Simulating the primordial era? That's way too extreme.

Chapter 57 Another Short Essay

"So, you added the setting that Huanglong is the son of the First Emperor?"

The barrage of new messages on the screen left Zhao Si completely bewildered.

However, as the saying goes, "a lot of lice don't itch anymore," and these simulation games have already added plenty of unauthorized settings, so this is nothing.

[Ding! If it weren't set up this way, Huanglong Zhenren wouldn't have been able to become a disciple of Yuqing. Yuqing's discrimination against ordinary demons is difficult to change. Players should try to understand the game and consider its needs, instead of always complaining.]

Zhao Si: ...

Okay, your game has a lot of influence.

"Then why make Huanglong the son of the First Emperor? That's way too over-the-top."

Zhao Si couldn't help but say:

"You could even make him into some kind of ley line or dragon vein transformation..."

[For plot purposes, this is official foreshadowing.]

Zhao Si rolled her eyes:

Huanglong Zhenren is known as the weakest and least prestigious among the Twelve Golden Immortals, nicknamed "Three-No Zhenren" because he has no magic weapons, no disciples, and no victories. His role and strength are even less than those of third-generation disciples like Yang Jian and Nezha.

You told me he still has "plot needs"? And you're using him as a plot device?

I simply don't understand.

"Then I'll see what kind of foreshadowing you can plant..."

After venting her frustrations, Zhao Si turned her attention to the description of Jin Bing's inner thoughts:

In short, it's about doing what you know is impossible.

If Jin Bing simply wanted to stand on one side, he could have completely sided with either side, whether it was following his past life's example of leading humanity in rebellion against demons and heaven, fighting endlessly, or possessing Xi Shi and following Di Jun in a resolute massacre of humanity, either way would have been fine.

But if you choose the human race, then Di Jun at the start is an invincible ultimate boss!

The Heavenly Emperor, a Quasi-Saint at the peak, along with a group of Quasi-Saints and Great Luo Heavenly Court henchmen, resolutely opposes any preordained protagonist. If Jin Bing and the human race make even the slightest mistake, Di Jun's butcher's knife will cut off his dragon head and carry out a bloody suppression of innocent new human beings.

Although with the protection of the sages, Di Jun will definitely not be able to slaughter them all, and the human race may even be able to launch a counterattack against the Heavenly Court with the support of the sages in the future, but this process and the outcome are not what Jin Bing wants to see.

Even if Jin Bing could betray Di Jun, recreate the situation of demons slaughtering each other in the second round of simulation, or even bring the three clans and the witch clan onto the war chariot to confront Di Jun, it would be useless.

Because that way, Di Jun will become a saint, and the boss will level up!

Although it is unknown exactly where the change caused Di Jun, who should not have become a saint, to become a saint against the plot, it is clear that the saintly father is beyond Jin Bing's control. The human race will not only be slaughtered, but will eventually be wiped out!

If they side with the demon race from the start, then the Six Saints are even more powerful. With their guarantee, the Heavenly Court will never be able to slaughter the human race. They will definitely be sent to the Thirty-Third Heaven in the future, and Jin Bing will not be able to escape the Taiji Diagram of Xuandu.

Neither advancing nor retreating is an option.

If Kim Bing hadn't had a macro perspective and knew nothing about the situation, that would have been fine; he would have simply died, and an ignorant dead person would have been of no significance in this matter.

Jin Bing is the protagonist of the simulation game. He knows everything because he has restarted the game so many times.

The more he knew, the more he wanted to change things, the more powerless he felt.

He was ultimately a demon who pitied innocent humans, an extremely contradictory individual...

"You've lived your life on thin ice..."

Zhao Si sighed, then muttered to himself:

"But... I will do my best to get you to the other side."

Having played this far, although he still didn't quite understand how this simulated prehistoric world operated and its mechanisms, Zhao Si no longer regarded Jin Bing, the game character, as a mere tool.

"At least, for you, everything is real..."

……

After reflecting on the hardships of your life, you had someone bring up today's letters from the "Chief's Mailbox," and then carefully read them page by page.

These were written by young humans who went to various parts of the Eastern Wilderness, and are mainly divided into three categories according to their content.

[One type of letter reports on what they have seen and heard in the demon tribes; these are written by the most passionate and energetic members. The other type is simply a complaint; these are written by those who are confused because their ideals do not match reality, and their main purpose is to earnestly request the Great Chieftain to reply and comfort their confused hearts...]

[The last category is the simple and direct one: letters requesting a transfer back to Shouyang Mountain. These are from people who can't bear the reality of the demon race and are therefore desperate.]

[You read all of them carefully and replied to them all. For those reporting on their work, you encouraged them to continue their efforts; for those expressing frustration and confusion, you also wrote back to offer comfort.]

As for those who applied to be transferred back, you didn't force or make things difficult for them; instead, you approved them all. Since they couldn't stand it, it truly meant the conditions were really bad... transferring them back was reasonable.

[But if someone deliberately doesn't want to work, you should allow them to come back, because forcing them to stay will only have the opposite effect. It's better to have no one contributing than to have them cause harm.]

[All of this is a necessary sacrifice for the human race to survive under the sensitive surveillance of Emperor Jun's Heavenly Court. Whether the human race understands it or not, you must understand!]

It's like driving a beat-up car through a rough country road; if you lose control of the steering wheel even slightly, you and the car will flip over into a ditch, scattering parts everywhere.

[A car doesn't have eyes; it just keeps driving forward, unaware of which road it's on. But you have eyes; you need to see everything, and you need to give every instruction...]

Suddenly, you held a letter and let out a soft exclamation.

[Because this letter was neither a work report, nor a complaint seeking comfort, nor a request to be transferred back, but rather a...request for instructions?]

The letter stated that they had visited a coastal aquatic tribe, whose members were all aquatic creatures from the East China Sea—fish, shrimp, turtles, shellfish, and all sorts of other species—a stark contrast to other tribes with a single type of demon.

Their only commonality, and the reason they live by the sea, is that the "Silver Dragon Clan," a second-class sea creature, specifically allowed them to live here so that they could pay their tribute in one lump sum.

The humans, seeing the area's poor state, initially assumed the inhabitants lacked technology. However, upon closer inspection, they discovered the inhabitants had a sophisticated method for wealth creation: the clam-woman could produce pearls rich in aquatic energy, the fish-woman's bubbles had a calming effect on the spirit, and the turtles and crabs possessed considerable strength, making them suitable for hard labor.

However, due to the exploitation by the Silver Dragon Clan, they were impoverished and destitute. Forget about cultivation; they were lucky to even survive...

[The humans, raised under your egalitarian education, have never seen anything like this before! They were furious, declaring that even the protagonists, destined by heaven, are focused on equality, yet a bunch of self-proclaimed noble silver worms dare to bully the weak?!]

Therefore, after internal discussions, they decided to take action against the misbehaving Silver Dragon Clan.

[Chief! Please give the order!]

Looking at this emotionally charged request, you sighed inwardly. It seemed you'd been too indulgent in disciplining them; why did they immediately lose their temper and start a fight the moment they stepped in?

[Besides, the dragon race has been the master of the aquatic races since ancient times, and has always held the power of life and death over the lower-level aquatic races. True dragons bully jiaochi, jiaochi bully turtles and snakes, turtles and snakes bully fish and shellfish... one level suppresses another, it has always been so, why are you outsiders meddling in this...]

【etc!】

[You were jolted, as if you had grasped some blind spot: Just because it has always been this way, does that mean it's right?]

To put it another way, given the Heavenly Court's constant emphasis on the "collective concept of the demon race," is the Dragon race's age-old feudal hierarchical system of personal oppression truly...legal?

That must be illegal! Otherwise, why would Di Jun create heavenly laws to protect the weak demon race?

[So, in that case, could we use this incident to our advantage, ostensibly to combat the Silver Dragon Clan's mistreatment of their own kind, but actually to target the feudal hierarchical system of personal oppression represented by the Dragon Clan?]

If humans were to act as the vanguard in this anti-establishment movement, and the stereotype of "humans yearning for equality" were reinforced with Di Jun, wouldn't that be a more effective way to conceal their true identity?

[And if we keep charging into battle like this, doing things for Di Jun that he can't do due to his status, wouldn't it even be possible to pull Di Jun onto the human race's war chariot and use him as a protective umbrella...?]

[The more you think about it, the brighter your eyes become. You decide to write a proper article and submit it to Dijun, firing the first shot for humanity to step onto the grand stage of the primordial world!]

Please write an argumentative essay entitled "Opposing Dragon Oppression," outlining the corruption of the ancient dragon race, its detrimental consequences and impacts, and outlining specific measures to oppose it. The essay should be 800 words long and written in standard, archaic language.

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(End of this chapter)