1943 The Truth About the Fire Relayers
“So, I’m a Fire Relayer?” Meng Chao mumbled.

“Yes, and you’re the most outstanding one I can connect with among all the Fire Relayers.” Zero gave Meng Chao an encouraging smile.

Her human-like expression was especially jarring amid the several thousand strange big-headed babies.

“Does this mean you’re responsible for the Contribution Points System as well?”

Meng Chao’s gaze gradually became sharp. “You planted this advanced system in my head and made me dance like your monkey. Every time I completed the instructions you planted in my head, you would give me even greater power. You kept hanging this carrot in front of me to trick me into becoming your puppet!”

“The term ‘trick’ isn’t accurate. In fact, I’ve never concealed my purpose, and you’ve understood your mission since the very moment you became a Fire Relayer,” Zero said unhurriedly.
“It’s to save our civilization and allow the sacred flame that was ignited billions of years ago to continue burning into the next billions of years. That way, all intelligent creatures bathed in the brilliance of civilization can prosper and flourish. Isn’t that what you and your compatriots are willing to do for the rest of your lives, even if it means death?”

Meng Chao was silent.

In a sense, Zero was right.

There might not be such a thing as “rebirth after the apocalypse,” and the flames of doomsday echoing in his head might all be fabricated information that Zero had implanted.

However, these things did not seem to cause any harm to the Dragon City civilization, at least to the extent that Meng Chao could understand.

On the contrary, it greatly stimulated Dragon City’s development and helped Earthlings win the war against the monsters sooner and more efficiently. This preserved the lives of countless innocent people.

Despite that, if everything Zero did was out of goodwill, then there were even more questions that Meng Chao could not answer.

“You just said that I’m not the only Fire Relayer?”

Meng Chao’s mind raced as he said, “If I’m not wrong, Su Mulian should be a Fire Relayer, right? And there’s also ‘Jackal’ Kanus of Picturesque Orchid Lake. He also has memories of the apocalypse, as well as inexplicable luck and rapid advancement. Does that make him a Fire Relayer too?

“There are also many Other World civilizations in the Holy Light faction. They came into contact with the glorious will ten thousand years earlier than the Earthlings who just arrived. There’s no reason why you wouldn’t summon them. Hence, the Holy Light faction naturally has its own Fire Relayer. This planet called the Other World is completely under your control through your spokespeople known as Fire Relayers!

“If that’s the case, I don’t understand. You can clearly control the overall situation and guide the progress of the Other World’s civilization. Why is there a war that has lasted for ten thousand years among the Other World’s races? Even in the thousands of futures that I’ve deduced, the hellish war in the Other World remains unavoidable every time.

“Could it be…”

When Meng Chao said this, he cast his gaze at the big-headed monster babies that were almost shriveled and covered in terrifying cracks that had been made by the tentacles of prehistoric ferocious beasts. An answer began to take form in his heart.

“Whether it’s the humans of the Holy Light, the elves, the Turan orcs, or the Earthlings who have just transmigrated to this planet, your bodies are all still in the initial stage of the evolution. Your extremely weak physical brains still can’t extract and comprehend all the mysteries hidden in the depths of your souls.

“Even if I summon all the intelligent life forms on the entire planet, only a very small number of people can resonate with me and awaken their mission to become Fire Relayers.

“Even though you’ve become a Fire Relayer, our connection is still very unstable. You’re often disturbed by the magnetic field of the planet and the storms of the stars. This has made it impossible for me to transmit the enormous and complicated information to your brains.

“Even if the information is successfully transmitted, after you analyze and compile it with your feeble brains, it will often seem bizarre and even absurd.

“This makes it impossible for me to give you clear, definite, and direct instructions.

“Besides, I have no ill intentions toward the Fire Relayers and all intelligent humanoid creatures.

“After all, you are all heirs of the great civilization from billions of years ago. In a sense, you are also my masters.

“I can’t, and I don’t want to, turn you into puppets who follow every step, like chess pieces without self-will.

“Therefore, I cannot and will not directly interfere with the direction of your civilization, much less create or stop a war.

“Besides, for any civilization, whether it is a clan that swears on its spears and axes, or an Imperium that travels the world on a starship, war is not necessarily a bad thing.

“War is often the best way for a civilization to stake everything on a single gamble and achieve sublimation.

“At the same time, it is also the glue that helps two foreign civilizations understand each other and integrate deeply.

“It is also a bitter medicine that helps a civilization get rid of the weeds and retain the essence in the most efficient and cheapest way.

“If the concept of ‘war’ is removed from the brains of the earliest apemen, if the apemen who have just learned how to sharpen stones do not smash the sharp-edged stone axes on the heads of their own kind, take care of their wives and children, and enjoy their resources, then the apemen will always be apemen and will never evolve into the masters of the universe.

“To sum up, if the relationship between different civilizations and races that live on the same planet and consume the same resources has reached the stage where they are as incompatible as fire and water, the war that should have broken out will be allowed to break out. All the races will be judged equally and the most qualified successors will be decided in the most ancient and fair way. In my opinion, that is the best choice for the planet and even the universe.”

“I understand now. It seems that you suffered too much damage in the ancient war hundreds of millions of years ago, and you can’t perfectly control this planet called the Other World.”

Meng Chao was deep in thought. “You can only interfere with the development of the civilizations and races through the Fire Relayers. If the civilizations and races insist on starting a war that will destroy the world, it’s something that even you can’t stop.

“Wait, there’s a problem here. In my original apocalyptic nightmare, including countless future deductions, the Dragon City civilization was finally destroyed by the direct attack of space-based orbital weapons. We’re the space-based orbital weapons of the ancient civilization not in your hands?

“If that was fake, fictional, and something that hasn’t happened yet, why did you plant such information in my mind and in the minds of Su Mulian, Kanus, and the other Fire Relayers?”