["On the thirty-seventh day of the journey, the Holy Order's supplies are running low, but we still have no sign of the next torch..."
"...Akel mutated. Right before my eyes, he twisted into a lump of meat in an instant, and was then shot to death by the Lord Knight...Is it because of food? Yes
There is not enough 'illumination', it is still simple, I have lost my determination to continue going..."
"...Great, we finally found the promised land in the ancient books. We got clean water. There are only a few low-level demons outside, which are not too difficult to deal with. The most important thing is,
It was we who found the 'torch', ah, what a perfect light. I had a good sleep last night, and I actually had a dream... But when I thought of going back and walking the painful road again, I
......."
"The leader of the knights has said that this will be our new territory in the future, and he will be our new lord. Although everyone is a little hesitant, no one objects...or, everyone is looking forward to it.
..."]
Lu Pingping put down the notebook in his hand. The "Sphinx's buff" was very effective, and he successfully copied two and a half hours of pollution knowledge.
At this time, he was reading at night.
He did not leave the "factory" and stayed directly in a local hotel.
And his desk was already filled with a pile of tattered second-hand books and second-hand notes. If observed with spiritual vision, they would all be more or less contaminated.
This was what he gained from shopping during the day. With the "comprehension" BUFF, he naturally used it to improve his scholar professional ability. Those two LV7s were always the super threshold that stuck in his advancement.
Since he was aiming to improve his "reading and writing" skills, the books he selected were naturally rather special...or, in other words, highly cost-effective.
"I never expected that such pollution-intensive but cheap books could actually be otherworld books and travel notes..."
If you think about it carefully, it is natural. "Travel notes", "geography of other worlds", etc., sound interesting and interesting to read... At least Lu Ping'an was really fascinated by it.
But they are meaningless.
The content it contains may be precious knowledge for other worlds, or the secrets of a certain god or a certain period of history, but for the native Earthling Lu Ping'an, it is also a very interesting novel...
...Although the protagonists are basically real people, and few of them lived to finish the book.
Maybe you may use it when traveling long distances, but you don't know how many zeros after the decimal point the possibility is.
A pile of books with equal amounts of knowledge and other contamination are only a few tenths of the price of other "useful books". Most of them are second-hand copies, copied copies, or incomplete copies, which further reduces their practical value.
After all, incomplete and copied means that the knowledge is incomplete and not original, and incomplete or tampered with "knowledge" is an unexploded mine that may kill the reader at any time.
The bookstore owner was so happy when he saw Lu Ping'an "practicing his skills" and picking up a bunch of unsaleable items.
But on the other hand, Lu Ping'an didn't feel that he had suffered a loss at all.
"...It is indeed a silver-level consumable buff, it is really powerful."
The elf didn't lie, but he didn't tell everything either. Obtaining this BUFF is not easy. The other side of its power is high risk.
It is true that you will only lose your arm if you fail for the first time, but the pain and fear will immediately bring about the second quiz game. The second failure will be your head, and if there is a third time, it will be your heart...
..Send you off to the west directly at the rule level.
This was a seemingly harmless gamble, but since Lu Pingping won, he naturally gained a lot.
Lu Ping An has never been exposed to the silver-level BUFF, plus the two limitations of short-term consumption and passive type to increase the effect. If Lu Ping An's "understanding" is helped in the short term, I will not be tired from reading these books, even
Even the language of other worlds has increased a lot... What troubled him most before was actually the interestingness of the books.
Now seeing the "protagonists" dying one after another, he can't stop.
But are these things really meaningless? That's not necessarily the case. What Lu Pingan saw in it was a completely different world view, or in other words, a bold idea.
"Perhaps our current civilized society is not the only choice..."
The world of the translation copy that Lu Ping'an has now obtained is quite subtle.
Humans, or creatures similar to humans who can write books, live like pets or even insects... The wilderness is extremely dangerous. There are all kinds of monsters and even evil gods everywhere. If a person walks alone in the wilderness, how many people can live in it?
The Queen of Heaven has basically mutated.
A large number of fortress cities have become gathering points for human beings. The "torch" of order has dispelled the surrounding darkness and also limited the upper limit of the population of the towns. Even though technological innovation in some places has surpassed the earth, feudalism and theocracy are still the dominant forces in society.
The mainstream, slavery has even become a kind of redemption in some areas.
"Haha, if the situation in our world deteriorates again, will it return to this city-state era?"
Lu Ping An This is not an unfounded fantasy. Among the recent series of reforms, there is a "relocation of small and medium-sized villages and towns with sparse populations to medium and large cities", which is to reduce the cost of maintaining social stability.
I have to admit that these messy transcripts from different worlds have greatly expanded Lu Ping'an's horizons and made him think about his future.
【"The new source is not far away, not far away!"
"The first batch of seeds was only two hundred, but two survived! Their mutation...its strength has reached the level of a 'unicorn monster', which is great. When they grow up, we can go
Grab another source..."
"...We need to eat more and mutate more to ensure the advantage of our race, those damn flying beasts..."]
The worldview mentioned in this fragment is exactly the opposite of the previous two.
The main races in the previous world actively avoided pollution and uncontrollable mutations, thereby increasing the number of ethnic groups.
As for the "calligrapher" race in the latter world, they are not the only intelligent and civilized race in their world, they are just members of a huge competitive race.
In their world, the "pollution source" has become a resource. Allowing the tribesmen to mutate more and possess special abilities is the tribe's advantage in competing for living space and resources.
Turn into a monster? Who cares, if it is too late, it will become the food of other ethnic groups.
As for most mutant species losing their rationality or even losing their body? This has become a price that the world must pay. Their tolerance for the "weird shapes" of their fellow species is surprisingly high, and they even regard it as a kind of beauty and fashion.
Various intelligent races are competing crazily, competing to see who becomes crazier, who can eat more "pollution" upstream in the food chain, and obtain more "total pollution proportion"... This number is used to
Ensure the overall strength of the ethnic group and its overall advantage in the competition for survival.
It is worth mentioning that if Lu Ping'an made no miscalculation, considering the mutation speeds of both sides, the "pollution levels" of the two worlds are actually about the same.
Lu Ping'an silently covered his face with the book, and "written" both broke through the lv6 system prompts, allowing him to calm down and think calmly...
"These two worlds should be the world with "high pollution level". The earth fifty years ago was "low pollution level", and now it should be "medium pollution level"..."
If we use an easy-to-understand analogy, the pollution levels between worlds can be seen as similar to the difference between "deep water areas" and "shallow water areas".
As a result of the "Great Call", a world with low pollution levels entered a "moderate pollution zone", which has also led to a series of changes now.
Lu Ping'an was a little fascinated by the completely different attitudes and systems in each world. He understood a little about those "traveling dogs" running around with nothing to do.
But among these "stories", what he cares more about is the existence of "god" and "profession".
From beginning to end, he did not see the Almighty in the biblical story, only special and powerful existences, a super source of pollution at a high point, and the power derived from him.
The superpower system is similar to the human occupation system, which is more or less similar in other worlds. There are "occupations" in many worlds, but none are exactly the same.
Imitation, marking the path of a certain high-end creature, engraving, copying the evolutionary path of its growth path, can be regarded as one of the common ideas in dealing with pollution in all major worlds.
Some are fast, some are slow, some are stable, some are betting on dogs... Lu Ping'an asked the big cats, there are even professions unique to humans that transform into other worlds.
And among many systems, the human career system is growing slowly but more stably, unlike some systems where you have to gamble your life every time you upgrade.
He also guessed that these power systems are also directly linked to the pollution level of the world.
In the past, humans could not produce great gods, perhaps just because the level of pollution was not high enough... Those who competed for the "proportion of world pollution", there were only a few powerful races that looked the same, which left a deep impression on Lu Ping'an.
Thinking, pondering, and calculating, Lu Pingan continued to read at night.
"Some plans may need to be rearranged. Since order may not be eternal, I may be too conservative..."