Chapter 382 Concord City and Emergency Meeting

Nowadays, the infrastructure of the Beast God Realm, especially in the territory of the Feather Clan, is very complete.

Starting from the Two Realm Base, highways stretched out in all directions, connecting the entire core area, including the main city of the Feather Clan.

The Scale Clan and the Feather Clan, because they had Su Zhou and Jin Qiong as deterrents, were the two races most deeply influenced by humans. Of course, in the past operations in the Beast God Realm, these two races of divine beasts also died the most. Therefore, human forces replaced most of the original divine beast lords and began to intervene in the management of these two races in an all-round way, which was even quite popular.

According to An Tuo, in the territories of the two races, many human transcedents who replaced the divine beasts in managing the territory were regarded as new divine beast lords and worshiped, just like citizens of a righteous country who accidentally became African chiefs, and were well received by the local spirit beasts.

"If a few more generations pass, I am afraid that no spirit beast will know the names of the Scale Clan and the Feather Clan. They will definitely think that they are servants of the Human Race and serve the Human Race wholeheartedly."

Under the rather soft sunlight of the Beast God Realm, Su Zhou, who concealed his true face, and An Tuo, who did the same, walked on the road leading to Concord City.

After all, An Tuo was the King of Divine Beasts. If other spirit beasts saw her, it would inevitably cause some trouble... And Su Zhou was even simpler. When he used various cruel methods to suppress all kinds of disobedience in the Beast God Realm, he had long become a Demon King-level figure whose name could stop children from crying at night. When ordinary spirit beasts and divine beasts saw him, if they didn't leak urine and kneel down on the spot, it would be considered a strong will. Most of them would simply stretch out their heads and ask for a quick death.

Walking like this, the young man looked around at the Beast God Realm, which was already very different, while listening to the King of Qilin calmly explain to him.

Along the way, he could see many spirit beast villages built by humans, as well as large tracts of farmland.

Under the guidance of human experts, the original primitive farm production model of the Beast God Realm has been replaced by modern agricultural methods. With the spirit beasts' innate extraordinary power, comparable to agricultural machinery, it is not difficult for these diligent and hard-working spirit beasts to farm the land.

Moreover, humans are not like the original divine beast lords, who would take away most of the food in order to prevent the spirit beasts from having the power to resist them, leaving only scraps that were not enough to fill their stomachs. Now, the human side is adopting the simplest eleven tax - after all, the spirit beasts would not understand more complex tax laws.

This huge change finally allowed most of the spirit beasts to eat their fill and also filled them with awe and gratitude for these new human 'lords'.

The human side did not intend to transport the collected grain tax back to Earth. Not to mention the quarantine problem, the Beast God Realm, which is still in the early stages of development, needs to use this resource to support 'Concord City', this huge 'academy city' that cultivates the next generation of divine beasts and spirit beasts.

At this time, under the leadership of An Tuo, Su Zhou had arrived at the top of a small mountain, overlooking the huge city in the distance.

The huge city, shaped like a hexagon, occupied almost the entire field of vision. It was roughly divided into seven areas: Zone 1, Basic Education; Zone 2, Higher Education; Zones 3 and 4, Living Areas; Zone 5, Logistics and Production; Zone 6, a comprehensive area for medical treatment, research, leisure, and entertainment; and Zone 7, a central management area located in the center of all zones.

Even from a distance, one could see the vitality of this city. An endless stream of ant-like convoys transported a large amount of resources from all over the Beast God Realm to this city to supply the lives of the 'students' inside.

"More than 1.9 million juvenile spirit beasts and divine beasts have settled in it, and education targeting them has begun."

An Tuo said this without any joy or sorrow, and led Su Zhou from the sky into Zone 1, the primary education area.

Both of them had extremely high authority, so they were not stopped by the patrolling guards in the city. Landing on a street in the center of Zone 1, the King of Qilin, whose appearance could be described as beautiful, raised her hand and pointed to the various spirit beasts and divine beasts coming and going on the street, her expression a little complicated: "Look, the first batch of students has already received two semesters, one academic year of education... This is the result of you humans."

Su Zhou could naturally hear the slight barb in An Tuo's tone, but it had to be said that this kind of tone was already considered gentle and lovely and extremely polite on the Internet, so he didn't care. Instead, he curiously scanned the scene in front of him.

Then, he clapped his hands in surprise: "Isn't this pretty good?"

He could see that on the wide street, there were various spirit beasts, roughly the same size and roughly humanoid, walking around - although the spirit beasts who cultivated the simplified human transformation technique still had various beast characteristics all over their bodies, at first glance, they did indeed have a hint of human shadow.

The reason why the size was said to be roughly the same was because there were large spirit beasts such as spirit elephants and rhinoceroses that were more than five meters tall, and small spirit beasts such as cats and rabbits that were about one meter tall. However, the vast majority of spirit beasts were between 1.5 meters and 2.5 meters tall. Although this difference was still very disparate, compared to their original bodies, which could differ by more than tens of meters, this simplified transformation had narrowed the gap to a barely acceptable level.

Equality starts with size. A giant beast tens of meters tall cannot be equal to a mouse, even if the mouse has the power to kill the giant beast. Their perspectives are destined to be different, and their ways of thinking are also destined to be different, and that is the biggest difference and inequality.

And what made Su Zhou cheer was the interaction between the many spirit beasts on the street.

He could see a spirit deer, only about half his height, beside a spirit elephant. They were discussing today's homework and what they should eat for lunch - the Elephant-person originally wanted to go to a newly opened fruit store to try the taste of sugar cane, but was moved by the Deer-person's suggestion and planned to go to a nearby vegetable store to drink cream of mushroom soup.

In a corner of the street, a young male Lion-person, whose mane had not even fully grown, was sitting in the shade of a tree, playing Go with a young Boar-person whose tusks were not long either.

Neither of these two people was very good at Go, and playing it made people feel anxious and want to give pointers - and in fact, there were indeed many people pointing and commenting from the side. A Rabbit-person who seemed to be the Boar-person's friend pointed out a few things to the other party, and the Boar-person suddenly realized and ate the Lion-person's big dragon, which made the Lion-person, who had no one to help him, furious and shout that the Boar-person was cheating and that he wanted to overturn the chessboard and that the game didn't count.

Su Zhou could even see a little guy who was probably a spirit bamboo rat sitting on the shoulder of a gluttonous iron-eating beast, resting, while the iron-eating beast was anxiously using communication magic to notify the doctor and request first aid - the two races, which were originally in a food and predator relationship, now seemed to have a very close relationship, completely different from the situation in the natural world.

There were many, many more. With just one glance, Su Zhou saw countless details worth describing. He could even see a Fox-person lady and a Raccoon-person lady, an incompatible combination, walking hand in hand on the street, looking almost like good girlfriends, while a Serval-person was competing in arm wrestling with a Werewolf at an outdoor table in a nearby restaurant, and even easily winning - he couldn't imagine such a scene without experiencing it firsthand.

Many different races of spirit beasts and divine beasts, with different ecologies, lived together harmoniously... And this was just a street, a microcosm, of this huge city.

Under human rule, throughout Concord City, every corner was experiencing scenes similar to this, scenes that had never been experienced on this ancient land.

"Not bad, right?"

An Tuo's voice sounded faintly. Squinting her blue eyes, the Water Qilin first glanced at Su Zhou, who was looking around the street, and then turned her head, watching everything on the street, her expression unreadable: "Only a year has passed, and these groups that were originally impossible to be together are intertwined, whether in life or in fate."

"It's still not perfect, but I'm already very satisfied."

In response, Su Zhou, who was still scanning the street for all kinds of life, replied simply: "Actually, I can see that most of the spirit beasts are communicating with their similar races or familiar congeneric creatures. I have only seen one pair of natural enemy combinations like wolves and rabbits, a bamboo rat and an iron-eating beast. And to be honest, the relationship between the two is not so contradictory, so it is far from reaching our goal."

"However, I'm already very satisfied - wanting to erase the vigilance inherited in the bloodline for hundreds of millions of years with just one year of education? How is that possible."

"Is that so."

An Tuo was silent for a moment at Su Zhou's truthful words, and then sighed: "Yes - every human says that. They all think it's not bad."

She said this, her tone indignant: "Every human thinks so."

"Oh."

Hearing this, Su Zhou immediately turned his head. He raised his eyebrows and said calmly to An Tuo, "So, as a divine beast, are you dissatisfied?"

At this moment, Su Zhou's gaze was focused on An Tuo for the first time since the two met.

That gaze, like a blade, as if looking at prey, but also as if looking at an enemy, immediately made An Tuo stiff, her body frozen - she felt as if she was being watched by the gazes of seven or eight completely different dragons. Although, after reacting, she realized that it was only Su Zhou's gaze, but precisely because of this, the pressure of all the different dragons converged into one, stirring up a huge storm in her heart and making her tremble.

But in fact, Su Zhou was only looking at An Tuo - there was no hostility or dissatisfaction, just pure curiosity, hoping to know what the other party was thinking.

"...Hmm."

Taking a slight step back, An Tuo gasped for a moment. After breaking free from Su Zhou's suppression, she raised her head and slowly said calmly: "This kind of scene... is ultimately just you humans playing house. You must know that there are differences between spirit beasts and divine beasts. Some eat meat, some eat vegetables, some are huge, and some are tiny."

"But humans make meat-eaters eat vegetables, make vegetable-eaters eat meat, make the huge shrink, and make the tiny grow. They forcibly blur the boundaries between species and correct the differences between spirit beasts, with no meaning of nature at all... Why do you humans think that this completely unnatural transformation is harmonious?"

An Tuo's tone was full of injustice and confusion.

As the only King of Divine Beasts who surrendered directly without fighting humans, she always harbored a trace of resentment towards humans.

Because, the Mao Clan and the Qilin had never done evil from beginning to end. Their clans had not been too harsh on their people, nor had they tried to resist or riot in any way, but they were still regarded by humans as the Beast King and the Beast God Realm clan with the best preserved strength to be vigilant against. The tone of humans in their words and actions, as if the Qilin had done something evil, also made her very uncomfortable.

Moreover, in the final analysis, as the King of Divine Beasts, even if her values and behavior were different from those of ordinary divine beasts, the Qilin's perspective on the world was still quite old-fashioned.

Therefore, An Tuo was confused and felt unconvinced.

--You humans are just forcibly changing the natural laws of life of species, making millions of spirit beasts and divine beasts suppress their nature and live according to your ideas... Isn't this kind of behavior oppression, the same as what the divine beasts did before? You talk about equality, but isn't it still the same? At most, humans do it more covertly, while the divine beasts simply release their nature!

This was the hidden meaning in An Tuo's words just now.

She never did evil, but she had no knowledge of the evil of nature.

Su Zhou shook his head, raised his hand, and shook his index finger at the Water Qilin.

"No, no, you're all wrong."

Replying calmly, the young man's tone was peaceful: "You're still using the old way of looking at creatures... What meat-eaters and vegetable-eaters, big and small, are you still using primitive methods like herbivores and carnivores to identify spirit beasts and divine beasts?"

"You must know that in the eyes of us humans, they all have a common name - intelligent cultivation creatures. Using ecological niches to forcibly define an intelligent life is the greatest unnaturalness itself."

Showing his white teeth, Su Zhou reached out and patted An Tuo's stiff shoulder: "It's a simple principle. According to your statement, we humans are just medium-sized omnivores - which sounds no different from wild boars. But in reality, we are humans who are above the entire natural food chain."

"You understand, right?"

Withdrawing his hand, Su Zhou turned his head and continued to look at the bizarre scenery of Concord City. He nodded in satisfaction: "The difference between a terrifying upright ape and a human lies in this. We never think that we are beasts and need to rely on diet and size to determine ecological niches - what determines the different status of an intelligent life from other intelligent lives is wisdom, not these boring things."

"And what the many spirit beasts and divine beasts of the Beast God Realm need to surpass is this - whether they like to eat meat or vegetables will become a personal hobby in the future, and not a distinction between groups. Differences in appearance and size will also become personal characteristics, like big noses and flat noses, and not symbols of race. All spirit beasts and divine beasts will forget the concept of 'beast' and know that they are intelligent and moral cultivation creatures, they are 'people'."

At the end of his speech, with An Tuo still looking slightly puzzled, Su Zhou glanced sideways and chuckled: "Also, nature is not defined by you, but by us."

"We say that this is nature, then beasts that do not obey will be eliminated by 'nature'. This is also another kind of survival of the fittest, the law of the jungle. Spirit beasts and divine beasts that cannot survive... will become extinct."

Speaking terrifying words calmly, without paying attention to the Qilin An Tuo, who was frowning and seemed to be lost in thought, Su Zhou bent down and grabbed a blade of grass from the lawn of Concord City.

It was actually a good thing that An Tuo had such doubts and dared to ask himself - this proved that the King of the Mao Clan was actually thinking about the meaning of the changes in the new era. Although her thinking was still temporarily unable to turn the corner, as long as she was still thinking and still doubting, that was enough. It was enough to prove that her thinking was not rigid.

If human order could not even withstand questioning, then that was a real regression.

Of course, compared to these, Su Zhou was still more concerned about the education of the new generation of divine beasts and spirit beasts in Concord City, as well as some trivial matters.

"Strange, these grasses... How do I feel like they're the same as the turf I saw next to the remains of the Shengzhu Great Tree? No, they're exactly the same!"

The young man muttered to himself in his heart, "Could it be that someone transplanted them here? If it's natural diffusion, it's too fast."

"I'll ask about the situation next time."

While Su Zhou was secretly wondering in his heart.

The back of the moon, the Nu Hai Alien Spaceship Research Base.

Professional astronaut and rocket engineer Gu Yao Luo was working with his teammates Meng Jin and Bai Cang Lang to analyze and disassemble a piece of wreckage taken from a Shoggoth Military Complex spaceship.

Although this Shoggoth civilization's spaceship stopped broadcasting psionic signals to the outside world after being bombarded with nuclear bombs, how could a spaceship be completely scrapped after being bombed with a nuclear bomb that was not even very powerful? In fact, a large portion of the components of this spaceship, which was more than several hundred meters long and more than a thousand meters long including the buried parts underground, were still in a functioning state.

These components, after being inspected and disassembled at the lunar base, would be handed over to transport rockets from Earth and sent back to professional research institutes on the surface for further analysis.

Without nonsense or chatting, the three astronauts worked very seriously and quickly cleared the excess components from this piece of spaceship wreckage and prepared it for packaging.

However, for some reason - perhaps someone accidentally touched the start button of this part, or perhaps it was a spontaneous self-start.

As layers of silver flashes suddenly lit up from this part, a beam of light was emitted, and then, in the astonished eyes of everyone, in a burst of psionic power that shook the entire dismantling workshop, a 3D stereoscopic star map was condensed in mid-air!

Although this star map was not labeled in human language, they were not unfamiliar with it.

Because this was a three-dimensional star map centered on Earth, spanning tens or hundreds of light-years!

"Why did this thing suddenly start up by itself? Xiao Gu, did you touch something?"

Bai Cang Lang, the second son of the Bai family, somewhat puzzledly turned on the automatic photography function on his spacesuit and then transmitted it to the Earth's headquarters. Although he was very wary of this abnormal phenomenon, since the situation had already occurred, he might as well make a joke.

"Heh, what does this have to do with me? It was you, the second son, who was responsible for dismantling it just now."

Shrugging off the blame, Gu Yao Luo carefully observed the projected silver star map with a serious expression and couldn't help but feel a little confused: "Speaking of which, we should have dismantled this piece of spaceship wreckage from the bridge? Then this thing, could it be..."

"It should be - this thing is some kind of radar schematic diagram."

Meng Jin, who was on the side, carefully examined the star map, frowned, reached out his hand, and pointed to a certain place on the star map: "Look here, the very center of the star map is clearly our solar system, which is where the spaceship is located."

"And over here, at the edge of the star map, there is a purple light spot that is constantly vibrating, like a warning... And this thing is constantly approaching the spaceship... that is, approaching Earth!"

Hearing this, Gu Yao Luo and Bai Cang Lang were both stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted - some unknown object capable of interstellar travel was coming towards this spaceship that had once sent a signal, or rather, towards Earth!

Ninety-nine percent of the time - aliens with interstellar travel capabilities were rapidly approaching Earth!?

Everyone gasped in unison and immediately summarized and reported the situation, uploading it to the Righteous Nation Central Aviation Administration.

Fifteen seconds after the report was sent, after multiple AI reviews and the transfer of the space station and satellites, the report appeared in the General Administration's database and was simultaneously transmitted to the Dao One Central Celestial Calculation Hub and the Committee Information Storage, and began to enter the manual review sequence.

Eighteen seconds, manual review began. Professional personnel realized the importance of this report within five seconds and directly marked it as a priority, applying to superiors for a higher processing priority.

Thirty seconds, the Artificial Intelligence of Yansheng learned of this information from the database. It connected its main body, which was undergoing patch upgrades in the electronic underworld, completed information sharing within one second, and authorized the increase in priority.

Thirty-eight seconds, Yansheng's main body, which had determined the entire process of the event and browsed all the information about the spaceship wreckage since it was excavated, marked the information as 'Class A Confidential' and directly issued an emergency notice to the Thirty-Six Sages.

Forty-nine seconds, Yu Sheng, who was in a dream, received this message from his electronically modified parts and simultaneously received Yansheng's notice. A simple Artificial Intelligence awakened Yu Sheng's self-consciousness, causing him to rise from his bed and, in the name of the Aviation Administration, applied to the Committee for an 'Emergency Meeting' agenda.

Fifty-three seconds, the vast majority of the Saint Seats learned of the news from various channels, canceled their current plans, and began to gather towards Tiandu.

One minute after the message was sent.

Su Zhou, who was in the Beast God Realm, received a call from Yansheng.

"Yansheng? What's the matter?"

Asking this, Su Zhou quickly frowned after Yansheng briefly explained the general situation: "...Understood, I'll return to Tiandu immediately."

Saying this, he turned his head to look at the Water Qilin An Tuo, who was still struggling to think, and patted her shoulder: "Alright, don't worry too much. Thinking too clearly is actually meaningless. With intelligent life, the most important thing is to be rarely confused."

"You just need to know that our goal is to make the vast majority of intelligent life in this world better - you care whether these spirit beasts and divine beasts have been changed in nature. Why don't you ask the vast number of spirit beasts in this world, those former oppressed, and ask them if they are happy now?"

After saying this, without stopping, Su Zhou laughed and then turned around, transformed into a stream of light, passed through the Two Realm Portal, returned to the Kunlun Secret Realm, and then returned to Earth.

June 9, 2017, 2:04 AM.

Su Zhou rushed to the Tiandu Security Bureau Headquarters to participate in this emergency meeting that had been convened temporarily.

I accidentally fell asleep while coding... This is yesterday's second update (guilty face

But I'm still asking for monthly tickets.