Chapter 896: Whose Victory?
“Meaningless?”
Meng Chao endured the excruciating pain and laughed wantonly. “We pushed you into a corner, and you had no choice but to reveal your true colors, yet you still say that all of this is meaningless? Even if there’s only a one in a billion chance, we’ll still turn into two poisonous thorns deep in your subconscious and destroy you in the end!”
“No, you’ve misunderstood.”
The skeleton giant calmly said, “I’m not saying that you don’t even have a one in a billion chance of destroying me. I’m saying that even if you destroy me, it will be meaningless.
“Meng Chao, it’s good that you were able to think that there’s possibly a second micro brain deep in the mother’s body.
“But why didn’t you think of the possibility that there’s a third, fourth, fifth… and a hundredth micro brain since there is a second micro brain?
“Alright, even if most of the brains were destroyed by the Ancients’ s.p.a.ce-based orbital weapons, it is possible to preserve some brain cells and revive them after hundreds of millions of years of hibernation.
“Now, the question is, do you think that Lu Siya is the only human being that I’ve chosen to ‘fuse’ with?”
“What?”
Meng Chao and Lu Siya were both stunned.
A moment later, cold sweat dripped down their foreheads and spines as their thoughts raced.
“This is impossible…”
Meng Chao mumbled, “You’ve also chosen someone else? Another parasite?
“Everyone. I’ve chosen everyone.”
“Don’t you understand? There have been many times when I’ve almost thrown the answer in your faces, but why have you turned a blind eye to it?” the skeleton giant said unhurriedly.
“The so-called Monster War doesn’t exist at all, or rather, it’s not a real war at all. It was just a trial. It’s an indispensable part of breeding a ‘perfect monster.’”
“A perfect monster?”
Meng Chao’s pupils suddenly constricted. “Are they the ultimate Apocalyptic Beasts that you created in the depths of the monster lair?”
“Of course not. How can the beasts that have brute force, that submit to the most basic appet.i.tes and animal desires, and only know how to destroy at the lowest level, be qualified to be called perfect monsters?”
The skeleton giant laughed in a deep voice. The red light that resembled a searchlight darted back and forth on Meng Chao and Lu Siya’s bodies as if it was going to illuminate their bones, internal organs, nerves, and even their souls.
“The one and only, irreplaceable perfect monster in my heart is none other than you, human beings!”
Its voice was as loud as a bell when it revealed the answer to the riddle.
“What?!”
Meng Chao and Lu Siya widened their eyes.
“There is no other monster more perfect than human beings. No, compared with human beings, these animals have no ambition and no desire to conquer. As long as they satisfy their appet.i.tes, they will have nothing else to ask for. They are no different from domestic animals. What right do they have to be called ‘monsters?’”
The skeleton giant extended its arm that was more than a hundred meters long and pointed at Meng Chao with a finger that was thicker than Meng Chao’s entire body, “Only you humans feel hungry no matter how much food you eat. No matter how much money you have, you still feel poor. Even if you don’t want to reproduce, you want to control all the members of the opposite s.e.x. Even if you occupy the most fertile land, you still feel cramped. Even if you create great achievements that have never been done before, you still can’t obtain eternal peace and happiness. Instead, you are depressed, sighing, and even crying loudly because there is nothing else that you can conquer.
“You are born to be bloodthirsty and bloodthirsty. You will do whatever it takes, regardless of the consequences. You want to conquer everything that is out of your sight. You claim to be the spirit of all living things. You will never allow any carbon-based creatures to climb on top of you, not even your own kind.
“In order to fight for the illusory throne, you even launched a thermonuclear war and destroyed your mother planet!
“If you are not the ‘Perfect Monsters’, who else is more qualified to be named as such?”
Meng Chao was speechless.
“In particular, during the war of the immemorial era billions of years ago, I had already tried commanding the so-called ‘monsters’that were just a facade. The result was as you know.”
The skeleton giant continued, “Whether it was the enormous prehistoric behemoths that were hundreds of kilometers long from the beginning to the end, or the ‘Heaven connecting tower’that was formed from billions of monsters, none of them were able to completely break through the defenses of the Ancients and charge into the vast sea of stars.
“So what if the current me is able to devour the prehistoric behemoths from the mother body 02 to the mother body 99 and restore them to their peak form during the primordial war and create identical prehistoric behemoths?
“I will still suffer a crushing defeat like billions of years ago and be sealed on this d.a.m.n planet forever!
“Therefore, this time, I changed my strategy. In order to declare war on the universe again, I chose a new main force, which is you, the ‘Perfect Monster’, human beings!
“When I first came into contact with you, I was both surprised and delighted to find that there were two forces in your bodies at the same time — the power of the Ancients and the power of the mother.
“I don’t know where you came from.
“I’m just a small fragment that was split from the almost-annihilated remains of the mother during the ancient war when it was bombarded by the s.p.a.ce-based orbital weapons.
“I lost a lot of memories about the mother. I don’t know what reason it or the ancients used to create you.
“But I realized that seemingly indestructible fortresses can often be destroyed and fallen from the inside. Since you have such a strange power in your bodies, perhaps you can help me.
“That’s why I awakened and created a large number of monsters. Those ‘low-level soldiers’that should have been eliminated long ago formed an overwhelming Beast Tide and launched a Monster War.
“The purpose of launching a monster war is not to defeat or even destroy Dragon City.
“I know very well that in the first second of the war, I knew better than you that these monsters, who are strong on the outside but weak on the inside, will never win the Monster War and destroy your civilization.
“I don’t want to destroy your civilization at all. On the contrary, I want to build your civilization, help you level up, and accelerate your civilization along the path that I laid out.
“I want to help you adapt to the cruel environment of the other world as soon as possible. I want to use the ‘whetstone’of ‘monsters’to sharpen you into a ‘Dragon City civilization’that is completely different from the Earth’s era. It is an invincible saber that can tear apart the seal that envelops the planet and allow us to charge into the Sea of stars together.
“At the same time, I can slowly observe and select the strongest among you through the war of monsters.
“The strong prey on the weak, and the winner is king. The crueler the war, the easier it will be for experts like you and LÜ Siya to stand out.
“As long as I choose the experts that I like, I will naturally have all kinds of methods to infiltrate their brains with my own strength and will.
“No, no, no. The ‘leakage of archaic bacteria and the pollution of mysterious power’that happened in the Archean ruins is just the simplest and most brutal method to distract your attention and make you think that the power of the Archean can only be presented in such a ridiculous way, such as turning human beings into big black insects.
“No, these guys who have gone berserk and turned into bugs are not my ‘Chosen Ones’.
“The real ‘chosen ones’are those who once fought b.l.o.o.d.y battles in the overwhelming beast tide, cultivated in the desolate wilderness, and gazed at the Abyss for a long time in the depths of the Archean ruins.
“Through the tusks and claws of the monsters, the spores drifting in the wind in the depths of the wilderness, and the ‘summons of the Archean’that only he can hear in the underground abyss, I have carefully selected quite a few ‘chosen ones’.
“This work has been going on for decades.
“Many ‘Chosen Ones’have become war heroes because of their outstanding performance in the Monster Wars. They have enjoyed a large amount of war dividends and become instructors, Gold-medal instructors, corporate executives, and even family leaders.
“And even they themselves may not realize that the power and will that originated from the primordial era have long taken root and sprouted in the depths of their brains. They have constantly stimulated their ambitions and desires, and they have grown crazily like weeds and vines in the rainy season.
“Now, they are all gathered together, singing and drinking heartily, celebrating the victory of the Monster War.
“They are also racking their brains to figure out how to divide up the legacy of the monster civilization, how to make use of the resources and prestige that they acc.u.mulated during the war, constantly expanding, monopolizing, and becoming stronger.
“Little did they know that this is not only your victory, but also my victory.
“It was us who joined hands to destroy the old, stupid first-generation monsters that were no longer suited to the development of the times and the needs of the future wars, but created a stronger, more agile, and more ferocious second-generation monster.
“This is called ‘win-win’, right?
“So, even if you are willing to die, even if you never surrender, even if you miraculously think of a way to destroy me, what is the point of dying together with me?
“Your Courage will become your epitaph, but the other ‘chosen ones’will still follow the journey that I have planned and march forward with great strides, upgrading the Dragon City civilization to ‘Monster Civilization 2. 0’. Finally, you will fulfill your long-cherished wish of billions of years ago, conquer the other worlds, and charge into the starry sky!”
The skeleton giant let out a world-shaking roar.
Dark phosph.o.r.escence spurted out from the crisscrossed crevices and dark eye sockets of every broken monster skeleton around its body.
Countless phosph.o.r.escence gathered together as if it was draped with an indestructible armor, adding a bit of the aura of the descent of G.o.ds and devils.
And under the phosph.o.r.escence armor, billions of monster corpses began to squirm, split, and rea.s.semble crazily. In a short while, amidst the hair-raising sounds of bones cracking and rubbing, they all changed their forms and became human skeletons!