The conversation between Zhang Hao and General Hu Xiao requires translation. To be precise, Zhang Hao can directly use his soul to convey his meaning to the general's mind, but the general cannot.
The general could only dictate, and Li Wei would be responsible for translating.
Fortunately, Li Wei was happy to do this.
However, Zhang Hao's soul transmission was not only heard by the general, but also the fifteen prisoners around him were within the scope of influence.
After listening to Zhang Hao's question, the general frowned and said after a while: "Whether I surrender or not doesn't seem to make any sense."
Zhang Hao smiled faintly, but his words were unspeakably domineering: "Surrender, surrender to us, and listen to our arrangements!"
Zhang Hao's words made the general's eyes flash with anger. "What if I don't surrender?"
"Then find someone to support you who can surrender."
"Hmph, according to our tradition in the world of light, the new leader needs to be recognized by everyone!"
The corner of Zhang Hao's mouth raised slightly: "You may not understand the situation. For experts, whether ordinary people approve of it has no meaning. Whoever dares to take the lead will be killed, and the whole family will be implicated.
To the strong, the anger of ordinary people is just the chirping of cicadas after autumn, which is useless except for making noise."
"You..." The general looked at Zhang Hao blankly, not expecting to hear such words from this young man's mouth.
Next to him, the representative of the Ming Dynasty, Shangshu Ling Liu Cong, listened to Zhang Hao's words, looked at the general with emotion and said: "Mr. Zhang's words are the actual situation of our world.
Maybe you are martial arts practitioners there, and you don't have many magical powers, so the masters can't stop the siege of ordinary people. But it's different here.
We are cultivators, and the means and fighting power of cultivators will increase explosively as our cultivation level increases. Therefore, in the world of cultivation, that is, the outside world in your eyes, the strong is truly respected.
Low-level cultivators may have the means to compete with high-level cultivators, but if high-level cultivators want to run away, low-level cultivators basically cannot stop them. And once a master runs away, the consequences... I think you can understand.
Under the influence of various factors, this world is a world of the weak and the strong.
So, if you don't surrender, we will naturally support the puppet until someone is willing to surrender. As for the voices of the people, no one will care."
The general was really shocked, but he could get some information from this person: it seems that the force represented by the person who opened his mouth has also...surrendered? Or suffered a loss?
Next to him, the representative of the Zhulong Continent, the second elder Qiu Wanshan, also spoke: "General Huxiao, the right way is to 'leave the green mountains without worrying about having no firewood'. If you want to gain a living space, there are two ways.
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One is powerful enough!
Another way is to surrender to the strong!
I am the representative of the Zhenwu Sect in the Zhulong Continent. If you have the opportunity in the future, you are welcome to be a guest of the Zhenwu Sect. You will understand."
The general turned to look at Qiu Wanshan. In Qiu Wanshan's words, he could hear helplessness and pride.
Could it be said that this ‘True Martial Cult’ has also surrendered before?
However, the general did not give up. He turned to look at Zhang Hao: "There are forty million swords in the light world! Even if I fall, someone will stand up!"
"Forty million..." Zhang Hao sighed slightly when he heard this number, and a distant memory was evoked. But soon Zhang Hao shook his head slightly: "Forty million, is that much?"
As soon as Zhang Hao finished speaking, the representative of West Kunlun, the Southern Protector Wang Zhenyue, chuckled. His smile and laughter were full of contempt: "Since last year, the Strategic Alliance, the Strategic Alliance, and the Ming Dynasty have joined forces to conquer the Maotu Continent. So far.
The fighting has lasted for more than ten months.
Within ten months, the strategic alliance, the strategic alliance, and the Ming Dynasty together lost no less than a million soldiers.
The number of people killed in the Maotu Continent has exceeded 20 million. More than 1 billion, or 100 million people, have been controlled.
The war is still going on. The lives of the tens of billions of people on the Maotu Continent are now hanging by a thread.
Five years ago, the battle between the Strategic Alliance and the Strategic Alliance lasted only three months, with total casualties exceeding 50 million.
Counting from the war between the Xuanzhen Sect and the Xiaoyao Sect twelve years ago, the number of people who have died due to the war in these years has exceeded 400 million people.
As you can see, behind every representative here, except Ocean Group, there is a population of more than one billion. However, Ocean Group is now integrating new territories, and the population will soon reach one billion.
A population of 40 million..."
At this point, Wang Zhenyue showed a sneer, "If you don't obey, we will... kill them all! There are only 400 million people, which is really not that much!"
The general was stunned when he heard this, and even felt cold all over.
In Wang Zhenyue's mouth, it seemed that they were not lives, but numbers. But he was even more shocked and frightened by the madness of the outside world.
In twelve years, 400 million people died in the war!
What is this concept?
Is everyone playing massacre?
Unconsciously, the general looked at Zhang Hao. He felt that this young man might be able to give him a more realistic number.
Zhang Hao pondered for a while and nodded slowly: "I really don't know if I don't tell you. Now it is roughly estimated that the number of people who died due to the war in the past twelve years is indeed... an astronomical number."
The past twelve years have happened to be the twelve years of the rapid rise of Dayang Group, and the twelve years of rapid explosion of science, technology, industry and commerce.
In the past twelve years, world connections have strengthened and world conflicts have reached their peak.
From the initial unification of Shaoze Kingdom, to the coastal war between Shaoze Kingdom and Langya Kingdom, and finally the collision between the two holy places of Xiaoyao Sect and Xuanzhen Sect.
Then came the war between Dayang Group and Xuanming Sect, which caused turmoil in the entire Tuotu Continent.
After this war subsided, there was a conflict between the Red Lotus Sect, the Holy Fire Sect, and the Ming Sect. In the end, the Holy Fire Sect disappeared, and the Red Lotus Sect succeeded the Tiandu Sect.
Then the war moved to Xuanwu Mountain, and finally the Zhulong Continent was discovered, and then there was a three-year colonial war. During these three years of colonial war, the pride of the Zhulong Continent was abruptly compromised.
After the incident in the Candle Dragon Continent subsided, due to the development of science and technology, the known world became more closely connected and conflicts became more common.
This time, the Kingdom of Shaoze and the Xuanzhen Sect had a falling out, and then the war expanded rapidly, and finally led to a strategic alliance, a strategic alliance, and the fight was a mess.
Then the Twelve Eastern Families made trouble for the Dayang Group, Zhang Hao brought trouble to Dongyin, and finally the war continued eastward until the Ming Dynasty was involved.
Not long after the break, a colonial war broke out to carve up the whole world!
In this series of wars, no less than 400 million people died directly in the war; more than 1 billion people died indirectly due to the impact of the war!
However, it must be admitted that due to the advancement of technology, the spread of a large amount of practice materials, and the continuous decline in the value of low-level practice resources for quite some time before, practice has exploded, and medical care and living standards have improved significantly.
In these twelve years, the newly added population will definitely be no less than 5 billion!
Within the Kingdom of Qixia alone, the population has increased nearly 1.5 times in the past ten years! The population has increased sharply from less than 500 million before the war (the total population of the six countries at the time) to as much as 1.2 billion!
After thinking about this, Zhang Hao added: "A rough estimate is that as many as 400 million people died directly in the war. As for those who died indirectly due to the impact of the war, it is probably more than a billion.
A population of 400 million is really not that many.
So, if these 400 million people are obedient, that’s it. If they are disobedient... it’s not a big deal. The war is still going on, and there is a shortage of people everywhere. Just drag them to the battlefield."
After listening to Zhang Hao's words, the general felt cold and trembling all over.
As for the remaining fifteen prisoners, their faces were even pale.
Also, the environment in the Light Realm is basically similar to the Cold War Age. Hundreds of thousands of people died in a war, which is already extremely cruel.
But now that the known world has entered the era of industrialization, there is no need to say more about war in an industrialized environment!
As for whether Zhang Hao and others were bragging, the general felt that they were not. He could probably conclude now that the representatives of different forces in front of him were not harmonious with each other.
With Zhang Hao as the boundary, people on the left and right obviously didn't look at each other. But everyone showed enough respect for Zhang Hao.
The general worked hard for a while before he temporarily suppressed his fear and said tremblingly: "If I surrender, can I guarantee the safety of the Japanese people?"
Zhang Hao thought for a while, slowly shook his head and said: "Surrender only gives you a little room to survive. But whether the Japanese can continue, you should not ask us, but yourself.
The living space for you Japanese people is inside a spaceship. And this spaceship is close to its limit and may collapse at any time. Once the spacecraft collapses, your living space will inevitably disappear.
Therefore, if the Japanese want to survive, they must first step out of the world of light and strive for a foothold in the outside world!
The entire Light Realm has a population of 40 million, and the Japanese people alone only have about 20 million. If you want to accommodate such a large population... you don't have many choices!"
The general's head already hurts a little - he has thought too much, but he still has to think!
Over the past day or so, he has received too much information, and his worldview, outlook on life, and values over the past hundred years have collapsed. Along with his own pride, it has also been reduced to dust.
But as the leader of the Japanese clan, the general still has some extraordinary wisdom: "Mr. Zhang, if I surrender, to whom will I surrender?"
"Of course it's all our representatives!" Zhang Hao said without hesitation, "The relationship between us has nothing to do with you. We are unanimous in exploring the world of light."
The general really felt that his brain was running out. What was going on? He turned around and looked around, but saw that everyone was taking it for granted.
Obviously, sowing discord and so on can no longer be used!
The general suppressed his anger and said in a hoarse voice: "Okay, I surrender. I surrender on behalf of the Japanese people."