"Anti-human terrorist?"
"What do you mean?"
Jiang Qiao asked calmly.
"Have you heard of the Human Extermination Plan, Young Friend Jiang?" Yan Donglin asked in return.
"I've heard of it in movies."
"I've heard of it in novels."
"I've never heard of or seen it in real life."
Hearing Yan Donglin bring this up, Jiang Qiao understood somewhat. So this was what he meant by anti-human—planning to eliminate excess humans?
"About a hundred years ago."
"They believed that the human population was growing too quickly."
"So they hoped to eliminate some of it."
"And formulated a plan."
"Then their plan seems to have failed. More than a hundred years ago, there were only 1.6 or 1.7 billion people. Now there are already over eight billion."
Jiang Qiao said.
"That's right."
"The human population has increased fivefold."
"Under normal circumstances."
"It will continue to grow."
"They tried many methods—disease, hunger, poverty, and war—but they only managed to slow the growth locally. They couldn't change the overall trend."
"So they turned their attention to the supernatural."
Yan Donglin said.
"Using the supernatural could indeed eliminate humans on a large scale, but what happens afterward?" Jiang Qiao said. "If the supernatural went completely out of control, all order would be shattered."
"What value would a devastated world have?"
"They couldn't be destroying things just for the sake of destruction, could they?"
"Were they severely misanthropic?"
"If that were really the case, wouldn't they have committed suicide first? How could they have passed down their legacy for so many years?"
Jiang Qiao raised his doubts.
"You're right."
"There are two reasons for this."
Yan Donglin said unhurriedly, "First, accompanying the Human Extermination Plan was another operation called the Pyramid Model. In essence, they didn't intend to kill everyone."
"Reducing the human population was meant