Led by Mireid, they walked for a long time in the pouring rain, abandoning the road and escaping the knights of the Kingdom Council as they made their way along the forest stream.

Mirad didn't like to explain, and the woman shrouded in fog always had a flirtatious smile and spoke without leaking, never telling him where he was going.

His mood was a little impetuous at first, but gradually calmed down.

At the beginning, the caramel snail followed him all the way to the south and north of the Violet Star, and saw the cultural scenery, probably his temperament was smoothed out in this way.

Now they were in a valley, and Mirad had raised a fire to drive away the damp cold and snakes, insects, rats, and ants, while Leoz sat at the edge of the cave, reading a book by the light.

Magic, Dragons, and Mithril

The book was given to him by Mireid to serve as his literacy material, and he was idle anyway, and Leoz didn't mind reading the book.

The Echoer doesn't have a head, he just doesn't know what to learn, but that doesn't mean he can't absorb information.

Putting aside practical considerations, this book is actually quite interesting. A little story was recorded to tell some interesting roads.

In order to make it easier to understand, Li Aozi has localized these stories to a certain extent, making it easier for those who are from the Xingyuan civilization to understand.

After all, the mainstream worldview of Xingyuan is a grand narrative.

This book is different, its original version stands in the perspective of Long Weixing, thinking about the question of worldview.

The general idea is that for quite some time in the past, "environmental determinism" has become the way for people to explain civilizational differences and grand narratives.

Originally, people moved civilization to technology or magic, and the reasons for choosing idealism or materialism were explained by the local environment.

As a simple example, a certain planet will give birth to a giant dragon that can breathe fire, fly, and have a long lifespan, indicating that the environment it lives in must have large sea creatures to meet the consumption of its huge size, and secondly, this place has less land, most of which are broken islands and high cliffs, trees and forests are extremely scarce, and most of the area is a damp desert environment.

As a result, the dragon's ancestors had to fly long distances at sea to survive, so similar to the Aeolian pterosaurs, the ulnar radius and humerus were extremely extended, evolving into large, complex active gliders, and for a short dive into the bay, crocodile-like plate carapace scales were needed to aid swimming.

As for how the fire-breathing ability came about, it is generally believed that the fire-breathing was actively evolved, and it may have been originally a form of performance for dragon courtship, using the accumulated biogas in the body and the rapid friction of the back molars to spit out and ignite to form a simple fire stream.

Anyone who knows the principle of a flamethrower knows that spitting fire is an extremely wasteful act of energy, but because of this, the ability to perform fire-breathing is considered by dragon females to be a reflection of the abundance of resources that males have.

Just as people think that "I'd rather be the enemy of the whole world than be with you" is a romantic feeling, this kind of risk-taking and wasting resources is actually a way to show strength.

From this point of view, holding a military parade is also a kind of romanticism.

Obviously, in the eyes of the female dragon, following such a male with flesh, brains and strength, the probability of survival of the offspring will be higher.

As a result, generations of genes are screened out, and the personality expression of Spitfire is also passed on.

With the gradual increase in calories and protein intake, the brains of dragons are becoming more and more developed, and those who are good at breathing fire and accurately controlling the flow of fire are considered to be creatures with higher IQs, more inclined to team work in hunting, and have richer emotional expressions, so that females will give preference to these males who are intelligent and know how to please dragons.

In order to have a higher brain capacity and fire-breathing ability, the dragon's teeth began to differentiate, and the body structure gradually improved, and the body size began to increase, and the lifespan also increased.

The process of biological evolution is measured in millions of years, and the huge size of the dragon also makes their lifespan incomparably long, and finally makes the dragon settlement open

Experienced individuals such as the elderly, grandmothers, and elders began to emerge, but lacked the ability to hunt for food.

The young people of the dragon clan knew the preciousness of these old people, and began to support them, even if they did not provide hunting resources, they were able to pass on knowledge, teach ambush techniques, and point out the direction of hunting.

Gradually, language was formed. With the language, the dragons, which were originally based on a few families, instantly skyrocketed to a settlement of dozens of family members, and hundreds of dragons could participate in hunting together, and the efficiency skyrocketed.

As the language evolved, the dragons realized the benefits of hunting together, and began to live together, even helping each other to support newborn cubs whose parents had died. In this process, the social relations of the dragon family began to take shape.

The environment is changing, the genes are constantly mutating, the species are gradually evolving, and the dragons begin to migrate around, and in the process, the dragons will encounter all kinds of difficulties, famine, heat, cold, parasites, giant beasts, but as long as they can't kill them.

It will only make them stronger, and in order to deal with these problems, the dragons began to appear primitive clans, tribal organizations, and began large-scale migrations.

After overcoming or coexisting with these difficulties one by one, the dragons marched into the interior environment, and the group cooperated, causing the mortality rate of the cubs to drop exponentially, and the population began to explode for the first time, and the clan began to split outward, starting to march from all angles, eventually covering the entire continent.

At this point, the initial matriarchal society united the dragons under the command of the Great Grandmother, and the female dragons began to climb up to dig up birds' eggs, down to fish and hunt in shallow bays, and gather berries around. Go back to protect and raise the cubs.

The male dragons began to take arms, noticing that the rocks on the top of the mountain were very strong, so they began to consciously use their claws to drop the stones from a great height, collide with another stone, and then grasp the two stones with their claws, grinding and finely beating.

First the rough stone axes, sharpened to cut through trees more effectively, then sharpened to their own sharp corners, and the tip of their tail to add maces and maces, and later, they discovered a better material, metal.

Coincidentally, they were surprised to find that Long Yan had undergone years of genetic evolution, and the temperature was just right to melt metal, and the cooled metal could not only make weapons, but also forge all kinds of practical gadgets.

For example, currency.