Chapter 311: Civil War
The island is mainly divided into two parts: Beizhou and South China Sea.
Beizhou is a place where the people of Zhouzhou lived, gathering, fishing, hunting, using leather and wood, making simple medicinal herbs, and established villages very early.
The people of Zhouzhou once developed rapidly, their number reached 150,000 at the peak, and the wharves were all over the headlands and beaches of Beizhou, and the roads connected every village in all directions.
They were ambitious to conquer the seas and mark every island of the sea with the mark of the North.
The sea began to become a hunting ground and road for the people of Zhouzhou, and their ships headed into the depths of the southern sea to explore the limits of this world.
However, in a change of era, the people of Zhouzhou were devastated.
The New Era has led to a surge in the population of an animal called the sea toad. The sea toad is originally an inconspicuous small animal, they usually hide in shallow seas and hunt insects for food, which is very poisonous.
As the population of sea toads grows, they begin to come ashore to feed.
The toxins they carry have caused a large number of deaths in the livestock raised by the people of Zhouzhou, and the people who come into contact with them have also been poisoned and killed one after another.
The people of Zhouzhou had to recall the members of the sea and make every effort to clear the toads in Beizhou.
Sea toads are highly fertile and like to hide in the sea, making it difficult to be completely eradicated.
The war between the people of Zhouzhou and the toads dragged on until the next era, when an animal called the weaving bird grew, and they began to hunt toads, and finally curbed the toad pest.
And after this poison disaster, the people of Zhouzhou have been greatly injured.
Toad venom has directly or indirectly caused more than 30,000 deaths, the vast majority of whom are elderly among the people of Zhouzhou.
The successive deaths of the elderly have caused a serious fault in the knowledge inheritance of the people of Zhouzhou, and the society has lost the hub and buffer connecting the old and new people, and has become extremely unstable.
In order to compete for resources, people in different regions frequently clashed and killed, and civilization even entered a temporary regression.
At the same time, the Jiao people in the deep sea of the south are growing rapidly.
Unlike the Zhouzhou people, who developed civilization early on, the Jiao people have maintained a beast-like life for thousands of years, and their enlightenment came from eating the corpses of the Zhouzhou people and making use of shipwrecks on the seabed.
The people of Zhouzhou have a custom of burial at sea, and the dead will be loaded into small boats by the living and let them float into the sea. They believed that the dead would return to the north in another way through the flow of the ocean.
These sea-buried corpses were turned into food for fish.
The plague of poisonous toads caused the corpses of tens of thousands of Zhouzhou people to float into the sea, so that the people gradually gained wisdom in eating and observing.
In the past, when the author met the people of Zhouzhou, he would flee and hide, fearing that he would be stabbed by their hooks and spears. But after eating a lot of corpses, they became bolder - the people of Zhouzhou are not strong now.
For a long time, the people of Zhouzhou were very interested in Jiaoren, because this seabed creature has a human-like form. They are curious and respectful of the ships of the Chau people, and will exchange pearls for the Chau people's livestock and fruits.
In their heyday, the people of Zhouzhou would give food to their people and teach them how to weave with rope or rattan, showing a kind of king who ruled the world.
At that time, the Jiao people were also convinced, and they always took the initiative to greet the boats of the Zhouzhou people and guide them into the safe sea.
But now the people of Zhouzhou are weakened and lack everything, and they don't have the same spirit as before.
The people of Zhouzhou hunted and locked them with ropes and hooks, and let them go to the sea in search of pearls and corals.
The able-bodied authors were turned into the sea-harvesters of the Zhouzhou people, the weakened ones were used to feed the livestock, and the carcasses of the men were used as bait to lure out more of them.
The anger that had been pent-up for years finally exploded at a certain point.
The authors began to fight back frantically, scuttling the boats, destroying the docks, and dragging the Zhouzhou people underwater and drowning. They raised a large number of sea toads and threw them into the villages and settlements of the Zhouzhou people.
As soon as the ships of the Zhouzhou people enter the southern seas, they will be attacked by the Jiaoren, resulting in the shipwreck or being attacked by some deep-sea monsters.
Hatred between the two communities is deepening.
At this moment, Demoiselle finally made a move.
The god who ruled the world sent apostles.
The apostle proclaimed the oracle of peaceful coexistence between the two tribes, and also put an end to the protracted civil war.
After another two eras, the hatred was gradually washed away by time, and the people of Zhouzhou began to cooperate.
They traded with each other, and fruits, grain, and livestock from the north were transported by ships to the south of the sea in exchange for oysters, fish, sea vegetables, pearls, and corals.
The author learned simple hand-weaving and leather processing from the Zhouzhou people, and the Zhouzhou people learned from the author how to identify the direction of the sea and how to avoid dangerous sea areas.
The land provides livestock, fruits, vegetables, and herbs that are not available in the sea, and the sea supplies a large amount of fish and various ores that are lacking on the ground.
The sea and land tribes have entered the honeymoon period, and the [Red Coral Mirage] is the witness and creation of this period.
The existence of red coral and mirage allows the people of Zhouzhou and the people of Jiaozhou to see each other across the sea, and the mirror composed of mirage refraction makes each other's world clearly visible, which makes the transaction and communication more smooth and rapid.
The northern landmass and the southern ocean are connected in a way that has never been done before.
Later, the god Demoiselle became the god of the dragon clan, and the Nine Pillars were fixed under the sea of Zhou Island.
Dragons of all shapes began to haunt this world.
Their mere existence and appearance have brought a series of changes and opportunities to the world. The existence of the dragon also made the people of Zhouzhou and Jiaoren more cautious and reported to each other to keep warm.
This is also the most peaceful and stable time for Chau Island.
In the 6th Age, the gods and dragons suddenly departed from the Nine Pillars, and then the Nine Pillars were destroyed, and the flame of faith in the entire world was quickly extinguished.
The fall of the gods has come without warning, but the world has quietly changed.
In the 7th Age, the world entered an era of extreme cold, when the northern landmasses were covered and flooded with snow, and ice grew on the headlands, and the sea surface in the coastal areas became thick and solid. A large number of land animals are dying in the cold, and trees are withering and falling.
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The largest source of food for the people of Zhouzhou became the ocean, and they chiseled through the ice to catch schools of fish, while at the same time appealing to the author for help.
At this time, the long-standing resentment and ambition to conquer the land were no longer hidden, and they refused the request of the Zhouzhou people, blocked the coastline, and forbade the Zhouzhou people to step into the sea.
Trees are becoming scarcer and the fuel for heating is quickly running out, and the people of Chau are desperately looking for food and firewood everywhere.
But the reserves on land are already a drop in the bucket, and in the end, the people of Zhouzhou completely died out in this long and cold era.
A new era dawned, the ice melted, and the ground and oceans returned to warmth and wetness.
The friends celebrated with each other, they finally ended the old humiliation, completely wiped out the people of Zhouzhou, and became the only civilization master in this world.
However, the temperature continues to rise.
In the 8th Age, the entire island was plunged into extreme heat.
Reddish-green algae floated on the surface of the sea, which spread throughout the waters, causing a large number of fish to die or become diseased, and the author was poisoned and infected by eating these fish.
Without medical treatment for the people of Zhouzhou, the author could not recover on his own, and the number continued to decrease.
At the same time as the Jiaoren was weakened, a fierce small eater fish was born in the sea.
They are extremely capable of surviving, eating seaweed and all kinds of poisoned fish, and can swim in the water for a long time even if only half of their body is left.
The Feeders began to hunt the weakened Men in groups, because the fats of the Men were delicious and provided a lot of strength.
In this hot and bright era, the death of the handsome, the flight of the fleeing.
In the end, they did not survive this difficult period, and fell prey to the monsters of the deep sea, retreating into the basic animal nature of survival and reproduction.
The once prosperous civilizations of the north and the south have come to an end in the world record.