"If that's the case, who else should I trade for your brother's life? Alright, I want to know the reason before I die. If you tell me why you're behaving like the Black Vatican, I'll let your brother go. At least your secret will be sealed in this desolated city forever, "said Mofan.
Lu Nian was a little surprised.
He wasn't surprised by this kid's sudden change of heart. Instead, he was surprised that this kid was clearly afraid of death. Why didn't he look uneasy when he knew that he was going to die anyway? If it was someone else, they would have knelt down and begged for mercy.
"Is he trying to buy time?" Lu Nian murmured.
Lu Nian was convinced that Mofan was trying to buy time based on his experience. The problem was, he could not understand why the kid was trying to buy time. It was impossible for anyone to come and save them in the middle of nowhere. Besides, with the strength of the students, there was no way they could leave here alive with an Advanced Magician like him around, let alone dealing with his subordinates.
After a slight hesitation, Lu Nian finally agreed to Mofan's terms.
It was definitely worth it to exchange his brother's life with a bunch of words. Lu Nian believed that if he forced the students into a corner, they would surely bury their brother with them. He was too familiar with the vengeance and pride of the weak before they died!
"There's an experiment …" Lu Nian stood there and calmly explained, "An experiment that might change the self-deceiving situation that humans are currently in."
"To benefit the entire human race? How noble. What does that have to do with us, students who are just here for training? Are you implying that we must be silenced because we stumbled upon some dirty and shameless act of yours? The problem is, we didn't see anything at all! "said Mofan.
"Dirty?" Lu Nian took a puff of his cigarette and said with a smile, "It's not dirty at all. Any noble decision can't avoid a river of blood. Many people died in the experiment, including you, it's just a drop in the ocean. However, if it succeeds, the outcome will be completely different. No one will have to live under the iron hooves of demon creatures. They can even slaughter their way into the demon creatures' nests … "
"You're so great. Why did you come here to slaughter us?" Mofan mocked.
"What's the difference between the actions of executioners like you and the bastards of the Black Vatican? How dare you talk so highly of yourselves." Peng Liang also mustered up his courage to curse.
"Hmph, what do you students who live in the Ivory Campus know? Those magic teachers always preached the meaning of victory in war, but they never told the world how many people were destroyed in the many wars with the demons, how many cities were lost … Humans seemed to be the rulers of this world, constantly returning in triumph, constantly producing heroes, and under the strong protection of the strong, how easy it was for humans to live. Ridiculous and laughable! Those of you who have never experienced a war will never understand. Humans are just struggling at death's door in a small city, reproducing meaninglessly. They think that they will become stronger if they continue to reproduce, but they don't know that once they reproduce enough, it will be time for the demons to start a gluttonous feast. They would enjoy humans to their heart's content, but they would be a little restrained in the process. If they ate all of it, humans would stop reproducing and there would be no more food to eat in the future. What was war? It's nothing more than the demons being hungry, and humans having reproduced enough. "Lu Nian said.
When Lu Nian said this, he didn't smile. His whole black face was filled with righteous indignation.
He had experienced the war between the demons and humans. He, who had personally experienced it, knew the truth better than these students from the Ivory Tower!
… …
Mofan's heart sank.
These words were too subversive! If it was even more extreme, it would be the Black Vatican's speech to brainwash the believers!
If the disaster of Bo City was just a small microcosm of war, then what Lu Nian said would be true.
But, he didn't think that humans would be so lowly in Lu Nian's words. Especially that sentence: They won't eat them all. If they did, humans would stop reproducing and there would be nothing left to eat!
In other words, the reason humans were able to survive until now was not because of how well the mages protected them, but because of the demons' continuous development strategy. How sad, how terrifying was that?
Was that true?
Mofan didn't know.
"Humans' ability to survive, create, and reproduce doesn't mean that humans are great. It only means that humans are more suitable to be reared in pens than pigs and sheep. They don't even need to use feed, they'll reap huge profits." Lu Nian grinned.
In fact, he enjoyed this kind of destruction.
When he first joined the war, he also thought that the Mages would be the shield of humanity to stop the invasion of the demon beasts, but in the end … in front of the real demon beasts, demon tribes, and even demon empires, the humans were nothing!
His originally beautiful world view was destroyed in the war, and now it was used to destroy these students. There was an indescribable thrill of revenge!
"So, what do all these big plans you mentioned have to do with humans? What does that have to do with us?" Mofan brought the topic back to the present.
He didn't like to talk about those big things. He just wanted to know why Lu Nian wouldn't let him go.
He had never met him, and he didn't know about the experiment.
"The experiment is related to …" Lu Nian paused. After thinking for a while, he realized it wasn't really a big secret anymore, so he continued, "It's related to a new Element!"
"What did you say???" Mu Nujiao and Zhao Manyan exclaimed.
Lu Nian's lips curled upward as he repeated, "A new Element. If it succeeds, we'll be the founders of the new Element! "
"The emergence of magic gave us the ability to compete with the demon beasts. Unfortunately, even after tens of thousands of years, the number of Elements that mages can awaken is still too few. The recent birth of the new Element, Light, did save some face for humans, but it's far from enough. We still need a stronger Element. "
When Lu Nian said this, his eyes shone with an unconcealable light.
If Lu Nian was a decisive and calm demon just a moment ago, then he was now a madman immersed in something.
He was fanatical and crazy. Lu Zhenghe had never seen him like this as his younger brother. His craziness was completely hidden by his cold appearance.
"You're saying that you're going to create a new Element?" Zhao Manyan asked in disbelief.
"That's right. Do you think I'm an unrealistic madman?" Lu Nian laughed.
"But … but …" Zhao Manyan didn't know what to say.
"You, Mo Fan, are the best test subject for the new Element!" Lu Nian pointed at Mo Fan, as if he was looking at a perfect object, with a hint of fanaticism after years of suppression.
"Me??" Mo Fan pointed at himself.
"Yes, you. Because you have an Innate Double Element! "
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