Perhaps it was the realization that the enemy who could kill the lantern man was not a good match, and the realization that leaving the lantern man's skin and lantern in place was itself fishing.

Therefore, the accomplices of the lantern man played a trick to save the country.

did not appear directly, but caused a few ground guards to rush over.

Zhao Wenrui stood there, watching several ground guards carefully put the lanterns and leather bags into special bags, and then hurriedly went to the errand.

Zhao Wenrui had already made arrangements on the skin bag and lantern, and did not wait for the rabbit or follow the vine, but after killing the lantern man, he continued to visit the Sea Spear.

Although the position and social status of the tax collector Martin have limited knowledge, Zhao Wenrui still has a certain understanding of the world through the analysis and speculation of inherent information.

Each ship island is like a city, a country.

On the earth, different regional environments, cultures and histories have shaped different customs and characteristics of the people. It's the same with this world. Each island has its own unique political, economic, and social outlook.

Analyzing the Sea Spear from these aspects, it belongs to the old bottle of new wine.

The Sea Spear had bad luck at the beginning.

Originally, it was built as the second ship for diversion due to the explosion of population on a certain ship island.

As a result, during the construction period, a scandal of cutting corners and shoddy products was first exposed.

Although corrupt practices have been punished, some of the projects that have already taken shape cannot be changed, otherwise it will be more expensive than building new ships.

Soon after, an unexpected storm surge baptized the giant shipyard and the Seaspear, which was still under construction. Not only did it damage the dock and the approach island, but it also exposed more quality problems.

The whole people are no longer optimistic about the future of the Sea Spear. After all, it is an established fact that its quality ceiling is not high, and even second-hand tatters from the factory.

As a result, the Sea Spear project was halted, and its sister ship, the Sea Shield, based on its blueprint, was put on the agenda.

Later, the Sea Spear changed hands several times, and was used as a single-function type of ship island to complete the later construction, such as arsenal ships, plantation ships, and mining ships (collecting ore, coal, smelting metals, and coke from the seabed)

Eventually, it was a group of revolutionaries, or rebels, who acquired the Sea Spear in the process of dividing the spoils after the deed. However, in the atmosphere of 'working together to build a homeland', it was gradually built into a fully functional ship island.

It is precisely because of this history that the society of the Sea Spear can be said to have been completely torn down and rebuilt from the rubble.

It is precisely because of this past that the social contradictions of the Sea Spear are not so acute.

However, human nature, as well as the productive forces, determine the relations of production and the social model.

With the passage of time, smart people are good at seizing opportunities to gain more benefits for themselves; leaders feel that they are elites and should become superior people; those who come first feel that they have worked hard and have higher qualifications than those who come later, and there is nothing wrong with taking more than others......

In short, everyone has their own reasons and feels that they should be treated preferentially.

In this way, classes appeared, and the gap between the rich and the poor widened. Up to now, it has actually embarked on the trajectory of dynastic reincarnation. The reason why the people at the bottom still have dreams and are positive and optimistic is because the road to progress has not been cut off, and the people at the top are not too dark and have not formed a monopoly.

But in fact, he has entered the middle age of the dynasty, which can be seen from the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes that have been complained about by the majority of people at the bottom.

The tax law is chaotic, and the people-oriented system of the past is no longer feasible, including Martin, who was juicy by him, favoritism, self-enrichment, and upper and lower hands, but the effective laws have not been introduced and implemented in time, which is the root cause of the confusion in the tax law.

Now the people at the bottom are still kept in the dark, and they are a little naïve, just like some people on the earth in ancient times thought that the emperor was good, and the bad things were all done by traitors, so as long as these scum moths were cleaned up, they would get better, but in fact, this kind of thing is never an isolated phenomenon, it is the whole system that is corrupt, and there is no great progress in productivity, or special circumstances, then it is impossible to get out of the cycle of dynastic change.

As for the possibility of great progress in productivity, I have to say that Zhao Wenrui's view is rather pessimistic. The main reason is that the island itself is closed and isolated, and it is difficult to communicate with each other, and as we all know, industrialization needs a sufficient industrial population and even a consumer market to promote.

The humanoid civilization of this world has been hovering in the steam age for nearly 10,000 years, pushing the steam engine technology to a very high height, but it has never been able to break the shackles, advance to the internal combustion engine, and unlock electricity. This is evidence of stagnant productivity.

He felt that unless there was an immortal great man who conquered the seven seas and established a large enough population of the ship and island interlocking empire, the curse of reincarnation could not be broken.

But it is not easy to conquer the island of ships, the culture of the island has long been formed, isolated and exclusive. The slow passage of time has led to the formation of cultural development and customs and traditions, so that the national consciousness of the group has been raised, and even the national consciousness has sprouted.

As we all know, once you get to this point, it's like playing the trilogy of conquer, unification, and integration, it's going to be a lot harder. Not to mention that the humanoid civilization of this world has not yet become the overlord of the planet, at least before completely overthrowing the sea beast system, it is difficult to promote the process of civilization with one mind.

There are cases where alliances have been formed due to the plague of sea beasts, but the disaster of sea beasts is strictly a natural phenomenon, and there is no feasibility of a single battle.

Sea beasts often form a huge erosion disaster when the living environment is damaged, or when there are natural disasters or special events, and there are no major disasters for decades in good years.

As the saying goes, there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days, and such a long time is definitely a test of the relationship between the members of the ship-island alliance. It is not feasible to use military force, and it is impossible for the island to be grouped for a long time, but it needs to be dispersed to various seas to fish and forage.

Coupled with the loss of people and politics, the filth caused by various interest demands, and other problems, so that the long-term and stable alliance relationship between the islands is simply a luxury. On the contrary, it is to fight with the sky, with beasts, and with people, just like the eternal truth, which has always become the first annotation of the civilization of the ship island.

This is also the reason why Zhao Wenrui feels that the Red Flag Revolution is more suitable.

Advanced production relations, supplemented by technological support, believe that society can be in a state of upward development for a long time.

Who wants to have their head pinned to their belts?

In this way, after several generations, inertia can be formed, and more forces can be attracted to join, so as to obtain a population base that leaps forward in productivity.

At that time, the problem of civilization standing still will be basically solved.

However, he was a newcomer after all, and Martin, the tax collector, could not remember the information to the fullest, and there were many big things to be learned.

Therefore, the Red Flag Revolution is still just an intention, and if it turns out to be out of place, or if it requires him to pay too much, it will seriously delay the development and growth of the First Order, and may even lead to his exposure, then he would rather choose to go with the flow or make a fortune in silence than fight for the cause of the liberation of the broad masses of the people in the world.

After all, he just wants to play, to make trouble, to pretend, and to be remembered by the history of a civilization, not because of how much he loves the intelligent beings of this world.

Now, suddenly, things have changed.

The Old Dominators, the Cthulhu family, suddenly jumped out.

This flavor element can definitely be regarded as a strong color, and the history of civilization and the world pattern that I thought were relatively clear have fallen back into the fog again.

It's hard to say that the ship island civilization is not necessarily the playwork of the old rulers.

Maybe Cthulhu deliberately made a villain in order to sharpen his family?

Perhaps the origin of the sea people is still related to the deep divers.

So his set of the Red Flag Revolution faded unconsciously, but his curiosity about the mysterious background of this world suddenly increased a lot.

After all, Cthulhu is neither orderly nor kind, and he must have a purpose in doing things here.

There are very, very few things that can be favored by the old dominators, especially by a high-ranking deity as well-known as Cthulhu.

It can even be said that what Cthulhu values is basically of the same high value to him, and even more attractive.

For example, a cosmic Arcana like the Infinity Stones that can shorten the accumulation period. The biggest gap between him and the old rulers, especially the old ones, is the lack of net worth.

So if it is really a treasure that can shorten the accumulation cycle, it is just the icing on the cake for Cthulhu, and it is a blessing in disguise for him.

So it is natural to fall into the mode of thinking of 'if it is really a good thing, let's see if it can be snatched from love'.

And the first step, of course, is to understand the secrets of this world that are not known to ordinary people.

Originally, he had planned to play the trick of picking melons along the vines, first in the form of Martin to his superior, a certain tax collector, and then in the form of the tax collector to the governor, or the captain of the ship.

The Governor is the biggest official on the island, and although he is not actually a dictatorship, he also has great political power.

He believed that if he could replace him, supplemented by a series of coercive methods, he would basically be able to wash the upper echelons of the island without bloodshed.

And then there's the wanton fun.

With the low living standards and demands of the people at the bottom of the Sea Spear, it is really not difficult to appease them at all.

On the contrary, we need to consider not giving too much at one time, and not making it too easy, so as not to make bad things such as 'raising rice and fighting rice hatred'.

As for why we have to feed some of our people or something.

In addition to satisfying the needs of the human side of the self (sociality), there is also the need for divinity.

The latter was only understood by him after fusing the inherited knowledge of the old rulers, and although it was not thorough enough, he also knew a rough why.

The interaction between the primordial gods and the intelligent beings represented by humans also has an appeal in it.

The great goal of the primordial gods is detachment.

Being able to transcend from the outside without being limited by the universe in which it was conceived is a very representative step.

And want to do that. There are two concepts that cannot be avoided.

First, information.

Second, the elements.

In fact, to put it bluntly, many principles are the same, and what he understands now, Kane himself has understood many years ago.

One is Kane's commitment to information supremacy.

The second is the three strange substances that Kane diligently pursued.

Life is a miracle of the universe, an alternative genius treasure.

Intelligent life, on the other hand, is a miracle in life.

Therefore, a statement can be deduced: intelligent life is the existence of Zhong Ling Shenxiu in the universe, and it is easier to absorb information and three strange substances.

This is also a big reason why the old rulers are so high that they have no friends, but they also support their families.

However, as far as he knew, the Old Rulers had never approached any intelligent race in any of the universes.

They are ancient and withdrawn multi-predators, and their existence seems to be to end the entire multiverse.

It was precisely because of this characteristic that he was not very worried about encountering the old Dominator Buddha-figure (complete body), especially those top ones in the divine system.

And as long as it's not a deity, he's not scared. Even if you can't fight, you can escape.

However, the world in which the old rulers intervene is always full of strange and deep secrets.

Take this universe, for example.

At first glance, it is extraordinary, because its composition is not a pattern of planets, star systems, nebulae, and star clusters, but astral planes, main matter planes, outer planes, inner planes, heteroplanes, and so on.

However, the interesting thing is that it is obviously a transcendent world, but the main material plane is a micro-magic environment.

You must know that in the transcendent crystal wall system, although there are also peaks and falls, peaks and valleys of the magic tide, they will not last too long, and most of the time, they belong to the period of stability of extraordinary power.

But this world is different, the humanoid civilization has been stranded for thousands of years just in the age of steam, and the supernatural power has never been known by the vast majority of people.

It can even be said that it is precisely because the transcendent has no dominance that humanoids cannot rely on gods or transcendental, in order to survive, the steam technology has been pushed to a high position, and a bunch of dream-level steam and mechanical black technology have been born.

And he just encountered a high-magic unit today.

The lantern man, whether it is a film or a lantern, is a typical high-magic item.

The need for supernatural power for these transcendent items makes their presence in this world an anachronistic luxury.

He was able to use his supernatural power unscrupulously because he had the evil spirit of the old ruler, and he was able to switch between natural and supernatural powers. At the end of the {Alien: Contract} world, he devoured the abundant electricity provided by the nuclear reactor, transformed extraordinary energy, and proliferated evil god cells, and now he is naturally becoming more and more sophisticated.

What is the lantern bearer?

Hug your thighs.

At present, the most reliable speculation is this.

Someone in the Cthulhu family is the lantern bearer's reliance.

So where is this evil god surnamed Ke?

The main material plane of this crystal wall system is extraordinary, and even a quasi-sanctuary level like Ozarchi is blocked from the door, how can the evil god enter without being repelled?

Then a concept emerges in relation to the world.

If there is a transcendent inner world in this main material plane, then everything makes sense.

The two are like day and night, and the peaks and valleys of the magic tide are like dawn and dusk.

It is even possible that the world has such a pattern, and it is all the handiwork of that evil god.

After all, in the humanoid society of this world, there are still many legends about the Broken Era. Even today's marine world was formed by the catastrophe of the destruction of the era.

And the mountain people are the descendants of the remnants of the previous era.

Although there is no rigorous evidence in Martin's memory that the tsunami flooded the land, and the civilization of the last era was very developed and extraordinary, etc., there are really more rumors among the people, and there are often news that a certain ship island is digging for underwater treasures, discovering city ruins, and so on.

In addition, there are some details, such as if it is not the remnants of the previous era, how can they be called mountain people and not islanders?

With 3% of the world's total land area, even if there are mountains on some large lands, mountains are by no means the first feature, and islands are, so it is more accurate to call them islanders.

Conversely, if there had been a tsunami in the last epoch and only those who lived at high altitudes were spared, then it would be appropriate for them to call them mountain people.

Of course, the epoch here is not a hundred years, but a major event such as the rise and fall of civilization, similar to the Cambrian, Cretaceous and so on.

In short, if there was a civilization before the current humanoid civilization, and its remnants more or less inherited the legacy of the previous civilization, then it is easier to justify many phenomena of today's humanoid civilization.

For example, the main race is the mountain people, not the sea people.

You must know that sea people are definitely more suitable in a world where the proportion of the ocean is as high as 97%, and people have gills, starting from near the ankles to the feet, which is not the same as people, simply put, it can be understood that they have their own fins.

The seafolk who have more survival advantages are the lower races, relying on the ship island platform to survive. The most reasonable explanation he could think of was that the mountain people had a considerable advantage before they survived with the sea people.

The pure marine race, its technology tree point coal-burning, boilers, and steam engines are not reliable at all.

Further deduced, seawater is highly corrosive to metals, and as a pure marine race, materials such as coral, shells, chitin, and bones are the first choice for wide application.

Even further, whether the pure living race can learn to use fire is a very debatable question.

Even if there is a volcanic eruption on the ocean floor, it is rare to come into contact with open flames, so even if you observe a phenomenon, it is difficult to think about using it. Moreover, the difficulty of making fire in the sea is much greater than that of taking fire on land.

In short, since the current science and technology is very similar to the science and technology system of human civilization on the earth, it means that the technology system created by the terrestrial intelligent race for the development of the main body of the science and technology tree.

The scattered islands scattered throughout the ocean were not enough to give birth to a land civilization that was completely free from ignorance, so it is more reasonable to say that the land area was larger than it is now, and that there were other civilizations before.

And this theory, coupled with the legend of Cthulhu (once the star position is correct, Cthulhu and the city of Lalaye will surface together, humanity will perish), and the current pattern of the world has a self-consistent statement.

In other words, this world is likely to be a certain villa world of the evil god surnamed Ke?

Zhao Wenrui, who came to this conclusion, felt that he should be careful......