Damn, I turned into a monster

Chapter 263 261 Cleaning
He searched region by region, flying from place to place. Because there was no concept of time in the True Realm, Wang Wu had no way of sensing how much time had passed outside.

However, as a cultivator who came to the rescue, he naturally possessed some practical items, including something that could tell time.

His phone can still show the time here, but it doesn't really matter whether he looks at it or not, because based on past experience, a rescue mission usually takes about one to three months in the real world.

There's one assignment per year, and the rest of the time is spent in classes and free time. If you complete one assignment well enough, you basically won't need to take on any more assignments for the next few years.

Of course, Wang Wu's habit is to take on a mission every year, even though he doesn't want to, but he has no choice because it's his master's requirement.

This mission took longer than in the past because the government of Songlan Realm was basically only thinking about itself and never considered rescuing people.

So in order to search for as many survivors as possible, Wang Wu and his team stayed in this place for a full six months.

However, as time went on, Wang Wu and his team naturally accumulated more merit points. This mission saved a large number of civilians, all thanks to the group of alien survivors in the area.

They seem to possess some special technology that allows them to survive even after being pulled into the real world.

It's hard to say how long they can hold out, but in any case, they finally met their savior.

That is, Wang Wu and the other cultivators from the Qionglan Sect.

Just a few cultivators are enough to save nearly 10 billion people. That's right, nearly 10 billion people, not tens of millions or hundreds of millions.

Nearly 10 billion.

It sounds incredible that just four people could accomplish something like this.

But don't forget that these four people are all super beings capable of traveling at near-light speed and easily packing up a planet. If you think about it this way, then it's not unreasonable to think that saving nearly a hundred people in half a year is such a thing.

They might even feel that they saved too few people, but there's nothing they can do about it, because the responsibility doesn't lie with Wang Wu and the other cultivators, but with the original government of this planet.

To be fair, the government in Songlan Realm is indeed extremely corrupt. This situation is not uncommon in the Qiongyuan Civilization, or rather, it is quite common.

However, most government officials aren't that incompetent, or that afraid.

When their star system is struck by disaster, the officials in charge of managing the star system do not think about saving as many people as possible to make up for their mistakes, but rather think about saving themselves and their families first.

For officials, this was the most taboo thing in the Qiongyuan civilization.

Interstellar civilizations value population resources most. In this country, the most direct indicator of an official's performance is the population size of his jurisdiction.

The more populated a star system is, the better the performance and achievements of its officials will be, and vice versa.

The officials in the Pine Blue Galaxy made a colossal mistake in this regard.

When a galaxy is struck by disaster, the most important thing for an official of the celestial sphere is to preserve as many people as possible, rather than having officials, stakeholders, and their families evacuate first.

Not to mention, if you were an official in the Qiongyuan civilization, some of your family members would be held hostage in other star systems or in a unified place... oh no, I mean, they would reside there. So when disaster strikes, if you don't choose to save the general population as much as possible, but instead choose to save a small group of people, it can only be described as a very foolish act, and most officials wouldn't be that foolish.

Officials who make such mistakes are usually newcomers to Qiongyuan. Yes, as an interstellar civilization, we are constantly expanding our territory and moving towards deeper parts of the universe.

As for all the civilizations they encountered along the way, if they were weak, they would accept them; if they were strong, they would... well, there were no truly strong ones. The situation in this star system had already been set, and there wouldn't be another unfamiliar superpower besides the few existing civilizations within the star system.

Anyway, the probability is very small.

Therefore, under this premise, the empire's expansion naturally encountered weaker civilizations. The Qiongyuan civilization, on the other hand, was a very open and inclusive civilization. When faced with any aliens that passed by, they chose to absorb and accommodate them, turning them into their own people.

As for disagreeing, it's impossible not to disagree. We all look the same and have the same bloodline, and there's not even reproductive isolation. What's the difference?

As for language and script, they should naturally be unified. The original written language can exist as dialects, but the official language must be the common language and script within the Qiongyuan civilization.

The Songlan Civilization was a weak civilization that had just joined the Qiongyuan. Because it had just joined, the system was naturally managed by the original ruling family of the system, which led them to make a mistake.

A mistake they had never realized before, and had not corrected after joining Qiongyuan.

This was actually a deliberate act by the central court of the Qiongyuan civilization, intended to make these ruling families make mistakes so that the central court could use this as a pretext to reclaim power and send its own people to manage the area.

This method has proven effective time and again, especially for Qiongyuan.

However, most of the time, the means by which Qiongyuan regains power are not true disasters, because the appearance of a true disaster would inevitably lead to the loss of a large number of people, and people are the most valued resource of Qiongyuan.

Moreover, if one wants to reclaim power, there are better and less harmful methods; there is no need to wait until a real disaster strikes before taking action.

Of course, if a real disaster occurs before you even have a chance to act, there's nothing you can do about it.

For example, the Pine Blue Galaxy where Wang Wu and his team are carrying out their mission right now presents this problem.

It has been less than three hundred years since they joined Qiongyuan, and the ruling class is still the same group of people. Although joining Qiongyuan should theoretically bring about a qualitative leap in living standards, the lives of ordinary people in the entire star system are not much different from before.

Even before the real disaster broke out, there was already a sense of public discontent, which was exactly what the central government was planning.

Incite public resentment, then, in accordance with the will of the people, overthrow the original ruling class and replace them with new administrators.

Then the real disaster struck.

It was originally just a minor issue, but unfortunately, the local officials haven't quite grasped the situation. They've been part of Qiongyuan for almost three hundred years and they're still stuck in the same old ways.

What followed was a classic suppression incident, which led to a difficult development and ultimately spiraled out of control.

(End of this chapter)