Urban Sims

Chapter 312 digging up the roots
Liberty Island.

A very safe island.

It is 5000 kilometers away from the nearest continent. Although there are a few species of the bird army controlled by the tree god, they can fly such a long distance without interruption, but they want to kill the Lanwei people they hate, and they hate even more. Enemies in the sky that cannot be reached are really difficult to reach.

Since they are plants, they cannot fly.

Those birds, in a vacuum, would suffocate to death from lack of oxygen, or freeze to death.

So to some extent, this is an asymmetric war, a war like a machine gun against a rock, one side crushing the other.

Even the gods were unwilling to make a move, fearing that they would kill the so-called "tree god" at once with excessive force, so they supported a god-chosen clan, that is, the Lanwei people, as spokespersons, armed them, and observed the two sides in the battlefield performance, so as to obtain some desired information.

Even so, the "gods" were shocked by the potential shown by the 100 million or so Lanwei people during the armed training process on Liberty Island.

Because the 30 young and middle-aged Lanwei fighters who joined the "Freedom Legion" have learned to fly fighters and armors in less than three months.

Of course, those double-propeller fighter planes like dragonflies, as well as the five-meter-high mechs that run "Kuangci Kuangci", are relatively simple in design and simple in power devices (burning all Gasoline and diesel), the operating system is a fool's operation, and there are some shortcomings and defects. If it is Yunxinghe and the others, they will definitely be able to get started within 15 minutes.

But you must know that these Lanwei people, in terms of cultural level, can be said to be "illiterate". For mechanics and engineering, their minds are as blank as a vacuum, but after three months, 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 for two rounds in front of Gu Fan, which made Yun Xinghe and the others drop their jaws in surprise.

In three months, from 0 basics to machine armor fighters, how can these Lanwei people have such a strong learning ability?
The medical officer, Yun Qiaoqiao, answered this question.

"Thinking together."

"They can think about it this way and learn from each other."

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

"So in the process of learning to drive mechs, as long as the person who has the fastest learning progress is willing to share his experience, other Lanwei people with poor learning ability, after receiving these experiences, lack their own abilities, excellent companions 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, so as to progress faster."

"Is such that."

The communication officer Xianglan Miqin on the side also added: "I found that Lanwei people's language expression skills are lacking, and they usually communicate with various yells. In fact, in the brain wave communicator, what they can express is far more than It is much more complicated than we imagined, and in some respects, it is no worse than us humans."

"That is to say, even if we give the Lanwei people no matter how complicated the technological information is, as long as the smartest among them masters it, this race will evolve into a highly civilized race in a short time?"

Sugaru said with his eyes wide open, feeling that the potential of the Lanwei people is a bit terrifying.

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

In a word, the intelligence of this race can be exploited, and the litter is like a sow.

Of course, this also proves the cruelty of competition between different species on this planet. In front of various giant birds and beasts, the population of no more than 1000 million people shows that it is not a powerful race at all.

And behind the tails of those giant birds and beasts, there is also a tail with nerve whiskers, which shows that the intelligence level of these beasts is actually not low.

But no matter if it is a Lanwei man, a giant bird or a giant beast, in front of the tree god, no matter how powerful they are, they are nothing, and they have to bow their heads obediently.

The old chief of the Zutai tribe, who is also the elder of the sacrificial tree, explained to the gods why all races surrendered to the tree god.

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

"In the beginning, all races had no wisdom. They only knew about brutal fighting and filling their stomachs. Everything they did was purely for survival."

"The tree god endowed us with the most primitive wisdom. Through the wisdom vine, the tree god imparted some basic knowledge to us."

"And gave us the ability to communicate with each other and our minds."

"If we leave the tree god, this ability will also leave us. From then on, we can only communicate with gestures and roars, and cannot understand the other party's meaning. No matter how powerful the tribe is, it will soon be torn apart. And examples of decay abound, 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 devout enough to the tree gods, but that being strong is a mistake, and being strong will lead to punishment... There are many Race knows it."

The words of the old chief explained the reason why the efficiency of Lanwei people in learning to drive mecha fighters has dropped a lot compared to before. Without the "supply" of the tree god, Lanwei people want to communicate with each other more and more. The more difficult it is, the worse the effect is. After three months, it is basically impossible to connect.

"Pumice stone is an element of pumice stone, which can play the role of a bridge at the end of nerve whiskers, and pumice stone is a room-temperature superconductor that isolates gravity. It has a huge effect, but it is extremely volatile. The leaves of the tree of sacrifice or the tree god , can absorb the pumice stone element in the air or soil, and then supplement it to the Lanwei people or other creatures, if the source of the pumice stone element is lost, the "mind communication" ability between the Lanwei people will be lost."

"This time is almost three months."

What the science officer Lan Xiulong said made everyone feel a little relieved. Fortunately, there is this weakness. Otherwise, if the Lanwei people grow too fast, beyond their control, after defeating the tree god, they still want to fight with the god It's better to grab the tree god's weakness and control the planet if you snap your wrists.

In short, we still have to grasp the balance. We must not completely kill a certain party, but we must maximize the value of this planet!
……

Soon after the establishment of the Freedom Corps, under the leadership of the leader Zu Tai, an elite detachment of 5 Lanwei people drove 5000 "Dragonfly" transport racks and carried 4 "Furious" mechs. With the information and logistical support provided by the gods, a military operation was launched across many seas.

The code name of the operation is "Dig Up".

To be precise, it is to dig a "sacrificial tree" to Liberty Island to see if this tree can be used to restore the ability of "mind-communication" of Lanwei people.

Lanwei people who have lost the ability to communicate with each other are like losing their hands in daily life. All kinds of inconveniences make them very uncomfortable. Some high-level people can communicate normally through the "brain wave communicator" provided by the gods, but This kind of thing can't be so cheap that each person will be given one. Among the 5 people who went out this time, only those above the squad leader level are equipped with this kind of helmet, and there are about [-] helmets in total.

The "Tree of Sacrifice" is the most loyal servant of the tree god. It is distributed all over the continent, and the number is more than a million, but the species are not the same. Most of them are trees of life, but they may also be fluffy trees, crystal trees, colorful Light trees, these trees are all potential "wisdom" tree species, they are the carrier of knowledge, the node of consciousness transmission, and the disseminator of wisdom.

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

Naturally, the wise will definitely choose to surrender, and the unwise may even have the roots of the tree dug clean by the monster.

In addition, the sacrificial tree that had a slightly different heart, or that made the tree god feel threatened, was also destroyed—even if it did nothing.

Therefore, the target of the "root up" operation is a super-large sacrificial tree over 10 years old. According to a tribe of the Lanwei people who lived near this tree, this sacrificial tree seems to have Self-awareness, if it is moved to Liberty Island, not only will the mind-communication ability of the Lanwei people be restored, but as the tree that knows the tree god best, if it can be persuaded to join the rebel camp here, the tree god will surely die soon .

Even if this sacrificial tree has no self-awareness, as the eastern coastal land is an important node for the spread of tree god consciousness, once this tree is pulled out, there will be at least 10 square kilometers of land that will no longer be controlled by the tree god. This piece of land will become the first advance base for Lanwei people to return to and conquer the mainland!
"Come on!"

"Pay attention to air defense, first destroy the big bird in the sky!"

"Pay attention to coordination and cover, there are too many monsters, and every defensive surface cannot relax its vigilance."

"I can't hold on anymore, there are more and more monsters, no matter how hard I kill them, I can't finish them all!"

"Persist for another two hours, and the tree has been dug to two-thirds, and it will be lifted soon."

"The 8th Regiment is completely wiped out, the 9th Regiment has run out of ammunition, and is fighting monsters! The 10th Regiment is facing a large wave of monsters, please support!"

"what!"

"Ah! Ah!"

"It's unstoppable! 70% of the fighter planes have crashed, and there are more and more monster air forces!"

"God, help us! My legion can't hold on anymore!" Facing the situation where the whole line is in a hurry and the army is about to be defeated like a mountain, the leader Zu Tai can only put his begging eyes on the god above his head.

"What the hell is going on with this battle? It's a blind fight. You obviously have advanced weapons, but you don't have the slightest cooperation. You have been like a dog for three months!"

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

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

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

"Yes!"

……

This "root up" operation was declared a failure. Although the last sacrificial tree that proved to have no self-awareness was dug out, it was successfully hoisted to Liberty Island by hundreds of large transport planes. With 4 heavy casualties and more than [-] disheveled remnants and defeated soldiers, the entire Liberty Island was shrouded in an extremely depressing atmosphere.

(End of this chapter)