Meng Chao carefully looked through the photos at hand and remained silent for a long time.

Ye Xiaoxing continued: "According to our several years of observation, the new generation of Longwang Town residents have the following characteristics. First, they are all male, or they are biased towards males. In fact, due to the use of asexual reproduction, the concept of gender has changed.

In Dragon King Town, it has disappeared for a long time."

"etc--"

Meng Chao frowned and said, "Even if all the women who traveled from the earth were killed, the ratio of men to women in the new generation born in the other world should be relatively balanced. The so-called asexual reproduction lasts for one generation at most. How could they all be men?"

"As smart as you are, you will surely guess that the 'sacred tree' will not give humans the opportunity to reproduce independently. Otherwise, why would it live in symbiosis with humans?"

Ye Xiaoxing said, "We don't know whether the 'Shenmu' uses genetic modification or some other method. In short, it controls the gender of the new generation of humans, ensuring that humans lose the concept of gender and reproductive skills, and can only rely on it to continue genes.

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"Similarly, through genetic modification, Shenmu has engraved a large amount of mechanical and civil engineering knowledge into the genes of a new generation of humans, allowing humans to acquire a large amount of knowledge and skills without learning, and become excellent workers and warriors.

"The disadvantage of doing this is that they know it but don't know why. The new generation of humans has lost their creativity. The so-called skills are just simple imitations of their parents and ancestors, and they don't know the principles at all. Of course, for them, they can use simple skills.

Mechanical and civil engineering skills are sufficient.

"Third, the new generation of humans has also lost the ability to directly digest food. After they hunt monsters, they will chop them into pieces and send them to the roots of the 'sacred trees', allowing the sacred trees to enjoy the fattest parts of the monsters first, and then the sacred trees will

Secreting a substance similar to nutrient solution, the new generation of humans rely on sucking the juice of the sacred tree to maintain life.

"Over time, the digestive systems of the new generation of humans have also mutated and become very fragile. They cannot digest anything except the juice of the sacred tree. In this photo, you can clearly see the mouths of the new generation of humans, yes.

, their teeth have deteriorated so much that they have almost lost their ability to chew.

"Naturally, the new generation of humans worship the sacred tree very much and regard the sacred tree as the mother of life. The entire civilization - if their small world can really be called a civilization, is centered around the sacred tree. After the genetic modification of the sacred tree,

They have long forgotten the glory of the earth age, their identity as 'earth people', and wholeheartedly regard themselves as the people of the sacred tree. The sacred tree is their queen ant, their master, and their god.

"Classmate Meng Chao, do you think such residents of Dragon King Town can still be considered real human beings, our compatriots?"

Meng Chao was speechless.

He pointed to a photo and asked: "What are these people doing, peeing?"

In the photo, a row of Longwang Town residents stood in front of the "sacred tree" with their backs to the camera, unbuttoning their crotch cloths, as if they were peeing.

Ye Xiaoxing was silent for a moment, slowly shook his head and said, "No."

Lu Siya coughed lightly beside her.

Meng Chao turned to look at Lu Siya.

Lu Siya also looked at him expressionlessly.

Meng Chao understood instantly.

What a distortion of human nature and moral decay!

"What is this?"

Meng Chao pointed to another photo.

In the photo, it seems to be a funeral in Dragon King Town.

A resident of Longwang Town died, and other townspeople dug a shallow pit next to the roots of the "sacred tree" and placed him among the crisscrossing roots.

It seems that the sacred tree must be allowed to completely digest and absorb his body.

In a space shrouded in fog and with limited resources, in order to survive, corpses are also precious resources and cannot be wasted.

Meng Chao can understand and accept this funeral custom.

What he couldn't understand was why the deceased's body was covered with a large poster that looked like a very cute anime girl?

Judging from the bright colors of the poster, it cannot be a product before time travel, but it was just printed.

That is to say, until decades later, the entire Dragon King Town has become unrecognizable. The new generation of humans has forgotten most of the glory of earth civilization, but still has the ability to print large posters, and the printed content is still a two-dimensional animation.

A very cute girl in the world?

This is too weird!

"The new generation of Longwang Town residents have unique beliefs and customs."

Ye Xiaoxing explained, "Because their world was almost destroyed by women, they all have an attitude of hatred and fear towards women in the real world. In order to prevent new women from appearing, the 'Shenmu' also removed them from their genetic level in order to prevent new women from appearing."

, intensifying this hatred and fear.

"'Women are all demons', this is the spiritual imprint deep in the minds of all the new generation residents of Longwang Town.

"But after all, human beings' desire for the opposite sex cannot be completely covered by any spiritual imprint.

"Besides, in order to maintain a certain level of combat effectiveness for humans and help them hunt more monsters, Shenmu also needs to maintain the androgens of the new generation of humans at a relatively high level, so it is inevitable that some people will have wild ideas.

"It just so happens that Longwang Town, which originally had several mechanical and civil engineering schools, has many science and engineering students who like girls in the two-dimensional world.

"Women in reality are witches and demons, which will cause men to kill each other and lead to the destruction of Dragon King Town; but girls in the two-dimensional world are different. They are gentle, cute and completely harmless.

"Of course, the painting styles of the real world and the anime world are so different. Even if you are mentally imprinted by Shenmu, you can still see that the two-dimensional world is fake.

“But what humans are best at is deceiving themselves and others, especially when living in such a desperate world, girls in the two-dimensional world have become the only solace for the new generation of humans.

"In the unique world view of the new generation of humans, the two-dimensional world is paradise.

"As long as you fight bravely for the 'Shenmu' and hunt more monsters, you can enter the two-dimensional world after death and hug countless anime female characters... That's pretty much what it means, right?

"In today's Dragon King Town, various two-dimensional derivatives, such as posters, and lifelike dolls, are almost the only spiritual sustenance and entertainment products for the new generation of humans."

"I understand, Team Leader Ye, I agree with you. These guys are definitely not the same kind of human beings as us."

Meng Chao frowned deeply, "How come Longcheng just watched Longwang Town degenerate to this level and just sat idly by? We should save all these compatriots from the evil rule of the 'Shenmu'!"

"How to save?"

Ye Xiaoxing asked back, "On the one hand, Dragon King Town is too far away from Dragon City, and there are several mountains where monsters gather along the way, so there is no way for a large force to deploy.

"More importantly, the local humans have already established an unbreakable symbiotic relationship with the 'Sacred Tree'. Now, 100% of the residents in Dragon King Town were born from the 'Sacred Tree'. If Dragon City really sends strong people, go directly to

If we destroy the 'sacred tree', do you think they will fight us tooth and nail?

“Also, don’t forget what I just said, the digestive system of local humans is very fragile and cannot digest anything except the juice of the ‘sacred tree’.

"We are quite suspicious that the juice secreted by the 'Sacred Tree' contains mysterious ingredients that we don't know. It cannot be replaced by any high-energy nutrient solution. If we directly destroy the 'Sacred Tree', all the townspeople might starve to death.

"Even if they did not starve to death, they have lived in that environment for too long. Their culture, morals, customs and even spirit and beliefs are all shaped around the 'sacred tree'. Simply and crudely destroying the 'sacred tree' will only

It will cause their spiritual world to completely collapse and fall into pain that is worse than death. Can this be considered a real 'salvation'?

"Whether we are willing to admit it or not, when Dragon King Town was almost destroyed, it was the arrival of the 'Sacred Tree' that saved the surviving humans.

"Regardless of whether its original intention was to find a group of qualified 'soldier bees' and 'worker ants' for itself, at least it did help Dragon King Town continue human civilization, albeit in a very deformed and twisted way.

"Without the 'sacred tree', Longwang Town would have been destroyed decades ago, by the hands of humans themselves.

"From this perspective, it may not be appropriate to simply and crudely define the 'sacred tree' as an enemy - especially when we already have so many enemies."

Meng Chao thought about it carefully and had to admit that Ye Xiaoxing's words made sense.

If survival is regarded as the first need of civilization, the "sacred tree" at least helped Longwang Town survive.

For decades, it has protected humans from wind and rain, allowed them to thrive, and protected humans from monster attacks, providing raw materials and methods for passing down wisdom.

Rudely destroying the "sacred tree" will only lead to the collapse of Dragon King Town. Maybe all the townspeople will be buried with the "sacred tree".

Although Meng Chao feels that the current Dragon King Town is very deformed and twisted, this does not seem to be a reason for complete destruction. The new generation of Dragon King Town residents are not the murderers who killed each other in the past, and they are not guilty of loving the second dimension!

"What is Longcheng planning to do with Dragon King Town now?" Meng Chao asked.

"For the time being, we can only observe from a distance."

Ye Xiaoxing said, "Let's wait until we have completely digested and absorbed the results of the northern offensive, steadily expanded Dragon City's territory, and raised our technology and combat effectiveness to a new level before we can properly resolve it.

"Fortunately, the 'Shenmu' is not a very aggressive alien creature with the desire to expand. It is entrenched in Longwang Town and can control a corner of the mountain. It is satisfied. And from our long-term observation, it is also

It is not found that the 'sacred tree' has wisdom and consciousness, it only has instincts similar to the queen ant and the queen bee.

"But not all alien creatures are like 'sacred trees'.

"Many high-level monsters possess extremely strong aggressiveness and excellent intelligence, which is at least the basis for super intelligence.

"Think about it, if there is another satellite town similar to Dragon King Town, and soon after crossing over, it falls into the hands of this more aggressive and highly intelligent monster, and even forms a symbiotic relationship with the highly intelligent monster in order to survive.
Chapter completed!