Meng Chao frowned. He remained silent for a long time before he nodded slowly and said, “If that’s the case, it’s really suspicious. Has your family ever thought about suing them and asking the Supernatural Tower to handle the case?”


  “How could we not have? We went to the drug monitoring department, the Supernatural Tower, the Survival Committee, and all the related departments,” Su Lun said. “But even though the Survival Committee is the supreme ruling organization in Dragon City, it was created by Heaven Pharmaceuticals and the other eight mega corporations. The Supernatural Tower is something they built after they pooled their funds together.

  “If we went to the Supernatural Tower and the Survival Committee to sue Heaven Pharmaceuticals, wouldn’t that be the same as trying to sue the judge judging your case?

  “Besides, when Dragon City’s order had just been restored, many of the regions still retained the law of the jungle. The strong feasted on the weak, and they were the ones who ruled. When they faced the monsters’ invasion, all methods to resist monsters were approved and even encouraged.

  “My parents fought against Heaven Pharmaceuticals for more than three years and went to all the departments and organizations. In the end, the court’s decision was this: First, Heaven Pharmaceuticals’ Heaven 9 and the super gene medicine produced by my family were slightly different in terms of the creation process, particle structure, and spirit energy increase. They did not deduce it to be an imitation.

  “Second, Heaven 9 was already largely produced and was helping countless Dragon City warriors and superhumans gain power. They contributed greatly in the efforts to protect Dragon City, so the corporation producing the medicine needed to be protected.

  “Hence, not only did my family’s accusations become unfounded, we were told to stop spreading ‘rumors’ about them imitating my family’s products in society and online. We also had to provide declarations to prove Heaven Pharmaceuticals’ innocence in regards to the past ‘rumors’. We were put in charge of getting rid of all the negative effects these ‘rumors’ caused to Heaven Pharmaceuticals!”


  Meng Chao fell silent.

  If what Su Lun said was really true, then Heaven Pharmaceuticals had gone too far.

  Even though this was not a legitimate reason for Su Lun to betray humans, it explained his motives.

  “What? You don’t believe me?” Su Lun cackled. “The nine great mega corporations aren’t good people. They have done plenty of similar crimes!

  “They stole my family’s gene medicine formula, stole another family’s runic symbol machine blueprint, and the models for spirit energy martial arts and spirit energy magnetic fields from elsewhere. Once they gathered the culmination of wisdom from countless talented pioneers, they used their vast capital and fame to imitate them.

  “Then, through promotions and price wars, they forced the medium and small industries into a corner. In the end, they monopolized the whole market. After that, they could do whatever they wanted to obtain vast profits.

  “Over the past few years, the nine great mega corporations became in control of more fields and inventions, which completed their bloody and primitive accumulation of capital. They monopolized all the important fields in Dragon City, then washed their hands clean of all the blood they spilled and made themselves look noble and proper. They even started talking about etiquette and rules.

  “Years ago, however, the things that happened to my family were common. Many of the medium and small companies encountered similar things.”


  Meng Chao nodded.

  He had returned from the apocalypse, so he was not as innocent as other university students.

  The nine great mega corporations were definitely not snow white bunnies.

  If they were really harmless bunnies, it would have been impossible for them to slaughter their way out of a world filled with zombies and lawlessness and rebuild civilization and order.

  Before the Survival Committee was built, the Dragon City was just a magnified version of the current lairs.

  No. In reality, they were even more chaotic and ugly than present-day lairs.

  After all, the lairs were now restrained by the laws of the outside world. The Supernatural Tower just did not want to manage them because it was not profitable. It was not that it could not manage them.

  However, the Dragon City decades ago was really a place where law was gone, and the ugliness of humanity was completely exposed.

  Morals, rules, and law were all just empty talk before huge fists covered in bone spikes.

  Sky Pillar, Universe, Heaven, Soaring Dragon…… The mega corporations back then were all just gangs like Golden Tooth, Black Bone, and Poison Scorpion.

  Meng Chao had heard about their style and how greedy they were, so it wasn’t hard for him to imagine what Su Lun said.

  “I trust that all of their primitive accumulation of capital was bloody and ugly,” Meng Chao said. “What happened next? What happened to your parents’ pharmacy?”


  “It went bankrupt.” Su Lun dragged the shackles that weighed hundreds of kilograms forward and shrugged arduously.

  He was so angry that the wounds under his knees started bleeding again, and there was also pus flowing out.

  But he deliberately kept a calm expression. “To research the new drug, my parents had gone into major debt, and filing a lawsuit against Heaven Pharmaceuticals severely impacted their survivability and development in the field.

  “Heaven Pharmaceuticals is a giant in the gene medicine industry. It controls a lot of the raw material providers and even the hunters’ lifelines. When many of the providers, advertisers, and distributors who had been working with my parents for almost a decade heard that my family filed a lawsuit against Heaven Pharmaceuticals, they stopped working with us.

  “A few of the finance organizations also stopped giving us loans and allowing us to use their credit cards. And if a few were willing to continue giving us loans, the fees for the guarantee and interest rates became so high we couldn’t handle them.

  “It’s really ironic. It’s only when one bank stopped working together with us that my parents learned that this bank who has been constantly supporting us while we were still a family workshop had Heaven Pharmaceuticals as its biggest shareholder.

  “Heh. And my parents still dreamed of fighting against this giant! It was the same as using an egg to strike a stone.

  “Even so, my parents didn’t give up. They continued doing everything they could to gather the final funds and complete the super gene medicine’s creation and test. Then, they pushed it into the market.

  “The problem was, Heaven 9 had already entered the market before our gene medicine and created an unshakeable image for itself due to the amount of advertising. Besides, the quality and stability of their product were slightly better than my family’s.

  “But there was nothing we could do about it. My family had already invested everything it had into the research, while the other party stole it effortlessly. They could then continue spending money to increase the quality, whereas my family couldn’t even fork out an extra penny for further research.

  “As a result, when faced with Heaven 9’s aggressive strategy to conquer the market, our gene medicine lost. Our pharmacy soon went bankrupt, and my father died of anger.”


  Even though Su Lun had mentioned that he was taking revenge for his dead father, Meng Chao could not help but gasp.

  “When my father was a hunter, his body was very strong. He didn’t suffer major injuries while deep in the wild, and at that time, he was at the peak of his life. He was very powerful,” Su Lun said. “But to be held accountable for the consumers, after my mother opened her pharmacy, he left the hunter circle and returned to the pharmacy to be a test subject for the gene medicine. That way, they could obtain first hand experience and data.

  “This compromised his health a lot.

  “To develop the super gene medicine, he worked day and night, ignoring his fatigue and injuries way past his limits to test all sorts of formulae. And his body started falling apart right before my eyes.

  “The three years of fighting against Heaven Pharmaceuticals in court also destroyed his will.

  “On the night the final verdict came out, he smoked for an entire night, and there were more than one hundred cigarette butts left on the floor.

  “The next morning, my mother and I found him curled up in a corner. He had died behind the cigarette butts.”


  Meng Chao did not know what he should say. After a while, he asked, “And what about your mother?”


  “Her company had gone bankrupt and her husband had died, but we had to continue living. To return the debts, send me to school, and get me cultivation resources, she had to come to the lair to work for Golden Tooth.” Su Lun smiled. “No matter what, my mother was a rather famous pharmacist in the field. She had also caused a stir because of the three years in court. Many of the people knew what had happened, so they didn’t underestimate her abilities.

  “In the beginning, for the sake of researching the super gene medicine, my family had borrowed a large sum of money from illegal finance companies in the lair, and their greatest creditor was Golden Tooth.

  “After we lost the lawsuit, our company went bankrupt, and we naturally couldn’t fork out the cash.

  “But Saber Jin Wanhao really acted just like an underground emperor. When he heard about my family’s misfortune, he wasn’t in a hurry to force us to return our debt. Instead, he lent our family a large sum of money to solve the remaining problems regarding the employees and suppliers. It helped solve our critical problems.

  “Then, he suggested to my mother that it would be very difficult for her to continue staying in the gene medicine field now that she offended Heaven Pharmaceuticals. It would be better for her to enter the lair and work for Golden Tooth and create gene medicine for the ‘fighters’ in monster coliseums and the gang members.

  “He even sponsored a brand new lab, but the condition was that she would have to create gene medicine specifically for him based on his condition, injuries, and illnesses. In other words, she was to become his personal pharmacist.”


  Meng Chao understood it now. Everything made sense.

  Superhumans’ bodies changed all the time. The higher grade a gene medicine was, the more necessary it was for minor changes to be made in the formula of the gene medicine based on a superhuman’s cultivation realm, fighting habits, and the fluctuation rate of their vitality magnetic field.

  Many of the experienced fighters with vast quantities of money had their own personal pharmacist. They usually also had a large squad of technicians to provide full support to them in regards to their cultivation.

  If Su Lun’s mother had really created the original Heaven 9, she would have had the qualifications to become Saber Jin Wanhao’s personal pharmacist.

  Iit could be said that Saber Jin Wanhao had managed to seize the chance to pick up a treasure.

  And since personal pharmacists were in control of veteran fighters’ physical conditions, physiological parameters, injuries, weaknesses, and other confidential information, they had a strong relationship with their employers. They were usually trusted employees.

  This also explained why Red Brows Su Lun was able to enter the lair soon after he graduated from Dragon City University and take up an important position in Golden Tooth. It also explained why his position rose so quickly within just a short few years until he became a military adviser to the vice gang leader of Golden Tooth.

  Saber Jin Wanhao was definitely not a muddle-headed and useless person.

  As the master of the lair, he did not easily trust outsiders.

  Su Lun was the son of his personal pharmacist, so they had a pretty close relationship.

  It was no wonder then why Saber Jin Wanhao did not trust Song Jinbo and his other friends, who had been with him for decades, when he was on his deathbed but only let Su Lun know about his condition!

  Chapter 597 - A Monster Even More Terrifying than Apocalyptic Beasts

  “My mother worked for Saber Jin Wanhao for years. She was dejected and never thought about rising to power again, but she had to consider things for her only son,” Su Lun continued. “Since the outside world only had bad comments about the gangs, she was worried that if she became involved with Golden Tooth, it would affect my life in the future.

  “That’s why she kept a low profile. Aside from being Jin Wanhao’s personal pharmacist, she never got involved with any of the lair’s affairs. That’s why only a handful of people know about my family’s relationship with Jin Wanhao.

  “This life lasted for a few years. My mother helped Jin Wanhao create a few batches of new drugs and set up a large, private cultivation room with advanced equipment under Golden Tooth’s headquarters. Jin Wanhao told me later that he had only good remarks about my mother’s abilities and loyalty. He believed that she had extended his lifespan by at least ten years. This was an important reason behind why he accepted me so readily later on.

  “Jin Wanhao was a man who separated his resentment and gratitude clearly, and when someone did something good for him, he would definitely reward them. He might have more than one hundred flaws, but none of them was stinginess.

  “In just a few years, my mother managed to clear all her debts and helped me gather an impressive education and cultivation fund. I didn’t disappoint her either and managed to get into Dragon City University. The management course in Dragon City University might not be as glamorous as the martial arts course, but it’s still one of the ace courses in Dragon City. It’s also the first choice for non-combative superhumans.

  “When she saw that her son was about to have a bright future ahead of him, all her regrets disappeared. My mother achieved all her wishes, and on the day my father died, she left this brutal and ugly world peacefully.”


  When Meng Chao heard this, he could not help but heave a long sigh.

  “Don’t be sad for my mother. I believe that death to her was the best relief,” Su Lun said faintly. “My mother’s soul had already fallen into hell together with my father when we lost the lawsuit and he died. What remained in this blood-red world was an empty shell driven by debt and responsibility. At the moment she carried out her duty and cleared all her debts, the injured body could finally rest in peace.

  “But my mother didn’t expect that while she and my father obtained eternal peace, as their son, I was tormented by endless hatred. It was like a demonic fire had carved its way into my soul.

  “My parents had been forced to their deaths by Heaven Pharmaceuticals, so how could I not want to take revenge and destroy them?”


  “Got it.” Meng Chao exhaled. “Then, from that moment on, you joined the path of evil and tried to use the monsters’ strength to fight against Heaven?”


  “I can swear that I never once thought about using external forces in the beginning. Besides, at that time, the monsters were too dumb. They only knew how to bare their teeth and growl like idiots. They didn’t have the slightest bit of intelligence, so there was no possibility of us communicating and using each other.” Su Lun smiled bitterly. “At that time, I had just entered university.

  “I was in the ace course of the best university in the city. I carried on my shoulders a blood feud, and it felt like I had a secret mission unique only to me. I was also regarded with envy and respect, like I’m some child blessed by the Gods, so my spirits were high and my confidence went over the roof.

  “I was protected well by my parents since young.

  “Even when my family’s company went bankrupt, my mother did everything she could to meticulously create a shell for me so that I wouldn’t experience the hardships from the ugliness of society.

  “That’s why my innocent self didn’t realize just how terrifying of a giant my enemy was.

  “The nine great mega corporations are ten times more terrifying than the most fearsome Apocalyptic Beast. It’s a fool’s dream to start from scratch and defeat Heaven Pharmaceuticals in a fair and square battle.

  “But I knew that even though I didn’t inherit my father’s talen for martial arts or my mother’s talent for drug creation, I had great instincts when it came to operating and managing businesses.

  “With this God-given instinct and crazed hard work, I managed to obtain relatively good results in university and got myself all the rewards I could get, so much so that when my professors valued my talent and my peers flattered me, I was on cloud nine and overestimated myself.

  “When I graduated from university and joined the very real and brutal society, the neverending trials immediately destroyed my illusions.

  “It was only then that I realized that if I wanted to obtain success in this world, having a strong background and connections was more important than abilities and achievements!

  “The nine great mega corporations and the nine great cultivation families behind them had all the important departments, positions, and tactical resources in Dragon City firmly in their grasp. They could do whatever they wanted since they were in control of the city!

  “Recall the period around thirty years ago. It might have been chaotic and lawless, but it was a golden era when everything was allowed to blossom and grow. We didn’t care about having a strong background or connections at that time. All the people relied on their own strength, wisdom, and courage to survive the process of elimination under the brutal but fair rules. My parents’ generation was full of people who had started from nothing but had become outstanding people with their own strength!

  “But in my generation, forget about taking revenge against giants like Heaven Pharmaceuticals, a nameless, poor nobody couldn’t even hope about creating his own business without getting involved with the nine great mega corporations.

  “All the fields that provide a lot of benefits have long since been monopolized by the mega corporations.

  “The politicians in the Survival Committee and the floor managers of the Supernatural Tower also mostly come from the nine families.

  “If normal people want to obtain more cultivation resources, they can only do so through the channels of the nine great mega corporations aside from the black market. Many of the prices for monster materials weren’t originally so high, but the mega corporations hoarded them and started jacking up their price by maliciously sensationalizing them. The most ironic thing is that you can even see the mega corporations’ traces in the deep web and many of the black markets in the lair.

  “This is an era in which no matter how much of a genius a person is, they cannot hope to fight against the mega corporations.

  “It doesn’t matter what sort of astonishing creation you come up with in the spirit energy martial arts field, runic symbol machines field, or gene medicine field. You will either be absorbed into the mega corporations, or your creation will be stolen and imitated by them in almost no time.

  Compared to my parents’ days, the mega corporations now are much better at stealing and imitating products. They also have a larger and better trained legal team. It will ensure that the mega corporation will swallow up the ‘food’ it fancies in the most elegant manner of eating, and it will all be done within legal boundaries. Nothing will then be left of that ‘food’!

  “Only two types of people can be successful in this damn era.

  “First are those born in cultivation families, just like my peers in university.

  “It was only later that I realized that my coursemates who never showed any talent were closely tied to the nine great cultivation families. They were all the third generation of the nine great cultivation families’ direct descendants, just like Lu Siya.

  “Without any effort, they could obtain things that normal people could never hope to obtain even after fighting for ten lifetimes. With minimal effort, they could obtain greater success than the people who spent all their strength to do something…… No, they didn’t even need to succeed, they were the embodiment of success.

  “When I obtained success ten times greater than theirs in university, their cheers were sincere, because they knew that no matter how outstanding my performance was, I would become a sharp tool in their hands once I entered society!

  “The other type are the ‘smart people’ who have long since acknowledged reality and are willing to become tools, like you. You’re someone who hangs tightly to Lu Siya’s coattails and refuses to let go!” Su Lun said maliciously.

  “Um……” Meng Chao’s expression did not change. “I won’t deny that when I was climbing up the social ladder as fast as I could, I obtained support from Big Sis Ya and Sky Pillar Corporation. It’s fine if you say that I’m riding her coattails, but I’m doing this for Dragon City’s future, Earth’s future descendants, and human civilization’s future. It’s not for personal success, so please don’t lump me together with those people.”


  “.……” Su Lun was stunned for a long time. “I finally understand why I lost to you.

  “Unfortunately, when I just graduated from university, I wasn’t as shameless as you are. At that time, I sank into great despair.

  “I realized that even if I spent decades on the fight, built my career, and worked hard despite all trials and tribulations, like people in motivational stories, there would still not be a shred of hope for me to destroy Heaven Pharmaceuticals.

  “Even if my enemy were an Apocalyptic Beast, I wouldn’t be in such despair. Unfortunately, my enemy was a monster known as capitalism. It’s much more terrifying than an Apocalyptic Beast.

  “Even if I wanted to use Sky Pillar, Universe, Soaring Dragon, Thundercloud, and the other mega corporations to fight against Heaven Pharmaceuticals, without decades of hard work and careful planning, I wouldn’t succeed.

  “But I couldn’t wait for decades.

  “Who knew how much Heaven Pharmaceuticals would develop in the upcoming decades? How much more horrifying would they become, and what would they do in all that time?

  “Both starting from scratch or joining a mega corporation couldn’t help me gain my wish. After much thought, I finally cast my sights on the lair.

  “Golden Tooth was the final place in Dragon City where you could rise to power and develop at an explosive pace. Chaos brings motivation, and motivation would bring chances for me to take revenge!

  “I gathered data and information from decades ago and researched carefully. After that, I realized that the size of the lair and the total number of items the citizens produce were no lower than anything from the mega corporations.

  “But since the lair is divided and the gangs don’t listen to each other, the major internal conflicts severely weaken them, and the lair isn’t able to show its full splendor.

  “If I could think of a way to gather all the resources and fighting power of the lair and claim it as my own, I would have a chance to defeat Heaven Pharmaceuticals.

  “Coincidentally, Saber Jin Wanhao was in control of the lair, and he had close ties with my family. Wasn’t it a God-given gift? Wasn’t it the best way to take revenge?”