Faced with Lü Zhongqi's unrepentant stubbornness, Meng Chao thought of the end of the nightmare—that land melted into magma by ten thousand suns.
And the skeletons struggling bitterly in the magma, once human, about to turn to ashes.
Perhaps, on some level, neither Lü Zhongqi nor Gao Ye was wrong.
If the Space-Based Orbital Weapon left behind by the Primordial Civilization fired once more, and Dragon City was its target, the Naked Apes from Earth would surely be unable to survive amid the blazing flames.
Only by shedding their old forms and remaking themselves completely could they find a sliver of hope.
"I don't understand."
Meng Chao did not want to waste his breath on a meaningless clash of ideals. He merely said, "Even if you wanted to conduct an experiment to 'fuse human and monster genes and create a Perfect Carbon-Based Lifeform,' why did you have to use your beloved granddaughter as the test subject?"
"At first, I truly never considered involving Si Ya in such a highly dangerous experiment."
Lü Zhongqi said calmly, "Research into creating Perfect Carbon-Based Lifeforms actually began long ago, when the old Blood Alliance had just excavated the Ancient Ruins.
"Although the old Blood Alliance was destroyed, this research was simply too important in terms of foresight and strategy. Over the following decades, intermittently, openly or secretly, it was never halted.
"Under normal circumstances, we used fallen Transcendents guilty of heinous crimes and sentenced to immediate execution; or volunteers who had suffered Cultivation Deviation, become crippled, and strongly wished to undergo radical treatment; or people infected with the Zombie Virus, who would turn into zombies in an extremely short time even without undergoing the 'human-beast synthesis experiment.'
"Through these experiments, we accumulated a great many failed cases and detailed data. Gradually, we blurred the