Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 641 Active Adaptation
Perfect made no comment on anything she saw in Vosde, she just seemed to be watching.

Regarding the problems shown by Vosde, or the areas that were inconsistent with some of the current requirements of the North, Perfect did not directly criticize them, but kept his mouth shut and watched with his eyes.

At most she asked for some details, other than that she didn't make any comments.

At first, Perfect was indeed dissatisfied with some of the situations in Vosde.

But after taking a complete look at it, her original dissatisfaction disappeared as she gained a deeper understanding.

On the contrary, Perfect was quite curious about Vosde's current situation, and was surprised that they could do some things better than she had originally planned.

Although the whole town is shrouded in a traditional style that looks a bit rough, the locals have actually adapted to this lifestyle. While preserving traditions, they are also trying their best to adapt to the changes brought about by the cold.

The Grizzlies did play a big role in this process.

Their shamans use ancient witchcraft for divination and prophecy. Although it is not very accurate, they can roughly know where there are prey and when there will be bad weather.

This is a relatively simple but very practical prophecy spell.

Compared to the imperial astrologers' painstaking efforts to predict the future, the shamans' divination was simple and practical.

After all, given the current context of the times, if you want to do something like weather forecasting, you can only rely on these shamans or astrologers.

However, the empire's astrologers usually only let their apprentices predict the weather, while they themselves focus on more important subjects.

There is nothing to criticize about the astrologers on this point. They are different from those high-minded but incompetent people in the Magic Association. At least these astrologers really have the ability to predict the future and are constantly paying attention to the important future.

However, for ordinary people in the North, predicting weather and harvest is indeed a very practical thing.

After having relatively clear guidance on the weather and distribution of beasts, it is time for the ancestral warriors and hunters of the Grizzli Tribe to take the stage.

With the help of the shaman, they are trying to adapt to this cold winter with their own physical strength, that is, using their flesh to withstand the extreme cold.

Some people even suggested that survival of the fittest is the law and iron rule of nature, and humans should also join in it instead of relying on IQ to "cheat".

Perfect felt that this part was a bit ridiculous, even though the evidence provided by the other party was that the child had undergone a certain degree of mutation or adaptive evolution.

When Perfect met the child, he found that his intellectual development was no different from that of ordinary people.

But his body is relatively taller and stronger, with thick body hair and a pair of slightly protruding canine teeth.

From a scientific point of view, this should be called atavism, which refers to the situation in which, in extremely rare or special cases, human genes mutate and restore some characteristics that have degenerated or been eliminated in the process of life evolution.

It is wrong to say that this is a kind of evolution of life, or that life has changed to adapt to the changing climate. However, as a kind of life, humans do instinctively follow the laws of nature and evolve their life forms in a direction that is more adapted to the natural environment.

This kind of evolution is neither good nor bad; it is just a change made by life in the process of adapting to the environment.

Just like people living in high latitudes have whiter skin, higher body fat percentage, thicker body hair and higher nose bridges, these characteristics do not distinguish the superiority or inferiority of races, but are simply changes made to adapt to the cold environment.

The white skin is because it receives less sunlight, the thick hair is to keep out the cold, and the high nose bridge is to have a longer breathing passage when breathing, allowing the inhaled air and the exhaled air to stay longer and reduce the heat lost through breathing.

People in low latitudes have darker skin, a body structure that is better suited to running, a flat nose and short curly hair, which are also changes they have made to adapt to the environment.

However, this evolution takes a long time, and may even require at least several generations of species reproduction to occur.

Even if the shamans of the Grizzly Tribe had some technology that could stimulate this process and make it happen much faster, Perfectot felt that it would not take just one or two generations to see significant changes, or even to evolve into another species.

However, this is also a way of thinking, so Perfect did not interfere with their practices. He just decided to send a research team to study the practices of the Grizzli Tribe Shamans, and then see if they can figure out their other side's technology.

Judging from the potions and witchcraft used by the shamans, this is somewhat similar to the method of human body transmutation.

However, compared with Perfecto's powerful alchemy that can bring about almost instantaneous changes, the shamans' witchcraft is relatively slow to take effect, but their witchcraft also consumes less energy.

"Potions, witchcraft, and then natural evolution through environmental stimulation?" Perfect recorded this information and she felt it gave her new inspiration.

Although this approach seems a bit "backward" and "barbaric", after a deeper understanding, Perfectoct feels that this is actually a very pragmatic approach.

Although this method of adapting to the environment is somewhat less efficient than building houses, shelters and energy towers, it is a supplement to the existing technological routes.

Reality is not a game. There is no either-or situation. Perfect can try both routes or even combine the two.

At least after seeing the techniques of the Grizzli Tribe Shamans, she already had corresponding ideas and could adjust and improve their techniques to make them more effective.

Even Perfect has extended more ideas from this, such as whether this technical route can be applied to other aspects.

For example, using this method to give birth to a more powerful warrior, allowing them to break through the bottleneck of extraordinary people more easily and grow into qualified warriors more quickly?

With Perfect's attainments in human body engineering, she can indeed do this.

It's just that she needs to make a detailed and rigorous design, rather than just deciding to do something on a whim.

(End of this chapter)