The old guy left quickly, and returned just as quickly.
Even I felt that none of this was real.
Jiang Xiaohui said, "I'm certain the system was behind this. It wanted to use the old guy's mouth to demand Energy Source from us."
I said nothing and pulled out a cigarette.
By then, we had returned to the car parked by the roadside.
Traffic had begun flowing back and forth along the road again.
We had returned to reality.
"Big Brother, what are you spacing out for?" Jiang Xiaohui asked.
I looked at him. "What do you think about this? What he said made some sense. Sometimes, a proper compromise might not be a bad thing. Besides, the situation is too complicated right now. We need helpers and allies too."
"The Ancient Shu people, Ancient Pompeii people, and Ancient Atlanteans all have advanced civilizations, don't they? If it comes down to it, we can let them all come out. They can fight the Returnees on the front lines while we free ourselves up to confront the system directly."
I shook my head. Though the civilizations of the Ancient Shu people, Ancient Pompeii people, and Ancient Atlanteans surpassed ours, they were still far behind the Returnees.
Besides, the leaders of every country still had doubts about whether those people could return to the surface. Even we had serious reservations.
After all, they were different from us.
And through my dealings with them, I could sense that they had ambitions of their own.
If we let them all out and things got out of control, we might face endless internal conflict before we ever officially went to war with the Returnees.
The leaders of the three races in the base had all said that, if needed, their entire clans could join the