Chapter 328 - Dragon City’s Problem (1/2)

Ye Xiaoxing nodded repeatedly as he listened to Meng Chao.

“I knew it. It’s impossible for you to have relied only on luck to stop the White Spirit and Gao Ye.” Ye Xiaoxing was impressed by Meng Chao. “You’re completely right. Even though we shouted that we would conquer the Other World during the era that gave us the greatest despair, that was just to gather the hearts of people and point them in the direction with the strongest ideal. It doesn’t mean that the war can be won easily and that the Other World will be conquered in no time.

“Many of the academicians in the Survival Committee, Supernatural Tower, and the Red Dragon Army have made predictions about the next stage of the war, and the endless terrorist attacks you mentioned just now might replace the simple and crude full-frontal clashes over the past few decades. This will become the main tactic the monsters will use against the humans.

“However, terrorist attacks on material things are not a fatal threat to Dragon City. What is troubling us even more is the mind attacks.”

Meng Chao thought about it and asked, “Are you talking about monsters like the Demonic Air Ripping Eye? The type who are skilled in mind attacks and can make humans’ mental strength index plummet?”

“No. Even though the Demonic Air Ripping Eyes are very strong, they’re not smart enough. Even though they can make a human’s mental strength index plummet to zero, at most, they can only turn people brain-dead or make them go completely mad. They can’t damage the core of Dragon City.

“The mind attacks I’m talking about strike directly at humans’ thoughts.”

Ye Xiaoxing pointed at his temple.

Meng Chao frowned a little. “Thoughts?”

“That’s right. The sturdiest fortresses are always destroyed from within, aren’t they? The thing that can be easily interfered with, invaded, changed, and completely twisted in a human are their thoughts.”

Ye Xiaoxing was quiet for a while before he said, “Meng Chao, you’re just a freshman and you haven’t truly joined society yet. The education you received from primary to high school should have described Dragon City as… a city with its people united and a bright future.

“I have to admit. After half a century’s worth of people’s sacrifices and never-ending hard work, Dragon City has walked out of the darkness and created a glorious present we didn’t even dream about in the past. We wouldn’t lose to any of the metropolises on Earth.

“To achieve this, many superhumans led the fights and wore themselves out with all the fighting. They offered all their strength so that the fires of human civilization would burn brightly in the Other World.

“But… a perfect world doesn’t exist. No matter what sort of society we live in, there are always all sorts of problems and conflicts. You can understand that, right?”

Meng Chao nodded to show that he was not a naive university student and was mentally prepared to listen to the problems Dragon City currently faced.

Ye Xiaoxing nodded and told him about Dragon City’s main conflicts.

The first was the conflict between superhumans and normal people.

Or rather, the difference between the powerful people and the weak was getting greater. The social strata might soon be torn apart, which would end up causing all sorts of societal problems.

Humans were never equal, and it was a fact known since ancient times. A “paradise” of absolute equality would only be a hell with even more tragedy.

But no matter how unequal the humans on Earth were, they were only facing an inequality in terms of wealth, authority, and societal positions.

In terms of individual fighting strength, lifespan, and other basic aspects, even the top hundred richest people on Earth were not much different compared to a homeless man who did not have a single penny to their name.

Money could do anything and even buy lives, but even so, a rich person was still only able to live around a hundred years.

No matter how much money a person had and how much authority they possessed, it was not enough to destroy a main fighting tank with one punch.

It was also impossible for them to use their own magnetic fields to hoven hundreds of meters in the air among the white clouds in the blue sky.

Because of it, even though the normal people knew that there was a distance they could not hope to close with the rich, they could still bear the existence of this distance.

However, after Dragon City transmigrated to the Other World, new things like spirit energy and superhumans popped up. The difference between individuals was no longer limited to only money, status, authority, or other external objects. Even the basic things that made up a human, like strength, life, and physical constitution, became vastly different between individuals.

An office worker who worked a nine to five job watching his boss driving a good car while having a beautiful woman in his arms was one thing, but if he could also see his boss soaring high in the sky and being able to destroy the world with just a swing of his arm, perhaps even having a lifespan that was twice as long as his, then it was something else.

Besides, when they had just transmigrated and all order had crumbled, the temptation to have lovers became much stronger for the powerful. The traditional system of having only one partner was challenged, and it became common for the powerful to have multiple lovers.

Even now, there were people who were willing to be lovers of the powerful even if they were not acknowledged so that they could obtain descendants with powerful genes. They did not want to be lovers with the weak and give birth to normal children in a world where zombies and monsters wandered about and where the apocalypse might arrive at their doorstep at any moment. This knowledge was always at the back of everyone’s head.

Over the twenty years, Dragon City had faced a baby boom.