Unmasking the Pretense

"Great Emperor, what do you think of the Dragon Clan's gift? Aren't you going to comment on it?" Lusa suddenly asked.

Huang Ji had just judged his gift. Naturally, Lusa wanted to hear what he thought of the Dragon Clan's.

"The Dragon Clan put a little more thought into its gift, but it still won't appeal to humanity," Huang Ji said casually.

"What?" Ji Heng froze.

He had thought Huang Ji favored him. Apparently not.

"Why?"

"Because those things only appeal to scientists," Huang Ji said, as if it were obvious.

What's wrong with that? Ji Heng thought. Scientific progress was what mattered most. Compared with the Golden Crow Clan's flashy enticements, the Dragon Clan had shown far more sincerity.

If the ruling class made the final decision, humanity would certainly choose the Golden Crow Clan. If scientists made it, they would choose the Dragon Clan.

The human representatives had openly discussed making their choice on scientific grounds.

"People judge value differently, let alone different civilizations. Let's continue..." Huang Ji said meaningfully.

Lusa breathed a sigh of relief. If Huang Ji was simply judging impartially from humanity's perspective, the decision still rested with the humans.

He was convinced humanity could not resist the desire for a longer life.

One civilization after another presented its gift.

Because Ziwei had sealed off the Solar System and erased Earth's records for the past thirty-two years, most civilizations judged humanity by their own standards.

Some offered multifunctional Nano Swarms. They were genuinely useful across all sorts of industries, but One Lang could not buy many. The swarms were too small to see, and the entire gift fit inside a pebble-sized device. The humans felt nothing when they looked at it.

Some offered planetary Floating Cannon defense systems. These remote-controlled turrets could also detect threats