Chapter 19

Xier was a little worried that he would choke, so she handed over the vegetable soup beside her:

"Our Underworld can't compare to the Overworld; there's nothing good here."

"Gourmet food does not lie in whether the ingredients are precious," Zhou Xuan said, raising his fork.

"Pfft." Xier couldn't help but laugh out loud.

When Bronya told her that she was going to be the guide for the Emperor of the Disaster Empire, Xier was stunned.

Her mind was full of: Is this Bronya trying to harm me?

But after meeting Zhou Xuan, she found that this seemingly young Imperial Emperor was not a terrifying or arrogant person.

Instead, he was like an elder with some gentleness and a unique sense of humor.

"So, what mistake did your civilization make?" Xier leaned forward and asked curiously.

"In the era when we hadn't truly started interstellar colonization, a Great Diaspora occurred."

"Many people, for various reasons, dispersed from our home planet, Earth, to all parts of the universe."

Zhou Xuan took a sip of the vegetable soup, a specialty of the Underworld, and said.

This soup was less like vegetable soup and more like moss soup.

It contained some kind of glowing moss, and the taste was cool, somewhat like mint water.

"We separated from our home planet and established completely different nations on different planets."

"What I rule is an authoritarian imperial state: the Empire."

"There is also the Human Federation, based on militarism and centered around the Grand Marshal."

"The Universal Megacorporations, chasing wealth and based on capital."

"The Poison Saint Knight Order, which fell onto a toxic planet, coexisted with poison, and pursued the Poison Saint."

"The Necrophage Cult, which developed a unique necrophage culture and mastered the resurrection of the dead."

"The Dragon Shepherd Herd, which grazed celestial dragons on an ocean planet."

Zhou Xuan casually mentioned several human civilizations that had been lost in various parts of the universe in the past:

"Those who stayed on Earth established the Earth Federation, holding democracy and xenophilia."

Zhou Xuan finished the vegetable soup in the bowl and placed the wooden bowl on the table.

Xier, who was enjoying the story, hurriedly waved to the restaurant owner: "Bring two bottles of Jim Roger bread-flavored soda."

"Keep talking, what mistake did your civilization make later?"

"At that time, I hadn't unified the many human civilizations under the banner of the Empire."

Zhou Xuan opened a bottle of soda and poured it for himself, saying:

"The style of the Earth Federation was also quite unique among human civilizations..."

"They were too trusting of alien species, allowing alien species to live on our home planet, Earth, and allowing alien species to become experts and even leaders of Earth."

"This horrified our other human civilizations, and it even reached the point where alien species ran to become the President of the Earth Federation."

"Some alien species even put up ridiculous slogans on Earth like: 'Earth is not just Earth for humans'... The high-level officials of the Earth Federation actually allowed this behavior."

Zhou Xuan drank the bread-flavored soda in his glass in one gulp, sighed, and said:

"Later, the Earth Federation colonized a Gaia planet that was enough to make the universe covet it at the time."

"The Earth Federation made the same old mistake again, declaring that they were willing to open this Gaia planet to all species within the Earth Federation, allowing all life among the stars to develop this planet equally."

Zhou Xuan paused:

"But how would a greedy tiger give up the whole pot of meat for a few pieces of meat?"

"The Starfish Alliance—one of the Earth Federation's long-time allies—launched a surprise attack on this Gaia planet."

"The alien species within the Earth Federation... and human traitors deliberately delayed military intelligence, causing the Earth Federation fleet to arrive late, and also preventing us other human civilizations from providing support in time."

Zhou Xuan looked at Xier calmly and said word by word:

"2.38335 billion human citizens died painfully in the Starfish's orbital bombardment."

"Among them were children who were just learning to talk, elderly people waiting for sleep in the sunset, couples who had just gotten married and came for their honeymoon..."

"... Their stories all ended on that painful and shameful day."

Zhou Xuan shook the soda in his hand and said softly:

"I still remember the Grand Marshal of the Human Federation finding me that night."

"She said to me: 'The blood of every human citizen must be mourned by the death of ten million vile aliens.'"

"I have never agreed with anyone so much, not before, and never will again."

"What happened later?" Xier couldn't help but ask.

"Later?" Zhou Xuan chuckled: "The Earth Federation cleared out all alien species from within."

"Then, the human fleet composed of the Human Federation, the Empire, and the Earth Federation drove the newly manufactured Colossus to the Starfish's home planet."

"Of course, this was far from enough to mourn the blood shed by the deceased... perhaps it will never be enough."

(In the setting of this book, there was a Great Human Diaspora, with a bunch of human civilizations scattered across the stars. The protagonist's Empire is one of them, eventually unifying humanity.)

(The Earth Federation is humans with the Prosperous Unification origin, the Human Federation is humans with the Lost Planet standard origin, the Empire is humans with the Imperial Reign origin, the Poison Saint Knight Order is humans with the Poison Saint Knight origin, the Dragon Shepherd Herd is humans with the Dance with Dragons origin, the Necrophage Cult is a cult of humans with the Necrophage culture origin, the Universal Megacorporations are pure capitalists, and there are other human civilizations, all of which have been integrated and unified by the Empire.)

28. 【The Fourth Disaster Thinks Your Values Are Twisted!】

Listening to the story Zhou Xuan told, Xier couldn't help but widen her eyes.

She could vaguely feel the anger belonging to his Empire and his race behind Zhou Xuan's words.

"Do you think I'm extreme?"

Zhou Xuan formed an arch with his hands, supporting his face and looking at Xier.

"If a group of people wants to seize the home planet of humans, a group of people wants to snatch the home of humans, and a group of people wants to raise a butcher knife and kill the children of the Empire."

"Shouldn't I let the Colossus hang high in the sky to take revenge on them? To protect my citizens who are feeling fear?"

"I am the Emperor of the Empire, possessing almost infinite power, and can make everything bow down to me."

"Only two responsibilities are placed upon me."

Zhou Xuan raised his finger and shook it in front of Xier.

"First, lead my Empire to ascend to a higher level, endless and without limit."

"Second, sweep away all threats for the subjects of the Empire, never slacking."

Facing Zhou Xuan's words, Xier, who didn't think often, also fell into a brief contemplation.

A question couldn't help but arise in her mind:

If an alien race slaughtered a town in the Underworld,

would she be able to swallow this anger?

Even if she could swallow it, who would mourn the Underworld residents who died because of it? And who would protect the surviving Underworld residents?

Xier shivered.

She was surprised to find that the actions of Zhou Xuan's Empire were both rational and emotional.

Cruel, ruthless, but completely in line with the interests of their Empire.

If she had to choose,

Xier only felt dizzy, as if she saw a butcher knife stained with blood lying in front of her, tempting her to pick it up.

However, just as Xier was feeling dizzy, Zhou Xuan stood up and stretched his muscles.

He walked to Xier's side and gently rubbed her head, just as if treating a small child.

"Young children can be simple."

"Some things can only be correctly decided by adult civilizations."

Zhou Xuan's words interrupted Xier's contemplation.

Xier's expression was a little depressed; this kind of brain-consuming thing was really not suitable for her.

"Where is the next attraction?"

"Svarog's mechanical settlement, shall we go?"

Xier lowered her head and drove the messy thoughts out of her mind.

"Let's go, are you leading the way?"

"Humans should not be alienated into tools and made into nerve chips."

On an ecological ship bearing the company's logo,

Topaz, holding a small Trotter, couldn't help but say. ===== CHAPTER 20 =====