Xia Chujian's emotions surged, but then inspiration suddenly struck her, and she came up with an idea.
She immediately replied to Empress Tantai Zijun.
Xia Chujian: Your Majesty, if the humanoids help us defeat the invading Zerg this time, could their status as untouchables and slaves be revoked? Could they be granted equal status as commoners?
Xia Chujian did not demand that they become citizens immediately.
In fact, the vast majority of ordinary, normal people in the Beichen Empire were merely commoners.
Citizen status already placed one among the upper class of the Beichen Empire.
Of course, the bottom rung of that upper class.
Citizen status was already one level above commoner status.
Ordinary, normal people were born as commoners, belonging to the Empire's middle class.
Humanoids, however, were merely untouchables or slaves—the absolute bottom rung.
Commoners could still joke that they were born to toil like beasts of burden.
But humanoids could only live like pigs and dogs, sometimes even worse than pigs and dogs.
Xia Chujian had always loathed this state of affairs.
Her proposal could be said to have plunged the entire Star Net into silence for a full minute.
Very few normal people had ever considered the issue of humanoid treatment.
Though genetically speaking, they were all human.
The normal people of the Beichen Empire rarely believed humanoids were the same kind of people as themselves.
But Xia Chujian knew that was merely an illusion held by ordinary people.
Moreover, the Tan Tai Royal Family of the Beichen Empire prohibited scientific research into genetics.
As a result, those humanoids who could originally have been cured into normal humans had been forced to pass down this half-human, half-beast state for ten thousand years.
Amid that strange silence, Huo Yushen used his real-name verified account to become the