A Tai's words left my thoughts in turmoil.
If things were truly as A Tai said, then was the kindness he had shown me, and the friendship that had made me feel this way, real or not?
If I agreed, they would be able to enter the world without any restrictions.
That was far too great a burden for me to bear.
Once they entered the world, it would not just be the Ancient Shu people, but also the Ancient Pompeii people and the Ancient Atlanteans. No matter which group it was, their entry into the world could cause immense chaos.
They possessed civilizations more advanced than ours, and they were not far away at all—they lived in the world beneath our feet. I did not even know how many of them there were. Perhaps their population had already surpassed ours. If that happened, would we have the ability to restrain them and stop them from doing things that would harm modern humanity?
Of course, when it came to dealing with those outsiders, they were indeed vital allies. They could even face those foreign civilizations directly. But the stronger they were, the more I had to consider the consequences.
A Tai was an honest man. He had openly told me that their views were not unified either. There were certainly some among them who believed that they should be the masters of this world. They also held an even more terrifying belief—that this world had originally belonged to them, and that we modern humans who came afterward had no right to rule it.
I imagined that it was not only the Ancient Shu people who thought this way. The Ancient Pompeii people and the Ancient Atlanteans probably did as well. People had desires and ambitions, and the Ancient Human were