Having no desires was not always a good thing.
Only with love came hatred. Only with the satisfaction and joy of gaining and possessing came the pain and helplessness of losing.
"We need more farmland."
"I'm already quite satisfied with the size of our race. But if the other floors became our territory too, wouldn't that look much better?"
"I want to paint the 300th floor in our colors too. I went there last time—it was too ugly, too chaotic."
War needed a reason, but Lu PingAn had never expected such an excessively "art student" reason to win the broadest approval within the race.
They wanted to dye the world in their own colors, and so they launched a war.
"...Would lowering their perception of 'beauty' at the source help?"
Though he was working according to an order, Lu PingAn had always hoped the newborn race would be relatively peaceful.
He had even deliberately raised their perception of "lust" and heightened their emotional sensitivity.
This directly led to a massive increase in "artists" within their race. Lu PingAn had originally hoped it would make them settle down somewhat, but he had never expected it to become the reason for a large-scale war.
"It's useless. They've already formed a social consciousness. You could take this opportunity to study what collective subconsciousness and social collective consciousness are. Their emotions have already woven into a web, and they've reached a consensus on most things. Even if you alter the source and produce newborns with lower emotional sensitivity, they'll quickly be assimilated."
Big Cat saw things quite clearly. In truth, she and Fang Wen were the ones most invested in this project.
In a sense, Lu PingAn's achievement in "creation" had already surpassed hers, while Fang Wen was intoxicated by this ability to "create