Chapter 26: Craftsman’s Nightmare Li Shen Yao
What would happen if there were more than 100,000 people in a camp?
In fact, Luo Ming, Shi Qing and the other seven people could not imagine it at all.
But they are all leaders, each in charge of a camp of hundreds of people.
They know very well what a camp with a population of more than 100,000 means.
Massive amounts of food, extremely high security costs, countless cold beasts’ flesh and blood...
"No, how could more than 100,000 people find such a big cave?"
Shi Qing couldn't help but ask about his biggest confusion.
Human beings cannot see the light, and a hundred thousand people will always have to hide.
Can such a big cave be found?
Summer insects cannot talk about the ice, and well frogs cannot talk about the sea.
Yang Ning and Li Hu both thought of these two words and shook their heads slightly.
"Not all human beings can only live in the shadows. One day, if any of you are lucky enough to be qualified to enter Beishuo Town, you will know."
After Yang Ning finished speaking, he paused for a moment and then said to himself: "Of course, for you guys, this possibility is basically non-existent."
When Luo Ming, Shi Qing and the others heard these words, their expressions suddenly became much darker.
Compared with Shi Qing, Luo Ming actually understood Yang Ning's words better.
Camp Rogue is the only medium-sized campground around Redwood Ridge.
Almost all of the other eight camps had mentioned to him before that they wanted to be incorporated.
But he didn't dare to accept it at all, or rather he couldn't accept it.
Although he also understood that the more people in the camp, the better.
But the prerequisite for expansion is strength.
Strength means that more resources can be obtained, more people can be fed, more cold beasts can be hunted, and more people can be trained.
Unfortunately, the strength of Rogge’s camp is simply not enough to support its expansion.
Rogge Camp has a total of five digging realms and forty-seven logging realms. The cold beast flesh and blood brought in every month is insufficient to train his own family. If other small camps are merged, the cold beast meat will not be enough. .
And once merged, it means that there are more ordinary people, and the demand for crystal fruits will also expand rapidly. They will have to increase the frequency of going out to find more ice trees, and this process is also risky.
The most important thing is that the strongest people in the small camp are only in the logging realm and have no hunting ability at all. In other words, their joining will not only not improve the hunting ability, but also squeeze the camp's original supply of cold beast meat.
Therefore, when other camps proposed to merge, not only Luo Ming himself, but almost everyone in Rogge Camp refused.
Therefore, the rule is that only when you have enough strength can you expand, and then use the population advantage to cultivate more strong people. Only by repeating this cycle can the camp become stronger and bigger.
Blind expansion will only make the camp too big. In the end, even if it is not slaughtered by cold beasts and monsters, it is very likely that civil strife will break out and they will kill each other.
Therefore, by analogy, although the Beishuo Town mentioned by Yang and Li has a population of more than 100,000, it will never recruit outsiders indiscriminately. The "qualifications" mentioned by the two are also extremely demanding.
Shi Qing didn't need to think about it. Even if Luo Ming had the strength to dig into the ground, Yang and Li were so much stronger than him at such a young age. Beishuo Town was strong enough to catch a glimpse of the situation, so even if they thought about it, they wouldn't like him.
What's more, the two of them are the leaders of their respective camps.
It is also impossible for them to leave their families and companions and join other camps alone.
"Okay, it's useless to tell you so much. Didn't Leader Luo just ask about that wooden puppet? I'll explain it to you."
Seeing that Yang Ning was going to say something weird, Luo Ming and Shi Qing immediately pricked up their ears.
"A long time ago, the Ice Abyss was not what it is today. At that time, there were not only twelve hours of daylight, but the temperature was not as low as it is today.
Most of the cold beasts were not as cunning and powerful as they are now. Let alone cannibalism, at that time, almost 99% of the cold beasts were just food for us humans.
There are also those weird things that didn’t exist before.
During that period, humans could move around as they pleased, day or night.
It is said that the Ice Abyss at that time had alternating seasons, hot and cold cycles, and a pleasant climate. At that time, humans controlled all kinds of powerful tools and were the well-deserved overlords of the Ice Abyss. At that time, the land was fertile, farming could be done everywhere, and there was plenty of food. Can’t finish eating; then…………
Food, clothing, housing and transportation are perfect, human beings live and work in peace and contentment, and civilization prospers.
During that period, there were quite a few large gathering places with millions or even tens of millions of people, let alone 100,000 people. ”
After hearing Yang Ning's description, Luo Ming, Shi Qing and others were stunned.
They simply don’t have the concept of millions of people.
Day and night, move as you please.
For them, it is already a dream.
Ninety-nine percent of cold beasts are just human food?
The basic necessities of life are perfect, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and are prosperous.
What kind of dream scene would that be?
It is difficult for people to imagine things they have never seen or experienced before in their minds, but this does not affect their yearning and pursuit of beauty.
In the eyes of Luo Ming, Shi Qing and others, the world described by Yang Ning is no different from the fairy palace and heaven.
"Corresponding to today's glacial abyssal world, we generally call that period the Paleo-Abyssal Period, or prehistoric civilization.
No one knows what happened in the Paleo-Abyss, what happened to prehistoric civilizations, and how our world became what it is today.
Some say that humans offended the gods, and Gu Yuan was punished by the gods; others say that humans did too many things they shouldn't have done, which led to the appearance of cold beasts and strange monsters, and finally the climate and time all changed. Well, no one knows the specific reason.
But what is certain is that since the Ancient Abyss, civilization has fallen, monsters and cold beasts have become a nightmare for mankind. ”
Although this long paragraph is just foreshadowing, what Yang Ning said was also extremely emotional.
Obviously, even he has a strong yearning for the ancient Yuan Dynasty that he has never experienced.
"No one knows exactly where the strange monsters came from, but it is certain that they all originated from the Paleo-Abyssal Period, because only from them can we find evidence of the existence of the Paleo-Abyssal Period.
Weirdness is divided into five types: craftsman, nightmare, li, god, and demon.
Craftsmen are one of them. They were all formed by many professional craftsmen with superb skills during the Ancient Yuan Dynasty. Their killing habits are all kinds of strange, and their killing methods are also mysterious.
For example, the wooden puppet that appeared in Redwood Ridge should be a puppet craftsman from the Ancient Yuan Dynasty. He was good at making and controlling various types of puppets, and preferred to carve human-shaped wooden puppets to imitate humans and gain trust, while it hid Manipulating puppets to kill people in the dark. ”
Having said this, Yang Ning paused and added: "All monsters will evolve through continuous killing.
Let’s use this wooden puppet as an example. The puppets he makes now can only show the strength of the logging realm. But as he kills more and more people, his own strength, including the puppets he makes, will also increase. Getting stronger and stronger.
Beishuo Town once hunted an intermediate craftsman, and we named it Tailoring.
It has a pair of scissors in its hand, which can cut dozens of humans in the underground realm into pieces in an instant;
It also has a set of needles and threads, which once sewed up all the seven orifices of a cold-resistant warrior in front of me.
After a while, the cold-resistant strong man suffocated to death. ”
Cold resistance level......
When they heard these three words for the first time, Luo Ming and Shi Qing still had doubts on their faces, although they had some guesses.
"Above the digging level is the cold-resistant level. It is called so because when people reach this level, they can withstand the severe cold during the day and go out for activities."
(End of chapter)