Chapter 332: Divine Tree
Meng Chao gasped: "Could it be ......?"
"That's right, that's what you think."
Ye Xiaoxing pulled out the second photo.
It was thousands of young and middle-aged men, watching a pile of raging flames.
In the flames, there was a young and beautiful woman tied up!
Even if it was just a photo, Meng Chao could see the pain that could not be described with pen and ink from the woman's distorted face.
Meng Chao was surprised: "What are they doing, why do they use such cruel means to kill their own kind?" ”
Ye Xiaoxing said: "They are judging witches. ”
Meng Chao was incredulous: "Who is the witch?" ”
Ye Xiaoxing said: "All women are witches. ”
Meng Chao was stunned for a long time, puzzled: "How can this be?" ”
"The Longcheng search and rescue team discovered Longwang Town four years ago, but because the other party's civilization has become completely different from ours, the search and rescue team members did not rashly contact them, but lurked in the dark for a year, and tried their best to get a large number of diaries, suicide notes, selfie photos and videos and other information left by the residents of Longwang Town in the early stage of crossing, and finally pieced together the whole picture of Longwang Town through the past fifty years from thousands of clues."
Ye Xiaoxing said, "At the moment of traveling, Dragon King Town moved away from its relative position to the main city of Dragon City because of the impetus of the ripples of time and space, and crossed into the corner of the mountain barrier, so that the residents of the town never knew that tens of millions of compatriots had crossed over with them, and thought that only tens of thousands of people in the town had suffered bad luck.
"In the first few years, Dragon King Town was able to rely on its own strength to sustain itself.
"When I just crossed it, the spatial ripples took the form of a misty city wall, blocking the vicious monsters from the outside.
"Although the otherworldly virus attacked the immune system of the earthlings and created some zombies, Dragon King Town was lucky not to encounter a large-scale plague, and a few zombies were quickly chopped into meat under the strict organization of humans.
"As mentioned earlier, there are several mechanical processing factories in Dragon King Town, as well as several mechanical and civil engineering schools, which means that the residents have no big problems in weapon processing and fortress construction, and before the fog dissipates and monsters invade, it is enough to build Dragon King Town into a battle fortress surrounded by copper walls and iron walls.
"The problem is internal.
"There are so few people who can reproduce.
Judging from the suicide notes left by many of the Dragonlord townspeople at the time, they were full of despair, believing that they would never return to Earth, not even realizing that they had crossed into a new, vast land, and thought that they would be trapped forever in a small, misty town.
"And the number of women of appropriate age is so small that even if Dragon King Town as a whole can continue to exist, as an individual townholder, nine times out of ten, it will not be able to pass on their genes.
"Women of working age have become an extremely scarce resource.
Around this scarce resource, the young and middle-aged people with strong blood and strength quickly split into different factions, fighting and killing each other.
"In a few years, with zombies and monsters not posing a major threat, nearly half of the young and middle-aged men in Dragon King Town have died at the hands of the same kind.
"Of course, in addition to the opposite sex, clean drinking water, food, all kinds of machinery and raw materials for making weapons, are all scarce resources.
"It can also be said that the dragon king town shrouded in fog cannot meet the survival of nearly 100,000 young adults, and only through cannibalism can the population be reduced by half, and this system can barely be maintained.
"After several years of infighting, Dragon King Town has formed five powerful forces with various schools and factories as units, similar to the gangs that Dragon City spontaneously formed in the bloody dark ages.
As a scarce resource, some of the school-age women died in the fight between gangs, some were unwilling to accept the miserable fate and cut themselves off, and only a few survived.
In this way, the fundamental problem of the continuation of civilization has not been resolved.
And in the infighting like raising Gu, an incomparably terrifying Gu King was finally born, a woman who could play with men in the palm of her hand.
"We don't have much information about this woman, except that later residents of Dragonlord Town called her the most evil witch.
"But from what we know, in the beginning, this 'witch' just wanted to protect her sister.
In short, she used her natural charm to maneuver between the leaders of the five major gangs, and she fascinated them all.
She also used some very extreme methods, such as uniting all women of appropriate age to monopolize reproductive resources and seek more power and higher status.
"Although the number of men is overwhelming, and they have a strong force, if there are no female offspring, it will not be long before Dragon King Town is destroyed.
"In this way, this 'witch' cleverly took advantage of the contradictions between the five major gangs to provoke infighting in Dragon King Town again.
"In the second cannibalism, the number of young men was cut in half, two of the five major gangs were completely defeated, and many of the losers were expelled from Dragonlord Town and disappeared into the depths of the mist.
"And this 'witch' also briefly seized the supreme power, causing Dragon King Town to enter a similar ...... A new stage in matrilineal society.
"The women of school age who survived seem to have ushered in the best spring.
"They are above all men, and they can choose tall, handsome, gentle, considerate, and stout men as companions at will, and they can also possess the most abundant resources for the sake of raising offspring, and inflict the most cruel punishments on those who are lewd, ugly, and unattractive.
"It's a pity that these women, who enjoy the treatment of empresses, forget to think about a problem in a short dream."
Meng Chao said: "What a problem." ”
Ye Xiaoxing sighed and said, "Compared to a gentleman who is both handsome and gentle, there are too many men with mediocre appearance and obscene personality.
Realizing that his genes could never be passed on, and that it was impossible to even hold the hands of the opposite sex in this life, the obscene men who made up the absolute majority of Dragon King Town launched the third civil strife.
"After the first two civil strife, the humanity of the residents of Dragon King Town has been completely worn out.
"Their brains were eroded by androgens, and their brains turned into a mass of fishy paste, and these lewd men launched indiscriminate attacks, treating all women as 'witches', the handsome men raised by the witches as 'witches', and the 'witches' and 'wizards' as the culprits that caused the three civil unrest in Dragon King Town, and finally, killing both the 'witches' and the 'male witches'.
"Women are all disasters, even if only one woman is left, it is impossible for the civil strife in Dragon King Town to be quelled!
"This is the slogan shouted by the lewd men at that time."
“……”
Meng Chao hesitated, "However, in this way, Dragon King Town will have no future." ”
"Yes, the frenzied passion receded, and in the face of the devastated Dragon King Town and all the same sex, the survivors only regained their rationality a little, realizing that they had cut off the future with their own hands, but at this time, the fog on the periphery of Dragon King Town dissipated a little, and various monsters and spiritual plants appeared one after another, bringing a new crisis."
Ye Xiaoxing said, "Originally, Dragon King Town would definitely not be able to hold on, even if it could repel several waves of monsters' attacks, in the absence of offspring, human beings would lose the most basic survival power.
"Fortunately, the 'Shenmu' appeared."
Meng Chao said, "What is 'Shenmu'? ”
"A very special plant, or somewhere between a plant and a fungus, a whole new form of life that has never been seen on Earth."
Ye Xiaoxing pointed to the towering tree in the first photo, whose canopy covered half of the town, and said, "This is not the real appearance of the 'Shenmu', but the result of its parasitism on a large banyan tree, and the result of genetic modification of the banyan tree, the body of the 'Shenmu' should be something like moss or mushrooms."
"That's right, this strange life form seems to have extremely advanced genetic modification capabilities, and can even ...... Helping human beings, passing on genes. ”
As he spoke, Ye Xiaoxing slowly unveiled the third photo.
In this photo, Meng Chao saw that the branches of the towering tree were full of fruits, bending the branches to the ground, and many humans were harvesting next to the branches.
These humans are different from the people seen in the second photograph judging witches.
Most of them had no clothes on, just a simple crotch cloth around their crotch.
Their skin is abnormally green, as if a thin layer of moss grows.
The upper limbs appear longer and thicker than normal, and the lower limbs are short, but the toes are exceptionally developed.
Just like a gibbon, it needs to rely on its arms to jump between the branches, and a lot of delicate work can be handled by the toes.
However, what surprised Meng Chao the most was what they "harvested".
It was a cocoon as thin as a cicada's wings and covered with blood.
No, neither fruit nor cocoon.
Because in the fourth photo, Meng Chao saw that they carefully dissected these things and took out one by one...... Infant!
"This, how is this possible!" Meng Chao lost his voice.
Even in the fragments of memories in his previous life, he had never seen such a strange picture.
"Now you should understand why we can't disclose the situation in Dragon King Town, right?"
Ye Xiaoxing said, "In the long past half century, in order to continue their genes and civilization, the townspeople of the Dragon King seem to have formed a ...... with this strange otherworldly creature Symbiotic relationship.
"The 'Sacred Tree' helps them perpetuate their genes, draw resources from the ground, and grow branches that are not inferior in hardness and strength to metal, which become raw materials for making machinery and weapons.
"The townsfolk of the Dragon King act as hunters and guardians of the 'Divine Tree', filling the lack of mobility and aggression of the 'Divine Tree', hunting more monsters for it, becoming its food, and speeding up its growth.
"Up to now, the relationship between the people of the Dragon King Town and the Divine Tree is very close and good, and it can be said that the humans in the Dragon King Town and the creatures of the other world have fused together to form a kind of ...... A new civilization. ”