The two Anomaly retainers spoke in low voices!
The Stone Womb incarnation duplicate silently stopped and observed them carefully.
They sat in a tavern, eating and drinking as they talked.
What they ate, however, was succulent flesh—slave people the size of thumbs, still screaming, skewered one after another on tiny wooden sticks.
Though the sounds were faint, they went on without end, like a melody of despair.
The two picked up the skewers of slave flesh and swallowed them in one bite, smacking and chewing, traces of blood spreading across the corners of their mouths.
Their cups were filled with bloody liquid, yet the fragrance of wine wafted from them.
The slave folk, lowborn, and poor people walking the streets could all see and hear this scene, yet not a single person said a word.
They had long since grown accustomed to it!
They were citizens of the All-Beings Dynasty, and had essentially escaped the food hierarchy!
There was a chain of contempt between all living things. Once those slave people who had escaped the food hierarchy gained a certain degree of autonomy, they did not show any greater sympathy toward their own kind beneath them.
Instead, they hoped those people would sacrifice themselves to please their true masters, thereby sparing themselves from harm.
Such was the nature of life: sacrifice others so that one might survive better.
But Li Qing did not blame them. For the sake of survival, one could resort to any means.
Even he himself, if he truly fell into the same circumstances as them, would not be much better.
When survival itself became difficult, morality naturally became unnecessary.
The development of all intelligent life began in barbarism, moved toward collective society, and finally formed civilization. Yet throughout that process, the weak were destined to fall