"Are you looking for Mr. Raymond?"

Li Aozi glanced up at the woman in front of him holding a basket of potato flowers:

"Well, you'll have to make quite an effort, he's more shattered than a corpse now."

"Alas, Mr. Raymond... I should have foreseen you'd meet such an end."

The woman holding the potato flowers wiped her tears, regretfully saying:

"He told me for years that he would buy my freedom, never minding that I'd served drinks and had to humiliate myself by working for that vile boss. Even as a fallen flower, he promised me a life of my own. But everyone knew his work was so dangerous, it was only a matter of time before he would meet his end."

"Wait a moment... aren't you a combat puppet? Logically speaking, you should be private property of that boss, right?"

"How can you say that! Just because I'm someone's private property ≠ I can't pursue my own life. I've endured that scoundrel for over twenty years, being exploited day and night, sob, sob..."

"But you must first be a person before being some humanoid machine, right? Besides, you look radiant, fair-skinned and beautiful, dressed better than me. Is your boss here to exploit you or to lavish gifts upon you?"

"Even if I haven't been exploited, can I not speak up for myself?! This is ignorance and prejudice! We combat puppets' lives are lives too!"

Li Aozi waved his hand, signaling for the crazy puppet to be dragged away. Fanning himself lightly with a handmade fan, he muttered:

"The smell of secondhand smoke in the air, truly annoying."

Just then, Beatrice hobbled over, stopped in place, and reported:

"Sovereign, the underground forces on Dragon Island have been fully integrated."

"Thank you for your hard work, Beatrice—though what happened to your leg? I recall having it maintained."

"Sovereign, Beatrice tripped over a green-haired turtle on the way, unbalancing the stabilizer."

"How tragic." Li Aozi shook his head.

"Thus, as per the agreement, Beatrice crushed the green-haired turtle."

"Deserved." Li Aozi nodded.

Before the war, Dragon Island's underground forces were much smaller in scale compared to post-apocalypse. This is no surprise; in a sense, gangs naturally act as order enforcers. When the ruling class loses part of its power, such order-establishing forces will naturally arise.

Before the war, Dragon Island could rely on substantial funds, along with the Dragon Race's reputation, lineage, and status, to maintain a stable situation and suppress these underground forces. However, the Dragon Race is not inherently a group that has control over the grassroots.

Gnolls, Dragonborn, Half-Dragons, Dragonblood Elves, Dragon Beastmen, Dragon Vein Sorcerers, Lizardmen — the sundry lower-class dragon species exist, and their numbers surpass those of the Dragon Race by hundreds or thousands of times. They need management, yet the Dragon Race neither manages nor properly supervises them.

As for the reason... cost is one aspect.

From within Dragon Island's management choosing to join an alliance founded on 'superior racialism' as the narrative, one can see their motivations.

Without upper-level control, aside from these mixed-blood dragon species, the deceit and treachery among the lower-level Dragonborn allow even someone like Raymond, who doesn't even qualify as a hybrid, to seize opportunities amidst the chaos and try to take a share.

Before Li Aozi's arrival, Mr. Raymond did gain quite a few benefits.

As for now… Mr. Raymond has likely become fertilizer.

Thinking positively, what if he has become the fertilizer for his beloved potato flowers?

"Since the forces are fully integrated, then the information on Ireixis Sundace should be ready too, bring it up quickly."

However, Beatrice tilted her head and said:

"Sovereign, the major forces have not retrieved any information on Ireixis Sundace. Not even under this keyword or anything similar."

"Hmm?"

Li Aozi was surprised:

"That shouldn't be the case. Even Yachi, the Golden Dragon Monk, knows who Ireixis Sundace is, yet the people on Dragon Island still don't know of this great traitor?"

According to the old timeline, Ireixis Sundace was a famous Dragon Race genius. As a White Dragon despised even by Dragon Beasts, Ireixis Sundace's performance and growth speed completely reshaped people's understanding of White Dragons.

What kind of existence is a White Dragon? Generally speaking, it can be summarized in two words:

Dull-witted.

It's not an insult; they truly are dim-witted.

White Dragons generally have very low IQs. Many White Dragon kinds still retain habits of cannibalism. If a White Dragon is inbred, then a regression issue is almost certain to occur: they become beasts rather than retaining rationality, resulting in a revert from dragon to beast form.

The key is, being just dull-witted is one thing.

Not only are White Dragons dull-witted… they're also fragile!

White Dragons have long lived in frigid zones, where they might just barely be 'the last White Knights' on the ice fields.

Being poor at using their brains and experiencing extreme difficulty learning magic doesn't help. When they enter temperate and subtropical areas, they exhibit a problem similar to a husky's: their brains overload, their energy level suddenly drops, and their heavy bodies make it hard for them to move agilely.

In the Dragon Race hierarchy, aside from Golden and Silver Dragons, there are also Black, Red, Blue, Green, and other strong specimens that can exterminate stars solo, and every one of them is a magic master.

Meanwhile, the White Dragon's best ice attribute magic is less refined compared to what humans can do. While the White Dragon is still pondering whether ice cones or ice spears fly faster, the human Ice Mage has already mastered the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

In such a long-standing species, possessing Hawking-esque highly developed cerebellums, Ireixis Sundace emerged as an anomaly.

How best to describe the shock?

It's as if Xing Daorong crossed five passes and vanquished six generals, defeating the Five Tiger Generals plus Lu Bu along the way.

"This is rather strange, timeline-wise I should have been more or less accurate. By now Ireixis should have risen to fame just as in later generations."

Li Aozi couldn't figure out the reason.

Regarding Dragon Island, living NPCs, plot and life details, he's indeed not very familiar.

He's more familiar with their uses and functions after death.

"Oh well, perhaps it's my early involvement that made Ireixis, this great traitor, choose to go incognito – the butterfly effect, it's understandable."

Li Aozi couldn't understand, so he simply stopped pondering.

The world changes rapidly, use what you know to tackle what you don't.

The more he understood Earthlings' thoughts, the more Li Aozi revered these daunting creatures.

To Starry Abyss, Earthlings count as beings superior in every aspect compared to Starry Abyss's inhabitants. They possess lofty philosophical thought and understand how to integrate it into life and warfare.

Such a species is an excellent species.

Precisely because of their excellence, they significantly threaten the living space of all Starry Abyss species.

One must study them carefully, but they must also be completely annihilated.

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