Chapter 385: Carp: The Only Way
Mangula was so angry that she threw the plate full of gem toys on the floor.
"How could I have cultivated such a strange ability?" Mangula held his head and said angrily, "Have a heart with the carp? Why do I have a heart to heart with a carp?
"If it weren't for this broken ability, I wouldn't care about your feelings, and I wouldn't be able to kill you!"
The royal prince, who was later called the Godslayer, was not an indecisive, compassionate man, nor was he a ghostly beast protector, who felt that the lives of beasts were more important than human lives.
But he is not an iron-hearted, cold-hearted person, he will also be touched and moved.
While he gulped fish and meat, he would also gently bandage the wounds of the little beasts that were wailing by the roadside.
The original reason why he had a soft spot for carp in his thousands of lives was only because he felt the unwillingness and pleading of the creatures in his palm when he first refined the "Tears of the Carp".
So he let it go, exchanged the emerald gems on the queen necklace for what he wanted, and was beaten afterwards.
In the years that followed, he responded to the original carp, but it gradually became human and gave birth to desire, so that he, as a nobleman, could no longer satisfy its wishes.
One day it suddenly asked: Can humans and carp coexist peacefully? Just like you and me?
"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Mangula replied word for word, "This is something I can't do even if I inherit the throne." ”
With only three wings left, the carp spread its wings, left behind its cozy and warm nest, left behind the gems it had collected for several years, and flew out of the Nishizawa Imperial Palace without looking back.
"Hey, you-" Mangula shouted from behind.
But the carp didn't look back.
For a moment, Scotti clearly felt the thoughts that came to her mind.
- What you Mangula Nishizawa can't do, I'll do it myself.
The illusion transitions again.
In the gap between the transitions, Scotti seized the opportunity to ask Yanluge, "What is the situation with this carp?" I don't think the other carp are as smart as it is. ”
"The mind has just opened, and I have become a demon."
"Demons?"
"Ignorance is a beast, and the spirit is a demon." Yan Luge explained simply, "The former can be killed and eaten casually, but the latter is not okay and illegal."
"You can understand 'Kailing' as 'brain strengthening' in the reinforcement route. When other creatures are strengthening their minions according to their instincts, some individuals will become a little more intelligent when they add points to their brains.
"By the way, this trait is generally heritable, just like Australopithecus."
Shikoti understands that alien beasts and demons are originally of the same origin, but the transcendent will judge whether they have "human rights" based on whether they have wisdom or not.
But what surprised her was a certain metaphor used by the song of words.
"Australopithecus?"
As a result, Yan Luge's reaction was even more surprised than her: "Why, don't you people in Nishizawa even teach the theory of evolution?"
"Don't you know that humans evolved from Australopithecus, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens?"
“…… Of course I do. ”
"Then how do you think the monkeys in the trees evolved into Australopithecus in the first place?" Yan Luge said, "Everyone strengthened their claws and teeth under the influence of spiritual power, but there was a group of apes that strengthened their brains and became Australopithecus.
"This is the ancestor of mankind.
"Later, this group of australopithecus went further and further on the road of 'brain strengthening', became more and more intelligent, grew in size, and had a civilization and inheritance, so they distinguished themselves from other animals and called themselves 'humans'.
"We're all carbon-based, and there's no difference in essence – aren't your biologists also hypocritical and silently classifying humans as primates?"
Shikoti silently digested it and nodded: "...... I see. ”
I understand, I understand, but her mood is still a little delicate.
When her worldview was still very scientific and materialistic, Yan Luge ran over to her and said: What? Do you think Aquamarine is a ball?
When her worldview slowly began to be filled with legends of humans, gods and demons, Yanluge ran to her again: What? You haven't even heard of evolution?
This transcendent world is really not scientific when it should be scientific, and too scientific when it shouldn't......
In the cranky thoughts of the poet, the transition in the "Oath Narrative" ends, and the illusion of low-quality painting unfolds again in front of the eldest daughter of the emperor.
The next set of shots follow the three-winged carp.
After flying away from the Nishizawa Palace, he returned to the forest, first breaking the habit of carp living alone and his gentle temperament, catching his own kind and beating them one by one, and taking those ordinary carp with blue noses and swollen eyes as his younger brothers.
Then, it took its little brother to continue to run amok, instructed them to fight in groups of three or five, and in this way snowballed to take in more little brothers.
And it selects victims with a clear purpose.
It picks other carp birds to fight when courting or even reproducing.
This topic is really sad for those who hear it, and tears for those who listen to it.
But this three-winged king of carp seems to have an iron heart, and it is a pair to break up a pair.
It has created a simple but clear hierarchy within the group, stipulating that only a few of the most powerful carp can be given the right to mate, and the rest will be left to it alone, daring to mate one by one.
On top of that, it found a berry out of nowhere and forced the female carp to eat it, limiting their ability to reproduce — from laying a few thousand eggs at a time to laying dozens at a time.
It has to be said that this method is drastic, but effective - where the king of carp goes, the number of newborn carp has decreased dramatically.
Shi Curti, who was watching from the sidelines, was already stupid: "I never dreamed that I would be able to see a carp bird engaged in family planning in my lifetime. ”
"Its approach goes straight to the root of the contradictions." "If there weren't so many carps and they weren't so greedy when they asked for things, then I think people would be more willing to exchange them for 'carp tears' than to take them violently."
"After all, one is sustainable development and the other is destructive development."
"Are all demons that smart?"
"Not necessarily, it depends on how to educate." Yan Luge commented unceremoniously, "The one you see is not necessarily very smart.
"It's just had the experience of having a heart and mind with the Emperor of the Godslayer, so it knows how to untie the knot between humans and carp.
"But if it were to deal with something else, the IQ might drop off a cliff."
"That's just as well." Scotti agreed.
She had seen with her own eyes that the ambitious king of carp had made many stupid mistakes, including but not limited to sticking his head into the millstone to steal something to eat, and almost being crushed to death; was tricked into a trap by a five-year-old child with two cans of worms, and almost couldn't get out; Led the clan to fight with a mountain eagle, only to be stolen by another mountain eagle......
It's not intelligent, and by human standards, it's only about five or six years old, and it can't even understand the more complex mechanisms.
But by the standards of the carp, it is still the smartest and most powerful of them all.
So its brutal dictatorship worked.
After several cutscenes in "The Oath Narrative", it becomes the king of the unique carp that reigns in the world.
In the same year, the size of the carp population plummeted to one-tenth of its original size.
"The size of the carp population is originally maintained by a large number of newborns. You can control the birth of newborns, but you can't resist the killing of humans on the other side and the natural death of the race. "It's like the math problem of putting water in and out of the water, if you block the inlet end, it won't be long before the whole pool will be drained."
"To pay such a tragic price, just to find the possible path of coexistence? Is it worth it?
"But it seems like the only way......"
(End of chapter)