Meng Chao pondered.

Today, it has a population of tens of millions, a complete light and heavy industrial chain, and a dragon city that far exceeds the volume of any prosperous metropolis in the earth era, and is certainly far from being comparable to a mere starship.

The size of Dragon City is large enough to maintain the normal operation and continuation of human civilization.

But when I first crossed over, it wasn't like that.

At that time, Dragon City was divided by fog, viruses, zombies and monsters.

Many of the survivors are confined to small nest towns, no more than a single building.

As far as the eye could see, it was either devastated or ruined, or it was blazing with flames, thick black smoke, and a fog that could not be seen.

The diaries of many survivors say that at that time, they felt abandoned by the whole world, and even suspected that it was not the entire Dragon City, but only a small area or even a mansion of their own, and they had traveled to the other world alone.

There are indeed similarities between the "Chaocheng Civilization", which is based on a fully enclosed building, and the "Starship Civilization" that wanders alone in the vast sea of stars.

Even, compared to the "starship humans", the traversers are facing a worse situation.

At least the "Starship Civilization" doesn't have to deal with pervasive viruses and crazy roaring zombies.

There will be no such thing as psionic energy invading the brain, making people go crazy and become humanoid monsters.

"Standing at the gate of hell, it is very difficult to maintain the identity of a human being, human beings are originally an animal, and they can naturally degenerate into non-humans, beasts, and monsters in an instant, just to live, even if they live for one more second."

Ye Xiaoxing sighed and said, "In the darkest era when Dragon City had just crossed over, all the brilliance of morality, law and humanity was torn to shreds, countless people became zombies, and countless people were distorted under the threat of zombies, and became demons in human skin.

"Women can sell themselves seven times for a compressed biscuit, men can drain seven buckets of blood for a barrel of gasoline, and in countless black corners, humans have eaten each other, killed each other, and ate each other.

"The nine super enterprises that created the survival committee, in the initial embryonic stage, the era of unscrupulous primitive accumulation, were not pure and innocent white lotuses, at most, a little better than those vicious gangs, know how to think about long-term development, establish order to safeguard interests.

"If an earthlings living at the beginning of the 21st century saw the hellish scene in the first ten years of the Dragon City, he would definitely be terrified, and he would never admit that the people of Dragon City were still a member of the Earth civilization at that time, and even that the people of Dragon City were still human beings.

"Thankfully, we survived.

"We have restored order, restored the dignity of law and morality, tried the many crimes of the dark years, suppressed the evil of heinous crimes, and repented of the mistakes we ourselves had to commit.

"Dragon City has returned to the embrace of the earth civilization again, and we can finally hold our heads high and declare in a dignified manner, 'We are still the earthlings and the expeditionary force of the earth civilization'!

"However, the reason why Dragon City has survived is not because we are naturally kind, nor because we have deeply engraved the morality and laws of the Earth Age in our genes, nor because of nonsense such as 'justice will prevail', but simply because we have enough size.

"Even if Dragon City is closest to the critical moment of destruction, we have tens of millions of people and a large number of industrial and technological facilities, and many old people who have crossed over from the earth are still alive, who can help us maintain the way of life and legal morality on the earth, can guide the direction of our civilization, and when we have no other choice, we can also tell us how to sacrifice like an earthling.

"Meng Chao, have you ever thought about what the traversers will become if we don't have such a scale, if the size of Dragon City is reduced by a hundred times, under the invasion of viruses, zombies, monsters and psionic energy, a full half century has passed, can they still maintain the appearance of 'earth humans'?"

Meng Chao pondered.

He thought of the Witch Dance.

A leopard girl who was raised by a ghost leopard.

He once forgot his identity as a human being, and he didn't even understand human language, but he was lucky to be found by the search and rescue team in Dragon City, and it took several years to reintegrate into human civilization.

But the raising of the monster still left a vivid imprint on her, and it may not be erased for the rest of her life.

"Not everyone is as lucky as we are."

Ye Xiaoxing said, "Before Dragon City crossed, it was a huge urban agglomeration, in addition to the core urban area, there were also a large number of satellite cities, characteristic towns, super-large factories and R&D centers scattered in a ring.

"It is said that before the crossing, the earth was on the brink of war.

"A large number of coastal science and technology, industrial and military towns have been relocated to the vicinity of Longcheng as a whole.

"A lot of the satellite towns have more biotechnology, supercomputer chip manufacturing, automated mechanical technology than the main ones, and there are also towns that are simply independent university towns with a large number of experts, students and researchers – all of whom have incredibly bright brains.

"Unfortunately, the spatial ripples brought about by the crossing made the space around Dragon City extremely distorted, like a wave that smashed a big ship and threw dozens of sampans on the ship far away.

"Dragon City and these satellite towns are separated, because of the fog, mountains, and monsters, we haven't heard from the satellite towns for decades, and it's hard to even imagine what happened to them.

According to experts' calculations, it is difficult for these satellite towns, with populations ranging from thousands to tens of thousands, and at most no more than hundreds of thousands, to survive independently under the erosion of the other world.

"Even if they really survived, in the despair of lack of water and electricity, lack of enough force to defend their homeland, and the despair of suffering all kinds of invasions in three days, the tragedies that had been staged in Dragon City were one after another, famine, chaos, cannibalism, order collapse, and moral degradation...... All this will inevitably play out in satellite towns.

"The difference is that we are large enough to survive the hardest and darkest years, and to correct our mistakes one by one and to regain the glory of human civilization.

"But once these satellite towns fall into darkness, it will be difficult for them to regain their humanity on their own."

Hearing this, Meng Chao was silent for a while, and said, "Didn't the search and rescue team in Dragon City find many satellite towns and rescue all the survivors?" Although they are more savage and fierce than the inhabitants of the main city, they are not incapable of saving.

"I have a friend who is a student of the Department of Animal Control of Agricultural University, a leopard girl who grew up in the wilderness, and after a few years of study, she has successfully regained her humanity."

"You mean Wu Wu, right?"

Ye Xiaoxing said, "She is a special case, she is the lucky one who was rescued by the Monster Research Institute after condensing a lot of manpower and material resources and spending countless resources, and the vast majority of humans raised by monsters have neither her talent nor her conditions."

"As for what you said, the 'lost towns' broadcast in the news are all places that are relatively close to Dragon City, the roads are relatively smooth, and Dragon City's forces and materials can be easily reached, and they are relatively lightly eroded by the Otherworld, so there is still room for salvation.

In fact, there are far more satellite towns discovered by the exploration team than have been published in the news.

"Many satellite towns have crossed over to places that are relatively far away from Dragon City, shrouded in fog and rampant with monsters along the way, which are not suitable for the large-scale mobilization and deployment of the Red Dragon Army.

"Why not make it public? As a result, we are beyond the reach of the whip, and we are unable to rescue the entire inhabitants of the town for the time being.

"Besides, after half a century of development, these satellite towns have become unrecognizable, and it is difficult to judge whether the inhabitants are human, monsters, or half-human, half-beast monsters, and their 'civilization' is still not a human civilization.

"Rashly disclosing the current situation of these satellite towns may have an impact on the order of Dragon City, and even cause confusion in the minds of the people of Dragon City about the definition of 'human civilization', so ......"

Meng Chao scratched his head.

In the memory fragments of his previous life, he had even seen elves and dwarves, and his definition of "human" was quite open.

"Is it that serious?"

He thought for a moment and said, "In the history of mankind, the dark age of Yizi and eating has gone through countless times, but we have all survived!" ”

"If it's as simple as eating it, then it's fine."

Ye Xiaoxing sighed, knocked on the table for a long time, and finally made up his mind, dug out a safe from the messy materials, and took out a file bag from the safe, pulled out a thick pile of materials from it, and handed it to Meng Chao.

Meng Chao glanced at it.

The first information is some photos that were taken quite blurry.

You can roughly see a huge tree growing out of the tall buildings in a ruined town full of thorns and vines on the ruined walls.

The giant trees shaded half of the town, and from the tentacle-like branches, huge sacs hung from the tentacle branches, as thin as cicada wings, and covered with blood, like some kind of giant insect cocoon, and like a mixture of fungus and fruit.

"What is this place?"

Meng Chao cast his suspicious eyes on Ye Xiaoxing.

"This is Dragonlord Town."

Ye Xiaoxing said, "In the era of the earth, this is one of the satellite towns affiliated to Longcheng, and it is also an industrial town with a high degree of industrialization, with two large machinery manufacturing enterprises in the town, as well as three branch campuses of science and engineering schools, with tens of thousands of young and middle-aged population, and also has a certain mechanical processing and armed defense capabilities.

"The problem is that there is a serious imbalance between men and women in Dragon King Town.

"Most of the employees and students in the town's science and engineering schools and machinery manufacturing enterprises are men, and because of industrial pollution, the female family members of the faculty and staff and the management of the company like to live in the main urban area of Longcheng, or the nearby commercial town, and the ratio of men to women in the town may reach 8 to 2 or even 9 to 1.

"You should easily imagine that a town with such a gender ratio will be caught off guard and crossed over, and then shrouded in fog and isolated for decades, and the young and strong male residents of the town will have conflicts because of something, and what problems will they encounter if they want to continue civilization."