Collector

"Gambling?"

"Or rather, resistance born of a lack of hope and patience."

Peony served as both livestream host and commentator. Her cool tone clashed sharply with the fervent scene of a million-strong parade in the "live footage," yet it gave Ronan, who could not get a word in and could only listen obediently, a great deal to think about.

"Forty years after the war is already the span of three generations. Society has more or less completed another round of class solidification, and the emergence of the social Authority System has made this phenomenon even more pronounced. In some poorly managed cities, human hearts have grown increasingly restless. If there were a chance to get rich overnight, why wouldn't they take it?"

"Because they're restless, they want aberration to become the norm?" Bamboo Pole raised an eyebrow. "The public mindset should be growing more conservative, not becoming this radical... So they're being exploited, right? You must have some kind of theory."

Peony slowly turned, transmitting scenes from a broader area for them to see. Her voice remained clear and precise. "At present, the direct driving force is money. From the perspective of public authority, many people no longer want to spend it."

"How so?"

"Forty years after the war, all kinds of aberrations have continued to occur in the Wilderness. But have the nomad tribes in the Wilderness died out? No! According to incomplete statistics, the nomad population has achieved five consecutive years of growth. Their population growth rate has even surpassed that of two-thirds of the eighty-eight major metropolitan areas, and there is no particularly obvious difference in lifespan either."

Zhang Yingying interrupted her. "Hey, the generations from before and after the war are still far from reaching the peak age for natural death."

"But that is the situation