Oh My God! Earthlings are Insane!

"Even so, what does this have to do with Battle God Lei Zongchao's disappearance?"

Shen Yupeng remained unmoved. "Will the discovery of the Battle God or his remains end the chaos, change the future, and prevent the apocalypse?"

"That's possible," Lu Siya said calmly.

"Otherwise, why do you think the Battle God would abandon his responsibilities at such a critical moment and go deep into the ancient ruins?"

Shen Yupeng was slightly stunned.

The surrounding disciples of Battle God Palace and the secret police fell into deep thought along with Long Feijun.

"You're saying that the answer to saving Dragon City and preventing the apocalypse is buried deep in the ancient ruins?" Shen Yupeng cautiously asked.

"All I can say is that the Battle God probably thinks so.

"From what we saw in the surveillance footage and the letter that he left for Meng Chao, he didn't lose his mind. Instead, he made this odd move in an extremely calm and rational state.

"I have a feeling that there's something hidden in the depths of the ancient ruins, and it's worth the Battle God's desperate gamble.

"Even if the Battle God is unfortunate enough to fall in the process of finding the answer, as long as we find it too, we'll have a chance to change everything!"

"Wait a minute..."

Shen Yupeng said, "You're telling me that Battle God Lei Zongchao already foresaw the coming of the apocalypse, just like Su Mulian?"

"Yes."

Lu Siya nodded. " I believe so."

"That doesn't make sense."

Shen Yupeng frowned and said, "If the Battle God foresaw the apocalypse, why didn't he say so? If he knew long ago that the answer to prevent the apocalypse was buried deep in the ancient ruins, why didn't he call on everyone in Dragon City and organize an exploration team composed of several dozen Deity Realm experts to find the answer?

"Given the Battle God's character and prestige, I'm sure that he only needs to say the word. No matter how absurd it is, people will believe him—thousands of people will believe him!"

"Well, it's very simple."

Lu Siya smiled. "Knowing that the problem exists doesn't solve it. In fact, the effort to solve the problem may become the beginning of a bigger problem. As you said earlier, a patient suffering from cancer may be able to survive for decades until medical technology evolves if the patient is given traditional treatment.

"But if we get impatient and send him to the operating table to remove the malignant tumor, he might die on the operating table and never heal.

"Su Mulian's prophecy, for instance, said that Meng Chao and I would work together to lead the rise of the lower class. During this process, we would inevitably touch a lot of the nine great families' interests and trigger an intense backlash from them.

"To increase the combat power of our base as much as possible, we wouldn't hesitate to push for the plan of 'turning all citizens into monsters.' As a result, we would turn millions of ordinary citizens into unparalleled half-human, half-beasts. In the end, Meng Chao and I would ascend to Dragon City's supreme throne with the support of these 'orc citizens.'

"It's a pity that even so, we wouldn't be able to prevent the apocalypse. Dragon City civilization's glory of nearly a century would be eventually annihilated by raging flames that fell from the sky.

"Let's take Su Mulian's prophecy as the truth. Every word she said will become a cruel reality in the near future.

"So, what now?

"Whether it's for the self-interest of the nine great families or for the long-term peace and stability of Dragon City, it's impossible for you to remain indifferent. You will definitely do your best to change the future.

"If you want to change the future, you can't just watch Meng Chao and I rise to become the commanders of Dragon City.

"Just in case, you'll even think of ways to directly erase the two of us, the 'culprits of the apocalypse.'

"That's right, there's also the plan to 'turn everyone into monsters.' According to Su Mulian, the embers of the monster civilization haven't been completely extinguished. Right now, it's very likely that there are many citizens in Dragon City with the elements of the monster civilization hidden in them. On the surface, they're just ordinary people, but in reality, they will become the biggest enemies of the nine great families in a few years, or at most a dozen years.

"If the nine great families discover this in advance, will they be even more wary of ordinary people?

"Will you start waves of secret investigations, arrests, interrogations, and even sanctions to 'purify' all the ordinary citizens who are suspected to be 'lurking monsters'?

"Don't you think that the new Ordinary People's Committee is a remnant of the monster civilization? Is their so-called 'fight for the rights of ordinary people' nothing more than a plot by the monster civilization to stir up trouble and sow discord?

"Also, if you launch a large-scale attack against me, Meng Chao, the normal citizens who are under suspicion of being monsters, and the Ordinary People's Committee, we'll instinctively fight back.

"In the end, Dragon City will be completely torn apart, and destruction will come ahead of schedule. We'll be finished before we can even reach the time predicted by Su Mulian!

"Look, even if everyone believes in Su Mulian's prophecy, so what? Can we save Dragon City? Or will our actions lead to the civilization's early destruction? No one knows. Perhaps, everything is just a probability."

Hearing Lu Siya's words, Shen Yupeng, Long Feijun, the disciples of Battle God Palace and the secret police of the adjudicator court all looked at each other in silence.

On one hand, they were shocked by the incredible and terrifying future that Su Mulian dreamed of.

On the other, they were trapped in a maze—as Lu Siya described, attempting to solve the problem might create an even bigger problem. No matter how they contemplated and fumbled, they could not find a way out.

"I refuse to believe that the future can't be changed, but I realize that it won't be easy to change it."

Lu Siya continued. "It's as if we have to travel back a hundred years and prevent World War III. Do we merely have to find the warmongers while they're still babies and children, then kill them?

"It's not that simple. World War III, which led to the destruction of Earth, runs deep on a military, political, economic, social, and even historical level. The signs of destruction already appeared in the global trade war in the early twenty-first century. Even if we do kill a few or even dozens of warmongers, there will be hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of other warmongers who are more radical, cruel, brutal, and crazy.

"To prevent World War III, we'd have to travel back to the early twenty-first century, or even earlier. From military affairs, politics, economy, society, and other aspects, we would have to change the whole world bit by bit in a subtle and silent way.

"Speaking of which, I suddenly understand why Battle God Lei Zongchao didn't want to be the Survival Committee's chairman back then.

"Because even the Survival Committee's chairman can't change the future and stop the apocalypse.

"It's like the leaders of the major countries on Earth couldn't stop World War III.

"The only thing the Battle God can do is what he's been doing all this time...

"Raise war orphans, spread spirit energy martial arts, sow the seeds of change, and set off a chain of butterfly effects. He can only hope that they'll overlap and trigger a qualitative change with quantitative change!"