The Doctor Staged Calamity Upon Humanity! Holding the Cure, Yet Offering Only the Illusion of Pain Relief!

Hai Long said in a deep voice, "And Otto locked them away in the archives. He did not kill hope; he merely kept it hanging overhead forever, always one step away. That way, everyone would keep looking to him, keep following him."

Tian Hen suddenly let out a very quiet, cold laugh. "He said, 'The current pace is just right.' Just right for what? Just right for people to die, just right for people to fear, just right for faith to run deep. He treated all of human civilization as an experiment that could be used over and over again. The experiment could live, but it had to keep bleeding. Because a dried wound was not conducive to observation."

"This was his 'perfect breeding ground,'" Huo Yuhao said. "A world on the brink of destruction, yet not destroyed. A world that needed guardians, yet could never break free from disaster. This world would provide him with an endless supply of resources, manpower, faith, and sacrifice. And he stood at the center of that breeding ground, pretending to be the only light."

"Why did he need to pretend?" Xu Sanshi's voice was so low it was nearly inaudible. "Could he not pretend? If everyone knew the truth..."

"If they knew the truth, they would kill him first." Zhou Weiqing took over, a chilling curve at the corner of his mouth. "But they could not kill him. Because he had already designed this world to become something that could not function without him. You hated him, but you needed him even more. That was the most despairing part. He was not a tyrant who could be overthrown. He was a 'necessity' fed by suffering."

"But this necessity could have ended the suffering." Ning Tian pushed up her glasses, cold light reflecting from