Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 756 The People of Yousi

"Hongye, do you know what this is?"

Without looking back, Zhou Yu could roughly imagine Hongye's expression at the moment.Since getting to know each other, that preoccupied feeling of depression has been entangled in Hongye.

"I'm not sure, but I've heard of similar cases."

Hongye walked up to him, easily inserted her hand into the wall, and grabbed a handful of red-glowing soil.

"...Sure enough. This is Sang Lian's 'method'."

"Will it turn cement into dirt?"

"Well, as long as it is a concept related to land, it will become the most widely recognized soil. However, this is not the ultimate goal."

Under Zhou Yu's gaze, she picked up a bit of soil with her fingers and put it in her mouth, and ate it with an indecipherable expression.

"... How? Do you think it's delicious?"

"Honestly, it's pretty much the same as your cooking."

Knowing that this sentence was not a compliment to herself, Zhou Yu simply pretended not to hear it, and still stared at Hongye waiting for an explanation.

"Zhou Yu, let me tell you a story. I heard it from a friend of mine."

Hongye let go of her hand, watching the soil pouring down from between her fingers little by little.

"In a certain place, there once was a... monk. When he was born, it was winter, but all the ice in the river melted. In one night, the water surface was covered with white lotus flowers. The villagers were all amazed when they saw it. When he was five years old, he was more knowledgeable in conversation and knowledge than adults, and his reputation as a child prodigy was well known. At the age of eight, he took the initiative to bid farewell to his parents and went to the temple on the mountain to practice. It is said that he met the elders for the first time, They questioned each other, and even asked several senior mages. The elders were also shocked, thinking that he was a reincarnated sage, so the host came forward to accept him as a disciple. Zhou Yu, this child is Sang Lian .”

Zhou Yu, who basically expected the answer, nodded.

"When Sang Lian was 16 years old, there was no one in the temple who could speak to him. After his reputation spread, many eminent monks who were good at debating came to visit him, and even simple masters of debating came to him for a test. They were all willing to bow down. The host saw that his reputation was getting stronger and stronger than before, so he directly handed over the host position to him.

"Is the host position just handed over to a 16-year-old child?"

"Well, it might not work if it's another child. Sang Lian is a special case. The reason is a long story. In short, Sang Lian is not a person who seeks fame, and his knowledge is indeed related to the things in his life. If it goes on like this, he probably He will die as an eminent monk. However, in the third year after he took over as the presiding officer, an unprecedented famine occurred in the world."

When he heard this, although he was used to Hongye's occasional classical words, Zhou Yu still felt a little strange.He asked, "The world?"

"Well, it's not just the place where Sang Lian lives. All over the world, regardless of race and ethnicity, as long as there are inhabited places, famines have occurred in all of them."

Zhou Yu fell silent for a moment.

This is not to say that he hadn't noticed it before, but because it had nothing to do with his own affairs, he deliberately ignored the contradiction.

Whether it's Hongye or Osir, the stories they tell don't seem to come from a foreign country, or even from a past era, it's purely like telling another world.

If Osir's story can be explained by his ignorance of Western culture, then the story of Sang Lian that Hongye said at this moment undoubtedly does not exist in the world he knows.No matter how poor his historical knowledge is, he still knows that in the history of human civilization, there has never been a famine that covered the entire continent, or even the entire continent of the planet, as Hongye said.

"That kind of thing is impossible, right? Even if it is a famine caused by natural disasters, it is impossible to affect all regions."

"Zhou Yu, no. If it is a conventional disaster, such as drought and locusts, then there is still some way to do it. But, Zhou Yu, the era and place of Sang Lian are completely different from yours. What is there? What I encountered was the disaster of "territorial extinction". No matter how hard I tried to cultivate, irrigate, and fertilize, I could no longer grow new seedlings. Because the leylines there were dead, and the soil became meaningless and pure. Entity', its function as a breeding ground for life has also been lost."

Hearing such a description, Zhou Yu was dumbfounded.He thought for a while before saying: "Is it a change in soil quality? Like global desertification?"

"Does desertification mean that soil turns into sand? Although the consequences are a bit similar, 'diextinction' is a completely different phenomenon. The soil where extinction occurs cannot be distinguished from the outside, and the water cycle will not be affected. Rain Snow, frost, and fog are almost completely normal. The best way to quickly identify the soil where the "terrestrial extinction" occurs is whether there are living vermicomposts under the soil. When the "earth extinction" occurs, no living things can live in the soil. "

"Can't even earthworms survive? It's a creature that feeds on soil, right?"

"Zhou Yu, you didn't listen carefully to what I said earlier. I have already said that the soil there has no other meaning except as a concept of 'entity'. That is to say, it is used for stepping, filling holes, etc. For simple purposes, it will no longer have any function of cultivating creatures. So you should be able to understand, right?"

"Understood. This is to exterminate the entire biological world, right?"

Hongye smiled bitterly.

"You're right to say that. Those who created this phenomenon did use it as their goal."

"—Wait, you mean, it's man-made?"

"Well...Although there are also occasional 'terrestrial extinctions' that are naturally formed. But the phenomenon of 'terrestrial extinction' that covers the entire continent that Sang Lian encountered was indeed deliberately created by someone. Those people came from a place called Wuyuanxing ...There is no need to elaborate on these. In short, the great famine at that time almost killed the people. After eating up the other animals that survived, the remaining people were forced to drift to the sea and live off fish and turtles. That would not be possible For a long time, most people died of blood loss. As for the area where Sang Lian lives, because it is deep in the inland mountains, there is no time to escape to the sea, they... can only wait to die."

At the end, there was a subtle pause in Hongye's words.Even though she didn't say it clearly, Zhou Yu probably knew what she had to say.

Now that Luzhong has become a barren land, it is not difficult to figure out what is the most readily available "food".

Regardless of geography or ethnicity, this is the case in almost any period of severe famine.

"It was at such a time that Sanglian asked everyone to come to the mountain where the temple was. Because of his fame, the neighbors obeyed him. Then, one night, the whole mountain glowed red. Sang Lian claimed that the whole mountain has entered the pure Dharma Realm, and the pure land in the mountain can satisfy hunger. After the believers ate it, they did not get sick from the accumulation of soil in their stomachs. Since then, people have lived in the belly of the mountain, living in caves, and Soil feeds... Zhou Yu, what's wrong? Do you have any doubts about what I just said?"

Zhou Yu shook his head and restrained the expression on his face.

"...It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly feel that someone is very suspicious. You can continue talking first."

"Well. After that, the villagers lived in secluded mountains, because there were clear springs underground for drinking, and they seldom went out of their caves. In this way, the three generations, the survivors see the night as the day, their skin grows soft scales, and their voice is as soft as a snake. Hiss. It was not until Sang Lian in the mountain temple sent a message that the "territorial land" was gone, and the grass and trees sprouted again, and the cave dwellers came out of the mountain again. All the people resumed farming outside the mountain for a year, and the strange scales on their bodies faded, and they returned to normal. During the autumn harvest, the red light in the mountain suddenly disappeared, and the land was no longer edible. The villagers went up the mountain to thank the monks and Sang Lian, only to realize that the temple had been deserted for a long time. Rhinoceros, wearing cassocks. So it is said that Sang Lian is a mountain spirit who cuts meat to feed the people. Although the folks are ignorant and fabricated rumors, Zhou Yu and Sang Lian died to save lives. This is absolutely true. of."

(End of this chapter)