One human tragedy after another played out before Ye Chen's eyes in an endless alternating replay.
Geography changed, climate changed, eras changed, cultures changed, technology changed.
Yet the one thing that never changed was the persecution and slaughter between people.
"War" was merely one part of it.
Some fought to seize natural resources, some to contend for status and privilege, some to vent their primal desires.
The reasons varied in every way, and the tragedies never ceased.
Sinking deep into this historical quagmire filled with ugliness and violence, Ye Chen closed his eyes, covered his ears, and even used Auling Power to seal off his five senses. He wanted to shut out all the turmoil of the outside world and carve out a quiet space for his mind to think.
But he simply could not do it.
Even if Ye Chen personally blocked his sight and hearing, the bizarre power of the "City of Frenzied Sin" would still project all the information around him into his mind from afar in the form of a screen.
The young man had no way to stop these tragedies from pouring in. He could only be like a reef by the shore, ceaselessly battered by raging waves, never receiving true peace from beginning to end.
He saw eras where war and famine intertwined, where foreign tribes holding military power slaughtered entire cities wherever they went, treating all captured civilians like pigs, dogs, cattle, and sheep to be butchered and eaten, giving rise to cruel dishes with names like "Not-Envied Lamb," "Spare a Fire," and "Bones Melted Together."
He saw nomadic peoples, bloodthirsty demons in all but name, marching westward and carrying out the "Three Alls Policy" of kill all, burn all, loot all. Every man was tortured and slaughtered, every woman divided up as