Chapter 281: Rune Calendar 67-76
Esshara did not intend to make her plan public before it actually succeeded, lest the dying suffer a greater blow between hope and despair, so the research was initially conducted in secrecy;
At the same time, the research team is divided into two ways, one is responsible for the research of the 'body', and the other is responsible for the research of the 'auxiliary';
The former focuses on 'solutions', while the latter focuses on 'prolonging time', i.e., preserving the lives of the dying before anything else.....
First of all, the witch doctors examined the bodies of the dying in the name of medical examinations, and realized that the 'frozen dormancy' technique that works for both the prime and even the elderly is unaffordable for the dying elderly.
Because, in the process of switching between freezing and thawing, the cells in their bodies will suffer excessive damage, and their vitality at this time is unable to bear this level of 'violence'.
Therefore, once such a plan is implemented, they will either die while freezing or dying when thawing, and in any case there will be no better outcome.
Therefore, the search for a milder alternative has become the task of the 'auxiliary group' at this stage, and the method of accomplishing it is not without a trace.....
In this world, there are many magical beasts that can live beyond the upper limit of their biological level, and they generally have one characteristic, that is, they are slow to react, have an extremely slow metabolism, and often sleep for months or even years.
Among this type of creatures, there are some ordinary animals and some magical beasts....
The former relies on the pure 'biological characteristics' obtained in the natural evolution of tens or millions of years, under the screening of time;
The latter, according to the conjecture formed by the ability of the Warcraft at this stage, is likely to sublimate the corresponding spell-like ability, which can become an important reference for witch doctors......
As a result, the relevant materials in the file room were moved out and screened, which contributed to the large amount of knowledge accumulated in the past tens or nearly a hundred years, and the witch doctors selected the magical beasts that might have the corresponding abilities according to the region and life habits;
Subsequently, the investigators who established cooperation channels with the Ministry of External Exploration and commissioned the investigators working in the corresponding area to bring back some samples 'handily'.
Because of the convenience of air transportation and the accuracy of the summary of living habits, the implementation of this plan is quite smooth, and the explorers often only need to follow the map to achieve a harvest in several searches, plus they have their own voice scanning capabilities, which is even more convenient for their 'lost' search operations.
As a result, within a few months, a large number of living specimens of various types were brought back to the headquarters and handed over to the witch doctors for analysis.
For Warcraft, the trait of 'dormancy and longevity' has the potential to transcend the limitations of living organisms and be transformed into a 'specialty' driven by extraordinary rules;
However, this transformation is also fraught with uncertainty, and what kind of abilities will become 'spell-like', a trait that is common to the population, will still be limited by the core concept of 'survival of the fittest'.
Therefore, not all 'longevity populations' will convert their 'longevity ability' into quasi-spells, and it is even very likely that some such as 'hardened carapace', 'enhanced digestion', 'enhanced instantaneous attack power', etc., do not correspond to the required secondary abilities for witch doctors at this time, but become common spell-like spells under evolution.
So, even though there were a lot of 'samples' and the witch doctors only found three usable species, it was enough to move the research to the next stage.....
The three types of spells were first transformed into runic spells, and by substituting each other's strengths and weaknesses, they eventually obtained a spell ability that was more transcendent than their original versions, and then they were totemized;
Later, after testing several old wind wolves and discovering that they were indeed applicable, they began to 'attack' the dying trolls in the nursing home.
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When the team arrived at the nursing home, Feodosta was basking in the sun in the courtyard with the help of the elven girl, and when he learned of Azhara's intention, both himself and the kind elven girl showed obvious excitement;
Clearly, the Republic has not abandoned them, and while 'elvenness' is still impossible for these dying trolls, it has given them the right to wait and thus show real hope.
"Sir, what is impossible now does not mean that it will not be possible in the future, our technology is always improving..... "Eshara said softly in a gentle but encouraging tone, "one day you and your friends here will have your own future." ”
"The President of the Council .... You.... Thank you.... Old guy... Thank you...."
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Tears welled up in the old troll's dry eyes, and he grasped Eshara's hand weakly and tremblingly, and the weakness of words could not hide the light in his eyes that had been reawakened, a flicker of hope.....
Next, Feodosta became the first person to receive the totem inscription, and considering the weakness of these old men, the team brought by Aishara did not take him to any formal 'operating room', but built a well-equipped site on the spot, and began the follow-up work on the spot.
In the makeshift operating room, three witch doctors are performing totemic carvings, and outside the quiet room, more than forty old guys facing the same fate are waiting nervously in silence.
Five light points.... Fifteen Lights..... When a lamp is .... At one and a half lights..... When about three light hours had passed, the door to the operating room was opened again.
At this time, the old Feodosta was soaking in the clear, viscous liquid within, with his eyes closed;
The nasal cavity is connected to a respirator, but the rise and fall of the chest is barely observable, and the mouth is fixed with a flowing esophagus, but the rate of nutrient delivery is infrequent;
At this time, he seemed to be dead, but as if he was asleep, lying quietly in the transparent cultivation cabin shaped like a coffin.
Azhara followed suit, nodding slightly to the expectant, apprehensive gazes of the dying, and then saying 'success,' before the words erupted into a few cheers, and more heavy coughs and gasps.
"With the old gentleman's physical condition, he could have waited for at least 35 years in this dormancy;" After they had calmed down a bit, Ayshara continued, "And you're in better health than he is, so you can wait 50 to 70 years. ”
There is no need to talk more about the specific principles with these old trolls, because they are almost the least literate part of the middle school in the Republic, and they probably can't understand it......
But basically, the core of this method is to 'slow down the metabolism to the extreme' and stop most of the body's operations except for 'life support', and then exchange this for a long 'standby time'.
This method is quite gentle on the organism, avoiding the destructive effects of 'freeze dormancy', and can work harmlessly even on mutilated mortals, but it can be a gain or a loss.....
It is mild, but it cannot make the passage of time nearly stop in the recipient like 'freezing dormancy';
Therefore, the 'standby effect' that can be obtained by this method is also limited, and the body of the dormant person will still be on the road to death due to the gradual passage of vitality.
But Aishara is also confident that when they have so much time as a buffer, their real way out will inevitably be found in a short or long time.
Since then, all remaining dying trolls have undergone totem inscription surgery and have been placed dormant in a culture pod, where they will be transported to a safe, undisturbed location to wait for the day when they will be revived again.
Although the 'final success' did not really come, what happened in the nursing home still caused quite a warm response in the Republic;
Aishara and the research team she organized this time have gained enough prestige by helping 43 old-timers gain tangible hope.
It was also the first time that Aishara had performed as the 'Speaker of the Council' rather than as the 'Companion of the Pioneers', and although it was not very moving, it also gave her a layer of light that was not dazzling enough, but it was real.
On the other hand, in contrast to the results of the 'auxiliary group' in a short period of time, the 'regular group' has been slow to see results.....
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Aishara's original plan was to imitate the ancestral altar in the north, and combine it with the heroic spirit sacrifice that he has been carrying out, so that this group of old people can obtain a layer of blessing of the 'will of the people', trying to let them obtain a new form of existence in the 'black box'.
However, chaos is chaos, and black boxes are black boxes, and although the Republic has a certain understanding and speculation about the nature of the 'sacrifice' in the north, it is still full of problems when it wants to use it in practice.....
First and foremost, the witch doctors are unable to observe the existence of the 'will of the people', so they naturally cannot make it 'work' according to their own needs.
Even if there were attempts to avoid the steps of 'observation' and 'application' through the 'black box', it did not produce any real effect.
Therefore, the conclusion now is that there must be some precondition for the combination of 'receptor' and 'popular will', or 'faith';
Moreover, when the 'applicator' uses this power, it must also require the intervention of some intermediate factor in order to manifest it into some kind of power, just like the many special abilities displayed by the ancestral altar under the control of the shamans....
And this 'precondition' may be the origin to which the altar directs, that is, those 'near-omnipotent', can only become qualified 'faith receptors' if they have attained one or more of the qualities they possess;
The so-called 'intermediate factors' that can become 'intermediaries' should also be related to the former..... For example, the 'droplet-shaped solid' that was previously excavated from the altar may have played such a role.
It may be that it is because of these inadequacies that no changes have taken place in the dying trolls, and that the witch doctors are unable to have a real impact on the 'will of the people'.
But no matter what the truth is, this path can be regarded as a temporary failure, but the ancestral altar in the north is also a huge constraint on the future of the republic after all, so the relevant research has not stopped....
However, Aishara herself did not stay in this direction, as a coordinator, she only needed to allocate the required resources and keep the follow-up research going, which was already enough support.
She herself, on the other hand, began to look elsewhere.....
The first thing that Aishara paid attention to was the "confusion of grassroots organizations" shown in the previous 'report';
In this regard, she intends to completely end the traditional production and lifestyle of the 'Ten Troll Squad', and instead promote the 'autonomous body' model that has proven to work;
In the process of promotion, it is necessary to further organize and plan its organizational form, so that it can be more in line with the current state, and at the same time create an effective connection from the grassroots to the central government.
After that, she spent two months inspecting all the large and small cities and fortresses under her jurisdiction, and in the process of going deep into the grassroots, she drew up a preliminary plan, and after returning to the headquarters, she discussed and decided on the improvement policy through the parliament.
In the policy, local governments of different sizes and functions in the headquarters and other cities will be designated as 'local governments that are currently in a position to support citizens' mutual assistance in the region.
In terms of number and scale, many local governments have either banned mergers or split and reorganized, basically keeping the number of members at about 80 to 130.
In this way, about 700 such grassroots organizations will be formed throughout the republic at this stage.
In terms of structure, the general representatives of the local government are elected on a term system and are called 'centurions', whose responsibilities are not 'internal management' but 'member representatives'.
In addition, the "Protectorate" was reorganized into the "Centurion Conference", and inherited all the administrative status of the former at the present stage, and obtained many functions such as "tax discussion", "impeachment", and "supervision";
The main thrust of this reform is to create 'strong, but not excessive' civic associations to preserve their suffrage;
After all, at this time, the wisdom of the people has been opened, and the citizens are not weak in terms of intelligence or combat power, and they cannot be placed in the position of 'ruled' forever.
This improvement plan took half a year to complete, and Azhara temporarily stopped after completing the planning, and once again entered the buffer stage.
Time Lapse .....
In the 69th year of the Rune Calendar, the Republic set up an ambush in the eastern part of the Northern Continent and successfully captured three flying magical beasts of the same type as the original 'Raider', and then brought them back to the headquarters and started the road of research.
In the 70th year of the rune calendar, the small airship with the port number 'Far Traveler 01' completed the mission of circumnavigating the equator, and for the first time proved the theory that the foot is a 'sphere';
In the same year, the sister ship named 'Far Voyager 02' also completed the itinerary of the headquarters - North Pole - South Pole - headquarters, which not only provided a practical supplement to the former, but also contributed to the discovery of the small ice-covered continent located at the south pole of the planet;
When the two aircraft returned laden with their respective recorded data, they were greeted heroically at headquarters, and Azhara personally honored all of his crew and initiated the initial exploration of the Frozen Continent.
In the 71st year of the Rune calendar, the fifth year of the Nesta retreat, Mother Tree No. 1 added a full 20,000 tree spirits to the Republic and once again sparked national jubilation.
In the same year, except for the 43 dying trolls who had entered the state of 'turtle breath dormancy', there were no longer any trolls of any other age group in the republic, which was considered to have completed the goal of 'elves for all' ahead of schedule.
In the 72nd year of the rune calendar, the exploration team arrived at the 'Antarctic Frozen Continent' by airship and established an outpost;
In the same year, it completed the preparation of production lines for projects such as 'battle submarines', 'construction submarines' and 'high-speed submarines';
In the 73rd year of the Rune Calendar, the Ocean Druyin plan was successful, and the Republic possessed two witch doctor transformation abilities that could swim quickly in the deep sea;
In the same year, the 'deep-sea armored force' was successfully developed on the basis of the research on the above two types of magical beasts, and the 'mothership submarine' specially used to launch the deep-sea armored force also came into being.
Thus, the Republic officially began the conquest of the sea, and with the assistance of a series of deep-sea advance bases that continued to extend outward, the sea area under its control moved towards a steady southward expansion and northward expansion.
In the 74th year of the rune calendar, the 'Continental Special Environment Analysis Project' was completed, and the Republic successively discovered 437 'high-level magical beasts', 49 'ultra-high-level special creatures', and 3 suspected signal traces of 'nearly omnipotence' in the northern continent;
Based on the data available, after conducting vertical comparisons between races and horizontal comparisons between organisms of the same level, they have a certain understanding of their respective states.
Among them, in the 'Higher Warcraft' group, 12 'Higher Weak Units (similar to the Cave Wolf and the No. 2 Salamander)', 158 'Higher Active Units (similar to the Higher Rapid Bird)', and 267 'Higher Dormant Units (similar to the No. 1 Salamander)' were preliminarily identified.
In addition, during the exploration of the 'super higher beings', it was found that they seemed to be the 'sacrificial points of the civilized race', and only 13 of them remained intact.....
And this also happens to be in line with the number of 'second-class races' in the Northern Continent;
Among the remaining 36 animals, 21 were suspected to be in a 'very serious injury dormant state', 12 were in a 'seriously injured dormant state', and 3 were in a 'near-death state'.
This is also roughly the same as the number of 'third-class' and 'fourth-class' ethnic groups in the northern continent, but the correspondence between them has not been clarified for the time being.
Let's not mention the rest of the things here, but for the targets that are marked as 'suspected serious injuries', the headquarters is really salivating;
Therefore, a more detailed investigation of them began, and the witch doctors wanted to let go of some of the lost ones and nibble on a few soft persimmons to taste.....
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In the 75th year of the rune calendar, the first tree spirit of the second and third mother trees completed their development and was successfully born;
In the same year, a full 80,000 elven embryos were put into the cultivation chambers owned by the two mother trees, and their growth began.
Also in the same year, the 'Affiliated City-State Totem Equipment Popularization Plan' was launched;
The former, the main purpose is to give the people of the affiliated city-states the ability to control the totem, and to promote among them the totem machinery of 'individual enjoyment', 'agricultural tools', 'transportation', and 'mining', on the one hand, to increase their productivity, and on the other hand, to expand the market of the republic;
However, all totemic machines sold are to be closely tracked by the Republic, and the Headquarters will ensure the ability to destroy them remotely;
In addition, the 'control end' engraved on the hornhoof's body will also leave a back hand, which can be used to destroy the individual and the totem control in the event of an accident.
And because even if the horn-hoofed species can be reborn, it has not been able to develop too much of a 'human' population in the more than 40 years of its annexation;
Therefore, the headquarters decided to launch the 'Plateau Filling Plan among the Mountains', and officially began to secretly introduce 'fourth-class tribes' from the mainland, intending to invoke them as new subordinate city-states, and many policy aspects would also be in line with the horned hoof cities.
At the same time, the 'Honorary Citizenship Program' and the 'Subordinate Army Program' have also been discussed as one of the backup solutions to deal with the demographic disadvantage of the 'humans' in the future, to see if it is necessary to send them to the battlefield......
In the same year, an expedition was completely destroyed in the 'Frozen Continent', and all three groups of 9 elven warriors were killed, but the sound messages they sent arrived at the headquarters later, describing the entire process of being attacked by higher beings.....
However, since it was a high-level creature in good condition, it did not yet have the ability to take revenge, so the Republic could only secretly record this incident and list it as the first target of hunting in the future;
At the same time, it is also clear that although the frozen continent seems to be uninhabited, it is not a place where life is extinct, so the exploration plan is planned more carefully.
In the 76th year of the rune calendar, the imaging technique based on the 'optical application type of Warcraft' was developed, and after combining with the sound technology, a totem application method that can transform the 'sound signal' into a 'three-dimensional image' was produced, but it temporarily lacked real applicability due to the 'totem group being too complicated and occupying too much space';
In the same year, the Aero Engine Research Institute and the Aerial Vehicle Research Institute, with the assistance of the land wind tunnel, manufactured the first totem jet aircraft that broke away from the 'airbag';
Although it has shortcomings such as short endurance, high energy consumption and low load, it still relies on its excellent speed and flexibility beyond that of airboats, opening a new door for the Republic's air and space exploration.
Also in the same year, Eshara led the ruling government's 'suzerain' and the accompanying armored guards to the northern plateau to inspect the dependent city-states;
At this time, Nesta had just completed his promotion and awakened from his first retreat, and after realizing that the kingdom was safe and that Azhara had not returned, he left behind a 'love letter' and detailed information about his promotion, and fell into retreat again.
Nearly half a year later, Nesta ushered in the second awakening, which immediately caused the mutation of the No. 1 mother tree, and Azhara quickly returned to the headquarters to check the situation;
After that, she confirmed that her partner was okay and received a message from Nesta, and while missing Nesta, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, she began her own fourth-order path.
Aishara has been staying in the third order for many years, and the multifunctional cells she has transformed have already reached 65% of her body, and her own cultivation path is highly similar to that of her husband, and there is Nesta's continuous opening up of the path ahead, so this promotion process is extremely fast;
It only took her a few months to complete the work that Nesta had taken nearly nine years to complete, building the 'Digital Elven Vision' and successfully integrating her 65% scattered 'self', and thus successfully promoted to the rank of Fourth-Order Witch Doctor.
Of course, as for the information left by her partner, Aishara did not hide it except for the 'love letter', and handed it over to the council as soon as possible.
As a result, the fangs and coarse teeth, which have a conversion rate of about 40%, have also gained valuable experience reference, but due to the difference in road details, it took 2 years more than Aisara to 'convert', and it took 2 years to complete their own promotion in the following year.
In addition to them, there are a total of 47 third-order witch doctors in the headquarters at this time, most of whom are native witch doctors from the tribal era, but their accumulation is still insufficient for the time being, so the promotion will be delayed for a while, and at least the consciousness integration must reach 20%.
Returning to Azara, her successful promotion also had a huge impact;
On the one hand, of course, it is the further strengthening of individual strength;
On the other hand, due to the improvement of the 'natural disturbance perception ability', the Republic has achieved a major technological leap in rune research, totem application, etc., just like when Nesta was promoted to the third rank.....
For example, to achieve greater armor performance in a smaller area;
Another example is the performance attributes of the 'Wind Wolf Weapon' in various aspects;
Another example is the huge improvement in the energy efficiency ratio of the 'reactor';
At the same time, the volcanic salamander's 'metal enchantment' ability was also analyzed at this moment, and although the specific principle of it was not yet understood, it was able to convert the 'disturbance' generated between it into runes and use it as a totem.
This is a huge progress, which means that the republic has initially broken away from the barrier of 'plant' in terms of materials and has a broader space for development.
And when all these advances are combined, there are more powerful self-propelled combat vehicles, battleships, deep-sea submarines ....
It is a more capable individual armor, with powerful firepower, faster speed, higher protection, and more agile tactical response.....
It is a more portable totem equipment core, the functional core of the mainland base station has been reduced, the reconnaissance tree has become more portable, and even many domestic totem factories and totem buildings will also obtain additional attributes that can be packaged and taken away;
If it were to happen again ten years ago, when it was necessary to evacuate in its entirety, the elves would be able to pack up almost the entire city and 'plant' it where it was needed, and then get a 'new' city in a short period of time.....
Of course, this would require a major upgrade of the existing equipment, but this is not something that can be done in a short period of time, nor is it something that Essara can do alone.
Therefore, she is now just repeating her husband's steps, and in her spare time, she transforms her gains little by little, so that they can gradually be used as common technologies, so that the Republic can achieve real all-round progress.
In addition, the ability of the 'digital elves' to integrate their own minds made Azhara think of another possibility...
If.... What would you get if you could simulate this process with totems, make them computational floating-point, and integrate them with 'algorithms'?
She thought it was an interesting idea and a lot of imagination to give the component team a try.
And the news that Freya had been promoted to the third order at this time was another thing to be happy about, proving the vast possibilities that the tree elves possessed.
But at the same time, the giant fangs reacted that their strength was almost impossible to rise, so the warrior's follow-up path was once again put on the agenda;
In the same way, the next step of the War Witches, the next development of the Ancient Tree Spirits, and so on, must also be faced in the near future....