Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1002 - 386: On Civilization

I once wanted to be a good person, but reality forced me to become a demon.

Only by bathing in darkness and staining my body with black blood can I achieve true redemption the moment I lay down the butcher's knife.

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Ren Zhong never actively harmed anyone who did not have a hostile relationship with him.

Yet, he gained new insights while playing the games of human nature.

Those captured wild people did nothing wrong, they were just born from "lowly" wombs and thus met such fate.

Since Citizens can insult and torture any wild people for pure pleasure, then before he reshapes the era, every vested interest holder and he himself has a natural hostile relationship.

No matter whether the other party has done something to him or not, the hostile relationship objectively exists.

Therefore, when Ren Zhong directly blew up number 38 and himself, he had already shown his attitude, and now he is just going further.

"Tell me, what exactly do you want to do?"

Seeing Ren Zhong not explaining, Xiao Xingyue shivered with her lips as she asked.

Ren Zhong thought for a moment and asked back, "Xiao Xingyue, what do you think of me as a person?"

"Huh?"

Ren Zhong took another step forward and asked, "Am I trustworthy? What exactly is your relationship with the Chairman? How much do you think the Chairman's reform can help Source Star civilization?"

Xiao Xingyue, overwhelmed by his aggressive questioning, instinctively retreated, and even her hand holding the water cup trembled a bit, "You... you asked me too many questions at once, let me sort them out."

Only then did Ren Zhong slightly step back, gazing at the other under the dim light.

Xiao Xingyue adjusted her clothes, feeling deeply puzzled. She is now a proper Level Nine Telekinesis Master, and when facing others, she always easily controlled the dominant position in conversations, never encountering an opponent like Ren Zhong.

After a long while, she finally clarified her thoughts, "Let's talk about you first. You're very strange, clearly having set yourself up as a lecher, yet most of the time deliberately avoiding the opposite sex. I even once thought you liked men, but you have Ju Qingmeng as your partner. Besides these oddities, you're a good person. Although you use almost everyone, you indeed changed the lives of those dependent on you and are working hard to change more lives."

Ren Zhong: "In fact, in this regard, you are very much like me. I've heard people say that when you encounter some ill-fated people during interviews and listen to their stories, your eyes also became moist. Like me, you sympathize with these people. But you're also familiar with Source Star's rules, knowing this emotion is dangerous, so you're deliberately hiding it, using your status as a fame-seeking journalist to disguise yourself. Truly good people like us, in the past, were not allowed to exist."

Xiao Xingyue: "Yes. Based on this, I trust you, otherwise I wouldn't sneak here today. As for the Chairman... when I was young, my parents always told me that our family has been the Chairman's loyal servants for generations. The Chairman treats me well, and I believe his ideals can bring some vitality to the stagnant Source Star civilization, so I follow him."

Ren Zhong shook his head: "But that is only about eliminating some privileged people, merely replacing them with another batch of privileged people. Imagine if during the great migration, we indeed took billions of newly risen Citizens, but decades or centuries later, what would happen? Such superficial changes, can they really revive Source Star civilization?"

Xiao Xingyue: "So, what exactly do you want to do?"

Ren Zhong: "Civilization's development requires wisdom, and the birth of wisdom requires fertile ground, which can only come from a massive population. Every genetic combination represents a possibility. Regardless of Citizens or wild people, the opportunities before a zygote is formed are actually equal. Citizens might be fools, and geniuses might be born among wild people. Like me, and those under my command. Given Source Star civilization's current level of technological advancement, it should indeed have a larger population base, and these people deserve relatively equal opportunities."

"Let me give an example: suppose in the agricultural era, when people rely on the weather for food, perhaps a thousand diligent and intelligent people could drive the progress of civilization's technology and productivity. Meanwhile, just a million people could foster these thousand intelligent individuals."

"Then, when the era enters steam... oh no, the preliminary electrical era, when humans start using Ruined Beasts to develop electrical resources, with the ongoing maturation of industrialization, the expansion of knowledge scope, and the complexity of knowledge systems, a thousand smart people aren't enough anymore. Because someone needs to work on materials, someone on medical care, someone on mechanical structures, various sectors all need people. Then, at this point, it requires a million intelligent minds to meet civilization's development needs, which requires a total population of ten billion."