Chapter 160: Monuments and Ethics
Although the cause of the Wanderer's death has not yet been clarified, the misunderstanding with the blade-toothed beast has been initially alleviated by the letter from Fang.
As a result, Nesta ordered the soldiers to retreat slowly to show their sincerity.
"Fangs are one of us, you can relax." It wasn't clear if it could understand it, but Nesta said it anyway.
As the squad retreated, there was a large open space in front of the pit;
So, the big cat jumped out and stood on the bridge again.
Nesta wanted to step forward, but as soon as he took a step, the big cat bowed down and made a wary look;
He reluctantly stopped, turned to Daba behind him, and said,
"Daba, you take the cavalry and go south first..... Roughtooth Witch Doctor, you bring 15 Witch Doctors with them."
"Understood!"
"Okay."
Daba responded, leading the cavalry behind him, bypassing the circle of soldiers, guarding the thick fangs and half of the witch doctors who had turned back into 'trolls', and headed for the other side of the river.
"As for this big cat.... What to do? ”
"Why don't I try it? It seems to be a little more relaxed for me. Aishara suggested.
In this regard, Nesta was silent for a long time before nodding slowly,
"Be careful, always be vigilant."
"Understood."
Azhara stepped forward and slowly walked up to the black blade-toothed beast, tentatively reaching out again to indicate that she wanted to touch it.
At this time, the big cat was already standing on the bridge deck, and its body was already on display in front of the trolls.
As Nesta had previously detected, it was a sturdy creature about 2.7 meters tall at the shoulder, 5.6 meters long, and about 1.1 meters wide at the chest.
It had a cat-shaped head with a short snout, and a pair of long, bone-white teeth that looked sharp and curved downwards on either side of the palate;
In terms of muscle lines and body shape, it as a whole combines the sturdiness of the leopard in the previous life and the tall feeling of the cheetah, and also has the agility of a kitten;
All in all, beneath that dark black fur was an extremely beautiful creature.
"It's only a little uglier than when I transformed..."
In this regard, Nesta thinks so.
"Would you like to come with me? Can I give you a lot of meat? ”
The top of her 2.7-meter-tall head barely level with her chest, she raised a hand, stood on tiptoe, and gently scratched the neck of the big cat.
By the way, the other hand also pointed to the headquarters and signaled the direction.
The big cat seems to understand a limited number of words, such as 'meat' and 'meat'... There was a sense of intent in his eyes.
'Looks like it has a good relationship with Fangs?' He trusts other creatures like him.... Damn, is it male or female. “
Seeing her partner's affectionate movements over there, Nesta felt a little surprised in her heart.
However, he still raised his hand and waved it to the rear, signaling the team to retreat slowly, and even to the side step by step with himself.
But at the same time, Nesta and the other half of the witch doctors who stayed here have never let down their guard;
They always maintained the connection between the spell and the bridge, ready to unleash vine spells that were not lethal, but could somewhat delay the fangs of its claws.
Seeing the trolls retreat, the black blade-toothed beast, who hesitated in vigilance and excitement, finally lowered its head, rubbed Azhara's raised arm, expressed a considerable degree of kindness, and tentatively took a step forward.
Seeing that the big cat was finally following Azhara, Nesta motioned for several witch doctors to follow from afar;
As for himself, after hesitating for a moment, he decided to stay here and wait for news from the Rough Fang and the cavalry.
Worried, Azhara watched as she walked away, Nesta retracted, led her soldiers across the bridge with the remaining witch doctors, and activated the remote monitoring spell in the direction Roughfangs had left.
In my mind, there was a chaotic sound wave feedback signal.
Unlike the previous detection spells, which focused on 'obstacle feedback', what is turned on at this time is a listening spell that is biased towards receiving other parties' voice signals;
At the same time, it is also the archetypal spell of the 'Listener' totem.
After turning on, the waveform feedback of various sound signals is mapped in the meditation space within the range of 45 degrees in front.
According to the characteristics of the wave pattern, Nesta eliminated the 'natural sound';
In addition, the difference in wave frequency was used to strip away the long-range signals of more than 40 kilometers and began to focus on "listening" for signals within the range of 1 to 40 kilometers.
The heavy messages from the far-travelers, from the witch doctors, were gathered in a chaotic manner in the meditation space.
Nesta did not need to work with the same division of labor as the communications apprentices in dealing with these messages;
The computing power advantage of the advanced witch doctor's brain was revealed at this time, and he quickly classified and stored the messy waveforms, and sorted out dozens of sets of 'passwords' from different terminals;
Then, in the brain it is 'transcoded' for the sake of language....
'Far Traveler 04 Group,.... There are no anomalies in the area. “
'Far Traveler Group 07,.... There are no anomalies in the area. “
'Witch Doctor Elvesta,..... There are no anomalies in the area. “
'Traveler 13 groups,.... No anomalies. “
'Witch Doctor's Coarse Teeth,..... No anomalies. “
......
The search in the south and southwest directions lasted a whole night.
After 24 hours, the witch doctors and the cavalry who served as escorts returned, bringing the terrible news that they had not seen the trolls alive, nor had they seen any dead bodies.
Nesta felt a little helpless about this, so he ordered the moose cavalry and naturalized wolves to join the standing patrol to reduce the risk to the far-travelers.
And from this incident, he thought of the 'eye' unit that he had played in the game in his previous life, similar to the 'sentry guard'....
So he spoke,
"The Roughtooth Witch Doctor...."
"What is the dictator?"
"The Black Forest.... Especially in the western part of Heihe, the forces that the headquarters can invest are still too weak, and the wolves do not have very good communication methods, so the control of the sphere of influence is a bit vain.... If you rely on Wanderers or cavalry to patrol the area, the casualty rate is too high when you encounter higher creatures. ”
"That's true, so what do you mean?"
"We have to have low-risk plant-type scouting units...."
"However, in the absence of a proper prototype plant, it is a bit difficult to improve it..."
"I understand, so put the runes and plants... Or the method of lowering the totem and combining the totem with the magic plant must be studied at a faster pace. ”
“... Okay, I'll lead the Witch Doctors of the Plant Department to try it. ”
"Well, I'll leave it to you.... You don't have to get involved, though, and the two of us, and Azhara, are all focused on the research on the giant tree for the time being. As for scout plants, it's good to give the specific people in charge a few directions in advance and let them try it first. ”
"Got it...."
The sudden disappearance of the Far Traveler has come to an end for the time being.
On the second day, the Rune Council made an excuse to send representatives of the allies who had come to inquire about the return date;
And they themselves transplanted the giant trees first.
The giant tree was not placed in the existing city of the main city, but was planted in a vacant lot outside the city.
After several days of continuous work, the witch doctors relied on the physical replenishment of liquid fat to finally complete this difficult task.
Looking at the castle of Motobu not far away, and the giant trees on the border of the Moko Lake on both sides behind him, and thinking back to the remains of the victims who were brought back this time, Nesta fell into deep thought.
"What are you thinking?"
Azhara reached the bottom of the giant tree with the big cat, who was reluctant to enter the city, and asked next to the black blade-toothed beast that watched the giant tree sink into a thoughtful state.
"I'm wondering if this place will be included in the city in the future."
"Do you think that's bad?"
"It's not..."
Nesta looked at Esara's elven body, and suddenly remembered the 'Ancient Tree of Life' setting, which was common in games in previous lives, and was bound to the elves;
Coupled with the related research that I am about to continue, I feel that there is a magnificent giant tree in the center of the headquarters, which seems to be quite emotional?
In that case, then change the memorial proposal submitted by the ruling government? “
With this in mind, he immediately proposed it to the rest of the witch doctors.....
Because of the importance of the giant tree to the 'sublimation of the population' in the future, the witch doctors also felt that such a plan seemed more appropriate than to leave it alone outside the city.
Therefore, the 'monument' system, which is about to be built, has changed its location, from the original 'central square of the city' to the foot of this giant tree;
With this as the center, the new town will be gradually built, and then gradually connected to the old town in the future.
The construction of the "monument" began quickly, and certain adjustments were made to the original plan.
Originally, the ruling government planned to build a "cemetery" of steel and wood under the square, and then to store the remains of compatriots who died in the war.
Now, that solution has been abandoned.
In the new project, the "Tomb of the Immortals" will be set up above the "Cave Wolf Cell", and a separate space will be opened up on the top of the giant tree to become a large Tomb of the Heroes in the future.
There, the bodies of the victims were cremated, along with the bones that could not be burned, and stored in steel and wooden coffins for perpetuity.
Those who did not have a body found a relic from home and incinerated it instead.
Below the burial chamber, on the south side of the main trunk of the giant wood, a large 'Valhalla Square' was built to serve as the carrying area of the monument system.
The monument in the center of the square is temporarily six meters high, with a four-layer square cone thin at the top and thick at the bottom;
On all sides of the bottom of the stele, the heroic posture of the soldiers is depicted with relief.
The third layer on the front of the stele, that is, the layer above the relief, is engraved with the words "Western Expedition Martyrdom" and other words in alphabetical and pictographic inscriptions;
The other three sides are densely packed with lines of phonetic characters.
Most of them have pronunciation suffixes such as 'sta' and 'Thes', and they are clearly the names of the trolls in their own department;
A small number of people do not have such suffixes, and belong to the trolls of the 'naturalized tribe'.
The second layer is engraved with the words "Eastern Pioneer Warriors Killed in the Battle";
The remaining three sides are also a line of names, and most of them belong to the members of the main department, and only a very small part belong to the early incorporation of Finai and Nomen, so there are no tooth characteristics in the name.
As for the top layer, the words "Heroic Spirit, the Founder of the Tribe" are inscribed on the front, and the remaining three sides are written in the form of no words to commemorate the unknown ancestors of the more distant era.
According to the government's plan, from now on, the monument will record the names of the victims of each battle, and then increase the size of the floor by layer to become taller and taller for future generations to admire.
The discloseable information of each key battle is described in detail by a small monument on the square.
Nowadays, there are only four battles that can be commemorated for memorials: the "Three Defensive Battles", the "Three Pursuit Battles", the "Three Annihilation Battles", and the "Cave Defense Battles", so only four "satellite monuments" have been erected in the square.
If this plan continues, sooner or later this square will become a forest of steles;
Thousands of years from now, cities may have to be re-planned as a result.
However, this did not stop Nesta from rejecting the ruling government's plan. Because he felt that these sacrifices were worthy of making such concessions to the living.
In addition to the main headquarters, there is a similar arrangement in the squares of the four 'new towns' in the west, and in the squares of several large garrisons in the east, although the tombs and satellite monuments are missing, and only the central monument remains;
The first two that are missing will be replaced by a separate memorial hall built in each colony.
At the same time, these monuments and memorial halls will also become educational bases in the future, influencing the spirit of future generations.
When the basic structure of the project, such as the 'burial chamber', 'square', 'monument', etc., was completed with the full assistance of the witch doctors;
When the sub-bases and large stations in the east and west were also assisted by the resident witch doctors, the corresponding miniaturization construction was completed;
At the same time and at their respective locations, the headquarters and the overseas station held a solemn funeral together.
After the farewell of all the trolls, the bodies or relics of the war dead are placed in a steel box with their names engraved on them, and the long steps that lead diagonally up to the top of the giant tree are sent to the 'mass burial of the war dead' where they rest.
Below, in front of the Valhalla Monument, the trolls have gone through the steps of silent mourning, bittersweet remembrance, swearing, swearing, send-off, etc., and the ceremony also ends in a simple but solemn atmosphere.
The deceased is gone, and the task of the living has just begun.....
After the ceremony, the Rune Council released the doves of the representatives of the tribes again;
After continuing to make them wait, they began to discuss the "development of agricultural reclamation," "development of the western region," "change of the ruling structure," and other related topics in a step-by-step manner.
The discussion meetings day and night, intermingling with daily affairs, lasted more than ten days, and it seemed that it had to continue;
As a result, the witch doctors and chieftains were forcibly taken on a 'tour' in the tribe for more than ten days.....
However, after setting the "general direction" of each topic, Nesta, Roughfang, and Eshara directly 'drilled' back to the left of the giant tree, and returned to the study again under the curious gaze of the big black cat who had become Azhara and the fart.
While experimenting, they occasionally confirm the correctness of the route through regular 'meeting briefings'.
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While the witch doctors, the apprentices, and the deacons were busy with their own affairs, a small variable came to the headquarters in a rage.
It was Kunates, who submitted two applications in a row and failed to respond, and then did not respond to the complaint in the suggestion box for a long time;
She skipped work and took a long-distance train, and came here in a hurry, wanting to seek justice for herself and her three partners.....
In the tribe of trolls who lacked secrecy, Lady Kunna easily asked where Nesta was, and then ran straight under the giant tree, craned her neck and shouted.....
About two hundred meters above her head, in the canopy of trees that stretched out again, three witch doctors were observing embryos in the laboratory.
At this moment, there seemed to be a faint sound in his ears, and Nesta left the laboratory and listened downward.
"Your Excellency the Dictator!
Your Excellency the Dictator!
! I want to complain!
!
”
"Ahh This... Is it Quinates? ”
Nesta could tell who it was by the sound of her voice, and recalled the intersection of the two sides.
"Who? Seems to be a female? Aishara walked slowly out of the lab, looking her husband up and down suspiciously;
As soon as she came out, the black blade-toothed beast that was 'exploring' in the canopy of the tree suddenly came out and rubbed its head affectionately against its own shovel officer.
Azhara got along very well with the blade-toothed beast she named "Night" and nicknamed "Little Black", as evidenced by the sound of her 'purring' warning to Nesta after noticing the displeasure of the shoveler.
"A little girl who wants to be a traveler... No, she seems to be more than sixty years older than us? I don't know what she's looking for me for.... Let's go down and have a look? They all came to me, and they must have really encountered some problems. ”
Aishara didn't speak, just squinted at her husband.... It wasn't until Nesta was furious that she turned back into the house, leaving only a faint voice echoing in place.
"Go yourself, and what to look out for... Surely our great forerunner is well aware? ”
"A must!" Nesta said with Black's obvious mocking look.
"Look at what! You female licking dog! ”
After glaring at each other with Xiao Hei, Nesta, who just wanted to change his mood, rappelled down the long cable for two hundred meters and came directly to the bottom of the tree.
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Kunna, who had shouted several times with her head held high at the bottom of the giant tree, became troubled by her reckless behavior after she finished shouting.
As the uneasiness intensified, Quinna looked around like a thief, and when she saw that there were no trolls here, she turned her back and twisted her hands and feet.
Two steps, three steps, the sound of breaking wind came from the back and above....
Before she could pull out the weapon on her waist and turn around vigilantly, a voice familiar to everyone sounded behind her.
"Why do you want to leave again? Escaping from battle isn't like you, Quinates. ”
"Ahh Your Excellency the Pioneer! ”
Quinna stiffened, moved slightly, and swerved in the direction where Nesta was.
Her body trembled slightly, both out of adoration and out of unease.
"It's okay to relax, haven't we had a good conversation?"
"Whew! Call!
Phew....."
Kunna took a few deep breaths, and when she turned completely, she finally regained her composure as a long-standing warrior.
"I've seen Your Excellency the Dictator!"
She bent over her chest and paid her respects to Nesta.
Quinates is a traditional troll, her overdeveloped back muscles make her upper body look forward and broad;
The fat structure of the female in the chest is also reduced to a supporting role against the background of the male chest muscles, leaving no trace of what can be called 'sexy' from a human perspective;
The waist is even thicker, and the well-defined muscles, like steel bars, are staggered and encircled under the ribs;
The muscles of the buttocks are as tight as two scales, and there is almost no curve on them, instead of straight edges and corners that are oblique and oblique, they seem to be full of power;
In order to support the solid structure of the upper body, the legs and knees below the hips are always slightly bent forward, and the upper and lower leg bones are even more knotted.
Nesta didn't think she was ugly, and her appearance and figure, in the eyes of Nesta, who was used to the appearance of a troll, could honestly really be said to be 'quite pleasing to the eye'.
Of course, the focus at this time is not how Quinna looks, but to ask her appeal....
Nesta clearly remembers that this big girl should have been assigned to the third sub-base, why did she appear here today? And what kind of 'complaint' is still in the mouth".
"Let's talk about what's going on."
Nesta sat down cross-legged and patted the seat next to her, motioning for her to sit down as well.
"I... I..."
After snorting twice, Kunna sat down as she was told, and looked like she wanted to say something.
"It's okay, let's say, I'm too tired from research, how about you help me change my mood?"
"Well.... I want to complain... Right! I want to complain!
”
With this opening, the irritability of the trolls returns;
Kunna immediately used a rather fierce tone to pour out her experiences and grievances from beginning to end.
Nista, on the other hand, listened with her eyebrows rubbed and her head full of question marks.
After a while, Quinna's story finally ended, and Nesta ended her analysis of the cause and effect of the incident.
In her previous rhetoric, Nesta found two issues that could be taken seriously.
First, her understanding of the relevant regulations was not clear.
Over the years, the tribe has actually implemented a number of 'experimental and temporary regulations', both selective and mandatory.
For example, the "Marriage Trial Regulations" are the former, which is not mandatory and only provides some groups with a certain choice;
The regulations restricting brawls outside the ring and the corresponding penalties fall into the latter category, and violations will be punished according to the degree of severity.
'So.... Have these regulations been well communicated to the public? As a grassroots captain, Kunna can understand mistakes, but what about the rest of the people? This was the question that first came to Nesta's mind.
The second is the disregard of the voice of the people by the ruling government....
Tooth is not a large country or city-state with a population of hundreds of thousands, it only has 17,800 trolls;
Therefore, judging from the 'public-civilian ratio', the various affairs officials in the ruling government are not so busy that they can't even give feedback.
Besides, the marriage registration office is just an unpopular yamen, where does the 'official master' in it come from to do so many things to do, can't even do a simple reply and explanation?
And so on, plus another bird no news when Kunna made a 'suggestion box complaint'... Nesta had a bit of a sense of the state of the ruling government at this time.
'Once in power.... It's a bit floating. “
However, Nesta was going to wait and talk about these questions, and there was another question that he really didn't feel unhappy....
"So Quinna, you have three fixed mating partners.... Is that right? ”
"Yes!" The previous emotions had not faded, and Quinna's response was still a little angry.
"You and two of them were bumped into by the younger one, and then angrily got into your 'competitor' tent. ”
"No.. That's right..."Quinna felt a little ashamed,
'Your Excellency the Pioneer... Will you look down on me after knowing that I can't even deter males who are so many years younger than me? “
This is her truest thought at this time....
"Then you had an open and honest conversation and decided to form a family of four from now on, and you... With the other three males? ”
"That's right! When the little guy was beaten by me, he smiled and agreed, and the other two agreed! ”
Kunna patted her chest and said proudly, as if she thought that she was able to monopolize the three males, which was something to show off.
Nesta didn't know what to say, and he asked with some hesitation,
"So Quinna, why not keep it as it is? As long as it can continue like this, whether it is registered or not, whether there is a legal ceremony or not, it seems that it has no real impact? ”
"Your Excellency a different pioneer! Ever since you and the Witch Doctor of Ishshara performed the ceremony, we have remembered the 'duty to take the oath'. Now, only after such a ritual can one obtain the 'protected mating right' that is recognized by everyone! That's what the four of us want, to limit ourselves and reject our fellow citizens. ”
"Quinna... But.... I have to tell you..."
For some reason, looking at the look in Kunna's eyes at this time...
The look in the eyes that didn't feel wrong in the slightest, and from the bottom of his heart that what he wanted to do was 'justified', the explanation that Nesta wanted to say became difficult to say anyway.
Even when confronted with the cave wolf, our great dictator's first thought was 'I'm going to try to kill it,' the first thing I felt uneasy at this moment.
He was a little scared, afraid to see 'incomprehensible' and 'incredible' in the eyes of this simple troll female...
'Am I doing something wrong?' Make morality, make ethics, want to put what doesn't belong to them.... No, it's us..."
'I want to forcibly pull out the shackles that do not belong to us from the previous life, and make a copy of the pure white paper of this life. “