novelraw Chapter 958 - 25: Greetings from Earth
Chapter 958 - 25: Greetings from Earth
"Dongpo Pork, Beer Duck, Crispy Sesame Chicken, Four-Joy Meatballs, Tofu Pudding, Zongzi—these delicacies are brought by us Earthlings."
Chen Xiaochen chuckled:
"You might have noticed, Frost Plated and Sky Ring, both have groups of people like me, with surnames before given names, and very peculiar pronunciation, right? That’s brought by me. Not only that, ’Zhao Qian Sun Li, Zhou Wu Zheng Wang’, I’ve brought 100 unique Earth surnames over to transform Azure Star."
"Among them, I discovered perhaps due to cultural differences, or maybe because of different physiological structures, Frost Plated People find it particularly easy to pronounce ’Mingji’ and ’Sijia’. Originally, these two words were supposed to be ’Livelihood and Suffering’ and ’Clans and Noble Families’, but as they were passed down, they turned into this."
"Can you guess why a technological revolution occurred on Azure Star? Why are there so many C3 Luca Type Aliens? Why, even though trapped on the ground, all the races on Azure Star are still keen on war? Why does the name Azure Star sound so much like Earth?"
Kauna followed up:
"Even though the sun can’t be seen, people are still celebrating the Spring Festival and Christmas, relying on machines and greenhouses to farm. Yet even a child can recite the Twenty-Four Solar Terms, the calendar used is the twelve-month system, with a year consisting of 365 days, even adding a day during a leap month—did you not find these things very strange?"
"Of course, it doesn’t seem strange because from the moment you were born, you were educated this way. Even long before you were born on this land, all of these have been remembered by people, constantly repeated until they became common sense."
Facing the blade pressed against his neck by Caramel Snail, [Writer] Victor said leisurely.
"...Why do this kind of thing?"
Caramel Snail was puzzled:
"Weren’t you, Society Citizens, able to get along well with humans? Weren’t you capable of being well integrated into local society, coexisting with us equally, naturally, and harmoniously—weren’t you able to do so? Why then start wars!?"
"Indeed we can coexist harmoniously, integrating into humans as citizens, in fact, there are quite a few."
[Writer] displayed a harmlessly smiling expression:
"Just among those I know, there are 39 people who after assimilation, were still willing to abandon citizen status, even at the cost of shedding Ether Blood, and even committing suicide, wishing to die as mortals."
"If that’s the case, since you came to Azure Star, clearly could have lived in peace, knowing you would regret later, and clearly you don’t lack energy, isn’t your Society powerful? You have the ability to freely traverse the starry sky and worlds, and even citizens are immortal... then why consume this planet?"
Caramel Snail’s hand kept trembling, he asked in bewilderment:
"Can’t humans and Society Citizens understand each other?"
"No, quite the opposite, we’ve always understood each other well."
Victor, as if no one else was there, flipped open his notebook:
"Not to mention understanding each other, we Earthlings and Azure Star People have many similarities. This generation of your people is called the new generation of Homo Sapiens, while our Earthling ancestors were Homo Sapiens, the culture you have, is largely formed under the guidance of our Secret Councilors combined with the local environment. It can essentially be called a sub-branch of Earth culture."
He suddenly said without reason:
"Fuck you."
"Why are you cursing me—uh?"
Caramel Snail was stunned:
"Azure Star’s language, you’re able to understand... even though it’s not Azure Star’s native language, why..."
"What I just spoke was English, our Earthlings’ native language, with the highest number of speakers, the strongest assimilation capability, lowest learning difficulty, and the language most suited for promoting colonization. You also realized that even if I only use English to communicate, most of the words you can understand."
Victor presented the note in his hand: line after line of alphabets were quickly read, recognized, understood by Caramel Snail.
"I can understand it all." Caramel Snail was surprised, but still puzzled: "But why..."
"Why, even with a common language, common species, we continue to wage wars on Azure Star, keep stirring up relations between countries, even triggering the Ersha crisis, once destroying Azure Star—you don’t understand these, right?"
Victor smiled and said.
"You..." Caramel Snail’s pupils kept expanding, he instinctively stepped back, his instinct began to alert and panic: "You understand everything, not to mention understanding each other—you’ve already known everything about Azure Star, even became Azure Star People...even so, still doing this."
"Yes. Because all wars in the world cannot be ended by mutual understanding. Ninety-nine percent of conflicts are inherently present, no contradiction has ever been truly eliminated from the world, they can only be shifted to invisible places, and then people claim ’we solved the problem’."
Victor opened his hands:
"Emancipating slaves, reputedly for freedom, actually turned more slaves into factories, undergoing even more brutal exploitative labor."
"The industrial revolution, overtly solved the human problem of food and clothing but created even greater economic disparities."
"Vegetarianism, on the surface to save animals, actually escalated the harm to fungi, green plants, beans, and grain crops to terrifying heights."
"Problems have never been solved; even if you go to space, you’re just hoping through the Cosmic Grand Narrative to cover up internal contradictions and resource scarcity."
Victor chuckled:
"But Society won’t be like that."
"We have no poverty, no disparity, absolute equality, absolute justice, no distinction between you and me, no difference between men, women, young, and old! Even the Speaker must bear immense responsibilities, either going insane and losing control, or undertaking all the obligations."
[Astrologer] Kauna confidently said:
"Our Society can thoroughly solve all contradictions, as long as you follow our Earthlings’ historical development, you will also be like us, walking the same path, ultimately understanding us, accepting us, integrating with us."
"So, in your view, it’s us waging wars, in reality, it’s just a small but necessary sacrifice."
[Gourmet] Chen Xiaochen laughed:
"Azure Star, is the Earth-like template we’ve been pushing."
"We’re not bad people; for the truly appreciated and loved Starry Abyss colonists, we’re immensely welcoming of you becoming Earthlings."
"Long live Earth! Long live Gaia! Long live Society!"
Victor proudly raised his hand.
Kauna fervently raised his hand.
Chen Xiaochen crazily raised his hand.
Far away on Sky Ring, Zhang Fulong sensed it too and raised his hand.
Meanwhile, on the city streets of Zhengxu, the white-haired, red-eyed [Hairdresser] slowly raised his head, looking at the team approaching to chastise him, grinned his lips, and raised his hand.
At this moment, all the senators on Azure Star proudly said:
"The glory of humanity will last forever!"