Chapter 68 The God of the Ewoks
67. The God of the Ewoks
On the street, you can even see some children walking on the street accompanied by their guardians. These are frozen children adopted by the residents. Embryos, these accelerated growth embryos are now equivalent to 2 or 3 years old. Their accelerated growth stops by age 20, and growth resumes at a normal rate thereafter.
But the price is that those who grow from frozen embryos only have a life span of 50 years. If they want to reproduce, they need to be injected with specific genetic drugs. However, their offspring are normal humans.
Despite these shortcomings, frozen embryos can be used as a good way to expand the population base of civilization. After the 5 billion embryos are consumed, the entire fourth civilization should already be quite large.
Tang Xiao wandered around the street again, only to see a few Ewok people selling the pearls they collected, replacing them with large and small bags of potatoes and sweet potatoes, dragging them on the ground and heading out of the city. Seeing how hard they were working, Tang Xiao quickly stood aside to make way for them.
Who knew that these Ewok people immediately threw away the food bags in their hands when they saw Tang Xiao, knelt on the ground and worshiped him, and said something in Ewok that they could not understand. words.
"Eh? You guys, what do you mean?" Tang Xiao was shocked and was at a loss for a moment, not knowing whether to help them up or what to do.
"Haha! Manager, they are calling you the Great Elf!" An administrative official accompanying Tang Xiao said with a smile. He knew some Ewok language.
“What is the Great Elf?”
"The Ewok people believe in the Pantheon religion. They believe that everything in the world has gods. Among them, the Great Spirit is in charge of everything, followed by the Light Spirit in charge of the day and the Night Spirit in charge of the night. They put As a great elf, you are almost given a god-level status, haha," the official said with a smile.
"Then what should I do now?" Tang Xiao asked, pointing to the few Ewoks who were still worshiping.
"If you don't help them up, they will keep bowing. Just help them up and touch their headdress, that'll be fine."
"Okay." Tang Xiao walked over and helped several Ewok people up one by one, and then gently touched the jewelry on their heads.
The Ewoks immediately cheered loudly. Each of them stuffed Tang Xiao and a potato and ran away jumping. A confused Tang Xiao was left standing there holding a pile of potatoes in a daze.
"Manager, you can tell by looking at the sky." The official pointed at the sky.
Tang Xiao looked up and saw that the weather today was very clear and cloudless. Against the backdrop of the huge gas giant planet in the sky, he could actually see the figure of the Glory mothership in synchronous orbit!
Speaking of which, the reason why the Glory re-entered synchronous orbit today was because it wanted to airdrop a batch of supplies to help with the construction of the colony, and it happened to appear in the sky.
“They regard the gas giant planet as the giant elves. We suddenly appeared here and you are our leader, so they think that the mothership is the giant elves’ son, the great elves, and you are the great elves in the world. Incarnate,” the official explained.
"Okay...this identity is really..." Tang Xiao shook his head and didn't know what to say.
"By the way, manager, today is the Moonlight Festival of the Ewok people. People from the Department of Biological Engineering and the Department of Agriculture will have a party with them. Will you come tonight?" the official asked. "Sure, I'll go there tonight." Tang Xiao nodded with a smile.
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Night falls on the land of Dawn Planet, but the night of this planet is not so dark, because the light reflected by the huge gas giant Endor The sun still shines softly on the ground.
Sometimes, when the planet moves between the star and the gas giant Endor, the phenomenon of extreme daylight will occur. However, what is different about this polar day is that the side facing the star is bright daytime, while the side facing the gas planet Endor is bright night.
Today is such a day.
According to the custom of the Ewok people, they will hold a grand dinner on the first seven days after the arrival of daylight. Because they believe that the end of the day is when the light elves and night elves pay their respects to the giant elves and pray for a good harvest in the coming year.
The Ewoks also use dances and songs to pray to the sky, hoping that the earth will no longer be angry (earthquakes), that wild beasts will no longer grow fangs, and that future generations will be free from illness.
In the open space between Dawn City and the forest outside the city, hundreds of Ewoks were singing and dancing in front of a huge bonfire. They are very musically gifted and can play rhythmic music with almost anything that can make a sound.
Hide drums, empty tree tubes, and even helmets thrown to them by the Marines of the Fourth Civilization.
The huge carcass of a ten-meter-long Endorian swamp beast was placed next to it - this is a large beast on the Dawn Planet. This one was hunted with the help of the Fourth Civilization Marines.
The body of the swamp beast was cut into several sections. The Ewok people used knives made of stones to cut off pieces of meat from the huge carcass, then roasted them on the fire and sprinkled them with their unique The juice squeezed from plants has a fragrant aroma.
The Bioengineering Department and Agriculture Department of the Fourth Civilization were invited to attend this holiday dinner. They usually have the most communication with the Ewok people. They taught the Ewoks systematic farming and taught them to make more complex tools for hunting. It was also proposed by the Bioengineering Department to bring some Ewoks back to learn Galactic Standard and help the colonies work to earn income.
The Ewok people also helped them a lot, such as helping the people in the Bioengineering Department identify various plants, becoming familiar with the habits of some animals, and whether those animals were suitable for breeding, etc.
Because of this, the first festival held by the Ewok people after the fourth civilization arrived on Dawn Planet invited people from the Department of Biological Engineering and the Ministry of Agriculture to participate. However, because it was quite lively here, many residents of Dawn City also came over to join the banquet.
Tang Xiao and several Ewok tribal leaders were sitting on a high platform made of tree branches. From time to time, Ewok people came to him to pray for blessings. Tang Xiao is much more proficient now. He will wait for the Ewoks who come to pray for blessings to kneel before touching the decorations on their heads.
The decorations on the heads of Ewok people are various, including leaves, bones, fruits, shells and so on. And according to those who know a little Ewok, these decorations have special meanings.
At the beginning of the party, the Ewok people were singing and dancing. The residents of Auroville also brought some beer to participate. Although there is no brewery now, there is still some beer in stock in the mothership. This time, with the approval of Goolaham, who has been promoted to the mayor, half of the beer in stock was moved out.
(End of this chapter)