Invincible Chapter 1123

Perhaps it was because he realized that an enemy who could kill the lantern bearer was not suitable for a strong enemy, and at the same time realized that leaving the lantern bearer's skin and lantern in place was fishing in itself.

So the accomplice of the lantern bearer played a trick to save the country.

He didn't appear directly, but ordered several ground guards to rush over in a hurry.

Zhao Wenrui stood there, watching the ground guards carefully put the lantern and skin bag into special bags, and then hurriedly went to the business.

Zhao Wenrui had already made arrangements on the leather pouch and the lantern, and he didn't just sit on the sidelines or follow the vines. Instead, he continued to tour the Sea Spear after killing the Lantern Bearer.

Although Martin, the tax collector, knows little about his position and social status, Zhao Wenrui still has a certain understanding of the world through the analysis and speculation of inherent information.

Each ship island is like a city, a country.

On Earth, different geographical environments, cultural histories, and cultures have created nations with different styles and characteristics. The same goes for this world. Each island has its own unique political, economic and social features.

Analyzing the Sea Spear from these aspects, it belongs to new wine in old bottle.

Sea Spear was born with bad luck.

It was originally built as the second ship to divert the population of a certain ship island.

As a result, during the construction period, the scandal of cutting corners and shoddy materials was first exposed.

Although corruption has been punished, some projects that have already taken shape cannot be changed, otherwise it will cost more than building a new ship.

Soon after, an unexpected storm surge washed the giant dock and the Seaspear, which was still under construction. Not only did it damage the dock and the access island, but it also exposed more quality problems.

The whole people are no longer optimistic about the future of the Sea Spear. After all, it is an established fact that its quality limit is not high, and it is even a second-hand junk product that leaves the factory.

As a result, the Sea Spear project was suspended, and the sister ship Sea Shield based on its blueprint was put on the agenda.

Later, the Sea Spear changed hands several times, and was once regarded as a single-function ship island to complete post-construction, such as arsenal ship, planting ship, and mining ship (collecting ore, coal, smelting metal, and coke from the seabed)

finally,

It was a group of revolutionaries, or rebels, who obtained the Sea Spear during the process of dividing the spoils after the event was completed. However, under the atmosphere of "working together and building a home together", it was gradually built into a fully functional ship island.

It is precisely because of this history that the society of the Sea Spear can be said to have been completely torn down and rebuilt from the rubble.

It is precisely because of such a past that the social conflicts of the Sea Lance are not so sharp.

However, human nature and productivity determine production relations and social models.

As time goes by, smart people are good at seizing opportunities to gain more benefits for themselves; leaders feel that they are elites, and they should become superior; There is nothing wrong with taking more...

In short, everyone has their own reasons and feels that they should be treated preferentially.

In this way, classes emerged and the gap between rich and poor widened. Up to now, it has actually embarked on the track of dynasty reincarnation. The reason why people at the bottom still have dreams and are positive and optimistic is because the road to advancement has not been cut off, and the people at the top are not considered too dark, nor have they formed a monopoly.

But in fact, it has entered the middle age of the dynasty, which can be seen specifically from the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes that have been complained by the majority of people at the bottom.

The tax law is chaotic, and the people-oriented approach in the past is no longer feasible. Martin, who was squeezed by him, cheated for personal gain, enriched his pockets, and played tricks. However, the effective laws were not promulgated and implemented in time. The source of confusion in the tax code.

Now people at the bottom are still kept in the dark, and have a bit of naivety, just like some people in ancient times on the earth thought that the emperor was good, and bad things were done by treacherous officials, so as long as these scum moths are cleaned up, it will be better. But in fact, this kind of thing has never been an isolated phenomenon. It is the entire system that is corrupt. Without great progress in productivity or special circumstances, it is impossible to escape the vicious circle of dynasty change.

As for the possibility of a great increase in productivity, I have to say that Zhao Wenrui's view is rather pessimistic. The main reason is that the ship island itself is isolated and isolated, and communication between ship islands is difficult. As we all know, industrialization requires a sufficient industrial population and even a consumer market to promote it.

The humanoid civilization in this world has lingered in the steam age for nearly ten thousand years, pushing the steam engine technology to a very high level, but still unable to break the shackles, advance to the internal combustion engine, and unlock electricity. This is evidence of stagnant productivity.

He felt that unless there was an invincible great man who conquered the seven seas and established a ship-island interlocking empire with a large enough population, the curse of reincarnation could not be broken.

But it is not easy to conquer the ship island, the ship island culture has long been formed, isolated and exclusive. However, the cultural development and the formation of customs and traditions slowly promoted by the passage of time have made the national consciousness of the group rise, and even the national consciousness has sprouted.

As we all know, once this step is reached, it will be much more difficult to play the trilogy of Conquest, Unity, and Fusion. Not to mention that the humanoid civilization in this world has not yet become the overlord of the planet, at least until the sea beast system is completely overthrown, it is difficult to single-mindedly promote the progress of civilization.

It should be said that there are cases where alliances are formed due to the disaster of sea beasts, but strictly speaking, the disaster of sea beasts is a natural phenomenon, and it is not feasible for one battle to achieve all results.

Sea beasts often cause huge erosion disasters when their living environment is destroyed, or when natural disasters or special events occur. When the year is good, there may be no major disasters for decades.

As the saying goes, there is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days. Such a long time is definitely a test of the relationship between the members of the Ship Island Alliance. Militarism is not feasible, and it is impossible for ships and islands to stay in groups for a long time, but they need to be scattered in various sea areas to fish for food.

Coupled with the death of the people, the grievances caused by various interest demands, and other issues, so that the long-term and stable alliance relationship between the ships and islands is simply a luxury. On the contrary, fighting with the sky, fighting with beasts, and fighting with people is like the eternal truth, which has always become the first commentary of the ship island civilization.

This is why Zhao Wenrui felt that the Red Flag Revolution was more suitable.

Advanced production relations, supplemented by technical support, can keep society in a state of upward development for quite a long time.

The days are getting more and more prosperous? Who wants to die with their head on the belt of their trousers?

In this way, after a few generations, inertia will be formed and more forces will be attracted to join, thereby obtaining a population base for a leap in productivity.

At that time, the problem of civilization standing still will basically be broken.

However, he is a newcomer after all, and Martin, the tax collector, cannot remember the information carefully, and there are many big things to be understood.

So the Red Flag Revolution is just an intention. If it turns out to be inappropriate, or if it requires him to pay too much, it will seriously delay the development of the First Order, and may even cause him to be exposed, then he would rather choose to follow the trend or make a fortune in silence. Instead of fighting for the cause of liberation of the broad masses of the ship island world.

After all, he just wants to play, make trouble, pretend to be aggressive, and want to be remembered by the history of a civilization, not because of how much he loves the intelligent creatures in this world.

Now, suddenly the situation has changed.

The old ruler Cthulhu suddenly jumped out.

This element can definitely be regarded as thick and colorful. The history of civilization and the pattern of the world that were originally thought to be relatively clear have suddenly fallen into the fog again.

It's hard to say that the ship island civilization must not be a playful work of the old rulers.

Perhaps Cthulhu deliberately made a villain in order to sharpen his own family?

Perhaps the origin of the sea people may have some connection with the deep divers.

So he unconsciously faded away from the Red Flag Revolution, but his curiosity about the mysterious background of this world suddenly increased a lot.

After all, Cthulhu is neither orderly nor kind. He must have a purpose to do things here.

There are very, very few things that can be seen by the Old Ones, especially the well-known high-ranking gods like Cthulhu.

It can even be said that what Cthulhu values ​​is basically equally valuable to him, and even more attractive.

For example, cosmic treasures like infinite gems that can shorten the accumulation cycle. The biggest gap between him and the Old Ones, especially the old ones, is his lack of background.

So if it is really a treasure that can shorten the accumulation cycle, it is just icing on the cake for Cthulhu, and it is a timely gift for him.

So it is natural to fall into the thinking mode of "if it is really a good thing, let's see if we can win the love with a knife".

The first step, of course, is to understand the secrets of this world that are unknown to ordinary people.

Originally, he planned to play the trick of picking melons from the vine, first to meet his boss, a certain tax official, in Martin's appearance, and then to meet the governor, or the captain, as that tax official.

The governor is the biggest official on the island. Although he can't actually be a dictator, he also has huge political power.

He believed that if he could replace them, and supplemented by a series of coercion methods, he would basically be able to change the upper class of the island without bloodshed.

Then it's just wanton.

Given the poor living standards and aspirations of the people at the bottom of the Sea Spear, it's really not difficult to appease them.

On the contrary, we need to consider not to give too much at one time, and not to make it too easy, so as not to cause bad things like "Sheng Mi En, Dou Mi Qiu".

As for why it is necessary to feed some people.

In addition to satisfying the human (social) needs of the self, there are also divine needs.

The latter was only understood after he integrated the inheritance knowledge of the old rulers. Although it was not thorough enough, he also had a rough idea of ​​why.

The interaction between primitive gods and intelligent life represented by humans also has appeals in it.

The great goal of the primordial gods is detachment.

It is a very representative step to be detached from the universe that conceived it.

And want to do it. There are two concepts that cannot be avoided.

One, information.

Second, the elements.

In fact, to put it bluntly, many principles are interlinked. What he understands now, Kane himself understood many years ago.

One is the information supremacy pursued by Kane.

The second is the three strange substances that Kane has been striving for.

Life is the miracle of the universe, the treasure of other geniuses.

And intelligent life is a miracle in life.

Therefore, a saying can be deduced: intelligent life is the existence of bells and spirits in the universe, and it is easier for itself to absorb information and three strange substances.

This is also one of the main reasons why the Old Ones are so high-ranked that they have no friends, but they also support their families.

But as far as he knew, the Great Old One had never approached any intelligent race in any universe.

They are ancient and lonely multi-dimensional predators, and the meaning of their existence seems to be to end the entire multiverse.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that he is not very worried about encountering the old master himself (full body), especially the top ones in the god system.

And as long as it is not the deity, he will not be afraid. Even if you can't fight, you can escape.

However, any world where the old rulers intervene is always full of weird and deep secrets.

Take this universe as an example.

At first glance, it is extraordinary, because its composition is not a model of planets, stellar systems, nebulae, and star clusters, but astral worlds, main material planes, outer planes, inner planes, alien planes, etc. Wait.

However, what's interesting is that although it is an extraordinary world, the main material plane is a micro-magic environment.

You must know that in the crystal wall system of the extraordinary direction, although there are demon tides rising and falling, peaks and valleys, they will not last for too long. Most of the time belongs to the stable period of extraordinary power.

But this world is different. Humanoid civilization has been stuck in the steam age for thousands of years, and the extraordinary power has never been known to most people.

It can even be said that it is precisely because transcendence is not dominant, and humanoids cannot rely on gods or transcendence. In order to survive, steam technology has been pushed to a high level, and a bunch of dream-level steam and mechanical black technologies have been born.

And today he encountered a high-magic unit.

Lantern bearers, whether it is skin membranes or lanterns, are typical high-magic items.

The need for supernatural power these supernatural items make their presence in this world an untimely luxury.

He can use extraordinary power unscrupulously because he has the power of the evil god of the old ruler, and can switch between natural energy and extraordinary energy. At the end of the {Alien: Contract} world, he used the abundant electrical energy provided by the nuclear reactor to transform extraordinary energy and proliferate evil god cells. Now he is naturally becoming more and more clever.

Why is the lantern bearer?

By hugging the thigh.

So far, this is the most reliable guess.

Someone from Cthulhu's family is the reliance of the lantern bearer.

So where is this evil god surnamed Ke?

The main material plane of this crystal wall system is extraordinary and invisible, and even quasi-sanctuary level like Alzazi are blocked from the door. How did the evil god enter without being repelled?

Then a concept is associated and emerges, the inner world.

If this main material plane had an extraordinary inner world, then everything would make sense.

The two are like day and night, and the peak and trough of the magic tide are like dawn and dusk.

It is even possible that such a pattern in this world is due to the handwriting of that evil god.

After all, in the humanoid society of this world, there are still many legends about the era of destruction. Even today's ocean world was formed due to the catastrophe of the destruction of the era.

The mountain people are the descendants of the survivors of the last era.

Although in Martin's memory, there is no rigorous evidence to prove that the tsunami flooded the land, the civilization of the last era was very developed and extraordinary civilization, etc., but there are quite a lot of related rumors among the people, and a certain ship island pops up every now and then to dig the seabed Treasures, discovered city ruins and more.

In addition, some details are added, such as if they are not the survivors of the last era, how can they be called mountain people instead of island people?

With 3% of the world's total land area, even if there are mountains on some larger land areas, mountains are by no means the first feature, and islands are, so it is more accurate to call them islanders.

Conversely, if a tsunami occurred in the last era and only those living in places with high altitudes survived, then it would be appropriate for them to be called mountain people.

Of course, the era here is not a century, but a major event such as the rise and fall of civilization, similar to the Cambrian, Cretaceous, and so on.

In short, if there was a civilization before the current human-like civilization, and its survivors more or less inherited the legacy of the previous civilization, then many phenomena of the current human-like civilization would be easier to justify.

For example, the main race is mountain people, not sea people.

You must know that sea people are definitely more adaptable in this world where the ocean ratio is as high as 97%. They have gills, starting from the ankles to the feet, which are not the same as people. Simply put, they can be understood as having their own flippers. .

The sea dwellers, who have more survival advantages, are actually a lower-level race, relying on the island platform to survive. The most reasonable explanation he could think of was that the mountain people had considerable advantages before they lived together with the sea people. What exactly were the advantages? He feels that technology is more reliable.

For pure marine races, the technology tree of burning coal, boilers, and steam engines is not reliable at all.

Further deduction, seawater is highly corrosive to metals. As a pure marine race, materials such as coral, shells, chitin, and bones are the first choice for wide application.

Even going forward, whether the pure survivor race can learn to use fire is a very debatable question.

Even if there are volcanic eruptions on the bottom of the sea, it is rare to come into contact with open flames, so even if you observe the phenomenon, it is difficult to initiate the idea of ​​using it. Moreover, the difficulty of making fire in the sea is far greater than that of making fire on land.

In short, since the current technology has a lot of similarities with the technology system of the earth's human civilization, it means that the technology system created by the terrestrial intelligent race is the main body of the technology tree development.

And the sporadic islands scattered all over the ocean are not enough to give birth to a land civilization that completely escapes ignorance. Therefore, it is more reasonable to say that the land area was larger than it is now in a few epochs, and there were other civilizations before.

And this theory coupled with the relevant legends of Cthulhu (once the star position is correct, Cthulhu and the city of Raliyah surface together, human beings will perish), the current pattern of the world has a self-consistent statement.

In other words, this world is likely to be a villa world of the evil god Ke surnamed?

Zhao Wenrui, who came to this conclusion, felt that he should be more careful...