Chapter 758 - : Bewitching the Masses
Chapter 758: Bewitching the Masses
This scene of human-beast exchange made Meng Chao’s hair stand on end.
Then, he thought of throwing his soul into the body of the super giant sandworm and turning into a demonic earthquake.
More Peach Blossom townspeople poured in from behind like a tide.
They were all like Gu Ling, holding or carrying a large number of industrial products from the Earth era.
Most of them were earth clothes or phones and computers that had long been damaged and could not be turned on.
There were also people riding monsters and carrying or pulling black engines on their backs.
Judging from the dents on the engines, people had already vented their anger on these “evil technologies” before they were pulled there.
Meng Chao also saw several burly men carrying a couple of plastic mannequins.
These plastic mannequins were all in suits and ties, with many mobile phones and computers tied to their bodies, as though they were wearing an ugly suit of armor.
Their faces were painted with makeup, showing all kinds of expressions of greed, anxiety, and confusion.
Another person used a long-expired lipstick and drew a big red cross on the plastic mannequin’s face.
When the strong men finally carried the plastic doll under the wisdom tree and poked it in the tangled vines, many of the residents of Peach Blossom Town went up to it angrily and spat at it.
Meng Chao guessed that these plastic dolls should be the symbol of the “sinful Earthlings.”
Spitting at them meant that they were drawing a clear line with Earth’s civilization or even sworn to be enemies.
This kind of action of punishing evil idols and praying for good luck in the coming year was a very common ritual in many primitive and medieval civilizations.
Peach Blossom Town, which originated from the modern earth, had only passed through more than half a century and had already embarked on an irreversible path of degeneration?
Meng Chao Sighed in his heart.
At this moment, the Wisdom Tree’s huge crown shook, and countless vines extended out, forming a slowly descending staircase.
A man wearing a black wooden mask and a gorgeous feather robe, who looked like a colorful bear, slowly walked down the vine staircase.
He walked very slowly, giving the people of Peach Blossom Town, who were intoxicated and reveling, time to calm down.
From the hundreds of meters high crown, he walked until he was about twenty meters away from the ground. Then, he stopped.
The ladder of vines under his feet naturally transformed into the shape of a lotus.
There were indeed colorful flowers that stubbornly crawled out from the gaps of the vines. They slowly bloomed and pollen erupted like spores, forming a circle of gorgeous and mysterious garlands around the man.
Meng Chao noticed that the mask that the man was wearing had the appearance of a human on the left and a monster on the right. There was also a small tree carved on his forehead with branches that waved like tentacles. Dozens of tentacles wrapped around the eyes of the human and monster respectively, the entire picture was indescribably strange.
The head behind the black wooden mask was completely white.
At this time, the person who was qualified to descend from the depths of the tree of knowledge should be Gu Ling’s grandfather, the mayor of Peach Blossom Town.
Sure enough, Gu Ling gently pulled Meng Chao and winked at him. That was her grandfather, and the harvest ceremony was about to begin!
“Citizens of Peach Blossom Town!”
After everyone quieted down and the square that contained tens of thousands of people fell silent, the mayor cleared his throat and finally opened his mouth, “A long, long time ago, although our ancestors escaped from hell, their souls were still being roasted by the invisible and haunting flames of hell. They could not understand the true meaning of ‘life’ and ‘civilization’. However, their desires were hard to fill, and they were insatiable. They wanted to turn the new world that they had arrived at with great difficulty into a new hell!
“They almost succeeded!
“In those years, the Peach Blossom Town was a large factory and barracks where the strong bullied, enslaved, and played with the weak. Except for a few high-ranking experts, most of the residents lived a precarious and miserable life.
“The Green Mountains, green rivers, birds, and flowers around the peach blossom town were also turned into a mess by them.
“Now that we think about it, we are still terrified. If they really succeeded in turning the land of peach blossoms into a new earth — the living hell where the air was dirty, the machinery was roaring, and the people were either scheming against each other or cold and distant — what an irreparable sin it would be!
“Thankfully, the wisdom tree saved us at the critical moment.
“The spirit beasts that were hurt by our ancestors also accepted us without any grudges, giving us a chance to turn over a new leaf and live a new life.
“From that day on, we vowed to draw a clear line with the way of life, the social structure, and the form of civilization on Earth, and to explore a path that was completely different from the self-destructive civilization on Earth.
“The annual Harvest Festival is our most sincere gratitude to the tree of wisdom for its protection of the entire peach blossom town and for making it a paradise for humans and spirit beasts.
“It is also the ‘regular treatment’ that we must carry out. We will completely open our hearts and souls during the harvest ceremony and examine each other’s souls to see if the evil genes that originated from Earth will sprout again in the depths of our brains!”
When Meng Chao heard this, his heart trembled.
He was especially sensitive to the words “Completely open our minds and examine our souls”.
One had to know that in his previous life, the greatest threat to Dragon City was not the Apocalyptic Beasts that possessed the power to destroy the world.
Instead, it was an intelligent monster that had a deep understanding and could even vividly imitate humans.
Demon gods were the cream of the crop.
Right now, there were still a total of five demon gods that had yet to show their faces!
Perhaps the main brain of the monster could be used to create the powerful body of the demon god through gene modulation.
However, the ability to play with the free will of humans would probably require thousands and thousands of humans to open up their souls in order to cultivate it, right?
“And this year’s harvest ceremony is also different from previous years. That is, our peach blossom town has welcomed a group of pitiful guests, our compatriots from Dragon City!”
The mayor suddenly changed the topic and mentioned Meng Chao and the other people from Dragon City.
However, there was not much hostility or malice in his words. Instead, he was full of deep sympathy and pity, just like Gu Ling.
“Through their narration, we learned that it was not only the peach blossom town that escaped from Earth, but also the entire Dragon City.”
The mayor sighed and continued, “Unfortunately, their luck was not as good as ours. They did not encounter the wisdom tree at the beginning of their transmigration. In addition, their population was too large, the inertia of Earth’s civilization was too strong, and the spirit beasts around Dragon City were too weak. They were actually unable to resist this kind of evil inertia.
“As a result, Dragon City now still maintains the dark, tragic, and decaying civilization of Earth’s era.
“Today’s Dragon City is the embodiment of the sins of Earth.
“A very few people from the nine great clans, using the nine mega corporations as tools, have taken control of Dragon City’s management system, monopolized most of the resources, and become the supreme experts who are high and mighty.
“Most of the ordinary citizens and low-level warriors can only struggle under the unfair rules of the game set by the supreme experts, enduring the enslavement, deception, and oppression of the supreme experts — exactly the same as in the Peach Blossom Town.
“When we Peach Blossom people here, regardless of our status, power, or wealth, were enjoying the delicious mushrooms and fruits without discrimination, the ordinary citizens of Dragon City could only eat the disgusting canned food that was synthesized by adding chemicals from the leftovers of the spirit beasts. However, the experts from the nine big families could slowly cut off the tenderloin of the high-level spirit beasts and feed the dogs that prostrated at their feet!
“When we Peach Blossom people wake up every day in the grass and Sea of flowers where the birds sing and the flowers are fragrant, and our sight is not blocked by the railings and walls, we can enjoy every beautiful scene in the town to our heart’s content. The ordinary citizens of Dragon City can only struggle to get up from the dark and narrow slums, which are even worse than rat nests, to engage in hard and dangerous work in exchange for those disgusting synthetic cans. However, the powerhouses from the nine major families can stretch comfortably in their gorgeous palaces without having to go out to work. They only need to keep practicing, strengthen themselves, and ensure that they have the absolute force above the ordinary citizens.
“While the people of the Peach Blossom City were singing and dancing with the spirit beasts every day, the ordinary citizens of Dragon City were being driven by all kinds of lies and violence to fight the unknown spirit beasts in the depths of the wilderness.
“Countless people died for no reason. Some lucky ones only lost a few organs and limbs.
“However, the spoils of war that they exchanged for with their lives were shamelessly plundered by the nine noble families.
“In the past six months alone, after slaughtering countless pitiful spirit beasts, the nine noble families have been running wild in the periphery of Dragon City. They have almost swallowed the land larger than the total area of Dragon City and occupied countless crystal veins that are abundant in spiritual energy, becoming their independent kingdom.
“In these independent kingdoms, the sons of the major clans can receive almost unlimited training resources without leaving their homes. They can also manipulate the price of training resources through various financial instruments and earn a hundred times more profit without any effort than hard battles. Even if they go deep into the wilderness to fight, they will be supported by large groups of people and Super Firepower. The difficulty and the probability of their casualties will be ten times lower than that of the ordinary citizens who have no power or influence!
“We, who have always lived in the peach blossom town, never imagined that such an unfair and absurd thing could exist in the world!
“But this is definitely not my fabricated story. We all have visitors from Dragon City. As long as we ask them, the truth will come out!”
“Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!”For a moment, countless eyes were fixed on Meng Chao and Lu Siya.
Lu Siya had long mingled with the people of Peach Blossom Town, and everyone knew her.
Meng Chao’s incompatible temperament made him like a firefly in the dark night, and he was instantly discovered by everyone.
Of course, Meng Chao wasn’t the only one with a similar temperament.
The exploration team members of the man-eating pomfret team and Lu Siya’s team, as well as the powerhouses from the Red Dragon Army such as Long Feijun, the train cannon, were scattered in the crowd, and they were faintly monitored by the people of Peach Blossom Town and the monsters.
They could only greet each other with their eyes from afar and mark their own kind.