Chapter 2180 Shepard’s current situation
2181. Shepard’s current situation
The unknown star field of the Milky Way, the planet Krakul, the home planet of the Koroks.
After more than three months, Shepard must admit that no matter how many places she has been to, the planet Krakul will be the most special one among them.
In the cities of this planet, giants walking around two to three meters tall, some even reaching four meters tall, are walking everywhere. And these giants, without exception, all have ferocious faces, and all the terrifying shapes that can be imagined are vividly reflected in these giants.
Sharp barbs are already a basic operation, tentacles full of suction cups, a big mouth full of fangs, vesicles flowing with pus, densely packed sharp teeth... Even the best horror painter cannot imagine such a thing. Huge variety.
In such an environment, if you are a person with a slightly lower psychological endurance, you may have a psychological breakdown within a few days.
However, fortunately, the team of Shepard, Huang Yehao, Ashley Williams and others are all elites among the elites. Naturally, they cannot be in such an illusion. shake. These scary giants are actually all illusions.
Yes, this is the home planet of the Koroks, and the Koroks are a race that is good at creating illusions of the Force.
Their bodies are very tiny, just a slug that is no more than 30 centimeters long and has more than a dozen slender limbs. Creating the illusion of the Force is their means of self-protection.
Of course, for the Koroks, it's not just about self-preservation. Using illusions of the Force to deceive and blackmail is their main purpose.
Because of this ability, Korok people are born to live in concealment and deception. In such an environment, every Korok person has evil thoughts and lies. Such a society has actually become a deformed and distorted society.
Korok people have a very long lifespan, at least tens of thousands of years. But with such a lifespan and such abilities, the Korok people have never become a powerful civilization. The main reason is that there is almost no trust in this social relationship.
The current political power of the Korok people is a council of elders, which is used to mediate disputes and conflicts that arise. In each city, there will also be branch mediation courts to handle some relatively minor matters.
Other than that, the Korok people have no more administrative institutions. There are only some industry associations or interest groups, and these groups are also full of cheating and intrigue.
Under such circumstances, the entire Korok civilization can maintain the status quo and gather a certain amount of strength to carry out some large-scale projects, which is already the limit. Is civilization going to develop? That's impossible.
When Shepard came to the planet Krakul, the civil war on the planet still had not stopped.
Because the Korok civilization cannot resist the erosion of Mongal-Mongal, the god of decay, they can only raise large numbers of Lugubra, a combat creature that looks like an enlarged leech. Lugubra could devour Mongal-Mongal without being infected, and it was because of this that Korok was able to defend his planet.
But Mongal-Mongal doesn't matter, it surrounds the entire planet Krakul. All habitable planets within hundreds of light-years were swallowed up by Mongar-Mongal, and the Korok people simply could not escape from this huge cage. Under such circumstances, unless the Korok people abandon their home planet, there is only a little hope for the entire escape and relocation. But this is also unlikely. Because the social structure of the Korok people makes it impossible for them to have the industrial system to build a spaceship that can accommodate the entire civilization, and they also have no materials to support such an ultra-long distance voyage.
And what's even worse is that in order to resist the erosion of Mongar-Mongal, the Korok people raised a large number of Lugubras. Later, they entrusted the Kamino people to help them improve the genes of Lugubras to allow this kind of fighting. Creatures are more powerful in combat.
But the more powerful combat power also made Lu Gubula's appetite grow bigger and bigger.
In the end, the supplies of the entire planet Krakul were unable to sustain such a large number of Lugubras. So under the extreme shortage of supplies, the civil war finally broke out.
This civil war lasted for decades. The Korok people split into more than ten factions and fought against each other, causing heavy casualties. In the end, more than a dozen factions merged with each other, and only the two largest factions remained, still existing and continuing to fight.
However, the battles between the Koroks were all conducted by manipulating Lugubra. They would not set foot on the battlefield themselves, so their civil war was more than fierce but not cruel enough.
This was the situation Shepard faced when he arrived, and this is why all the Koroks he saw created extremely ferocious and terrifying illusions for themselves. Because in such a war, they will not trust anyone at all and can only protect themselves through such illusions.
Shepard also feels a very headache, because currently, the Koroks are the race that knows the most about Mongal-Mongal, and they also have ancient artifacts that may be able to fight against them— —Soul Harp (Content of Chapters 2051~2054).
But under such circumstances, it is impossible for the Koroks to play any role in the action against Mongar-Mongal. And the fighting continues to this day, and you don't even know how many people on both sides of the war are secretly controlled by Mongal-Mengal.
Shepard can only wander around, dealing with the last two major factions. The names of these two factions are very convoluted when pronounced in the standard language of the galaxy, so Shepard used simple logos to call them - Pistol Faction, Elder Faction. The Pistol Faction because their flag is a pistol-like weapon, and the Presbyterian Faction because that's the faction the Presbyterian Church belongs to.
The Soul Harp is controlled by the Elder Faction.
In this process, Shepard also used her excellent social coordination skills to run between the two major factions, first of all, she wanted to achieve a truce between the two major factions.
To this end, she led her team to conduct several deterrent operations on the battlefield. Including kidnapping commanders, misleading the army, stealing combat plans, blocking logistics supplies, etc.
I have to say that their combat capabilities are really strong. For the Koroks who only know how to fight with the combat creature Lugubra, they are a few levels higher. The Normandy shuttles around like a ghost, and there is no way to resist it.
As a result, under such a shit-stirring action, the war between the two warring parties finally could no longer continue, and they were forced to reach a ceasefire.