the remaining 10% of the survivors have ten times the resources. Even if a starship is worn out and broken during the long voyage, the components of nine starships can be replaced, which significantly improves the odds of finding new hope.
"Most importantly of all, nobody can talk to Wanzanghai arrogantly or even stab him in the back. Wanzanghai's will can be carried out to every nerve ending of the entire immigrant fleet. For the people who have just experienced the destruction of their mother planet and are drifting in the dark universe in panic, it is of paramount importance."
Li Yao really did not know how to comment on Wanzanghai's actions.
It was exactly like how he could hardly judge what Xiao Xuance, Lu Zui, Wuying Qi, and the rest of them did based on pure "right or wrong".
"Of course, other than 'purging' and 'sublimation' for the entire civilization, the 'massacre in the outer solar system' has another, insignificant purpose. It's sort of Wanzanghai's personal revenge, isn't it?"
The voice said, "This is a piece of history recorded in Wanzanghai's will about his birth a long, long time later.
"Before the suicide note was announced, everybody thought that Wan Zanghai was born in a wealthy family in an underground shelter. His parents were elegant, upper-class people who could maintain a decent life in the underground shelter despite the pollution and filth on the surface. Also, he received a good education. However, unfortunately, his parents were killed in an explosion accident in the shelter, and his family fell into decline.
"It was exactly because of his identity as a 'member of the upper class' that Wanzanghai was able to enter the circle of the nobles and magnates and become their spokesperson.
"However, in his will, Wanzanghai admitted frankly that he was not a 'member of the upper class' at all. Or rather, he was not the real 'Wanzanghai' but was born in the seriously polluted wasteland and grew up in the smoke, rust, and sand. The secret parts of his body even boasted his own mutation features. He was an out-and-out 'radiation member'.
"His parents were not graceful, elegant, and decent people either. On the contrary, they were weeds, ants, and cockroaches. They were 'untouchables' who struggled to survive on the wasteland. They died miserably because of the radiation disease and the mutated beasts at an early age.
"He was accidentally involved in the explosion in the underground shelter and encountered a large batch of people of the upper class who escaped from the shelter. He also killed a young man named 'Wanzanghai', who was about his age and appearance, and assumed the young man's identity. That was how he got the ticket to the upper class.
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