Chapter 1943: "Return to Zero"
Meng Chao's breathing became heavy and ragged.
The veins on the backs of his hands bulged, then subsided; subsided, then bulged again.
Among ordinary citizens, Earth's ultimate fate—and why Dragon City had crossed over into the Otherworld in the first place—had always been a subject of endless speculation, shrouded in taboo.
Yet for a God Realm Expert like Meng Chao, Dragon City held no secrets.
It was only that he had never deliberately sought to learn the truth. Or rather, he had always used all kinds of excuses to deceive himself, forcing himself not to learn it.
After all, whatever had happened on Earth was already in the past.
Dragon City had crossed over into the Otherworld more than half a century ago. Even the youngest of those travelers born on the Homeworld had reached the age of knowing their destiny.
As the older generation gradually withered away, the new generation born and raised in the Otherworld naturally would no longer regard "returning to the Homeworld" as a goal they had to strive toward for their entire lives.
Since that was the case, why trouble themselves over a tiny mudball in the vast universe, one that had vanished amid radioactive dust and a long winter?
Yet when Zero laid the fact of Earth's destruction before Meng Chao—simple, brutal, utterly unvarnished, dripping with blood—the Stormy Waves that surged through Meng Chao's heart still far exceeded even his own expectations.
What erupted from the depths of his soul was not merely a wail for the billions of compatriots stranded on Earth.
There was also a question Meng Chao had never been willing to face:
*"If Earth Civilization, which had completely controlled an entire planet and possessed nearly ten billion people and all its resources, still could not