Chapter 1810
1810 Trust That Cannot Be Rebuilt
That was a matter of course.
If it was so easy to eliminate the characteristics of a beast, the Turan orcs today would not be half-human and half-beast, and they would still be in the process of degeneration.
“Humans… Can you accept such a change?” Meng Chao asked with great difficulty.
“For the sake of survival, humans can accept all changes.”
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Su Mulian calmly said, “However, in this case, the reason human beings could quickly accept everyone’s new ‘animalized’ form was largely thanks to you two.
“Us?”
Meng Chao was shocked as he looked Lu Siya in the face.
“That’s right. Meng Chao, you destroyed the Blood Alliance, broke up nine mega corporations, struck down the rich and powerful, and constantly increased the status of the children from the humble class. You also rooted the concept of ‘everyone is equal, so power should be equal’ deep in the people’s hearts.”
Su Mulian continued, “After witnessing the many selfish, dark, ugly, and even inhuman things that the rich and powerful had done, all the citizens of Dragon City didn’t want to see the emergence of new rich and powerful people.
“However, the traditional training methods of spirit abilities were very particular about talent and resources. They could not be achieved overnight. Many factors were decided in the womb.
“There were always people who were more talented than others. Their genes were naturally compatible with spirit energy, which made them and their offspring stand out even when they were still in their mother’s womb.
“It was a pity that such people, or rather, all human beings, often lacked the spirit of selflessness and dedication. As long as their strength, wealth, and power accumulated to a certain extent, they would often be unwilling to devote 100% of their strength, wealth, and power to Dragon City’s development, construction, and bloody battles. Instead, they hoped to pass on most of their strength, wealth, and power to their descendants and their descendants’ descendants.
“If things continued to develop like that, new great families would spring up like bamboo shoots after the rain, even though the old nine great families had just fallen not long ago.
“Thanks to you, the general public realized the ugliness of the wealthy families and the fact that it was better to rely on oneself than on those above after the Blood Alliance incident and the series of scandals involving the wealthy families.
“Such bold and visionary words like ‘the blood of the strong should flow for the weak’, ‘the superhumans are the saber of human civilization’, and others were all nonsense made up by the upper echelon to better deceive and make use of the lower class. This understanding gradually became the consensus of all the citizens of Dragon City.
“The ordinary citizens no longer trusted other superhumans.
“The stronger the power, the more wary they were.
“After all, even the ultimate experts such as Lu Zhongqi and Yun Feidian had betrayed all the citizens. Who could guarantee that there wouldn’t be the next ‘Lu Zhongqi’ or ‘Yun Feidian’ among the remaining high and mighty ultimate experts?
“They were also skeptical about the re-established authorities.
“Most of the ordinary citizens only believed in power they could control.
“In the past, when people realized that they had no talent for cultivation, they would often be content with mediocrity, resigned to loneliness, and willing to contribute.
“Ordinary people had surrounded the superhumans and done whatever they could to support them. They had also believed that the superhumans would save them in times of danger.
“But in the present, when people discovered that they could not awaken extraordinary powers through traditional, ‘normal’ training paths, most of them were unwilling to accept their fate. Plus, they were even more unwilling to serve the superhumans, who might betray them at any time, and leave their fate to them.
“Only by grasping the unparalleled power in the palm of one’s hand could human beings control their own fate.
“To achieve your goal, you had to be willing to do anything. If you couldn’t awaken extraordinary power through conventional means, you had to choose unconventional means.
“To control their own fate, what was a mere change in appearance?
“Just like that, before the Awakening Capsules were released, many ordinary citizens had already run to places like underground laboratories in secret to inject strengthening drugs of unknown formulas without the Food and Drug Administration’s approval. Some of them even went to unauthorized underground clinics to perform illegal body modifications. They were implanted with strengthened bone armor made of super alloys or even mini crystals to boost their bodies.
“Of course, such strengthening methods were highly dangerous, and the side effects were much more severe than that of the Awakening Capsules. Many people died on the operating tables. Some of them died because their bodies rejected the crystals due to incompatibility. Some of them were even injected with strengthening drugs of unknown formulas and origins. Their bodily fluids vaporized immediately, turning them into burnt, dry corpses.
“These reactions were exactly the same as the side effects produced by the Deification Capsule.
“From this, one could see that the so-called strengthening drugs were actually iterations and variants of the Deification Capsule.
“The authorities demolished countless similar underground laboratories and underground clinics. A lot of black-market merchants who did not care about human lives were captured too. However, they were only treating the symptoms, not the root cause. As long as the exuberant demand existed, some would always take the risk and open new underground laboratories and clinics in secret.
“If we wanted to solve the problem once and for all, we had to rebuild the trust that ordinary people had in the unparalleled powerhouses.
“Unfortunately, trust is like glass. It’s easy to break it and even harder to make it flawless than ascend to heaven.
“At the end of the day, unlike on Earth, the ordinary people living in the Other World’s Dragon City did not have any effective means to fight back and check the unparalleled experts’ uncontrollable power.
“To a large extent, the safety and happiness of ordinary people were built on the sympathy of most unparalleled experts.
“No peerless powerful person, including you, could guarantee that in your long and complicated life, you would always have enough sympathy, always throw away your life, shed your blood, and fight for the weak unconditionally and limitlessly.
“Not to mention, with the advancement of technology and the continuous expansion of Dragon City’s sphere of influence, the accumulation of various cultivation resources allowed unparalleled powerhouses like you to continue evolving and becoming stronger, constantly widening the gap between you and the ordinary people.
“One day, you’ll all evolve into super and divine beings, existences comparable to gods and demons.
“By then, the ordinary people standing before you would be like ants.
“When faced with ants, is it possible for humans to constantly show sympathy to the ants and treat them as their compatriots? How could they swear to fight for the ants wholeheartedly without caring about their own lives?”