Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 699: Unfair

"What business do you have with him?" Varyn asked.

Alex smiled. He didn’t care about the dead man. What he wanted was who was really behind this plot, and what the goal was.

He truly wondered if it was really just to make money.

"I recently bought a business here," Alex said. "It seems your nephew did quite a bit of damage to it."

Varyn went silent for a moment.

"How about this," Varyn said.

"I don’t want to fight with you. Give me some time, and I will return all the money."

Alex laughed.

Beatrice’s life was destroyed. She barely stayed afloat, to the point she had to sell their family business.

Her father, shocked by the scam, had grown older quickly. Now he needed a lot of rest.

He was in no condition to work at all.

If not because he cultivated, he would probably already be dead from a heart attack.

Yet here he was, with one phone call, and the people who scammed them were already offering to pay it all back.

Without power, a person truly had no value at all.

Alex sighed.

He had seen it too many times, in too many places.

The weak got bullied, while the strong got what they wanted.

A poor man gets robbed, and the police tell him to file paperwork and wait. Months pass, yet nothing happens.

The thief spends the money and moves on.

A rich man gets robbed, and suddenly there are cameras, witnesses, and a lot of attention.

The same police station. The same laws.

But the response is different. Not because justice is different, but because the person is.

The same thing happened with companies.

A small shop gets copied by a bigger chain, and the owner gets told, "Go to court."

But court costs money, time, and connections. They would go bankrupt before the first hearing even happens.

A big company gets copied, and the copy disappears overnight. The suppliers cancel.

The landlord suddenly checks contracts. The bank suddenly freezes loans. It looks like the system worked.

In reality, someone with influence made a few calls.

Even online it was the same.

A normal person gets harassed or smeared, and people just Ignore it.

The rumor spreads anyway. Employers see it. Their family see it. Their name gets ruined.

A public figure gets smeared, and their team threatens lawsuits, platforms get contacted, posts get removed, and accounts vanish.

The truth matters less than Influence.

He truly wondered if it was really just to make money.

Because money was only one part of it. Money was what they took. Power was what they after.

If you have no power, the world teaches you to know your places.

It tells you to endure, to be "reasonable," to accept that things were unfair.

If you have power, the unfairness become your friend. Everything becomes flexible.

People suddenly remember manners. The system suddenly worked.

Alex knew no matter how much he tried to make things fair, this was something he would never be able to change completely.

This action came from the basic human instinct to prioritize oneself over others.

People didn’t want trouble. They didn’t want risk.

They didn’t want to stand next to someone falling, because they were scared they would get pulled down too.

Of course, he knew not everyone was like this.

For example, his father and mother always did their best to give opportunities to those less fortunate.

They gave people second chances when nobody else would.

But even with their wealth and power, they could only help so much.

By numbers, it was a lot of people.

But compared to the total number of people who lived unfairly, it was nothing.

In most cases, this was inevitable.

Competition pushed society forward, so it could improve.

People fought to rise, and that struggle forced progress.

Better technology.

But with it also came selfish people who used their power to sabotage others so they couldn’t rise.

He had seen it in simple ways too.

A qualified worker gets blocked because he refused to flatter a manager.

A talented student loses an opportunity because someone else’s father made a call.

A whistleblower gets fired for "made up reasons" right after speaking up.

Everything gets dressed up with nice wrapping, but the reality stayed the same.

This was where government and law should regulate.

Unfortunately, even government and law were made by those selfish people.

Not all of them, but enough.

Enough that rules where written with loopholes.

Enough that enforcement could be selective.

Enough that punishment could be delayed until it didn’t matter anymore.

People who truly deserved to be leaders tried their best to avoid it, because they knew the responsibility that came with the position.

They knew if they took the seat, they would make enemies. They would get targeted.

They would have to compromise every day just to keep the system running.

This ended up leaving only selfish people who wanted to exploit others to take those positions.

They didn’t fear the responsibility. They wanted the control that came with it.

At least now, with the rise of power and immortality, Alex would strive to create a system that at the very least gave equal opportunity to everyone.

That was also why he planned to create the game that would select people based on their true nature.

"A time?" Alex said. "Why would I give you time, Varyn?"

"You may feel your position gives you some power, but in my eyes it barely does anything."

"Now I ask you this. What’s stopping me from coming to your house today and taking what I want?"

For people like this, Alex didn’t have any shred of pity.

These were parasites he hated the most.

Even though he understood why and how, that didn’t mean he accepted them.

They were the minority of people responsible for the majority of people’s suffering.

While others were satisfied just living their lives without hassle, these people never felt satisfied.

A good meal, a vacation, building a family. People like that could stop.

People like Varyn couldn’t.

They always wanted more, sought more, destroyed more.

A situation born from competition that pushed those with the most desire forward.

"Don’t underestimate my family, Sir Edward," Varyn said. "I’m sure General Kael doesn’t want us to break into a huge conflict now that the election is near."

Alex grinned. "I see. So you back the other side."