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The symbiosis between Songhai people and scarab beetles has always been a tradition.

The complex relationship between these two creatures has evolved over thousands of years and is no longer a simple master and servant, according to Nefitali's summary from Songhai mythology, it is said that the Songhai people found the scarab beetle as their civilization totem under the direct guidance of the Creator.

Entomologists Terlanova thinks it's a bit unscientific.

According to what she heard from the mummy mother, there are currently nearly 74 different growth forms in 7 categories among the Songhai people, the most famous of which are the Sun Scarab and the Dead Moon Scarab that coexist with the Glorious Sun Church and the Death Moon Sect.

The former is a half-elemental creature full of purifying sunlight energy, and the latter is a high-ranking undead soul after merging with death, they are all quite powerful forms on the "evolution tree" of the scarab, representing not only the power but also the common destiny of the Songhai people and the scarab.

In addition, the mummy mother also gave her first "compatriot" enthusiastic science popularization of the hunter scarab beetle that can passively sneak, the scarab beetle that grows a big crow and a scorpion tail and tail nails, a heavy shell specialized, and a holy shield scarab that is extremely good at frontal combat, and a strong scarab that is responsible for medium and long-distance transportation in the place of origin and has a specialized body size.

The Songhai people have even cultivated storm scarabs and abyssal scarabs that can manipulate winds and water currents for thousands of years.

In short, there is only an evolutionary route that entomologists dare not think of, and there is no specialized function that scarabs cannot do.

Of course, there has always been a skill in raising different scarabs according to your own needs, and there are special scarab trainers in the Land of Origin who will be responsible for teaching ordinary people how to train their bug companions.

However, ordinary Songhai people do not need those highly specialized battle insect forms, and most Songhai people will use their own bugs as vehicles and family members.

"There are two scarab demigods in the astral plane, they are called Parom and Hades, they are the first scarab beetle and dead moon scarab cultivated in the history of the Songhai people, it is said that they completed the transcendence into the astral realm in the era of the Creator, and it is also the astral guardian when the Songhai people walked the astral plane and explored the strange plane.

They have good intentions for all Songhai people, and if you call in the astral plane, Parom or Hades will come to your aid.

But they will not respond to the call of any life other than the Songhai people. ”

Nefitali was very serious about the sacred connection between the Songhai people and the scarab beetle to Terlanova, and the entomologist also used a notebook supported by a small reed name to record this knowledge that she was very interested in.

In the real world, Nova could not find a strange bug with such a complex genetic lineage and the ability to specialize in life forms in a short period of time, which has completely inspired her love and exploration of insects.

However, Nova's strange idea before also made Nefitali a little confused.

She rubbed her mummified bandage and said in a strange tone:

"As for the kind of scarab beetle you mentioned that is its own brood and forms a numerical advantage by reproducing offspring quickly, I have not seen it, and it is estimated that there is no similar bug in the records of the Songhai people.

This may be a whole new evolutionary lineage, but you're not a professional scarab trainer, and I don't know a lot about it, so maybe you can take the time to go back to the Origin and visit the great masters to learn the tricks you need to help your beetle evolve the way you want.

But it's hard, my fellow foreigner.

Becoming a Scarab Trainer is no less difficult than joining the Sun or the Church of the Dead Moon as a priest.

In fact, the status of the scarab master in the Songhai Empire is also quite high, and the Ptolemaic royal family provides generous allowances to many scarab masters who travel around the origin land all year round.

In our army, the xenomorphs under the command of the Scarab Masters are often the most important attacking force. ”

"Hah, then I'll go this way."

Terranova crossed her waist and laughed and said:

"It's great to have an insect trainer profession here, and I can continue my precarious career as an entomologist here, and maybe I can write a few papers."

"Look at your little bit of interest!"

The little reed who was suspended on the ground next to him pouted and said:

"It's all here, and I still remember your broken papers, let me tell you, if you take the helmet, you will most likely settle down on our side, don't think about running around the world in this life."

"Ha, what a stupid little man."

Terranova said proudly:

"When did you come up with the idea that I'm still free and easy? As early as after Sister Cement asked me to help her do bad things and was exposed, I was already monitored, you idiot.

Those uncles also gave me a semi-official job, and now I'm on probation.

Okay, okay, I'll admit it's a bit of a miserable situation, but given the terrible environment of the pandemic right now, it's nice to have a place to live.

Hey!

What about Ruyi?

The little man is gone. ”

"When you were discussing bugs with Sister Mummy just now, Ruyi went to Scarlet Keep to find an engineering master to learn engineering."

Xiao Wei Ming shook his head and said:

Ruyi doesn't plan to take the combat career route, she wants to become a steam engineer, and her choice of the halfling template already represents her idea.

Speaking of which, this is the first time I've seen Ruyi, and the cautious guy made a mess of his face when he pinched his face, so I couldn't see her real appearance at all, wow, what a cunning. ”

"I've seen it~ I had dinner with her once in Europe before, and it took me a long time for her to be willing to meet me."

Nova whispered:

"I'll send you a photo after I go offline.,Ruyi is a very sassy little beauty.,It's a pity that it's a heavy Internet addict girl.。

She said that she is one of the most powerful hackers in the whole of Europe, and she can also rank among the top in the world, to be honest, I don't believe it, but later I saw that Ruyi could easily hack into the facilities of Sister Cement and communicate with her, I think she may not be lying.

By the way, speaking of Sister Cement

Have you been in touch with her lately? I'm a little worried about her safety. ”

"I don't know."

Xiao Wei Ming also said with a bitter face:

"Maybe Mrs. Water knows, but she is the most cunning, and she doesn't take it at all. Lumina told me not to ask, and she said that Sister Cement's situation was much worse than we thought.

Alas, I have long heard that Sister Cement is actually ready to return to China early to do research, but she always likes to embezzle her research funds to do some strange things, but she is really powerful, and this bad habit has long been notorious in their circle by other researchers, but it is really not easy for Sister Cement to get to that level.

Anyway, I think Lumina's chat group is amazing now, there are only seven people in total, and the most popular ones are all great entomologists."

"Hey, that's enough for you little guy with a bad personality! I'm happy when you say I'm good, but I'm not happy when you say I'm a dish! Why don't you hurry up and take my budding newcomer to brush up on a few dungeons and get equipment?

It's enough to be trapped on the battlefield and just wait to die, and I don't want to experience it again. ”

——

"Are you the new apprentice engineer? Do you have any previous experience with this? ”

In the Vulture Corridor of the Crimson Keep, the engineering laboratory that previously belonged to Little Sharon has been requisitioned by the old flywheel.

When "Ruyi Knows My Heart" arrived here, Brother Loyal and his group of "weapon technicians" had just finished asking for knowledge here, and their endless strange theories made the old flywheel very tired.

But the otherworldly drawings they brought with them made the old flywheel full of interest again.

As Ruyi walked into the laboratory, she heard the old flywheel ask her in a helpless and bored tone, and the halfling master engineer was standing on a chair writing and drawing on the laboratory table, as if to confirm the dimensions of something and prepare for an amazing engineering process.

In the face of the old flywheel's inquiry, Ruyi didn't answer yes or no, she flicked her waist-length hair that she stubbornly kept as a halfling, stepped forward and put the two things in the old flywheel's hand.

The perverse and sinister old flywheel turned his head to take a look, and saw that it was an arithmetic orb that had been taken apart.

Dismantling this thing is not Ruyi's originality, Meng Ha has dismantled it once before, the structure of the calculation orb is not complicated, as long as you master the skill, you can easily disassemble the orb body with a psionic tweezer.

But Ruyi's technique was obviously more clever, and the old flywheel could see at a glance that the psionic factor inside the orb had been completely formatted and restored to its original state.

This made the old flywheel suddenly interested.

He took off his large, heavy multifunctional engineering goggles, looked up and down at the shape and face of the halfling that Ruyi had pinched for himself, threw a new orb to her, and said:

"It's not difficult for a skilled engineering mechanic to do that, but you're clearly a Gentile who has just arrived in Transnesia, so, how do you do that? Show me how! ”

Under the translation module of the new orb, Ruyi knew that she had ushered in the "entrance exam", she picked up the psionic tweezers and removed the orb body very easily, and made an impact and scrubbing action on it, saying:

"I asked the psionist to perform a short high-powered psionic blast on it to complete the data reset, which is a very simple way to destroy the data."

Ruyi wanted to explain, but found that without the Orb of Calculation, the old flywheel couldn't understand the complex language of the otherworldly.

So she explained in sign language, and finally pointed to the expert adventure assistant who the old flywheel had set aside, and made a recorded move.

"You mean, you want to learn this?"

The old flywheel laughed, put the orb that Ruyi had dismantled with a click, and used the three-and-a-half-generation core orb in his hand to complete the "Psionic Factor Reset" to it and threw this thing to Ruyi, he nodded and said:

"You gentlemen say you're interested in engineering, but most of you are still focused on mechanical design and the debate between the two worlds, and I'll admit that your engineering ideas are refreshing to me, but I'm sorry that your engineers haven't discovered the real mysteries of steam engineering.

Differential machines were born on your side, but unfortunately you didn't follow the path of mechanical computing, which is the biggest divergence between the two worlds of engineering.

The underlying logic of engineering is in calculations and numbers, and pure mechanical design is just a gorgeous façade.

I'm glad to see that there's finally a second Otherworldly who has become interested in the Orb of Computing, it's a masterpiece of steam engineering, and it's a bit hard to learn how to make it in one step."

"But I don't want to learn how to make it, Master Flywheel."

Ruyi immediately explained:

"If I'm a great food connoisseur, do I have to have a cooking skill that is unparalleled in the world? No matter how high-end the Orb is, it's just a tool, and I want to learn how to control it rather than study how to make and improve it.

To be precise, I'd like you to teach me the mysteries of calculating orbs' psionic factors, so that I can find loopholes in this system that seems incomplete at the moment, and then exploit them.

I hope to use my skills and what I'm good at to continue what interests me in this world.

For example, using a modified Computing Orb to remotely crack the mechanical database of Port Chardo, or creating a virus that only works in the network of Psionic Orbs can paralyze the strange ecology of the entire Port of Chardo that is too mechanized in an instant.

Finally, when the halflings harness their unrivaled mechanical power against us, I can neutralize those weapons in an instant."

“！！！”

Old Flywheel's eyes widened.

He exclaimed:

"Why are you doing such a terrible thing! How did the halfling recruit you and provoke you? Everyone else is thinking about how to defeat us physically, but you, the little devil with the appearance of a halfling, are trying to dig our roots!

But.

I have to say, you guy did come up with a 'form of warfare' that we had never considered before, a 'data virus' that could work in a network of computing orbs?

Wow!

What a genius evil idea.

If I can do that, then I'll be free to come and go in the Chardo Harbor, which is full of mechanical and arithmetic orbs!

Yes!

If I had something like this in my hand when I duel with Minks, his mechanical creations built on the maintenance system of the Orb of Computing would have been paralyzed in an instant! ”

"Be bold, Master, take control of them and put the enemy's machinery to your advantage."

Ruyi whispered:

"We can do that!

Actually, my job in another world is exactly that, I'm a hacker, it's my job to find vulnerabilities and exploit them, it's my quest to be the omnipotent ghost on the web, and it's my favorite thing to get into trouble with the capitalists who are so powerful in the world.

All it takes is a loophole, a backdoor, a message mixed with viruses to bring their ruthless machines to a halt to plunder their wealth.

Yes, while they won't bring me a dime if they lose 100 million, it really makes me very happy to see them angry and devastated looks.

If they can play the financial game to harvest ordinary people, then why can't I use the same 'digital weapons' in the name of punishment and counterattack to make them feel the pain? ”

"Ugh"

Ruyi's declaration made the old flywheel blink, and he shook his head and said:

"You're a little too extreme, girl.

I confess that the factory owners and bankers of the port of Chardo are indeed hateful, but they are not guilty of this.

Do you know what terrible consequences would happen if you planted a virus in the Chardon Central Bank's network of Computing Orbs? ”

"I guess."

A strange smile appeared on Ruyi's delicate face, and she said:

"That's exactly what I wanted to do, ah, when I heard that I was coming to another world, I was so frustrated that I thought I might have to fight monsters with my sword like idiots, and get myself covered in filthy blood.

But when I really saw how the Orb of Computing works and the data network built around it, I suddenly realized that this was the paradise I wanted!

Master Flywheel, let's spread the Orb of Computing all over the world into a network that connects all life, and then wreak havoc on it!

We can be the gods of that network!

A God who is not impersonal, who is not so far away from the material world, who can be perceived by all, who really exists!

The god of data! The God of Hackers! The god who played with the port of Chardo in applause

I've heard your story, and I know you've always wanted revenge on the city that failed you, but now, you've got a more powerful weapon than stupid swords and clumsy guns.

I teach you how to get started with hacking, and you teach me the mysteries of psionic factors.

Ahem.

I'm not here to be your apprentice, master, I'm here to be your companion and comrade-in-arms! Let's burn the port of Chardor to ashes together! ”

"Uh, girl, I'll say it again, you're a little too extreme!"

(End of chapter)