Dragon Cub's Bizarre Adventure

Chapter 120 Three

"Rats developed civilization, which is impossible. Rodents are one of the earliest mammals on the earth. Its history is countless times longer than that of human beings. If they can evolve civilization, then the earth's earliest It's the world of rats."

It is impossible for rats to develop wisdom or civilization in a natural environment, because of many reasons. First, the life span is too short, which means that it is difficult to preserve knowledge for a long time. Without a good way of inheritance, it is impossible to pass on knowledge If it is passed on, it is impossible to become smart from generation to generation.

Without the accumulation of knowledge, civilization cannot be developed. This is based on their sufficient intelligence. Judging from the ratio of the brain to the body of mice, it is indeed possible for them to develop smart brains, but the problem lies in their brains. Small size.

With a small body, it is thought that the energy consumption is small, and the computing power required by the brain to control the body is low, so there is no need for such a big human brain. Of course, if the energy consumption of the body goes down, the energy consumption of the brain will be redundant.

However, under normal circumstances, a species will not be a castle in the sky. Before they have intelligence and a sufficiently complex brain, such a huge energy and calorie demand is enough to wear down the rodent's foraging ability.

Rats are not at the top of the food chain. The food calories they can get are quite limited, plus the necessary expenditure of avoiding natural enemies, it is impossible to have enough calories to maintain the consumption of the brain.

This is fundamentally different from humans. Humans are a large animal, and their foraging ability is dozens of times that of rodents. At the same time, their large size means that they can eat a lot of food and store fat and calories for energy-intensive parts such as the brain. development.

If you add small size to natural energy and materials, it has a sharp defect o rodents

If human beings want to develop civilization and wisdom, it is tantamount to letting a camel go through the eye of a needle.

"However, we actually found rat towns, and they even had steam engines, gears, and industries, and they were bio-industries."

"That can only show one thing. These mice definitely did not evolve naturally, but someone did it deliberately." This can explain why they can overcome the most difficult start, but this requires an algebraic number of mice. And time is not something that human civilization can do.

Either humans don’t know what the purpose is, and they spent centuries as a unit to breed mice from generation to generation. The other possibility is that it was not done by humans at all, but under the influence of something else, the mice were bred from generation to generation. Evolved a brain.

"Sufficient high-energy food, forced mental work, modified birth pattern to reduce the number of litters to develop a larger and more complex brain, without complex foraging..." There are too many conditions, and nature cannot exist like this Excellent species living environment and even contradictory stimulating conditions will not evolve naturally. If artificially induced, what is the purpose?

"Military use?"

"What kind of war can make dozens of generations continue to eliminate and train rats?"

"Maybe it didn't really take that long, it was just some kind of accident?" Xiao Xiao rubbed her chin, "Is there such a possibility." She began to raise some possibility with the help of her rich experience.

"At that time, a biological weapon was needed to spread diseases or bind explosives to destroy the enemy's spacecraft or other devices. Therefore, rats, creatures with tenacious vitality, short lifespan, and not easy to get out of control, were used in this plan. They The original requirement was only for a short-term evolution of a slightly smarter subspecies, like breeding good horses and hounds."

"Then, for some reason, humans didn't use it, and instead of ending the plan, they chose to leave the earth or simply perish. If their technology

The technology is similar to yours, with an automated system and an intelligent system that can operate for more than 10 centuries, so how many generations can the mice in the laboratory reproduce in a perfect evolutionary environment before the laboratory is completely shut down and destroyed? "

"The lifespan of mice is about 3 years, and the normal mouse generation is about 1 year. If the laboratory speeds up the operation for more than 1000 years, then these mice will quickly iterate for more than 1000 generations in an artificial environment. If they are brought into humans In other words, it is equivalent to the evolution of human beings for more than 2 years under perfect catalytic conditions.”

"If you add that later these have ape-like, no, they don't even need intelligence at all, even if it's just muscle memory and learned to use crude tools and engineering capabilities, just like the ability of marmots to build dams, then they can be in The natural world quickly acquires its niche, and this ability becomes their long-term intrinsic skill"

Life will not give up any way of life. As long as it can survive, it must be inherited. On the contrary, if a trait is not conducive to survival, it will not be inherited.

Well, for mice that have evolved for more than a thousand generations, they have instinctively learned to use and make simple tools from their elders, and then obtain a wider range of survival opportunities and the ability to deal with natural enemies in nature.

So, as long as there is no accident, this ability will allow them to survive quickly and pass it on, eventually promoting the development of the brain.

"If some biological modification and genetic modification are added to castrate their fertility and increase the speed of brain capacity development, if the remains of ancient humans still exist, mice can easily and quickly obtain the materials and garbage made by humans to form themselves tool o..." Then a civilization of rats is not at all impossible.

"After that, everything just needs to be handed over to time. Give time to civilization, and then civilization will inevitably prosper. So, maybe there are rat towns everywhere under the strata, and we are like aliens I can't help but guess

How do you think they will see us?

"God. Or demon?

"In terms of human energy, time and money invested in rodent control projects, I think they may be gods," Zhaoxia complained, "Because the devil can only tempt souls, the more people the better, and they won't engage in world-killing projects at every turn. It also took a lot of time and energy to prepare for this project.”

"Zhaoxia, your sarcasm technique has improved again, and you can be sarcastic now." Xiaoxiao thought for a while and said.

"Thank you, my lord, for your appreciation" seemed very proud.

"Now, what are we going to do with those rats?"

"Do we have a niche conflict?"

"Theoretically speaking, no, if rats are born naturally, humans and rats actually have no ecological niche competition. The things we need are unavailable to them, such as most of the fossil energy, petrochemical products, nuclear energy and even metallic material."

"And the garbage we don't need is not useless to them. As for food, their food consumption is only a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of human waste."

A human city with a population of tens of millions like New York produces 2.1 tons of food waste a day, including all kinds of pasta, meat, and fruit pits and seeds that are not worth consuming teeth for humans.

Not counting the grass seeds of ornamental plants and green plants planted by humans, the cellulose and oxalic acid that humans cannot absorb are delicious meals for mice. Simply put, according to the food intake of a normal mouse, a thousand In a city with a population of [-], garbage alone can feed hundreds of millions of rats, eating, sleeping, and eating with peace of mind every day.

"The biggest contradiction between humans and rats is that rats cannot tell whether human food and products are garbage or useful. In other words, humans and rats cannot communicate, while rodents cannot

Animals need to grind their teeth, they will gnaw on wires and furniture, and most importantly-rats will spread plague and bacteria. "

"However, for civilized rats, this is not a problem, right?" Because civilized rats can communicate, and if they can communicate, they can draw a red line to tell these rats what not to bite, let alone diseases. said.

Rats can also get sick. As a creature that has broken through the limit of the population, if they do not have good hygiene habits and medical technology, they may die faster than humans. After all, the population density of humans is not as large as that of rats.

"So, these rats may be cleaner than some of our workers." The ship doctor joked, because the rats would take a bath on time in the footage captured by the drone before, using fine sand, wood chips and special Mycelium-like tools clean their hair.

A few rats may be female rats, and they can also dress up, apply some kind of oil to each of their hairs, and then jump into the water to clean them. For the workers, these rats might have to be a little cleaner.

"However, the lifespan of rats is too short, so communication as a civilization is completely unreliable." Xiao Xiao shook her head, "So, the best way is to do nothing, when they don't exist, we do our own things, They live their lives"

"You heard me right about this point. Lifespan is the biggest problem restricting the communication between the two civilizations. Apart from that, culture and ideology are simply not worth mentioning."

Just as it is difficult for humans to negotiate with elves, it is even more difficult to talk to dragons. This is not a question of culture or ideology at all, but a question of lifespan and the concept of time.

For humans, it may be understandable that the supreme head of the rat generation changes every 3 years, but their entire bureaucracy and ruling class may be different every year.

This means that their policies are changing at a rapid rate. Today they are still friends, and tomorrow they are enemies. When humans sleep, the rats will complete the change of dynasty. If two civilizations communicate, they will not be able to communicate at all.

Human beings come back from the whole five-year project, well, no mouse knows each other, and business and trade exchanges are even more nonsense, just like for elves, if you borrow money, you may not have to pay it back for generations, it feels stupid There is a lot of money, and as a result, 500 years later, an elf found your descendants and took out your ancestral IOU to make you pay back the money.

The same is true for business. You may order a batch of handicrafts or equipment from the elves, and then your great-grandson will get the goods. This time span is enough for your whole family to hang themselves at a loss.

Not to mention the dragon, maybe it thinks that it just sleeps first, wakes up to take revenge, and then the whole family of the enemy is dead, so it can only seek revenge from the kingdom of the descendants of the enemy—this tragedy, Xiao Xiao is on the other side of the light. Already heard it.

After Nigelhogg slept, his sister was killed, and after he slept again, the whole family of his enemies were gone, and his descendants refused to admit the crime, and then fought—the millennium Dragon Poetry War—the key Yes, human beings have been tortured for thousands of years. For the dragon, this is just the beginning. None of the parties involved died. I still remember clearly Mumu

Therefore, for the two civilizations, lifespan and the concept of time are the biggest factors restricting communication, and the lifespan difference between humans and rats is too great!

"However, in this case, they are too much of a threat to us!" It is also time, which means that the iteration speed of the rats is also dozens of times that of humans. The plan of the dark forest.

"It's not big, their lifespan also restricts the growth of their civilization, lifespan is too long, civilization is slow and old, lifespan is too short, civilization is rootless duckweed" Xiaoxiao doesn't think these rats will be a threat, they are too short Once it happens, the speed of knowledge accumulation will be distorted and lost at a high speed due to the relationship of continuous iteration and transmission, resulting in extremely slow overall progress.

Not to mention that the small size makes it almost impossible to use most of the energy and industrial mechanical power that humans can use. In other words, these rat civilizations will never be able to touch the stars in their lifetime, unless humans Take them aboard, or give them some help.

"In short, leave them alone, we don't have to occupy this planet, the resources here are exhausted, there is nothing to use except for some farming and vacations, no matter what civilization and country it is, it will not be strange to a group of tourists idea"

Since the captain said so, everyone naturally stopped discussing this issue, and only strengthened the defense of the outpost and the investigation of the rats.

At the same time, Xiaoxiao is also preparing to start a journey through time again, because there is really nothing worth staying here except for the little surprises of those rats. Of course, this place can also be used as a safe base and rear for herself. After all, a world without magic power means that no monsters and monsters can come after them, and if they come here, they will only be killed by the bombardment of new stars.

Before that, Xiaoxiao still has an important job to do, which is to really build this world as his mobile base, build a device of Planes Locke, and rely on it to build a long-term passage between worlds Of course, this side can only be used as a receiving point to transmit magic energy from other places to operate.

Chapter 120 Four

Chapter 120 Four

There are only about 400 people in the new star, which is unlikely to support a new human civilization, but it is enough to operate a forward base. Now the planting area and the space parking site are all set up, and Xiaoxiao has started to build Planes Rock. Mobile array device.

Or a receiver, so that she can use the local magic power to connect here in a high magic plane, but in a non-magic and low energy level area, she needs to be very careful not to let the magic power overflow the device.

And a typical counterexample is the situation on the side of 2B, where the magic power overflows and pollutes, the whole world is directly doomed, and the other side is also directly doomed, the scene was once extremely grassy

O

The knowledge required for the Planes Locke device is found in the inheritance props found in the previous dungeon, and the pendant she has on hand is just a toy-level thing. Simply put, it is something that Planes Locke uses to enlighten students or relatives and friends. And missionary use.

The Little Earl's before was the serious Black Domain Planeslock Heritage Artifact. Unfortunately, the one on hand is white, so she is unlikely to have any relationship with the black inheritance Artifact. Of course, reading the basic bits inside There's nothing wrong with surface knowledge

Moreover, black and blue are friendly colors. This device is exactly the blue color. You can tell from the name that Ten Thousand Winds is Yin, an orbital space creation as big as a mountain range.

With rocks as the main body, it is composed of a large amount of Mithril (titanium) and fine gold (? Black), similar to a very classical terrace composed of multiple rings, and a bit like a star gate in science fiction.

iwen is a large-scale face-to-face portal. Armor penetrates the face-to-face recommendation prison.

Constructing a temporary road with magic power and using it in large quantities across the world is mainly because the blue planelocks are good at wisdom and thirst for knowledge and culture, which means that they often travel with a lot of luggage and people.

For the world, the blue Planeslocks are less damaging, they usually do not print cards on a large scale, and this kind of cross-plane interaction is equivalent to providing the other party with a certain quality or element supplementation as compensation. But the blue color is definitely the most harmful, not one of them.

Everyone knows that mages are the most troublesome of all professions, and Planeslock is the most troublesome among mages, and the blue planelock is the mage role in Planeslock. Well, everyone should understand that they The ability to get things done.

And the reason why Wanxiangfengyin is so famous that Planeslock in the black domain specially wrote down the blueprint is very simple, it once blew up a star, the reason... o...

Its creators really want to know, if the power of stars is refined into magic power, and then the magic power of multiple stars is guided to a star most compatible with magic power through the universal wind bow I, can this sun be magically transformed into A sentient being or magical device.

Then he made tens of thousands of universal wind guides, turning all the star energy in the entire galaxy into magic power, and concentrated it on a blue giant star on the edge. In an instant... this Planeslock and the entire galaxy turned into light .

Of course, his curious blue friends and the white friends who came to supervise the construction to avoid affecting the order turned into light. If it weren't for the blueprint and manufacturing method of this thing, I would have given Without apprentices and friends of the black department, then... probably disappeared together with the entire ether school.

Therefore, when Xiaoxiao was flipping through it, in the manufacturing instructions, it was indicated in bold red font size: it is only for world travel and magic power conduction, please do not use it for any other purposes and experiments, if necessary, please pay attention to protection and ask yours A friend explains what you are experimenting with and the greatest possible risks.

It is the least difficult to manufacture this kind of thing in the dead magic area, because it is difficult to forge

In the process of forging, there is no need to worry about the equipment embryo absorbing free magic power or being disturbed by elements. You only need to forge those complicated glyphs one by one.

In a sense, if most artisans who don’t consider magic equipment and props need to know the status of the equipment in real time in order to tailor-made, it is easier to manufacture a lot in this magic-free world. It's hard to say whether the magic power can work normally or not.

Fortunately, Wanxiang Fengyin itself was tested in a low-energy universe. Otherwise, in the high-energy universe, the star itself has magic power and is a magical star, so there is no need to do such complicated and dangerous experiments.

Under the powerful printing technology of Dead Space, the assembly and manufacture of this device took almost no effort, which is hard for Planeslocks to imagine. After all, where the magic power is developed, the general basic productivity is not very good.

Mages can live the life of the interstellar era, while most ordinary people are still living the life of the Middle Ages, which leads to the fact that it is very expensive to achieve a considerable level of technology on small utensils. In general, the construction process is usually very slow.

After all, on a small construction site, there is no such thing as asking for leave twice a day, and there is no magic caster who plays big names at all times, and there is no unlucky engineering warlock who has to do all the work from design drawings to supervision. Naturally, the efficiency is very high. .

This is the reason why the overall civilization of the magic world is not very good. Ordinary mortals can’t do it, and all they can do are big guys. How to get these big guys together to do projects is a technical job, let alone make these big guys ninety-nine Six overtime.

After using the magical power converted by the bloodline to light up the glyphs one by one to make sure that this thing has not lost its effect due to the use of interstellar-level nano-manufacturing technology, Xiaoxiao is satisfied to prepare for the next world, so that there is no need to use a huge amount of magic power The land card is used to liberate the battleship Mars, but after the passage is penetrated, the warship can be pulled from the port of call here at any time.

And the local mice also have a new role, that is, the most common role they have played in human society for generations—laboratory rats—take some away, and then throw these smart mice away when necessary Go out and find your way.

For example, when it is possible to teleport new stars later, teleport these rats first. If they are fine, teleporting people and spaceships should not be a big problem. Similarly, when going to a new world, you can also teleport these rats first.

How to obtain these intelligent rats did not take much effort from everyone. When the excavator waited, I saw a group of rats hiding in the corner tremblingly, "Tsk, I really can't tell that they are intelligent creatures from the outside, but the city looks decent. "

Administrative areas, residential areas, sewers, processing areas, and even industrial areas and central heating systems can be said to have reached a considerable level in the construction of underground cities.

They have characters, languages, books, murals, and even their own furniture and a commercial street. Xiaoxiao also saw a snack street selling the food that rats like, mainly various mushroom products and insect products. .

Rat breeding is a kind of extremely obese underground worms, super high protein, and very thick fat, which is very valuable for the high energy consumption of the rats to maintain the brain, and because of the relationship between the brain and the ability to eat, most rats They all look a bit chubby, and the body fat accumulation is not low one by one to avoid starving to death without eating for half a day

O

Although a human "day" is no different from a human's month for rats, so even if they have thick fat and do not eat for a day, these rats will be very depressed.

How to communicate with these rats is the turn of Xiaoxiao and Zhaoxia. They can speak dragon language, but the problem is that the rats don't know human language. Fortunately, writing helps everyone.

After learning that these ancient apes and unknown beasts suspected of being ancient apes are just inviting the rats to participate

After joining their starry sky adventure team, the city council breathed a sigh of relief. Although they were quite critical of the fact that humans lifted the roof of the city, but... the rats less than 20 centimeters in height had better not kick with a group of people. It's better to discuss this issue of compensation with creatures that can trample a rat to death.