"Guys, before we go, I think there's something I need to tell you. ”

Shur glanced at the forest spirit that woke him up in the morning, and the deer was comfortably chewing a few leaves that he had found somewhere, as if it had nothing to do with him.

"I'm sorry, I should have told you these things last night, but I ignored your feelings and didn't communicate with you in time, as the captain, this is my mistake, I apologize to you, fortunately someone reminded me, I didn't go further down the wrong path. ”

"It's breakfast time, you eat, you listen, I'll come. ”

It's the second day of entering the Frogman ruins, and it's also the day to get ready to start exploring the ruins officially.

Everyone didn't sleep very well last night, and suddenly found an abnormal situation before going to bed, and the captain didn't make a reasonable explanation, everyone's heart was actually hanging, just pretending to be calm, this state, of course, it was impossible to rest steadily.

However, there is nothing dissatisfaction with this team member, everyone knows very well that leading a team deep into the otherworldly projection, the captain is already under huge psychological pressure, and when encountering problems, he adopts the best choice, so that he ignores everyone's feelings, which is also understandable.

Therefore, everyone has been mentally prepared to continue to spend the day in doubt, until Shul has clarified everything and has a grasp of solving the problem, and then explained the details to everyone.

No one expected that as soon as they got up and left the dormitory, they saw a steaming breakfast, a necromancer sitting on the side with a blank face, a forest spirit grazing, and of course, Shuer who hurried to write on paper every minute.

"Boss, are you alright? You're a pastor, and if you get sick first, you're going to be in trouble. The halfling wanted to come up and touch the temperature of Shuer's forehead, but looking at the mace on his waist dispelled the thought.

"Idiot halfling, this has nothing to do with being sick, the captain must be under too much pressure and has a mental breakdown...... Eh, Captain, don't take my plate away, my breakfast......"

"You're interested. The indifferent elven mage snorted coldly, but the corners of his mouth curled slightly.

"Hey, that's nice. "The shy female swordsman is the happiest one, and last night she was the one who worries the most, not about the possible danger, of course, but about the person she cares about the most. Seeing that Shur had regained her composure, Safu smiled sweetly and gave Lady Lin Jing a grateful look, but in exchange for a blank and innocent expression from Moria, who had stuffed her mouth with leaves.

"I pretended to be relaxed last night, but you should have seen that we are in a very troubled situation now, because we have inadvertently been involved in a war, a war that has lasted for decades and has been unilaterally terminated. ”

"It doesn't matter if this building is a civilian facility, a military facility, or some other strange use, because in the last days, it had only one purpose, which was a fortress for these frogmen against outside plants. ”

"I don't know how much of this world is occupied by those weird plants, but it's clear that the projection world we are in now must be controlled by those plants, and this relic is the only territory in their sphere of influence, perhaps not under their control. ”

"According to the rules of the projection world, of course the people inside the ruins are dead, but those plants probably don't know this, and they have tried to attack the ruins all these years, but without success. ”

"But now, they've succeeded, and those few mushrooms are proof that they've managed to get into the last of the rebels' positions. ”

"You mean, they're wise?" Miridy frowned. Attacking a foreign enemy with hostile intentions does not necessarily mean that they are intelligent, and they can be driven by instinct, but if they can fight an organized war, it only means that they have a certain basic intelligence. If that were the case, the plants would have been relegated from the botany that Moria was good at, to the life science that Miridy was good at.

"I don't know how high it is, but it's certain that they have wisdom. Sholl paused, and said in a low voice, "Because they know how to figure out how to come in with us." ”

"Huh?" several people whispered in surprise at the same time, and Milit asked impatiently, "I can imagine that they came in with us, but can you explain what you mean by finding a way?"

"It's just my guess, maybe I'm overthinking, but I'd rather think a little more than get into unnecessary trouble because of poor consideration. ”

"During the shadow chasing, no matter how complicated the consideration is, it will not be too much, but I am afraid that I will think less. Mia said gloomily, "Just say it." ”

"Yesterday, they didn't want to kill us, to be exact, they didn't want to kill us right away, they were just putting pressure on us to break into here. ”

"Yesterday we all overlooked the fact that they had turned the area to death and killed all living things, so you should have a lot of experience in how to kill animals and humans. It is true that there may be many differences between our physique and the creatures here, but there is no difference in essence, they are all fleshy creatures, and the way of killing local creatures should also apply to us, at least it can make us feel uncomfortable. ”

"But the fact that we don't feel that discomfort means they haven't done anything. ”

"Captain, that's because you took timely countermeasures, breathing and contact were cut off, and even if they tried to do anything, there was no way. "The dwarf's characteristic thick voice is particularly loud.

"Forget how you felt when you almost cut off your head. Shul glared at Mobuck, "At that time, everyone was affected, which means that they at least have a way to directly affect our emotions and amplify the negative emotions." If they really want to kill us on the spot, they will definitely not delay it for so long, and they will only use it until the end, I am afraid it is just a means to put pressure on us. ”

"Eh, Shuer, I have two questions that I don't understand. The beautiful Lin Jing held up a few butter-coated leaves, and it was hard to imagine what this was to eat, "First, how did they know that we were here? ”

"They don't know, and they don't need to know. Shure sighed, "I don't think they even know that we're not the same kind as those frogmen, and we don't have any connection to each other. ”

"You mean, in their opinion, we're in the same league as those frogs?" "The halfling's shrill voice made his normal speech sound like screaming, "so they think we always have to come back here?"

"I think so, our performance confirms their judgment, and the fact is that we did come in. ”

Well, this question can be explained that way, but there is a second problem. Lin Jing said leisurely, "Can they really have such complex thinking?"

"Not sure. Shul shook his head and said, "Miridy, it's up to you to judge. ”

"In terms of life, the complexity of thinking is determined by both the soul and the brain, without the support of the higher soul, no matter how developed the brain is, it cannot carry out too complex thinking, at most it is like those more intelligent monsters, in the same way, without a developed brain, the higher soul will also lose a lot of abilities, such as memory loss, such as confusion, such as loss of logical analysis ability, etc. By the way, the above content, to exclude the undead, the undead are another system. ”

"So what? I want to hear the conclusion. Shul tapped on the table.

That's the conclusion. Militi shook her hair charmingly, and said dissatisfiedly, "They don't have developed brains, and they can't have complex souls, theoretically speaking, they can't carry out such complex thinking activities, I think you think of them too humanely, they are still a group of plants." ”

"Eh, I'm ...... too."

"Eat grass obediently, don't make trouble, you tree. "To Moria, Miridi and Mia yesterday were surprisingly consistent, well, consistent subtlety.

"No, no, no, no, no, Shuer, Shuer, he is not wrong. "The one who blushed, and was shy, and tried his best to defend Xiu'er, must be the girl Saf.

No one ridiculed her, let alone laughed at her, but everyone looked at her solemnly.

We all know each other's personalities very well, and we know that this archivist of the Great Library has always been respected by many people as the writer and inheritor of knowledge, and the knowledge in his head is absolutely rich, and what he says must be well-founded, and he will never talk nonsense in order to defend someone.

Really.

"I once read a book written by Carol. Saph looked directly at Miridy, forgetting even to be shy.

Miridy's face suddenly became ugly, and a few drops of cold sweat oozed from the corners of her forehead: "Master Carol...... Could it be that there really is a cluster of life?"

"Explain. Shul tapped the table again. He searched his memory carefully and made sure he hadn't seen the name, and it seemed that the book was not within his reading range.

"Carol was a master of life science 700 years ago, specializing in the study of insects. "She has put forward a hypothesis, which is cluster life. ”

She found that insects have negligible brains and weak souls, but some insects that live in groups often show reactions that go far beyond what they should think. ”

So she proposed the hypothesis of cluster life, the core of which is that these insect groups connect each other's brains and souls to think together in some unknown way, and only in this way can their anomalies be explained. ”

She even thinks that if the world's ...... For example, ants, all over the world, can show a much higher ability to think than humans, even if their souls are still low, and their brains are pitiful. ”

This hypothesis is not very optimistic even to herself, and there is no argument to support it, at best it can only be regarded as a whimsical fantasy. Miridy shook her head in surprise and said, "Is there really such a life in a certain world?"

It seems that this second question may also be explained. Shure smiled wryly at Moria, and sighed, "So I think they cleverly forced us to 'return' here and come in with us, and I'm even worried that they're spying on us all the time." ”

These words made everyone feel a chill, and they subconsciously looked around, as if there were really some terrible plants, hiding in the dark and sneering at them.