As Blood Alliance members were arrested one after another, some defended themselves with faces drained of color, while others argued their case with righteous indignation. Before long, all these statements spread through Dragon City's streets and alleys via the omnipresent internet.
Over the past several decades, it was not as though no insightful figures among Dragon City's tens of millions of ordinary citizens had considered the question: "When Transcendents become too powerful, what reason will they have to keep protecting ordinary people and fighting for them?"
It was simply that the question ran too deep. Following it to its conclusion would very likely completely shatter humanity's laws, morals, and social consensus inherited from Earth.
Moreover, at the time, Transcendents and ordinary people faced a common threat—the Monster Civilization.
Their differences, and even their contradictions, had thus been temporarily set aside and concealed.
Today, as the Nine Super Enterprises established by the first generation of Transcendents grew ever more massive and powerful, and as the Blood Alliance resurfaced once more, this perhaps unanswerable question was once again thrust beneath the spotlight, placed before countless watching eyes.
On such an endlessly long night, when the unrest had yet to subside and everyone had fallen into thought, Meng Chao, born of humble origins, single-handedly defeated Yun Feidian and Lü Zhongqi, two God Realm Experts from great families, and nipped the Blood Alliance's terrifying scheme in the bud. The news tore through the night sky like lightning, injecting countless ordinary citizens with a shot of strength and letting them glimpse a brand-new hope.
For the vast majority of ordinary citizens, who would likely never awaken Superhuman Power in their entire lives, their own mediocrity was tolerable. But the thought of their children and descendants forever living in a world where ordinary people had ever