Chapter 172: The Stealer (True Three-in-One)
"Stealers, you mean humans, or Pokémon?"
Without waiting for Guan Liyuan to react, Xiao Ai, who seemed to be also curious about this, had already asked directly.
Philome Mantis said "you", and Xiao Ai has both human parts and Pokémon parts, so Guan Liyuan doesn't know whether the other party is talking about humans or Pokémon.
But...... Because of the various "feats" of human beings in the main world, Guan Liyuan is still more inclined to take the blame on human beings themselves.
But to Guan Liyuan's surprise, Pheromé Mantis actually asked, "Is there a difference?"
"What do you mean?" Xiao Ai and Guan Liyuan vaguely guessed something.
"Isn't this the world that humans and Pokémon share, and you destroyed this place and invaded our world! Don't think ...... Don't think I'll forgive you easily just because it's you......" Philome mantis said in a tangled voice.
Pokémon and humans used to live in an inverted world, but what about the current world?
Guan Liyuan was vaguely aware of something, and many of his previous doubts seemed to have been answered......
At this time, thinking about it, the "oasis" in the reversed world is dozens or even hundreds of times the same green area in the current world, and it seems that it is not that Lao Ka "created" the oasis to take refuge, but only saved the last shelter for himself when this world was "destroyed".
[Enough!] Lao Ka suddenly spoke up, interrupting Xiao Ai's continued questioning.
[Old card, calm down......] Guan Liyuan soothed.
"Kaka, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Hupa, who was also in the oasis, also flew over at this time and circled the old card twice.
Lao Ka was silent for a while, and then said to Guan Liyuan: [Actually, these things have nothing to do with you...... It also has nothing to do with Xiao Ai, Xiao Hupa, and Xiao Shan...... But since you're so curious, it's not really much to tell you. 】
If it is just said that it has nothing to do with Guan Liyuan, maybe Lao Ka means that it has nothing to do with "visitors from another world", but since Xiao Ai and Hu Pa are also mentioned, Guan Liyuan estimates that Lao Ka simply doesn't want the grudge to continue.
[You always thought that both humans and Pokémon lived in the so-called "present world" today, right?] Lao Ka asked.
There was no need for Guan Liyuan to answer, Lao Ka himself continued: [Actually, as the Pheromé mantis said, we ...... Including humans and most Pokémon, our hometown is now the "Inverted World", which used to be vibrant and pregnant with countless lives......]
Probably because he heard Philome Mantis mention the events of the year again, Lao Ka did not become mystical anymore, but talked to Guan Liyuan about the events of the year.
However, Lao Ka seems to be completely obsessed with memories, and uses too many emotions and sighs......
Removing the sorrow of the old card, the former glory of this "reversed world" was also shown in front of Guan Liyuan at this time.
In the distant "long, long time ago", Pokémon and humans lived in this land, according to Lao Ka, the original human beings were not a technological system, but like Pokémon, they pursued their own evolution and had great power......
At that time, in Pokémon, there was no so-called "divine beast", and all Pokémon followed the evolution path of the "first beast" and broke through the boundaries of the level.
From the perspective of today's world, the unimaginably abundant resources and energy of the ancient reversed world are enough to support the existence of the "First Beast......
The ancient Pokémon are based on the "race" as the camp, and the most powerful is the so-called "dragon clan", the king of the sky, the king of the land, the king of the sea, the three most powerful dragons, defeated one strong enemy after another, occupied the most fertile territory, and ruled over countless subordinate races.
However, in the end, the dragon clan did not escape the fate of "prosperity and decline", if the beginning of the ancient era was the rise of the dragon clan, and the middle stage was the dragon clan dominating the world, then the later part of the ancient era was based on the dragon clan's civil war.
The King of Heaven and the King of Land broke out in a fierce internal fight, and as for the King of the Sea...... That is, the old card who is now pouting every day to take care of the miracle seeds, is sometimes mediated, sometimes on the side of the king of heaven, and sometimes on the side of the king of land.
In its own description, among the ancient dragons, it is the only one who loves peace, and it does not know how much water there is in it.
But there is one thing that the old card is realistic, and that is ...... As time passes, from the perspective of an onlooker, this protracted civil war is inevitable, and there is little point in pursuing the merits of the events that have intensified the conflict.
Fundamentally, the cause of the civil war was the uncontrollability of the "Origin Beast System"!
The first beast's breakthroughs again and again rely more on their own efforts and are not restricted by the outside world, but after each breakthrough to the next stage, the consumption of external resources will increase exponentially.
At the beginning of the ancient era, the strongest dragon clan only had thousands of primordial beasts, and more of them were ordinary dragon Pokémon, and there was no pressure on the external environment, but in the late ancient era, when the dragon clan was at its peak, there were 30,000 primordial beasts, and even weak Pokémon groups had appeared, and it was impossible to meet the minimum reproduction guarantee......
Even if all the Primordial Beasts know it, the best way at this time is for all Pokémon not to break through again to avoid increasing the consumption of the environment.
But no race like a dragon, no race does that—only stronger can get more resources!
A small clan without the Origin Beast has no room to live at all, on the contrary, the more Origin Beasts, the more they can seize resources and shelter ordinary Pokémon of the same clan.
The irreconcilability of this fundamental contradiction led to the wars of some small clans, which gradually expanded to the war of doom.
If this war can simply reduce the number of Origin Beasts, and make all parties in the war feel the pain, a new order may be established......
However...... Unfortunately, the result of the War of Doom is that the reversed world, which is already on the verge of collapse, is completely beyond the scope of self-repair, although at the end of the ancient era, the number of primordial beasts is already about the same as at the beginning of the ancient era, but the external environment has begun to gradually "die silent"!
As a result, although the number of primordial beasts has decreased, external resources will never be sufficient, and the world seems to have stepped on the gas pedal towards complete destruction......
Fortunately, at this time, the first Pokémon finally broke through the boundaries of race value and became a "divine beast".
Not only can the Divine Beast possess the same strength as the First Beast, but it also has little burden on the environment, and can even resonate with the rules of the world and become the "beneficial worm" of the world.
Of course, the divine beast that has just broken through, like the weakest Origin Beast, cannot directly turn the tide, but ...... Because they don't need too many resources, they can take the ordinary Pokémon in the clan and hide in the corners that the first beasts don't care about.
The appearance of the divine beast is also a sign of the end of the ancient era and the beginning of the ancient era.
At the beginning of the ancient era, the mythical beasts were developing in the corners of the world because they were less dependent on the environment, and could even nourish the external environment to form symbiosis, unlike the first beast that would only put pressure on the environment.
On the other hand, not only was the number of Primordial Beasts greatly reduced, but the King of Land and the King of Heaven were both killed in the final battle at the end of the Ancient Era, but they still had to continue the war under the pressure of survival - although the world is being destroyed, as long as they continue to win, they can make their own race not die before the "world".
When the time reaches the middle of the ancient era, Kaoparis, the only remaining fruit of the ancient dragons, can only operate in the most vibrant areas of the world, once entering the weakened area, Kaoparis's physical strength will be quickly depleted, and the area that meets the requirements only accounts for less than one-tenth of the world.
Similarly, the other Primordial Beasts are also subject to similar restrictions, and the more powerful the Primordial Beast, the smaller the range of activity.
The races that have gradually "become a climate" and have divine beasts have begun to occupy the world piece by piece!
At first, they could only live in the poor mountains and rivers where the Primordial Beast "couldn't survive", and gradually began to occupy some areas that the Primordial Beast Race "didn't care about", and then the Primordial Beast Clan gave up some of the inferior areas "out of fear...... Eventually, the remaining Primordial Beasts were left to retreat into a fixed area.
Compared with the ancient battle between the Origin Beast Race, in fact, the Ancient War between the Divine Beast Race and the Origin Beast Race was much more "harmonious".
Because the starting point of the first beast and the divine beast are ordinary Pokémon, the process of replacing the first beast with this divine beast is not only a barbaric war, but also the factor of self-adjustment of various races, which can be said to be the coexistence of "conflict between friend and foe and self-evolution".
After all, there is a big gap between the environment required by the equally strong Origin Beast and the Divine Beast, and if a Origin Beast wants to survive, it needs to occupy the territory that can make more than ten Divine Beasts survive, and a Origin Beast and ten equally strong Divine Beasts occupy the same territory, which situation is safer, the conclusion is obvious.
Therefore, in the late ancient era, after discovering the power of the divine beast, all races also took the initiative to reduce the first beast, deliberately avoiding the evolution of the first beast.
The same self-adjustment also appeared among humans, before the ancient era, there was no essential difference between humans and other Pokémon, but in ancient times, humans adjusted more thoroughly than Pokémon - directly began reverse evolution, at the expense of all strength, so that the race's environmental needs were greatly reduced, and at the same time, there was the germ of technology.
Although the development of science and technology depends on environmental resources, when environmental resources are insufficient, the development of science and technology will naturally be inhibited, so the stability is much stronger than that of the first beast system......
At the end of the ancient era, there were only a few hundred remaining Primordial Beasts in the world, and the more than 100,000 Primordial Beasts in their heyday either died in war or time, and only the most powerful and longest-lived ones were still alive.
Moreover, these Primordial Beasts, including Kaoparis, have all fallen into a deep sleep - this can minimize the consumption of environmental resources, and at the same time, because their respective races have also been born Divine Beasts, so they can sleep peacefully.
At this point, the world has entered the Middle Ages of a new order and new development, and the continuous birth of mythical beasts and the continuous development of science and technology have rejuvenated this world "seemingly".
When Lao Ka told this, his tone was unusually sad......
It can be said that the rise of the divine beast, the old card "indispensable", the original beast race began to compete with the first beast-based race, when competing for resources, the old card can be said to be self-restraint to the point of "losing power and humiliating the clan".
Because he saw new hope from the divine beast, Lao Ka would rather watch the dragon clan weaken further than extinguish this last hope - if there is no ancestor of the first beast, who has been "appeased and nurtured", the divine beast wants to eliminate the first beast, and there will be more twists and turns...... Even the world may not hold out that day!
Facts have proved that Lao Ka's judgment is completely correct, under its care and suppression, the dragon clan has gradually appeared with divine beasts, and no longer evolves the first beast, even if the dragon clan does not have a dominant position, but it is not a decline......
At the beginning of the Middle Ages, the old card was asleep with the expectation of the future.
However, when Lao Ka is awakened, what he sees is not the world returning to its ancient glory, but a more desolate world that even makes it difficult to breathe......
But Lao Ka didn't even have a reason to point at the beasts and scold them - the reason why this happened was entirely because during the ancient war, the world was too traumatized, and the beasts could only delay this destruction, and at the end of the Middle Ages, when Lao Ka and the first beast were awakened, this delay was almost to the limit!
However, in the midst of this desperate path, humanity has created a "miracle" - technology, which has allowed them to discover another dimensional world (just a new plane from the perspective of the forum).
Although the "New World" is more desolate than the environment of the ancient and ancient times, and even compared with the Middle Ages, which were on the verge of despair, it ...... The rules of the world there are intact and unbroken.
In contrast, the inverted world at that time was like a bottle with only a small half bottle of water left, and the bottom was leaking, and the divine beast could only make the hole smaller, while the new world had less "water", but the container was very complete, and there was the particularity of the divine beast, which could gradually "upgrade" the environment there.
Moreover, the rules of the new world are still very "simple", and in the development of the world, the divine beast can make itself fit with the rules, and then change the rules and create rules to a certain extent.
It is not difficult to choose between gradual extinction on one side and gradual prosperity on the other.
It's just a bit cruel to the Primordial Beast, the New World is obviously not suitable for them, and humans can only do their best to keep small oases so that they can sleep in them, and leave a back door so that when they accumulate enough, they can go to the New World to see.
But in the words of Lao Ka, this is what they deserve - and according to the space transfer technology of human beings at that time, not everyone brushes and brushes all over the past, in fact, including human beings themselves, as well as most Pokémon, cannot directly "cross", and the new world can only make the race continue.
Throughout ancient times, the theme of humans and Pokémon was the Great Migration......
The first step is to enter the new world with a few mythical beasts, as well as some Pokémon that adapt to the "new world", one is to experiment and whether they can survive and reproduce, and secondly, after the beasts pass, they can also gradually "upgrade" the environment of the new world.
There are also some Pokémon that can't withstand "crossing" by themselves, but they can enter after becoming a fossil - the fossil resurrection machine can't get by, and the Pokémon that passed in the form of a fossil can only be said to have left hope in the future.
However...... In one step, the problem was that after sending a batch of Pokémon, humans discovered that the time ratio on the two sides was different - only a stable spatial layer was found before, and too many actual observations could not be made.
Fortunately, Arceus was able to freely travel through the two worlds after joining forces with humans, which made humans and Pokémon in the Old World discover this.
By the time the time of the Great Migration, the first Forerunners had already multiplied the New World for countless generations.
In today's world, most of the Pokémon with a birth age of "100 million" are the result of the reproduction of these pioneers and the native creatures of the New World.
This is also the reason why Guan Liyuan first came to the Pokémon world not long after he found the ancient sky elacanth resurrected from the fossils hundreds of millions of years ago and understood the concept of "human", while the fossil pterosaurs tens of millions of years ago had never seen humans at all.
Of course, the ancient sky elongacanth is also unfamiliar to modern humans - because compared to the black technology humans it knows, the current humans are no different from the Stone Age.
Those who live in the Hoenn region are the descendants of the precursor beasts, and these three beasts are also the only beasts that possess the ancient genes of the New World, so they can enter the form of "primordial return".
Arceus used his ability to return to the two worlds, and he was also the first individual to arrive in the new world in the true sense, and the degree of integration of the rules was also the highest.
The difficulties of the Great Migration have just begun, and the second step to "migrate" is a large number of Pokémon that cannot immediately adapt to space shuttle.
At this time, the time ratio of the two worlds is gradually shrinking, but it is still very large.
If you want to travel directly through the world, you need to wait until the proportions of time are completely the same—at the rate of environmental degradation at that time, even humans, who are the least dependent on the environment, will not be able to hold out at that time.
Say it's migration...... In fact, the second step is just to perpetuate the race!
Humans, at this time, created dreams - no one knows about them now, only some of the longest-lived mythical beasts know that "dreams" are the real sense, the first artificial Pokémon.
"Fantasy" does not have the power of mythical beasts, but it has all the Pokémon genes!
At that time, the only way humans and Pokémon could think of was to perpetuate the race in the form of genes......
While you can't send these Pokémon individuals over, you can send their genetic inducers!
Two million years ago in the New World, because of the intervention of the Forerunner Divine Beast, a lot of new life has appeared in the New World, and it was two million years ago that a special "rain" fell in the New World, which induced native life, rapidly evolved in the direction of Pokémon, and even in a few hundred years, the race that originally belonged to the inverted world appeared explosively.
And fantasy is the monitoring and replenishment mechanism of this evolutionary process, they themselves are the most complete gene pool, during which some races have not evolved, but because of the existence of fantasy, they can reproduce the "lost" genes through reproduction......
When there were many missing races at first, the number of dreams multiplied to a few thousand at most, and when the "filling in the gaps" was gradually completed, the number of dreams began to decrease sharply - their reproduction was according to this law.
This is also the reason why in some legends, Dream is the ancestor of all Pokémon, and Arceus is the creator god.
The third step is the migration of human beings themselves......
Humans have been delaying this step for a long time, because unlike Pokémon, what humans really want to inherit is their own technology, not genes, otherwise they have to re-evolve from apes, which is no different from starting from scratch.
Humans who have given up all their power are not only unable to evolve in a simple and crude moment and in individual form like Pokémon, but their "knowledge" cannot be passed on genetically.
However, in the end, human beings still did not find a feasible way, and finally from 100,000 years ago in the New World, a group of primates began to evolve and rush towards "humans......
As for human technology, only a small part of it has been successfully brought to the new world by the divine beasts, that is, the remains of ultra-ancient civilizations.
Although it is impossible for the human race in the New World to directly inherit the black technology of their predecessors, the ultra-ancient ruins have also greatly accelerated the development of human beings.
That's all, there are still some things that can't be called human contributions, you must know that the Great Migration is the most contributed and contributed the most by human beings, but in the end, human beings have lost the most......
Therefore, the first migrating divine beasts, when guiding the formation of the rules of the new world, greatly favored humans.
At the same time, in order to avoid the recurrence of the war tragedy of the ancient and ancient times, the first generation of mythical beasts also set great restrictions on the battle between Pokémon, and avoided Pokémon from harming each other as much as possible......
Over the past 100,000 years, human beings have gradually appeared, and because of the "preference" of the world's rules, even if they have no power at all, they can subdue other Pokémon and accelerate their growth.
Although there have been some detours during the period, such as the Pokémon War in the barbarian era, such as Carlos once appeared, the giant man who broke the genetic lock again, but there is a rule bias, and the care of some ancient divine beasts, human beings are growing rapidly - among the divine beasts that migrated directly from the old world, there are some powerful and long-lived existences, which are still alive today!
For example, Arceus, such as Kigeld, such as the Ancestral Split......
And the reason why Lao Ka showed jealousy when he mentioned Arceus, but he was not very respectful, was precisely because Arceus was the first divine beast that opened the ancient era, and it was also the only divine beast that could freely travel back and forth between the two worlds after joining forces with humans at the beginning of the Great Migration, and it was also the divine beast with the most combination rules......
In ancient times, Lao Ka and Arceus were the bosses of the two camps, although Lao Ka has always been intellectually "appeased" to him, and even Arceus understands this, but when it comes to the guy who replaced his own era, Lao Ka naturally won't have any good tone.
In contrast, Lao Ka also hates Kigeld even more, the real Kigeld, is the first divine beast of the dragon clan - although there is also the factor of Lao Ka's own "appeasement" in it, but when Kigeld broke through the divine beast, the first beast race and the divine beast race were still in a hostile state, so it was naked to the enemy.
When Lao Ka first heard the news of the appearance of the dragon beast, his first reaction was excitement, which was a sign that he really realized that there was still hope for the world and the dragon clan.
But when he really heard and saw Kigeld, he was still instinctively unhappy, and even though he expected the dragon clan to have more divine beasts, he directly began to encourage other dragons to evolve into divine beasts, but he also wanted to kill Kigeld, a traitor.
Therefore, when the dragons were still wanted by the dragons, Kiggled would evolve the ability to disperse itself into cells, which is also a proof of its struggle to survive - the real Kiggled has been physically wiped out, but its will can be continued through the "Kiggled", a race that can reproduce by division and reintegration.
Even though the two sides have reconciled, the equally rebellious Kigeld, until now, is still emotionally attached to the former boss.
As for the dead silence of the inverted world, Pokémon will "sleep" into a petrified state, which is also the "credit" of mankind.
At that time, between the first step and the second step, human beings still wanted to delay the time synchronization of the two worlds as much as possible, and then the time and space resistance would be reduced, and everyone could naturally relocate directly, and this kind of petrified state was the result of human beings' transformation of the Dead Silent Land......
However, this plan failed, as the petrified state was studied to the extreme, and only reduced the energy consumption, and could not really exist permanently.
However, today, when the proportion of time has been synchronized, the combination of petrification and ultra-ancient space technology has given birth to the "Poke Ball", which can be regarded as an unexpected joy.
As for the beasts...... It is a native creature of the "New World", and may also be mixed with the blood of some precursors.
Most of the native creatures of the New World have either been combined with Pokémon and have long been integrated into Pokémon, such as fossil pterosaurs and protogai turtles...... All belong to Pokémon based on local genes.
Even the vast majority of Pokémon now are actually evolved from native creatures......
However, there are always ten native races, and they firmly believe that the evolution products under this catalysis are "stealers", and they will never coexist and reconcile with humans and Pokémon in their attitudes, which are the current ten alien beasts.
Because they have never mated with Pokémon and humans that have appeared in the past two million years, and they only have the part of the protist and the part of the precursor Pokémon in their bloodline, they will not be affected by the petrification-like effect when they enter the Old World-humans develop petrification-like technology after the first step of migration.
After they found a way to pass through the old and new worlds, they would rather use the withered old world as their nest and constantly fight Pokémon and humans, and Pokémon and humans have no good way - they will directly petrify when they enter the dead places of the old world!
The Alien Beasts only operate in the regions of Carlos and Alola, not only because they have found a passage between the old and new worlds in these two regions, and will lose their strategic depth in other regions, but also because they at least "inherit" the Ancestor Rift Void, Ancestor Groud, and Ancestor Gaioca......
If it weren't for these precursor beasts, the "New World" wouldn't have developed to the extent it is now, and they wouldn't have appeared.
Therefore, there is also an agreement between the Alien Beast and the Three Ancestors that they will not enter the area centered on Hoen-Carlos and Alora, who are far away, are not within this range......