Chapter 21: Cultural Genes (2)
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The reason why most people have the image that "human beings are weak chickens" is the illusion of pushing themselves and others. After all, we have been civilized for a long time, and we have long ceased to live the life of primitive people who hunt and gather. Lack of exercise, coupled with the loss of opportunities to get in close contact with all kinds of fierce beasts, naturally looks like a delicate flower in a greenhouse. But if humans are wild, it is quite terrifying, and Bei Ye, who eats all over the world, is an obvious example.
This is pretty good hardware, and we've started killing spree after we've gotten out of the tech tree for fire and throwing weapons (e.g. bows and arrows, throwing spears).
Even in the Stone Age, nearly 10,000 years ago, humans established themselves as kings of the land, and no large animal could pose a threat to our survival and reproduction. After that, civilization developed, and it was even more important to. If there are other species that can deter us, I am afraid that the only ones left are disgusting microbes and those parasites.
But the Roland world is different.
There is something as strange as magic here, and the animals and plants are terrifying beyond imagination.
Among them, the prominent representative is the dragon, not to mention those ancient dragons who are old and have developed wisdom, just those dragon beasts that are the least in the stream, it is enough to spat the face of a human who is only at the level of cold weapons.
Because a lowly dragonborn would not be afraid of spears and feathered arrows fired by manpower, and only with a big thing like a bed crossbow could he barely get into the eye.
As for burning with fire, are you sure it's not a joke?
People will breathe fire themselves!
When it came to a medium-level dragonborn beast like Zhuo, it was already an existence that ordinary humans couldn't handle at all. But this level of combat power is estimated to only be called high-end, and there is still some distance from the top. Of the six dimensions of force set by Levy, it is only in the fourth dimension.
Even if we only compare intelligent creatures, the cost of human beings is very thin.
In this magical world, among the nearly 100 intelligent creatures, the innate superiority of human beings may have to be ranked after fifty. Roland World, just talk about blood genes. At the top of the list are some species of giants. Not only are they physically strong, but they also have all kinds of natural magic. Even when it comes to fertility, there are some giants who are not worthy of human beings.
And, importantly, they're not stupid.
There has never been any news of "giant stupidity", and at the level of intelligence they are at least no worse than humans.
This is stronger than humans, and they can live like humans, and they are not even dumber than humans, why are they not the kings of the world, and humans are successfully crowned?
There is only one explanation for their "cultural genes".
If we talk about ethnic culture, we refer to the information other than genes stored by the corresponding ethnic group and can be familiar and mastered by the individuals in it.
The customs passed down from generation to generation, the outlook on life, values, and worldview, as well as various skills of planting and animal husbandry, and even religion and language, as well as various histories, legends and stories passed down by this ethnic group by word of mouth, can all be said to be cultural genes.
Excellent cultural genes mean that they carry more effective information than lower cultural genes.
And the most important hardware of this concept is probably language, writing, and the accompanying inventions such as paper and pen, and the Internet is also within this scope.
As for its software, it should be all kinds of religions, customs, traditions and humanistic customs. For example, science, pragmatism, respect for teachers, etc., can all be said to be part of it. For example, the Confucian cultural circle attaches great importance to the tradition of education, which is the cultural gene of the software type.
From this point of view, human beings, as the first race in the world to understand writing, undoubtedly have the best cultural genes.
In the same amount, human beings rely on words, and each generation accumulates far more useful information than other races, which can naturally make up for the lack of innate conditions such as strength and innate magic.
The birth of the wizard also seems to be an argument to prove this.
After all, the set of things involved in spell magic is not a unique human talent. On the contrary, it is something that all intelligent races can learn. It's just that it's just because it's monopolized by humans that it looks so special.
And the first to discover the magic of spells weren't even humans.
Spell magic is a standard alien!
In this case, why is it only human beings who point out this technological tree? The birth of writing has led to a leap in human cultural genes, which must be the main factor!
But after figuring this out, Levi wondered.
Judging from the metal pieces, he clearly felt that the people of this world had at least some biological consciousness.
If the people who made them really cut in from his point of view, then their cognitive level is estimated to be comparable to that of Europeans in the late period of the Great Voyage and the early stage of the First Industrial Revolution. It can be said that the soil that gave birth to the new era has been produced, and it is waiting for Darwin's big cows to take root and sprout.
It's just that Levi's understanding of the world is completely different.
The era in which he lived was obviously the Middle Ages, and even if it was not dark and backward, it was not even possible to reach the level of the Renaissance.
This contradiction made Levi frown for a while.
Thinking that the four pieces of metal were all nautical anecdotes, he felt that their origins were not simple.
If the material they had written was not a piece of metal, but one or two yellowed sheets of old paper, with English written in quills, Levi would have thought they had traveled back in time.
Like him, he traveled into this world from the tumultuous Age of Discovery hundreds of years ago.
But the Roland text on it made him very puzzled.
Suddenly, Levy's eyes lit up, and he muttered the words "Cankus Golden Pages" in his mouth.
This was from the mouth of the strange Clough wizard, and Levi didn't notice it at the time. Thinking about it now, he felt so mysterious.
Because from his past memories, Levi vaguely knew that this thing seemed to be a popular thing in the golden age of the Cankus Empire more than 4,000 years ago.
At that time, people liked to make pages out of rare metals to write important information. In doing so, perhaps it is the influence of the inheritance culture of books on them. After all, the human beings of this world are still called "scripture holders", and the importance of books to them is self-evident.
And if it really came from more than 4,000 years ago, it seems to make sense.
Because judging by the many monuments and corresponding books left behind from that era, it is indeed an era of unprecedented greatness. Not only that, the entire Roland Continent was included in the rule of the Human Empire, but it also expanded its territory for a time. All known overseas territories today are basically remnants of that time.
Levi still remembered the extremely delicate Cancus creations in the Duke's Mansion, which were indeed extremely ingenious. It is estimated that the craftsmen of this era will not be able to create these fine products at all.
To put it simply, civilization was far more advanced than it is now.
The background of this overseas expansion is also very similar to the Age of Discovery.
If people at that time also had the germ of "scientific thought", it would indeed be possible to do what these metal pieces reveal!
But in this way, doesn't it mean that in the past thousands of years, human civilization has not only regressed, but even the cognitive level has turned back history?
Levi smelled of conspiracy!