Chapter 595 - Betrayal and Revenge (1/2)

“…Makes sense.” Su Lun smiled. “Since I’ve been defeated by you, I do hope that I can die in your hands. I believe that you will let me die a quick death.

“Unfortunately, I’ve already told you everything I know. I have nothing else to tell you in exchange for death.”

“Don’t be in such a hurry. I believe that you really don’t know where the Vortex is hiding, but as long as you answer my question honestly, perhaps I can deduce its thought patterns and operational style to be able to predict its next step,” Meng Chao said. “I just want to know how the Vortex managed to convince you to betray humans and join the monster civilization?

“It doesn’t seem to have used any sort of hypnotism on you, and it didn’t use any physical methods to modify your brain, either. As the vice gang leader of Golden Tooth and the God of Wealth in the lair, you don’t seem to have been unable to use your talents, and after Dragon City obtained full victory during the northern offense, you had a bright future ahead of you.

“I just can’t understand why a smart person like you would betray everything and take such a risk?”

“Reason?” Su Lun raised his head a little and thought about it for a long time. “Money, authority, power, status. It’s just these things, there’s nothing special.”

A small crease appeared between Meng Chao’s eyebrows. “For these, you were willing to join another race and kill your own kind?”

“Isn’t it enough?” Su Lun asked with a smile.”At least 99% of the wars over the course of nearly ten thousand years of human civilization on Earth were waged due to these reasons. Many of the smartest, bravest, and strongest people raised their weapons against their own kind for money and power, and they slaughtered so many people that blood flowed in streams.

“The victors are heroes and kings, while the losers are murderers and demons.

“I’m just an insignificant, ordinary man. These things are temptations that plenty of heroes and demons are unable to resist, so how could I possibly resist them?”

When Su Lun saw the skeptic look on Meng Chao’s face, he moved his shackles with great difficulty so that he could shrug.

“Fine. If I had to add another reason to it, then it should be… revenge, I guess?” He chuckled rather strangely and lowered his head, using his bloodstained hair and eyebrows to hide his expression. “Hatred. Only hatred is an even better reason than money, authority, and power to do what I did,” he mumbled.

“Revenge?” Meng Chao frowned. “Who are you taking revenge upon?”

“Heaven Pharmaceuticals, one of Dragon City’s nine great mega corporations,” Su Lun said. “The nine great mega corporations are all working together to commit evil. They’re interest groups collaborating with each other. If you take revenge on one of them, it’s the same as declaring war on all of them. Tell me, aside from the monster civilization, who else would be willing to help me overturn the nine great mega corporations? They’re giants, after all.”

Meng Chao was stunned for a long time. “What sort of hatred do you have with Heaven Pharmaceuticals that you declared them as your mortal enemies and were willing to use the monster civilization’s power to take revenge?”

“They killed my father. Is that enough to make them my mortal enemies?”

Su Lun cast a deep glance at Meng Chao, as if he wanted to vent all his resentment before death, and started talking up a storm.

Honestly, it was nothing special.

It was just a story that happened every day in the business world. The strong feasted on the weak, and those at the top were all corrupted.

Su Lun said that he was born in a rather well-off family. His father was quite a famous hunter, and his mother was a specialist in life sciences. She researched how to process monster materials into gene medicine that would stimulate human potential.

It was a glorious period of time in history. The Monster War had just started, plenty of heroes appeared, and there were plenty of things that needed to be done.

The living conditions of the transmigrators were relatively bad, but hope of victory had already appeared on the fog-shrouded horizon. Runic symbol machines, gene medicine, and spirit energy martial arts appeared one after another and kept on evolving, giving countless heroes a chance to rise up the social ladder and gain power.

To the ambitious youngsters who had great skill, this was the best era.

Su Lun’s parents were lucky people.

They used their courage and wisdom to continuously ride the waves and gathered power and wealth.

When Su Lun reached an age where he began understanding the things around him, his parents had already opened a large pharmacy to create a few successful gene medicines.

Creating gene medicine was the most profitable business during that era.

It was a time when humans fought monsters in the streets the moment they woke up, so any gene medicine that might increase their fighting strength earned unimaginably high profit.

And human mortality rate was at a constant high as well. No one cared about the side effects and consequences of the new gene medicine.

Those who took the medicine might die the next day, but those who did not take it would die right away. This was a simple multiple-choice question.

Unfortunately, to pharmacists, the period of time when they could grow barbarically and shine like fireworks was just too short.

As humans continued retrieving their lost land, mortality rate swiftly fell, and everyone’s lives became worthwhile again.

Meanwhile, more than one thousand gene medicines had appeared within a short few years, just like mushrooms sprouting after a rain. It created brutal competition.

What was even more terrifying was that the nine great mega corporations started to enter this market. They used their capital and power to start harvesting the profits like a whirlwind.

This was an unfair war, where one side just pummeled the other side.