**Chapter 2195: Is the World Wrong?**
Yakeli was dumbfounded. He just... let me out?
Why isn't he playing by the rules?
I just finished my big threats, so are we fighting or not? If we fight, I'll definitely be crushed by Chong Feiyu!
If I don't fight, won't I lose face?
At this moment, Yakeli knelt on the ground, the air thick with awkwardness!
*I'll just spare him for now. Why bother with meaningless actions?*
*Besides, I'm weak right now. This isn't a good time to start a fight.*
*It's not that I'm a coward, I'm just assessing the situation!*
And that mosaic guy...
So it was Jiangnan who let me out last time too, using me as a pawn.
At that thought, Yakeli's face twisted with anger again.
"What's the deal now? Why did you let me out again? I'm not your tool!"
"You want me to fight? Well, I won't!"
Jiangnan hugged his shoulders and grinned. Bringing Chong Feiyu along was definitely the right call. A big fist really does the trick!
See? They *can* communicate!
(˶‾᷄↼‾᷅) "Don't get me wrong. I let you out this time because I have something to discuss with you. I'm wondering... are you interested in getting out of here?"
Yakeli's eyes narrowed. "Out? Out of the Minghe Star Domain? Hah! You? Stop joking around with me!"
"Do you think you can handle Youming? Besides, Youming would never let me out! Don't tell me you just want to use my power again for some shady purpose."
"I've been used by you once already. I won't fall into the same trap twice. You guys can get the hell out of here as fast as you came!"
As he spoke, he dragged his weary, depleted body to the wall, leaned against it, and sat down casually, looking at Jiangnan with utter disdain.
Jiangnan chuckled. "Don't flatter yourself. If I want to break out of prison, I don't need your help."
"And your strength isn't worth a damn anyway. I'm just asking if you want to come with me."
Yakeli squinted, and a blood-red eye suddenly split open in the center of his forehead, staring at Jiangnan. For some reason, Jiangnan felt as if he had been seen through.
He had felt this same sensation when facing Jian Ge.
A smirk curled at the corner of Yakeli's mouth.
(๑¯ิٹ¯ิ) "Oh? Looks like you're serious. Together? Of course, together!"
"If I can get out, who would want to stay locked up in here? If you can get me out, then everything from before is forgiven."
*If I can get out, no one will ever catch me again. Then I'll kill to my heart's content!*
Jiangnan smiled. (⌒◡⌒๑) "Of course! But letting you out isn't without conditions. Agree, and I'll take you with me."
Yakeli raised an eyebrow with interest.
(๑◔д◔ิ) "Oh? Go on."
Jiangnan held up a finger.
☝(¯ิ⇀¯ิ๑) "Listen to me. You can't kill people indiscriminately. What I allow you to do, you can do. What I forbid, you cannot do."
Yakeli was taken aback, then his gaze turned cold, but he grinned nonetheless.
"Fine? What's so hard about that? As long as you can get me out, I'll listen to you. You'd be my benefactor, right?"
Jiangnan's smile didn't waver, but two veins bulged on his forehead.
(ꐦ°᷄◡°᷅) "Feiyu!"
Receiving Jiangnan's permission, Chong Feiyu grinned excitedly. She rushed over, covered Yakeli's face with her small hand, and slammed his head hard against the wall.
*Boom!*
Yakeli's head was instantly driven into the wall, while Chong Feiyu's other hand rained down a flurry of furious little punches, beating Yakeli until bits of him chipped off.
(ꐦ°᷄д°᷅) "How dare you speak to my consort like that? Are you getting too big for your britches?"
She kept hitting as she spoke.
Jiangnan crouched in front of Yakeli, still smiling.
(⌒_⌒ꐦ) "Are you messing with me? Honestly, I don't have the patience to waste time with you here."
"You know that's not the answer I want. Think carefully before you answer me."
"Feiyu! Don't stop until I say so!"
The thumping sounds continued without pause. Jiangnan squinted. If he believed Yakeli's verbal promise, he'd be a fool.
If he let Yakeli out, who knows what chaos he'd cause?
Yakeli was beaten until his body cracked, but he didn't resist. Instead, he laughed maniacally.
"You're all the same! Other than this, what else can you do to me? You talk a good game about taking me out, but you just want to use my strength, turn me into a blade in your hand!"
"Silicon did it! Youming did it! And now you're doing it too! You want me to be your dog? Screw that! I, Yakeli, only swing my blade for myself! I will never bow to anyone!"
"If you let me out, I'll kill! Kill until I die, or until the world is destroyed! Hahaha! Come on! Beat me to death!"
Chong Feiyu's eyes widened. *You're asking for it?* A few heavy punches broke Yakeli's arms and legs. His whole body was covered in cracks, as if he was about to shatter at any moment.
But Jiangnan patted Chong Feiyu on the head, signaling her to stop.
Yakeli coughed violently, but a stubborn light burned in his blood-red eyes.
Jiangnan smiled. "Let's cut to the chase. What do you want? I'll give it to you. Don't be afraid to say it. I can afford it."
Yakeli burst into manic laughter, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, laughing until his body split apart.
"You can afford it? What can you give? Stop joking! I want to reshape this twisted world! I want to see no more slave races under this starry sky! I want the world to become what I dream of!"
"Can you do that? You can't do a damn thing! You're no different from those who wanted to use me as a blade! Don't tell me you can! No one can! This world is already broken! Beyond repair! It can only be destroyed! Destruction is a new beginning!"
"So I will kill! Kill every living thing! Kill until I die! Hahahaha!"
Yakeli laughed hysterically, but Jiangnan heard a profound sadness beneath his laughter.
Chong Feiyu wiped her sweat, tugged at Jiangnan's sleeve, and said disgustedly:
(٥•᷄﹏•᷅) "Do we really have to take this subordinate? His brain seems seriously messed up..."
Wang Youzhi covered his face. (ﾉ)´-﹏-) "The one beyond saving is probably him, right?"
Damon could still be persuaded, but Yakeli was too deep in the abyss.
Yet Jiangnan looked at Yakeli, a suppressed excitement building in his eyes.
(⌒ᗜ⌒〃) "Ahahahaha!"
Suddenly, Jiangnan also burst into laughter, tilting his head back.
The sudden outburst startled Chong Feiyu and Wang Youzhi, both staring at Jiangnan in horror.
"(º口º*)꒪ᗜ꒪‧̣̥̇)
Why is *he* laughing too?
Does insanity spread?
Yakeli stopped laughing, his face twisted with rage as he glared at Jiangnan.
"What are you laughing at? Are you mocking me? What right do you have to laugh at me? Try laughing at me one more time!"
"I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"
Jiangnan laughed so hard he had tears in his eyes. He waved his hand and said:
"Don't be mad. I just haven't met someone like you in a long time. Your ideas are naive enough!"
Yakeli's eyes widened. "You—"
Jiangnan grinned. "Naive, yes. But worth fighting for. The world really does lack idealists like you. And it lacks people willing to act on their ideals."
"But your methods... in today's starry sky, they simply won't work."
"I can tell you with absolute certainty: the world you want, I can give it to you."
Yakeli scoffed. "Bullshit! You're feeding me empty promises! How can you say you can give it? Based on what?"
Jiangnan's smile gradually faded. "Because what you said... is also the world *I* want."
Yakeli froze, staring at Jiangnan in disbelief.
Σ(°△°|||) "You... you want it too?"
Jiangnan nodded. "Of course. I don't know how long you've been locked up here, or if you know the current situation of humanity."
"But I can tell you: humanity once almost had its home planet developed into a Star Ruins. My elders were branded with the mark of slavery and ultimately died from it. I hate this system."
"But humanity pulled through, joined the Starry Sky Sequence, but at a cost that can never be repaid."
"I once fantasized: if this damned slave system didn't exist, and the brilliant starry sky was all free, would none of this have happened?"
Yakeli looked at Jiangnan in shock. Humanity had almost been developed into a slave race?
Compared to the Jiyue Clan, humanity had been lucky.
Jiangnan continued: "I once attended an auction and witnessed the sale of slave races firsthand. At that moment, I wondered: why are people's hearts so cold?"
"I couldn't change the outcome with my limited power, and I couldn't save that batch of sub-humans. But at that time, I thought: maybe this world is broken, wrong, heading in the wrong direction?"
"Countless lives, diverse races, should not be treated this way. A hundred flowers blooming, each competing for beauty, a thousand peaks vying for glory. Different civilizations colliding and merging, pushing the starry sky civilization to new heights."
"Maybe that is the right path. Weak races should not be completely eradicated or enslaved. They should have the rights that belong to them."
"Survival of the fittest is the law of the starry sky. But does the existence of the slave system stifle too many possibilities?"
Yakeli said excitedly: "Yes! That's exactly it! The slave system is wrong! It shouldn't exist!"
Jiangnan said calmly: "Undeniable. But the current slave system is also the result of a long evolution of the starry sky. It has its own reasons."
"Once the slave system is abolished, all races will develop freely. For resources and interests, big fish will naturally eat small fish. Strong clans will oppress weak clans. Massacres, plunder, war, disorderly chaos. Eventually, everything returns to silence."
"New rules that maintain peaceful development will emerge. But what about those small fish? Either dead, enslaved, or exploited for their value. It's just a new cycle."
"Indeed, the slave system is not desirable. It's a cancer on the starry sky world. But why did it appear? Have you ever thought about that? Why did the world become the way you hate? Is it really the world that is wrong?"
Yakeli stared blankly at Jiangnan, his entire body frozen. He had never thought about these things.