54. Insects and construction tools and behind the scenes
"The theory of evolution has hindered me, but it has also helped."
"At that time, it made me believe in progress, believe in the future, demand change and fight. This is good after all. Human thoughts are very complex, otherwise... Look, aren't there still monkeys now? Well
, and insects.”
"I understand that young people can also turn into monkeys and insects. This is something that happens later."
"Now I no longer mend people's boots, but I still have to do more. As long as I work hard, there will always be less chance of them turning into monkeys and insects, and it should be less."
——Shu Ren·Zhou, [Shencheng, 1930s, conversation with young friends]
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What do ants and humans have in common?
Answer: Not only are we both little experts in construction,
And they are all good at building 'huge' nests.
How huge is it?
The nest of a flying bird is about 2 to 6 times the size of the bird itself.
A beaver's dam is generally a hundred times the size of the beaver itself.
An ant's nest can reach 10,000 times the size of the worker ants themselves!
Oh, insects and monkeys cannot do this kind of thing.
There are two pragmatic strategies for building 'huge' buildings efficiently.
The first is to pile up the number of worker ants and increase the organization level so that the meaning of each worker ant's life is equivalent to "working for the group". From birth to death, it will never stop.
The second is to create and use tools, with foreign objects replacing the mortal body, so that the same energy can be transformed into more advantageous labor efficiency. Flesh and flesh are weak and weak, and machines soar.
What? Can you combine these two strategies into one?
Yes, I have,
[Shoggoth] is such a product.
Trivia: Shoggoths were originally construction tools!
According to the "Book of Ebon", the Shoggoths are creatures created by the Ancient Ones based on the cells of a certain 'god'.
The amorphous Shoggoth will transform into any shape according to the controller's instructions and can perform complex tasks.
The Ancient Ones controlled the Shoggoths and successfully built a magnificent underwater city.
But perhaps the building tools had a mind of their own too - their amorphous protoplasm capable of imitating any form, any organ, any growth process - clusters and bulging vesicles of sticky cells - flat spheroids fifteen feet in size, rich in
Elasticity, infinitely extendable - obedient slaves, builders of cities - becoming more and more violent, more and more intelligent, more and more adapted to amphibious life, and their ability to imitate becomes more and more superb - and then, one day
, the Shoggoths attacked the Ancient Ones.
Of course, depending on your butt, it can also be called the 'Great Rebellion', 'Omnic Crisis', 'Hanging Street Lamp', 'Ethnic Liberation', and other various terms.
All in all, shoggoths are extremely dangerous creatures.
Therefore, by the same token, it can be seen that the Xia Gai monsters have actually gotten away with it.
Will the villains’ farming endeavors be smooth sailing?
Things are so difficult,
Even if it is such a grand, high-level, and evil goal as "Destroy a civilization!"
Is there no setbacks?
Specifically, beneath the surface of a certain island (Shagai doesn't like sunlight), hundreds of years ago, there was a base for alien bugs.
After the starship crash-landed, they spent a hundred years dismantling the scrapped spacecraft, secretly abducting unfortunate mortals from various areas (mainly coastal fishing villages), and building [bases deep underground] and [all over the island]
underground tunnel].
(The underground tunnel transportation system extending in all directions is very practical - of course, for the Xagai monster)
But now, according to a certain civil devil's last trip to the dungeon, the secret base is "empty of insects." Only buildings, guard robots, and oil shoggoths can be seen, but there is no trace of alien insects.
According to the common routine of [Science Fiction],
If alien life forms abandon their base, that means they are out of luck, right?
Oh, I almost forgot, the category of this article is [Fantasy Novels], cough cough...
So, let’s sort out the timeline!
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Old Castle Calendar Year 666: A wandering starship of the Xagai Zerg chose to make an emergency landing on this planet.
Then these alien bugs began to secretly kidnap slaves, build bases, and 'farm' the villains, in order to plan to conquer the planet in the future and make the Xagai monsters great again.
Old Castle Calendar Year 452: A certain crazy chaotic fun-loving alchemist from another world traveled to this planet and started looking for fun everywhere.
In the year ??? of the Old Castle Calendar: She summoned Nyarlathotep, an incarnation of Naia, the evil god of chaos with the honorific titles of "God of Thousand Faces" and "God of Blame".
on this planet.
Then, she and Naia transformed themselves into having fun everywhere.
Old Castle Calendar Year 233: She discovered the Xagai Zerg hiding underground on a certain island, and signed a cooperation agreement with their high priest (the 'Supreme Chief' of the Xagai Monster) to support the Xagai Zerg's 'villain plan'
Provide certain technical support.
The old castle dates from minus 232 to minus 1: she is making "preparations", "preliminary work" and "digging holes everywhere" for future fun.
Old Castle Calendar Year 0: The feudal warlord chicken competition in Spain ended and the kingdom was established. The founding hero was the alchemist [François Plera Federesh] - he was the founding hero
During the war in all directions, Francois (or, in other words, the "ancestor" of the Federesh family) asked His Majesty the King for the southwest coastal area of the Kingdom as his own nobility when a member of the think tank was awarded land enfeoffment.
territory.
In the same year, the Order of Extraordinary Monks of the [Sin Eaters] faith was 'converted' and became the kingdom's state religion. It was renamed the [Holy Atonement] Church and received land enfeoffment rewards belonging to the church.
From Year 0 to Year 13 of the Old Castle Calendar: The ancestors of the Federesh family were carrying out "big construction" on the territory - under the orders of the feudal lord, they used manpower and material resources from the southwest coastal area of the kingdom to build on the island where the Xagai monster was hiding.
built a castle.
The small seaport town began to take shape, and at the same time, the ancestor of the family issued an order to prohibit the island's citizens and servants from entering the interior of the island at will.
Around 233 years of the Old Castle Calendar: The fourth generation lord of the family lost power in the palace struggle of the Kingdom of Spain because he was on the wrong team (the king joined forces with other great nobles to dismantle the Federesh family's power in the palace.
Influence and strength) - The territory along the southwest coast that originally belonged to Federesh was deprived, taken back and redistributed - only a certain island in the backcountry remained as the feudal territory of the family.
Year ??? of the Old Castle Calendar: The Xia Gai monster found itself out of luck (proving once again that biotechnology is very dangerous).
As a result, the temple was urgently sealed, all personnel evacuated from the base, and secretly ran away to other places - to clean up the situation first, and then make plans in the future.
From 416 to 419 in the Old Castle Calendar: The only son of the seventh-generation lord of the family, Misty Federesh (a rebellious young man) sneaked out of the island territory and lived in the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of France and Portugal with three other people.
An adventurer companion who is not a good guy, explores and pursues the ruins of the legendary [Underground Golden Kingdom].
Year 420 of the Old Castle Calendar: The 'Probably Not Good Guys' adventurer team (yes, the '-' is the team name!) ended their trip to the snowy mountains in the north of the Kingdom of France and Portugal. The treasure hunting team was officially disbanded, and the four of them went their separate ways.
thing.
Wuyue Federesh returned to the family territory, inherited the family business, and no longer ventured off the island.
From 446 to 447 in the Old Fort Calendar: The first 'Holy War' took place between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of France and Portugal - essentially an aggressive war launched by the Spanish feudal aristocratic circle - Wuyue Feidi
Lesh's eldest son, the original heir to the lordship, was killed in this year-long war of aggression.
Year 452 of the Old Castle Calendar: Wuyue Federesh died suddenly and suddenly, leaving the mess to the [ninth] generation feudal lord of the family.
Well, on Terra Blue Star, there is an ancient book from Huangxia that says: "Nine, the change of Yang."
New City Calendar Year 0: In response to the expectations of young people, Grand Duke Ad sent a certain earth-hearted devil who "had to choose the reformist route or else he would be destroyed by the will of the universe to destroy harmony" to the world where Insects lived, and let him start slowly.
Slowly demolish the old castle and build a new one.
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Hmm? Who is ‘her’ in the above timeline, you ask?
Let’s explain it this way,
Although the Xagai monsters and Shoggoths stand on the opposite side of mankind, they are natural [villain targets] and are out-and-out ‘non-my species’.
But we can still understand more or less based on logical thinking that the reason why monsters and shoggoths stand on the opposite side of human beings is because [the ethnic group pursues prosperity] - but the 'prosperity' of their ethnic group is not the same as the 'prosperity' of the human ethnic group.
'Contradictory development routes.
(In fact, the "prosperity" of the Shoggoths is a terrifying route that even the Xagai Zerg cannot withstand)
At least, humans can still understand to some extent why the Xagai monsters and Shoggoths survive.
However, there is an existence that is beyond the realm of human logical thinking.
Unable to understand, unable to empathize,
That is--
Crazy fun guy!
In the multiverse, [Order] and [Chaos] are two naturally opposing attributes. Of course, normally, diode-like extreme creatures do not exist. Whether it is the devil of the Nine Hells or the devil of the abyss,
It can only be said that they have a natural "[Order]/[Chaos] personality tendency", rather than a labeled "100% maintenance/breaking of rules".
Only Lezi people-those lunatics who make a living from [Lezi] can become pure diodes-yes, in the multiverse, there are two kinds of Lezi people.
One type is a crazy chaotic fun person who seeks pleasure from the chaos and freedom.
The other type is the crazy order-loving person who finds fun in rigid rules.
Crazy people are not necessarily fun people,
But people who play music must be crazy.
She - a crazy chaos fun-loving person, an S-class wanted criminal in the multiverse, a lover of depravity, the mastermind behind digging holes everywhere, the alchemist [Francesca Prelati] who is the collaborator of the Xagai monster.
To tell the truth, compared to diligent and honest people,
The fun people who cause wars everywhere are definitely a [major threat] to intelligent life.
For Lezi people, everything is a joke, life is meaningless, and joy is above all else.
For mortals, we will always have some bottom lines that cannot be crossed, and there will always be things that we love, cherish, empathize with, and regard as the meaning of life.
Further,
Even if she is a beautiful girl with purple hair and purple eyes, a height of 152cm and a weight of 38kg, a yandere foodie, a black and white gothic style alchemist,
It has always been an old enemy who is constantly opposed to the "protagonist".
Whether they are civil servants, devils or mortals, they all have their own meanings of existence and goals.
[Fight against the Lezi people and protect this world we cherish]——