1813 Problem with Manpower
If Meng Chao only trusted 90% of Su Mulian’s words at first, then…
After she uttered the words “Chaos faction,” this trust increased to 100%.
At this point, the Chaos faction that was formed by uniting all anti-Holy Light forces in the Other World had yet to be established.
If she could not foresee the future, she would never say this name.
“You know about the Holy Light faction and the Chaos faction?”
Meng Chao stared at Su Mulian with a gaze as sharp as a sword. “In your dream, what were the Holy Light faction and Chaos faction like?”
“I…”
Su Mulian hesitated for a moment and slowly shook her head. “I couldn’t see them clearly. It was a dream after all. I wasn’t a soldier on the front line who faced the enemy directly.
“I just vaguely remember that the Holy Light faction’s members were mostly humanoid creatures with golden hair and golden eyes. They seemed to be under the control of a certain existence in the sky, and they used power known as ‘magic,’ which this existence gave them.
“As for the Chaos faction, most of them were products of genetic engineering. Although they had a variety of appearances, there were traces of gene splicing and optimization in the depths of their cells. However, just like the Earthlings of that time, the genetic optimization of the Chaos faction required a price, resulting in various flaws in their appearance. Thus, they were feared and viewed as an enemy by the Holy Light faction.”
“You mentioned earlier that ‘in the beginning, we won.’”
Meng Chao asked, “In other words, we still lost in the end?”
“Yes, if we had achieved the final victory, I wouldn’t have gambled everything to change the future.”
Su Mulian sighed. “At first, we did rush forward and win.
“However, soon enough, as their sphere of influence continued to expand, they occupied more and more cities. The biggest weakness of the Dragon City civilization also became increasingly obvious.
“Population. Our weakness was population.
“A population of tens of millions in a modern metropolis certainly translates into lots of traffic and people.
“Unfortunately, the human beings of the Holy Light race who believed in their Holy Light, had been brainwashed by the temple since they were children, and they claimed to be blessed by the gods. They rarely surrendered, so a population of several dozen million people was not enough in this vast alien continent.
“Not to mention, the magic of the Holy Light humans was the same as the extraordinary power used by the people of Dragon City. Both were extremely concealed weapons of mass destruction.
“The Holy Light humans, who possessed magic power, were the best assassins and destroyers.
“Meanwhile, the flood of steel from Dragon City required extremely strong logistics support and an extremely strict organizational structure to exert its destructive power.
“Such war machines would naturally be invincible and sweep away thousands of Holy Light troops, who were still living in the Middle Ages.
“However, once we got to the stationed troops and engaged in public security wars, the mages of the Holy Light human race could change their appearance at any time and place. They would then blend into the crowd, sneak underground, and find an opportunity to assassinate the public security officers sent by Dragon City, burn our food and ammunition, destroy our machinery and railways, and incite the fanatical Holy Light believers to rise up and resist the tyranny of the ‘abnormal calamity.’
“Of course, the Dragon City civilization had its own ‘anti-magic plan,’ but destruction was always easier than construction. Besides, the Holy Light faction had the geographical advantage, and its people were not afraid of death. They were willing to be martyrs for their supreme god. All kinds of suicide attacks using magic often caught us off guard.
“The damage caused by each ‘suicide magic attack’ was not big, but the accumulation of small things became a lot. It continued to drain the blood of Dragon City’s civilization, preventing us from effectively integrating the resources in the occupied area. The authorities’ financial situation got worse and worse, and the stationed troops couldn’t bear the disturbance as well as unspeakable sufferings either.”
“Wait a minute…”
Meng Chao contemplated for a moment and said, “Why weren’t the Turan orcs at the front?
“According to my plan, the Turan orcs should be the army at the forefront to deplete the Holy Light faction’s effective strength. The Dragon City civilization could then rest easy in the middle military tent and make a fortune from the war.
“Why did the people of Dragon City have to personally go into battle and fight the Holy Light faction?”
“I don’t know about that.”
Su Mulian shook her head at first before she thought for a moment and said, “But I don’t think the Turan orcs would be foolish enough to be cannon fodder for Dragon City’s people for nothing, right?
“Anyway, in my nightmare, not all of the Turan orcs were brawny but simple-minded idiots. At least their nobles were smarter than most humans, and their leader known as the Doomsday Wolf was especially so.
“The exchange of civilizations is two-way. When the Dragon City civilization tried to use the Turan civilization as a pawn, the insightful people of the Turan civilization must have deeply reflected on the reasons for the deterioration of their civilization and actively learned from Dragon City.
“After all, the Turan orcs aren’t real wild beasts but rather intelligent life forms that once roamed the sea of stars. If the best of them could reflect on their painful experience and come to a realization, they wouldn’t be too slow in catching up to us.
“If the Turan orcs truly learned the essence of modern technology from the Dragon City civilization, armed their troops with a flood of steel, and continued to attack cities and occupy lands, expanding a large amount of territory, and storing up rich resources, who could stop them from becoming the Other World’s overlords after they defeated the Holy Light faction?
“We, the people of Dragon City, can’t bow down to the Holy Light humans, and we can’t let the Turan orcs decide our fate. Two tigers cannot live on the same mountain, and there can only be one overlord in the Other World, and that is us, the transmigrators from Earth.
“I think that’s probably the reason why we took the initiative to attack and expand our living space with the Turan orcs, right?”
“I understand.”
Meng Chao realized that he had oversimplified the issue.
Since he had already changed the future…
The Turan orcs down the line would no longer be as brutal, violent, and ignorant as he had once dreamed they would be.
As the collaboration and communication between the Dragon City civilization and the Turan civilization gradually grew closer…
The elites among the Turan orcs would inevitably be like dried sponges, hungrily absorbing the essence of Dragon city’s civilization and quickly improving the level of their own civilization.
Natural selection, survival of the fittest… In this competition, all the contestants had to do their best.
It was too naive to think that they could stay in the safe zone comfortably and win the final victory for free.
“What now?”
Meng Chao said, “How do we solve the problems of the battle line being too long and manpower depletion?”
“There is no good solution.”
Su Mulian slowly shook her head and said, “The peerless masters of the Dragon City civilization could only act as firefighters. They ran here and there, exhausted, trying to extinguish the Holy Light faction’s flames of resistance in their occupied area.
“Although we managed to temporarily control the situation, the consumption and losses were still great.
“Many peerless powerhouses fell, and you were one of them.”
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