Chapter 2355: The little lion was fooled! (1/2)

Li Yao was silent, Li Jialing's remarks were quite reasonable, and he was speechless.

Before coming to the real human empire, from the perspective of a cultivator from the Star Federation, it was always easy to misunderstand the sharpest contradictions within the empire and regard the squeeze and exploitation of the ”primitives” by ”real people” as the main problem.

After coming to the empire and seeing all aspects of social forms and conflicts of interest, Li Yao knew that the most typical ”ordinary people who have been bullied by immortal cultivators” who were imprisoned in factory assembly lines and industrialized spiritual fields were not actually the most miserable. of.

Yes, these ordinary people have indeed been treated inhumanely, but they often also have a stable source of food, relatively clean drinking water, safe housing and even a meager salary. In order to improve their enthusiasm for labor, the immortal cultivator can learn from them. Squeeze more surplus value, and even provide them with a certain level of spiritual food-for example, the ”Live Killing Live” in the Wuying community is an anesthetic specifically aimed at these laborers, which can make them spiritually happy.

As the saying goes, ”I would rather be a peaceful dog than chaotic people.” In areas where the imperial authorities can and are willing to implement effective rule, they will still provide a minimum of public services, carry out various infrastructure constructions, and maintain the orderly operation of society, and In theory, there are laws that can protect the legitimate interests of most people-even if this riddled law is often broken openly by immortal cultivators, it is better than nothing.

After all, the government of the immortal cultivator is also a government, not a bandit den.

And below 10,000 meters underground, these ”forgotten towns” numbered after 10000, the residents here do not even have the qualifications to be enslaved or squeezed. In other words, ”will not be allowed to be slaves”. Naturally, the imperial authorities would never do It provides a little bit of public service here, completely letting them fend for themselves.

In such a dark and silent world, there is no sunlight, very little clean drinking water, and very little food. The destructive power of earthquakes is hundreds of times stronger than that on the ground. From time to time, there will be landslides, and even devastating magma will gush out. ——Li Yao doesn’t know whose life is worse, those slave laborers who have been sitting down behind the assembly line of the magic weapon factory for a lifetime, or these underground abandoned people who have been forgotten by the entire universe?

In Long Yangjun’s metaphor to Li Jialing, the sea is mentioned. Indeed, the world of abandoned people is like a deep ocean plain—no matter how strong the stormy waves rise on the sea, and how fierce and ferocious beasts are competing, all It will not affect the slightest trace of the sediment on the seabed. In the eyes of those ocean overlords, these small fish and shrimps struggling to survive in the sediment on the seabed do not exist at all.

However, Li Yao can also understand why Long Yangjun brought him and Li Jialing here. Now Black Star Great Emperor Wu Yingqi’s layout has been activated, and it is very likely that he will control the entire Polar Celestial Realm and Celestial Star, regardless of whether they hide. In any city, it is hard to escape the overwhelming, ubiquitous monitoring and locking of crystal eyes.

Even the vast majority of towns that go deep underground are within the limits of the authorities' control. They are equipped with a large number of crystal eyes and connected to the wireless spiritual network. As long as they leave a vague figure in a certain crystal eye, It is possible to provoke a large number of chasing soldiers.

Only these forgotten cities numbered after 10000 do not have the existence of spiritual nets and crystal eyes, completely out of the eyes of high-level cultivators, and they are a ”paradise” where they can heal and rest with confidence.

Li Yao and Li Jialing come from a sunny world, and their natural appearance is slightly different from the almost transparent underground human race. Their leisurely strolling in the town has attracted the attention of a large number of underground people.

However, most of the underground people only dared to hide behind stalagmites and mushrooms, wrapped themselves tightly in thick fog, and looked at them carefully, not daring to make eye contact with them.

Wherever their gaze falls, the underground people will shrink their necks and escape into the mist.

Only the innocent children dare to stare at them intently. Seeing that they are not malicious and not too dangerous, some of the boldest children finally followed them, turning into a string of little tails, and swaying to learn to walk.

Li Yao turned his head and made grimacing faces at the children. The children yelled in exclamation and then dispersed. After a while, seeing that Li Yao had no other actions, they gathered back together again and made faces like Li Yao. He also yelled in a strange tone: ”Black eyes! Yellow eyes!”

Children born underground have never seen real sunlight. Even the lighting array above their heads lacks energy and can only be adjusted to the darkest level, barely illuminating the iron cords crisscrossing between stalagmites and stalactites, children Perhaps the brightest thing I have ever seen in my life is billowing magma.

For tens of thousands of years, their eyes have also mutated. While possessing a certain night vision ability, their pupils are slightly reddish, and Li Yao's black eyes and Li Jialing's yellow-brown eyes have become out of the ordinary here.

The children's silver bell-like laughter attracted the attention of adults. Suddenly, several hands were stretched out in the thick fog, and they dragged the children back, and put the laughter in a pair of rough hands.

Li Yao frowned slightly, the weak spiritual energy lingering between his eyes, his sharp gaze penetrated the blurred fungus mist, and he could see clearly those underground people who thought they were hiding well.

He discovered a very weird phenomenon-as people in the underground grow older, their ability to express emotions seems to be weaker.

Those innocent, carefree children will cry, laugh, fight, and express their emotions and feelings freely.