Meng Chao carefully flipped through the photos in his hand and was silent for a long time.

Ye Xiaoxing continued: "According to our observation for several years, the new generation of residents of Longwang Town has the following characteristics: first, they are all male, or they are biased towards men, in fact, because of the use of asexual reproduction, the concept of gender has disappeared in Longwang Town for a long time. ”

"Wait—"

Meng Chao frowned and said, "Even if all the women who crossed over from the earth are killed, the new generation born in the other world, the ratio of men and women should always be relatively balanced, the so-called asexual reproduction lasts for one generation at most, how can it be that all of them are men?" ”

"If you are as smart as you, you must be able to guess that the 'Divine Tree' will not give humans the opportunity to reproduce independently, otherwise, why would it coexist with humans?"

Ye Xiaoxing said, "We don't know whether the 'Shenmu' is genetically modified or something else, in short, it controls the gender of the new generation of humans, ensuring that human beings have lost the concept of gender and the skill of reproduction, and can only rely on it to continue their genes."

Similarly, through genetic modification, Shenmu has engraved a large amount of mechanical and civil engineering knowledge into the genes of a new generation of humans, so that human beings can acquire a lot of knowledge and skills without learning, and become excellent workers and soldiers.

"The disadvantage of this is that they don't know why, the new generation of humans has lost their creativity, and the so-called skills are just simple imitations of their parents and grandparents, without knowing the principles at all, and of course, for them it is enough to be able to use simple mechanical and civil engineering skills.

"Thirdly, the new generation of humans has also lost the ability to digest food directly, and after they hunt the monster, they will chop it up and send it to the root system of the 'Divine Tree', so that the Divine Tree can first enjoy the fattest parts of the monster, and then, the Divine Tree will secrete a substance similar to a nutrient solution, and the new generation of humans will rely on sucking the juice of the Divine Tree to sustain their lives.

"Over time, the digestive system of the new generation of humans has also mutated, becoming very fragile, and nothing can be digested except the juice of the sacred wood, in this photo, you can clearly see the mouths of the new generation of humans, yes, their teeth have degenerated quite badly, and they have almost lost the ability to chew.

"Naturally, the new generation of human beings worship the Divine Tree very much, regard the Divine Tree as the mother of life, and the entire civilization - if their small world, if it can really be called a civilization, is all revolving around the Divine Tree, after the genetic modification of the Divine Tree, they have long forgotten the glory of the Earth Age, forgot their identity as 'earthling', and wholeheartedly regarded themselves as the people of the Divine Tree, and the Divine Tree is their queen ant, their master, and their god.

"Classmate Meng Chao, do you think such a resident of Dragon King Town can still be regarded as a real human being, our compatriot?"

Meng Chao was speechless.

He pointed to a picture and asked, "What are these people doing, peeing?" ”

In the photo, a row of Longwang Town residents stood in front of the "Sacred Tree" with their backs to the camera, unbuttoning their crotch cloths, as if they were peeing.

Ye Xiaoxing was silent for a moment, then slowly shook his head and said, "No." ”

Lu Siya coughed lightly beside her.

Meng Chao turned his head to look at Lu Siya.

Lu Siya also looked at him expressionlessly.

Meng Chao instantly understood.

Is...... The distortion of human nature, the degradation of morality!

"What is this?"

Meng Chao pointed to another photo.

In the photo, it seems to be a funeral in Dragon King Town.

When one of the Dragonlord residents died, the other townsfolk dug a shallow pit next to the root system of the "Sacred Tree" and placed him between the criss-crossing root systems.

It seems that Shenmu will completely digest and absorb his corpse.

In a space shrouded in fog and limited resources, corpses are also precious resources that cannot be wasted in order to survive.

Meng Chao can understand and accept this funeral custom.

What he couldn't understand was why the body of the deceased was covered with a large poster, and the poster turned out to be a very cute anime girl.

Judging by the bright colors of the poster, it could not be a product that traveled through the previous time, but it had just been printed.

That is to say, until after a few decades, the entire Dragon King Town has become unrecognizable, and the new generation of humans has forgotten most of the glory of the earth's civilization, but they still have the ability to print large-scale posters, and the printed content is still a two-dimensional animation world, a very cute girl?

That's weird, isn't it?

"The new generation of Longwang residents has unique beliefs and customs."

Ye Xiaoxing explained, "Because their world was almost ruined by women, they all have an attitude of hatred and fear towards women in the real world, and 'Shenmu' has strengthened this hatred and fear from their genes in order to prevent new women from appearing."

"'Women are all demons', all the new generation of Dragon King Town residents have laid such a spiritual imprint in the depths of their minds.

But human longing for the opposite sex cannot be completely covered by any spiritual imprint.

"Besides, in order to maintain a certain combat effectiveness of the human being and help it hunt more monsters, Shenmu also needs to maintain the androgens of the new generation of humans at a relatively high level, so it is inevitable that some people will want to get into trouble.

"It just so happens that in Longwang Town, which originally had several mechanical and civil engineering schools, many science and engineering students like girls in the two-dimensional world.

"In reality, women are witches and demons, which will trigger male cannibalism, leading to the destruction of Dragon King Town; But the girls in the two-dimensional world are different, they are gentle, cute, and completely harmless.

"Of course, the painting style of the real world and the anime world is so different, even if it is mentally branded by Shenmu, you can see that the second dimension is fake.

"But what human beings are best at is self-deception, especially living in such a desperate world, the girls of the two-dimensional world have become the only solace for the new generation of human beings.

"In the unique worldview of the new generation of human beings, the two-dimensional world is heaven.

"As long as you fight bravely for 'Shenmu' and hunt more monsters back, you can enter the two-dimensional world after death, and hug countless anime female characters left and right...... That's pretty much it, right?

"In the current Dragon King Town, all kinds of two-dimensional derivatives, posters like this, and lifelike dolls are almost the only spiritual sustenance and entertainment items for the new generation of human beings."

"Understood, Team Leader Ye, I agree with you, these guys are definitely not the same kind of human beings as us."

Meng Chao frowned deeply, "Why, Dragon City has watched Dragon King Town degenerate to this extent, but has it sat idly by?" We should save all these compatriots from the evil rule of the 'Divine Tree'! ”

"How to save?"

Ye Xiaoxing asked rhetorically, "On the one hand, Dragon King Town is too far away from Dragon City, and there are several mountain ranges where monsters gather along the way, and there is no way for the large army to deploy.

"What's more, the local humans have already concluded an unbreakable symbiotic relationship with the 'Divine Tree', and now 100% of the residents of Dragon King Town are born from the 'Divine Tree', if Dragon City really sends a strong person to destroy the 'Divine Tree' directly, do you think they will fight with us?

"Also, don't forget what I just said, the digestive system of the local humans is very fragile and cannot digest and absorb anything except the juice of the 'Divine Tree'.

"We are quite suspicious that the juice secreted by the 'Divine Tree' contains mysterious ingredients that we don't know about, and it is not something that can be replaced by any high-energy nutrient solution, and if we directly destroy the 'Divine Tree', maybe all the townspeople will starve to death.

"Even if they don't starve to death, but they have been living in that environment for too long, their culture, morality, customs, and even spirituality and beliefs are all shaped around the 'Divine Tree', and simply and rudely destroying the 'Divine Tree' will only lead to the complete collapse of their spiritual world, and they will fall into the pain that life is worse than death, can this be regarded as a real 'salvation'?

"Whether we want to admit it or not, when Dragon King Town was almost destroyed, it was the arrival of the 'Divine Tree' that saved the surviving humans.

"Regardless of its original intention, whether or not it was looking for a swarm of qualified 'soldier bees' and 'worker ants' for itself, at least, it did help Dragonlord Town perpetuate human civilization, albeit in a very deformed and distorted way.

"If it weren't for the 'Divine Tree', Dragon King Town would have been destroyed decades ago, or by the hands of humans themselves.

"From this point of view, it may not be appropriate to simply and crudely define 'Shenmu' as an enemy—especially when we already have so many enemies."

Meng Chao thought about it carefully and had to admit that Ye Xiaoxing was reasonable.

If survival is regarded as the first need of civilization, "Shenmu" at least helped Longwang Town survive.

For decades, it has sheltered and thrived for humans, and has also provided raw materials and a way to pass on wisdom for humans to resist monsters.

Rashly destroying the "Divine Tree" will only lead to the collapse of Dragon King Town, and perhaps, all the townspeople will be buried for the "Divine Tree".

Although Meng Chao felt that the current Dragon King Town was very deformed and distorted, this did not seem to be a reason for complete destruction, the new generation of Dragon King Town citizens were not the murderers of the cannibalism back then, and it was innocent to love the second dimension!

"What is Dragon City going to do with Dragon King Town now?" Meng Chao asked.

"For the time being, we can only observe from afar."

Ye Xiaoxing said, "When we thoroughly digest and absorb the results of the offensive on the northern front, steadily expand the territory of Dragon City, and raise the technology and combat effectiveness to a new level, let's properly solve it."

"Fortunately, the 'Divine Tree' is not a very aggressive and expansion-minded otherworldly creature, it is entrenched in Dragon King Town, and it is satisfied to be able to control a corner of the mountain col, and from our long-term observation, we have not found that the 'Divine Tree' has wisdom and consciousness, it only has an instinct similar to that of the queen ant and the queen bee.

"But not all otherworldly creatures are like 'Divine Trees'.

"Many high-level monsters possess extremely aggressive and superior intelligence, at least the foundation for the birth of super intelligence.

"Think about it, if there is another satellite town similar to Dragon King Town, which has just crossed over, it falls into the hands of this more aggressive high-intelligence monster, and even forms a symbiotic relationship with the high-intelligence monster in order to survive, after decades of development, will they give birth to a new civilization?"