Chapter 238 (2/2)
Everybody stared at the ignorant husky: Is this the right time to say such a thing in this kind of serious occasion?
Y’zaks smiled and looked around and said, “Now you guys know what the words I said that to those demon hunters mean? Resources are valuable and cannot withstand internal depletion. When I was on the immigration boat, I heard an old man said that every civilization has a ‘fault-tolerant value’ in the development process. This fault-tolerant value is determined by factors such as their home resource reserves, their ability to develop their own races and their homeland environment. The higher the resource reserves, the better the environment around the homeland and the stronger the development ability, the higher the fault-tolerant value will be, and vice versa. If a civilization wants to develop, it must be moved to another area before its resources are depleted. For this, they learn to protect the environment to reduce wastage, plan routes to prevent them from going astray, and, most importantly, try to avoid waste by avoiding internal depletion. The resources of the homeland and the surrounding environment are fixed, and the only thing the people can decide is only themselves. Many races are born in fertile places where the planet itself is rich in resources and is surrounded by abundant resources and springboard. So they waste their resources wantonly, use them in the civil war, and finally wake up to realize that they can’t even build the last ship to the neighbor planet. However, some races are born in desolate and barren places, they must carefully calculate every single step, and they don’t know whether they will be able to leave the cradle alive. There is a lot of injustice in the world, and nothing is more unfair than this kind of ‘racial predestination’. Honestly, I think the people on Earth are a little bit like prodigal sons squandering the family fortune. Your solar system has various springboards like Mars and the moon, there are giant resource stations such as Saturn and Jupiter, every planet around the Earth is filled with fuel and outer casings of spaceships, and the planets are close enough to arrive even with the spaceship using the most primitive chemical fuel. But humans are too busy throwing more bombs at your own people. This is stupid, as stupid as the idiots in my hometown. Look at those elves of Aerym, their fault tolerance value is even negative…”
Hao Ren looked at Y’zaks with astonishment. He rarely saw the great demon to speak so many words. The seemingly vicious tall man was usually very polite and amiable, and he never talked much. Hao Ren was vaguely aware of one thing: the story of Hilda touched a sensitive point in the heart of the great demon, which perhaps related to his past.
After Y’zaks found the people around him looked a bit weird, he waved his hand and apologized, “I was too serious, hope you guys don’t mind.”
Vivian’s lips slightly curled up and said, “No… I thought you said it very well, so well that it shouldn’t come from a demon’s mouth.”
Y’zaks smiled awkwardly, spread out his hands and said, “You are not the first to say so.”
“I thought a lot after I came to the Otherworld,” Hilda said after kept silent for a long time, “for the first time that I confirmed the existence of other races and even other worlds and confirmed the many speculations of our scholars. During the two days on Earth, I happened to see the science program on Earth and got to know what your stellar system is, and how far the Earth is from the nearest planet. It’s incredible. We were curious about whether our surroundings were normal, but we couldn’t find a reference, so we are not sure if it’s because the elves of Aerym are too stupid or too unfortunate to end up this way. Now I’m relieved. Maybe I shouldn’t blame the scholars.”
“Other than the exceptions, only a few of the intelligent races are really stupid,” the data terminal suddenly said, “As long as there is an initiative, they should be praised. For the others, even if they’re misguided and eventually trapped in the mother planet, they should not be blamed, because entering the space is indeed a very difficult task, and many times they have to rely on luck. Sometimes a race has tried their best but still can’t find a way out of gravity, not that they didn’t work hard enough or not smart enough. They are simply not lucky enough.”
A slight hum came from somewhere in the spaceship.
The virtual images around the bridge became brighter again. A dazzling sun appeared at the corner of the image.
“We’ve reached Aerym,” the Mobile Data Terminal said.