Chapter 1755: Offshore Balancing
The entire Dragon City fell silent.
No one could refute Meng Chao's words.
Not only because the credibility Meng Chao had built through countless brushes with death could not possibly be ruined so easily over something that could be readily verified.
More importantly, Dragon City's anthropologists and sociologists had long conducted projections in this direction, concluding that a massive civilization of Another World Natives very likely existed in the heart of the continent north of Dragon City.
The reason was simple.
In terms of latitude, Dragon City roughly corresponded to the regions around Siam, India, and Java on Earth.
The lush tropical rainforests in the Monster Mountain Range, the countless bizarre insects and creatures, and the orbit of the star all corroborated this.
And on Earth, due to the scorching climate, rampant plant growth, the lack of combined coal-and-iron resources, and other reasons, no superpower capable of influencing the global situation had ever emerged in the tropical belt near the equator, nor had any advanced civilization been born there that could guide humanity's development.
In fact, without exception, the empires that had commanded the winds and clouds throughout human history and the civilizations that had shone in brilliant splendor had all been located in the temperate and subarctic zones of the Northern Hemisphere.
Perhaps it was precisely because of the cold climate and barren resources that the spirit of all things, having only recently shed its fur, had needed to rack its brains, unite as one, stop at nothing, and pay any price to outwit and battle the god of death. Only then had the first buds of civilization gradually emerged, spiraling beyond all control.
In regions where one could sleep soundly beneath a tree and eat fallen fruit until stuffed, yet die of malaria tomorrow