Chapter 37: Tribal Integration (3) --- struggle to survive
The four of them had a dinner in the Baoguang Palace, which was tens of thousands of times stronger than those below. In fact, in terms of food, if there is only Hongjun alone, he is actually not very picky. It's just that Hongjun still has these three delicate women, and if the guys below don't know what to do, I'm afraid that Hongjun will not be slaughtered, but Hongjun's original intention is to speed up their evolution and the development of civilization. Killing too much is the opposite of what it was meant to be. Simply, take the three of them back to the Heavenly Palace and hide.
After the meal, Hongjun went to bed with Feng Lixi on the big bed. And Bai Ze and Bai Xi were waiting outside the door.
Wait until the next day before dawn. The four of them tried to go back quietly, but when they returned to the mouth of the cave, they found that the scene was in shambles. The people who were still able to move were taking care of more than a dozen wounded, and several stumps and broken arms were scattered everywhere on the ground next to them. It looked like eight or nine people had died, and Hongjun hurriedly searched for it, and found that the team composed of Sui and the Sanming women was stopping the bleeding of the leader he had been in contact with often, and he looked very seriously injured. After Hongjun walked in, he found that the leader had a wound on his face from the left ear to the top of the right head, which was even three points into the bone, and the two eyes could not be saved, and even the left eye was directly shattered.
Hongjun burst into flames, and stretched out his hand to help the leader stop the injury, but this eye is afraid that it is not easy to deal with, if he completely heals it, then should these around be saved? If all of them are cured, will the healing methods they have now obtained continue to be inherited and developed? After many considerations, Hongjun just healed the leader's injuries first, and his eyes will wait and see, and... Hongjun also has some thoughts in his heart, which is inconvenient to say for the time being.
After the leader stopped howling, Hongjun turned around and asked, "What happened?" ”
Sui sobbed and said something that surprised Hongjun: "Yesterday... Orcs ... Attack... By.. Snatch.. Thirteen. Woman"
Orcs? As soon as Hongjun thought of this word in his mind, Patian projected a species that was more than two meters tall and roughly human, and it seemed that he was also walking upright, with thick limbs, the muscles of his whole body were as tight as stones, there was no clothes on his body, not even leaves, and thick body hair grew on his legs, arms, and chest except for the places where he grew normally. The face ... It's not a human face at all, although you can vaguely see the existence of facial features, but they are all very narrow, and the skin on the face is like a stone by the river, and a lump of circular pits is distributed on the face.
Patian said at this time, "This projection is quite eye-catching, and the others even have the facial features of beasts. Except for the fact that they walk upright and the arrangement of their limbs, which are relatively similar to humans, they are really very different in other places, and even within their race, their appearance is different. ”
"How did they evolve?" Hongjun Qidao.
"After the first type of Homo sapiens appeared in the world, they were still relatively weak, and Homo sapiens at that time were not really human because they could not use tools. If this part of Homo sapiens is attacked by primates, some of the male members are killed, and the female members are considered close relatives by the primates and mated with them. This is where the first orcs come from. ”
"There is also a kind of species that when the weaker males Homo sapiens do not compete for the right to mate, they will look for similar species, although most species and Homo sapiens will not have offspring, but after casting a large area of the net, they will always come across species that can produce offspring. For example, primates. Patian said.
"Didn't you say that primates kidnapped female Homo sapiens? So since you can't beat it, how can Homo sapiens and female primates come together? Hongjun said.
"Primates are a large range, even if it is the same species, each individual is strong and weak, strong primates take away female Homo sapiens, then male Homo sapiens may also have a way to take away weak or young female primates." Patian said confidently. "And the offspring of these two conditions are the main evolutionary channels of orcs now, and there are also some descendants of Homo sapiens and other species, but the number is very small, either disappearing or hiding in some corner."
"Is it a hybrid variety? Hongjun thought for a moment, and then asked, "Then why do orcs attack humans?" ”
"The gang in front of you isn't strictly human, maybe they fit the definition of dwarves better. But then again, dwarves are just smaller, and otherwise the same as humans. But orcs are very different from humans."
"First of all, orcs inhabit the wild, and most of them are caves, but humans are different, including the dwarves in front of you, you made stone houses for them, and they can quickly adapt to the new environment. Orcs, however, only live in caves or canyons. ”
"Also, most of the humanoid races can use more advanced tools, while orcs will only pick up some very rudimentary things like stones and sticks."
"In the end, the orcs have no language and civilization, there is a rudimentary language between the group of humanoids in front of them, and the murals on the stone walls are the prototype of civilization, and as long as there is enough time for them to develop their own civilization. Although the orcs also live in groups, they basically communicate with each other by roaring, and whoever has the most strength is the boss. ”
"And the reason why orcs attack humans is to plunder food, which is easy to understand. The second is the predation of women. In this era, the more women in any tribe there will be, and the faster the development will be. The same is true of orcs, who are too few in number, but so powerful that females stop mating when they are conceived, and males are bound to plunder other species of females when there are not enough females to mate. ”
After a long time, Hongjun was silent.
"Primitive societies are so cruel, in fact, the same situation is common among humans or humanoid races. In the same way, in order to survive, they plunder the food, women, resources, and territory of other races, and if they find a useful tool or technology, humans will collect it and turn it into their own tools or technology. Orcs, on the other hand, only plunder, have no interest in tools or technology. Regardless of Hongjun's emotions, Patian has been telling Hongjun the bloody truth of primitive society.
"Only after developing the population, increasing the territory, and increasing the productivity of the race will be eligible to survive. In the process of evolution, countless races have fallen, and only a few have made it to the end. ”
"Only the last race is qualified to talk about ethics and civilization, and without a stable foundation for survival and a stable social structure, then all races will only be left with instinct."
"Even if the race that has come to the end, with civilization and country, there will be wars within this race in order to compete for more resources."
"All of this, all of it, the root of the root, summed up in just two words – survival."
At this time, Hongjun was already a little trembling, and in the past few months since he entered the WTO. Although the tribe he saw was poor, they were peaceful and comfortable, and the scene he saw today made him see this bloody world for the first time.
Will these people who are howling in pain resent those orcs? Definitely, but will the orcs have mercy on them? No, just like humans don't pity an animal after eating it for a while.
It's all a causal cycle of the food chain, and the purpose of all species is ultimately to survive. It is a competition, a competition that begins from the moment all species are born, without judgement, without justice and fairness, and with the ultimate goal of escaping the fate of the fish and standing at the top of the food chain.
Hongjun closed his eyes and thought for a while, and asked Bai Xi to temporarily make more than twenty healing pills condensed with a very small amount of chaotic qi, and handed them to Sui, so that he could distribute them to the injured people. These healing pills can only relieve the pain and slightly accelerate the healing of the wound, but Hongjun still doesn't want to pull out the seedlings to help it grow.
After the team of the three female clans next to him helped the injured leader bandage the wounds in other places, they bowed their heads to Hongjun and the others, and came to the big leader to say something, but saw that the big leader just looked at the ground with his head down, and did not react to the words of these three people. Seeing this scene, the three of them didn't say much, so they left silently.
The other tribes, for some reason, were not injured, only the members of this large tribe and the leader of their own tribe were killed or wounded. The tribes came to the great chieftain and said a few words, and then went back to their respective places. Sui came over and asked Hongjun for advice, Hongjun asked him to take the leader to recuperate here for a few days, not in a hurry to go back, Hongjun wanted to take this opportunity to see those orc races.
After the other tribes' teams had left, only a few of them were left here, and the great leader slowly recovered after a long time of distraction, looking at the mess in front of him and looking sad. Although this tribe has more than 200 members, the most members who can fight are only more than 50 people, and now nearly 10 people have died, more than 10 people have been seriously injured, and nearly half of their combat effectiveness has been lost. The key is that more than a dozen young female tribes have been taken captive, and these are the foundation of the tribe's development.
The big leader looked at the dozen or so seriously injured members, his eyes swept back and forth on those members and Hongjun several times, as if weighing something, and holding the cane that symbolized the power of the clan in his right hand, and gradually clenched it.
In the next few days, Hongjun and a few people took care of the leader here, and sent Bai Ze out to find the traces of those orcs, but on the fourth day, on the day of the party, a few people who were explained by the big leader did not know where to come back, and after talking to the big leader for half an hour, the big leader came to Hongjun and a few people, first comforted the little leader, the little leader has accepted the reality of his loss of vision, but his spirit is still a little sluggish, After dealing with the great chief, he took the cane, which symbolized the power of his clan, and handed it to the great chief. Hearing Sui's meaning is that the big leader will send a few envoys to appease their tribe, after all, they haven't gone back for several days, and they are afraid that the tribe will be worried about Yunyun.
Hongjun didn't pay attention to this, but he didn't notice that when he set off with those messengers, more than twenty members of the tribe also disappeared at the same time.