Chapter 118: What Makes People Feel Afraid
【Burning at the Stake (Gone)】
[A torture instrument popular in Europa in the 10th-15th centuries of the White Ding calendar, the White Ding believed that they could use this tool to burn wizards, but this was only wishful thinking. Some shamans who don't like to bathe are happy to let the whites prepare a warm fire bath for themselves. There are also many innocent female whites who have been killed by their companions in this way. 】
[There is a wooden pedestal in the glass case, on which stand three wooden pillars tied with oil-soaked hemp rope, and in the middle of which is a struggling wizard with an exaggerated, false smile on his face.] Under the high platform, there is a black head, and from Zheng Qing's angle, you can only see the back of the head of different shapes]
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【Bison (extinct)】
[Mammals, Artiodactyls, Bovidae; Fierce temperament; Attacking American Indians for thousands of years; Savage cattle known as tent mouths; Adult bison can weigh up to a ton and have a pair of hard horns, but cannot walk upright on hind legs like a true Minotaur, and have low intelligence; Indians fight them with stones, bones, and witches; Heavy casualties until the Europa cross the sea and use muskets and plagues to prevent them from further harming the natives. 】
[In the glass case stood a tall American bison, with fierce eyes, several slender javelins hanging on its back, blood slowly flowing down the cow's back, surrounded by several hunched people, wearing leather skirts, showing frightened expressions, and a white man riding a tall horse, holding a musket, and a residual smoke from the muzzle of the musket]
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【Ape Man (Survival)】
[(Scientific name: Bai Ding) Anthropoceae, body length 1-2 meters, weight 40-100kg, brain capacity (about) 1500ml±300ml; body appearance, shape and brain structure are similar to wizards, less body hair, hands and feet are smooth and hairless on the front, a small amount of sparse short hair on the back; juvenile apes have irregular behavior and strong destructive power; adult apes are sluggish and have serious loss of qi and blood.
The individual ape-man has a survival period of 30-90 years and is short-lived. Because of its high intelligence, it has served the wizarding world for millions of years, and it is a qualified test subject, but its fecundity is too strong, and it is called the four major pests along with goblins, goblins, and trolls. Unable to use magic, it is easy to die from disease and aging, so it is the least threatening.
Ape man has a strong ability to survive, can inhabit plains, mountains, rainforests and other environments, living in groups, small groups of about 1-1000 individuals, called 'villages', large groups of hundreds of thousands to millions of people, called 'city', there is a special combination of cities and villages, divided by regions, called 'country'. Ape-men belonging to different 'countries' will fight to the death at any time, similar to the unlimited fighting ring of the Star Academy, and the apes of different 'countries' will use all means to fight (including muskets, metal knives, plagues, etc.), and many apes die in battle. 】
[In the glass case, a white man in a suit and leather shoes, smiling and showing eight teeth, is looking into the distance with empty eyes, and he still has a leather briefcase under his arm. Next to the white man, there was a black-skinned lady, wearing a strange grass skirt, revealing the sensitive part of her chest, wearing a silver ring on it; next to the legs of the two adults, stood several children more than a meter tall, with different yellow-skinned, brown-skinned, and red-skinned skin, dressed in different robes and leather armor; yellow-skinned children held homework books in their hands, brown-skinned children held shells in their hands, and red-skinned children held daggers in their hands.
Like the white men, both the dark-skinned ladies and the children had strange but bright smiles on their faces. It's as if I saw an angel. And the time was frozen in that moment. 】
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"Ridiculous, just ridiculous. ”
Zheng Qing stared at the shiny metal illustration board in front of the glass case, then looked up at the 'specimen' displayed in the glass case, and muttered, repeating a sentence: "It's ridiculous!"
Here is the First University, the Museum of the History of Magic.
Zheng Qingzheng was standing in the ancient wizard exhibition hall.
What was displayed on the booth was not a chimpanzee or a monkey, or the 'ape-man' in Zheng Qing's impression marked on the nameplate, but a real person.
The world that Zheng Qing lived in before, those living human beings.
Only now they have become specimens. After being gassed to death, a lifelike, yet stiff specimen was created with a magic potion. Zheng Qing had no doubt that the wizards must have made more similar specimens, and selected the best ones from them, and selected the best ones to laugh at, and placed them here.
It is placed in the museum exhibition hall of the highest university in the wizarding world.
This made it a little hard for him to accept.
He had always felt that the wizarding world was a more advanced and civilized world.
After taking him out of his dormitory, he went straight to the exhibition hall of this museum. Although Zheng Qing knew that the school had a museum with a rich collection, he had never been here because he had always been busy with his studies or all kinds of troubles.
So he didn't know there was such a scary corner of the school.
After a visit, he was depressed.
He never knew that the wizard had originally observed Bai Ding or the mortal world in the first place.
"Do you know what scares people?" asked the gentleman again as he walked out of the 'Ancient Wizards' room.
This time, Zheng Qing felt that he had found a clue to the answer.
"Prejudice," the wizard sighed, but replied with confidence, "prejudice is terrible...... Wizards wield so much power, so many clever brains, and yet have so many ridiculous misconceptions about a civilization that is so close at hand. This kind of thing is terrible...... Correspondingly, ordinary people also have too many prejudices against wizards. ”
The gentleman nodded, then shook his head again.
"Prejudice can be confusing, but it's not scary. He took it easy and listed two words in the void: "Using the logic of one's own world to explain what is happening in other civilizations is a sign of extreme lack of self-confidence." I prefer to extend this 'confusion' to 'pitiful' rather than frightening. ”
Zheng Qing frowned slightly, and glanced back in the direction where the ape-man booth was located.
"Is that 'ignorance'?" he was already a little unconfident when he replied the second time, but he still said the second word that came to his mind: "Ignorance of wizards to ordinary people, ignorance of ordinary people to wizards......"
He deliberately used the word 'ordinary people' instead of 'white ding'.
Because the visit just now gave him a bad impression.
This time, the gentleman did not do more analysis of his answer.
"It's the 'truth'. The gentleman directly said the answer he wanted, and then suddenly smiled and snorted: "Betrayed my love, forced me to leave, and finally knew the truth and my tears fell......"
Zheng Qing's depression that was originally hovering in his heart suddenly disappeared in this slightly funny song.
He couldn't help but laugh.