Chapter 215: Those most worthy of respect
"The story's over. Pretty melodramatic, wasn't it?"
The mysterious man's final quip brought the story to a close. Yet this tale, which would once have sounded melodramatic, left the conference room steeped in an oppressive atmosphere that showed no sign of lifting.
Leaving aside whether the details were true, Tao Xingzhi suddenly felt both relieved and angry. After everything Dawn had endured, it had not retaliated against society back then. Humanity really had been incredibly lucky.
As for whether the story was true or false, that no longer mattered.
Tao Xingzhi sighed inwardly.
What if it was false? The world's turmoil and upheavals were indeed as the mysterious man had described, and their knowledge was certainly more comprehensive than what any nation currently possessed. Cooperation remained the inevitable way forward.
And if it was true, even Dawn itself had already let it go. Those "human traitors" were buried in history. What could their descendants do about it now?
Yet the heaviness in his heart was hard to shake. All the earlier signs, along with the ruins in France, suggested that the story probably was not fabricated.
Perhaps Dawn had not truly "let it go," either. At the very least, it had never again had much contact with humanity's rulers.
The descendants still suffered the consequences of their ancestors' sordid deeds.
Lozov breathed heavily through his nostrils. As a traditional career soldier, there was nothing he despised more than bastards who stabbed others in the back.
"Back then, why did you still help those people... help them keep fighting off those mutations?"
In all fairness, the question cut rather close to the bone. It was not appropriate for a government general to say such a thing, but Lozov said it anyway.
He would not