Urban Sims

Liberty Island.

A very safe island.

It is 5,000 kilometers away from the nearest continent. Although there are a few species of bird armies controlled by the tree god that can fly such a long distance without interruption, the Lanwei people who want to kill them and the even more hated people are unable to do so. It is really difficult for the enemy in the sky to reach the sky.

Because they are plants, they cannot fly.

Those birds, in a vacuum, will suffocate or freeze to death due to lack of oxygen.

So to a certain extent, this is an asymmetric war, a war where one side crushes the other, like a machine gun against a stone.

Even the gods were unwilling to take action, fearing that they would use excessive force and beat the so-called "Tree God" to death, so they supported a tribe chosen by the gods, namely the Lanwei people, as spokespersons. After arming them, they observed both sides on the battlefield. performance to obtain some desired information.

Even so, the potential displayed by the one million or so Lanwei people during the armed training on Liberty Island still shocked the "gods".

Because the 300,000 young and middle-aged Lanwei soldiers who joined the "Freedom Legion" actually learned to operate fighter jets and mechas in less than three months.

Of course, in order to be able to get started quickly, those twin-propeller dragonfly-like fighter planes, as well as the five-meter-tall mechas that run "quickly", are relatively simple in design and have simple power devices (all of them are burned). (gasoline, diesel), and the operating system are fool-like operations, and they all have some shortcomings and flaws. If it were Yun Xinghe and the others, they would definitely be able to get started within fifteen minutes.

But you must know that these Lanwei people can be said to be "illiterates" from a cultural level. When it comes to mechanics and engineering, their minds are as blank as a vacuum. But three months later, these Lanwei people, Not only did they drive very smoothly, some of them even reached the level of "veteran drivers". In the virtual training game, they were able to struggle to the death in front of Gu Fan for two rounds, which made Yun Xinghe and the others' jaws drop in surprise.

In three months, from zero basics to flying a mecha fighter, how could these Lanwei people have such strong learning abilities?

Medical officer Yun Qiaoqiao answered this question.

"Thoughts are connected."

"They can use their minds to think this way and learn from each other."

"According to calculations, the learning efficiency of this method is twice as high as the Blue Star Federation's virtual teaching."

"So in the process of learning to drive a mecha, as long as the person with the fastest learning progress is willing to share his experience, other Lanwei people with poor learning ability will overcome their own shortcomings in ability and become excellent companions after receiving these experiences. Will help them make up for it.”

"So to a certain extent, the Lanwei people also have a certain 'collective race' attribute. Through the nerve whiskers on their tails, they share knowledge and experience, thereby making progress faster."

"Is such that."

Communications officer Mikoto Kogarashi also added: "I found that the Lanwei people lack language expression skills and usually rely on various yells to communicate. In fact, in the brainwave communicator, they can express far more meaning than Our imagination is much more complicated, and in some aspects, it is no worse than us humans.”

"In other words, even if we give the Lanwei people more complex technological information, as long as the smartest one among them masters it, this race will evolve into a highly civilized race soon?"

Sugaru opened his eyes and said, feeling that the potential of the Lanwei people was a bit shocking and terrifying.

Moreover, there is a more important point. The Lanwei people have a strong reproductive capacity and are multi-fetal creatures. After an adult female becomes pregnant, she can give birth to 3 to 5 babies per pregnancy. The gestation period is six months and the reproductive period is as long as 20 years.

To put it in one sentence, this race has incredible intelligence and gives birth to piglets like sows.

Of course, this also proves the cruelty of competition between different species on this planet. In the face of various giant birds and beasts, the population number does not exceed 10 million, which shows that it is not a powerful race at all.

And those giant birds and beasts also have a tail with nerves growing behind their tails, which shows that the intelligence of these beasts is actually not low.

But no matter whether it is a Lanwei man, a giant bird or a giant beast, in front of the tree god, no matter how powerful it is, it is nothing and must bow obediently.

The old chief of the Zutai tribe and the elder of the Sacrificial Tree explained to the gods why all races surrendered to the tree god.

"The tree god is our mother of wisdom and the source of the survival and reproduction of all races."

"In the beginning, all races had no intelligence. They only knew how to fight brutally and fill their bellies. Everything they did was simply to survive."

"The tree god gave us the original wisdom. Through the wisdom vine, the tree god taught us some basic knowledge."

"And it gives us the ability to communicate with each other."

"If we leave the tree god, this ability will also leave us. From now on, we can only rely on gestures and roars to communicate, and cannot understand each other's meaning. No matter how powerful the tribe is, it will soon fall apart. Historically, due to the inability to communicate with each other, There are many examples of decline, and it is said that this is called the 'punishment of the tree god'."

The old chief fell into deep thought, and then said: "Actually, I understand in my heart that it's not that those powerful tribes are not religious enough to the tree god, but that being powerful is a mistake, and being powerful will lead to punishment... This is a lot of The race knows it.”

The words of the old chief explained the reason why the efficiency of the Lanwei people in learning to fly mecha fighters has been much lower than before. Without the "supply" of the tree god, the Lanwei people want to communicate with each other more and more. The harder it gets, the worse the effect. After three months, the connection is basically no longer possible.

"The floating stone is a floating stone element that can play a bridge-like role at the ends of nerve whiskers. The floating stone is a normal-temperature superconductor that isolates gravity. It has a huge effect, but it is extremely volatile. The leaves of the sacrificial tree or the tree god , can absorb the floating stone element in the air or soil, and then replenish it to the Lanwei people or other creatures. If the source of the floating stone element is lost, the Lanwei people's ability to 'connect minds' with each other will be lost."

"This time is almost three months."

The words of Science Officer Lan Xiulong made everyone feel a little relieved. Fortunately, this weakness exists. Otherwise, if the Lanwei people grow too fast and are beyond their control, after defeating the tree god, they still want to fight with the god. It would be better to seize the tree god's weakness and control the planet.

In short, we still have to grasp the balance. We must not completely kill one party, but we must squeeze out the value of this planet to the maximum extent!

…

Shortly after the establishment of the Freedom Corps, under the leadership of leader Zutai, an elite detachment of 50,000 Lanwei people drove 5,000 "Dragonfly" transport racks and carried 40,000 "Rage" mechas. With the information and logistical support provided by the gods, a military operation was launched across many seas.

The operation was codenamed "Uprooting."

To be precise, they dug a "sacrificial tree" to Liberty Island to see if they could use this tree to restore the Lanwei people's ability to "connect minds."

Lanwei people who have lost the ability to communicate with their thoughts are like losing their hands in daily life. They are very unaccustomed to all kinds of inconveniences. Some high-level officials can communicate normally through the "brain wave communicator" provided by the gods, but This kind of thing cannot be cheap enough to give one to each person. Among the 50,000 people on this expedition, only those with the level of squad leader or above are equipped with such helmets, a total of about 5,000 helmets.

The "Sacrificial Tree" is the most loyal servant of the tree god. It is distributed all over the continent, with more than a million in number, but the species are not the same. Most of them are trees of life, but they may also be velvet trees, crystal trees, colorful trees, etc. Light trees, these trees are all potential "wisdom" tree species. They are carriers of knowledge, nodes for the spread of consciousness, and communicators of wisdom.

Most of the "sacrificial trees" have no self-awareness and are clones of the "tree god", but there are also some older sacrificial trees that have evolved self-awareness and then face two choices: surrender to the tree God, or was he destroyed by an army of monsters?

Naturally, the wise ones will definitely choose to surrender, while the unwise ones will probably even have their tree roots dug clean by the monsters.

In addition, the sacrificial trees that had slightly different intentions, or that made the tree god feel threatened, were also destroyed - even if they did nothing.

Therefore, the target of the "root digging" operation is a very large sacrificial tree that is over 100,000 years old. According to a Lanwei tribe who once lived near this tree, this sacrificial tree seems to have Self-awareness, if it is moved to the Free Island, not only the ability of the Lanwei people to communicate with each other can be restored, but as the sacrificial tree that knows the tree god best, if it can be persuaded to join the rebel camp here, the tree god will surely be finished soon. .

Even if this sacrificial tree has no self-awareness, as an important spreading node of the consciousness of the tree god on the eastern coastal land, once this tree is uprooted, at least 100,000 square kilometers of land will no longer be controlled by the tree god. This land will become the first base for the Lanwei people to return to and conquer the mainland!

"Come on!"

"Pay attention to air defense and shoot down the big birds in the sky first!"

"Pay attention to cooperation and cover. There are too many monsters. We cannot relax our vigilance on every defensive side."

"I can't hold on any longer. There are more and more monsters. No matter how hard I kill them, I can't finish them all!"

"If we persist for another two hours, two-thirds of the tree has been dug and it will be lifted soon."

"The 8th Regiment has been completely wiped out. The 9th Regiment has run out of ammunition and is fighting with monsters! The 10th Regiment is facing another wave of monsters. Please support!"

"ah!"

"Ah! Ah!"

"It's really unstoppable! 70% of the fighter planes have crashed, and the monster's air force is getting more and more!"

"God, help us! My legion can't hold on any longer!" Faced with a situation where the whole front is in danger and about to be defeated like a mountain, leader Zu Tai can only turn his pleading eyes to the God above his head.

"What kind of hell did this battle turn out to be? It was a blind fight. Although there were advanced weapons, there was no cooperation at all. It took three months to become a fool!"

Sugaru, who originally expected the Lanwei people to put up a good fight, now wants to take a hammer and hit those fools on the head a few times.

"It's because we have too high expectations for them. Good training does not mean good performance on the battlefield. Their psychological quality and cooperation are not up to standard. Also, we overestimate the effectiveness of weapons and underestimate the madness of monsters... This operation should be considered a failure.”

"Gu Fan, go down and support them, cover them and dig out the sacrificial tree!" Yun Xinghe issued the support order.

"yes!"

…

This "uprooting" operation was declared a failure. Although the last sacrificial tree, which was proved to have no self-awareness, was dug out and successfully lifted to Liberty Island by hundreds of large transport aircraft, it faced the threat of approaching threats. With 40,000 heavy casualties and more than 10,000 disgraced and defeated soldiers, the entire Liberty Island was shrouded in an unusually depressing atmosphere.