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“Is that so?” Lei Zongchao appeared to be even more interested. “What exactly isn’t right?”

Meng Chao pondered over Lei Zongchao’s intentions and also wondered about his relationship with the nine mega corporations.

On the surface, Battle God Lei Zongchao and the nine mega corporations were a textbook example of a happy cooperation.

Due to Lei Zongchao’s suggestion, after Blood Alliance crumbled, the nine gangs gained the most benefits, and they slowly turned into the nine mega corporations. They even formed the Survival Committee, causing Dragon City to move out of being a lawless, bloody era that operated by the law of the jungle, and they rebuilt order and civilization.

After that, Lei Zongchao retired once he was successful in restoring order, and he gave all his attention to nurturing new forces of power. He never fought for power over Dragon City over the nine mega corporations.

The nine mega corporations also gave all the glory aside from real power to Lei Zongchao, including Battle God Palace, which was located at the highest point in the Supernatural Tower.

In truth, with Lei Zongchao’s supreme cultivation realm and his unmatched prestige, he could not be said to have no chance in seizing full control over Dragon City if he wanted to over the past few decades.

If that were the case, Lei Zongchao must have acknowledged and even admired the mega corporations way of managing Dragon City.

But based on A’Ji’s analysis and Lei Zongchao’s attitude today, it seemed like that was not fully the case.

There was something else.

When Lei Zongchao donated funds to Broken Star Club anonymously, he did it through the abnormal beast research department.

The invitation to Battle God Palace was also handed to Meng Chao through Vice Director Nie Chenglong.

In his previous life, after Lei Zongchao died together with the monster civilization’s mastermind, the abnormal beast research department soon faded into obscurity, and in the end, it ceased to exist.

It was impossible for the abnormal beast research department to rise to power in just a few short years and be able to stand on equal footing with the secret police’s adjudicator court without the support of someone behind the scenes. After all, the adjudicator court was an old secret organization.

Could it be that Lei Zongchao was that someone supporting the abnormal beast research department?

Meng Chao pondered over it for a long time, but he still could not understand it.

So he decided to say what was on his mind honestly.

“I can’t say what exactly isn’t right. It’s just that I’ve often wondered about an interesting question,” Meng Chao said, “Dozens of days before my national college examination, I suddenly had an inspiration, and I was able to change my situation miraculously, even get into the university I desire, and I walked down the path of a superhuman.

“But if I didn’t have this inspiration, what would my fate be like?

“Perhaps I’d fail my national college examination and become a normal person. I’ll struggle in the flames of war, and even if a new chance comes to me one day, I can only end up as a tool of the mega corporations, and even if I work hard for my entire life, I’ll only be a third-class fighter.

“I was lucky, so I didn’t end up in that state.

“But I know more than anyone just how hard it is to come by this luck, and how impossible it is to have this luck repeat itself on someone else.

“I believe that there are plenty of poor children in Dragon City who are like me, and some of them definitely have even greater talent than I do. Some work harder than I do, but they just don’t have my luck, and they don’t have as many cultivation resources and chances to perform trial and error. They can only submit to fate.

“I feel that it’s not right for so many talented and hardworking poor children to end up as normal people because they don’t have enough cultivation resources and can’t bring out their full potential. In fact, that’s not a waste, it’s a crime!

“Our population in Dragon City is too small, and if we want to gain our footing in the vast Other World from this small territory of ours, we must create a more scientific, logical, and fair distribution method. We have to distribute our cultivation resources based on everyone’s potential and performance, unlike now, where the rich can buy valuable resources without a care, even throw all their money into hoarding items, thus allowing them to easily earn one hundred times the profit of whatever they spent. Meanwhile, the poor can only risk their lives in the wild. After they finally kill a few monsters, they earn some money, but when they return to the city, they find that the prices for cultivation resources have increased by another fold!

“And the richest people can even affect the decisions made by the Survival Committee. They use the mining teams and hunting squads under them to monopolize some of the crystal mines, monster materials, and other cultivation resources, and they won’t let these cultivation resources enter the market. Instead, through a series of under-the-table dealings, they enter the pockets of the richest and their descendants.

“Since a long time ago, the title of the strongest in Dragon City has been monopolized by the rich, right?”

Meng Chao heard about plenty of bad things regarding the mega corporations from Lin Chuan, Gao Ye, and recently, A’Ji.

After combining their statements with his previous life’s memories regarding what the mega corporations did while they were conquering the Other World, he just could not trust the mega corporations fully and think that they were pure angels as well as selfless saints.

“Makes sense.” Lei Zongchao’s gaze was profound. He cleared his throat a little and said, “But it’s not necessarily a bad thing for the rich to monopolize the title of the strongest. Right now, the nine cultivation families are saying things like superhumans are the sabers of human civilization, and the blood of the strong must flow for the weak, right?

“Over the past few decades. The strong from the nine cultivation families have indeed carried out their duties as the strong. They fight as vanguards during the Monster War and use their blood and even lives to defend our mutual home.”

“That’s indeed what happened in the past. Since the fog enveloped Dragon City, even our Deity Realm superhumans can’t leave Dragon City and live in the wild for long. That’s why the mega corporations’ interests are bound tightly together with Dragon City.”

Meng Chao did not deny the past and what the mega corporations did for Dragon City, but he was very worried. “But what about the future? If Dragon City really rushes out of Monster Mountain Range, then the mega corporations will keep on growing as the vanguards. What if they grow to a size that is even larger than Dragon City itself? What if the interests of the corporations are no longer one with Dragon City? What happens then?”

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Lei Zongchao appeared to be deep in thought.

“You think that something like this will happen? You think that the mega corporations’ interests will not be the same as Dragon City, and there will be a conflict?”

“I don’t know,” Meng Chao shook his head and said, “I only know that when the rich in the upper-class society chat with each other in their fine clothes while drinking wine, there are plenty of homeless people with pus all over their bodies in the alleys of the lair, and they’re rotting to death. Mr. Lei, tell me. Which among these two represent Dragon City’s interests, the rich or the homeless?”

Lei Zongchao said nothing, but admiration and delight shone in his eyes, as if he discovered a jade that was already shining before it was even polished.

He used his gaze to encourage Meng Chao to continue speaking.

“You know that I’m a director in Blue Home. Recently, I’ve been researching Earth’s history with my friends there,” Meng Chao said, “Now, I know that life on Earth isn’t as good as what Dragon Citizens think. It’s not a carefree heaven. There’s also class differences, social rifts, and all sorts of intense conflicts. In fact, people scheme against, exploit, and oppress each other.

“At that time, the richest 1% of people on Earth even occupied above 70% of the total wealth on Earth.

“But on Earth, no matter how great the differences between humans are, at the very least, there’s one thing that remains fair, and that is life.

“It doesn’t matter whether they are billionaires, are the best geniuses in the research department, are kings, or are generals who rule over an army. One single bullet can end their lives. This is something that makes them no different from the beggars who don’t even have clothes and are covered in pus.

“That’s why when the poor on Earth are at their greatest despair, they can still rise up in arms and keep the rich in check. The theoretical success rate in this power is already enough to make the rich slightly wary and on guard against the poor.

“But it’s different in the Other World.

“This is a place where the rich have absolute power, an era where a single Deity Realm superhuman can slaughter an entire army alone.

“Now, these invincible people who have all the wealth and power are still willing to tie their interests with Dragon City’s interests and are willing to fight for Dragon City and the normal citizens. This is definitely a good thing.

“But what if they’re not willing to one day?

“After all, the corporations’ ultimate goal is to earn way more money than they need, not to bleed for nothing for the weak and defend this so-called civilization!”

Meng Chao finished speaking.

Lei Zongchao did not express his opinions. He just stared at Meng Chao for a long time with a profound gaze.

“Young man, your thoughts are very dangerous.” Dragon City’s martial arts legend in the past said faintly, “I remember that these are the ideals of Lin Chuan, Gao Ye, and some of the extremists in the Home Party. You can say that here, but if you spread these things on the streets, you might end up as the next target of investigation by the abnormal beast research department. They will suspect whether you’re used by the monster civilization and are sowing discord between the citizens and the mega corporations!”

“Lin Chuan and Gao Ye have indeed said similar things, and they were indeed deceived and used by the monster civilization, causing them to make mistakes where there is no turning back for them, but I don’t want to reject their opinions because of what they did. Their methods were wrong, but that doesn’t mean that their thoughts aren’t worthy to be used as reference and food for thought.” When Meng Chao saw that Lei Zongchao didn’t retort and even showed a faint desire to protect him, his courage grew, and he decided to attack. “Mr. Lei, in truth, before Mr. Jin died, he never understood something, and he wanted me to ask you this question when I have the chance. In the past, why weren’t you willing to fight against the nine gangs in the past? You even watched the nine gangs beat up Golden Tooth to the point that he’s forced to sign the Underground Alliance and be pinned in the lair. Even so, you still refused to help him.

“Could it be that you’re really just as he said? Do you really have no ambition whatsoever and are satisfied with the mega corporations lavishing praise on you? Are you satisfied with the Battle God’s glory and honor?

“Do you really have no desire to take over the highest authority in Dragon City?”

This blatant and offensive question made Lei Zongchao silent for a long time.

The silence lasted so long that Meng Chao thought that Lei Zongchao would fly into a rage and send him out.

But the old man just sighed. With heavy footsteps, he returned to the medical cabin and soaked in the sticky, black gene concentrate, revealing only a bald head covered in age spots.