It was against this backdrop that the powers that be of the nations across the globe, once again made it to an emergency meeting.
“Damn it!”
“Just which goddamned bast*rd.”
“Leaked the news?”
“What now?”
“The world is in total chaos!”
“Our cosmic migration plan has been impacted and hindered.”
“Yesterday, a group of mobs stormed into our space launch base and blew up two spaceships that were still in the construction stage!”
At the meeting, the Indian country’s national representative, angrily vented his anger.
Originally, if the news had been kept hidden, then those civilians would have gone through the last ten years as calmly as before.
And they, the powerful nobles, would have been able to take advantage of the ten years of peace to build more airships and send their wives and children away.
But now, the news was leaked early.
It sparked discontent all over the globe.
And in many countries today, there were angry people everywhere!
“What else can we do?”
“Suppression!”
“Ruthless suppression!”
“Only ironclad means can suppress these mobs!”
“Define those organised mobs as terrorist organisations!”
“Just wash the ground with missiles!”
The representative of the United States of America made an iron-fisted speech, deciding to fight violence with violence, suppressing and sweeping away all those who obstructed the plan.
The Western European countries also agreed with this plan.
For the sake of freedom and democracy, for the sake of human inheritance and reproduction, there must be bloodshed and sacrifice.
Therefore, anyone who obstructs the human inheritance programme deserves death!
However, just at this time, the Sword Saint, who had been listening in, suddenly stood up.
He scanned the crowd, and his loud voice resounded throughout the room.
“Gentlemen, there are billions of people around the globe.”
“You guys really suppress 10,000 people, 100,000 people, or even a million people.”
“But what about when billions and billions of people all come out to protest?”
“In the face of life and death, how many people can be convinced by your so-called power?”
“Moreover, when you stand against all of humanity, only defending your own life and death interests and disregarding the people’s deaths, do you think that the soldiers under you, will still listen to you?”
“Will the voters who once pushed you to high positions still support you?”
“If you choose to ruthlessly suppress, I can guarantee that the ones who end up rolling down from their high positions in power will be you!”
These words of the Sword Saint could be considered deafening.
For a time, almost everyone in the room fell silent.
Yes, in the face of life and death, when everyone was thinking about making a living, could the order and operating procedures that had once been constructed for thousands of years still operate?
It was estimated that all those soldiers under their hands would also not stop calling the shots.
“So?”
“I wonder what the Sword Saint-san, has to say?”
Someone asked the Sword Saint.
The Sword Saint said, “I think that we should reflect.”
“Before, we only thought about retaining the human elites while leaving those billions of people to fend for themselves.”
“It’s natural for them to be angry and feel betrayed when their lives are abandoned.”
“We should understand and pay attention to their survival needs.” “After all, everyone wants hope, even a little hope of life, then order can be maintained.”
“Therefore, I suggest revising the previous Human Inheritance Plan and allocating some places to those ordinary people.”
“At the same time, in addition to researching how to transport more people away from Earth, we should also divide some of our energy to explore ways to fight against the World Tree.”
“Earth, shouldn’t be given up so easily!”
The Sword Saint’s words were echoed by quite a few people.
Especially his first suggestion.
Indeed, if one wanted to appease the rioting civilians, the best way was to take the survival quota and give them a portion of it.
As for finding a way to resist the World Tree, everyone wasn’t very keen.
“Sword Saint, your first suggestion is good.”
“But the second one, however, is too difficult.”
“It’s not that we haven’t tried.”
“But all kinds of methods have been used to no avail.”
“The martial artists around the globe now have a consensus that the World Tree is invincible.”
“This is already axiomatic.”
“Didn’t your Yan Xia’s number one powerhouse, Chu Tianfan, who saved the world back then, also come to this conclusion long ago?”
“The World Tree is not an extraordinary thing, not something that can be fought by manpower.”
“Before there is any turnaround, the only way out for us humans is to migrate to outer space!”
At the meeting, the crowd refuted the Sword Saint’s second suggestion.
The Sword Saint also had nothing to say.
Indeed, everyone had been shaken by the horror of the World Tree.
Empty words of persuasion wouldn’t do any good at all.
Unless, someone could come up with a specific proposal, specific enough to destroy the World Tree.
In the end, after a compromise between all parties, a very small number of quotas were taken out and distributed to those commoners.
Of course, these quotas were not randomly allocated, but rather, among the submissive people who cooperated with the management, a portion of those who performed well were selected.
However, in the end, it was a drop in the bucket.
The people didn’t know whether the people would buy it or not.
And at this time, the representative of the United States of America undoubtedly put forward a more feasible proposal.
“Public opinion is not controllable, but it can be guided.”
“Since we can’t hide it, there’s no need to hide it.”
“At that time, when we hold a press conference, we only need to tell the world that the alien migration programme has made a breakthrough, and that everyone will be able to move before the end comes.”
“After that, we’ll then symbolically award tickets to get on board, as well as in starting some training guides for alien settlement.”
“In this way, the raging public opinion will naturally be calmed.”
The words of the representative of the United States of America caused the crowd to stare blankly.
But soon, those western representatives turned the corner, “You mean, we cooperate with the global people to put on a show, lying to them that everyone can get on the ship and escape.”
The representative of the United States of America nodded, “Right, of course, this is only a rhetoric to those people, at the time of the end, the ones who will truly be able to get on the ship will still be the group of people that we had previously set out to do so.”
“If the world is destroyed and destined to sacrifice the majority of the people when the time comes, the ones who are qualified to survive are rightfully our group of elites.”
The crowd was invariably impressed by the ingenuity of the representative of Milky Way.
Indeed, his approach was undoubtedly much better than the Sword Saint’s suggestion.
It was just that it was destined to deceive the populace.
The Sword Saint was the first to stand up and object, “This foolish policy of yours can deceive the people for a while, but not for a lifetime.”
“But when the time comes, once the deed is exposed, who else in this world will believe us?”
“At that time, the anger of the people of the world will only be even more violent than that now!”
The Sword Saint spoke angrily.
“Then you say, other than that, what else can be done?”
“Even if according to what you said, distributing thousands or even tens of thousands of slots to ordinary people, what’s the point?”
“The majority of the people still won’t be able to get it, and they’ll revolt just the same!”
Facing the questioning, the Sword Saint couldn’t help but fall silent as well.
They were right, the situation at hand was almost insurmountable.
Only by deceiving the world could they barely maintain the order of the world.
“Ai…”
“Could it be that there really isn’t any way out anymore?”
The Sword Saint was filled with grief.
Recently, he had been in seclusion for half a year and had achieved nothing.
On the War God’s side, there was also no news at all.
The world, as it were, had reached the brink of collapse.
“I have a solution!”
But just as the crowd was arguing.
Suddenly, in the conference hall, the tightly closed door was pushed open with a loud bang!
Light from the right path shone in from outside.
A man’s figure, with large strides, boarded the hall!
For a moment, the hall was silent.
Everyone’s gazes all looked!