Seized by the System

Initially, Black Robe wanted to ignore it, but he thought for a moment. If the Red Queen’s computational power was used in Vigilante A’s stronghold, his defenses would surely grow tougher in the future, and he would become more guarded.

Humans were always like that. They could only share the same stance when they pursued the same interest.

He pondered and spoke calmly, “It’s not entirely impossible if you do intend to compute the Heavens and Earth. You’ll just have to wait a little longer for me to upgrade the Red Queen to Version 2.0. Till then, the computational power should be sufficient. Please be patient, Brother Dog. As you know, these upgrades are often unstable.”

“Sounds good. I shall patiently wait for your favorable news, then.” The Yellow Dog was elated. Computational power had long become a basic resource —— and also a core resource —— in scientific research.

“No worries, I’m also curious about the limits of the Red Queen’s architecture…” Black Robe nodded in response. He had the charisma of a specialist. Unfortunately, it was his black robe that betrayed this aura and made him look like a wizard from the Middle Ages instead.

“I never expected that a member of the Path of Devils like you would be so easygoing. Such a shame, though.” The Yellow Dog shook its head.

‘Such a shame… My foot! I am pleased to be a devil…’ Black Robe swore quietly. He was smart enough to grasp the dog’s insidious remarks.

This mutt insinuated that he was not from the righteous path for his allegiance laid with the devils.

Were the so-called Path of Righteousness and Path of Evil totally rigid?

As long as he could craft a better life for himself, that was a righteous path to him.

So what if he sided with the devils?

People from the Path of Righteousness often said that they had limits and must follow the rules.

When desperate times came, however, those people had committed even more devilish acts than the devils themselves.

In Black Robe’s memory, such cases were numerous. They were all even.

He then spoke blandly. “You’re also an easygoing dog. We’re all even.”

“Hehe, in that case, I shall not disturb you any further. You may set up your business here in peace. I assure you that this area is perfectly safe and the crime rate here is very low.” The Yellow Dog asserted proudly.

Black Robe was slightly surprised. He did not expect this place to be so secure.

He bade farewell to the Yellow Dog and sank into deep thought as he gazed at the bustling city.

Many cars sped past on the first and second levels of the flyover. The drivers in the cars were very attentive and the passengers did not laze around either. Instead, they either read or worked on their laptops. Very few people could be seen fiddling with their phones.

Due to the evenness of the roads, vehicles cruised on them smoothly, and this was a major convenience for passengers.

This sight could not be seen in other places.

He understood the current state of human society, especially in this Era of Mystery when all sorts of strange and unexplainable events took place.

Vigilante A walked the Path of Heavenly Punishment and only intervened after an incident had taken place. Nowadays, he became less frequent at dealing with an issue before it happened.

Besides, a lot of bizarre occurrences took place for no apparent and logical reason.

Vigilante A’s Eastern Pharos nickname was able to scare off wise devils and spirits, but it could not stop those foolish ghosts and demons from showing up without warning and slaughtering innocents, and neither could it obstruct people who wanted to snatch a share of the mysterious power.

Perhaps those people did not harbor ill intentions, however, without proper cultivation techniques, they entered deviatory psychosis and lost their minds. The rest was history.

After comparing both sides, it was easy to comprehend the high value of Vigilante A’s stronghold. The essence of all humans would be gathered here in the future.

Based on this fact, the arcane realms that were conquered by other countries paled in comparison.

After all, those arcane realms of theirs did not produce any owners of the grotto-heavens yet, or in other words, it was not suited to producing such owners. If there were an owner and this person suddenly betrayed them, what were they going to do?

Just like the owner of Azure Mountain, that geezer was reluctant to admit it that he used some unknown power to conquer the Azure Mountain’s arcane realm.

As for making pledges to the Heavenly Axiom, if one bore the intention of betrayal, there were ways of dealing with this matter.

This was a dead end. Therefore, unless a large organization that conquered arcane realms chose to control the areas individually, it was difficult to produce a real owner of the arcane realm.

He heard that humans were forced to leave their homelands after thirty years. Undoubtedly, there were many among them who were reluctant to move away.

Migrating to another planet sounded nice, but one had to remember that the mortality rate reached above 90 percent when humans migrated to the New World, so it was easy to understand why leaving one’s homeland behind was so difficult.

It was not that ancient humans were unwilling to develop new areas, but with the technological level of the ancient humans, developing a new land equated blood, toil, tears and sweat.

With the human’s current technological level, moving to and living on a new planet also meant sacrificing countless lives.

Perhaps the humans were short of a particular biological element in their bodies; perhaps some microorganism underwent mutation in outer space, or perhaps the light was not the same; there were just too many factors that could influence the humans’ chances of survival.

Adapting to a new environment was not a painless effort.

Black Robe certainly did not sympathize with the humans. He was a devil and his heart was hard as stone. He only pledged allegiance to the Devil Lord, whereas other lives would be ranked based on how valuable they were.

He simply thought that if Vigilante A were generous enough, he could allow up to billions of people to live in this very arcane realm.

There were about seventy billion people living on Earth and there were hundreds of thousands of square meters of land available here. If the land was allocated properly, this place could fit billions of residents.

It would be much more congested, but since this was an arcane realm, Vigilante A could manipulate the climate and landscape according to his whims and fancies to make it a more habitable place.

For example, he could build more apartments in this place. Since no natural disasters like earthquakes would ever happen here, there was no cause for concern for the instability of tall buildings.

Food and water were not major issues either.

After all, Vigilante A was an Inland-Sea Level master, so summoning the wind and rain was no problem for him.

It was too bad that this fellow followed the righteous path, thus he would not steal or rob from others…

If he were to manage everything without any restrictions, the essence of humans would fall into his hands within a few years.

Here, the essence would prosper a hundred times more than anywhere else and produce infinite results of intelligence. In comparison to material wealth, the wealth of intelligence was the most precious.

The Great Devil Saint Zhi Nan’s clan was more familiar with this than anyone else.

Material wealth that was truly precious was comprised of those ultra-rare treasures that could not be found anywhere else. Aside from that, anything that could be re-created was not as valuable as intelligence.

Black Robe stood at the entrance of the building and looked at the crowd around him. They were smiling and looked very happy and contented with their lives.

Their happiness was borne out of comparison. When they realized they lived better lives than people in other cities, they felt even more satisfied.

Happiness was like getting to have steamed buns when others had cornbread…

Zheng Dao, who was standing beside him, was very patient. He understood Mr. Black Robe’s reason for sinking into deep thought. After all, this sight of a hustling and bustling city was incredibly rare in the outer world.

Especially when the gods of the Upper Realm descended to Earth and brought about a global crisis, people around the world suffered from stomachaches except for cultivators. This made them understand what it meant to be in turbulent times where trouble could arrive anywhere…

Meanwhile, when the residents of the Morality City heard about such news, they felt extremely lucky as they did not suffer from any pain.

Zheng Dao shook his head resignedly. No matter how powerful Venerable One was, he could only save a small fraction of the population, so what about the rest? Still, one had to struggle and go with the flow in this ever-changing world.

“Sigh, such a shame.” Black Robe shook his head, picked up his black leather box and walked towards the building.

Zheng Dao did not ask him what that was about but followed him silently.

It did not matter whether this fellow was a devil or a deity, as long as he did not cause any harm.