Chapter 312 Civil War

Zhou Island is mainly divided into two parts: North Island and South Sea.

North Island is where the Zhouzhou people live. They can gather, fish, hunt, use leather and wood, make simple medicinal herbs, and have established villages very early.

The Zhouzhou people once developed very quickly. Their number reached 150,000 at the peak. The docks were all over the capes and beaches of North Island, and the roads that extended in all directions connected every village.

They were ambitious to conquer the ocean and leave the mark of the north on every island on the sea.

The sea began to become the hunting ground and road of the Zhouzhou people. Their ships headed towards the depths of the southern sea to explore the limits of this world.

However, in an era change, the Zhouzhou people suffered a devastating blow.

The new era caused a surge in the number of an animal called sea toad. Sea toads were originally an inconspicuous small animal. They usually hid in the shallow sea and hunted insects as food. They were extremely poisonous.

After the number of sea toads increased, they began to go ashore to find food.

The toxins they carried caused a large number of livestock raised by the Zhouzhou people to die, and people who came into contact with them were also poisoned and died one after another.

The Zhouzhou people had to recall their members at sea and make every effort to eliminate the toads in Beizhou.

The sea toads have strong reproductive capacity and like to hide in the sea, so it is difficult to be completely eliminated.

This war between the Zhouzhou people and the toads lasted for a long time. Until the next era, an animal called weaver bird grew stronger and began to hunt toads, finally curbing the harm of toads.

After this poison disaster, the Zhouzhou people were seriously injured.

The toad poison directly or indirectly caused the death of more than 30,000 people, most of whom were elderly people among the Zhouzhou people.

The successive deaths of the elderly caused a serious break in the knowledge inheritance of the Zhouzhou people. The society lost the hub and buffer connecting the old and new groups and became extremely unstable.

In order to compete for resources, Zhouzhou people in different regions frequently broke out in conflicts and fights, and civilization even entered a short period of regression.

At the same time, the mermaids in the deep sea of ​​the south are growing rapidly.

Unlike the Zhouzhou people who developed civilization early, the mermaids have maintained a beast-like life for thousands of years. Their enlightenment came from eating the corpses of Zhouzhou people and using the sunken ships on the seabed.

The Zhouzhou people have the custom of burying the dead at sea. The dead will be put into small boats by the living and let them float into the sea. They believe that the dead will return to the north in another way through the flow of the ocean.

These bodies buried at sea have become food for fish.

The disaster of poisonous toads caused tens of thousands of Zhouzhou people's bodies to float into the sea, which made the mermaids gradually wiser through eating and observing.

In the past, when the mermaids met the Zhouzhou people, they would flee and hide, fearing to be stabbed by their fish hooks and spears. But after eating many corpses, they became bolder - the Zhouzhou people are not strong now.

A long time ago, the Zhouzhou people were very interested in the mermaids because this sea creature had a human-like form. They were curious and respectful of the Zhouzhou people's ships, and would exchange pearls for the Zhouzhou people's livestock and fruits.

In its heyday, the Zhouzhou people would give the mermaids food and teach them how to weave with ropes or rattan, showing a kingly momentum to rule the world.

At that time, the mermaids were also convinced. They would always take the initiative to greet the Zhouzhou people's ships and guide them into safe waters.

But now the Zhouzhou people are weak and lack everything. They no longer have the high spirits they had before.

The Zhouzhou people hunted the mermaids, locked them with ropes and hooks, and let them go to the sea to find pearls and corals.

The strong mermaids became the Zhouzhou people's underwater collectors, the weak mermaids were used to feed livestock, and the mermaid corpses became bait to lure out more mermaids.

The anger that had been suppressed for many years finally broke out at a certain moment.

The mermaids began to counterattack frantically. They sank ships, destroyed docks, and dragged Zhouzhou people underwater to drown. They raised a large number of sea toads and threw these poisonous creatures into the villages and settlements of Zhouzhou people.

As soon as the Zhouzhou people's ships entered the southern waters, they would be attacked by mermaids, resulting in shipwrecks or attacks by some deep-sea monsters.

The hatred between the two groups deepened.

At this time, the old man in the straw raincoat and hat finally took action.

The god who ruled the world sent an apostle.

The apostle announced the oracle of the peaceful co-governance of the two tribes, and also stopped the protracted war between the North and the South.

After another two eras, the hatred was gradually diluted by time, and the Zhouzhou people and the mermaids began to cooperate.

They traded with each other, and the fruits, grains, and livestock in the north were transported to the south on the sea by ships, and exchanged for oysters, fish, seaweed, pearls and corals in the sea.

The mermaids learned simple hand-woven textiles and leather processing from the Zhouzhou people, and the Zhouzhou people learned from the mermaids how to identify the direction of the sea and how to avoid dangerous waters.

The land provided livestock, fruits, vegetables and herbs that were not available in the sea, and the sea provided a large amount of fish and various minerals that were lacking on the ground.

The two tribes on land and sea entered a honeymoon period, and the [Red Coral Mirage] was a witness and creation of this period.

The existence of red coral and mirage allows Zhouzhou people and mermaids to see each other across the sea. The mirror formed by the refraction of mirage allows them to see each other's world clearly, which makes transactions and exchanges smoother and faster.

The northern land and the southern ocean are connected in an unprecedented way.

Later, the god Suoli Weng became a subordinate god of the dragon clan, and the Nine Grain Pillars were fixed under the sea of ​​Zhou Island.

Dragons of various shapes began to appear in this world.

Their mere existence and appearance brought a series of changes and opportunities to the world. The existence of dragons also made the Zhouzhou people and the mermaids more cautious and huddled together for warmth.

This was also the most peaceful and stable time for Zhou Island.

In the 6th era, the gods and dragons suddenly left the Jiuhe Pillar, and then the Jiuhe Pillar was damaged, and the fire of faith in the whole world was quickly extinguished.

There was no sign of the fall of the gods, but the drastic changes in the world had quietly arrived.

In the 7th era, the whole world entered an extremely cold era. The northern land was covered and submerged by heavy snow, and icicles grew on the capes. The sea surface in the offshore area turned into thick ice. A large number of land animals died in the cold, and trees were constantly withering and collapsing.

The largest source of food for the Zhouzhou people became the ocean. They chiseled the ice to catch fish and asked the mermaids for help.

At this time, the mermaids' long-standing resentment and ambition to conquer the land were no longer hidden. They rejected the requests of the Zhouzhou people, blocked the coastline, and prohibited the Zhouzhou people from entering the sea.

Trees became fewer and fewer, and the fuel for burning firewood quickly ran out. The Zhouzhou people desperately looked for food and firewood everywhere.

But the reserves on land were already a drop in the bucket. In the end, the Zhouzhou people completely died out in this long and cold era.

A new era came, the ice melted, and the ground and the ocean regained warmth and moisture.

The mermaids celebrated each other. They finally ended the humiliation of the past, completely eliminated the Zhouzhou people, and became the only civilized ruler of the world.

However, the temperature continued to rise.

In the 8th era, the entire Zhou Island fell into extreme heat.

Red and green algae floated on the sea. These algae spread all over the waters, causing a large number of fish in the sea to die or become sick. The mermaids were poisoned and infected by eating these fish.

Without the medical treatment of the Zhouzhou people, the mermaids could not heal themselves, and their numbers continued to decrease.

As the mermaids weakened, a ferocious small mermaid fish was born in the sea.

They have strong survival ability. They eat seaweed and various poisoned fish. Even if only half of their body is left, they can swim in the water for a long time.

The mermaids began to hunt weak mermaids in groups, because the fat of mermaids is delicious and can provide a lot of strength.

In this hot and bright era, the mermaids died or escaped.

They eventually failed to survive this difficult period and became prey to deep-sea monsters, retreating to the basic animal nature of survival and reproduction.

The once prosperous northern and southern civilizations came to an end in the world records.