Rumble!
A bolt of lightning tore through the pitch-black sky, streaking over the two men's heads.
It then split into countless threads of electric light, brilliant as fireworks, before vanishing without a trace in an instant.
Long Feijun's blade-sharp facial lines gleamed with a metallic luster beneath the lightning, only to disappear back into the darkness.
"Now, everyone acknowledges that the emergence of gangs brought a sliver of hope to Dragon City when it stood on the brink of destruction."
He continued, "Although 'gangs' are an ancient and backward form of organization, burdened with many inherent flaws, and many gangs flew all manner of banners as they slaughtered one another, fought over resources, and battled to become kings and overlords.
"At the very least, however, within the gangs, within a single neighborhood or even a single building, long-lost order was restored. They gathered the strength of dozens, hundreds, even thousands of citizens, allowing humanity to struggle on and survive in that bleak apocalypse.
"Of course, there were some gangs that were utterly heinous and devoid of all humanity.
"Take the Blood Alliance, Dragon City's largest gang at the time. In order to explore the Ancient Ruins, it did not hesitate to use precious food and clean water to lure starving, ignorant citizens into perilous, bottomless underground fissures. It even watched helplessly as they were infected by the Primordial Virus, turned into malformed, twisted monsters, and then sent to laboratories for inhuman research.
"Yet the Blood Alliance's crimes had piled too high. In the end, it drew the joint assault of the other gangs, and with the inside-outside coordination of seniors such as the 'Martial God,' Lei Zongchao, it came crashing down and vanished into ashes.
"The Nine Gangs that replaced the Blood Alliance certainly had their own positions and interests,