When Zeyou returned to the machinery shop, he had to start going with the flow again, because here, people's hearts are unpredictable.

The shopkeeper is dead.

Zhou You was very surprised when he heard the news, because he didn't want to kill him, and the falling rock knock only injured his lumbar vertebrae, not enough to be fatal, but why-

When the field was checked, it became clear that there was an additional blow to the back of the prayer bird's head, which was the main cause of its death.

However, soon, the nephew of the prayer bird, who was extremely "sad", pulled Zeyou into the mourning hall.

Under the arrangement of the new owner of the store, he attended the funeral as a disciple and took a share of the money with him. Well, that is, the wages for working in his house these days.

Throughout the funeral, Zhou You followed behind his eldest son in plain clothes, and everything flowed smoothly.

For this boss, Zhou You is actually quite sad in his heart, although when he first saw him, he knew that he was wide on the outside and taboo on the inside, but he really didn't want to go against him to the death. After all, from the beginning, he still gave himself a place to stay, and the evil intention of his attempt, Zhou You was only prepared to repel it.

However, this is not the central area of civilization, and the people who break through the lower limit are not the prayer birds alone.

And the real reason why the boss was accidentally "stoned to death" was the nephew who presided over the mourning hall, and the hammer was now placed in his bedroom.

As for the reason for all this!?

This boss has committed the biggest taboo in theft, which is to let outsiders in. Because outsiders enter, it will inevitably lead to an uneven distribution of spoils.

The boss has used the electronic watch store as a cover for so many years, and he has saved a lot of black money for smuggling. And this money, in order to cover his mouth, he didn't even tell his own son. Of course, it was not to guard against his son, but he was afraid that his son would be distracted and did not want his son to be involved.

However, there must be a helper to do bad things, and the nephews who help the prayer bird do things have always been divided into small heads, and they take on a lot of dirty work.

Now the prayer bird was short of breath, and this nephew, unable to bear the greed, plotted to kill and swallowed the money.

Oh, at the funeral, the one who cried the most was this nephew, tears raining down, and his fingers trembling - it should be joyful and tearful, with nervous excitement.

And the sea tour is becoming more and more cautious, and the hearts of people here are really terrible.

[In terms of being powerful, Zeoyou is stronger than everyone else, but being strong does not mean that there is no need to be afraid. It is not uncommon in history for a powerful existence to die from a small role. When the human heart is not trustworthy, it is more dangerous than anything else. 】

Fifteen days later.

The admission letter of the Huangyi Knight Academy has been submitted, and the original mechanical shop has ushered in many hypocritical congratulations.

A month ago, in order to raise a son Gu, the Prayer Bird gave Zhou You a set of identity certificates of 'being his son and nephew', as a native of the empire, 'recovered' a suspected fifth-level Gu worm, and naturally it would be absorbed by the upper echelons.

More detailed identity checks? - This is a feudal society, and the feudal system can do its duty? Oh, if there really were so many loyal ministers in the script, then the grain in the warehouse that was resold to the city every year would not exist! Unless he crawls to a place where he can access the secrets of the great nobles, the identity of this prayer bird's nephew is basically confirmed.

After the notice arrived, the new shopkeeper who handled the funeral, the one who killed the old shopkeeper, tried to fund the school, but he smiled and refused.

The new shopkeeper had just taken office, and now he was very delicate and bold, and he had an excellent reputation in the circle, so that the people around him did not think of what he had done.

And Zhou You felt that the farther away from these people, the better.

……

Leaving the labyrinth, the steam boiler spewed white gas, and the silver train decorated with countless stripes walked towards the Huangyi City to the east.

Huangyi City, that is, the north of the "Gully" bay line in the bird's-eye view, the densely lit point, near the exit of the outer ocean, is the fourth largest city in the empire. From the point of view of the strategic location, this is a place where the emperor is far away. The lords here are the great members of the empire in the frontiers.

……

However, according to the feudal system, there is a fundamental problem in geopolitics.

Feudalism - that is, the central government built a city to guard the border.

In his early years, Zhou Tianzi was surnamed Jiang in Qiyingqiu, pacified the East, prevented the old minister of Shang, Laiguo, and only made a viscount to the ancestors of Chu. After the ancestral land of the Western Zhou Nian was lost, in order to prevent Xirong, there was a Qin people's sub-seal. And for their close blood relatives, such as Yu Guo, Wei Guo, Jin Guo, Zheng Guo, Cao Guo, and Cai Guo, they are basically fertile land.

As for later, history gave this feudalism a result:

When foreign enemies still exist, it is natural to respect the king. However, when there is no foreign enemy, these frontier feudals will inevitably pursue a higher level of resistance.

This is also true of the later thousands of years of Chinese history. The Sui and Tang dynasties used troops in the northeast, because the place of Bohai County, once it rises, there will be no foreign enemies, and it will inevitably attack the central dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan rose and confronted each other for thousands of years. Then there was Jin, and then there was the Ming Northeast threat. Qing saw it very clearly at this point, and it was directly sealed on the grounds of preserving the ancestral land.

Qing: "I'm reducing Ding in the grassland, sealing the customs in the northeast, and appeasing the nobles of the two places, so no one will do anything in that direction, so let's get enough troops to open up the Western Regions." —and then it was Maozi who crossed most of Asia to fill the threat.

Now in the northeast of the rock crystal star "匚", the strong domain in this place seems to have completed the regional dominance.

……

Sitting on the train, you can look out the window at the northern land.

Whether it's plains or mountains, the entire ecosystem is overrun by bugs. Occasionally, traces of human villages can be seen, but the dilapidated tiles, the parched farmland, and the absence of even dead trees and weeds all show that these once smoky settlements have been abandoned for at least seventy years.

Observing the situation of the land along the way through continuous strafing of the field, Zhou You commented: "There is a crisis in the human species!" Is this bug so fragrant? ”

Zhou You looked down at the armor piece on his arm, nodded and said, "For low-level civilizations, this gift package is indeed very fragrant!" ”

Lin Long Gu, who had already accepted his fate, sensed that Zhou You seemed to have nothing to do with himself again, and the scales were tightened, quite honest, so that Zhou You couldn't find an excuse to buckle the scales, so he picked up the pen and began to take notes:

According to the function of enhancing the ability of individual soldiers, and the function of creating swarms, the swarm of this world is divided into tactical and strategic levels.

All strategic-grade Gu worms are females that can lay eggs in large numbers.

But not all females are strategic-grade Gu worms, only 'high-grade' Zerg females have strategic-grade.

For example, the mother worm of the blood crystal ant is not strategic, it supplies a large amount of nutrients, and can only produce blood crystal ants, which is a little higher than the yield of farmland in the wild. Now that it is mined casually in the wild, there is no need to cultivate special blood crystal ants.

The classification of this world's high-level Gu worms, the locals judge them by the types of soldiers and insects that they can differentiate, and this judgment is very vague.

Moreover, Zhou You found that this Gu insect is extremely adaptable, as long as it supplies enough energy, it can mutate into a variety of forms, but the function is not good, and if it is not kept, it is better to maintain the classic design.

Considering that this planet is only in the feudal era, and it has only been more than two hundred years since it faced Gu worms. Classification has limitations, so Zhouyou jumps out of the experience mode of this ignorant region and divides it according to its own standards!

The identity of the visitor to the star civilization of the universe, in the cultural concept of the subsidiary civilization, belongs to the ancient celestial race, and has the existence of chasing stars and taking the moon, in fact, the judgment of the celestial tour is authoritative for this planet!

"Just as the carbon-based biosphere judges whether animals are higher or not, there is a saying, 'Thousands of evolutionary beings, the highest nerves'. It means that neurons cannot be complex enough to support perfect movements, and no matter how big they grow, they are still a lump of meat.

Swarms are also classified according to their ability to transmit information.

For example, the current blood crystal ant ant tower, the number of insects in it is huge, and one insect mother controls tens of millions of blood crystal ants, but it still can't change the fact that it is a second-level bug. As a female worm, its energy communication range is only the size of a WiFi. And a large number of blood crystal ants are intricately coordinated, all relying on smell. Once a higher contract worm enters its territory and suppresses its radio waves, the mother worm is completely silenced.

This is why the High Contractor is able to enter its territory and collect its eggs unharmed.

The fifth-level Gu worm is on the ground, which can ensure that the target can communicate seven or eight kilometers away.

As for the sixth-level Gu worms, this group began to diverge, and it could be remotely controlled dozens of kilometers away through the role of the subworm relay station.

As for the seventh-level insects forming a nest type, there are at least two levels of relay station insects, and the signal frequency band is more complex and carries a larger amount of information. It is possible to command the swarm across two hundred kilometers.

Level eight, level nine, obviously this ability should be stronger.

Zhou You: "As for how many levels is this on your arm?" ”

Zhou You picked up the rag and wiped it, the Lin Long Gu scales on his body, Lin Long was flattered and raised his head, and looked at Zhou You with his small eyes.

This Gu worm has a certain amount of intelligence, and now it has been suppressed by Zhou You to the point that he has no temper at all. Moreover, in addition to violent suppression, the tour is now gradually dominating the supply side!

Supply! Yes, it is provision, but it is not a symbiosis of physical giving and fulfillment of contracts, but a more peculiar way.

……

Zhou You's current evaluation of this Lin Long is: "You are really cheap. ”

Gu worms have strong mutation and are used to adapt to the environment. Toxic and polluted on the surface, it will evolve a huge decomposition organ, photosynthesis (blood crystal ants) will evolve on the surface, it will evolve the ability to decompose gas underground, and it will use metal elements to store energy in mining areas (vein beast).

Because of its strong adaptability, this thing can be found all over the continent.

And Zhou You is now giving this dragon beast an electric shock in its body, and this product has evolved the ability to store electricity in the past few days, and the electrical conduction structure of the whole body is becoming more and more developed!

After discovering this, Zhou You was stunned.

Zhou You: "I'm just going to punish you, why do you still taste the sweetness?" ”

But—

Instead of removing these shock-resistant organs, Zeuyou began to continuously and steadily supply power to the dragon's body to promote its mutation.

With this inexplicable energy supply, the evolution of this dragon beast began to be entrenched, and various high-power-consuming mutations began. Now it can gnaw on steel and digest it quickly, so much so that it has increased by six kilograms in the past few days, and it has developed towards heavy armor, and now it is able to cover half of the small body of Zeyu, forming a structure like scale armor. Moreover, under the fixed electrical stimulation of the Celestial Tour, it gradually simulated the walking habits of the Celestial Tour, and began to generate an auxiliary motor muscle system. If this goes on for a few years - the future is limitless!

However, high power consumption is inseparable from electrical energy. As long as the power is cut off, this Linlong will be the same as an otaku who has been disconnected from the Internet - languishing. The mass extinction of the earth's geological epoch was the austerity policy adopted by the Earth's energy central bank, which directly caused a large number of energy-intensive species to collapse directly.

Compared with the cell symbiosis model, this way of traveling is equivalent to an equal contract meeting a master-servant contract.

In biological terms, this is not a symbiotic relationship.

If other Gu worms are equal to the contract, it is the symbiotic relationship between flagellates and termites.

The relationship between humans and pets is completely the relationship between humans and pets: people without pets do not affect their survival. Pets are gone, and those creatures that have been modified by humans can allow them to play in nature.

……

Now Zhou You patted the little head of the Linlong on his arm again, and muttered: "What level of pet are you, and what kind of Ou Ou am I?" ”

Linlong, who gradually began to become power-armored, did not understand the expectations of Zeyu, but in order to prevent Zeuyou from continuing to pull out its scales, it rubbed the back part of Zeuyou to curry favor.

Four minutes later.

The attention of the celestial tour is cast into the distance with the perspective of the field.

In front of the 60-kilometer military fortress, a beetle with 200 legs and a body length of 40 meters, carrying a heavy cannon of 200 millimeters, walked on the solid earth.

It is full of metallic texture, and the foot with a diameter of one meter of joints gives it a sense of power. Its head is fully armoured, and its body is divided into three parts (it can be seen as an oversized trilobite carrying a turret).

Such a thick shape is full of ancient oppression, and the welded turret on the back makes it extremely "righteous".

Zhou You looked up at the giant beast and opened the illustrated book in his hand.

Bestiary: "Heavy Splicing Beast, an armored beast that can only be produced by an eighth-level worm nest." These two hundred legs are hatched by two hundred split bodies, and then a long intestinal body is connected in series and symbiotic. The dorsal bone plates on the back, which are partly autogenous, of course, most military lords will choose to weld battleship armor plates on them. Of course, more importantly, a circular space with a diameter of twenty meters was left on its main structure for the installation of the turret.

The nobles of this world are greedy, but they are not so stupid that they don't need the power that can be obtained with a little effort.

The commander of the High Hive will usually occupy an industrial city and arm his battle array with industrial weapons. What kind of flamethrower, heavy artillery, water-cooled heavy machine gun, in fact, can be seen on bugs.

Between the lords, the gap between the eighth and ninth level Gu nests is similar to the gap in engine technology between the powerful countries in the twenty-first century, and the backward engine means that the vehicle is backward. But aside from the vehicle, the strike fire on it can destroy the opponent's target.

The Great Lords of Rock Crystal Star now use industrially forged cannons and install them on their war worms.

The original level of deterrence between Gu worms and Gu worms is no longer obvious in high-level confrontation, and the range makes high-level Gu worm deterrence radio waves meaningless.

Half an hour later, the silver-and-white train arrived at the 50-meter-high majestic fortress level. After passing through the city walls, you can see a behemoth moving around the fortress area.

Zeyou watched it up close, and the steel heavy war beast painted with black stripes couldn't help but hold his breath.

The beast's arthropods, like horses mounted on horseshoes, were welded with manganese steel plates two meters long and one and a half meters wide. Its heavy stamping on the earth, a hundred meters away, made the passengers of the rail train feel the heavy tremor.

For the first time since arriving in this world, Ayuyu has confronted forces capable of threatening his life.

Among ordinary people who were mixed up before, Matrix Technology was more than enough to protect itself. But if it is unscrupulous, the artillery coverage of this world can still dispose of itself.

As the train slowly departed, Zeyou leaned against the window and looked back, still looking at the war beast with great interest.

The violent aesthetic of this thing has a fatal attraction to boys. Zhou You couldn't help but clench his fists, lowered his voice, and said, "This kind of thing?!" Tut. Why don't I do a little bit? ”