Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Lost Past and Present Life

Elven elders naturally have their own reasons for being jealous of Andrew's wisdom. But in fact, even the Son of the Abyss himself was at a loss about his own past life. He remembered that he was born on a beautiful blue planet, and that he was born in the square characters converted from Chinese hieroglyphs, and he remembered that he was very troubled by those alphabet languages, but in fact he showed great talent for mastering these unfamiliar languages when he came into contact with dwarven and elven scripts.

He didn't remember his name, occupation, and appearance in his previous life, and originally Andre felt that he was very natural about the identity of a man and believed that he should be a man in his previous life, but gradually, the confusion about his previous life gave him some kind of illusion, maybe even if he was reborn as a woman, he would probably adapt to it the same!?

This kind of feeling that I know that I have forgotten something very important, but I can't remember it at all, is very torturous. It's like losing the most important part of your life, not only is it irretrievable, but you have forgotten what it really is.

is like the typical episode that always appears in old-fashioned emotional dramas, which is scolded by countless people and makes most female viewers love and hate dissociative amnesia.

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Trying to feed wild coyotes was not a whim for Andrei. Although he had forgotten a lot about himself in his previous life, he still remembered a lot of what he had learned in his previous life.

Humans have successfully domesticated wolves into dogs before there is a clear record of history, and the majority of people agree that humans have captured young wolves before they are full term and raised them to gain the most loyal animal friends in human history. Putting Lothar in charge of raising three young black wolves full-time is an attempt to reproduce André's statement.

But the Children of the Abyss vaguely remembered a completely different theory, a scholar whose name he could no longer remember, who had proposed a hypothesis by observing the survival of stray dogs in human cities. He believes that in ancient times, human beings were very poor, and they sometimes could not even feed themselves and their offspring due to the shortage of food resources. In such an environment, humans do not have the extra resources to nurse the wolf cubs. He suggested that the evolution of wolves into dogs is likely to be more similar to the habits of modern stray dogs in cities.

Stray dogs' degraded hunting instincts have led them to use garbage dumps as their main source of food. The scholar believed that when ancient humans gathered a certain size. The animal carcass part of the household waste will attract some speculative wolves, just as hyenas always grab food from other predators. And then among these speculators, some of these less aggressive and more wary of human-friendly wolves will be given more access to food. The closer the wolf is to humans, the faster it will be able to get more food scraps when humans dump the garbage, and those who are more vigilant will have a hard time gaining an advantage in this competition.

This effect of human conditions on wolves is completely different from the norm in evolutionary theory - the offspring of stronger head wolves will have better living conditions. As a result, more human-like, intelligent individuals will have access to a richer source of food. In the middle of the twentieth century, a Soviet scholar conducted an experiment that challenged the classical theory of evolution and made a real and powerful addition to the argument that wild wolves evolved into dogs through garbage heaps.

The subject of the experiment was a small predator common in the vast northlands, the Arctic fox. The idea of the experiment was very simple: the researchers stroked a large number of wild arctic foxes in cages with their hands wearing safety gloves and selected some of their specific individuals from their reactions to humans. The selection criteria are not complicated, and those arctic foxes that are very wary of humans and aggressive will not be selected. Those who are more docile and calm towards petting will be selected for further observation and feeding.

As for the results of the experiment, it was very dramatic. Of course, such a surprising conclusion requires an unbiased premise that is free from academic fraud. The first offspring of the selected Arctic fox produced a mutation that was shocking enough. The fox cubs, which are supposed to be snow-white in the cold season, have many black patches on their bodies, making them easy to distinguish from their parents just by their appearance. And these little foxes, raised by humans, bark "Wang, Wang", play with their companions and breeders, and they are so lively and active that they are almost like their distant relatives of the canine family, dogs!

Experiments have shown that in some specific cases, some organisms do not need to go through such a long evolutionary process, and sometimes they only need to go through one or two generations to produce shocking changes. This is all the more indicative of the fact that perhaps the first dog in human history was probably just a coincidence or an accident.

Scholars have studied the difference between wolf and dog barking, and have come to the conclusion that wolves howl to communicate with their own kind at a distance, and dogs bark more specifically to be able to communicate with humans with language talents - guard dogs bark loudly to deter strange outsiders and warn their owners of stranger intrusion.

Black and white hair is a very common hue in domestic dogs, and scholars believe that it is closely related to the level of certain hormones secreted by animals. For example, higher adrenaline levels are likely to make animals more vigilant and aggressive. A complex hormonal system can affect an animal's coat color. In other words, it is likely that the coat color of many dogs is not simply the product of human selective evolution, but because they become more docile and tame, the coat color will naturally change in that direction.

There are also some other naturally evolved organisms that can have a similar coat color. Typical of them are the giant panda and the Asian moon bear, which is a very dangerous large beast, but with the exception of the polar bear that lives near the Arctic Circle, most of these bear species are omnivorous. Among them, the most docile is naturally the giant panda in the zoo, which is cute and lazy, and there is no need to say much about the color of the giant panda's coat. The Asian moon bear, which has the same contrasting coat color, was once used as a source of medicine for bear bile in northern China and was bred in captivity on a large scale. There are many unscrupulous owners who spend their lives in cages where they spend their lives in a miserable life, sawing off the paws of live bears and selling them to restaurants, which is a high-end ingredient with high economic benefits. It also makes holes in the stomachs of live bears in order to obtain bile, and maintains this cruel method to prevent their wounds from healing. Some moon bears that are sore and itchy from suppurating wounds are tempted to lick their wounds, and cold-blooded owners put Elizabeth rings on them to prevent the bile ducts from being damaged.

Regardless of the current state of life of these two bears, they are the least aggressive and most domesticated bears that André knows. Of course, things are not absolute, in fact, giant pandas are not completely vegetarians, their intestinal system has not evolved enough digestive enzymes to digest crude fiber food, and the low level of nutrient absorption efficiency makes them have to eat for a long time to ensure their energy intake. They are even rumored to have attacked the livestock of villagers in the mountains. That is, although it feeds on bamboo, it is actually still an omnivorous creature and has a certain aggressiveness.

André felt that he had mastered something about the domestication and evolution of animals that went beyond the realm of so-called "common sense". This is also a means for him to extrapolate his past life, and if he did not know this knowledge because of a simple hobby, then it is likely that Andre was engaged in biological science-related work in his previous life.

Therefore, after André discovers the wild coyotes in the camp and connects with the unpopular knowledge of his past life, he hopes to "recall" more details about his past life through further practical actions, so as to recover his lost memories.

So when Marcellion came to Andraria again with mixed feelings, wanting to measure the wisdom of the children of the abyss with his own knowledge. Andre is actually very welcome, anyway, as long as he doesn't admit it, probably no one can assume that almost all of his knowledge comes from a real world that is different from Garlandia and the Demon Realm. The druids, on the other hand, are the most familiar with ecology and biological habits in the world, and it is very necessary for the children of the abyss to be able to discover some of the wonders of the world from the elders of Thornleaf Village. It would be great if this mutual exchange could remind him of more bits and pieces about his past life.

Maybe it's because he's too young to learn a lesson, or maybe it's because of Andrei's sincerity with fleshy bones. In short, the youngest member of the coyote family is not very wary of the children of the abyss. It wouldn't even leave the demon camp with food in its mouth, and its family was still waiting hungrily outside the camp.

Both the druid and the children of the abyss sat calmly on the rocks outside the camp, watching with interest as the fox-like coyotes ate. The druids were curious about this conceptual shift in the demons' attempts to domesticate beasts, and most of the people of Garandia had the habit of domesticating beasts. It's just that the elves don't agree with the practices of most of the other races.

For the vast majority of humans, domesticated beasts are just domestic animals, a source of meat and possession, while for druids and rangers, the closest domesticated beasts are close companions who can complement them in terms of ability, and they will gradually form friendships that can share weal and woe, even life and death. Andrari's attitude towards the animals they domesticated was something that the old druids were very concerned about.

"Animals are often more sensitive to danger and hostility than we are. Matherien gently stroked the coyote's short-haired yellow head, and the gobbling fellow shrank back vigilantly, and then, as if sensing that the old elf was no threat to it, began to bust himself again.

This alone gave André an insight into the peculiarities of the druids, and even if he fed the coyotes himself, he would deliberately keep a safe distance from them.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, or if there is some strange connection between the two worlds that the children of the abyss don't know. In Andrei's opinion, the druids in this world do not seem to be any different from the settings in fantasy works in his previous life. Although the Children of the Abyss know that the druids in their previous lives were not entirely fictionalized by fantasy works, they were based on an ancient religion of Europa. However, the similarity of the teachings of the two worlds and the exact same title still made Andrei feel a little incredible.

"I've heard that druids have a very high status among the elves, but I don't know what that title means. ”

"The word 'druid' comes from the ancient Elven word 'Dradia', which means forest and nature, and the so-called druid means 'child of nature'. "It's no surprise that Marcellion is curious about Andre, and having an unstoppable curiosity is a necessary condition for accumulating knowledge and wisdom," of course, unlike your Highness, your bloodline is born from the great will of the abyss, and our children of nature are a kind of self-knowledge born of faith. Not only elves, but also natural defenders from other bloodlines and races can also become our brothers and sisters. ”

"Does Garlandia have a 'child of the world' like me?"

"Yes, Your Highness. In fact, the first generation of elves was created by the goddess Garandia herself in the appearance of the moon god, and even now, in each generation of elves, there will be one or several princesses who are directly conceived by the goddess herself as the queen candidate of the elven kingdom. ”

"In other words, the bloodline of the elven princess is far rarer and more noble than that of the children of the abyss, is that true?" Andre didn't actually mean to question when he said this, he just wanted to know if the bloodline of the elven royal family could bring them more powerful strength and talent.

"For us elves, the status of a princess is naturally extremely noble. Although there are many children of the abyss in the vast demon realm, an existence full of wisdom like your Highness Andrei is not inferior to anyone else in my opinion. ”

The Children of the Abyss don't have any concealment of the principle of healing wounds in suturing, of course, there is nothing to hide, since the wound is too big to heal, then use physical methods to make it close.

Andrei's open-minded attitude in knowledge made the old druid ponder and ask his biggest doubt, "I heard that it has only been a year since the birth of His Highness, but I don't know where you got this knowledge that makes Andrarui more and more prosperous?"

André knew that the old elf had been asking this question for a long time, but he still couldn't tell the druid elder the true answer.

"It's also very strange to me that I've heard that most of my siblings have been born with extraordinary talents, maybe that's my talent?" said the Child of the Abyss, his face unchanging, he couldn't tell anyone his unbelievable secret.

Anyway, I just understand, what can you do with me?