"So, that's it, I'm Thor, the younger brother of the god you saw who ruled the heavens and the earth." Shang Luo summed up his identity.

"Shang Luo." Apollonia reminded from the sidelines, "You just made an important decision. We should have mentioned before that 'it makes no sense to measure God's genealogy by secular ethics.' ’。 Because the mythical husband and wife, brothers, and parent-child are only a metaphor for relative positions, not an ethical relationship in the true sense. The metaphor of husband and wife is the dual god, the metaphor of parent-child is the overflow of divinity, the metaphor of copulation is the fusion and reorganization of divinity, and the metaphor of the girl is the purity and incompatibility of divinity. And the metaphor of the brother is."

"A split in divinity?"

Apollonia nodded: "Just like the three Zeus brothers." They rule the sky, the sea, and the underworld respectively, and they are in fact all divisions of the 'Lord God' who occupies a dominant position, but the realm of domination is different. Your words have left a similar effect in their mythology. You say that you are 'his' brother, that he ruled the order of the world, and that you are now here to maintain the order of the world, and that your divinity overlaps here. Your split. Probably already started. ”

"For my purposes, that's a good sign. But I'm interested, can they sustain a system like this? It seems to be stable, and everyone can have their place. Order has been established, and as long as they can maintain it, I think things are going pretty well here. When the time comes, we shouldn't need to intervene too much. ”

"That's right. Because I also foresee that you, the Divine Sun Walker, will probably become three brothers—past, present, and future. In the past, you ruled on this heaven and earth at the creation of the world. Now, you are defending this world from the invasion of the outer gods. But in the future, when the Serpent of Fire returns, I'm afraid you're going to have to descend again. This time you're talking about helping the order of this world resist the outer gods. But the Fire Serpent is not an outer god, it is the cycle of karma in this world itself, so when the time comes, you will have to find another vest. ”

"Okay, okay, I'm here for the final judgment and the first trial, right, there's no problem. It's a vest anyway. But the vest isn't very neat right now, so let's get back to it - but will they make some mess of their own? I think they're doing pretty well right now? ”

"So far, it's really good. Judging from the course of human history, they are now in a state of 'primitive abundance'. That is, natural resources are quite abundant relative to the population, and there is no need to 'rob' them at all. In the embryonic period of history, human beings lived a nomadic farming life with no fixed place, and they could not starve to death wherever they went. So you can see that although the Qi Clan and the Earth Clan have the upper hand, they are not harsh on the Water Tribe. But when the population becomes larger, the state of abundance will slowly disappear. And they are already on this path, because they have already begun the agricultural revolution. ”

"In other words, they are currently in a state of disobedience?" Shang Luo shook his head, "That's really simple, they are so simple that they can even maintain friendly communication with the mushroom beasts, and develop this 'egg' in a controlled manner, without fishing all the time." If the population grows in the future and there are more mouths to eat, it will be even more difficult to maintain this dignity. Interestingly, I always feel that if the school had free research assignments during the holidays, then I would probably get full marks on this topic. ”

"I think you can do that now. Observing a budding society is a valuable sample for anthropology. The so-called history can be used as a mirror to know the rise and fall, and if we want to carry out such investigations, we can only go to the most remote primitive tribes in Africa or the Amazon. For example, the Pacific Islanders used to have an interesting mechanic called the 'Kula Circle', but they modernized so fast that they were already in the modern era before they could remember to observe them. If you observe it here, it might be interesting. We can even take the initiative to research, for example, we also put the raw materials of the kula ring or something. ”

"Kura Ring? What's that? ”

"It's a very interesting mechanism of human society, and it can even be said that the islanders of the Western Pacific are sustaining their societies in this way. There must be research on it in your university. To put it simply, it's a decentralized tributary system. The direction of its tribute flow is not in the form of an inverted tree, but in a circle—that is, everyone gives gifts down the direction of the monsoon and receives gifts from the other direction, forming a circle. The gifts that circulate inside this ring are called 'kula', so the system is called kula ring. It's quite an interesting exploration of the form of human social organization, as you can see that the natives of other parts of the South Seas are fighting very bloody wars. Only here in the Kura Ring, they replaced the war with a contest between the Kura - they hardly fought anymore. ”

"Ah, so if you can experiment here"

"That's right. If we can experiment here, then our sociological theory can be very positively improved. Especially for you, because the rituals and politics associated with gifts are what you have always used in the tributary system. If I'm not mistaken, this research is mostly done by you. If you talk to the Son of Heaven, he will probably find out immediately. And we have a unique advantage here that the outside world can never imitate. ”

"What is it?" Shang Luo asked.

"It's speed! Just as hybrid rice is very suitable for breeding in Hainan or the tropics, it takes a year to bear fruit after sowing seeds in other places, while Hainan can breed for several generations a year. We've accelerated 365 times here! Just wait one day and you can have a year's worth of results. Dozens of days of observation can have decades of observation records. And we don't need researchers to run around, we can have the Heavenly Soldiers collect the data, and they can do the whole investigation from the comfort of an armchair. ”

"Wait, wait," Shang Luo raised his hand, "Very valuable." This is probably unprecedented, and it provides an efficient and ideal testing ground for sociological research. But there is a problem with this, one of our research topics, but all the beings in this heaven and earth. The ethical issues involved in this are of particular concern. Don't forget, the Fire Serpent's 'Doomsday Cycle' is because the karma of this world is converging and exploding as a result. If karma is applied from outside rather than naturally, it may affect Dan's condition - you don't want to burst out of yourself, so what's the point? Sociological research is important, but alchemy is also important. I'll report it back - but passive research can start right away, because it's just an observational log. What about cameras? Ready to prepare? ”

A celestial soldier lifted his invisibility, made an OK gesture at the diagonal top of Shang Luo's field of vision, and then continued to become invisible.

"Okay, pay attention, units, and record it later. We're going to get started. ”

After making preparations, he looked at the life tree: "Then, tell us the information in the city." ”

"Ah, Lords and Goddesses, I have one more small request."

"Well, so to speak." Shang Luo nodded, "You may be the injured party now, and I will help you." Requests that are not too excessive can be made. ”

"No, no, not for us. We are thinking. I want to see the divine power of the god of thunder. I'm sorry! I'm sorry, but I'm sure to ask. Because rebelling against the false gods entrenched in the city of Carneki may cost us destruction. So. I want to know who has the stronger divine power, you or the false gods in the city. ”

"You want to see me show my hand, do you? Yes, yes, very reasonable request. Then I'd like to figure out how to show you a hand. ”

He examined the gear that was with him.

"Huh? This one can. He now waved upwards, "That. . . Units, turn off the camera first. ”

He opened his backpack and took out the flying sword that Lu Zu had given him. The flying sword and the skewer in the hand of the county commander have a tube, and there is a small flying sword like a skewer in it. He remembered that he could summon a flying sword just by throwing it.

"That's it." He threw his sword into the sky, handed it to the nearest soldier, and commanded, "Go to the hill over there, find a place where no one is around, and throw it down when you hear my command." ”

(End of chapter)