Quick Travel: Card Destroyer

Chapter 392: Fragment: No Dreams for Five Hundred Years (Part )

After thinking for a while, Su Sheng decided to tell his two companions his thoughts: "The people here have a very superficial understanding of power. I plan to establish a new power system in this place."

She thought the two would think she was too arrogant, but after waiting for a long time, she received no objection and instead was greeted by two faces eager to try.

"You said we need to artificially create a power system, right?" The next morning, Si Bai woke Su Sheng up and handed her a strange piece of paper, "Do you want to try this? It's called a card. Junior Sister and Ji Liangqi both use this."

Su Sheng took the card and looked at it carefully.

Should she say that it is worthy of being an object from five hundred years later? Just from a simple card, she can tell that there must be a complete industrial and talent training system behind it.

She suddenly felt that maybe she could really set an "anchor point" in this world. The two people in front of her would reach heights that even they themselves could not imagine in the future.

But she definitely won't be able to make a card of the same level as this one in a short period of time.

First, they needed to find the right materials.

According to Si Bai, if you want to make a card, you first need a base card, and then you can imprint patterns on it. The main raw material of the base card is called fairy papyrus. Su Sheng guessed that this thing should be similar to the original paper material she had seen before, but only fairy papyrus can produce some strange reactions with the auxiliary materials, and finally become a hard card that can withstand force input.

What happened next was somewhat unexpected.

The auxiliary materials for making the base cards were quickly gathered. Si Bai took the data stored by Fu Qingyuan, found an environment suitable for the growth of these auxiliary materials, and circled out a few plots of land.

The most important raw material, the fairy papyrus, was nowhere to be found. Si Bai traveled to several settlements and found several plants that could be used as writing carriers with the help of the natives of each settlement, but none of them could carry spiritual power or inherent abilities. Su Sheng roughly divided power into two types: one is spiritual power, also called the idea of ​​creation; the other is called inherent ability, which is the supernatural ability that people are currently using.

"I'm sorry, I've tried my best..." Si Bai spread the plants he had found on the table, his face full of frustration and his words full of apology, "I didn't expect that the fairy papyrus from five hundred years ago would be so hard to find..."

Su Sheng shook his head and consoled him: "Maybe the fairy papyrus is a man-made variety!"

"Man-made?" Si Bai was stunned.

"Well, artificial," Su Sheng himself was reminded of this word and suddenly understood. "I think it is precisely because the fairy papyrus is a plant cultivated by humans that you have never found it, and you haven't even found a plant that meets the requirements to a certain extent."

Si Bai seemed to cheer up, but soon found a new problem: "This makes sense, but how did the original fairy papyrus come into being?"

"I don't know, then go ahead and try." Su Sheng encouraged, "Leave this to me, and you guys continue to look for human settlements."

"Then I'll trouble you!"

Only two people went on this journey, and Su Sheng stayed behind to study how to cultivate plants that can carry spiritual power.

It seemed that it was not feasible to tamper with the existing papyrus directly. She tried the several varieties that Si Bai brought back one by one, but she didn't see any hope. But she was not someone who didn't know how to adapt. After basically determining that this way was not feasible, she decisively changed her mind and started looking for plants that could carry spiritual power, not just "papyrus".

After changing his mindset, everything became smoother. Su Sheng quickly locked onto several excellent carriers, some of which could carry the idea of ​​creation, and some of which could carry inherent abilities.

If she were to reverse the process based on the samples provided by Si Bai, she should choose the type that could carry mental power, but she did not want to put all her eggs in one basket and planned to cultivate both types.

It takes a lot of time to cultivate a plant from scratch. Su Sheng became so engrossed in her research that she didn't know how much time had passed. When her research began to show results, Si Bai and Fu Qingyuan just happened to come back.

She was surprised to find that both of them were injured and there were several unfamiliar faces.

"A conflict with other settlements?" Although she was confused, she chose to trust her companions' judgment and agreed to let the newcomers live in the residence.

"That's right!" Si Bai grimaced in pain while changing the dressing, but his brows could not hide his excitement. "Some dishonest guys spoke rudely to us, so we killed them all. And these people didn't want to live with them anymore, so we just brought them here."

Su Sheng couldn't help but laugh: "We really need to give the settlement a name."

The new arrivals were much weaker than Si Bai and Fu Qingyuan, but they were obedient enough and loved their new life very much. After a while, they built their own shelter by themselves, modeled after the wooden house.

She also learned for the first time how humans reproduce.

"Humanity" is not a single race, but a merger of two races. One race holds half of the seeds, and the other race holds the other half of the seeds and the hotbed. Only when the two seeds are combined will the next generation develop in the hotbed. The hotbed creates an environment for possible offspring every month. If the other half of the seeds do not enter the body, the hotbed will discard everything that was prepared before, and then replace it with new ones, and repeat the cycle. This is menstruation, and everyone's body, including Su Sheng, bleeds once a month.

Due to the strict bisexual reproduction model, they cannot reproduce independently from another race, and the other race cannot reproduce without them. But there is no doubt that the cost of "creation" is a bit too high for them, but it is almost equal to zero burden for another human race.

The difference in physical conditions directly leads to the threat to their survival. As long as there is another human race around them, they may be forced to continue to give birth, which will gradually hollow out their bodies until they die.

Su Sheng was keenly aware that she had to find a way to stop this vicious cycle.

When she once again proposed her idea to her two companions, they once again agreed and gave her a big surprise: "What a coincidence, you thought of that, too? In fact, the data that Qingyuan brought contains the answer you want, but we don't have the conditions for the time being."

"Really?" Si Bai's reaction made Su Sheng feel a little unreal. "It doesn't matter if we don't have the conditions now. We created the conditions ourselves. I just need to know that my idea is not wrong."

If I'm really sleepy, someone will give me a pillow.

At the same time, a certain hidden worry is quietly growing.

Is this all going too smoothly?