Using Barbarians to Control Barbarians

Silver Fist had also been planning to discuss this matter with the other party.

Now that S2K's clone had taken the initiative to bring it up, he immediately sat up straight.

"The Earth humans absolutely cannot escape!"

"Once we let them get away, everything we've done will have been for nothing!"

"And we'll have to endure that madwoman Ai Lan's revenge!"

At the thought of the dreadful consequences if this operation failed,

Silver Fist's expression immediately turned deeply wary.

"Do you have a solution, brother?"

Silver Fist had yet to realize that he had begun developing a dependence on S2K.

Hearing the other party ask him for a solution,

S2K's clone immediately revealed a faint, imperceptible smirk.

"The solution is very simple, Lord Silver Fist."

"We'll use a little 'Using Barbarians to Control Barbarians.'"

he replied.

"Using Barbarians to Control Barbarians?"

Silver Fist was utterly baffled by the unfamiliar term.

He was completely at a loss.

"It's an ancient Earth saying."

"Simply put, we can use Earth humans themselves to keep Earth humans in check."

"That way, they won't have any opportunity to leave Earth!"

"Although this may still inevitably result in some casualties,"

"it's still better than letting billions of Earth humans escape Earth..."

S2K's clone replied with a half-smile.

Hearing this, Silver Fist hesitated slightly.

"How exactly do we do it?"

In the end, he made up his mind.

Using barbarians to control barbarians—using Earth humans to restrain Earth humans.

Put simply, it meant making them erupt into conflict again.

Earth Civilization was not a monolith.

There were many ideological and cultural conflicts within it.

That in itself was fertile ground for creating conflict.

So once contradictions and conflicts were ignited, bloodshed and sacrifice would be unavoidable.

The key was controlling the scale of Earth human casualties.

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