Chapter 640: The Regression of Civilization
"Miss Heshia, do you know about the regression of civilization?"
In the winter house, the firewood in the fireplace burned quietly, and the tin teapot hanging above it kept emitting bubbles, the liquid inside was churning, and a little fragrance was dissipated with the water vapor.
"Regression?" The girl seemed to have heard of this word in psychology.
"Yes, it means that civilization abandons its original advanced lifestyle and turns to survive in a primitive way." Sigmund stood up, took off the hot teapot, and then poured boiling hot water into the teacups in front of the two people.
Putting the teapot on the iron stool beside him, he sat down again and told what happened on this planet.
"To the east of this land, there are many wild people living. Their number far exceeds the settlements and tribes around the Stone Forest Fort."
"You should be curious about where those wild people came from."
"Indeed." The girl nodded.
"The ancestors of those savages, like us, were a new race on this planet."
"Why do they look completely different from us now, even like another race? This has a lot to do with their living habits."
"As we all know, there are only a few places on this planet that are not polluted, and safe food is the best hard currency. So what will happen if a group of people eat polluted food for a long time?" He picked up the teacup and turned it slowly in his palm.
"Mutation, disease, short life, decreased intelligence." Tilan recalled the various research reports on the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region.
"Yes, these will happen in the early stages and cause panic within the tribe."
"However, the problems you described are not unacceptable to animals."
"The lifespan of rabbits is far shorter than that of humans. Even if it is only 10 years, many will not live to adulthood. As for disease, it is a luxurious way to die in the face of hunger and various natural enemies."
"For intelligent creatures, the most frightening thing is to lose wisdom and become stupid and foolish creatures. This deprivation of intellect is equivalent to completely distorting the individual's cognition and rationality."
"However, for a person who has lost his wisdom, he cannot feel this kind of pain and discomfort because of his stupidity. At this time, instinct begins to take over the body, and the so-called happiness becomes simple and direct."
"Many natural plants and foods are polluted and poisonous. As intelligent beings, we will instinctively avoid them, but those savages have been completely distorted and regressed, so naturally they will not have such rational troubles."
"Death is nothing. They give birth to several children at a time. Mutation is okay. No one cares about becoming ugly. As long as they can survive and find food, it's fine. As for premature death, it's even more common and they don't feel anything. It's okay if one out of 10 children survives. Anyway, the other children who die early will become food. This is the same as raising chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep as reserve food." Sigmund said some cruel facts in a flat tone.
"Living is to find food, then mate, and then find food again, and reproduce. This is all their life."
"They don't have much wisdom. Most of them are even very dull. They don't have a higher IQ than cats and dogs. Fortunately, the opponents they face are even more stupid and stupid. Those animals that pollute the earth are also corroded by various poisons. Their reactions are slow, like zombies."
"Gnawing on the numb and bitter roots of plants, eating sour and rotten flesh, drinking in muddy water full of mud maggots, and not letting go of the corpses of their own kind. This is the life of those savages in the eastern wilderness." Sigmund drank the slightly cooled tea.
"Originally, as descendants of a new race, they also had talents and abilities far beyond those of the old humans. However, with the chaotic interweaving of their bloodline genes, as well as the damage caused by various mutations, they have lost many of the abilities they should have, and even began to grow thick body hair, and their skin became darker."
"Without clothes to wear, thick body hair is helpful for keeping warm and surviving the cold winter. They don't know where to hide from the scorching sun, and the secretion of melanin can resist ultraviolet rays, so their skin becomes darker."
"So, after just a few hundred years and countless screenings, their characteristics began to deviate greatly from those of normal humans."
"The advantage of this is that when we conflict with them, we can kill these former counterparts with less psychological burden."
"Every winter, or after a few years of heavy rain, when the land they live on can no longer support a large population, these savages will try to migrate and spread to the surrounding areas. This is often when conflicts and battles break out." "
In previous years, savages would occasionally attack nearby settlements, but because they had no intelligence, these guys were easy to deal with. A little trap, or more directly poisoning, could get rid of a large number of these savages."
"Occasionally, when the kind of savages that are stronger and have a certain degree of intelligence appear, they will cause greater trouble. However, as long as these leaders are killed, they will become loose sand that will shatter at the touch." "
For hundreds of years, there have been minor troubles, but we have mostly gotten through it peacefully."
"However, this time, the fall of our stronghold in the east shows that although a large number of savages were involved in the process, the commanders were definitely intelligent humans, because they knew how to use guns, use fire, and know how to silence people and move away all food."
"I don't know how they controlled those savages, but this is by no means a good sign. If this method can be replicated and spread, it means that those once harmless savages in the eastern region will become the enemy of the ethnic groups living in this land."
"Either our settlements and strongholds are destroyed by them, and then we also degenerate and regress, or we do our best to wipe out the savages in the wilderness and no longer live in peace as in the past."
"Can't we just kill the culprit?" The girl thought for a while.
"That's a lot of luck. When we kill him, this method and technology have not spread or circulated at all."
"As long as one person secretly writes it down and spreads it, this method of driving the savages will sooner or later be used by various ambitious people to repeatedly recruit these savages to fight and participate in the struggle."
"Instead of being forced to kill at that time, it is better to take action in advance to reduce the risk of crisis."
"This is not because we are cruel, but the struggle between races is a life-and-death struggle. If the winner is the other side, they will do similar things." Sigmund knew the girl's character, so he explained in advance.
"I know." The girl looked at the amber tea in the cup, feeling a lot of emotion in her heart, because that was what the Federation did back then.
The war between the new races and the native humans was already a life-and-death struggle at that time, and there was no room for peace talks.
This is such a beautiful, cruel and indifferent world.
(End of this chapter)
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