Chapter 42: You humans are such black-hearted scoundrels

Useless Prophet: "So... you don't actually know why humans pushed you off your original orbit?"
Wandering Earth: "Why the hell should I know? I've been living here for billions of years! What right do they have to push me away? No reason justifies this."
Queen of the Snake-People: "How many years?"
Little Spider: "To be precise, it should be 4.6 billion years!"
Queen of the Snake-People: "The newcomer has a lifespan of 4.6 billion years? Doesn't that make you even older than Immortal-大人?"
Wandering Earth: "Not really. In fact, ever since I awakened my consciousness, less than a century has passed, and I spent most of that time sleeping."
Wandering Earth: "@Useless Prophet, by the way, why did you say humans pushed me off my original orbit?"
Queen of the Snake-People: "Didn't she mention it before? The sun in your world is about to be destroyed. Humans are afraid you'll perish along with the sun, so they specially saved you by pushing you out of your established orbit."
Wandering Earth: "No, what does the sun's destruction have to do with them? Even if the sun destroys me, I'm fine with it! If humans want to run, let them run. What's the meaning of this uninvited sentimentality of dragging me along?"
Useless Prophet: "Uh... is that really uninvited sentimentality?"
Wandering Earth: "Isn't it? I don't need them to save me. They're afraid of death themselves, and they hide behind the noble excuse of bringing me along. In reality, isn't it just because I can protect them on the journey? Without me, given the rate at which humans multiply, even if they gutted me to build spacecraft, they couldn't possibly carry many people."
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Nantian Gate.
Jiang Wang, who was slacking off, was left completely speechless by Wandering Earth's remarks.
Although her words sounded a bit heartless, they were unexpectedly very logical.
Indeed.
When humans took Earth and fled, calling it bringing the little blue ball along sounded nice.
In reality, wasn't it because without bringing the little blue ball, humans could hardly survive in the vast, endless starry sky?
As for building spacecraft—to put it bluntly, even if humans hollowed out the Earth and integrated all the resources of nearby planets, the ships they built would still pale in comparison to the Earth itself.
Therefore, Wandering Earth was actually right.
Humans were just a selfish race, dragging her away without her consent!
The little blue ball must have been utterly bewildered: she woke up from a nap, shivering from the cold, only to find a bunch of ants on her back installing countless rocket boosters, shoving her away from her original orbit toward some completely unknown destination.
If Jiang Wang and the little blue ball swapped places, he would want to curse too!

However, this didn't have much to do with him.
The humans on Wandering Earth were just trying to survive. No matter how much the little blue ball cursed them, she couldn't stop them from fighting to stay alive.
In fact, in a certain year in the future, after the steadfast Earth faction of five,000 people was executed by rebels, the originally established Wandering Earth project would essentially be declared bankrupt.
If a helium flash hadn't happened to the sun at that exact moment, the Earth would still have been pushed back to its original position.
Humans were never a truly united race. If Wandering Earth really wanted to make humans stop, she could simply manifest herself and offer them two brand-new choices, and the race would immediately tear into each other with passionate enthusiasm. By then, any Wandering Earth project would be worth less than scrap paper.
Therefore, regarding Wandering Earth's question, Jiang Wang gave her a simple, direct answer.
Guardian of Nantian Gate: "@Wandering Earth, if you want humans to stop, just proactively tell them there is a way to survive even if they stop."
Wandering Earth: "Never mind then, they're about to push me right next to Big Brother Jupiter! Big Brother Jupiter... I have a bad feeling something terrible is going to happen."
Useless Prophet: "Ah, you've already reached the vicinity of Jupiter?"
Queen of the Snake-People: "What on earth are you guys talking about? Have some consideration for us, you jerk of a prophet."
Useless Prophet uploaded the memory copy of "Wandering Earth".
Useless Prophet: "The memory copy has been uploaded. If you don't understand anything in the future, I'll just upload the memory copy directly! Of course, provided you're willing."
Queen of the Snake-People downloaded the memory copy.
Little Spider downloaded the memory copy.
Old Celestial Master downloaded the memory copy.
Lin, My Lin downloaded the memory copy.
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The Mosquito's Nemesis downloaded the memory copy.
The Mosquito's Nemesis: "The prophet has this feature too? I can use this to kill time when I'm bored from now on."
Queen of the Snake-People: "As long as you don't upload memory copies related to me, anything else is fine. I'm going to go take a look, talk to you later."
The chat group quickly fell silent.
Jiang Wang also downloaded a copy and began watching it again.

However, after watching for just a short while, he stopped continuing because he had already seen all of this.
In the quiet chat group, Hu Liena started a live broadcast out of nowhere.
She didn't remind the group members in the chat this time, as if she had opened the stream casually.
Jiang Wang happened to have nothing to do, so he dropped in to take a look.
You wouldn't believe it without seeing it, and seeing it gave him quite a start.
Behind Hu Liena, a six-tailed demon fox stared haughtily at several soul masters in front of her. Every single one of those soul masters possessed nine soul rings!
Nine soul rings symbolized that every single soul master present was a powerful Titled Douluo.
Yet, these very powerful Titled Douluo were enduring immense pressure right before Hu Liena.
The pressure didn't come from Hu Liena herself, but from her martial soul—the six-tailed demon fox martial soul adorned with a blood-red hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
The Pope stood on Hu Liena's side without making a move, seemingly training her apprentice to handle the current situation.
Not far from them, bolts of lightning crashed irregularly from the vault of the sky, viciously striking the foundations of the Spirit Hall.
Flash after flash of thunder left the entire Spirit Hall looking battered and dilapidated.
If the area near the Pope's Palace weren't guarded by mysterious forces, it probably would have been reduced to a pile of rubble under the attack of the purple lightning.
Seeing Jiang Wang enter the live broadcast room, Hu Liena—who had appeared calm and composed in front of several Titled Douluo—suddenly shivered. "Immortal-大人, I am not bullying them."
Seeing Hu Liena trembling all over, Jiang Wang was baffled.
It took him quite a while to realize what had happened.
The Pope must have been helping Hu Liena adapt to her current status.
Having consumed that fox elixir, Hu Liena's martial soul had evolved, and she now possessed a hundred-thousand-year soul ring. Barring any accidents, she was practically lined up to be the next Pope.
Those Titled Douluo were likely the Pope's die-hard loyalists.
The Pope made Hu Liena display her martial soul and soul rings, firstly to establish Hu Liena's identity, and secondly to use the formidable power Hu Liena had attained to awe her loyal supporters.