Chapter 355

"Hao Qi looked at the Earthlings with eyes full of expectation." Yet these Earthlings remained silent for a long time. Hao Qi had already explained the situation very clearly: this Black Sea had been liberated once before, but less than ten years after the liberators left, these slaves had cheered and welcomed their slave owners right back. The crucial point was not that the slave owners had used overwhelming force to suppress them, but that the slaves had done so of their own free will. This kind of mindset was completely incomprehensible to the Earthlings. If they had to analyze it rationally, the issue was quite similar to the XZ problem from their memories of Earth. Even while living peaceful and prosperous lives, people of that ethnic group had actually appeared who praised and cheered for the serfdom system—though the vast majority of their ancestors had been serfs—and they had even attempted to pull off some kind of independence movement to achieve that ideal, allowing their slave owners to return and rule over them once again... This was an extremely bizarre phenomenon, entirely beyond the grasp of a normal person. Just like the current problem in the Black Sea, even if these outsiders launched another revolution and purged the existing slave hierarchy, the slaves would likely resent the liberators instead, because they had taken their masters away from them.