Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'-Chapter 1366 - 286: Void Route: Toward the [White Wolf] Ending (11)

"Knowledge retrieval completed."

Twenty years later, Li Aozi raised his hand and took a dusty tome, nodded to the isotopic counterpart from forty minutes ago, then turned to ask Leozvila Leonevich Kolnenko from the otherworldly line:

"At this node, the Meteor Fall Master heritage retrieval decreased by forty percent. The void's Meteor Fall Technique should be almost recovered. What's the situation at the other nodes?"

"The retrieval volume at other nodes has also greatly decreased, and we've sacrificed one Li Aozi isotopic counterpart."

"It's over at node eight. I recall it's eighty years and five hundred twenty days later Li Aozi, who encountered the Evil God Allied Forces and decisively cut off the connection himself."

"The situation is real, but the things were brought back."

"Sadly, this will further reduce the efficiency of node eight. Let the main body send another Li Aozi over."

"Feasible."

Several Li Aozis exchanged some intelligence and then returned to their respective spacetime.

At the same time, messages popped up in Li Aozi's system one after another.

[You have retrieved "Meteor Fall Master Heritage·Black Hole School Letter IV": Related Meteor Fall Technique proficiency boosted]

[You have retrieved "Meteor Fall Master Heritage·Dimensional School Letter II": Tool creation unlocked——Klein Magic Bottle]

[You have retrieved "Meteor Fall Master Heritage·Satellite School Letter VIII": Satellite School proficiency boosted to——Usurpation]

............

There were too many reported messages, so Li Aozi simply blocked the notifications.

"It's almost over."

He muttered a sentence.

"What's almost over?" Gio Zieou asked.

"Nothing, some people don't have much time left."

Li Aozi nonchalantly switched topics:

"How's your recovery?"

"Thanks to you, both the main body and the reincarnated physique were tossed into the Void, then locked by the [Twilight Duke] for over forty years, integrating more seamlessly than you and Li Aozi."

Gio Zieou rubbed his wrist, bluntly speaking to Li Aozi:

"Just unexpectedly, Li Aozi, you actually rebelled."

"It's a rebellion if it fails; it's a revolution if it succeeds. Lai Anding is incompetent, holding great power, but his group only knows flattery and sycophancy, leading to public discontent and uprising; it's quite natural."

"Say what you like... I am a warrior, and political struggle does not interest me at all."

Gio Zieou shook his head:

"But Lord Leoz, haven't you thought about how many ordinary folks would die because of your actions?"

"If I don't act, seven hundred years later, Starry Abyss will turn into a human Purgatory."

"But if we start a war now, we'll immediately turn Starry Abyss into Purgatory."

"There is always a price to pay," Li Aozi said blandly. "Anyone who's undergone surgery should know that nearly all surgeries involve bloodletting on human flesh, and sometimes even organ removal. Would you criticize a physician for progressing with surgery despite the patient's temporary suffering, allowing the disease to spread, causing unbearable pain or even death?"

"It's not the same, Li Aozi. War and surgery are not the same. War causes deaths, but surgery saves lives."

Gio Zieou opened his mouth:

"Isn't there any other way to save Starry Abyss besides waging war?"

Li Aozi quietly stared at him, his silver-eyes devoid of emotion.

A few minutes later, Li Aozi slowly spoke:

"This isn't just about saving Starry Abyss; it's about saving ourselves."

"So you're acting out of selfishness——"

"——I could have ignored the masses of Starry Abyss; I have a Primordial Species lover. Even if all Starry Abyss people perish and the end of the universe comes, I could still survive until the end of time, watching the fireworks of your destruction."

Li Aozi spoke bluntly:

"I could have such an ending; could you?"

Gio Zieou paused, stepping forward:

"A speck of dust in history becomes an avalanche when it falls on an ordinary person. Prosperity brings suffering to the people; demise brings suffering to the people. If you really cared for the masses, you should abandon the idea of waging war, and put more energy and resources into improving people's livelihoods and technological advancement. If you only wage war under the banner of national righteousness and survival just for power and gain, then you're only becoming the new Lai Anding——"

"So, we'll be like pigs and sheep, letting others slaughter us, watch as Earthlings and Lai Anding Group place the knives at our throats, let them debase us as backward and uncivilized Barbarians?"

Li Aozi coldly said:

"You've studied English these past months and learned about Earthlings' civilization."

"The British Empire is the greatest country on Earth, with a long history, superior citizenry, developed finance, excellent scientific talents, social fairness, and wise monarchy."

"However, this most glorious, greatest, and strongest empire in Earth's human history is built upon countless corpses of colonies and bullied nations. Their civilization arises from a privileged life; their elegance is founded on cheap resources from the colonies; their respectable jobs and employment are offered by imperial monopolies industries; their thinkers, philosophers, and scientists are born from thoughts fed by our flesh."

"If this is the essence of civilization, then we should discard all traditional Starry Abyss barbarism, fully embrace civilization, learn English, be gentlemen, engage in colonial plunder, fully Earthize, and let Earthlings witness a civilization equal to theirs."

"...You're crazy, Li Aozi."

"I'm not crazy, Gio Zieou."

"You want us to abandon everything now and embrace Earth culture... Even if we eventually defeat Earthlings and expel the Secret, will we still be who we are?"

Gio Zieou couldn't accept it:

"A group of warriors speaking English and using Earth weapons might pass—but if even our culture is discarded and our norms fully align with Earthlings, even if we have porcelain skin and jade bones, living as long as the sun and moon, are we still members of the Primordial Abyss Divine Clan? Are we still part of Starry Abyss Civilization?"

"Why not?"

Li Aozi replied calmly:

"Presently, within me lie not only Earth lineage; my human side sincerely believes in Taoism, worships the Three Pure Ones, binds hair with a crown, and I even hold the [Mandate] of [Secret Society] as [Blacksmith]—Do you believe I'm not a Starry Abyss person?"

"I..."

"I am the common ruler of Primordial Abyss Federation and Void Province, the Great Commander elected by sixty-nine billion seven million Primordial Abyss people, the Leader supported by True Martial Partisans, the Liberator saving slave labor, cannon fodder, warrior deities from the counterfeit regime of Lai Anding."