Meng Chao paused here.
His brows drew together slightly, as though he were searching through the memory fragments constantly gushing from the depths of his mind like Crystal Butterflies.
"Somewhere down the line, even many rank-and-file employees of the Nine Super Enterprises chose to cooperate with Another World Natives and betray their own civilization!"
Meng Chao had finally confirmed this point. "At first, I thought this dream was utterly absurd—no matter what, we were proud Earthlings. Even if there were countless differences and disagreements among us, how could we willingly debase ourselves and bow our heads to Another World Natives?
"But upon thinking it over carefully, I realized that this was precisely in line with the laws governing how things developed and changed.
"As the saying goes, 'If a ruler treats his ministers like hands and feet, they will regard him as their heart and belly; if he treats them like dogs and horses, they will regard him as one of the masses; if he treats them like grass and dirt, they will regard him as bandits and enemies!'
"If, in the future Dragon City Civilization, one percent of the people possessed ten times more power, wealth, and influence than the other ninety-nine percent, and could decide the fate of that ninety-nine percent at will, then the concept of 'Earthlings' would be reduced to nothing more than a lie. The one percent and the ninety-nine percent could never regard each other as their own kind.
"In that situation, the gap between Peerless Experts who had broken through to the God Realm and controlled Super Enterprises, and ordinary people who worked at the bottom rung, would likely be greater than the gap between ordinary people and Another World Natives.
"What right would ordinary people have to regard the Dragon City, firmly