11.7 The Fall of Civilization
In this era, the grassroots society of both sea and land humans has a huge prejudice against each other.
The terrestrial humans speculate that the sea humans are cold-blooded animals like crocodiles, preferring to be in cold caves. It smells fishy. With venom-injected fangs.
In the society of sea humans, it is generally believed that land humans are manic, and land humans are covered in hair, do not know how to cook and eat, and like to eat meat that is roasted on the outside and blood on the inside.
In fact, marine humans and terrestrial humans did not even form reproductive isolation, they both belonged to humans 20,000 years ago, and now they are the same species.
The reason for such a huge cultural prejudice is that after the Age of the Gods, human beings living between land and sea lost economic and trade exchanges for a long time, and evolved into different social methods and habits in different environments. Geographical estrangement.
What really happened in the Age of Godfall? It is still unknown.
In the early days of the Fall, did the ancestors of the sea and land humans suddenly become estranged in their mentality after losing the convenient transportation of ships and airplanes? - It could never be so sudden.
After geographical estrangement, it is a long-term process for mentality to produce estrangement. After the fall of science and technology, there should have been a period of consensus between humans on the sea and humans on land.
Now Su Ying has a definite reason to be sure that in the early days of the Godsfall, the glory of human civilization made the humans on the sea and the humans on land have the intention of working together, but-
The following story is speculated by Su Ying.
At the end of the God-given era, due to an unknown global disaster, human science and technology suddenly fell, and human society, whether it was sea or land, was almost hit by dimensionality reduction. All localities have directly become agricultural civilizations.
And the remnants of the human domination apparatus have become semi-independent structures in various places, and the original effective way of great unification has become a loose alliance.
Eventually, a maritime alliance and a land alliance were formed. Although the two sides cannot use large ships to carry out material exchanges and personnel exchanges on the scale of the Divine Age, the upper echelons of the two sides should maintain frequent contact.
However, these new elites are supposed to have risen from the people after the catastrophe, and the political wisdom is not enough. That is, too much focus on one's own one-third of an acre of land, unwilling to maintain long-term cooperation, led to continued economic differentiation, and eventually led to the complete separation of the sea and land.
The reason for the continued economic divergence is most likely the large-scale military industrial reserves left over from the early days of the God-given era, which discouraged the land from cooperating with the sea.
After the Age of Godfall, the technology of this world stayed in the primitive and backward animal power era for more than 10,000 years!
First, the agricultural economy is passable and has no motivation. Second, it is not needed in military science and technology.
The jeeps and warplanes in the warehouse can last for hundreds of years if all kinds of reserve parts are intact. This was enough for the upper echelons of the time to maintain a sizable mechanized force to maintain their rule.
At that time, the re-cultivation and development of industry, from the extraction of raw materials, primary processing, to fine processing, required a large amount of food security and large-scale mobilization. At that time, the upper echelons of the middle and lower strata of society did not have the consciousness to establish an industrial social order.
This kind of consciousness of industrial society is also very scarce in the 21st century on earth, and it is extremely rare to be called an industrial country in the 21st century.
And the difficulty of really engaging in industry in the era of the fall of the gods is comparable to that of the capitalist development of industry during the Republic of China. When capital can comprador it, it will easily destroy the budding industry of the country.
And those residual military science and technology products have the advantage of the generation gap in science and technology, which will lead to the backwardness of all primary industries that have been replanted after the war because of the generation gap, and will not be able to defend the fruits of development, so that the middle way of human rejuvenation will collapse.
Su Ying can be imagined, as follows:
At that time, a lot of social management had just been spent on building a rifled gun production plant, and it was a sad picture of the heroes of the time driving armored vehicles and machine guns into destruction.
Just after a dam power station has been piled up on a large river and the foundation of a city has been laid, it is a deflating scene when a madman drives a helicopter with a bomb on it.
diligently cultivated the students and worked hard to restore the civilized atmosphere, but the proud and arrogant people accepted the female students in the school, and then leaned the power to the woman's side, leaving the concept of cronyism to the next generation of intellectuals in the school, and the original intention of the first generation of teachers in the last days has become a pedantic in the hearts of students who are not worthy of believing.
In the end, those who work diligently to build the foundation and abide by the ideals of modern humanistic morality. All the efforts are ridiculed as naΓ―ve by the clever people who are flexible in the last days. In the end, like a victor, he will declare: "Look, you don't have to be like this, I am the vane of success in this era." β
For a long time in the early days of the Fall of God, the selfish people who climbed up suddenly eventually turned the social environment into a culture that was not suitable for reconstruction.
Of course, the equipment will break down, and it will be maintained for two or three hundred years at most, and these people at the beginning of the Fall of God may think that it is okay to wait a little longer, drag it out for a few decades, and then do it slowly and change it slowly!
However, the subsequent evolution of this world proved to be wrong. What their generation did not do, future generations will not be able to do!
The greatest wealth of an industrial society relative to ancient societies is not steel and oil, but social education. The social resources consumed by an industrial society from elementary school to university can be unimaginable in an agricultural society.
The agricultural society wants to support a person, and the young master does not need to worry about food and food and clothing, and his ten fingers do not touch the spring water, and he studies until he is twenty years old, and there are only princes and nobles. And industrial society cultivates such talents in batches and batches.
And after the Fall of God, when these talents grew old and died, the whole society really returned to the agricultural age, and it was no longer possible to gather people to restore the industrial age.
And then the social productive forces cannot produce a sufficient industrial population.
Until a thousand years later, when the once stock of tractors and cars was completely unusable, it became garbage on the altar. After another thousand years, the great powers that were established in the early days of God's gift gradually became a religious group that remembered the glory.
The armed forces of all sides have degenerated into an era in which cold weapons are the mainstay, supplemented by black powder bomb weapons. Then there is the 8,000-year sacred calendar, the 9,000-year beast calendar, the 1,000-year steam calendar, and today it has developed into an electric calendar.
The early days of Godfall were a time of despair. Under the grinding of all kinds of eschatological powers, the terrestrial human beings left over from the God-given era, waiting, waiting, waiting. There is nothing that can be done about the marine humans.
[Back to the present, in the seawater, wisps of bubbles emerge from the bottom of the sea, like crabs spitting water in the cracks of stones. This is caused by the deflation of the oxygen tank in the sea human mecha and the exhaust of the mecha. γ
Jiaoxin - a fourth-level spirit controller. A member of the tens of thousands of middle-level members of the Hanyang family.
She was looking at the glowing fleshy tentacles inside the mech, which were now dimly lit, and had turned from blue fluorescent to pink. This indicates an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide within the mecha, and the acidic biomass spirit is a precursor to imminent death.
Once the spirit suit that wraps itself dies, the bacteria will consume a large amount of oxygen, and Jiaoxin will no longer be able to stay in the mecha. However, Jiaoxin didn't want to surrender to the land orcs (land humans) outside. She touched one of the tentacles on the costume hidden inside a metal barrel. This tentacle contains a deadly neurotoxin capable of causing a painless death in humans.
Jiaoxin intertwined her fingers in grief, silently reciting what she thought was the last ode to the oceanβa low, melodious voice, sobbing in the cramped mecha. "The ocean of mercy, I was born blue, and finally it is deep. Swim in the school of colorful fish and sleep in the beautiful shellfish sea. β¦β¦β
"Why die?" A voice sounded in Jiaoxin's ears. interrupted her prayer before preparing to take the poison.
Jiaoxin looked at the light spirit, thinking that he was short of oxygen, and also thought that he had encountered the divine when he was dying. In short, the chant is more earnest.
Su Ying sighed: "In the name of Hai Ling, I order you to live, give the order to surrender, and surrender to the landers." β
Jiao's confused gaze asked, "Azure God, the land orcs are cruel and ignorant, they will roast us so that we will not be able to return to your embrace." β
Su Ying said to the girl who mistook herself for a god: "The world has changed, and human reason is returning. The sea and land will communicate again. Take this step. β
Four minutes later, a mech stepped onto land, and a cascading transparent fleshy mass flowed out of the mech's hatch, and a girl spat out of the transparent flesh mass. The girl is covered only with a weave on her chest and lower body intimacy, and she waves white coral on the beach.
Zhao Xuanwei saw this scene through the far-sighted technique, and used magic magic to transmit: "Send two people to raise the white flag." β
And Su Ying looked at the girl on the beach through Zhao Xuanxuan's perspective through equal communication. She has white hair and a blue undertone in her eyes, but a very inconspicuous golden ring in her pupils.
Half an hour later, on the No. 3 beach-rushing landing field, the sea humans began to give up resistance one after another and surrendered on land.
Zhao Xuanwei walked up to these sea humans and spat out a few very inaccurate sea human words.
Zhao Xuanyu looked at Jiaoxin and gestured with both hands: "Personal safety can be guaranteed." Raise your right hand if you need food, and raise your left hand if you are injured. You guys, you have a house to live in, you have medicine, don't worry, we have violent prejudices. If you help us and persuade other waters of your kind, I am glad to do so. β
Zhao Xuanwei had a conversation according to the tone told by Su Xuan's light spirit. Jiaoxin listened hard.
At this time, Jiaoxin regarded Su Ying's equal communication just now as the instruction of the gods in his hallucination when he was dying.
Zhao Xuanwei saw that Jiao Xin had a little little less clothes on his body, so he took off his coat and tried to put it on Jiao Xin. And Jiao Xin looked at this land human who was gentle with himself. As a female captive, she was extremely worried about her situation.
However, then, Zhao Xuanwei gave her a special car and sent a professional who was also a woman to take special care, which dispelled her doubts and made her (semi-coerced by the situation) choose to cooperate with the Sandstorm Group.
Twenty minutes later, Jiao Xin controlled the crystal-like fleshy body to stretch into the sea water in various tidal flats, emitting an audio of whale frequency, and made a persuasion to surrender to the various sea human forces who were still hesitating in the tidal flats. It repeats the meaning of 'the commander of the land and the human beings to ensure the personal safety of the sea humans after surrendering'.
In this persuasion, there were only some ripples in the seawater, and there was still no large-scale surrender.
After Zhao Xuanwei turned the minute hand of the mechanical watch again, he sent a request for fire to his own fleet on the sea, and on the land and human warships on the sea, the barrels of the guns were raised high, and a short artillery bombardment was carried out on the area that refused to surrender.
The battleship's high-explosive bombs set off a huge column of water on the shore, and the shock wave was transmitted underwater, making a shock.
Under the warning of the naval guns, the sea people in the sea came out of the water one after another and surrendered.
Eighteen hundred people were taken prisoner and surrendered their weapons on the beach, and forty-nine of them were singled out, and these nobles had a slight ring of gold in their eyes. The darker the golden circle, the higher the bloodline.
Walking along the coast, Su Ying looked at the captives and took a deep breath.
In the last life, when I was reading in the Oka Celestial Tower Library, I didn't see any documents that recorded the landing of sea humans. In this life, in the history books of the Eastern Continent, there is no record of the landing of sea humans dating back more than 15,000 years.
But in the very ancient legends of the Hela themselves, their ancestors were the children of the union of the god of the sea and the god of the earth.
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