Horizon of Darkness

"There are some decent guys among these bugs, surprisingly," Dorobo observed as Davalia, with a disgruntled expression, tried to fix her torn stockings and t-shirt. "But rest in peace. You can only blame the degenerates who infiltrated your ranks for your cruel death. Apparently, this is how any community eventually perishes – at one point, degeneration encounters an insurmountable external factor that sweeps away this garbage like a landslide." Although Zeikin, a graduate economist from a regional university, wasn't particularly well-versed in sociology, nor did he have the relevant historical experience of Seetria, he managed to piece together a general picture of the development of a society of living beings from individual stories and fragmented mentions by Lin and Henry about the extremely comfortable world they came from, and brilliantly applied it to the situation they were in. Mostly out of boredom – while the others were rummaging through the miners' corpses, tying their shoelaces, and preparing to go to the next hall.