Chapter 451: Origins

Meng Chao forced himself to chat with the girl for half an hour before he finally understood the whole story.

It was not that complicated.

The girl and the mohawk man were childhood sweethearts. They came from normal families, and when they were young, they did not manage to get good cultivation resources. They studied in the elementary school in their residential area that anyone could enter. Then, they went to a normal middle school and a professional career college. After they graduated, they very naturally could not find a job.

During the current day and age, the work efficiency of superhumans was ten times above that of normal people. The jobs in mega corporations and the related departments offered high salaries, good benefits, were stable, dignified, and had a lot of cultivation opportunities. They were also jobs that would never end up in the hands of normal people.

The consumer market in Dragon City and the labor market had always been bleak. Since biochemical pets and runic symbol machines had become popular, the industries also started developing in the area of automated machinery.

If a superhuman could control a few automatic machines, he or she could complete the workload that even more than one hundred normal people could not complete. It was no longer news that normal people would be unemployed from the moment they graduated.

The girl and the mohawk man had three and seven siblings at home. They could only barely survive by doing odd jobs and accepting the aid from the Survival Committee.

However, they were unfortunately attacked by monsters, and the residential area that originally served as their home was reduced to ruins. They were forced to move to the even more cramped and noisy temporary settlement.

The mohawk man was the leader of the children in the residential area when he was young, and he often brought his friends to cause trouble all over the place.

When they reached the temporary settlement, the citizens from multiple residential areas were squashed together in one area. Most of them were young adults who were hot-blooded and could not find jobs. There was just no way they would not cause trouble.

The mohawk man often brought his friends out to fight. Because of it, he became quite infamous. Not only did he manage to get to know Big Brother Wolf, who was a working man with a lot of connections, he also got to know Big Brother Liao, who was a two-star superhuman.

Apparently, Big Brother Liao was originally a staff member of some mega corporation.

However, big companies had their own problems, and the professional qualification tests as well as high indicators of the assessments they had to take meant that they treated the superhumans like beasts of labor.

To normal people, two-star superhumans were very outstanding.

But in mega corporations like Sky Pillar Corporation, Universe Corporation, and Soaring Dragon Corporation, they were just normal employees who even had a time limit when they went to the toilet.

Big Brother Liao was prideful and could not accept being oppressed his entire life like some chew toy in a mega corporation by high-grade superhumans.

Hence, he brought two one-star superhuman colleagues to hand in their resignation letters so that they could create their own company.

Ever since Dragon City obtained full victory in the northern offense, the most popular and also most competitive job was naturally the development of land in the fog.

As long as they were strong enough and ready to risk their lives, there were naturally plenty of people who would treat this as a risk investment and be willing to sponsor the fees for setting up a developing land in the wild. They would even provide them with weapons and equipment.

With the problem of money and equipment solved, what was left was manpower.

With Big Brother Liao’s charisma and his status as a two-star superhuman, it was impossible for him to find any Heaven Realm superhuman who would be willing to help him.

Besides, if he really got a Heaven Realm superhuman to handle the situation, who would be the one ending up creating his own business?

Big Brother Liao made his decision and decided to take the gamble. He looked for normal people who had not awakened to supernatural abilities but had certain fighting abilities and were really bold.

Dragon Citizens had lived through turmoil for more than fifty years, so none of them were weaklings.

Children at the age of three would begin learning standing stances and meditation techniques. When they were seven, they began learning how to wield cold weapons and firearms. When they were around ten, they started using shoulder-mounted anti-monster rocket launchers. All of that was just part of life.

In the beginning, they had no choice, because they did not have enough ammunition.

Now, Dragon City had found a few large metal and crystal mines. The normal people might not be able to get high-tech weapons, but they were at least able to get sufficient firearms and ammunition. It was also not a problem for everyone to get a rocket launcher. Hence, the normal people became bolder.

Big Brother Liao soon came to the mohawk man.

The mohawk man had long since become sick of living in the squatter area and wasting his life away.

His old home was in ruins, and his new home would not be built in the foreseeable future.

Even if his new home was built and he could move in for free, he had six siblings at home. There was no way he could have his own room and marry his childhood sweetheart.

But even if they got married, as normal people, they did not have stable jobs. Were they supposed to have their children live such boring lives with them?

Hence, the mohawk man and Big Brother Liao hit it off, and the mohawk man called a group of friends who grew up with him to go out of the city with Big Brother Liao and create their own world.

He originally did not want to bring his girlfriend along.

He just promised her that he would definitely follow Big Brother Liao and gain his footing in the depths of the wild.

Once the mega corporations bought the developing land they made, they would become rich and successful.

The mohawk man even dreamed about running into a miracle in the wild and rising to power like Meng Chao, his idol.

At that time, he could come back in a dignified manner and marry his girlfriend. Then, everyone would be speechless.

However, none of the girls in Dragon City were gentle.

They were not used to waiting for someone else to save them.

Since the mohawk man was leaving to fight for their future home, it was only par for the course that they should fight together.

Hence, the girl and her boyfriend received training from Big Brother Liao and got to know of her boyfriend’s relationship with Big Brother Wolf.

Apparently, the mohawk man got some Deification Capsules from Big Brother Wolf, which he said were lifesavers. In the beginning, Big Brother Liao refused to believe it.

Later, the mohawk man and Big Brother Liao seemed to have tested the effects of the Deification Capsule in secret and been pleased with it. That was why Big Brother Liao agreed to the mohawk man bringing one hundred Deification Capsules.

As for how much they spent to buy those capsules from Big Brother Wolf and whether there were any conditions attached to it, the girl did not know.

The girl also had a guess regarding why the Deification Capsule caused so many people to be drained and even die in self-immolation during real battle even though the initial tests proved it to be fine.

She believed that during the initial tests, the mohawk man and Big Brother Liao did not take the whole Deification Pill. They only took half or even less of the drug.

In fact, since it was just a test, it was impossible for them to have really found hundreds of monsters to kill either, so their minds and bodies would have been more relaxed.

When they were in a battle that would determine their lives and deaths, everyone became incredibly excited, and they often released power that was greater than their limits. Naturally, while they killed monsters, their hearts, brains, and cells were not able to handle the pressure.

“It’s Big Brother Wolf who killed Little Hua!” The girl’s eyes turned red-rimmed, and she said bitterly, “You must capture him so that he’ll stop using the Deification Capsule to harm others!”

Meng Chao did not quite agree with what the girl said.

He had also taken in a lot of gene medicine awaiting approval from the black market and the deep web.

So, it was only par for the course that he understood the attitudes of the people who took the drugs.

All the sayings about “new products developed by major companies” were just for show. For that sort of product to really be developed, someone to be willing to be a test subject.

He could only say that in the brutal Other World where the strong ruled, humans had to be willing to pay an even higher price than on Earth to obtain greater strength.

When it came to cultivation, people had to be willing to bet and accept defeat. There was no right and wrong in it.

Besides, if it were not for the Deification Capsule, even the five survivors would not be alive now.

Based on this perspective, Big Brother Wolf could not be considered to have lied, right?

However, based on the information provided by the girl, Meng Chao learnt that Big Brother Wolf she mentioned was not a superhuman, just a ruthless battle maniac who had some experience in pathfinding.

As a normal person, how and where did Big Brother Wolf manage to get such a domineering drug?

Since he had gained a handful of clues from the girl, Meng Chao comforted her a little more before he left the medical room and called Qin Hu.

“Mr. Hu, it’s me. Yeah, I ended my training in the wild. My training went pretty well. I just killed a Tyrant Mammoth today, so I’ll bring some fresh mammoth meat for you later. What? ... Well... it’s a male. But don’t you think that your tastes are a little unusual? Can you even eat that? ... Fine. I’ll bring the whole piece back. It’ll all depend on your cooking skills...”

They chatted a little before Meng Chao went to the main topic. “By the way, Mr. Hu, do you remember that we organized a public welfare activity at the temporary shelter in the eastern part of the city some months ago? ... Yeah, we also sponsored Ms. Xiao Fanghua’s martial arts refresher course to develop the talented children who lost their homes. Say, do you have close friends over there?”

It was not the spur of a moment that led Meng Chao to act as a substitute teacher for Ms. Xiao Fanghua.

Teaching a large number of citizens future martial arts had always been one of the best shortcuts to earn contribution points.

Besides, Meng Chao was thinking about getting to know some future leaders, and it would be for the best if he could get these future leaders as his lackeys or something.

However, after looking through his previous life’s memories carefully, he noticed that plenty of the powerful people who had the world at their beck and call in the future were the children from the nine great cultivation families.

They had an endless supply of cultivation resources and famous teachers. They did not need him to do anything unnecessary to teach them, and Meng Chao could not find an easy way to approach them.

But Meng Chao did not know what the future powerful people who came from poor families went through during the early stages of their lives.

Besides, plenty of them used their nicknames while they wandered about in the Other World and became known through them. Meng Chao had no idea what they were called while they were young.

Fortunately, Ms. Xiao Fanghua’s martial arts refresher course gave him inspiration.

Through the martial arts refresher course, he could come into contact with the poor children with more potential. At the same time he guided them in their cultivation, he could bring them to join all sorts of stance, meditation, and martial arts competitions. During the competitions, they would come to know the geniuses from other regions, and when these rare talents stood out, they would naturally enter Uncle Meng’s sights.

Hence, Meng Chao paid a lot of attention to this matter.

Before he went to train in the wild, he had asked Qin Hu to use Superstar and the Broken Star Club to provide support to the martial arts refresher course in the temporary settlement.

Qin Hu had yet to regain his fighting strength, and he seemed to be slowly giving up as well, so he poured all of his skills into conducting business and even driving his career forward.

Superhumans might be the backbone of Dragon City, but if the Survival Committee was made up of purely superhumans, it would surely be criticized.

They might just be there as a foil, but there were a few normal people as politicians in the Survival Committee.

Qin Hu was very ambitious. He believed that with his experience, achievements, connections, and the support from Superstar and the Broken Star Club, it was not just a dream for him to become a politician in the future.

But if he wanted to become a politician, he had to pay attention to his image, be passionate about performing volunteer work, and often appear in public.

Hence, he passionately solved the problem Meng Chao mentioned about the children who lost their homes not being able to cultivate. Over the last few months, he often went to the temporary settlement. With his lavish spending and boisterous personality, he became friends with everyone and got to know all sorts of people from everywhere.

“Big Brother Wolf?” Qin Hu mumbled a little. “Never heard of him. He should be some nobody who isn’t successful. But that’s fine, I have quite a number of friends over there. Give me five minutes. I’ll know once I ask.”