Lü Siya was also gazing at the same fiery dragon.
Several hundred meters below the twin-rotor aircraft, the blazing radiance kindled by the crowd became two tiny performances of Golden Snakes' Chaotic Dance in her deep, beautiful eyes.
"Tell me, Meng Chao—"
As if she had sensed Meng Chao's inner conflict, a subtle curve touched the corner of her lips. "Do you think we can pull through?"
After a brief pause, as though realizing that her question was ambiguous, she added:
"I'm not talking only about the crisis before us—at present, Dragon City's internal conflicts have not yet reached the point where they must explode. So long as we possess enough wisdom and trust, there will always be a chance to pull through.
"But what about the future? The Otherworld is so vast, and its natives are far craftier and more advanced than we imagined. What is more, above this planet's atmosphere hang ultimate weapons that can destroy the entire ecosystem time and again, like Gods and Devils—through the primordial memories engraved deep within the Monster Mastermind, we all personally experienced that destruction from hundreds of millions of years ago.
"Who knows whether, after hundreds of millions of years of evolution, those ultimate weapons that stand above all people and all civilizations have long since been damaged, or whether they might restart?
"Hard! Hard! Hard!
"To survive in such a cruel and mysterious world is harder than climbing to the heavens!
"Tens of millions of Dragon City citizens cannot all live comfortably.
"Only if some of them continue evolving, continue breaking through the limits of life, and evolve into Existences Beyond God Realm will there be a sliver of hope.
"Here is the problem: if some humans truly evolve into Existences Beyond God Realm for the sake of survival, growing