Meng Chao could not refute him.
He thought of the first future, when his father had suffered severe workplace injuries from dangerous work but had failed to receive timely compensation or treatment, unable even to seek justice. That had led his younger sister, Bai Jiacao, to "go dark" and become the Black Night Witch.
And in the second future, his sister's fate had been a hundred times more terrifying than becoming the Black Night Witch.
Could the Blood Alliance, that evil organization which should have vanished into ashes decades ago, truly still be lurking in some form deep within Dragon City, in some dark corner?
And who, or what forces, were secretly supporting the Blood Alliance's continued existence and activities?
There was also Lü Siya, who had been controlled by the Monster Mastermind and transformed into the Jungle Banshee. In her smug complacency, she had revealed the truth to Meng Chao as well.
Although humanity had won the Monster War.
The Monster Civilization had never been so easily eradicated.
Even if humanity occupied the Mist Hidden Forbidden Zone, swept away the Monster Civilization's ultimate nest, and suppressed and tamed every monster.
Countless Monster Spores would still slip into human bodies "with the wind into the night, moistening all things without a sound," turning many humans into Monsters in Human Skin.
It was easy to eliminate the monsters in the mountains.
Eliminating the monsters in one's heart was a hundred times harder.
It was easy to eliminate the tangible Doomsday Beasts that bared their fangs and claws and howled wildly.
But eliminating those "Monsters in Human Skin" hidden among the masses—high-sounding and righteous in appearance, sanctimonious, and perched in high positions—was harder than climbing to the heavens.
Yet if these "Monsters in Human Skin" were allowed to lurk in Dragon City,