"Our ultimate goal is the same as the Crawlers'?"
Lin Yuan's eyes widened at once.
In an instant, many classic scenes from Infernal Affairs flashed through his mind.
Could the Crawlers actually be undercover agents on the Great Being's side, waiting to deal it a vicious blow at a critical moment?
If so, it would make sense that the Great Being wasn't so friendly toward the Crawlers.
However, Lin Yuan soon dismissed this melodramatic conjecture himself.
Setting aside the enormous losses the Crawlers had inflicted on humanity, a single fact was enough to overturn the thought Lin Yuan had just had.
Lord One had once said that humanity's ultimate goal had never been to defeat the Great Being, but to escape.
Thus, there could be no scenario in which humanity and the Crawlers cooperated wholeheartedly to take on the Great Being.
And Wang Jian's next words confirmed Lin Yuan's thoughts:
"Yes, there's really nothing surprising about it."
"The ultimate goal of both our sides is also the shared instinct of all living creatures-to stay alive."
"To stay alive?" Lin Yuan froze for a moment. He hadn't expected the shared goal of humanity and the Crawlers to be so plain and simple.
But on closer thought, how many indescribable emotions lay behind those few simple words?
Wang Jian didn't give Lin Yuan much time to reflect before continuing:
"That's right. To stay alive, under the threat of the Great Being."
"But the paths our two sides have chosen are completely different."
"The path we chose is to escape the Great Being."
"The path the Crawlers chose is to live in symbiosis with the Great Being."
As he spoke, Wang Jian snorted:
"Of course, 'symbiosis' is just the Crawlers' way of making themselves sound better."
"In essence, it's actually 'parasitism.' The Crawlers