Forward! Toward the Deepest Reaches of the Otherworld!

This question happened to be Meng Chao's strong suit.

Even if Shao Zhengyang had not asked, Meng Chao had been planning to find an opportunity to have a proper discussion with the Crimson Dragon Army's foremost expert.

Still, the other man was a high-ranking military bigshot. Before speaking his mind freely, Meng Chao needed to test the waters and see what he thought.

"Many people now believe that the Monster War is over. We have vaccines and Special Medicine for biochemical invasions such as the Zombie Virus and Blood Pattern Flower Spores. We can even draw upon the Monster Civilization's legacy to obtain more advanced biochemical technology, 'turn waste into treasure,' and formulate the Zombie Virus and Blood Pattern Flower Spores into new Gene Serums to accelerate Transcendents' cultivation."

Meng Chao said, "After struggling and striving for decades, we can finally stop to catch our breath, store away our blades and guns, turn our horses loose on the southern hills, and shift Dragon City Civilization's strategic focus back toward production, construction, and economic development.

"Uncle Shao, do you think so too?"

This was indeed a very popular view online.

Dragon City Civilization was like a person whose nerves had been stretched taut. After struggling through a Sea of Corpses and Blood for decades, it had long since developed collective Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

Monster Civilization had been like a great mountain pressing heavily upon everyone's heads for decades, leaving all Dragon City Citizens under the threat of death at every moment.

Then one day, that mountain was completely overturned.

The nerves that had been taut for decades suddenly relaxed.

It was only natural that, amid their wild joy, people would also grow lax.

"Foolish! Utterly foolish! Such shortsightedness is simply courting death!"

Shao Zhengyang's face hardened as he said in an