Chapter 396: Chapter 331: No Need to Prove to Anyone!_2
Certainly, even up to now, deep inside her heart, she still hoped that all of this wasn’t real.
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The Dynasty she was loyal to was still desperately trying to save the entire civilization, to save everyone.
But at this moment, Zhuang Ying took a few steps back and turned around.
“Just as I said, what is fake is always fake, whether you believe us or not is your business, we are right here, we don’t need to prove anything to anyone.”
As his words fell, he walked towards the door, leaving behind only one final sentence.
“If you don’t believe, naturally others will.”
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Zhuang Ying did not need to prove anything special.
He was looking for those who could help Human Civilization manage the indigenous civilization; if this person did not believe, he could naturally find others.
He had been focused on this for quite a while, but this wasn’t the only target.
Tian Chunyan just stared blankly as the other party left, then stood still for a while, numbly looking around.
The events just now were not illusions.
Although all her powers had not left this room, many traces inside the room still remained.
Including that one slash.
The tiles underfoot were nearly shattered.
However, the more this was the case, the more fearful Tian Chunyan felt inside.
The “truth” described by the other party was too terrifying.
Tian Chunyan glanced at the Marshal’s mansion not far away, clenched her teeth, and walked straight towards it.
“Marshal, I have important matters to ask.”
“What’s the matter?” The door opened, and the marshal sat inside, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, “Since it’s important, come inside, but there’s no need to close the door, after all, you are to be the future wife of the Young Patriarch, and you need to be mindful of some things.”
“…Yes.”
Tian Chunyan’s heart had undergone some changes.
If it had been before, she would have thought of the Marshal as always upright and honorable.
But now…
She felt that the Marshal, in speaking about the Wu Family of the Inner City, was extremely reverential!
This made her clench her fists, but as she walked in, she stared firmly at the Marshal and asked in a deep voice,
“I want to know, whether our Yuanfeng City, and even the entire Chi Yan Dynasty, is just a breeding farm for Weird Demons!”
Suddenly, the Marshal’s face changed dramatically.
“Who told you that?”
Just that expression alone made Tian Chunyan freeze.
Even though her heart was already filled with doubts, the moment of confirmation still brought her immense grief and despair.
It was true!
Generations had braved fire and water, sacrificing themselves in the mouths of Weird Demons to protect the city and the Dynasty, all for a massive lie!
Their cultivation, their efforts, their bloodshed, all of it was such bitter irony!
Tian Chunyan’s body trembled, her entire heart nearly collapsing.
But at that moment, the words of that mysterious man suddenly surged in her heart.
It was like trying to grasp the last straw, she was almost eager to know who that person was, whether the hope he spoke of was real!
Marshal was unaware of that man’s arrival. Although he too was over level 30, a formidable presence in the Fourth Stage, he was no more formidable than an ant compared to Zhuang Ying, who was a bearer of the “Civilization True Inheritance.”
From beginning to end, he had discovered nothing.
He assumed someone had violated the rules and revealed the truth to Tian Chunyan a step early.
At that moment, he looked at her with some pity.
“It’s ridiculous, isn’t it?” he whispered with a sneer. “When I first learned of it, I felt the same as you, filled with sheer despair. The entire dynasty appeared immensely powerful, even holding its ground against the Weird Demons until now, a strong backbone for our entire civilization. In reality, however, we are but bred for food, mere livestock. Our so-called rebellion is merely to make our ‘flesh’ more appetizing.”
“But—” Tian Chunyan suddenly looked up.
“I know what you want to say.” The Marshal interrupted her, his face full of mockery. “Do you know the true strength of the Weird Demons? I’m not afraid to tell you, the Blood Mouth Giant that just appeared has already reached the pinnacle of the Great Power Realm! I once saw with my own eyes how it crushed a previous Marshal as easily as one would crush an ant! And like this nearly invincible Demon, there are twelve more just near Yuanfeng City! Twelve!”
As the Marshal spoke, his tone was filled with deep despair.
“Each one could easily destroy our entire city. It’s not just the Wu Family; even the entire dynasty couldn’t withstand them! Under such circumstances, how are we any different from farmed livestock?”
Yes, such was the dispaly of this world, filled with utter despair.
They seemed to have occupied the daylight, seemingly competing on equal terms with the Weird, but in reality, there was no comparison between their strengths.
For a thousand years, two thousand years, countless years, it had always been so!
This was the eternal reality of this world!
Anyone who knew all this, no matter their ambitions or strong will, would succumb to endless despair.
At most, they could only blindly seek death, just like the previous Marshal, or completely lose their sanity.
At this moment, Tian Chunyan was almost there too, yet her desperately despairing heart still clung weakly to the last hope.
It was the man she had just seen.
He mentioned “we”!
This meant that even in such a terrifying world, amidst the horrifying truth, there were still a group of people who hadn’t given up!
Even though Tian Chunyan knew nothing about those people at present, even unsure if what the man said was true or false, a drowning person would always clutch at anything they could.
“Think positively.” The Marshal, unaware of Tian Chunyan’s inner thoughts and thinking she, like his former self, said, his tone suddenly became much lighter, “Livestock have their own ways to live. Although the Weird Demons are frightening, they won’t kill us all at once; rather, they maintain a certain number. As long as we can show our value, we can still survive, and even live well…”
“The price, is it the thousands of peers sent up daily?” interrupted Tian Chunyan, her tone cold, her gaze filled with boundless sorrow. “That’s hundreds of thousands of people a year! The city crazily promotes childbirth, a man takes over ten wives! Every household is the same, yet ten months of pregnancy, then twenty years to raise an adult, just to send them like this into the mouths of the Weird Demons? And yes, the old ones too, who can no longer bear children, are also continuously consumed during Demon attacks… Livestock, truly just livestock!”
At this moment, with the truth laid bare and reflecting on all past events, she found it utterly ridiculous.
People of the Inner City pride themselves as “Meritorious Officials,” enjoying pleasures daily, but those of the Outer City are constantly giving birth and then dying in large numbers. When too many die, more are relocated from the “Royal City,” one batch after another…
It was indeed just like farmed livestock!
It was laughable, how they were still immersed in false hopes and fervor. Countless peers, countless warriors, even priding themselves on dying at the city walls!
Facing Tian Chunyan’s gritted teeth with anger and sorrow, the Marshal, clad in War Armor and beloved by countless in the Outer City, just watched her calmly and then said, “If not this, what else can we do?”
Indeed.
He too had once been angry, despairing, not much different from the current Tian Chunyan.
But ultimately, what could be done?
Was there any meaning in dying lightly, just like the previous Marshal?
His heart had long since become completely numb, no longer willing to look, think, or indulge in meaningless sadness and sorrow.
After all, he and his family were living well, as long as one tried hard enough, one’s life could be worry-free.
Tian Chunyan gave the once greatly admired and revered Marshal a deep look, then turned silently and left.
Behind her, the Marshal’s voice still reached her.
“You are different from those people, no need for empathy, just accept it, and you will find that your world will be sunnier and more brilliant than before.”