Golden Gallon Port.
A drizzle washed away the dust on the street, and the dark red square bricks rose with a few mist, making the harbor, which had not yet fully shined, hazy in the fog.
On the cargo ship beside the dock, sailors were cleaning the deck, and merchants in silk robes were checking with the port officials about the goods that needed to be handed over to the warehouse.
After a brief period of order vacuum, the order of this port has been restored, and at least the order of this area of the port has been basically restored.
Institutions including the Guard Bureau, fire station, port bureau, clinics, courts and other institutions have re-performed their work under the compulsory force of the Iron Man.
After all, having a job that can be done and a salary that can be received is much more comfortable than squatting in a warehouse where there is not even a bed.
The Dolphin nuclear-powered submarine docked at the dock again, and this time it not only brought supplies from the French Fries Port, but also researchers from the scientific research team.
Previously, players of the Burning Corps seized a large number of relics left during the prosperity period in the Governor's Palace and needed to be valuated, and the Scientific Research Group was the only unit that was interested in these holy relics and could legally acquire them from players.
Sometimes Fang Chang couldn't help but think about it with malicious intentions. Will these guys deliberately lower the price by relying on the franchise in their hands?
But even if the price is lowered, he actually has no choice.
These loots are submitted as mission props and are not freely bought and sold.
No matter how little he gave, he could only accept it.
However, the quote given by this broad-minded researcher did not disappoint him, and it was even more high than he expected.
…A total of 9.17 million silver coins.
Finally, the photo registration for the last loot was completed. The researcher stretched out his index finger and tapped twice on the expanded holographic screen to archive the collected data.
hiss……
Fang Chang, who was standing aside, heard it and couldn't help but take a breath of the wet air.The researcher happened to hear it and then cast a questioning look at him.
What's wrong?
Hiding the secret joy on his face, he talked seriously nonsense.
Nothing...I mean, this is too little. We have used a lot of effort to get these things. Can we get more?
The researcher teased.
We have a strict set of calculation formulas and audit procedures for unplanned recycling projects. No matter how much effort you spend, it will not affect their added value. I advise you to give up.
OK
Fang Chang gave up decisively.
This person's name is Han Mingyue, and he is a small popsicle recovered from the ruins of the Great Desert by the Thorn Corps stationed in the Kaituocheng area.
The reason why it is called a little popsicle is not about her age, but the time displayed in the dormant pod is 81 years or less than a century.
The background information about her is five pages on the official website, and is mainly edited by players active in the Kaituocheng area.
Fang Chang took a quick look and found that the key information extracted was about three lines.
She was once a resident of the abandoned Shelter No. 288.
Professional data repair and archive sorting.
Perhaps influenced by Rama, the commander of the Thorn Corps, she is currently mainly engaged in research on the sociology of the Bharat Province.
Whether it is the Bharat Province or the sociology direction itself, it is a relatively unpopular field in the scientific research team.
However, it is precisely because of this that, as one of the few talents in this field who can bear heavy responsibilities, Yin Fang still sent her here even though he had little experience.
Turning his eyes back to the loot piled up in front of him, Han Mingyue stretched out her glove-wearing right hand and picked up a silver-gray memory card from the shelf.
That memory card is only the size of a thumb.
A strong light of interest flashed in her eyes.
...But to be honest, I didn't expect you to find this thing.
Fang Chang stared at her fingertips and looked at it. The thing looked like a memory card, and was placed with other colorful game cards on the cover.
Is there anything special about this card?
More than just special!Han Mingyue said happily, "Let me say that, the project I am working on is just a puzzle... About the origin of the Thousand Tribes and Thousand Gods."
Is it derived from the Thousand Gods of the Thousand Peoples?!
A strong color of interest suddenly appeared in Fang Chang's eyes, and he immediately said.
I would like to hear the details.
Han Mingyue did not speak, but took out a holographic computer pen, connected it to the expansion interface, and plugged the memory card that was a little old.
Looking at the light blue holographic beam with expectation, Fang Chang originally thought he would see something surprising, but he didn't expect that what caught his eye was a strong yak.
The yak was running, its strong muscles motivated the breath of life, and there was rolling smoke and dust floating beside it, but the land under its feet could not be seen.
At this time, the camera began to move farther ahead of it, gradually revealing the herd of cattle behind it and the endless grassland.
Then, the powerful and low and convincing broadcasting cavity began to sound.
On the grasslands on the Yongliu River, the most deadly thing is not the claws of the hyena and the teeth of the lion, but the running herd of cattle.Even the most ferocious beasts have to retreat when they meet them...
To be honest, as a documentary, these short shots are quite shocking, and the narration is also considered to be fair.
Especially considering that these images may have been displayed by immersive virtual reality devices two hundred years ago, the actual expressiveness may be more shocking than the holographic projection of third-person perspectives.
But……
What does this have to do with the Thousand Clans and Thousand Gods?
Fang Chang was a little confused.
Standing next to him, Han Mingyue stared at the flickering holographic light and shadow, as if she was staring at a cultural relic.
The original image of "The Mystery of Nature: Yak Chapter"... Although the data is still a bit lost, it is already the most complete memory card we can find at present. It is really a pity that it can save so well!Please try to find more places like this in the future.
I can, if conditions permit... Fang Chang couldn't help asking because of the name of the documentary, Lei's outside and inside, but I don't quite understand... What's the relationship between this "animal world" and the thousands of tribes and gods?
Han Mingyue narrowed her eyes slightly and said with a smile
The herd of cows running under the scorching sun... Don't you think this looks familiar?
Fang Chang was slightly stunned and blurted out.
...The sun-carrying cattle.
Han Mingyue gave him a look of praise.
You have a high level of understanding.
Damn it?!
Fang Chang was stunned.
But……
Looking at his expression of wanting to speak but stopping, Han Mingyue could guess what he was thinking without asking, so she smiled and said.
You want to ask how popular science documentaries became the origin of thousands of tribes and gods, right?
Fang Chang nodded with a strange expression.
Maybe my imagination is not enough, and I really can't imagine this process completely...
This is actually not difficult to understand. You can understand it by abstracting the 'holographic cassette' into 'thing that knowledge and experience cannot explain'.
Looking at Fang Chang still with confusion on her face, she paused for a moment and continued.
In ancient times, a forest fire or a lightning bolt was enough to make an ape man of great intelligence or good luck become a prophet or priest of the tribe.And when people gradually mastered the ability to make fire and lost awe of the flames that burned all things, prophets, priests, those who guarded the fire, etc.... these professions that were given divine meanings slowly walked out of the center of the historical stage.
Fang Chang frowned slightly and said after thinking for a moment.
You mean, someone uses these popular science images, such as blue jackets, etc.... They package themselves into characters like priests or prophets, bewitching survivors on this land.
It was not surprising that he would think so, Han Mingyue said in a gentle tone.
This is a relatively utilitarian interpretation, and of course this possibility is not ruled out, but the existing evidence tends to be another completely opposite explanation.
...What explanation.
This is not a deliberate act by someone, but a group formed unconsciously and spontaneously in the long-term social evolution process.
Fang Chang was slightly stunned.
Spontaneous formation?
That's right.
Han Mingyue nodded slowly, looked at the holographic video that was playing intermittently, and continued.
A work of art can be done by one or several people, but a culture that is widely recognized is usually formed spontaneously during social evolution.If you want to figure out the origin of the "Thousand Tribes and Thousand Gods" in the Bharat Province, you must start with the survivors who first escaped to this land.
Fang Chang asked in confusion.
Are there no native survivors on this land?
Han Mingyue was stunned for a moment and looked at him strangely.
Are you kidding?This is an ecological reserve in the era of prosperity... Except for a small number of tourism practitioners and scientific research personnel, how could there be local survivors? Would you like to sleep with lions and bisons?
Fang Chang: ...?
Looking at Fang Chang who knew nothing, Han Mingyue sighed, turned off the Animal World that was being screened, and spoke slowly.
It seems that I have to start with the most basic part...
……
The biggest difference between the prosperity era and the old era is not only reflected in the generational differences between science and technology, but also in all aspects such as the way of production and life to the concept of thought and culture, which have undergone earth-shaking changes in the old era.
The most typical one is administrative division.
Thanks to the free migration of the population, the extensive development of outer space and the global national integration, people's feelings for the land are no longer as strong as those of the old times. They recognize the identity of human beings more than their own bloodlines, and even began to study whether to give the honor of being born to AI with social attributes.
People living on this planet are fully prepared to welcome the future, and they are only one FTL engine away from moving towards the starry sky with their feet.
Against this background, out of the pursuit of land resource allocation efficiency, the League of People's Republic of China abolished the administrative divisions of the old era in the early days of the prosperity era and replaced them with more local conditions.
For example, Luoxia Province is the product of this encirclement movement.
Once a vast desert, it was transformed by seawater desalination devices and endless energy into farmland that satisfies the stomach and taste buds of most people around the world.
The situation in the Bharat Province is similar, except that its planning direction is completely opposite to that of the Luoxia Province, which was once an unmanned land.
In the old era when the League of People was not established, there was once the world's largest slum, and the difference between the rich and the poor was the largest in the world.
If Luoxia Province is an uncultivated wasteland, then the Brahma Province is a ruined land that has been ruined by the locals.
It is precisely because of this that when the People's Federation, which had been struggling and twists and turns, was finally established, and the four major industrial zones and space elevator projects in the central Central China continent began to work, and the region immediately launched a long-lasting and unprecedented population migration movement.
A large number of poor people left their poor homes in pursuit of a better life. They took the maglev train one after another to cross the Zhuobar Mountains, heading to the dreamland in the central mainland, and worked with immigrants from other administrative divisions to complete the miracle in the history of the People's Federation, a super-large urban agglomeration built around a space elevator.
In contrast, under the influence of the population siphon effect, the Bharat Province ushered in a huge de-urbanization movement.
In fact, similar situations do not only happen in the Bharat Province, but the performance here looks even more amazing in macro data due to many historical problems.
According to the data available, by the middle of the prosperity era, the population of the entire Bharat province was only 03% of the end of the old era, which was in sharp contrast with the eastern and western provinces that still retained a large number of urban agglomerations that could produce positive economic effects.
Considering that instead of paying high operation and maintenance costs for public facilities with extremely low usage rates in the local area and allowing locals to live in priceless houses, it is better to give them a sum of money and a train ticket to move to the central urban agglomeration to enjoy life.
The People's Federation simply set up the Bharat Province as an ecological reserve, and took the banner of not only establishing a man's heaven, but also an animal's heaven. With the intervention of administrative forces, we actively fast-forward this unprecedented de-urbanization movement to the end.
By the middle and late period of the prosperity era, the de-urbanization movement in the Bharat Province had ended early with the active intervention of the People's Federation. There were only less than 50,000 people left on the three million square kilometers of land, and mainly tourism practitioners and researchers.
After demolishing most of the old urban buildings and shacks, the People's Federation returned this Fengshui treasure land across the three temperature zones of the tropical, subtropical and northern temperate zone to nature, and only a small number of cultural sites, tourist areas, self-driving tour routes and scientific research facilities were retained.
The magnetic levitation tracks that were once built for population migration movement have been demolished one after another as the population migration targets are completed, leaving only a small number of underground lines that do not hinder the migration of wild animals.
It's like a large safari.
It had been demolished long before entering the Wasteland Era...
After briefly summarizing what happened on this land during the prosperity era, Han Mingyue paused for a moment and continued.
...I don't need to say what happened later. Three Years of War broke out, the space elevator collapsed, the better life was shattered, and the supercity cluster located in the central part of the Central China continent became a hell on earth where even the post-war reconstruction committee was helpless.
A large number of survivors flocked from four major industrial zones to the surrounding administrative divisions, such as Luoxia Province, and Brahma Province... Due to the identity of the "ecological preservation" area of the Bharma Province, this land became the only survivor of the war. Even though Luoxia Province fell a mother nest, there was not a single land of three million square kilometers.
Fang Chang looked at her in surprise,
Not one?!
Yes, Han Mingyue nodded. Obviously, the residents of the colony also felt that there was no need to take special care of this zoo, not to mention that there was no concrete building as a petri dish, and it was actually not suitable for rapid reproduction of slime molds.
After a pause, she continued.
Because I was not given special care by my mother's nest and the climate was relatively comfortable, many survivors regarded this place as their first choice for escape... According to my research, at that time, at least nearly 100 million people had successfully escaped here.
It is obvious that this land that has been de-urbanized cannot withstand so many people, and food, medicine, energy, housing and even security have become scarce things. In order to compete for the opportunity to survive, people began to imitate the beasts on this land and put the reserve of civilized people behind their heads in hunger.
At first it was just poaching, but later it was robbery, or even cannibalism... What I said may be more tactful, but according to the information I collected in the Great Desert, it may have entered completely disorganized wasteland earlier than the eastern and western provinces that were cared for by the War Construction Committee.
Fang Chang swallowed unconsciously when he could imagine the scene of the end of the world.
Where are the local garrisons?
Han Mingyue said concisely.
The army of the People's League was established in a very short time. There were places where fires were needed to be put out, and the front line was maintained five light years away. It is conceivable how many people could be assigned to this "zoo"... According to my research, the People's League had some troops entering the area, but the order that could be maintained was limited to several mild climate areas on the east and west coasts of the Bharat Province.
Moreover, due to the loss of organization and supplies, their own survival has become a problem. You cannot expect those people to always grasp the balance of order. They are on the balance themselves, and it is good to be able to crush it a little slower.
After a pause, she continued.
What the army did at that time was not the focus of my research. Going back to the place I just mentioned, these three million square kilometers of land may have entered the wasteland earlier, and completed the evolution from a disorderly society to an orderly society earlier, and in the process, large and small settlements were born.These settlements were distributed along the banks of the Yongliu River in the form of tribes and gradually expanded outward...
Due to the barriers of the Zhuobar Mountains and the Bharati Sea, mutants and most xenogra have not been able to migrate to this area, and aquatic mutants have also stopped east of the Baiyue Strait. The pressure faced by local survivors is mainly some wild animals and a small number of xenogra.
Although civilization has undergone a systematic regression, there is still a lot of experience and technology from the old era left behind here.This group of survivors with low literacy rates but rich survival skills expanded their territory much faster than the primitive people. They soon formed feudal kingdoms of all sizes, just like the survivors of Luoxia Province.
In this process, not only did their population expand rapidly, but they also found something to place their souls...
As he said that, Han Mingyue took the memory card from the computer pen and shook it in front of Fang Chang's eyes.
Belief.
Whether worshiping abstract gods or dogmas, it was almost the only tool for uniting the majority of the ignorant in the classical period before the Enlightenment, which temporarily made people abandon their thinking about the three things of ‘who am I’, ‘where I come from’, ‘where I go’, ‘where I’m going’, restraining my original instincts, and maintaining the operation of a huge system like a gear.
The square Adam's apple moved.
Although that was something he had expected, he still felt a little shocked when he heard the professionals peeling it off.
So is a lie for thousands of tribes and gods?
Han Mingyue said in a relaxed tone.
It cannot be regarded as a lie, but more like a coincidence... There is a large number of holographic projection equipment left here, mainly introducing tourists to wild animals in the Bharat Province. With energy storage equipment, they are likely to be running for fifty years in the early Wasteland Era for a long time. It is understandable that they are regarded as miracles by the second and third generations of survivors who are on the wasteland as soon as they open their eyes. After all, the average lifespan of the fathers who can explain them over and over again is less than 30 years old.
You might as well try to bring in the situation of the survivor at that time. You are a survivor who has lived in the snow and ice since your birth, curled up at the ticket gate of a cultural center with your father's belongings to avoid the blizzard.
At this time, AI has recognized your existence, and the endless warm grassland appears in front of you, and then the majestic voice begins to tell you the past.The Bharat Province in the past was a heaven where even mice could live happily...
I tried to bring in the situation that the survivors were facing at that time. Fang Changdao had a long time to repair it but still couldn't put it in, and finally shook his head.
...I would never think I am a descendant of a mouse.
It is possible for a lion or a tiger.
Han Mingyue laughed and teased.
Of course, human ancestors cannot be animals, but you may worship it as something similar to the god of the horned deer... Don't overestimate yourself. The reason you didn't do this is simply because you have a good education and really understand what you have learned.
The unexplained holographic light and shadow are just the beginning.
When miracles become reality, miracles are no longer just miracles, but prophecies descended by the gods.
What's more, the scenes in the holographic image later became reality.
In the 50th year of the Wasteland Era, the cold winter ended, and the ecological environment of the Bharat Province gradually changed back to what it was half a century ago.
For the survivors who lived on the banks of the Yongliu River at that time, this was undoubtedly the totem manifestation they worshiped.
Although the end of the cold winter is just a normal climate change, it has nothing to do with their prayers...
I know, Fang Chang said with emotion, but then again, it turns out that the thousands of tribes and gods are really divided by artificially.
After all, two hundred years is still too short and it is not enough to allow a group of people to form a new race under natural evolution.
Unless it is pure black technology like the Willant or Mutants.
Without the power of science, they need at least a thousand years of segregation to create a distinct characteristic difference between the Sun and the Moon people.
As if he had obsessive-compulsive disorder, Han Mingyue corrected his indecent statement and continued.
To be precise, it is a limited range of self-identification formed under collective unconscious behavior. You can find that their skeletal characteristics are actually not much different from those of the survivors who fled to Luoxia Province.Excluding the influence of nutrition, air humidity, and light, they can be said to be a type of person.
Fang Chang nodded thoughtfully.
Actually, let alone other players.
It is the experience he occasionally subjectively brings to the earth, but if you think about it carefully, you will know that reality and game are completely different dimensions.
The wasteland in the Bharat Province is probably the beginning of the classic.
That is, without the interference of transcendent forces such as shelter residents, strategic weapon strikes, mute murine maternal nests, mutants, etc., a typical wasteland formed purely by the collapse of order.
As for the Xilan Empire, it is a wave of rising and falling.
Without external interference, the survivors here may continue the tradition of a hundred or even a thousand years until an accidental Renaissance or a great historical discovery in the past, allowing them to find new spiritual sustenance and replace the Thousand Tribes and Thousand Theism, which has gradually become outdated with the development of productivity.
But another extreme possibility is not ruled out, and local survivors have fallen into another spiral in the long-term cycle of reincarnation.
By constantly learning from the previous reincarnation, they nailed the loopholes that broke the reincarnation with oak boards and nails, thus establishing a more permanent structure and more rigorous logic, so that the water of the Yongliu River will no longer flow.
As for which possibility is greater, there is no way to know.
After all, only the history that has happened is inevitable in history.
And only future people will know what will happen.
In short, for the scientific research team, they are a good observation sample.
Putting the memory card that stores the original scriptures into the storage box, Han Mingyue looked at the port outside the warehouse door and said excitedly.
...Absolutely, there should be traces left by early survivor settlements or shelters nearby.This may help me complete the part of the topic that was not previously covered, and the impact of the three-year war on the social evolution of wasteland in the Bharat Province during the three-year war.
After hearing Han Mingyue's words, Fang Chang said subconsciously.
You mean Camp Rowell?
Wait, is Camp Rowell actually here?!Han Mingyue opened her eyes wide in surprise, and then said in surprise, "That's great, can you take me to see it?"
Fang Chang nodded.
no problem.
Due to the advancement of the second phase of the offensive, the camp is currently under their control. Before the emperor of the Xilan Empire takes action, they probably can still enjoy a period of calm.
If you want to carry out scientific research activities, it is the most suitable now.
Just when Fang Chang was about to call a vehicle to take her over, the good names were taken by the dog and suddenly walked towards her.
His steps were hurried, his face was full of seriousness, and he said quickly without waiting for a long time to ask.
Something happened to Camp Rowell!
A drizzle washed away the dust on the street, and the dark red square bricks rose with a few mist, making the harbor, which had not yet fully shined, hazy in the fog.
On the cargo ship beside the dock, sailors were cleaning the deck, and merchants in silk robes were checking with the port officials about the goods that needed to be handed over to the warehouse.
After a brief period of order vacuum, the order of this port has been restored, and at least the order of this area of the port has been basically restored.
Institutions including the Guard Bureau, fire station, port bureau, clinics, courts and other institutions have re-performed their work under the compulsory force of the Iron Man.
After all, having a job that can be done and a salary that can be received is much more comfortable than squatting in a warehouse where there is not even a bed.
The Dolphin nuclear-powered submarine docked at the dock again, and this time it not only brought supplies from the French Fries Port, but also researchers from the scientific research team.
Previously, players of the Burning Corps seized a large number of relics left during the prosperity period in the Governor's Palace and needed to be valuated, and the Scientific Research Group was the only unit that was interested in these holy relics and could legally acquire them from players.
Sometimes Fang Chang couldn't help but think about it with malicious intentions. Will these guys deliberately lower the price by relying on the franchise in their hands?
But even if the price is lowered, he actually has no choice.
These loots are submitted as mission props and are not freely bought and sold.
No matter how little he gave, he could only accept it.
However, the quote given by this broad-minded researcher did not disappoint him, and it was even more high than he expected.
…A total of 9.17 million silver coins.
Finally, the photo registration for the last loot was completed. The researcher stretched out his index finger and tapped twice on the expanded holographic screen to archive the collected data.
hiss……
Fang Chang, who was standing aside, heard it and couldn't help but take a breath of the wet air.The researcher happened to hear it and then cast a questioning look at him.
What's wrong?
Hiding the secret joy on his face, he talked seriously nonsense.
Nothing...I mean, this is too little. We have used a lot of effort to get these things. Can we get more?
The researcher teased.
We have a strict set of calculation formulas and audit procedures for unplanned recycling projects. No matter how much effort you spend, it will not affect their added value. I advise you to give up.
OK
Fang Chang gave up decisively.
This person's name is Han Mingyue, and he is a small popsicle recovered from the ruins of the Great Desert by the Thorn Corps stationed in the Kaituocheng area.
The reason why it is called a little popsicle is not about her age, but the time displayed in the dormant pod is 81 years or less than a century.
The background information about her is five pages on the official website, and is mainly edited by players active in the Kaituocheng area.
Fang Chang took a quick look and found that the key information extracted was about three lines.
She was once a resident of the abandoned Shelter No. 288.
Professional data repair and archive sorting.
Perhaps influenced by Rama, the commander of the Thorn Corps, she is currently mainly engaged in research on the sociology of the Bharat Province.
Whether it is the Bharat Province or the sociology direction itself, it is a relatively unpopular field in the scientific research team.
However, it is precisely because of this that, as one of the few talents in this field who can bear heavy responsibilities, Yin Fang still sent her here even though he had little experience.
Turning his eyes back to the loot piled up in front of him, Han Mingyue stretched out her glove-wearing right hand and picked up a silver-gray memory card from the shelf.
That memory card is only the size of a thumb.
A strong light of interest flashed in her eyes.
...But to be honest, I didn't expect you to find this thing.
Fang Chang stared at her fingertips and looked at it. The thing looked like a memory card, and was placed with other colorful game cards on the cover.
Is there anything special about this card?
More than just special!Han Mingyue said happily, "Let me say that, the project I am working on is just a puzzle... About the origin of the Thousand Tribes and Thousand Gods."
Is it derived from the Thousand Gods of the Thousand Peoples?!
A strong color of interest suddenly appeared in Fang Chang's eyes, and he immediately said.
I would like to hear the details.
Han Mingyue did not speak, but took out a holographic computer pen, connected it to the expansion interface, and plugged the memory card that was a little old.
Looking at the light blue holographic beam with expectation, Fang Chang originally thought he would see something surprising, but he didn't expect that what caught his eye was a strong yak.
The yak was running, its strong muscles motivated the breath of life, and there was rolling smoke and dust floating beside it, but the land under its feet could not be seen.
At this time, the camera began to move farther ahead of it, gradually revealing the herd of cattle behind it and the endless grassland.
Then, the powerful and low and convincing broadcasting cavity began to sound.
On the grasslands on the Yongliu River, the most deadly thing is not the claws of the hyena and the teeth of the lion, but the running herd of cattle.Even the most ferocious beasts have to retreat when they meet them...
To be honest, as a documentary, these short shots are quite shocking, and the narration is also considered to be fair.
Especially considering that these images may have been displayed by immersive virtual reality devices two hundred years ago, the actual expressiveness may be more shocking than the holographic projection of third-person perspectives.
But……
What does this have to do with the Thousand Clans and Thousand Gods?
Fang Chang was a little confused.
Standing next to him, Han Mingyue stared at the flickering holographic light and shadow, as if she was staring at a cultural relic.
The original image of "The Mystery of Nature: Yak Chapter"... Although the data is still a bit lost, it is already the most complete memory card we can find at present. It is really a pity that it can save so well!Please try to find more places like this in the future.
I can, if conditions permit... Fang Chang couldn't help asking because of the name of the documentary, Lei's outside and inside, but I don't quite understand... What's the relationship between this "animal world" and the thousands of tribes and gods?
Han Mingyue narrowed her eyes slightly and said with a smile
The herd of cows running under the scorching sun... Don't you think this looks familiar?
Fang Chang was slightly stunned and blurted out.
...The sun-carrying cattle.
Han Mingyue gave him a look of praise.
You have a high level of understanding.
Damn it?!
Fang Chang was stunned.
But……
Looking at his expression of wanting to speak but stopping, Han Mingyue could guess what he was thinking without asking, so she smiled and said.
You want to ask how popular science documentaries became the origin of thousands of tribes and gods, right?
Fang Chang nodded with a strange expression.
Maybe my imagination is not enough, and I really can't imagine this process completely...
This is actually not difficult to understand. You can understand it by abstracting the 'holographic cassette' into 'thing that knowledge and experience cannot explain'.
Looking at Fang Chang still with confusion on her face, she paused for a moment and continued.
In ancient times, a forest fire or a lightning bolt was enough to make an ape man of great intelligence or good luck become a prophet or priest of the tribe.And when people gradually mastered the ability to make fire and lost awe of the flames that burned all things, prophets, priests, those who guarded the fire, etc.... these professions that were given divine meanings slowly walked out of the center of the historical stage.
Fang Chang frowned slightly and said after thinking for a moment.
You mean, someone uses these popular science images, such as blue jackets, etc.... They package themselves into characters like priests or prophets, bewitching survivors on this land.
It was not surprising that he would think so, Han Mingyue said in a gentle tone.
This is a relatively utilitarian interpretation, and of course this possibility is not ruled out, but the existing evidence tends to be another completely opposite explanation.
...What explanation.
This is not a deliberate act by someone, but a group formed unconsciously and spontaneously in the long-term social evolution process.
Fang Chang was slightly stunned.
Spontaneous formation?
That's right.
Han Mingyue nodded slowly, looked at the holographic video that was playing intermittently, and continued.
A work of art can be done by one or several people, but a culture that is widely recognized is usually formed spontaneously during social evolution.If you want to figure out the origin of the "Thousand Tribes and Thousand Gods" in the Bharat Province, you must start with the survivors who first escaped to this land.
Fang Chang asked in confusion.
Are there no native survivors on this land?
Han Mingyue was stunned for a moment and looked at him strangely.
Are you kidding?This is an ecological reserve in the era of prosperity... Except for a small number of tourism practitioners and scientific research personnel, how could there be local survivors? Would you like to sleep with lions and bisons?
Fang Chang: ...?
Looking at Fang Chang who knew nothing, Han Mingyue sighed, turned off the Animal World that was being screened, and spoke slowly.
It seems that I have to start with the most basic part...
……
The biggest difference between the prosperity era and the old era is not only reflected in the generational differences between science and technology, but also in all aspects such as the way of production and life to the concept of thought and culture, which have undergone earth-shaking changes in the old era.
The most typical one is administrative division.
Thanks to the free migration of the population, the extensive development of outer space and the global national integration, people's feelings for the land are no longer as strong as those of the old times. They recognize the identity of human beings more than their own bloodlines, and even began to study whether to give the honor of being born to AI with social attributes.
People living on this planet are fully prepared to welcome the future, and they are only one FTL engine away from moving towards the starry sky with their feet.
Against this background, out of the pursuit of land resource allocation efficiency, the League of People's Republic of China abolished the administrative divisions of the old era in the early days of the prosperity era and replaced them with more local conditions.
For example, Luoxia Province is the product of this encirclement movement.
Once a vast desert, it was transformed by seawater desalination devices and endless energy into farmland that satisfies the stomach and taste buds of most people around the world.
The situation in the Bharat Province is similar, except that its planning direction is completely opposite to that of the Luoxia Province, which was once an unmanned land.
In the old era when the League of People was not established, there was once the world's largest slum, and the difference between the rich and the poor was the largest in the world.
If Luoxia Province is an uncultivated wasteland, then the Brahma Province is a ruined land that has been ruined by the locals.
It is precisely because of this that when the People's Federation, which had been struggling and twists and turns, was finally established, and the four major industrial zones and space elevator projects in the central Central China continent began to work, and the region immediately launched a long-lasting and unprecedented population migration movement.
A large number of poor people left their poor homes in pursuit of a better life. They took the maglev train one after another to cross the Zhuobar Mountains, heading to the dreamland in the central mainland, and worked with immigrants from other administrative divisions to complete the miracle in the history of the People's Federation, a super-large urban agglomeration built around a space elevator.
In contrast, under the influence of the population siphon effect, the Bharat Province ushered in a huge de-urbanization movement.
In fact, similar situations do not only happen in the Bharat Province, but the performance here looks even more amazing in macro data due to many historical problems.
According to the data available, by the middle of the prosperity era, the population of the entire Bharat province was only 03% of the end of the old era, which was in sharp contrast with the eastern and western provinces that still retained a large number of urban agglomerations that could produce positive economic effects.
Considering that instead of paying high operation and maintenance costs for public facilities with extremely low usage rates in the local area and allowing locals to live in priceless houses, it is better to give them a sum of money and a train ticket to move to the central urban agglomeration to enjoy life.
The People's Federation simply set up the Bharat Province as an ecological reserve, and took the banner of not only establishing a man's heaven, but also an animal's heaven. With the intervention of administrative forces, we actively fast-forward this unprecedented de-urbanization movement to the end.
By the middle and late period of the prosperity era, the de-urbanization movement in the Bharat Province had ended early with the active intervention of the People's Federation. There were only less than 50,000 people left on the three million square kilometers of land, and mainly tourism practitioners and researchers.
After demolishing most of the old urban buildings and shacks, the People's Federation returned this Fengshui treasure land across the three temperature zones of the tropical, subtropical and northern temperate zone to nature, and only a small number of cultural sites, tourist areas, self-driving tour routes and scientific research facilities were retained.
The magnetic levitation tracks that were once built for population migration movement have been demolished one after another as the population migration targets are completed, leaving only a small number of underground lines that do not hinder the migration of wild animals.
It's like a large safari.
It had been demolished long before entering the Wasteland Era...
After briefly summarizing what happened on this land during the prosperity era, Han Mingyue paused for a moment and continued.
...I don't need to say what happened later. Three Years of War broke out, the space elevator collapsed, the better life was shattered, and the supercity cluster located in the central part of the Central China continent became a hell on earth where even the post-war reconstruction committee was helpless.
A large number of survivors flocked from four major industrial zones to the surrounding administrative divisions, such as Luoxia Province, and Brahma Province... Due to the identity of the "ecological preservation" area of the Bharma Province, this land became the only survivor of the war. Even though Luoxia Province fell a mother nest, there was not a single land of three million square kilometers.
Fang Chang looked at her in surprise,
Not one?!
Yes, Han Mingyue nodded. Obviously, the residents of the colony also felt that there was no need to take special care of this zoo, not to mention that there was no concrete building as a petri dish, and it was actually not suitable for rapid reproduction of slime molds.
After a pause, she continued.
Because I was not given special care by my mother's nest and the climate was relatively comfortable, many survivors regarded this place as their first choice for escape... According to my research, at that time, at least nearly 100 million people had successfully escaped here.
It is obvious that this land that has been de-urbanized cannot withstand so many people, and food, medicine, energy, housing and even security have become scarce things. In order to compete for the opportunity to survive, people began to imitate the beasts on this land and put the reserve of civilized people behind their heads in hunger.
At first it was just poaching, but later it was robbery, or even cannibalism... What I said may be more tactful, but according to the information I collected in the Great Desert, it may have entered completely disorganized wasteland earlier than the eastern and western provinces that were cared for by the War Construction Committee.
Fang Chang swallowed unconsciously when he could imagine the scene of the end of the world.
Where are the local garrisons?
Han Mingyue said concisely.
The army of the People's League was established in a very short time. There were places where fires were needed to be put out, and the front line was maintained five light years away. It is conceivable how many people could be assigned to this "zoo"... According to my research, the People's League had some troops entering the area, but the order that could be maintained was limited to several mild climate areas on the east and west coasts of the Bharat Province.
Moreover, due to the loss of organization and supplies, their own survival has become a problem. You cannot expect those people to always grasp the balance of order. They are on the balance themselves, and it is good to be able to crush it a little slower.
After a pause, she continued.
What the army did at that time was not the focus of my research. Going back to the place I just mentioned, these three million square kilometers of land may have entered the wasteland earlier, and completed the evolution from a disorderly society to an orderly society earlier, and in the process, large and small settlements were born.These settlements were distributed along the banks of the Yongliu River in the form of tribes and gradually expanded outward...
Due to the barriers of the Zhuobar Mountains and the Bharati Sea, mutants and most xenogra have not been able to migrate to this area, and aquatic mutants have also stopped east of the Baiyue Strait. The pressure faced by local survivors is mainly some wild animals and a small number of xenogra.
Although civilization has undergone a systematic regression, there is still a lot of experience and technology from the old era left behind here.This group of survivors with low literacy rates but rich survival skills expanded their territory much faster than the primitive people. They soon formed feudal kingdoms of all sizes, just like the survivors of Luoxia Province.
In this process, not only did their population expand rapidly, but they also found something to place their souls...
As he said that, Han Mingyue took the memory card from the computer pen and shook it in front of Fang Chang's eyes.
Belief.
Whether worshiping abstract gods or dogmas, it was almost the only tool for uniting the majority of the ignorant in the classical period before the Enlightenment, which temporarily made people abandon their thinking about the three things of ‘who am I’, ‘where I come from’, ‘where I go’, ‘where I’m going’, restraining my original instincts, and maintaining the operation of a huge system like a gear.
The square Adam's apple moved.
Although that was something he had expected, he still felt a little shocked when he heard the professionals peeling it off.
So is a lie for thousands of tribes and gods?
Han Mingyue said in a relaxed tone.
It cannot be regarded as a lie, but more like a coincidence... There is a large number of holographic projection equipment left here, mainly introducing tourists to wild animals in the Bharat Province. With energy storage equipment, they are likely to be running for fifty years in the early Wasteland Era for a long time. It is understandable that they are regarded as miracles by the second and third generations of survivors who are on the wasteland as soon as they open their eyes. After all, the average lifespan of the fathers who can explain them over and over again is less than 30 years old.
You might as well try to bring in the situation of the survivor at that time. You are a survivor who has lived in the snow and ice since your birth, curled up at the ticket gate of a cultural center with your father's belongings to avoid the blizzard.
At this time, AI has recognized your existence, and the endless warm grassland appears in front of you, and then the majestic voice begins to tell you the past.The Bharat Province in the past was a heaven where even mice could live happily...
I tried to bring in the situation that the survivors were facing at that time. Fang Changdao had a long time to repair it but still couldn't put it in, and finally shook his head.
...I would never think I am a descendant of a mouse.
It is possible for a lion or a tiger.
Han Mingyue laughed and teased.
Of course, human ancestors cannot be animals, but you may worship it as something similar to the god of the horned deer... Don't overestimate yourself. The reason you didn't do this is simply because you have a good education and really understand what you have learned.
The unexplained holographic light and shadow are just the beginning.
When miracles become reality, miracles are no longer just miracles, but prophecies descended by the gods.
What's more, the scenes in the holographic image later became reality.
In the 50th year of the Wasteland Era, the cold winter ended, and the ecological environment of the Bharat Province gradually changed back to what it was half a century ago.
For the survivors who lived on the banks of the Yongliu River at that time, this was undoubtedly the totem manifestation they worshiped.
Although the end of the cold winter is just a normal climate change, it has nothing to do with their prayers...
I know, Fang Chang said with emotion, but then again, it turns out that the thousands of tribes and gods are really divided by artificially.
After all, two hundred years is still too short and it is not enough to allow a group of people to form a new race under natural evolution.
Unless it is pure black technology like the Willant or Mutants.
Without the power of science, they need at least a thousand years of segregation to create a distinct characteristic difference between the Sun and the Moon people.
As if he had obsessive-compulsive disorder, Han Mingyue corrected his indecent statement and continued.
To be precise, it is a limited range of self-identification formed under collective unconscious behavior. You can find that their skeletal characteristics are actually not much different from those of the survivors who fled to Luoxia Province.Excluding the influence of nutrition, air humidity, and light, they can be said to be a type of person.
Fang Chang nodded thoughtfully.
Actually, let alone other players.
It is the experience he occasionally subjectively brings to the earth, but if you think about it carefully, you will know that reality and game are completely different dimensions.
The wasteland in the Bharat Province is probably the beginning of the classic.
That is, without the interference of transcendent forces such as shelter residents, strategic weapon strikes, mute murine maternal nests, mutants, etc., a typical wasteland formed purely by the collapse of order.
As for the Xilan Empire, it is a wave of rising and falling.
Without external interference, the survivors here may continue the tradition of a hundred or even a thousand years until an accidental Renaissance or a great historical discovery in the past, allowing them to find new spiritual sustenance and replace the Thousand Tribes and Thousand Theism, which has gradually become outdated with the development of productivity.
But another extreme possibility is not ruled out, and local survivors have fallen into another spiral in the long-term cycle of reincarnation.
By constantly learning from the previous reincarnation, they nailed the loopholes that broke the reincarnation with oak boards and nails, thus establishing a more permanent structure and more rigorous logic, so that the water of the Yongliu River will no longer flow.
As for which possibility is greater, there is no way to know.
After all, only the history that has happened is inevitable in history.
And only future people will know what will happen.
In short, for the scientific research team, they are a good observation sample.
Putting the memory card that stores the original scriptures into the storage box, Han Mingyue looked at the port outside the warehouse door and said excitedly.
...Absolutely, there should be traces left by early survivor settlements or shelters nearby.This may help me complete the part of the topic that was not previously covered, and the impact of the three-year war on the social evolution of wasteland in the Bharat Province during the three-year war.
After hearing Han Mingyue's words, Fang Chang said subconsciously.
You mean Camp Rowell?
Wait, is Camp Rowell actually here?!Han Mingyue opened her eyes wide in surprise, and then said in surprise, "That's great, can you take me to see it?"
Fang Chang nodded.
no problem.
Due to the advancement of the second phase of the offensive, the camp is currently under their control. Before the emperor of the Xilan Empire takes action, they probably can still enjoy a period of calm.
If you want to carry out scientific research activities, it is the most suitable now.
Just when Fang Chang was about to call a vehicle to take her over, the good names were taken by the dog and suddenly walked towards her.
His steps were hurried, his face was full of seriousness, and he said quickly without waiting for a long time to ask.
Something happened to Camp Rowell!
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