Simultaneous travel: Starting from returning to the main god space.

Chapter 474 The Lighthouse Crashes (Seeking monthly votes! Seeking further subscriptions!)
Upon hearing these two requests, almost everyone in the hall changed their expressions slightly, and they looked at Wu Xian as if he were a devil.

Forcing a man to arrange for his wife to sleep with other men and to make his children live like servants is worse than killing him.

However, no one expressed any anger towards Wu Xian's extremely despicable behavior, because similar things had been happening frequently on the Lighthouse recently, precisely because of the three laws promulgated by Morgan. What Wu Xian was doing now was simply giving them a taste of their own medicine.

Incidentally, when Dr. Flynn, who was in charge of researching the Croto system, heard Wu Xian's first condition, his eyes lit up immediately. He then looked at Morgan with anticipation, hoping that he would agree to the request. He would then volunteer to participate in the breeding mission with Mayway as soon as possible.

"This is impossible!"

Morgan, his face ashen, gritted his teeth and said, almost word by word, "I already had Charles's genetics tested. He has no defects and should not be classified as a Dustman!"

"He can be anyone if you're willing."

Wu Xian said calmly, "As the city lord, if you want your subordinates to follow your rules, then you yourself must also abide by the rules. Even if you don't need to, you should create opportunities so that others can see your sacrifice and determination. That's what a leader should do."

"Besides, this isn't the first time you've modified gene results, is it? For example... Mark."

Morgan, who had been struggling internally, suddenly looked up at Wu Xian in disbelief upon hearing the name Mark, and blurted out, "You know... No! This is impossible, how could you possibly know this!"

“Mark? Red Heron’s brother, what does this have to do with him?!”

Similar to Morgan's reaction, everyone present also showed surprise, but more than that, they were confused. Then they all looked at Red Heron, who was wearing a gravity body mech, only to find that he also looked blank, obviously unaware of the specific situation.

As the current city lord's most valued student and the commander-in-chief of the city's defense forces, Honglu's family relationships naturally attract a certain amount of attention from the outside world. Therefore, many people know that she has a younger sister and an adopted younger brother, named Hongkou and Mark respectively.

Originally, in everyone's eyes, Mark's background was very clean; he was just an ordinary orphan, and apart from being adopted by Hongkou, there was nothing particularly noteworthy about him.

But now, Wu Xian has suddenly brought up this child, and Morgan's overly intense reaction makes it clear to anyone that there's more to it than meets the eye.

"Ha! Of course I know, and not just Mark, I know all the secrets about the Devouring Beasts..."

Wu Xian smiled slightly, and then revealed everything he knew about Mark's background and the secret that the Devouring Beasts targeted human emotions, which immediately caused an uproar among the crowd.

"Launching attacks by sensing human emotions..."

Several high-ranking officers whispered to themselves, suddenly recalling that at a recent high-level meeting, Honglu had mentioned that a city defense soldier had been ignored by the Devouring Beasts because of an injury to his prefrontal cortex. Suddenly, they understood everything.

The prefrontal cortex controls a person's understanding of emotions. Once injured, it will cause a cognitive impairment of emotions, which is why it is ignored by the Devouring Beast.

“Are you crazy?!”

At the same time, Morgan completely broke down, disregarding the absolute power disparity between them, and shouted at Wu Xian:

"Now that you know everything, you should understand that if these secrets are allowed to spread, it will inevitably cause even greater chaos than the Three Laws, especially in a closed system like the Lighthouse. A moment of carelessness could lead to annihilation and completely destroy humanity's last hope."

"Ha! Humanity's last hope?"

Wu Xian raised an eyebrow and said with disdain, "Don't be shameless. There are other survivors on the ground. Even if the Lighthouse is really destroyed, humanity still has the possibility of rising again. Besides... don't impose your fears on everyone else. Humans are not that fragile."

"The emotions that you perceive as bringing disaster are actually the very foundation upon which humanity truly stands on this planet, and the greatest driving force behind the creation of our once glorious civilization."

"Moreover, how can human emotions be suppressed by the mere three laws? Not to mention kinship and love, what about the joy and smugness of those who are chosen as the upper class after receiving preferential treatment and resources? Isn't that an emotion?"
For those judged as "dust people," are their feelings of resentment, pain, and despair about life considered emotions?

"And that damned Church of Light and Shadow, the blind worship of its followers, the fanatical faith in the Lord of Light and Shadow—aren't those emotions?" "If you ask me, your three laws are utter nonsense. Not only have they failed to suppress emotions, but they've also turned perfectly normal humans into a bunch of lunatics with screws in their heads, ultimately becoming prey for the Devouring Beasts."

"Oh right, there's one last rule for the brave to travel far. Which genius with a ten-year brain thrombosis came up with this idea? It's been so many years since the apocalypse started, don't you guys know that the Devouring Beasts collect life essence? What's the difference between that and handing weapons to the enemy?"

At this point, Wu Xian remembered that there seemed to be no information about life essence on the lighthouse, so he gave a brief explanation.

It was specifically stated that if the Devouring Beasts reclaimed enough life essence, it would accelerate the evolution of the Mana ecosystem, making humanity's situation even more precarious.

The people present were stunned by this information, never expecting that there could be such amazing things in the human body.

Thinking of the elderly people who had been sent to the ground recently, cold sweat immediately dripped down their foreheads.

As for Morgan, after hearing about the effects of the life essence, he was completely dumbfounded, muttering words like "impossible" and "the city lord wouldn't lie to me," as if he had gone mad.

"Hmph, you idiot!"

Seeing his appearance, Wu Xian couldn't help but sneer. Too lazy to play the game of choosing between his wife and son, he raised his hand to smash his dog's head and send him to his death.

buzzing-

Just then, a violent tremor came from beneath my feet.

Immediately afterwards, everyone except Wu Xian felt a strong sense of weightlessness, and they were forced to float in mid-air before falling heavily in all directions, looking extremely disheveled.

As the camera zooms out, the enormous lighthouse, which was originally located in the stratosphere, is seen falling rapidly downwards like a raindrop, with countless steel parts scattered in the air, and occasionally screams can be heard fading into the distance.

Meanwhile, in the central control room, the staff who were usually responsible for hovering the lighthouse were frantically checking the operation of various systems and instruments, but the results were quite bad.

"Attitude control engine locked!"

"Anti-gravity engine malfunction! Unable to restart!"

"An unknown command has infiltrated the central control system!"

"Backup navigation system disconnected, descent speed 89 meters per second!"

"No! If this pace continues, it will cause structural damage to the lighthouse!"

……

"Interesting. Is it because you heard me mention the secret of the life essence that you started to panic?"

Wu Xian hovered in mid-air, paying no attention to the lighthouse that was falling at high speed, and instead looked in a certain direction.

His sharp gaze seemed to pierce through numerous obstacles, fixing on the central system, on a glass cylinder containing a massive amount of brain tissue.

The Kroto system, or rather... the right brain of the Mana prototype.

(End of this chapter)