Chapter 455: Chapter 302: Heroes Rising Together, Returning to Ordinary, and Becoming Great Againl
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He was just a reservist and not even formally enlisted. Yet he could still access such heavy and comprehensive news so casually, which caught him by surprise.
Many names he was familiar with were on the list, almost encompassing the entire top-level structure of the human camp last time.
Almost everyone was there; hardly any were missing—practically a complete list.
From the slight, one could perceive the significant, and through the spots, one could know the leopard.
This government’s ability to make information transparent to such an extreme degree indicates that humanity does not need to guard against anyone or any force within.
Administrators, military leaders, scientific leaders, production leaders, production line workers, and ordinary people from all walks of life have been involved in the common cause of civilization.
As for the government’s motivation in releasing this information, it’s not difficult to guess. They certainly wanted to ignite people’s competitive spirit and motivate everyone to strive to improve their genetic awakening degree through this comprehensive list, which can only be supported by advanced information technology.
Not everyone is a born strongman who knows how to motivate themselves.
A vast majority of ordinary people usually need to set a specific chasing target to keep working hard.
It could be to obtain a particular item, a relationship, or a sense of validation.
When material civilization can’t fully meet everyone’s needs and people’s life quality differs significantly, ordinary people’s goals typically revolve around material things – houses, cars, money, luxury goods, and so on.
However, the root of all these material satisfactions ultimately lies in psychological satisfaction.
When technology is highly developed, productivity is abundant, and material civilization fully satisfies life’s requirements—when the food, convenient transportation, healthcare, and children’s education provided to beggars are not much different from those of the wealthy—spiritual needs will gradually take precedence.
Eventually, the goal of striving will focus entirely on spiritual pursuits, shifting from obtaining wealth and better quality of life to attaining inner fulfillment and living a regretless life.
The approval of others, self-approval, and family approval will all become sources of personal satisfaction, reinforcing the meaning of existence and endeavor.
This list simplifies the ways for people to achieve satisfaction.
An increase in ranking can bring significant satisfaction and prestige amongst peers.
Even if one’s talent limits their ranking, seeing one’s gene awakening degree improving by bits can be pleasing and bring pride in social settings, as long as they compare not with others but with their past selves.
In a way, this reflects humanity’s genetic pursuit of “vanity.”
But an improvement in gene awakening degree can lead to stronger work abilities, better completion of tasks, and more significant contributions to civilization, which may increase the hope of winning the inevitable war.
This vanity is based on the actual ability to create value, turning into a real sense of honor, or “substantial honor.”
Of course, there are still many people who can’t break through their talent boundaries despite their efforts and are plunged into despair, with their psychological state and quality of life falling catastrophically. They either voluntarily or are forced to go to Lost City No. 1, No. 2, No. 3… No. 108.
These people are pitiable, but their loss is bearable for civilization as a whole.
The self-elimination of weak genes is also one of the driving forces for civilization’s progress.
Harrison Clark skimmed over the simple ranking list and the basic epochal news, and quickly grasped their meaning and filled in the gaps in his understanding.
He didn’t have much sympathy for those who had eliminated themselves.
He’s no longer an overly righteous person and has grown to appreciate the complexity and wonder of humanity’s diverse nature.
He could face the dark side of this world calmly.
With the social structure now being so fair, there was not much that could be done for those who still couldn’t climb up.
At the same time, Harrison Clark happily realized another fact: since the government used the gene awakening degree as an index to encourage people, he could predict that there must be a new method of continuously improving individual awakening degrees.
And it wouldn’t be a one-time thing, but rather a sustained new training approach.
To what extent could it be sustained?
With 170-year-old Mr. Connor ranking highly and two men over 210 years old in the top hundred, one can catch a glimpse of it.
After having a hearty meal with his comrades in the canteen and some casual chit-chat, Harrison Clark returned to his single room first.
He reopened the awakening degree list and scanned through the brief personal information of the idol-level “strong” one by one.
Clark stood out and led by a considerable margin over the second place.
Needham Brown no longer led the troops, but his military rank reached lieutenant general. His legendary combat strength made him a well-deserved invincible man in the world.
Needham Brown’s life was highly legendary.
He matured early, progressing rapidly in his childhood. At eight, he stepped over the 35% awakening-degree threshold and was hailed as a super-genius who could lead the era when war came.
However, no one expected that when he turned ten, he would fall to rock bottom and self-eliminate to Lost City No. 1, having had no progress for two years.
Needham had once been as dazzling as his downfall was drastic in Lost City.
The ten-year-old Needham, who had completely lost his fighting spirit, was a good fighter but did not know how to resist even when bullied by losers in Lost City.
The military and political leaders of that time sighed and believed that his life wouldn’t amount to much. When war came, they planned to take him out and send him to the army as an ordinary Galaxy Warrior..