23- About deterrence

As a normal person, Rama's initial pursuit of mechanics and biology was superficial.

He wants a future where mechanics is a large-scale war armor and an air fortress, and biology is a genetic medicine that can strengthen the human body without limit.

Of course, as he grew in knowledge, he came to realize that his pursuit of both doctrines was too one-sided—though that didn't stop him from still loving them.

But after the knowledge is expanded, it is indeed possible to point out other branches.

These two kinds of knowledge have the same effect in the basic link of civilization, that is, to make the most people form combat effectiveness at the lowest cost.

It is clear that in the lower stages of civilization, numbers are an indispensable part of both war and development.

War is a real thing, and it requires you to pay for something before you can win.

And the number of people in the basic hunting and fighting, is always the right answer, usually the number of soldiers is very different, in fact, the victory is certain.

Less is more, after all, it is a minority.

And development, as we usually call labor, is also a simple answer to why we pursue population.

War and development run through the entire course of civilization, which is why population is important.

But as the tech tree climbs, the inevitable demand for the population will gradually decrease.

There is still a pursuit, but it is not the attitude that must be raised in the early stage of development.

The greatest value of weapon development is to reduce the output cost of a soldier, and the beginning of biology is actually medical skills, doctors may be benevolent, but the role of medical skills is to let more ordinary people survive and continue to create value, so that more soldiers have the opportunity to return to the battlefield.

In addition, the elevation of the technology tree naturally brings about the innovation of productivity, and more resources can be produced with less labor.

It should be said that, in terms of the trend of development, it is clear that the pursuit of population is decreasing with the degree of development.

Of course, civilization is human civilization after all, and no matter how low it is, it will not be absent.

However, the development of the times will gradually reduce the value of individual individuals, unless it is the kind of rare genius, otherwise most people have really become an irrelevant link to the group.

Yes, but losing it is not an unbearable loss.

Strictly speaking, Teyvat already falls into the latter category.

Teyvat's civilization does not belong to humans, civilization belongs to the demon gods, and the demon gods do not have much need for humans.

The plot line can only see the unreasonable love of these demon gods led by the Seven Archons of the Mortal World for human beings.

But why they love humanity is not explained.

"If I can become a demon god, the tribe will lose its value to me."

"I can single-handedly brush the copy of the Akademiya and make the Sand Sea the kingdom of Sumeru."

"But no, the power of the individual wants to climb, and in the early stage it is obviously not as real as the development of technology."

Rama shook his head.

Klee had used bombs to permanently change the landscape of the Lookout Mountains, not to underestimate swordsmanship or elemental power - if Jean had done such a thing, she probably wouldn't have had a chance at all.

Jean is already a genius among mortals, and it is difficult to say that there are a few geniuses among normal people who are better than her.

But the destructive power of the two is so intuitively manifested that it is almost a world apart.

[Genshin Impact] drives the elemental forces to fight, and it is very difficult for them to take a step forward.

Rama was faced with the same choice, his time was limited, and his quest for individual power naturally led him to devote most of his time to honing his elemental powers, rather than the orthodox climbing of the tech tree.

Clearly, the current return on this investment is not high enough.

Devoting time to the study of the tech tree is obviously more effective in this period than simply pursuing power.

"But that's not how investment is counted." Rama does not regret it, "Elementalism brings not only power, but also the study of elemental forces. ”

"Teyvat's tech tree either follows a special technology line like the Red King and the Order, or it still has to rely on the elements as an energy source."

The innovation of energy will affect the growth direction of the tech tree, and Teyvat's core energy is obviously elemental power.

Rama didn't waste much time waiting for the other to react, and they responded quickly as the watchtower was removed.

The warriors and elders of these tribes clearly had a certain fighting quality, and although they were intimidated by unknown means, they reacted quickly.

Although this quick counterattack answer, it did not bring them any benefit.

Rama looked up at the sky.

The small array aircraft is suspended in a high place, taking in the entire field of view below.

The vision they observed was synchronously projected in front of Rama, allowing the desert folk's tactics to be almost revealed.

Ahead lured the enemy, and some elite warriors who were eligible for the Emeral Weapon took another path to detour.

"Tactical······ I've been listening to those idioms for a long time. Rama muttered in a low voice, "It's just that with the advancement of technology, how many more tactics can continue to work?" ”

Rama had all the movements of the other party in front of him, and he knew better than the elders who gave the orders that the warriors of the tribe would be able to reach at what time and where.

"Before driving the technological means to the final victory, let's brush up on the mastery of the elemental power."

Rama had anticipation on his face.

He had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Rama's original plan was to become a ten-mile sword god, hone all the skills he wanted, and then push it flat.

Anyway, the future situation of the sand sea is not bad, as long as you avoid Yingmei, the Tanit tribe will not have any problems.

However, when the skill reaches a certain limit, although the upper limit of experience points remains the same, the difficulty of gaining experience points continues to increase.

At this stage, he no longer has the ability to gain high experience to improve the level of his skills through some skillful assembly line reproduction operations.

He needs more high-quality and massive materials to experiment and build up technology, and this requires wealth and power.

He also needs to stir up the war to increase the experience points of elemental power, so that he can gain more power faster.

If the plan can't keep up with the change, then you can only come out and do a little thing.

It doesn't matter which tribe is around, in terms of the theoretical split of killing chickens and monkeys, the former can only be regarded as a means, and the latter is the real answer.

It didn't matter who was on the side of the war, because it wasn't them who Rama wanted to deter, but the Tanit tribe and all those who would be watching the fight.

Nearly 100 tall tin robots crawled up under the sea of sand. They gathered behind Rama, silent.

This is almost the crudest of the creatures, and there is hardly any mechanical beauty to be seen, and there are not a few of them of similar size among the nearly a hundred.

He used whatever material he could, and Rama was not demanding uniformity.