Chapter 379: Chapter 154 Telomeres_2
How ruthless!
What a brute!
Wen Lei swallowed hard, unable to hold back, "Mr. Ren, you were too risky. Luckily, you won."
Hanyu also said, "Yes."
Ren Zhong smiled, "Since I dared to make a move, I must have been fully prepared. But let me ask you a question. Putting aside the old things you’ve recently found out, if we assume I decided to kill him half a month or a month ago without knowing about these things, would you think I was too cruel?"
Ren Zhong’s words were very probing.
Yujin’s response was very blunt, "Not at all! Mr. Ren must have a reason!"
Wen Lei, being honest by nature, thought for a long time, "There’s a little bit of that."
Ren Zhong was waiting for Wen Lei, "Then, let me tell you why. First, let me ask you, what do you think about the life of the ruin people in Starfire Town?"
Everyone looked at each other and recounted their experiences from childhood.
Ren Zhong nodded, "Starfire Town is full of tragedies, ruin people live like less than human. It’s filled with violence and bloodshed, deception and suppression, enslavement and exploitation..."
"In short, it is hell on earth. Perhaps you have grown up here since childhood and don’t feel it. But I grew up in a peaceful and prosperous city, having seen scenes completely different from here."
Ren Zhong roughly described his life since childhood, resembling the look of the 21st century, with some localized flexible adaptations to the others.
After everyone listened, they fell into a long silence.
Though they have always yearned for a citizen’s life, it was just shallow imagination, seeing only its surface on TV screens, hard to empathize or relate to.
Now listening to Ren Zhong, once a ’Citizen’, speak firsthand, compared with their just recalled childhood, the huge gap between shocked them too much.
"Then, who do you think is responsible for Starfire Town being this way?"
Ren Zhong asked the question again.
Everyone’s answers were essentially the same as last time, only Hanyu seemed hesitant to speak.
Ren Zhong answered for her, "Lin Wang is just a knife, a butcher knife for Yang Bingzhong cutting flesh from Starfire Town’s ruin people. The real direct cause is Starfire Resources and Yang Bingzhong. Sixteen years ago, Starfire Town wasn’t like this, right?"
Everyone nodded, "Yes."
"Of course, what we said before, that’s all superficial. Yang Bingzhong is also someone else’s knife, isn’t he? The real mistake lies with another person! Killing Lin Wang was just correcting the first mistake I saw before me! Next, I will overturn more!"
"Now Lin Wang is dead, it seems you and I have gotten temporary relief, able to live a good life. It seems the ruin people of Starfire Town can also live a good life. Right? Did you hear the cheers outside just now?"
"Heard it." people responded.
"The cheers have two reasons. One is Lin Wang’s death. The second is the so-called new company I spoke of personally. But I must tell you, all of it is a lie. Starfire Town has no future. It has already been divided. The ruin people are already goods sold by Yang Bingzhong to the Mengdu Group! No one will have a good end, they are just livestock waiting for slaughter!"
In the small basement, the atmosphere became extremely oppressive for a moment.
"Enslaving the lives of the ruin people isn’t enough, they aren’t even given a peaceful end! Is that right? Isn’t there a problem with that?"
"Humans shouldn’t be commodities! If the ruin people can be bought and sold, what about the citizens? Why can citizens live like humans and the ruin people cannot? Do you really think you are worse than the citizens behind the White Wall? What’s the difference?"
"The only difference is that you weren’t born into a citizen’s family! Is there a problem with such a world?"
"I can see it, after hearing of Lin Wang’s death, you are relaxed. You begin to yearn for the future. You even start imagining continuing to follow in my footsteps, living a happy life that, though as ruin people, is infinitely close to being citizens! Wrong! I must tell you, wrong!"
"You and I must remember, Starfire Town that nurtured you is destroyed! All the faces you once knew here, all wailing tragically in hell! Otherwise, I will become the next Lin Wang, and you will become the next Bei Lihui, Si Mawan, Xing Ming."
"Now, do you know what error I want to correct? Don’t rush to answer, think slowly. Especially think about what makes you different from citizens."