Chapter 374: Way to Destroy Dragon City
The result of that was that a powerful fighter could have a lot of children. Having more than ten was already them being chaste. Dozens of children were seen as just right. In fact, there were eccentric people who had more than one hundred children running around.
It had to be noted that there was no difference between legitimate children and illegitimate children in those families.
After all, the marriage system from Earth was destroyed during the short apocalypse. Normal people lacked strength, so they still needed the marriage system to help each other.
But the peerless fighters who could destroy a building with a punch went through a b.l.o.o.d.y path that was ravaged by zombies and monsters, so the marriage laws from Earth could not restrain them at all.
Half a century after the transmigration, the peerless fighters and their children as well as their grandchildren formed a pyramid consisting of three generations.
The nine cultivation families were all overcrowded. Even the smallest family had dozens of third generation members who were directly related to their grandparents.
They could not even start counting the number of people in the branch families. Otherwise, how would they be known as the great cultivation families?
Hence, the compet.i.tion within the nine great cultivation families was incredibly intense.
Take Lu Siya as an example. She was a granddaughter directly related to a matchless fighter. Her father was also powerful and managed to get into the core management team in Sky Pillar Corporation. She was not a good-for-nothing, either. Instead, she risked her life and her friends to discover the Red Radiance Jade mine. She also had the courage to risk her life to go up against Gao Ye when he turned into a monster.
Even so, she did not manage to retain her mining rights to the Red Radiance Jade mine. During the open and hidden strife in the family, she was kicked out of the compet.i.tion.
If that were the case for Lu Siya, it was even more the case for the people in the branch families of the nine great cultivation families, especially those who lost during the internal fights. They refused to admit defeat and wished to use the power of Blue Home to make a comeback. That was a natural human instinct.
The five groups of people formed the general image of Blue Home members.
However, based on Meng Chao’s discrete observations, he would not be objective if he said that they were all firm Home Party members and would do anything to return to Earth.
The normal citizens might want to clear the tunnel connecting the Other World to Earth and the scholars and researchers did not want Dragon City to be at a state of war for a long time, but they were not alone.
The superhumans who longed to reach a higher cultivation realm, the losers who wished that they could regain some power in their family’s compet.i.tion, and the Deity Realm superhumans who were trying to have their voices heard in the Survival Committee were not averse to war.
After all, war was the best way to renew a system.
The problem was, the nine great cultivation families had already made use of the Colonization Party to be in control of most of the profit gained from the current war.
One example was that for the sake of colonizing the Other World, Dragon City had decided to design a brand new armored airship and call it Thunderbolt Airship.
When it came to designing the parameters of this piece of technology, they stated that this airship had to be able to cruise at more than 100 km/h, and its maximum speed had to be more than 130 km/h.
When it traveled at maximum load, it had to be able to travel for more than 3,000 km.
This was a true tactical offensive weapon.
And the industries that designed and produced Thunderbolt Airship were all in the hands of the nine great cultivation families, including the upstream and downstream industry chains.
The nine great cultivation families set up a large budget for Thunderbolt Airship through the Survival Committee.
Once they reached the conditions to produce these airships at large quant.i.ties, they might produce more than one thousand of them in one go and change all the armored airships in Dragon City.
The profit involved in this was astronomical.
But this astronomical profit was something only the nine great cultivation families could get.
Even when Thunderbolt Airship would be used as an army later, the commanders on them would only be the superhumans who were related to the nine great cultivation families.
In other words, the nine great cultivation families were the ones who set the rules for the Colonization War.
It did not matter which superhuman wanted to get profit from the war, they had to play the game according to the rules the nine great cultivation families set.
This was something many of the superhumans who were not part of the nine great cultivation families did not want to see.
Hence, they supported the Home Party.
Based on the ideals of the Home Party, what was important for them was to first contact Earth. Thunderbolt Airship was just a machine that burned money, because the city had to pour all of its resources into it.
Its budget should be completely taken away, and the money should be given to the projects that actually required it. Naturally, those projects would not be any projects that the nine great cultivation families were in control of.
Everyone was an adult.
They would not readily argue to high heavens just because of the difference in opinion.
The benefits behind the ideals were the real reason behind why the Home Party kept rising to power within just a few years and were showing signs of being able to stand on equal ground with the Colonization Party. Blue Home had managed to attract more elites from various industries and continued growing because of it.
When Meng Chao talked in depth with the elites, he gained a lot of enlightenment.
It also allowed him to form the full picture of Dragon City’s current situation from multiple angles. He now understood a lot of things that he could not understand in his previous life as a low-grade harvester.
He was not disappointed because of it and thought of something as childish as “Ah, the world is too dark an ugly.”
He had experienced the apocalypse, so he was able to face the brutal reality better than any Dragon Citizen around him.
Dragon City definitely had its problems; otherwise, why would it have been destroyed in his previous life?
However, Meng Chao had thought before that the pyrrhic victory during the Monster War was the problem and he could change the future as long as they won the Monster War while remaining relatively unharmed.
But by the looks of it, the pyrrhic victory during the Monster was merely the symptom, not the cause.
There were a lot of crises and conflicts in Dragon City!
But that was nothing.
The stiffening of the social strata, the gradual closure of the promotional channel, and the covert and overt fights in the interest groups were chronic illnesses of human civilizations. Every country in every period of history went through it. Many of the ancient civilizations had even more internal conflicts compared to Dragon City, but that did not stop them from expanding their territory and beating up savages.
At the very least, the current Dragon City was not sick to the point that it could not be treated.
The people still idolized heroes and defended peace as well as justice. Even if the higher-ups were gradually solidifying and breaking up into different interest groups, they still obeyed the rules when they fought for their own interests. When they faced monsters and needed to sacrifice their lives, they did not hesitate too much to do it.
The Colonization Party and Home Party might be fighting fiercely, but in a logical and lawful manner. The conflict between the two parties might even be a good thing. After all, the further one argued about the truth, the clearer it would become!
What worried Meng Chao more were two things.
One was the end of Project 101.
He had become friends with transmigration expert Wu Haibo through Zhao Feixuan and beat around the bush to remind him that he had to be careful of the safety measures in his experiment. Even if it might seem like they had gained great success in the experiment, they could not be blindly optimistic. They had to perform all the safety measures properly and make sure they stored their data as well as cultivated future researchers so that no accidents would stop the development of controllable transmigration.
There was nothing Meng Chao could do besides this. He did not have the details about Project 101’s failure in the memories of his previous life.
Besides, even if Wu Haibo became interested and was willing to talk about the basic principles of controllable transmigration, the formulae involved profound, complex, and drunk ant-like symbols. They gave Meng Chao a splitting headache, and he felt like he had returned to the time before his national college examination, which he found so unbearable he did not even want to think about it.
A warning was all the help he could provide to the controllable transmigration research project.
But he had something even more important to do.
He had to look for the abnormal beasts lurking in Blue Home.
As he talked to the members, Meng Chao felt that Blue Home was an upright, healthy organization. But this did not mean that it would not transform into a nest to incubate abnormal beasts.
When a person found two c.o.c.kroaches in their house, it meant that there were already more than one hundred c.o.c.kroaches lurking in a dark corner.
Blue Home had produced Lin Chuan and Gao Ye, two people who were extreme and went on to destroy order.
Meng Chao suspected that there were plenty of members in Blue Home who were already bewitched by the abnormal beasts and who might turn into the next Lin Chuan or Gao Ye. Or if being more accurate, they had the potential to do it.
It was especially so for Zhao Feixuan. He was skilled in developing highly destructive technology and his ideals were a huge contrast to the nine great cultivation families that controlled Dragon City. He was also relatively young, easily driven by impulse, and could be led to spirit energy deviation once he was bewitched by abnormal beasts. It could happen without him having any idea that he had turned into a puppet.
There were plenty of people like Zhao Feixuan in Blue Home.
Meng Chao had great reason to suspect that they had long since become targets for the abnormal beasts.
Often, Meng Chao would enter a meditative state at night and start thinking while using the professional skill he learned from the training camp in Ghost Tribe.
‘If I were an abnormal beast, it would not be a good idea for me to use my monsters to fight head-on against the human army.
‘The real skill in military tactics is to not shed a single drop of my soldiers’ blood while destroying the enemy. How do I worsen the internal conflict in Dragon City and tear apart the parties and harmony so that the humans will destroy themselves?
‘It’s not that hard to do this, in truth.
‘First, humans have already divided themselves into superhumans and normal people, but Dragon City is still united because it’s oppressed by threats to its survival. No one wants to die together with monsters, so they have to work together.
‘So, if I were an abnormal beast, I shouldn’t launch any large scale monster horde invasion against the humans for the time being. If I had sufficient control over the monsters and could even make them give up some of their territory to the humans as a tactical strategy, it would make the humans think that the monsters are nothing and they will start thinking that they are about to win the war. Then, they will become arrogant.
‘Thus, the humans’ attention will shift from destroying monsters to how they should divide the pie after they got rid of the monsters.
‘Coincidentally, the victory over the northern offense has already caused certain groups of humans to feel egotistical. As an abnormal beast, I just need to go along with the flow and fan the flames.
‘Next, I’ll just worsen the conflict between the various human parties.
‘Right now, even though there is a conflict between the Colonization Party and Home Party, the supporters are just arguing verbally in temples and streets. It’s all arguments within the law. It’s useless to me.
‘I must cultivate a few more ‘idiots’ like Lin Chuan and Gao Ye. As for the method... It’s easy, I just need to pretend to be an extremist from the Colonization Party and a.s.sa.s.sinate a few of the core members of the Home Party or pretend to be an extremist of the Home Party and a.s.sa.s.sinate a few important people from the Colonization Party. That will do.
‘That’s right. It’s better for me to pretend to be an extremist from the Home Party and a.s.sa.s.sinate the Colonization Party. After all, the Colonization Party is mainstream. Once the Colonization Party gets angry because of the a.s.sa.s.sination and decides to oppress the Home Party, organizations like Blue Home will definitely turn extreme in a short period of time. They will also take radical measures and become violent. Then, Dragon City will descend into chaos!’