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You want me to kneel before you?
As he spoke, a powerful mental pressure emanated from him.
Some of the soldiers around couldn't bear it and clutched their heads in pain.
The only one who can remain calm now is Bria.
Bria also felt the mental pressure emanating from Jing Yuan, and at that moment he realized that Jing Yuan was no ordinary Awakener.
"Sir, my men are ignorant, please don't be angry!"
Upon hearing Bria's words, Jing Yuan withdrew his mental pressure.
Bria felt a sense of relief and smiled at Jing Yuan, "How shall I address you, sir?"
"Jingyuan".
"Lord Jingyuan, you said you want to cooperate with us? Cooperate on what?"
Chapter 256 Let's Talk About Cooperation
"Of course, we should cooperate to fight against the Mana ecosystem!"
Bria smiled and said, "Fighting against the Mana ecosystem! Do you know what you're talking about?"
Jing Yuan slowly approached Bria and said, "Don't you want to fight against the Mana ecosystem? Don't you want to survive?"
"Of course we want to survive. But do you think you can fight against the ecosystem?"
"You haven't even heard me finish speaking before you've already assumed I'm talking nonsense?"
Bria looked at Jing Yuan and said, "Lord Jing Yuan, you come from the Lighthouse, right?"
"Correct!"
"As far as I know, the lighthouse has always been floating in the sky. You have a team that goes down to the ground to collect supplies. You live off these supplies, right?"
"Correct!"
"So that means only the teams that go underground to collect supplies will actually fight the Devouring Beasts head-on," Bria said, looking at Jing Yuan. "And most of you haven't even seen a Devouring Beast before. Am I right?"
"Yes!" Jing Yuan nodded; that was indeed the case!
"But do you know what? Our people have been dealing with the Devouring Beasts all along."
In your opinion, who understands the Devouring Beasts better, you or us? Who understands the ecosystem better?
If there truly is a way to combat ecological imbalances, but this method wasn't proposed by those of us who have been fighting the Devouring Beasts on the ground, but rather by a Beacon Person far removed from the Devouring Beasts, do you think that's reasonable?
"That's definitely unreasonable!"
Bria smiled and said, "Jingyuan, you look very young. I've lived for a very long time, what kind of grand narratives haven't I heard? What you're saying is useless to me."
Jing Yuan smiled and said, "You're right! I was born and raised on the lighthouse, and I've never seen a Devouring Beast until I became an adult. In the world of us Lighthouse people, the lighthouse is our only home, and we are the only remaining humans."
But when we descended to the ground and encountered the humans living there, we realized that, in terms of both our understanding of ecology and our understanding of humanity, the lighthouse had been living in a well, with a limited perspective.
"It's commendable that you have this insight."
Jingyuan laughed and said, "So don't be like us before, only knowing how to sit in a well and look at the sky!"
Bria's expression changed; she realized they were being referred to.
Jingyuan continued, "The methods I'm talking about for combating the environment aren't things we, sitting in the lighthouse, came up with out of thin air."
Our information comes from two sources.
Firstly, I learned from the settlement of Dragon Bone Village that their leader is named Bai Yuekui. I don't know if you know him!
"do not know."
Jing Yuan was taken aback; he didn't recognize Bai Yuekui.
"Secondly, we unearthed a time capsule from underground, which contains information left by an ancient civilization, including methods for combating the environment."
Currently, based on information left by an ancient civilization, we are manufacturing a weapon!
"Ancient civilization?" Bria said. "That's a new concept."
"you do not believe?"
Bria shook his head and said, "I'll believe you for now! You came to us all alone, saying you wanted to cooperate with us to fight against the Mana ecosystem!" Bria smiled again, "Tell me! What do you want us to do?"
Jing Yuan was taken aback, not expecting Bria to be so direct.
He didn't know that from Burya's perspective, whether you say you want to fight against the ecosystem or something else, you just want us to do things for you.
In the old world, if someone came with such a grand narrative, they would either want money or people.
Bria, a survivor of the Old World, had seen far too many of these tricks.
"You've agreed to cooperate?"
"No, I just want to know what you want us to do!"
Jing Yuan smiled slightly, as if he had figured something out.
He asked, "Do you have any people among your men who understand engineering technology?"
"Does car repair count?" Briya asked, pointing to the armored vehicle beneath him. "Our engineers only know how to repair cars."
Jingyuan looked around. On the way here, he noticed that these descendants of the Gen people lived a life almost like primitive people.
"I need a mechanical engineer!"
"Most of our people are remnants of the old world's Zeon nation. If you're looking for genetic engineers, I can find two. If you want mechanical engineers, all I can find are car mechanics."
As you've seen, we've basically abandoned old-world technology.
Jing Yuan laughed and said, "Then find me two genetic engineers!"
"You want a genetic engineer? What for?"
Jing Yuan stated without hesitation, "Your Gene has fused with the genes of Mana organisms, becoming ecochimeras. We also have such a case, and I hope to enlist the help of your genetic scientists to study it!"
Bria narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "This is your real purpose, isn't it!"
"You could say that!" Jing Yuan said with a smile. "But I'm serious about wanting to cooperate with you."
"Where did you get these eco-chimeras?" Briya asked again.
"That's a long story. Why don't you invite your scientists out, and I'll explain it to you slowly? Otherwise, I'll have to say it twice!"
Bria stared at Jing Yuan. "Whether I help you or not is my decision! I can't make a decision if you don't tell me!"
Jing Yuan stared at the other man, "King of Buria, are you willing to help or not?"
"What do I get in return for helping you?" Bria said with a smile. "Even though it's called helping, there should be an equal exchange!"
"what do you want?"
Bria's smile suddenly turned somewhat wicked. "You people on the Lighthouse are all from the Old World, humans who haven't undergone genetic modification. I haven't felt a purebred woman in a long time! How about this! You send me 100 women, and I'll do you a favor!"
"What did you say?" Jingyuan even doubted that he had heard correctly.
Jingyuan has never liked to use his power to oppress others, so when Bria proposed an equal exchange, Jingyuan did not find anything wrong with it.
He figured that at worst, he could do something for Bai Yuekui, just like he did back in Dragon Bone Village.
If Bria asked Jingyuan to do something for him, like fighting the Devouring Beasts, Jingyuan would be willing.
However, asking him to send 100 women is really going too far.
"Bria, are you serious?"
Bria laughed and said, "Seriously! 100 women!"
Jing Yuan laughed in anger and said, "Before I came here, that old fellow Tu Men told me a lot about you guys."
Originally, I didn't want to get involved in your internal affairs. Nor did I expect you to be involved in the fight against the Mana ecosystem.
By saying this now, aren't you basically rejecting me?
As far as I know, Dr. Tully is the most capable scientist among you. Tell me, if I save her, would she be willing to help me?
Bria narrowed her eyes and stared at Jing Yuan. "Oh? Looks like you came prepared!"
Tumen?
I understand now.
"Do you think you can get Tara out of here?"
Jing Yuan shook his head and said, "I didn't want to get involved in your messy affairs! It seems that what Tu Men said about you wasn't just made up. 100 women, how could you even say that!"
With a wave of his hand, Jing Yuan caused the armored vehicle that Briya was riding in to instantly fall into pieces.
Bria sensed something was wrong and leaped to the ground.
"I knew you were a superhuman a long time ago! Do you think we survived on the ground by luck?"
After he finished speaking, Bria's men handed him a giant axe.
Bria took the giant axe and swung it at Jingyuan.