As opponents, who on the entire Earth besides them could stand against Huaxia?
Would it be the Mutant Creatures they had always suppressed, utterly incapable of resistance? Or the Atlantis Civilization, which proclaimed itself superior yet had lost to Huaxia in actual conflict?
Do not forget that every Lighthouse citizen who had died so far had been abandoned by them. Within the territory truly ruled by Lighthouse, almost no real deaths had ever occurred. Those so-called deaths were merely losses of Gene Warriors. Those renewable tools of war could not be called real humans at all.
After suffering a setback against Huaxia, Atlantis had turned around and sought cooperation with them. They truly did not know how to evaluate that way of thinking.
After being thwarted by Huaxia, Atlantis had turned around and sought cooperation with them. They truly did not know how to evaluate such a way of thinking.
To say Atlantis looked down on Lighthouse would be wrong, since the first Human Civilization nation they had chosen to cooperate with was Lighthouse. Yet to say they thought highly of Lighthouse would also be wrong, because their attitude suggested that, apart from Huaxia, no nation in Human Civilization was worth fearing.
However they judged them inwardly, they still chose to cooperate with Atlantis on the surface. Though they did not believe Atlantis's arrogance matched its actual capabilities, Atlantis did possess certain technologies that could benefit them.
By cooperating with them and obtaining technologies useful to Lighthouse, they could also rapidly strengthen their own foundation.
As for Atlantis wanting to use them to obtain information about the current world, especially Huaxia, that was no trouble at all. Huaxia had not concealed anything in this regard; all the information was public. At most, they only needed to compile it and send