Uplifting Journey

Breeding season, as the name suggests, is a period of time for reproductive activities of both sexes.

For those groups who are looking for a resident-obtaining food-consuming food in an infinite cycle, the breeding season is an event worth looking forward to.

This injects enthusiasm and vitality into a dull soul - like a paid vacation for a social animal.

As for the reason for the special event of the breeding season, it is very simple-because the food brought by gathering and hunting is too scarce, a vast wilderness cannot support many human beings, so the human race is divided into a dozen or dozens of people. It is also a helpless move for the group's ethnic groups to disperse and survive.

In this case, for ethnic groups with similar settlements, finding a safe season when the fog fades, allowing men and women of the right age to find a chance to meet and produce the next generation is an inevitable choice for the continuation of the race.

Don't ask why you don't just pair men and women within the group - the groups that engage in autistic internal digestion have all died of the "curse", and the surviving grandmothers naturally know what is the right choice - no matter how they understand this in their hearts phenomenal.

The mountains and forests who have a certain understanding of the dangers of the world background are a little curious about whether those autistic groups died of frequently expressed disadvantaged genes, or really died of "curse"——

Judging from the dangerous temptation in the gray mist, even if those human groups really died of genetic problems at the beginning, it is difficult to say that the later autistic groups did not die from the "curse" of everyone's mouth - a fake curse. Under the common cognition of multiple human beings, it may not become true.

However, the reverence and consensus towards grandmothers in certain ethnic groups did not directly distort and change grandmothers themselves. Perhaps some mechanisms based on human cognition in this world will not directly affect humans themselves?

Um? Think about it from this perspective—did the breeding season choose the "safe time" when the gray fog subsided, or was the gray fog "dispelled" by the common consciousness of the ethnic group because the human race needed the breeding season to be safe enough?

As always, as the core force of the food and tool preparation team, the mountains and forests acted and observed in a low-key and cautious manner.

Due to the lack of containers and anti-corrosion means, the tribe was not busy for too long. After saving enough food for three "days", a group of young men and women set off with their grandmother in the thin gray mist——

The fuzzy spherical celestial body that seems to be fixed in one position in the sky forever and is difficult to observe details will switch between light and dark states in a relatively stable cycle. The existence form is similar to the sun and moon in the perception of mountains and forests. "sky".

A cherished and special event naturally reveals something equally special.

The mountains and forests felt more and more strange—the living conditions of the ethnic groups were clearly the appearance of primitive tribes, but each ethnic group had the same body structure as modern humans in his "real world".

And more importantly, the leader of this seemingly primitive group used a branch to draw a lot of words on the sand during the preparations for the breeding season——

Incredible pictographic simplified characters.

What's even more incredible is that all the clansmen can understand these words even though they don't have the resources and spare time to receive any systematic education.

What's even more dramatic is that Shanlin discovered after probing that these "primitives" have a huge vocabulary that exceeds the class——

Things that can be seen intuitively like the sun, moon, mountains and rivers are easy to say. Who can tell me how a group of primitive people who can't even add and subtract when estimating the amount of food can come up with the word calculus?

When carefully guiding the topic to explore, I heard the super-classic vocabulary of the mountains and forests and almost broke the defense on the spot-this is simply the same as when acting in a costume drama, the opposite person suddenly pulls out a laser gun and says "My lord, the times have changed" Same.

Shanlin, who silently recited "Mountainless as a mountain, as quiet as a forest", managed to hold his expression and continued to test, and then he found those super-class words, even the speaker himself could not understand their concepts and meanings——

Just like the small invention "spear thrower" that Shanlin tried to make in the hunting team, this word originally existed in the unknown cultural lexicon of the tribe, but it has never seen the specific object directly, nor has the foundation and path of association , the clansman would not be able to understand the concept, and it would be difficult to dig out the word from memory.

But when the mountain forest made this small tool that can increase the power and accuracy of throwing by increasing the radius of the throwing trajectory with bone fragments and wood, and is so simple that it can be understood at a glance, the tribe quickly accepted and became familiar The vocabulary concept created by the forest, and on this basis, the adjustment of the size of the throwing spear and the technique of using feathers to create a stable tail for the throwing spear were spontaneously extended.

Now that I think about it, maybe these "primitive tribes" have a lot of amazing things in their memories - what limits their ability to draw strange knowledge from their memories and make associations?

If, in the breeding season, other human races that come into contact with have the same characters and this phenomenon across a long distance.

"There is a crisis in this world that is far beyond my ability to handle. The main missions should not be greedy for stage rewards, but must be done according to one's ability. The most dangerous background affixes have not yet been reflected.

"Be low-key, you must be low-key. The range of changes in spear throwers seems to be acceptable at present. No matter how slow the pace of development is, you can't let yourself be too 'conspicuous'."

"Low profile certainly means low risk, but it also means that the growth rate of the 'power' you can mobilize is relatively slow. Unfortunately, you are not playing a stand-alone game."

The Crimson King was noncommittal about the choice of stand-in carrier.

The breeding season, when a large number of human groups gather and communicate, will obviously reveal a lot of useful information, but in this season when there are many people, the mountains and forests adhering to the low-key principle will naturally not take the risk of continuing to exercise their abilities, but try their best to pretend to be an ordinary person. participant—although he doesn't seem to have any intention of reproducing.

Carriers rarely use substitutes, which makes the observable nodes in King Crimson's field of vision very sparse, and he has no way of spying on the whole picture of what happens during the breeding season, which is a relatively important time period for the human race.

But it's not a big deal - the breeding season isn't the only one, and the effects of events during this time are clearly visible.

The Crimson King looked down the timeline.

After the breeding season, the ethnic group where the mountain forest is located returned to the daily life of survival and food and clothing, but there are many interesting things in this daily life——

Wood carvings used to represent their own ethnic group and distinguish them from other human groups—under the demonstration of a certain ethnic group, the ethnic group in the mountain forest chose a deer with horns like thunder and spears as the representative totem of the ethnic group, and since then there has been a blur The surname "Deer".

The grandmother with rotten teeth drank warm miso soup—during the breeding and exchange season, the water-tight soup soup was exchanged for food, fur and some hunting skills from a certain distant ethnic group "Tao people". "Pottery" container.

There are also palm-sized jade square plates from the "Jade Clan", with exquisite biological images and small characters drawn on the surface, which are completely unlike the current human productivity. A seemingly simple game of gambling.

Convenient containers and tools, new survival knowledge, games that inject fun into boring life, and more importantly, awareness of concepts and activities such as "public and private property" and "regular exchange" that gradually sprouted in the consciousness of the tribe .

The new things produced in a breeding season brought a big impact on the group. Grandma seemed to be vaguely resistant to these new changes, but she didn't show anything while drinking hot soup.

Shan Lin also realized that in this "open world", the distance between other testers and him is not far away-he is sure that those who spread from other ethnic groups and appeared in such a concentration, full of imminent The new visual sense is inseparable from the testers who came at the same time.

At least you can't let your mission and the group you belong to be dominated by other testers.

Shanlin carefully investigated and studied the relationship between new things and the awareness and cognition of the clansmen. After discovering some bad signs, he had to adjust his plan, speed up the pace of seizing power and expanding his influence.

".From hunting to breeding, and then to planting that gradually sees results. Master the food acquisition channels and storage skills, subtly define private property and public property, and divide the grandmother's right to distribute food, and then use the hunting team with gradually changing responsibilities as the basis. The basic plan is to absorb the neighboring ethnic groups with surplus food, and gradually grasp the right of labor distribution based on the construction of houses

"Improve the role and power of men, and transform various recognized customary conventions into a system that is in line with interests. There is no intention of going beyond the current ethnic group's cognition and understanding at all. It's too honest. The background of this world is really terrible. degree?"

The relatively long and boring development period in the mountains and forests was just a matter of scanning up and down for King Crimson. He found that he, the carrier, was a little too cautious in some aspects-he was unwilling to use even a little bit of extraordinary power. Use more sociological knowledge and advanced vision to subtly guide the development of the group.

In comparison, those distant human groups, such as the Jade and Tao, who constantly create new gadgets and expand their material and spiritual influence through scissors and cultural erosion, feel a bit leap forward and abnormal.

Not to mention anything else, the Jade Clan's almost free distribution of jade slabs with increasingly outrageous raw materials and processing standards, as well as the related games that seem so weird, definitely have forces beyond common sense at work.

"So, what is the relationship between the testers from infinite space in this open world? Zero-sum? Non-zero-sum? Do they have the same main mission, or are they mutually exclusive?"

Looking at the weird melee in the future node when the forest died, the Crimson King vaguely tasted something in the result of the differentiation and development of various human groups into different painting styles.

"The clues are still too scattered and fragmented, and the conclusions drawn in this way must be far from the truth."

The Crimson King continued to visit the life trajectory of the mountains and forests, and at the same time began to look for suitable intervention points——

In order to expand the field of vision without affecting the death outcome of the mountain forest or interfering with the life trajectory of other trialists, the first step is to open the fog of war to the extent that the stand-in does not activate the ability and can be observed as long as it is summoned.

This requires a little bit of connection matching, communication and trust between the avatar and the host.

As long as you are willing to spend your energy to correct the "unneeded" wrong future, there will be many opportunities like this-it is a pity that the Crimson King with limited resources at present has to be stingy.

"Fortunately, even if it is overthrown and restarted, I still remember the 'map' that has been proven, and the matching degree that has been achieved will not lose Shanlin's cautious character. I am afraid that it is a little bit to want him to completely trust the stand-in who shows independent consciousness. difficulty.

"But with repeated help and rescue, no matter how vigilant you are, you will relax a little bit."

The Crimson King looked at the gradually denser observation nodes downstream of the time axis, which meant that the carrier mountain forest was frequently activating its substitute ability——

Of course, the safe development period will not last forever, and after that, it will naturally be the link of various crises, temptations and firepower investigations.